{"id":821705,"date":"2025-01-21T11:13:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T17:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/21\/charting-rebellion-betty-interviewed\/"},"modified":"2025-01-21T11:13:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T17:13:19","slug":"charting-rebellion-betty-interviewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/21\/charting-rebellion-betty-interviewed\/","title":{"rendered":"Charting Rebellion: Betty Interviewed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Music <\/p>\n<div id=\"page\">\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;When I make music, I stop and reflect. I find it easier to process my emotions.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n                                            08 \u00b7 01 \u00b7 2025                                        <\/p>\n<div>\n<article id=\"article-full\" about=\"\/news\/track-of-the-day-284-lexie-carroll\" typeof=\"sioc:Item foaf:Document\">\n<div property=\"content:encoded\">\n<p><strong>Betty<\/strong> is making brash, indie pop outbursts that thrills her fans\u2026 sort of by accident. \u201cIt\u2019s funny,\u201d she tells CLASH, mere hours after her latest studio session, \u201cbecause I don\u2019t actually listen to that type of music at all. I\u2019m not actually sure where it comes from.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Betty speaks, energy seems to pour out of every pore. Petite and engaging, her hands fly around her head as her life story tumbles forth. In life, as in her music, she\u2019s an open book. Raised in East London \u2013 her great-gran and great-grandad had a butcher\u2019s shop on the Roman Road, y\u2019know \u2013 Betty sought out her mum\u2019s CDs from a young age, devouring Beyonc\u00e9 and Alicia Keys when barely out of nappies. Right from the start, music meant everything to her.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Betty - Mum Says (Official Video ????????)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q4wLJiwt_Jo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m dyslexic and ADHD, so when I was a kid I struggled to articulate myself,\u201d she reflects. \u201cEven now, I have to sit and write my feelings down. When I was a kid, I\u2019d come downstairs when my mum had friends round and make up songs for them all!\u201d An attempt at making music during her teens faltered, but when lockdown came she decided to use the newfound space in her life wisely. Re-downloading the studio programme Logic, she began looping guitar samples together to make her own songs. \u201cIt was the perfect time to do it. I\u2019d never have done it otherwise!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since then, she\u2019s flipped to a different side of London \u2013 the village-like appeal of Notting Hill \u2013 before spending considerable time on her debut EP. In the end, it was all worth it. Out now, \u2018<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/3h1AnmTSY2XeIVrpuv1r71\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span>Mind Over Matter<\/span><\/a><\/strong>\u2019 is a collection of brattish, wonderfully endearing paeans to the art of over-sharing. \u201cWithout music, I\u2019d be batshit,\u201d she says, before erupting into laughter. \u201cI view it as a diary. I find it hard to understand my emotions. When I make music, I stop and reflect. I find it easier to process my emotions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The EP started off as six letters to her younger self \u2013 \u201cthis is what happens\u2026 and this is how to deal with it.\u201d She adds: \u201cOn my last project, I say things that I\u2019ve never even said to my closest friends or family members.\u201d With a wild, raucous live show and a fanbase that is growing exponentially, Betty is finally in a position to make her truth heard. With \u201ca huge collection of songs\u201d leftover from lockdown, you can expect to hear a lot from this devout pop rebel. \u201cI\u2019m never satisfied,\u201d she finishes. \u201cNever. And that\u2019s something that makes me who I am.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Betty -  Not Again (Sick in a cab) - Official Video\u25b6\ufe0f\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uzQTCpm7Ld4?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/www.clashmusic.com\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>Betty\u2019s debut EP \u2018Mind Over Matter\u2019 is out now.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Words: <strong>Robin Murray<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Photography: <strong>Luc Coiffait<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fashion: <strong>Katie McCormick<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n                                            &#8211;\n                                        <\/p>\n<p>\n                                                <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/vero.co\/clashmagazine\"><br \/>\n                                                    <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"music Join us on VERO\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clashmusic.com\/wp-content\/themes\/chop-child\/images\/vero.gif\" width=\"99.6%;\" previous-src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\"><br \/>\n                                                <\/a>\n                                            <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n                                                Join the Clash mailing list for up to the minute music, fashion and film news.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clashmusic.com\/features\/charting-rebellion-betty-interviewed\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music &#8220;When I make music, I stop and reflect. I find it easier to process my emotions.\u201d 08 \u00b7 01 \u00b7 2025 Betty is making brash, indie pop outbursts that thrills her fans\u2026 sort of by accident. \u201cIt\u2019s funny,\u201d she tells CLASH, mere hours after her latest studio session, \u201cbecause I don\u2019t actually listen to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":821706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[131522],"class_list":["post-821705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business-news","tag-podcast-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}