By Caitlin Wang, Banner Staff

On Friday, September 13, the MGM Music Hall at Fenway was alive with excitement as fans filled seats for the highly anticipated beabadoobee concert. On a month-long North American tour for her third studio album This Is How Tomorrow Moves, beabadoobee performed in 12 cities, and Boston was her fourth stop along the way.

Beatrice Kristi Laus, popularly known by her stage name beabadoobee, is a 24-year-old Phillipines-born and London-raised singer and songwriter. Celebrated for her music’s blend of indie, rock, and bedroom-pop, she garnered overnight fame in 2020 for her TikTok-viral song “death bed (coffee for your head).” Subsequently, she released two studio albums: Fake It Flowers in 2020 and Beatopia in 2022. Following the August release of This Is How Tomorrow Moves, the album quickly rose to claim the #1 spot on the UK Official Albums Chart.

As the stage lights of MGM began flashing and fans rose from their seats, beabadoobee’s band walked on stage, a sign that the concert was about the begin. The crowd’s cheers intensified as Bea entered the stage and immediately jumped into the first song of her set, “California.”

The 90-minute concert included 21 songs that featured both upbeat and melancholic moods, themes, and instrumentals. At some moments, the crowd energetically jumped to electric guitar-filled beats.  Other times, they swayed along to heartfelt melodies while waving their phones’ flashlights in the air. While the majority of her setlist was songs from her new album, she also performed old works such as “Talk,” “Glue Song,” and “Charlie Brown.” 

Sophia Wang ’26 reflected, “Bea’s concert has the type of atmosphere where you make friends in line as you wait for merch, bump into familiar faces, and tear up together during vulnerable songs like ‘Girl Song.’ It was such a wholesome and lovely concert. Also, hearing ‘Beaches’ live and seeing the curtains [on stage] falling to reveal a lush green garden scene as the beat dropped literally left an imprint on me.”

Romy Gaudet ’25 shared, “My personal favorite song on the setlist was ‘Cologne’ because the production used red, flashing lights to illuminate the stage. Her songs use unique sounds and instrumentals, and the band reproduced them very well live.”

Although the North American tour is complete,  Bea has many more upcoming concerts in store. She will begin the European leg of her tour in November, and she is also performing at the Laneway Festival alongside major recording artists Charli XCX and Clairo in February 2025. Gaudet noted, “I strongly believe that beabadoobee will only rise in popularity in the coming years. I can totally see her selling out stadiums and larger venues in the future!” ☐

Beabadoobee: Photo by Abby Whelan