It's Mid: 'the way things go' - beabadoobee
That's just the way it is, doo doo doo, doo doo doo, doo doo...
Guess this is just the way it is now with beabadoobee…
It’s not to say I don’t like the British-Filipino singer’s more low-key tracks. I still play ‘the perfect pair’ on repeat, while ‘sunny day’ has those sweet and summery ‘I’m Like a Bird’-style vibes.
‘the way things go’ is pretty and ornate with a rather cheeky lilt to its orchestration. But Bea Kristi seems hellbent on continuing with the painfully twee 2000s folk pop we first heard on last year’s Beatopia.
Much like the song, the clip is style over substance, featuring Kristi in goth ballerina getup (which is kinda cool, ngl) as other ballerinas dance around her against a backdrop of old-world elegance.
beabadoobee shouldn’t be doomed to play the 90s soft grunge ingenue (grungenue?) forever. But this pivot to cutesy pop ballads, essentially just swapping one nostalgic trend for another, feels super uninspired.
Read the review for beabadoobee’s Beatopia here.