Saleka Faucets Child Cudi for New Music ‘Divine’: Pay attention

Saleka is bringing the fictional story of her new character Woman Raven to life — with the assistance of Child Cudi!

Forward of the discharge of her Aug. 2 soundtrack and its corresponding movie Entice — during which she seems as pop star Woman Raven — the real-life musician, full title Saleka Evening Shyamalan, unleashed her newest providing “Divine” on Friday, July 26.

The music, which marks her third launch off Woman Raven (Authentic Music from the Movement Image Entice), options help from Child Cudi throughout each its refrain and sticky bridge. The album was written, produced and carried out by 27-year-old Saleka.

“Present me spirits so divine,” Saleka and Cudi sing collectively within the refrain. “The place they go, heaven’s secret / Ooh, fall in a dream / Mom Earth calling / Swimming within the love / Stroll in a glow It is divine tonight.”

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The soundtrack itself, which she wrote to pair along with her father M. Evening Shyamalan‘s script for Entice, additionally options the likes of Amaarae and Russ, as she famous its “duality” in a press launch. “I needed to make an album that might stand by itself and embody the sounds and genres I really like,” Saleka stated of the forthcoming album and corresponding thriller.

“On the identical time, each music was made for a particular scene with clear intention. Having the exterior storyline made the method so inspiring although. I might write in a approach that was extremely free since I wasn’t fascinated with myself,” she added. “I ended up enhancing myself much less and exploring aspects of my very own feelings that I might be too scared to dive into with out having Woman Raven to talk by.”

As beforehand reported, Saleka seems in Entice as pop star Woman Raven, who Josh Hartnett‘s serial killer character takes his teen daughter (performed by Ariel Donoghue) to see in live performance — regardless of the entire thing being a lure to set him up and catch him.

Talking with PEOPLE through the movie’s premiere this week at Alice Tully Corridor in New York, Saleka stated she appeared to Taylor Swift — who she referred to as a “boss girl and CEO” — as somebody she channeled for the position, alongside a number of different pop stars.

“I watched plenty of movies of Rosalía acting on stage, and Billie Eilish and simply artists that I really like as a result of for me, I’m sort of this introverted, shy particular person, so strolling out on stage with confidence is just not one thing that comes naturally to me, so I used to be attempting to channel the entire lovely pop stars of our era,” she stated.

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Saleka additionally revealed on TODAY that her first live performance was Beyoncé , who she noticed reside along with her mother and father when she was 10 — a second she now appears to as “a core reminiscence for me.”

Working along with his daughter, M. Evening additionally informed PEOPLE on the Entice premiere, nonetheless means she’s handled “all the time the identical” as different members of the movie’s workforce. “Everyone, you already know, whenever you come to work with me, it is actually critical,” he stated. “The artwork is critical.”

“For us, we do not compromise something. It’s important to be prepped, you’ve bought to be — you already know, the whole lot about it’s sacred,” Shyamalan added. “So, you already know, the identical factor goes for, you are my daughter. I simply met you for the primary time, no matter it’s, you are a famous person actor. It is all the identical.”

Entice and its soundtrack, Woman Raven (Authentic Music from the Movement Image Entice), each arrive on Aug. 2.