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Filipino and British singer (born 2000)
Beatrice Kristi Ilejay Laus, known professionally as Beabadoobee, is a Filipino and British singer and songwriter. From 2018 to 2021, she released five extended plays (EPs) under the independent label Dirty Hit: Lice (2018), Patched Up (2018), Loveworm (2019), Space Cadet (2019) and Our Extended Play (2021).
Her debut studio album Fake It Flowers was released in October 2020, and received critical acclaim. Her second studio album, Beatopia, was released on July 2022, and spawned the hit "The Perfect Pair".
Her third studio album, This Is How Tomorrow Moves, was released in August 2024; it became her first album to peak atop the UK Albums Chart. In September 2026, her fourth studio album, Pylon, topped the British and Australian charts.
genres: indie rock, space rock, alternative rock, slacker rock, indie pop, folk-pop, bedroom pop
plays: voice, guitar
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Early life and education
Laus was born in Iloilo City in the Philippines on June 3, 2000 and moved to the United Kingdom with her parents at the age of three. She grew up in West London listening to Original Pilipino Music as well as pop and rock music from the 1990s. While she was a teenager, she listened to indie rock artists including Karen O, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Florist and Alex G.
The first song Beabadoobee wrote on her guitar was "Coffee". She took her professional name as a joke when her friend and producer Oscar Lang was preparing to upload "Coffee" and suggested she release her music under an artist name. Beabadoobee was a name she had invented for her finsta account because none of her names were being accepted by Instagram.
Laus has cited Apo Hiking Society, the Beatles, Mac DeMarco, Daniel Johnston, Mazzy Star, the Moldy Peaches, Pavement, Simon and Garfunkel, Elliott Smith, Avril Lavigne, Veruca Salt and the Sundays as her musical influences. She has a tattoo of Johnston's artwork from the cover of his album Continued Story with Texas Instruments. In a 2018 interview with Vice, she expressed plans to make film soundtracks in the future as they heavily inspired her to make music. Laus' musical style is also deeply influenced by 80s alternative rock and shoegaze bands like the Cure, My Bloody Valentine, the Smashing Pumpkins, and the Smiths.
Beabadoobee is a Filipino-British singer-songwriter born on June 3, 2000, in Iloilo City (Philippines), known for her nostalgic blend of ‘90s-inspired alt-rock, shoegaze, and bedroom pop. Born Beatrice Kristi Ilejay Laus in Iloilo City and raised in London, she began recording music in 2017 with her viral track “Coffee.” She followed with a series of lo-fi EPs—2864134, 1622571, 1587837, and 1926555—that showcased her raw, diary-like songwriting. Her debut album 1822698 (2020) marked a shift into grunge-infused rock, followed by the collaborative 2316448 (2021), co-written with 's and . In 2022, she released 2708981, an ambitious, genre-blending record rooted in dream pop and introspection. Her third studio album 3563978 (2024) debuted at No. 1 in the UK, further establishing her evolution from lo-fi beginnings to indie rock prominence.
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Liner notes
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Patched Up
2018 ep
wanted
Lice
2018 ep
Space Cadet
2019 ep
Loveworm
2019 ep
Fake It Flowers
2020 album
Our Extended Play
2021 ep
wanted
unreleased bedroom sessions
2022 ep
Beatopia
2022 album
wanted
This Is How Tomorrow Moves
2024 album
wanted
Pylon
2026 album
Records from MusicBrainz; covers from the Cover Art Archive.
"Glue Song" is a song by the Filipino-British singer Beabadoobee. The chamber pop ballad was produced by Jacob Bugden and Iain Berryman and released on February 14, 2023, through Dirty Hit.
Composition and lyrics
Musically, the song is a chamber pop ballad with slow and sensual guitars, with strings in the background. The beginning of the song experienced rotation and semi-virality on TikTok before its release after it was teased months prior by the singer in a Tiny Desk Concert in November 2022, in the snippet she sings, "I've never known someone like you/Tangled in love stuck by you/From the glue."
Critical reception
The song was well received by critics. The Gryphon's Emie Grimwood wrote that the song introduces a new era for her music in a beautiful way, further writing that other return with a statement of love and gratitude, while also paying homage to the city she grew up in, calling it "touching and unflawed." Chris Deville of Stereogum called it a love song, one that takes listeners back to the acoustic sound of her past releases, continuing stating that at this point in her career she can spring for an elegant string section to flesh it out, though.
Music video
The video was directed by her boyfriend Jake Erland and shot on 16mm film. She is seen hanging around with her family and her love interest Erland in her home town of Iloilo City in the Philippines. As of June 2025, it has over 44 million views on YouTube.
"The Perfect Pair" is a song by Filipino-British singer Beabadoobee. It was written by Jacob Bugden and Beabadoobee, and became available as the fifth track from her second studio album Beatopia (2022) on 15 July 2022.
It was later sent to adult alternative radio on 26 September 2022 as a single by Dirty Hit. Sonically, "The Perfect Pair" is a bossa nova song backed by '90s-style guitar pop.
Release and composition
"The Perfect Pair" was sent to adult alternative radio on 26 September 2022. The song is 2 minutes and 58 seconds at a tempo of 146 BPM. The song went viral on the video sharing platform TikTok upon its release.
Critical reception
Pitchfork's Arielle Gordon described the song as "shimmying bossa nova" and compared it to the likes of Corinne Bailey Rae. Steffanie Wang of Nylon described it as "at once familiar and a sonic mesh of new ideas".
"Switchblade" is a song by the Filipino and English singer Beabadoobee. The song was released through Dirty Hit on 14 July 2026, as the second single from her fourth studio album, Pylon (2026).
Background
Following the release of "Sun Has Set" on 24 June, and the announcement of her upcoming studio album, Pylon, Beabadoobee announced Swichblade as the second single from the album on 9 July. The song released on 14 July with an accompanying lyric video.
