beabadoobee, one of the buzziest artists of 2020 with more than 900 million streams has released “How Was Your Day?” the fourth single from her highly-anticipated debut full-length album, Fake It Flowers, out October 16 on Dirty Hit. Fake It Flowers is available for pre-order HERE and Bea’s new line of merch is available now HERE.
“’How Was Your Day?’ is a track that explores all the relationships I neglected when I was away from home” Bea explains, “I wanted to emphasise the rawness of the lyrics with the song sonically which is why I recorded it on a four-track with all the little mistakes and vocal wobbles included. I wanted the music video to feel nostalgic to me, to include all the people I cared about, it took me back to the time I first started making music.”
Peppered with tenderness and transparency, “How Was Your Day?” is an emotionally charged nod at the softer side of beabadoobee’s influences – which include Elliott Smith, Daniel Johnston and Kimya Dawson of the Moldy Peaches – and was recorded on a four-track cassette recorder in her boyfriend’s garden when her studio was closed towards the beginning of the pandemic. Packed with a longing for reconnection and simpler times, the accompanying nostalgia-tinged music video, which features Bea in grainy, VHS-like, lo-fi quality, was directed by long-term collaborators bedroom and features footage of Bea and her loved ones together over the past few months.
“How Was Your Day?” will join three previously released singles from Fake It Flowers, which has appeared on numerous most-anticipated album lists of Fall 2020 including Vulture, Pitchfork, Consequence of Sound, Paste, Uproxx, and more. Bea’s previous single “Worth It” flickers with brazen ambience, grunge-inspired 90’s-era guitar, and cinematic storytelling to capture the emotions of letting go of nostalgic sentiments and haunting mistakes, whereas “Sorry” is a transformative confessional, knotted by vast guitar structures and agonizingly-vivid songwriting. “Care” marked an explicitly vulnerable new direction for Bea, rejecting sympathy from anyone who doesn’t take the time to get to know the real her and understand what she’s gone through in her life – complete with a cathartic, swooping chorus. The collection has garnered praise from New York Times, Rolling Stone, NPR, Wall Street Journal, Pitchfork, Teen Vogue, The FADER, i-D, Paper Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Uproxx, Consequence of Sound, Stereogum, Nylon, Complex, and more.
After signing with Dirty Hit following her viral single “Coffee,” which was sampled in this summer’s sixth most streamed song “death bed (coffee for your head)” which also featured beadadoobee herself, she toured with indie pop star Clario, graced the cover of NME (who labeled her “devastatingly cool”), and received a billboard in Times Square as part of YouTube’s global artist development program Foundry. She kicked off 2020 with nominations for the BRITs Rising Star Award and the BBC Sound of 2020 as well as a performance at the NME Awards and at The 1975’s O2 Arena shows. Her two most recent critically-lauded 2019 EPs, Space Cadet, and Loveworm, along with Canadian artist Powfu’s “death bed (coffee for your head)” ft. beabadoobee, a TikTok smash which sampled “Coffee” and climbed into the Top 20 chart in 27 countries and brought Bea her first RIAA Platinum Certification.
beabadoobee has also announced the Fake It Flowers headline tour for Fall 2021 with 14 dates across the UK and Ireland, including a hometown show at London’s O2 Forum Kentish Town. Tickets can be purchased HERE.
Born in the Philippines and raised in London, Bea Kristi began recording music as beabadoobee in 2017. At just 20 years old, she has built her huge, dedicated Gen-Z fan base with her flawless output of confessional bedroom pop songs and DIY aesthetic, making her one of music’s most exciting artists to watch.
2021 UK & IE Tour Dates
September 07- Manchester – O2 Ritz
September 09 – Leeds – Beckett University
September 10 – Nottingham – Rescue Rooms
September 11- Birmingham – O2 Institute
September 13- Cambridge – Junction
September 14- Leicester – O2 Academy
September 23- London – O2 Forum Kentish Town
September 24- Bristol – Swx
September 25- Oxford – O2 Academy
September 28 – Dublin – The Academy
September 29- Belfast – Oh Yeah Music Centre
October 02- Newcastle – University Students Union
October 03- Edinburgh – The Liquid Room
October 04 – Glasgow – Swg3