Bella Latham: Last News

Baby Queen spoke to NME backstage at Reading Festival 2023 about how The 1975‘s self-titled debut has impacted her career. Watch the full interview above.Last night (August 26), The 1975 performed the record – which celebrates its 10th anniversary next week (September 1) – in full as they headlined Main Stage West. “This set does, eventually, remind you what it means for such a characterful and often misunderstood debut album to still be so beloved,” said NME in a four-star review of the performance.Speaking of what it meant to grow up with ‘The 1975’, which spawned hit singles ‘Chocolate’ and ‘Sex’, the artist – born Bella Latham – explained: “I was 17-years-old and still in South Africa when it came out, and it was when I started to go off the rails.

Baby Queen has released new single ‘Colours Of You’ taken from the official soundtrack to Netflix’s Heartstopper – check it out below.The dreamy pop track is the first new material from Baby Queen since the release of 2021’s “underdog’s anthem” ‘Wannabe’.The song was written specifically for Netflix’s coming-of-age teen romance series Heartstopper.“To be asked to be a part of a story as beautiful and culturally important as Alice Oseman’s Heartstopper was unbelievable, and still feels completely surreal,” said Baby Queen (real name Bella Latham) in a statement.Listen to ‘Colours Of You’ below. “‘Colours Of You’ is a song I wrote about one of the lead character’s journeys through the discovery and acceptance of his own sexuality. The song means a lot to me and is different to a lot of the music people have heard from me before, so I feel like I get to show a different side to myself as an artist and a writer,” she added.Speaking about the show on social media, Latham wrote: “This story is so important.

Baby Queen has released a new single, ‘Wannabe’, which she’s described as “the underdog’s anthem” – check it out below.The track is the first new material from Baby Queen (real name Bella Latham) since she released her debut mixtape ‘The Yearbook’ in September 2020.Speaking about ‘Wannabe’, Latham explained: “It’s a song I wrote about the way other people have perceived me throughout my life. I feel like I’ve always had something to prove to other people and I’ve always been trying to fit into an ideal of who I should be and how I should behave.”“That changed when I became Baby Queen,” she continued.

Baby Queen has shared her latest single in the form of ‘Dover Beach’. You can watch the video, filmed at the location of the same name, below.The buoyant new single is inspired by Baby Queen’s trip there last year, a location she’d long wished to visit.“In school I was obsessed with this poem called ‘Dover Beach’ by Matthew Arnold and I always wanted to visit the Dover cliffs, so I went there alone on a writing trip in October last year,” the musician, real name Bella Latham, said.“I actually wrote the melody and lyrics of this song while I was sitting on the beach.

Baby Queen has shared a powerful new single ‘These Drugs’ – you can watch the video for it below.The track is the NME 100 star’s second of 2021 and follows last month’s ‘Raw Thoughts’ and last year’s ‘Medicine’ EP, which was her debut EP.The video sees Baby Queen – aka Bella Latham – singing honestly about a powerful subject matter in various different bathrooms as she cries: “I don’t wanna do drugs anymore/ If you saw me through the eyes of a bathroom stall/ Your skin would crawl“.“I wrote this song when I was in a really bad place which was characterised mostly by this idea that I wasn’t a good person and didn’t deserve good things,” she explained.“I think for so long, there were so many parts of myself that I was refusing to acknowledge

Baby Queen has shared the video for her new song ‘Raw Thoughts’ – scroll down the page to watch it now.The track is the NME 100 star’s first of 2021 and follows last year’s ‘Medicine’ EP, which was her debut EP.The video sees Baby Queen – aka Bella Latham – head to the seaside with a group of friends, rollerskating, partying and dancing around Margate’s Dreamland.“‘Raw Thoughts’ is probably the most important song I’ve released to date because it’s actually the song that catalysed what has become the sound of Baby Queen,” Latham explained in a press release.“I wrote it near the beginning of 2018 (earlier than any Baby Queen song that has been, or most likely ever will be released) and it sort of came to me like a gift from heaven.

Courtney Love has hailed the talents of Baby Queen after the singer was tipped for massive success in 2021.The London-based singer, real name Bella Latham, won praise from Love on Instagram, who singled out the tracks ‘Pretty Girl Lie’ and ‘Want Me’ as being some of her favourites.“I’ve just discovered Baby Queen @queenofthebabies today (thanks to the always discerning @britishgq, link in bio to 2021 artist picks. Not one is bad so far),” Love captioned a clip of Baby Queen performing.“Lyrics SO good.