After eleven years shrinking her artistic vision inside the indie-folk duo Slow Club, Rebecca Lucy Taylor blew it all up and became Self Esteem, one of Britain’s most acclaimed pop stars. A former choir nerd from Rotherham, she found permission to go big through RuPaul’s Drag Race and built an alter ego of theatrical, unapologetic confidence.

This episode traces her breakthrough with Prioritise Pleasure and the spoken-word single I Do This All the Time, where she read her iPhone notes over heavy beats. It explores her Madonna-inspired live shows, the activist slogans and the 97 percent statistic, the crowd barking ritual, and her expansion into acting and theatre.

• How a decade of compromise in Slow Club nearly ended her artistically
• The Instagram project and Drag Race inspiration behind the name
• Reading her private iPhone notes aloud on I Do This All the Time
• The activist slogans, the 97 percent statistic, and the crowd barking ritual
• Her later-life breakthrough and pivot into West End acting