Joan Armatrading has announced that her new album, How Did This Happen And What Does It Now Mean, will be released by BMG on November 22.
Joan Armatrading has announced that her new album, How Did This Happen And What Does It Now Mean, will be released by BMG on November 22.
Watch a video for the lead single, โIโm Not Movingโ, below:
As Armatrading explains, she was immediately compelled to write the song after witnessing some alarmingly confrontational public behaviour by a young person: โHe was like, โIโm going to kill everybody! Iโm not moving! You can get the police! You canโt move me!โ All the lyrics just flowed, in one, and I knew it had to have an aggression, because thatโs how he was. I did a version of it that was a little bit milder, but you could tell that wasnโt it.โ

How Did This Happen And What Does It Now Mean was entirely written, produced, programmed and engineered by Joan Armatrading herself. Discussing the albumโs title, she says, โYou can apply it to just about anything. We are in such a weird place at the moment, and you do think, how did this happen? Some of the things weโre going through, and some of the things we can say and canโt say, and can and canโt do โ how on earth do we get to this place, and what does it now mean? Where are we going to go now? It applies to all kinds of things. Itโs like asking a question that you canโt answer.โ
Check out the tracklisting for How Did This Happen And What Does It Now Mean below:
25 Kisses
Someone Else
Irresistible
Iโm Not Moving
Say It Tomorrow
Back And Forth
Come Back To Me (If Only In Dreams)
Hereโs What I Know
Redemption Love
How Did This Happen And What Does It Now Mean
Now What
I Gave You My Keys
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