Beabadoobee is our latest Artist You Need to Know. Here's how the 20-year-old London songwriter went from high-school outsider to alt-rock phenom
Kristi, who performs under the name Beabadoobee , is on the phone from her boyfriend’s house in London, where the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has forced her to shelter in place for the time being. She typically finds inspiration by writing songs in her bedroom, but that hasn’t made self-isolation any less nerve-wracking. “I had a really bad writing drought,” she says, “and quarantine makes that hard, because there’s nothing else to do.
Growing up, Kristi attended an all-girls Catholic school, where being the only Filipino student made it especially difficult to fit in. “I remember I used to be really confused about what to wear,” she says. “I was very uncomfortable with who I was.” In time Kristi found solace and friendship through music, which eventually became her route to self-acceptance. Her first pair of EPs as Beabadoobee followed the same winning formula as “Coffee” and her other viral hit, a cover of Karen O’s “The Moon Song”: simple guitar chords, echo-y production, melancholic lyrics that bordered on twee.
Robinson was working with Kristi on her debut album, due out later this year, when the COVID-19 quarantine went into effect in Britain. Fortunately for Kristi and her band, nearly all of the necessary recording for the album had been completed, and all she had left to do was mix and master the tracks remotely with the team.
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