"Becky's So Hot" is a true story of when Fletcher found out her ex, Shannon Beveridge, was seeing someone new, an influencer named Becky Missal. To her chagrin, Becky was so hot.
Fletcher and Beveridge first linked up in 2016 and were together on and off for the next four years. In 2020 they were broken up but ended up quarantining together during COVID. Fletcher used this time to air out her feelings and put her love life on display with an EP called The S(ex) Tapes. Every song came with a video that Beveridge shot and directed. When quarantine ended, so did any hope of them staying together, but there were still feelings. Fletcher was checking out Beveridge's Instagram one day, where she learned about Becky, proof that her ex had moved on.
In 2024, Fletcher went on Beveridge's podcast and told the story. "I was in the studio, and I was creeping on Instagram," she said. "I saw the person you were dating wearing an old vintage T-shirt of yours that I've worn in the past as well. I was like, 'Whoa. She looks really hot in that shirt,' and it also stung at the same time. I accidentally liked the picture, and I was like, 'F--k.' I threw my phone to the other side of the room. I told my collaborators what just happened and said, 'I have to write a song about this.'"
Fletcher often writes very personal songs but doesn't release them, and it looked like "Becky's So Hot" would get added to that pile when a year went by. But in 2022 when she was working on her Girl Of My Dreams album (her first full-length), she decided it would be a good fit.
"I had been sitting on the song for a year," she said. "I'm putting together my debut album, going through the narrative and the storyline, and I felt like that was a song that was a truth for me at the time, and I decided to include it."
Fletcher warned Beveridge a few days before it was released that this song was coming out, but didn't ask her permission. When it dropped, Beveridge was taken aback. The two of them both have large followings on "Lesbian TikTok" where it became a hot topic, with users choosing sides.
"There was so much going on, and it was a horrible experience for me," Beveridge said on her podcast. Addressing Fletcher, she said, "I felt like I helped you so much and was a big part of your career. I really wanted your dreams to come through and I was rooting for you. When that song came out, I felt really used by you."
Fletcher replied: "I didn't think it would have the reaction it did. It caught me off guard. There was a part of me at the time that was like, 'I'm an artist and this is what artists do. They say what they want to say and turn their pain into art.' I believe that, but I didn't take into account this human that I care about so much. Me releasing that song felt like I wasn't taking your feelings and emotions into consideration. There was totally a part of me that was like, 'F--k it, I'm going to put this out and see what happens.'"
Bella Thorne plays the role of Becky in the CGI-heavy music video where she and Fletcher are the only humans seen in a futuristic landscape.
Fletcher released her first single, "War Paint," in 2015 and put out EPs in 2016, 2019 and 2020, but Girl Of My Dreams was her first album. A lot of the songs deal with her relationship with Shannon Beveridge, whose ghost also shows up on some tracks from Fletcher's next album, In Search Of The Antidote, in 2024.
"Becky's So Hot" was produced by One Love (Timothy Sommers), whose other clients include Tate McRae and Madison Beer. He's also credited as a writer on the song along with Fletcher, Kyle Buckley and Jeremy Dussolliet.
If Fletcher could go back in time, we would never have heard this song. "I don't have regrets about writing it, I do have regret about releasing it," she said.
