With her debut album ‘Fake It Flowers’, beabadoobee made a splash. With its follow-up, she’s making her own unique world.
Words: Ali Shutler. Photos: Derek Bremner.
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You can never please everyone, so what’s the point in trying?” grins beabadoobee. From the moment she uploaded the hopeful, scrappy bedroom pop song ‘Coffee’ to SoundCloud in 2017, Bea has been toying with expectations.
From the indie daydream of ‘Patched Up’ through the more defiant ‘Lice’ to the alt-rock snarl of ‘Loveworm’ and the swaggeringly cool ‘Space Cadet’, Bea has dabbled with genre, spirit and attitude. She’s basically grown up on Spotify’s homepage, but that spotlight doesn’t make her nervous. “Everyone’s seen what I’ve tried to do,” she challenges. “Now it’s like, let’s see what happens next.”
And what is next is ‘Beatopia’. Once again, it’s a very different beast to what’s come before, all psychedelic rock and ethereal storytelling, but it’s also the first record where Bea has felt comfortable with herself.
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