Tei Shi - La Linda (2019)

Colombian-Canadian singer Tei Shi has announced her next album. Titled La Linda. "Even If It Hurts" is the latest track to be released from the album, and it features her frequent collaborator Dev Hynes (a.k.a. Blood Orange). The song follows singles "Red Light" and "A Kiss Goodbye." "The concept is really the realization and acceptance that pain is a natural consequence of love," Tei Shi said of the song in a statement. "It's a duet about the ways in which we make ourselves vulnerable to those we love, sometimes at a high cost." Elaborating on the accompanying visuals, she added, "I wanted to capture the romantic and melancholic elements of the song but put them in a world that feels removed from the every day, its own little odd paradise where Dev and I existed parallel to one another but never really together."