Alt-pop’s new anti-hero Baby Queen has dropped her new single ‘Dover Beach’ as the new up and coming artist continues to smash it.
Hotly tipped as one of our ICM Ones To Watch 2021 artists, Baby Queen has been highly-praised since her Medicine EP last year with ‘These Drugs’ and ‘Raw Thoughts’.
Now her alt-pop sensibilities with scathing, stark social commentary has gone to a new level with ‘Dover Beach’.
It’s a widescreen smash with flecks of The 1975 and optimistic dream-pop like M83 – chronicles the time in October 2020 when she headed to a place she had long dreamt of visiting.
Baby Queen, aka Bella Lathum says of the track: “In school I was obsessed with this poem called ‘Dover Beach’ by Matthew Arnold and I always wanted to visit the Dover cliffs, so I went there alone on a writing trip in October last year.
“I actually wrote the melody and lyrics of this song while I was sitting on the beach. It’s about being infatuated with somebody and seeing them everywhere you look.
“I was kind of pissed that I went to look at the beach, all I could think about was this person, hence the lyric ‘you stole the view of Dover Beach.’
“It’s another internal struggle with my own insecurities and a sort of acceptance of the fact that I can’t escape my daydreams of this person, even if I go to a different place.”
The 23-year-old South Africa-born, London-based artist arrived in the alt-pop sphere barely a year ago but has already carved her name deep into its fabric with her crooked sceptre. Since her first release ‘Internet Religion’ last summer she has dropped a steady slew of singles that place her at the forefront of a musical movement.
Baby Queen will play her debut headline show at Omeara on November 9, 2021. Tickets go on general sale from 9am this Friday with Live Nation/Ticketmaster pre-sale tickets available now.
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