Joy Crookes has shared a new single ‘Mathematics’, featuring Kano, which premiered as BBC Radio 1’s Hottest Record with Jack Saunders.
The track explores themes of human connection and relationships, marking the latest release in Crookes’s new musical chapter. It follows last month’s ‘Pass The Salt’, featuring Vince Staples, which has become her most successful streaming launch to date.
“Mathematics was written when I was dating a French man who couldn’t understand what was going on between us wasn’t hieroglyphics, we were just falling in love and then he tried to friend zone,” Crookes explains. “As I get to know this song better and sing it more, I’ve realised this song is somewhat an angry song about how easy I find it to love and the frustration that it can’t be reciprocated. It’s nice when a song becomes a medicine for lots of different fuckeries that life hands us.”
The collaboration came about organically, as Crookes details: “Kano came to hear the record with Blue May and I and then secretly recorded his verse to mathematics when I’d initially asked him to record on another song. He was drawn to mathematics and popped into the studio without us and literally just sent over a verse. It was so moving to see how he’d been moved enough to do this, almost like a little gift to this record. Cheers Kane, it’s really special to hear you write about love.”
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