Rita Ora on Creating ‘Ask & You Shall Receive,’ Working With RAYE | How It Went Down | Billboard

In today’s episode of ‘How It Went Down,’ Rita Ora shares how she collaborated with RAYE on “Ask & You Shall Receive,” her movie inspiration for the music video and more!

Rita Ora: 

What’s up, I’m Rita Ora, and this is How It Went Down for “Ask & You Shall Receive.” I got the demo sent to me in my email from RAYE, who is my Brit icon queen. The song felt really uplifting, super great for the summer. My last record was all about kind of love. And so I wanted this one to be sort of very, like, easy, you know, uplifting and vibey. “Ask and you shall receive” is such a famous mantra, and it’s exactly where I was at, and how I feel about life recently. Like, you know, if you want something, you gotta go get it, you’ve got to ask for help. And that’s what this song is about. It’s about being cheeky, feeling fun. And so that really resonated with me. The recording process was pretty great. I worked with my guy Cam, who records everything for me. There was a lot of words, as you listen to the song. And a lot of like runs I tried to add on, as many sort of stacks on the harmonies as I could. And then RAYE was sort of like coming in with her little bits and bobs. And I was like, How can we mesh our two worlds together? And so that’s what we did. We meshed all of our vocals together and it just feels really kind of milky and nice.