# @thefader on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DB9Ae5cxd-A
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/24590104-thefader-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-11-04T14:43:59.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The FADER (@thefader) — https://gondola.cc/thefader

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Have you ever danced in the club with your eyes closed? Felt nostalgic for American Apparel? Ripped a blinker? radababyy has a song for you. The Moscow-via-London singer’s March single “payme” kneads trance and Eurohouse into a rave-ready confection guaranteed to make anybody groove — and it’s been democratically proven. When The FADER chose a Song of the Summer this year, RADA handily walked away with the top spot over household names like TYLA, Charli xcx, and Kendrick Lamar, a testament to the song’s breezy appeal.

RADA didn’t expect “payme” to blow up, but she can’t say it wasn’t part of the plan: “I was sad about being broke and not doing shows. So I was like okay, if I want to get booked, I should make music people want to dance to.” She hit the studio with her go-to producer Endevour (“juggin,” “LOL”), asking for a “Vogue type beat,” and he came back with the song’s central synth line. “I was kind of taking the piss, singing if you want that new shit… because I wanted to be paid,” she says of making “payme.” “I honestly hated that song when I first made it, so I didn’t expect it to do as well as it did.”

Read perlucidum’s interview at the link in bio, or head to TheFADER.com.

#RADA

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