Fresh off the release of her new EP, British singer showcases “Temporary,” “Future Enemies,” and “Symphony” for “Saturday Sessions”
Fresh off the release of My Way, Yola stopped by CBS Mornings’ Saturday Sessions to showcase of tracks from the new EP.
Yola and her band performed three songs — “Temporary,” “Future Enemies,” and “Symphony” — from the five-track EP that finds the singer moving away from country and toward an Eighties-tinged pop-R&B sound.
Upon My Way’s arrival Friday, Yola provided a track-by-track breakdown of the EP to Rolling Stone. Of “Temporary,” Yola said, “The song is really an ode to fuckboys. Part of what they get off on is hoodwinking you into believing you’re the one.”
“Future Enemies” finds Yola severing ties with negative forces in her life. “I noticed that one of the central tenets of ‘Future Enemies’ was just this opportunity to avoid making enemies that were completely unnecessarily made,” she said. “Somehow you need to be like Homer [Simpson] backing into the hedge. That’s freaking me. You just need to disappear.”
As for the rousing “Symphony,” Yola documents finding new love while she was living between Nashville and New York, where she landed a role in the Broadway show Hadestown.
“I started noticing that even though it wasn’t the person [I was dating], some things were being brought out in me that were really positive,” Yola said. “Something these people demonstrated was really positive. That helped me incrementally find my person, and then I found my person. But I wrote the song before I found my person.”
My Way marks Yola’s first new release since her 2021 LP Stand for Myself, which, as she told Rolling Stone, wasn’t the most pleasant experience creatively. “It’s cookie-cutter bullshit, is all it is,” Yola said of the album that she recorded for Dan Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound label.