Returning to her recording career in 2018, she independently released her second studio album, Coloured in June of that year, which saw Hamilton exploring Americana and country soul genres. After adopting the stage name Muni Long, she saw further recording success with her 2022 single "Hrs and Hrs", which reached the top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100; prompting a recording contract with Def Jam Recordings. The song also received a Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance, and was included on her third album Public Displays of Affection: The Album (2022).
She has received three other Grammy Award nominations throughout her career, including for Best New Artist, Best R&B Song ("Hrs & Hrs"), and a nomination for Album of the Year through her work on Back of My Mind (2021) by H.E.R.
“Muni Long is the part of me that I always needed. She’s the protector of Priscilla,” Long tells Vogue. “I knew I wanted to focus on me. I’ve been serving others for the last 12 years, and I started to feel unappreciated and captive.” During her songwriting days, the singer was diagnosed with lupus, and she says having the disease ignited an even bigger desire in her to revive her solo work. “It really put things into perspective,” Long says. “I was like, ‘If I die, I will be so pissed, having never gone after the things that I wanted.’ That's really what set it off.” By the end of the year, Long will release her first EP as Muni Long—under Supergiant Records, her own label—that she wrote before COVID-19. She’s already rolled out two singles and music videos from it, both of which reflect her new strong, fabulous persona through fashion while working with celebrity stylist Jason Rembert to cultivate a bold new look. (He also styles Issa Rae, Mary J. Blige, and more). “Since Jason has come along, I love how powerful and beautiful I look,” says Long. .
”Priscilla Renea did not expect the zealous support she now enjoys. In fact, she wasn’t trying to change the world, but merely satisfy her own muse: “I started writing my own songs because there wasn’t anything on the radio that I wanted to hear,” says Renea. “And when I discovered YouTube, that added a whole new side to my singing. It made my bedroom performances into live broadcasts.. “My mom always tells stories about how she would walk in the living room and think it was the TV singing, but realize it was me," Renea reveals. “I was two or three years old then!”
Indeed, in growing up, family was Renea’s exclusive audience. A child of the Navy, she bounced in and out of twenty schools before finally landing in Vero Beach. Lasting friendships were hard to come by. In turn, she took solace in the blank page, writing poetry, prose, spoken word pieces, and of course, songs. Into the compositions went the energy and emotion typically invested in relationships: “When I write my songs they're always vivid stories, very quirky, and have a lot of personality and character in them.” She also taught herself both piano and guitar, and endeavored choirs and musical theater as much as her nomadic lifestyle would allow. YouTube was a revelation—a constant and enduring following no matter where Renea went in the world.
In 2007, Priscilla doffed the webcam and the bedroom carpet for the hefty TV cameras and grand stage of MTV and their Say What? Karaoke show. Fans accustomed to seeing her in a small YouTube window reveled in her fullscreen frivolity. And certainly the effect was cyclical and reciprocal; appearing on MTV pushed her YouTube hits to 1.7 million and her MySpace listenership to over half a million. Public opinion had been levied. Firmly comfortable in her own skin, and offering a uniquely subtle mix of chimerical yet anecdotal pop music, Priscilla Renea was poised for stardom.
To fan the flames and set the proverbial stage, Renea has released the 3¬song EP Hello My Apple, featuring a trio of her biggest YouTube compositions: the dignified titular track which waxes on a beau “So hard on the outside but oh-so-sweet on the inside;” the buoyant handclapper “I Fell in Love;” the grand, sweeping “Cry,” an exercise in Renea’s silver pipes. Though the songs strike disparate, dulcet chords, what resonates throughout is Priscilla Renea’s uncanny songwriting chops, honed in a mere twenty years of earthly orbit. “I've always had a way with words,” she confesses. “I write songs that people can relate to; when I sit down with my guitar, it sparks my creativity and it's easy for me to pick out a melody and write.” Considering her penchant for penning entire tunes in ten minutes —earning her the nickname “The Quickness” —she makes it sound so tantalizingly easy. Her lauded writing work for luminaries such as Brandy and Shakira stands as evidence. The legions of discarded singer/songwriters in her wake would attest otherwise.
Priscilla Renea has now aligned herself with the Atlanta-based production team Power Entertainment (T.I., Ludacris), in support of her forthcoming full¬length debut on Capitol Records, Jukebox. It’s a fitting title for musical fare that wends from whimsical to worldly to weighty with equal aplomb. The album’s external collaborators share exoteric talents: Brian Kidd (Enrique Iglesias, Britney Spears, Nappy Roots) and legendary Danish duo Soulshock & Karlin (Madonna, Seal, Whitney Houston, Keyshia Cole). The musical component firmly on display, Renea’s also showing off her funky, fetching fashion sense; her advertorial array graces the pages of trendsetting magazine Giant, and she’s begun a Baby Phat campaign under the auspices of tastemaker Kimora Lee Simmons. After Priscilla Renea, there’s very few stones left to be overturned: “I feel like I'm bringing something new and fresh; something that might have already been done, but with a new twist.” Welcome words indeed.
In Case
Priscilla Renea Lyrics
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Pictures in my pocket
Are faded from the washer
I can barely just make out your face
Food you saved for later
In my refrigerator
Its been too long since later never came
I know
One day eventually
Yeah I know
One day I'll have to let it all go
But I keep it just in case
Yeah I keep it just in case
In case you don't find what you're looking for
In case you're missing what you had before
In case you change your mind, I'll be waiting here
In case you just want to come home
Strong enough to leave you
But weak enough to need you
Cared enough to let you walk away
I took that dirty jacket
From the trash right where you left it
Cuz I couldnt stand to see it go to waste
I know
One day eventually
Yeah I know
One day I'll have to let it all go
But I keep it just in case
Yeah I keep it just in case
In case you don't find what you're looking for
In case you're missing what you had before
In case you change your mind, I'll be waiting here
In case you just want to come home
In case you're looking in that mirror one day
And miss my arms, how they wrapped around your waste
I say that you can love me again
Even if it isn't the case
Ohw
You don't find what you're looking for
Oohh
You're missing my loooove
You dont find what you're looking for
In case you're missing what you had before
In case you change your mind, I'll be waiting
In case you just want to come home
In case
Yeahhh
Ohww ohhww
Priscilla Renea's song "In Case" sings about a person who is holding onto things from a past relationship. The chorus sheds light on the reason for keeping these items by singing "In case you don't find what you're looking for, in case you're missing what you had before, in case you change your mind, I'll be waiting here, in case you just want to come home." This person is hopeful that the other person will come back to them and they will be able to rekindle their relationship.
The first verse of the song describes pictures in the person's pocket that have been faded from the wash, food saved in the fridge that was never eaten, and other possessions that the person is holding onto from the past relationship. These are all material possessions, yet they hold significant meaning to the person keeping them. The second verse explains that the person is strong enough to leave the other person, yet weak enough to need them. They even took a dirty jacket out of the trash, because they couldn't bear to see it go to waste.
Overall, "In Case" is a poignant and honest song about the complicated emotions that come from holding onto the past. The person singing is hopeful that they will be reunited with the person they are missing, but they also know that they might need to let go eventually.
Line by Line Meaning
Pictures in my pocket
Are faded from the washer
My memories of us are fading away, just like these pictures in my pocket that have been washed too many times.
I can barely just make out your face
Food you saved for later
In my refrigerator
It's been so long since we've been together, I can barely remember what you look like. But I still have your leftovers in my fridge - a physical reminder that you were here once.
Its been too long since later never came
I've been holding onto our memories for so long, waiting for you to come back or for things to be like they were before, but it's been too long and nothing has changed.
Strong enough to leave you
But weak enough to need you
Cared enough to let you walk away
I was strong enough to end things between us, but I'm weak because I still need you. And even though it hurt, I cared enough about you to let you go.
I took that dirty jacket
From the trash right where you left it
Cuz I couldnt stand to see it go to waste
I couldn't bear to see something that belonged to you go to waste, so I took your dirty jacket out of the trash where you left it.
But I keep it just in case
Yeah I keep it just in case
I hold onto these physical reminders of you, just in case you ever come back or realize what you're missing.
In case you don't find what you're looking for
In case you're missing what you had before
In case you change your mind, I'll be waiting here
In case you just want to come home
I'm holding onto everything just in case you realize that you miss what we had, change your mind about leaving, and come back home to me.
In case you're looking in that mirror one day
And miss my arms, how they wrapped around your waist
I say that you can love me again
Even if it isn't the case
If you ever look in the mirror and miss being held by me, know that I will always be here ready to take you back, even if it's not the reality of our situation.
You don't find what you're looking for
You're missing my love
You don't find what you're looking for
In case you're missing what you had before
In case you change your mind, I'll be waiting
In case you just want to come home
In case
Throughout the song, I'm holding onto the hope that you'll come back to me and that you're missing my love. I'll be waiting just in case you ever decide to come home.
Contributed by Logan S. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
@Princess-jc8rg
She sung the last part with so much passion. You can hear the pain in her voice.
@SewNatural1
She is BEYOND ! She wrote California King Bed and most of Kelly Rowland's songs on Motivation
@kik000M15
More feeling in this one I used to cry every time It would play on my laptop years ago. Like fugly crying face. Refreshing to hear it again years later , no more tears just smiles 👍🏽
@daviieed
I love this song. I don't care who sings it.
@sydneyedwards8878
Priscilla and Demi should perform this as a duet
@Bnixon13
Point blank: They're both really talented singers. Yes Priscilla originally wrote this song b/c as you can see this was uploaded 3 years ago. No, she never put it on an album. But obviously the only way Demi would be able to use this song for her album is if it was sold to her. Priscilla is a songwriter, she sells her songs. That's what she does ppl.. Watch out her little snippets of songs she's working on. I'm a fan of both!
@belloli97
I used to listen to this in the wrost time of my life and WOW, how things change... This track still wonderful, but now it shows me how strong I've become. Thks God! Stay Strong people, God is good and He take care of us! 💟
@RainaEmeral
Great song, beautifully and soulfully sung. this is my favorite version by the talented songwriter herself~
@nikkae16
so tears just started to appear in my eyes, but with demetria's heavenly voice singing this song I will be balling D:
@masjos7103
Oh my God that was soo amazing and absolutely beautiful!!! I can only imagine that Demi took one listen and immediately fell in love!