- 2024-08-14
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MUSIC
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beabadoobee Releases New Album “This Is How Tomorrow Moves”
Filipino-British singer-songwriter beabadoobee released her third studio album “This Is How Tomorrow Moves” on August 9, 2024 via Dirty Hit.
Initially, the album was announced to release on August 16, 2024. But she released the album a week earlier.
This marks her first album in two years since the 2022 album “Beatopia”.
The album comprises 14 tracks, which she recorded with producers Rick Rubin and Jacob Bugden at Shangri-La in Los Angeles.
beabadoobee told Apple Music about working with Rick Rubin, “I think being in a space like Shangri-La, and knowing that you’re making this record with Rick, it definitely kind of kicks you. Like, ‘All right, it’s time to shine.’”
She continued, “I really needed music to help me understand what my brain was going through. I just had so much to say. I didn’t really think about the way it sounded. You know when you really badly need to go to the toilet? That’s what it felt like: I really badly needed to write a song.”- beabadoobee said of the album in a statement, “I love this album. I feel like it's helped me so much more than anything else has in navigating this new era, this new understanding of where I'm at. I guess it's about becoming a woman. I think I'm more aware of my actions in these songs. In my previous records, I would consistently sing about my reaction towards other people's doings, like a blame game. But in this record, it's accepting that there's an inevitability of my fault in there too. Whether it's childhood trauma or relationship issues, it takes two to tango in everything.”
- beabadoobee explained about some tracks for the album.
“Take A Bite”
“It’s me feeling introspective about my thoughts and unhealthy way of living. It’s finding comfort in a familiar place – finding comfort in chaos, because that’s what I know. So I bring it into every aspect of my life, especially with relationships. It’s just tapping into this part of my brain where I just jump straight to the most negative, most chaotic thought ever known to man and make and make that into my reality.”
“Tie My Shoes”
“The most heartbreaking lyrics on the record the lyrics encapsulate the way I am … I was digging deeper to why I act the way I act. And it always stems from what you see when you’re a child and this song essentially is just me saying I never want to put my hopes up for something because I’m scared I’m going to be disappointed.”
“Coming Home”
“I wrote it in a hotel room in LA when I was away from my boyfriend, my loved ones, my two cats. It opens with all the little mundane things like doing the dishes, that I miss because I’m always away. Really, it’s just a cute little love song with a weird non-existent structure.”
“Girl Song” via Apple Music
“I think you can argue that ‘Girl Song,’ out of all the songs on the record, is the most tragic. I wrote it because I’m still trying to figure that one out, just in terms of growing up and loving myself and the way I look and physical appearance and all that mumbo jumbo. But it sits at number six, just because I just felt like it was perfect. It had to be perfectly in the middle of the record because it didn’t suit the beginning or the end. It was just how I felt at that moment.”
“Beaches” via Apple Music
“I wrote ‘Beaches’ because of how terrified I was getting into this. I am the sort of person that values feeling comfortable and loyalty and trusting people around me, not changing a lot of things. But I would’ve been an idiot if I had said no [to Rubin]. I remember my boyfriend being like, ‘Are you crazy? You have to go.’ I’m so used to making music back at home, not in a massive, fancy place.”
“The Man Who Left Too Soon” via Apple Music
“I actually wrote it in LA, in my hotel room. I’ve never really experienced death in family. I always wondered how that felt like. My current boyfriend, unfortunately, lost his dad around his twenties; I really got to see how that would feel like and how that would affect someone. I wanted to write about it so I can understand what that would mean to other people and what that would mean to him and what that would mean to me.”
“This Is How It Went” via Apple Music
“It makes me so anxious: A very intense thing happened to me, and I needed to write about it. I have to say all this shit.” - source : Apple Music
