Raye has doubled down on her pledge not to write another album until she falls in love – even if it takes 10 years.
The 28-year-old south London singer, renowned for tracks about romance and longing, made the admission weeks after she told fans on TikTok she is fed up with writing sad songs about dating, heartbreak and men doing her wrong.
She told The Times in an interview released on Friday (17.04.26): “My third album, I think I’ve named it already.
“It’s going to be called And Then She Fell in Love. And I’m not writing a single song – be it one year, five years, 10 years – until that chapter of my life begins.”
Raye recently released her second album This Music May Contain Hope.
Her declaration to The Times comes after she told fans on a TikTok livestream at the end of March: “My third album is going to be called And Then She Fell In Love, and I’m not going to write a single song of that album, not one single song is getting written, until I fall in love.”
Opening up about how she is tired of churning out lovelorn songs, she added: “It’s enough, ‘I’m single’, ‘This guy done me wrong’, ‘This sucks about this and that’ songs.
“I’m tired of writing songs like that. The end. No.”
She also joked to The Times taking a career break to find love was her “silent protest”.
Raye is unlikely to take to dating apps to find a man as her profile in The Times said about her approach to life: “She stays off the internet as much as she can and looks for answers in a Bible app, not cruising Instagram.”
It added: “During her darkest days at Polydor, misusing drugs and alcohol, she credited her Christian faith with getting her through.”
Raye said: “I think since I’ve come offline it’s been much better. Ignorance is bliss. If someone said I look awful in a dress, it’d make me sad. If I don’t know someone said I look awful in a dress… .
“So I’m really (big) on being offline.”
Raye – born Rachel Agatha Keen in Tooting, southwest London – also revealed about her workaholic nature: “I have pushed myself as hard as I can and could have in the last two years.
“If I’m not on stage, I’ve been working on this album. I think we’re in an age where you can feel like if you stop then no one’s going to care, or it’s all going to be over. And because I have worked so b***** hard to get to this point, part of you is, like, ‘Feed the machine. Feed the beast’.”
