Nilüfer Yanya unveils new offering "Heavyweight Champion of the Year"

"Heavyweight Champion of the Year" arrives after earlier single "Thanks 4 Nothing" that arrived on Yanya's Do You Like Pain? EP.

Speaking about her new track, Yanya explains, “‘Heavyweight Champion…" for me is about reaching my own metaphorical bar, reaching my own limits within myself, and kind of forbidding myself to take it further. It feels like quite a physical song, quite physically tired - and mentally, but knowing the desire is still there to continue. I imagine it sometimes in my head as drawing a line around me and the outside world - a form of self protection and preservation.”

The new single is co-produced by Yanya herself, and includes instrumental contribution from saxophonist Jazzi Bobbi and bassist Luke Bower from Yanya's live band.

Expanding on the visuals directed by Molly Daniel, Yanya explains, "The video is about the concept of performance and the relation to the individual. We are never really sure who is the real me. This is because we are all in a state of constant performance, whether that be in everyday life or being in front of a camera. Even when we are not performing, how do we know we are not performing? Which is the genuine and which is the fake? Only in retrospect we can look back and realise ‘I wasn’t being myself’ or ‘I was completely myself’".