Beabadoobee doesn’t want her music to be perfect.
The 24-year-old singer – whose real name is Beatrice Laus – thinks it is important for songs to reflect “real life” and believes what can make a track truly “special” is the “missteps” and things that don’t necessarily make sense.
She told Britain’s Cosmopolitan magazine: “I think about beauty standards and how people botch their faces to be perfect. They lose their uniqueness. I feel like it’s the same with music.
“You want to hear the missteps, because that’s what makes it special.”
Asked the musical equivalent of a button nose, she laughed: “Well, I don’t want it! Let’s keep it crooked.”
She continued: “Maybe I’m writing a song and it doesn’t follow the exact rules of songwriting. Or maybe this word doesn’t make sense next to this one, but that’s how I speak. That’s why people relate to my music.”
The ‘Way Things Go’ hitmaker loves writing music because it helps to “soothe [her] inner child”.
She said: “I can’t do that when I write my diary or indulge in bad things, but writing a song is the purest form of art and emotion to me.”
The ‘Coffee’ singer admitted she used to “cringe out” listening back to her 2020 debut album ‘Fake It Flowers’ but now she understands her teenage self better and “appreciates” what she went through.
She said: “I used to cringe out at my first record. I couldn’t listen to it! I have a lot of empathy for myself today – like, ‘Awh, bless you! You’re going to be fine, Bea!’
“[Now] I see a younger girl going through this very necessary bit of life.
“I went through that s*** for a lot of people to see. I wouldn’t be the person I am today without it, and it makes me appreciate that part of my life.”