Joy Crookes has already had a pretty stellar and triumphant year without us even being halfway through 2025. Thanks in large part to her very triumphant comeback single, Pass The Salt, featuring Vince Staples she released back in January to start the year and her newest era of music. As well as its very stunning accompanying video. Plus Crookes also releasing her just as amazing video and single for the Kano featured, Mathematics in February and then, I Know You’d Kill, in March. The very talented singer and songwriter looks to continue to show why she is not only one of British or music’s brightest young vocalists, but hardest working as well with the release of her newest single, Carmen. A very fun and witty record that is a precise and pristine takedown of society’s narrow and often exclusionary beauty standards they have of women and especially brown and Black women like Joy. Her signature soulfully punchdrunk vocals perfectly on full display over the punchdrunk percussion and piano melody production.
Joy Crookes also through Vevo earlier today debuting a just as musically playful vibrant video for the record. That is also thematically acted and played out as some of the most profound music videos you will ever see. Which is more than just a regular music video and really helps bring the record’s theme of playfully taking down society’s narrow and often exclusionary beauty standards they have of most women and especially brown and Black women like Crookes. As she playfully almost like a play shows different ways of how others for even someone as beautiful and talented as her, can still have those feelings and thoughts happen to them to be a “Carmen.”