Baby Queen released her debut single “Internet Religion” back in May, solidifying herself as a fresh new voice for today’s youth. Today, she’s back with another electrifying, relatable track!
“Buzzkill” captures the darkness that lived inside Baby Queen for quite a while, although it’s safe to say her pain was turned into something powerful.
“‘Buzzkill’ is still my favourite song I’ve ever written to date,” she says. “I feel like I spend my life trying to out-write it. I wrote it during a time when I was severely depressed, just before I went on antidepressants, and I was partying a lot, but I was so incredibly unhappy. I remember the exact moment the idea came to me. I was at an after-party in East London sitting at a table, and I began to cry. My friends looked at me and they were like ‘here we go again…’ and I was like ‘THIS! THIS is IT! I have to go.’ And I went straight home to start writing it. I played the idea for my producer King Ed and he was kind of immediately obsessed with it. When we finished making it, Ed and I looked at each other like ‘this is either the best thing we’ve ever made or it’s absolutely shit.’ I think that was the moment the sound of Baby Queen came to life. This song epitomises everything that is the first era of Baby Queen. There is something about the stream of consciousness and the inner turmoil the lyrics are expressing that feels like home. When people ask me what Baby Queen is, I almost always just play them Buzzkill and they almost always just understand“.
Bella Latham launched Baby Queen as a way to express her feelings, living in a culture fueled by self-obsession.
“I started to write bitterly about the world that I had perceived whilst being here in London, and the way that it had changed me, and the narcissist I had become,” she says. “I got obsessed with these identities that we cultivate online; the front stage self and the backstage self, who you actually are and who you pretend to be.”
Don’t be a “Buzzkill,” come follow Baby Queen’s journey! Stream “Buzzkill” below, and keep up with Baby Queen on Instagram @queenofthebabies.
