Eman channels the experience of female desire and ambition, oscillating between romantic longing and sheer confidence.
Following her previous releases "Shameless" and "Packing Away," Eman announces her most confident pop release: "Fame and Fortune." Written and produced with intentionality toward contemporary pop, the track blends ethereal synths with 120 BPM electronic drums, creating sonic space for both vulnerability and movement.
“"Fame and Fortune" began as an admission I was afraid to make that I want to be wanted. Not just by one person, but by everyone in the room. There is a lot of shame in that. We're told to be confident but never to admit to wanting to be admired. I wanted to write against that silence to say plainly that I know who I am and the power I hold. There may be doubt in that energy, but there is something sweet about sitting in the hunger for something bigger.” - Eman
The music video for "Fame and Fortune" pulls from cinema's long obsession with women who want: Gilda, Norma Desmond, the dancer in The Red Shoes, Anna in Vivre sa vie, Vicky in Three Colors: Blue. Women who were never permitted to be the bearers of their own desire only its object. Fragments of their stories cut together into something that feels less like a music video and more like a séance: what happens when those women finally get to want out loud. Glamorous and melancholic.
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Artist bio: Eman is an Iranian/Iraqi–Saudi indie pop artist, actress, and researcher based in London, UK. An award-winning actress featured in the BAFTA-winning series We Are Lady Parts and BFI & London Short Film Festival-nominated films, Eman brings both on-screen experience and behind-the-scenes insight to her music. Growing up in small-town Canada, she brings an outsider’s clarity to pop — merging diasporic experience with a knowing, anti-orientalist edge and a taste for pure mainstream nostalgia.
