After a stint opening for Taylor Swift and working with Rick Rubin on her new album, indie hero Beatrice Kristi Laus is back with a mature new outlook on life. She tells NME about self-reflection, growing up and why she doesn’t want fans to focus on the personal drama behind some of her songs C haos often reigns Beabadoobee ’s world. When NME catches up with her mid-rehearsals one day before the release of her third album ‘This Is How Tomorrow Moves’ , there’s a sense of joyful mayhem swirling around her.
As she settles into a seat in front of the camera in the south London rehearsal studio she’s holed up in, bassist Eliana Sewell crawls into view. Sidetracked from our opening small talk, Beabadoobee bursts into laughter. “You don’t have to do that,” she jokingly chides her bandmate as she wriggles across the carpeted floor behind her.
Of late, Beabadoobee – real name Beatrice Kristi Laus – has been trying to shake free some of the chaos that tends to follow her around. Since she shared her second album ‘Beatopia’ in 2022, the British-Filipino indie musician has been doing a lot of self-reflection and has come to the conclusion she hasn’t always made life easy – for herself or those in her orbit. ‘This Is How Tomorrow Moves’ is, in part, a record of accountability; of owning up to her mistakes and moments where she acted out, and a mature new outlook for the 24-year-old.
“All it took was growing up and maturing,” she shrugs happily today..