Beabadoobee Talks Breakups, Shrooms and the World of ‘Beatopia’
variety.comThania Garcia Bea Kristi is booked and busy. When Variety caught up with the 21-year-old, she was just starting to settle down from a full day’s preparation for her performance at Madrid’s Mad Cool festival, which she was leaving for the following morning.
For a brief moment, her standard nonchalance slipped as she started to gush over the moment she met Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo backstage at one of her recent summer festival appearances.“I really wanted to meet him, but then someone from the festival said that he wanted to meet me,” Bea remembers.
The two exchanged autographs — as Cuomo’s kids are Beabadoobee fans — which left her “completely starstruck by him. He’s a really interesting dude.”Having also just completed a short circuit of North American shows alongside PinkPantheress and Halsey, the singer-songwriter has settled into her new groove of traveling rockstar — a stark difference from what her daily routine looked like during the creation of “Beatopia.” On her second full-length studio album, “Beatopia” — out today via Dirty Hit Records – the Filipino-British singer (born Bea Kristi) delivers a blend of jangly guitar pop and nostalgic alt-rock, citing the Sundays, the Broken Social Scene and Masakatsu Takagi’s gleeful “Kagayaki” as direct influences.“With this record, because it was after lockdown, I would write a song the night before and then I’d make it the next day with Jacob,” she says, speaking of Jacob Bugden, the guitarist in Bea’s band and her best friend.
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