After recently making her SXSW Sydney debut, alt-pop artist Ayesha Madon now channels the grace and strength of former FLOTUS Michelle Obama.
Aptly titled “Michelle Obama”, Madon’s latest single follows the synth-pop song “Blame Me“, about falling hard for a friend.
“Michelle Obama”, however, was “inspired by the wisest of words from the great woman herself.” It embraces an “alternate form of diplomacy” in which, “when they go low, you go high.” “Just ’cause I forgive you, doesn’t mean I need you in my life,” she sings in the song.
“‘Michelle Obama’ is a song about having the strength to respond with kindness and empathy in the face of disrespect and heartbreak. Sometimes it can be difficult to have enough self worth to walk away from people and situations that don’t serve us anymore… So to be able to do that with empathy and humanity is, I think, the truest test of character,” Madon says.
In her black and white official visualiser for “Michelle Obama”, Madon starts to destroy the wall of a room.
As a breakout actor alongside her music career, filming has begun for the third and final season of Madon’s show Heartbreak High. On the Netflix hit series, she portrays the headstrong but caring high schooler Amerie.
As gracious as Obama, Madon praised the show’s authenticity as being largely down to many of its fresh-faced cast.
“We were all new, even some of the crew, and [our producer] Sarah Freeman. I feel like what was so cool — and why we had that lightning in a bottle moment here — was because [the creators] were willing to take a chance on new talent,” Madon told The Hollywood Reporter. “For a lot of the cast, it was our first role and we almost learned to act on camera, which was so vulnerable but so amazing.”
Ayesha Madon’s “Michelle Obama” is out now.
