LATEST CHAPTER IN ACCLAIMED RAT TRAP SERIES OF DOUBLE-SIDED SINGLES
INCLUDES THE POWERHOUSE ANTHEM, “AMERICAN SPIRIT,”
ALONG WITH THE FEROCIOUS “DOG”
RAT TRAP 5: the beginning AVAILABLE NOW VIA ATLANTIC RECORDS HERE
RIAA Gold-certified singer-songwriter Royal & the Serpent returns with RAT TRAP 5: the beginning, the eagerly awaited new chapter in her acclaimed RAT TRAP series of double-sided singles available now via Atlantic Records. The project’s first installment since last year, RAT TRAP 5 includes the powerhouse anthem, “American Spirit,” along with the ferocious “DOG.” Official visualizers premiered at YouTube.
RAT TRAP 5 continues what has already proven an eventful 2024 for Royal & the Serpent, including “kinda smacks,” her vengeful collaboration with GRAMMY® Award-nominated, Multi-Platinum-certified labelmate GAYLE and “Blame Brett (Feat. Royal & the Serpent)” her collaboration with The Beaches.
In addition, Royal & the Serpent has spent much of her past year on the road, including 2023’s sold-out debut headline tour, dates alongside Demi Lovato and Fall Out Boy and most recently, as a special guest on Avril Lavigne’s just-wrapped Greatest Hits Tour. Additional dates will be announced soon. For updates, please see www.royalandtheserpent.com/tour.
ABOUT ROYAL & THE SERPENT
Royal & the Serpent is an artist entirely unafraid to bare the deepest and darkest parts of her psyche. After making her Atlantic Records debut with the 2020 EP, get a grip – highlighted by the RIAA Gold-certified single “Overwhelmed,” which spent 22 weeks on Billboard’s “Alternative Airplay” chart – the L.A.-based singer-songwriter revealed even more of her frenetic inner world in 2022 with IF I DIED WOULD ANYONE CARE and Happiness Is An Inside Job. Royal introduced fans to the “royalverse” in 2023, dropping 4 double-sided RAT TRAP singles throughout the year. Among the highlights, RAT TRAP I: the blueprint features the powerfully inspiring, fan favorite LGBTQ+ anthem, “One Nation Underdogs.” RAT TRAP 2: the burn arrived next, followed by RAT TRAP 3: the band-aid and RAT TRAP 4: the burden.
Originally from New Jersey, Royal started in dance and theatre, and first took up guitar at age 14, then relocated to L.A. at age 18. While working as a bartender, Royal soon started self-releasing her music, beginning with her spellbinding 2017 single “Temperance.” Thanks to the buzz behind songs like 2019’s “Weddings & Funerals” and “Salvador Dali” – as well as her electrifying live show – she eventually inked a deal with Atlantic and released “Overwhelmed” in the early days of Covid lockdown.
Royal’s unfiltered songwriting has proved wildly resonant to her ever-growing fanbase, building a close-knit community of fans undeniably drawn to her one-of-a-kind balance of intense sensitivity and unruly self-possession. “The main reason I make music is that it’s the best therapy I could ever ask for: the process of taking everything in my brain and putting it on paper and then singing it out loud for people is so helpful and healing for me. The idea that my own expression can affect people in positive ways is such a blessing and a gift; I don’t ever take it lightly. I just want to keep telling my truth and reach as many people as I possibly can, and see where this little journey takes us.”
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