Beabadoobee has celebrated Valentine’s Day with the discharge of a heartwarming new single “Glue Song” immortalizing a fan-favourite from her current dwell reveals. You can watch the track’s official video, directed by Jake Erland, beneath.
It’s one of many indie artist’s extra ballad-esque tracks, carried by an insistent drum beat, silky strings and twee grand piano chords. Beatrice Laus floats over the soundscape, singing with a cool ease: “I’ve never known someone like you / Tangled in love, stuck by you / From the glue / Don’t forget to kiss me / Or else you’ll have to miss me.”
In a press launch, Laus defined that she wrote “Glue Song” “in the back of cars and traveling” all through her current excursions throughout Asia and Australia. “It’s a heartfelt song that means a lot to me,” she mentioned, describing it as “a love song and the first one I’ve written in my new relationship.”
She added: “I often write these songs which can be unhappy, prior to now with my writing even when it doesn’t sound unhappy wanting again the lyrics often have been. For the primary time that is simply me being actually pleased. I’m in a extremely optimistic place for the primary time in a very long time and feeling love.
“We recorded the song with my guitarist and producer Jacob in his house and added in trumpets and strings. This song feels really personal and I went to my hometown in Ilo Ilo [in the Philippines] to film the music video. It’s where I was born and so that also added another personal touch to the song.”
Laus teased the discharge of ‘Glue Song’ final month, following a handful of dwell performances – together with one the place she was backed by a three-piece string part, and one she did for NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert sequence.
Upon releasing the latter, she mentioned the tune was “my favourite love song I’ve written so far”, boasting that it options “no lyrics with double meanings or some weird sad undertone” and was as a substitute “just a plain and simple, in your face, love song.”
“Glue Song” marks the primary track to comply with Laus’ second album as Beabadoobee, Beatopia, which arrived final July by way of Dirty Hit. She’s presently listening to as much as plug the album on her first-ever European headline tour, after which she’ll open for Taylor Swift on choose dates of her 2023 North American ‘Eras’ tour.
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