The Sick

Album: Sick to my Stomach (2025)
Charted: 33 112
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Songfacts®:

  • "The Sick" is the debut single from Bella Kay, a Florida singer-songwriter who operates under the handle @itsbellakaymusic across social media. A snippet posted on TikTok in June snowballed into virality, and by the time it was released on August 4, 2025, there was huge anticipation for the track.
  • "The Sick" explores the pull of a toxic relationship where emotional dependency keeps you hooked. One of its key lines, "You were wrong for what you did to me. But I was sick for kinda likin' it," encapsulates the uneasy confession at the heart of the song: an attraction to dysfunction.
  • Bella Kay had heavyweight help in Michael Keenan, an American songwriter-producer best known for shepherding much of Melanie Martinez's K-12 album and for co-creating G-Eazy and Bebe Rexha's "Me, Myself & I," which took over car radios in 2015 and went Platinum. For "The Sick," Keenan handled production, mixing, and mastering, while Kay wrote the song and played guitar.

Comments: 4

  • Arii from ...this is like the best songg !!
  • Wrd from Somewherebella suddenly appeared, crushed us, then left ??
  • Lily from Augusta MaineI love her song so much and it was nice to know all this!!!
  • Summerluisexx from Basii Xthe most gut wrenching song hello??
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