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The highly-anticipated debut from Bella Kay, 'My Reckless Abandon,' is now available everywhere, but first, the rising singer linked up with Bru to talk about the making of the project, and her beginnings in music that started at age 13.
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00:01been so excited to get to talk to you it's been so fun to watch your journey and see all
00:06the love
00:06you've been getting on i love it i love it i love it and uh yeah just super psyched for
00:09you how was
00:10fourth of july how's 2026 been fill me in on everything everything's been amazing honestly i
00:15have no complaints from the year so far fourth of july was fire um 2026 has been good i've i'm
00:21really excited for everything that's been happening and everything that's gonna happen
00:24the album of my reckless abandon gosh what are the feelings what's going through your body before
00:27the big day i don't know it's crazy because i've been working on it for so long so i'm just
00:32really
00:32excited i literally cannot wait but yeah i'm excited for everyone here oh my gosh what's the song that
00:37you like cannot wait for everyone to hear so i just can't wait for them to hear everything but i
00:43really
00:43love i love blur that one is my fave i love that song and then i'm also excited for everyone
00:49here
00:49i deserve better oh my gosh which is how the album ends right yes where does that lead us like
00:55i'm so
00:55curious about like the the era and chapter you're in now and what that last song means and what that
01:00means for your future music and everything can you tell us i wish i knew i will find out oh
01:08yeah okay
01:08so we don't know yet we're just gonna i wrote i deserve better like two weeks ago so we're fresh
01:12off so i'm not sure that's wild i know it's insane how does it work for making a song that
01:19late and
01:19then throwing it onto an album everyone was mad at me everyone was like bella you need we need the
01:24song like two day and i was like give me three they were like oh my god it was really
01:30bad but i
01:31just had to do it my way i was like this is the song it has it has to be
01:34the last one i'm sorry let
01:35me finish it yeah well kudos to you for knowing the time it takes to like this is what i
01:40need it's
01:40got to be on the album um what makes it like a song that you know it has to be
01:44involved in the
01:45project well i had this other song that was supposed to be the last song and i was like i
01:50hate this song and i was just like i want i know it wasn't the right way to like finish
01:55the album it
01:55was the wrong kind of like ending and it just didn't do what i wanted to do and i was
02:01like i
02:01want to write a song that like is actually kind of like an interesting fresh perspective and then i
02:05didn't so i really like i deserve better and i'm glad that that's the ending instead for sure
02:09that's amazing i love that pushing that like that was me in high school with like the projects you
02:13know just like yeah well 11 59 p.m i'm turning it in yeah that's exactly what i did i
02:19turned it in
02:19two days late they're like oh my god but you felt it and that's the most important thing so i
02:24can't
02:24wait to hear that and i'll always be thinking of that so going back to where i feel like it
02:28all
02:28started i don't even know where it actually did start for you in your head for just your journey
02:32with music and everything i feel like is it 2025 that you really like started finding your footing
02:37or how long have you been making music i would love to know your just music journey
02:41i mean i've been writing music since i was like 13 not necessarily good music and but it's kind of
02:46like just been me really practicing and harnessing my writing skills and like kind of learning how to
02:51sing better and i think in 2025 i was like okay i need to walk in because i was in
02:56college and i was
02:57like i don't like college at all and i really wanted to pursue music it was has always been my
03:01dream and
03:01i was like i really wanted to give it a fair shot because i hadn't and so i was like
03:05okay i'm gonna
03:06really try and then i tried so and it worked it's working i mean the the absolute like rocket ship
03:16on social media with i love it i love it i love it like did you almost i mean no
03:20one can really expect
03:21that but when you have a song like that did you like in the back of your mind know like
03:25oh this
03:25this song is a banger and i it's gonna be a hit i was never like this is gonna be
03:30a hit but i was when
03:31i wrote i was like this is my favorite song i've ever made yeah it's like this is i love
03:36this song
03:37and then so i put it out and i was really excited about it and i think people really felt
03:41like they
03:41loved it so i was it was all great but yeah oh my gosh i love that it's been so
03:46my uh i have my
03:48fiancee now who um when she first heard that she's like you gotta have this girl in studio and i'm
03:54so
03:54happy that well we haven't had that yet but we will eventually i'm sure because you're playing the
03:57el ray coming up which is right down the street from our studio um yeah what are your feelings
04:03before getting out and and getting to perform this song live and then the whole album i am so
04:08excited to perform this song live i think or the performance album live i literally can't wait these
04:13songs i'm just so excited and so proud of i'm just like so giddy to get on stage and be
04:18like this is
04:18what i this is how who i am as an artist this is like what makes me me and kind
04:23of present it in
04:24live format i mean i literally can't wait yeah and i'm sure you'll be on the uh the festival
04:29gauntlet soon getting to do a bunch of uh those big you know performances um have you ever done
04:34anything like that before no so i'm excited it's gonna be kind of crazy but i'm i can't wait to
04:40do
04:41the festivals of it all so the album name my reckless abandoned what's the most like reckless
04:44purchase you've made recently whoa reckless purchase i've i feel like there's been a couple
04:52uh i'm really bad with shoes i've been getting a lot of shoes and they it's too many it's not
04:59that
04:59i bought one pair of shoes it's like i bought like four in like three days you always say it's
05:04gonna be the last one and then you see that other pair it's an expensive habit but i'm the same
05:09way
05:10it's terrible i've just got solomon's for the first time first pair of solomon's love yeah i have
05:14two in my closet i'm ready to hike i'm ready to i don't even know they seem fashionable they're the
05:19best i got a vibe to them they sure do i got the white ones too so i'm stressed all
05:24the time
05:25don't know this is god i saw like a kid like backing up i'm like do not stuff on the
05:31shoes
05:31i feel like with your song um the one that has obviously been like just blowing up like crazy
05:36on social media um people find you know their own relation to it and i feel like everyone like a
05:42memory you know they connect to it in different ways has there been a misconception about that song
05:46though that you're like maybe people have gotten wrong about it um i don't know because you're
05:50writing from your experience and people maybe take things in different ways does that make sense at
05:54all oh for sure i think pretty much every song i've ever put out um i see one or two
06:00comments and i'm
06:00like where did you get but with i love it specifically everyone was like this song is so sad and
06:06i was like
06:08totally totally totally really sad really really sad and i was like so confused because when i wrote i was
06:14like this is so much fun this is so much fun and i'm genuinely like i love it like it's
06:19fun i love
06:20it when we fight and i like what do we mean i wasn't being sarcastic i was being serious so
06:23i don't
06:24know it was when people were like this song is the saddest thing i've ever heard i was like really
06:30i'm not gonna fight with you but i'm not gonna say i agree right isn't it's crazy about like just
06:36how people interpret it it's like art you know you never know what people are gonna take away what
06:40lyrics you're gonna stick with them and uh it's just so fun to to see how they respond to it
06:44with
06:45those fans whether it's on social media or they've crossed you in person what's been like your best
06:49fan interaction so far like so early in your career i mean i've had a lot of great ones i
06:54think
06:54i have really sweet fans i think the sweetest thing is like when they like make something i think
07:01because i'm a huge like gifting person it's like my love language when people give me gifts i'm like
07:05oh and one time a fan made me this like scrapbook and it was like full of letters from like
07:12other
07:12fans i was like i don't even know how you did this and it was like it was the sweetest
07:16thing i literally
07:16was reading it in my hotel room and like just crying i was like oh my gosh they had a
07:21they had
07:22like a meetup they had a focus group it was really sweet it was amazing i want to know how
07:26that came
07:26together that's impressive but they have a po box a lot of coordination oh my gosh it's gonna be so
07:33cool
07:33to see them like show up for you in person now at your shows and the tour coming up again
07:38i can't
07:38wait to see at the l ray i'm just so curious about some of these titles um this might be
07:42i mean i don't
07:43want to be embarrassed but i i don't know what what does swu mean um swu it means sex with
07:51you okay
07:53yeah i was gonna put sleeping is like my guess so it's kind of close it was funny because when
08:00i was
08:00naming that song specifically i was like i can't call it that i was like that can't be the name
08:04and i was like okay how do i work around this yeah it feels very y2k with like the whole
08:09like if i we
08:10were texting on a flip phone you know amazing that's that's what i was going for i love it all
08:15right perfect i'm on i'm on right the uh the right track here uh sleep for dinner is that just
08:19a funny
08:20moment or is that like you know i feel like we've all done that it's like dang it okay we're
08:25off
08:26tracks now i thought i was on there yeah tell you a little bit about that i mean that's just
08:30uh
08:31i mean now that we know it's a sadder route oh i mean it's just like a really sad song
08:36it's kind of
08:37like i don't know it's it's so really honest and vulnerable kind of like the second you turn it on
08:42you're gonna be like wow that i feel sick so yay wow oh man yay gosh i can't wait i
08:51love seeing the
08:52titles before and so you just kind of guess what it's gonna be my favorite part and i feel so
08:56bad
08:56that i like released the track list like five minutes before the album's coming out but you
09:00know me so yeah yeah i do know you now it's all coming together it's all making sense uh what
09:05about
09:06last one a father's is it i always mess this word up it's like my weird brain twister is it
09:10lament lament lament lament it was one of two ways tell me about that a father's lament it's like this
09:17kind of it's very it's again sad um but it's kind of my dad when i was younger would give
09:24me
09:24kind of like i don't want to spoil it too much but he would give lectures and like in like
09:28a sweet way
09:29like a like uh pep talks kind of thing and it's so it's kind of like a culmination of like
09:34the things
09:35that he would tell me in the stories he would kind of tell me as a kid growing up gotcha
09:39i love that
09:40and that tees up the final song of the album that we now know came together last minute and it
09:45is
09:45better and i think that's a great motto for 2026 um and i'm just can't wait to see what the
09:51rest of
09:51the year has in store for you it's it's so nice to like just get to chat with you real
09:54quick and
09:54meet you i can't wait to do that in person i'm so excited for your journey so uh we'll see
09:59you on
09:59the road bella k thank you so much for the time and uh yeah good luck safe travels and everything
10:04we'll see you soon bye
10:06you
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