Beabadoobee Gets Angry on Grungy New Track “Sun Has Set”

In the music video for “Sun Has Set”, Beabadoobee enters an apartment with urgency. Then she starts tossing things around the room before going outside and smashing car windows with a golf club. Propelled by a guitar riff that sounds like it was recorded through a distortion pedal someone left behind in a 90s Seattle rehearsal room, one thing is crystal clear: Beabadoobee is angry.

Angry Chair

Bea Kristi, who records under the lowercase sobriquet, beabadoobee, begins with terse thoughts and a red-hot argument. This isn’t so much a conversation. It’s the raw emotions that boil when a relationship fails.

Steal,
Weigh it down.
Tough loving.
Don’t let go of
The feelings too.
Cold-hearted,
Stay honest.

The person she’s fighting with appears to assume a character here. Her antagonist assumes the role of victim in the fight, and Kristi exposes the act: Oh, please.

Don’t be so fake and affected,
Scared of rejection.
Lacking direction,
Take you for a victim.

As the relationship splinters, she promises they’ll never be friends. Kristi has had enough. It’s over.

When I say, “We’ll never be friends,”
I mean, we’ll never pretend.
F**k that, you can never run back to me now,
The sun has set.
There’s so much we left unsaid,
And so much that you don’t get.
F**k that, not worth thinking about to me now,
This sun has set.

Goodbye Now

Many alt-rock hits from the 90s used abstract lyrics to express angst. That’s how Kristi starts. But as the song progresses, the words become more direct—although she avoids specifics, which gives the track a universal appeal.

We don’t need to know what this person did to make her mad. Instead, “Sun Has Set” focuses on the emotional wounds. This is the end, and this is Kristi ripping off the band-aid.

Yeah, it’s over,
Goodbye now.
You’ll find there’s nothing you could say.
Just stay away from me now,
You’ll see how.

“Sun Has Set” appears on Kristi’s latest album, Pylon. The track zooms by in a neat two minutes and twenty-two seconds. Like a relationship overtaken by anger, then suddenly, it’s over.

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