beabadoobee

Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

Rick Rubin

Society & Culture, Arts, Philosophy

4.6 • 908 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2024

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Summary

Bea Laus, professionally known as beabadoobee, is a Filipino-English singer and songwriter. She wrote her first song on guitar in 2017, titled “Coffee,” which quickly gained over 300,000 views on YouTube and captured the attention of Dirty Hit Records. Pairing an introspective indie rock sound with intimate melodies on the guitar, Beabadoobee has captivated her largely Gen-Z fanbase with her music. She is the recipient of two UK Music Video Awards for Best Rock Video in 2021 and Best Pop Video in 2022. Beyond her individual work, she has embarked on four tours supporting artists and music groups Clairo, The 1975, Halsey, and Taylor Swift. Her third album, This Is How Tomorrow Moves, is out everywhere. ------ Thank you to the sponsors that fuel our podcast and our team: Lucy https://lucy.co/tetra ------ LMNT Electrolytes https://drinklmnt.com/tetra ------ Squarespace https://squarespace.com/tetra ------ House of Macadamias https://www.houseofmacadamias.com/tetra

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0:00.0	Tetragrammaton
0:02.0	Tetragrammaton If you can describe the new album in one word, what would the word be? Think about it.
0:30.6	Introspective has been popping up a lot every time I described the record. Just because I think it's the first time I'm actually like acknowledging
0:41.3	situations that have happened to me but through my own eyes instead of like blaming
0:46.3	others constantly and I think that's a lot to do with maturing and growing up.
0:52.3	So, yeah, introspective. That's good. It's very me.
0:57.0	How would you say it's different than what you've done before? How would you describe the differences?
1:03.0	I was much confident with this record. I think coming here and meeting you and like playing the songs acoustically in like on the second day
1:14.6	made me appreciate my songwriting more and my decisions.
1:18.6	I didn't feel like I needed to like put ideas down just for the sake of talking in the studio.
1:24.6	Yeah.
1:25.6	I felt way more sure of myself and what I wanted.
1:29.3	Is it something about that process of putting down the songs by yourself acoustically?
1:34.3	Yeah.
1:35.3	It gives them some power, like you realize that it's already there.
1:40.3	Yeah.
1:41.3	You know, like the hard work's already done and now we can have fun making music.
1:45.0	Exactly.
1:46.0	I feel like you know a song is good when it's good completely naked.
1:50.0	Yeah.
1:51.0	And it's just me and acoustic guitar.
1:53.0	You've seen the album cover?
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