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.
LOVESICK
Priscilla Renea Lyrics
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(giggle) I bet you knew I was going to say that
That's because its true
Oh oh oh yeah
Uh uh
You never ever believed me
About how I slept in trailer on a bed full of paper
Uh
Okay well maybe I'm lying
And its seems like lately when where talking on the phone
All you ever say is how I should leave you alone
Everybody is telling me what I should do
I cant help myself I'm so into you
The doctor said that I'm love sick
Well I guess I'm gonna be sick forever
And I'm sorry to say that you made me this way
And I don't ever wanna to get better
No
Its obvious that I'm love sick
Yeah
And maybe that I should take my medicine
Try it as you may
No matter what you do
I can never get ride of you
You act like you don't remember
How you first met me
Back when we were in grade school
I sat behind you in history
I use to day dream about the day I would have you
And it seemed like if I mentioned you when I was home
All my family said is how I should leave you alone
Everybody is telling me what I should do
I cant help myself I'm so into you
The doctor said that I'm love sick
Well I guess I'm gonna be sick forever
And I'm sorry to say that you made me this way
And I don't ever wanna to get better
No
Its obvious that im love sick
Yeah
And maybe that I should take my medicine
Try how hard you may
Not matter what you do
I can never get ride of you
Ooh
The doctors they couldn't be wronger
I think that we could last forever
Don't wanna stay but I can't leave
No
Don't pay attention to them others
They don't want us to be together
I don't see why
Because I'm perfectly fine
They keep on tellin' me that I'm love sick
Well I guess ill be sick forever
And I'm sorry to say that you made me this way
But I don't wanna to get better
No
You keep on sayin' that you think im crazy
And that maybe I should take my medicine
Try how hard as you may
I could never get ride of you
[Repeat: x14]
No
You keep callin' me crazy
Sayin' maybe I should take my medicine
Try how hard you may
No matter what you do
I can never get ride of you
The song "Lovesick" by Priscilla Renea is a lamentation of unrequited love. It talks about how the singer is in love with somebody who she has liked since grade school, but he doesn't seem to care or reciprocate her emotions. The song begins with the singer expressing that she doesn't care if loving the guy is wrong; she is so infatuated with him that she cannot imagine being without him. Despite the fact that he ignores her, she has only become more smitten with time. She reminisces about how she would tell him stories about her childhood, which he never believed. However, now he's asking her to leave him alone, and everyone is telling her to forget about him.
The singer accepts that she is in trouble and is lovesick, a term used for when somebody is hopelessly and deeply in love with somebody else. She acknowledges that this feeling might never go away and that she is ready to be lovesick forever. She blames the guy for her condition and says that she never wants to get better. The song's mood is melancholic, and the lyrics are powerful, conveying the intensity of the singer's emotions.
In summary, the song "Lovesick" by Priscilla Renea is an emotional account of a woman who is deeply in love with someone who doesn't care. The song captures the anxiety, frustration, and hopelessness of unrequited love. It highlights the complexities surrounding love and how it affects people who are vulnerable to it.
Line by Line Meaning
Yo if lovin' you is wrong I don't wanna to be right
I am hopelessly in love with you and will do anything to be with you.
I use to tell you the stories about my childhood
I used to open up to you and share intimate details about my life.
You never ever believed me
About how I slept in trailer on a bed full of paper
You have never fully understood or accepted my struggles and hardships.
All you ever say is how I should leave you alone
You are pushing me away and treating me like I am unwanted.
I cant help myself I'm so into you
I am deeply and passionately in love with you.
The doctor said that I'm love sick
Well I guess I'm gonna be sick forever
My love for you is so strong and consuming that I will never be able to get over it.
And I'm sorry to say that you made me this way
And I don't ever wanna to get better
My love for you is so intense that it has changed me and I never want to lose that feeling.
And maybe that I should take my medicine
Try it as you may
Others have suggested that I need to get help or move on, but I cannot let go of my love for you.
No matter what you do
I can never get ride of you
My love for you is all-consuming and I will never be able to leave you behind.
They keep on tellin' me that I'm love sick
Well I guess ill be sick forever
Everyone around me thinks that my love for you is unhealthy, but I cannot shake it.
But I don't wanna to get better
No
I never want to let go of the love that I have for you.
You keep on sayin' that you think im crazy
And that maybe I should take my medicine
You think that my love for you is crazy and that I need to get help.
Try how hard you may
No matter what you do
I can never get ride of you
No matter what you do, I will never be able to let go of my love for you.
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: PRISCILLA RENEA, COURTNEY DWIGHT
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