beabadoobee, Girl Song | Bangerz N Bopz 🔥

In the seventh edition of Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 (2025), we highlight “Girl Song” performed by British Filipino singer/songwriter beabadoobee.

Bring on the bold, fierce songs! Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 serves up background info and insight into songs of various styles, especially songs that raise eyebrows and stir the pot.  Featured records can be classic or brand new.In the seventh edition of Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 (2025), we break down “Girl Song” performed by beabadoobee.

“In a way, I’m figuring it out at my own pace,” British Filipino singer/songwriter beabadoobee (Beatrice Ilejay Laus) sings in the first verse of “Girl Song”.  She continues, introspectively and vulnerably, “Just a girl who overthinks about proportions on her waist / The creases on her face.” Real talk. Laus wows on the sixth track from her third studio album, This Is How Tomorrow Moves.  She penned the marvelous piano ballad while Jacob Bugden and Rick Ruben produced it.

“Day like no other, and just another bad day.” Ugh, Laus’ no terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day is our listening pleasure.  She brings radiant, tender vocals.  The melodies are gorgeous.  The songwriting is reflective but also depressing.  “Waking up to hardly recognizing my own face,” Laus sings in the second verse. “‘Oh what a shame, didn’t think she’d look this way’,” she responds regarding her ‘less than ideal’ reflection in the mirror.  Ugh 😢.  The chorus marks another honest and highly memorable moment:

“All I want to do is find the words to make it up to you

Making all the same mistakes

I guess there’s still a lot to prove

And there’s something I can’t say in an ordinary way.”

Adding the brilliance of “Girl” beyond fabulous vocals and poetic lyrics is the harmonic progression.  It’s not too outlandish, mind you, but extends beyond I, IV, and V. It’s sad hearing about beabadoobee’s struggles – you can empathize/sympathize/relate to her pain. Still, “Girl Song” is moving from the first time you it. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant!

beabadoobee // This Is How Tomorrow Moves // Dirty Hit // 2024

beabadoobee, Girl Song: Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 No. 7 (2025) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; Dirty Hit; Bigshow Lamar Campton, Daniel Duarte, Eduardo López from Pexels; AcatXIo, djexpectations, OpenClipart-Vectors, Thai Zeo from Pixabay]