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If you've spent any time scrolling TikTok in 2021, chances are you saw Bea Kristi (known as beabadoobee)'s lo-fi cuts playing in the background. The British singer-songwriter is a rising star on Dirty Hit Records, an indie label known for discovering tomorrow's biggest stars.
The 22-year-old recently supported her labelmates the 1975 on several legs of their Music for Cars Tour and American singer Clairo on her Immunity Tour.
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Bea Kristi, who sings as beabadoobee, has a lot going for her right now. She's popular enough to fill out a club, famous enough to be pop-star adjacent (she's toured with Halsey and Bleachers, worked with the 1975, appeared in Taylor Swift's Instagram stories), and she has an inescapable cult following among teenagers who watch TikTok videos of her songs in the background while doing their chores.
But that sort of fame can also get a little dangerous for someone who makes music like beabadoobee's. It can lull you into an illusion of effortlessness, making you believe that you're witnessing the birth of a superstar, rather than the work of an artist who has spent years honing her craft and has only just started to see real rewards.
That's not to say that beabadoobee isn't talented, or that she doesn't have a unique perspective on the world around her. She does, and she shares it on her new album, Beatopia. Named for a dream-space world that beabadoobee invented for herself when she was seven, the record finds her reining in some of the wilder reach of her debut and producing something that feels more authentically her than anything she's done before.
Whether it's the woozy "I Don't Want to Go to Bed," or the angsty bedroom-pop of "Tinkerbell Is Overrated," Beatopia is a warm, pretty, accessible record that nevertheless resists easy categorization. The singer-songwriter still specializes in that evocative, hazy sound that's been favored by everyone from the 1975 to the new wave revivalists who preceded her, but the new record is less an attempt to rewrite the rules of pop than a declaration that she knows them better than anyone.
