In the latest Paste Digital Cover Story, beabadoobee talks about trusting her songwriting instincts on 'This Is How Tomorrow Moves.'
In our latest Digital Cover Story, Bea Laus talks about recording with Rick Rubin in Malibu, touring with Taylor Swift, and trusting the instincts of where her songwriting wanted to go on her new album,and Olivia Rodrigo sit at the top of the marquee, but this summer has belonged to Sabrina Carpenter. If your TikTok algorithm has been in the right place, you may have even seen thatof a then-19-year-old Chappell Roan singing “Pink Pony Club” in public.
If opening for Taylor Swift was the only thing on beabadoobee’s resumé, she’d already have a more impressive track-record than most musicians her age. The reward of having that accomplishment is, in her own words, that “you’ve done it and you’ve managed to do it without actually shitting yourself on stage.” “Then you have a big meal and you’re like, ‘Thank God I’ve done that.
That time spent in California with Rubin will likely alter the way Laus makes her next beabadoobee album. Of course, the confidence she left Shangri-La with isn’t a bad thing to hold onto, but Rubin’s methodology of subtracting filler and prioritizing lyrical meaning and chord simplicity reminds her of the type of writer she was when she wrote “Coffee” seven years ago. “It was two chords and a melody line with very silly lyrics,” she says.
And while the Ashlee Simpson-inspired “Take a Bite” packs a smack of sass that could’ve brought the house down on a CW show in 2003, Laus admits that the song is often more associated with Incubus than thealum. “Everyone says the Incubus rhythm, which I didn’t actually think about,” she contends. “That rhythm that is awesome, so I did it withinthe rhythm. Then, Jacob came back with a demo that I fell in love with and I was like, ‘Okay, now I can finally write the lyrics.
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