Beabadoobee

Filipino-British singer-songwriter beabadoobee has dropped her latest single “Talk” via Dirty Hit. It’s the lead single from her second full-length album, Beatopia, set to drop July 15th. 

beabadoobee said, "I wrote ‘Talk’ just after my first album. I was obsessed with Tuesday because I thought it was the best night to go out, not too much chaos but just enough to have a good time. Generally, it’s about doing things that aren’t necessarily healthy or great for you, but you can’t help indulging. It’s like that unavoidable feeling that you get. You can’t get rid of it, and you know it’s bad, but you love it really, and its whatever, so you do it anyways." 

She also dropped the video for the song as well. "I just wanted to make a video where everyone was involved and just to basically have loads of fun with my band and with a crowd of fans," she said. "Alexandra Leese and Luke Casey are directors I’d worked with last year on a thing for Marc Jacobs and I knew straight away that I really wanted to work with them for Beatopia, I knew they would take everything in my head and make it real life."

The video is infused with lots of mushrooms. Why the mushrooms? "Mushrooms look cute! I like the mystery behind them and how there are so many different ones, ones you can trip with and ones you eat normally. The mushrooms in the “Talk” set allude to the next song I'm releasing, that I wrote when I took shrooms for the first time. I also want Beatopia to feel like a massive trip."

The 21-year-old Beatrice Laus was born in Iloilo City in the Philippines and moved to London with her parents at the age of 3. She grew up in West London listening to original Pinoy music as well as pop and rock music from the 1980s. While she was a teenager, she listened to indie rock including Karen O, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Florist and Alex G. She was expelled from Sacred Heart High School before completing her thirteenth year at Hammersmith Academy. Laus spent seven years learning to play the violin, before getting her first guitar second-hand at the age of 17. She taught herself how to play the instrument using YouTube tutorials. She was inspired by Kimya Dawson and the Juno soundtrack to start making music.

Bea’s debut album, Fake It Flowers, came out in late 2020 and was swiftly followed by 2021’s Our Extended Play, an EP made in collaboration with The 1975 that explored her reluctance to grow up, a tendency to seek validation in others and a preoccupation with unhealthy vices. 

beabadoobee is currently on tour through October 19th in the U.S., Canada and overseas. She will be playing The Governors Ball Music Festival on June 10th.

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