“Glue Song” by Beabadoobee featuring Clairo

Beabadoobee released "Glue Song" through Dirty Hit on Valentine's Day 2023, a fitting date for a chamber-pop love ballad from the Filipino-British singer. She wrote it with Jacob Bugden, who produced it with Iain Berryman, and it moves slow and sensual on its guitars, with strings glowing somewhere behind them.

Plenty of listeners knew how it began before it officially existed. She had teased a snippet at a Tiny Desk Concert in November 2022, and that opening spread across TikTok in the months before release. A music video arrived with the single, a remix featuring Clairo followed in April, and the song charted in several countries. Critics were warm about it, too: Emie Grimwood of The Gryphon heard it opening a new era for her music and called it "touching and unflawed".

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