Samaria has inked a deal with RCA Records. She joins a roster that includes Bryson Tiller, Chris Brown, H.E.R., Jazmine Sullivan, Miguel, SZA and Victoria Monét, to name a few.
The rising singer celebrates her signing with her new EP, Even Paradise Rains.
Speaking on the project’s inspiration, Samaria says, “Digging myself out of graves I created is a common theme in my world. I’ve allowed my emotions to guide my hands and have never been left with much to show for it except for the places I would seek for shelter from the wars in my mind,”
She continues, “For a brief moment, I’ll find paradise in solitude, and then the first drop of rain hits my skin, and I wake up back at square one.”
The eight-track project includes previously shared songs “tight rope,” “wish you hell,” “serial recluse” and the recently released “best thing for me.”
“Tight rope” was released as the EP’s lead single. Samaria referred to the song as “a final plea to make something work at the time that was showing me exactly why it absolutely would never work.”
“Wish you hell,” produced by Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins, issued as the second single. Samaria explained, “I’ve never said goodbye without a chip on my shoulder or without the comfort of knowing I would someday be doing better than the person in my rearview.”
Even Paradise Rains opens with “no place (intro),” where a flight attendant from Lover Girl Airlines, a fictitious airline company, addresses passengers upon arrival at a destination where emotions can be triggered.
As Samaria walks through the terminal, she experiences a range of emotions. She remembers promising her combative lover that they will never find someone like her (“three rings”).
Later, she comes to her senses and realizes that moving on from this person is the best thing for her (“best thing for me”). However, Samaria, much like many of us, is uncertain whether parting ways is the right decision (“beating myself up”).
Even Paradise Rains is Samaria’s follow-up to 2022’s Didn’t Start With You. The six-track EP includes a feature from Tone Stith.
“Didn’t Start With You is an accumulation of emotions I went through towards the middle of 2020 and pretty much all of 2021. I went through a really weird and crazy breakup,” Samaria told Rated R&B.
Stream Samaria’s new project Even Paradise Rains below.
