Baby Queen is about to dominate at Glastonbury 2024 (Picture: Converse/Baby Queen)
Arabella Latham is slowly but surely blowing up the charts with her unbelievably honest songs and if you don’t know her yet, just give it time.
Better known by her stage name Baby Queen, Bella is taking on the iconic Worthy Farm as she makes her Glastonbury debut with a Sunday slot on the Avalon Stage.
A certified one-to-watch, she is the go-to artist for hit Netflix show Heartstopper and peaked at number five in the UK charts with her first album, Quarter Life Crisis.
However, the 26-year-old singer confessed to Metro.co.uk that her bolshy stage persona and this newfound fame have given her a ‘massive identity crisis’.
Bella is aware of a clash between being so painfully honest in her music and performing as Baby Queen, who she feels is not quite herself.
‘It didn’t feel like my name matched the music,’ Bella considered. ‘I am such a performer when I do go on stage but I’m actually a very quiet person at home and I don’t speak very much.
Arabella Latham started the Baby Queen project in 2019 (Picture: Converse/Baby Queen)
She’s best known for soundtracking much of Heartstopper (Picture: Converse/Baby Queen)
‘I’m trying to bridge the gap. I want Baby Queen to be me. I think, in a lot of ways Baby Queen is who I’ve always wanted to be and maybe didn’t have the courage to be.
‘It’s exhausting. Sometimes when I get home, I just have to just be by myself for like a week straight because I’ve exerted so much energy.’
That being said, Bella shared: ‘I love honesty and there was a period of time where I felt like if I could say the most uncomfortable thing then that was the way to write the best song possible.’
She continued: ‘Raw Thoughts was the first song that I wrote where I said to myself, “There’s something really interesting in this”. I’d been writing for years and there was something so fresh about the way that I communicated.
‘I love the word vomit in that song and I love that it felt like a stream of consciousness into words. What happened is over time, I liked the honest things I made more [than the rest].
Bella says her stage persona can be ‘exhausting’ (Picture: Jack Hall/Getty Images)
‘I really thought they were some of the best, most interesting things that I created and they were different to what everyone else was doing. I believe that the only thing that you bring to the table as an artist is your unique way of seeing the world.’
The lyrics to the emotional ‘word vomit’ detail missing an unnamed girl so intensely that the singer spirals into drug use and being ‘unhinged’.
‘Girl, I really miss you, you were my best friend/ In the hours when it falls, I try to comprehend/ All the meaning in emotion, I’m emotionless,’ sings Baby Queen.
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Source:: Metro
