Birthdays are like a personal New Year celebration, a chance to start fresh with a clean slate. This took on a more literal meaning for Raye as she brought in her 27th birthday with some bad news: her car was recently stolen, along with the books full of songs she wrote for her second studio album. The car is more easily replaced than her writing, marking an indefinite delay in the arrival of her follow-up to last year’s My 21st Century Blues.
“It’s my birthday and my car got stolen with all my song writing books in the boot so no second album any time soon love you bye,” Raye wrote on Instagram. The singer-songwriter punctuated the post with a cake and red heart emoji.
The carousel of photos she shared features three separate cakes: one that reads “sorry ur car got stolen” in red frosting, another that goes for a simple “Happy Birthday Raye,” and a…
