"The Glorification of Sadness", is the title of the Paloma Faith's new album

On her sixth album, The Glorification of Sadness, Paloma Faith leans into a period of personal turbulence for a bold celebration of her experiences as a single mother and a pop superstar.
Then Paloma Faith launched into the pop charts 15 years ago she was no stranger to the spotlight.
The multi-hyphenate first made a name for herself as Andrea, the Emo, in the 2007 movie 'St. Trinians', with the film launching around the time she was scouted by an A&R man from Epic Records, who invited her to sing for the manager of the label.
A less-than-ideal introduction it may have been - when she asked him to turn off his phone, he refused and she walked out - her bold act left a lasting impression and she was later offered a deal, launching one of the most successful British pop careers in recent history.
Now, six albums into her unravelling legacy, her act is far from toned down; launching into her latest era with the defiant How You Leave A Man, her zero-tolerance barn-bummer about not sticking with the monotony and neglect of domesticity encompasses that early attention-grabbing attitude for a belter of a pop anthem.
"How You Leave A Man is meant to be empowering," she adds of its deeper meaning. "It's about taking control and responsibility for your own happiness as a woman. And not listening to the din of social pressures saying you're only accepted as a woman if you're a victim. There's no room for a woman to say: actually, I just wasn't really happy. It's not really seen as acceptable, especially when there's kids involved.

Over five albums, Paloma has never shied away from tackling subjects close to home. She described her debut album, 'Do You Want The Truth Or Something Beautiful?' (2009) as being about "the human condition, the constant striving for love and companionship", while her fourth album, The Architect (2017), is about "motherhood and wanting to change things for a better future".
This time around, she felt she had no choice but to write about her experiences - "because it's all I think about". Compelled by the nuanced television adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s 'Scenes From A Marriage' Paloma also wanted to counter the prevailing societal concept of victims and villains in the breakdown of a relationship.
Alongside writing tracks for her sixth studio album, Paloma is in the final stages of writing a book about her experiences and her aims for the feminist movement, a process as meaningful to her on a personal level as it is to others in raising awareness about the reality of women's lives.