Beabadoobee has celebrated Valentine’s Day with the release of a heartwarming new single, ‘Glue Song’, immortalising a fan-favourite from her recent live shows.It’s one of the indie artist’s more balladesque tracks, carried by a cruisy drum beat, silky strings and twee grand piano chords.
Beatrice Laus floats over the soundscape, singing with a cool ease: “I’ve never known someone like you / Tangled in love, stuck by you / From the glue / Don’t forget to kiss me / Or else you’ll have to miss me.”In a press release, Laus explained that she wrote ‘Glue Song’ “in the back of cars and traveling” throughout her recent tours across Asia and Australia. “It’s a heartfelt song that means a lot to me,” she said, describing it as “a love song and the first one I’ve written in my new relationship”.She continued: “I usually write these songs that are sad, in the past with my writing even when it doesn’t sound sad looking back the lyrics usually have been.
For the first time this is just me being really happy. I’m in a really positive place for the first time in a long time and feeling love.“We recorded the song with my guitarist and producer Jacob in his house and added in trumpets and strings.
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