Beabadoobee has released her first original song in nearly two years, "All I Did Was Dream of You," featuring the Marías. The track blends grungy riffs with haunting vocals, accompanied by a cinematic music video filmed in Vilnius, Lithuania. It serves as a preview of upcoming music from the British artist.
Beabadoobee, the British pop-rock artist also known as Bea Kristi, returned with new music on March 12, 2026, dropping the single "All I Did Was Dream of You" in collaboration with Los Angeles-based band the Marías. The song marks her first original release since the 2024 album This Is How Tomorrow Moves, produced by Rick Rubin. Earlier this month, she contributed a cover of Elliott Smith's "Say Yes" to the charity album HELP(2) benefiting War Child UK.
The track features wistful lyrics from Beabadoobee, including "Stay, stay/Stay or just leave me be," set against heavy riffs. María Zardoya of the Marías adds her soprano on the second verse: "Nightmares always feel like/They swallow me/But I let go." Described as balancing '90s shoegaze, earnest folk, and electronica, the single hints at Beabadoobee's evolving sound.
The accompanying music video, directed by Beabadoobee's longtime partner Jake Erland alongside Lithuanian director Aboveground (also credited as AboveGround in some reports), was shot in Vilnius, Lithuania. It depicts Beabadoobee in a snowy daydream, wandering through scenes like a bar filled with hockey players, a butcher shop, and a frozen lake. The narrative turns nightmarish with a car explosion, which she walks through unfazed. The video draws inspiration from the final scene of Yorgos Lanthimos' 2025 film Bugonia. Beabadoobee commented, "My boyfriend and I are fucking obsessed with Yorgos—and that last scene inspired the video." She also noted that Zardoya "couldn’t be in the video, but she sang beautifully on the song and was really encouraging."
Beabadoobee described the single as "a nice bridge to the next thing I want to release," adding, "I literally can’t wait to release something, honestly—I’m fucking dying." Following a prolific period with five EPs from 2018 to 2021, her debut LP Fake It Flowers in 2020, and Beatopia in 2022, she recently signed a new deal with Dirty Hit and Interscope Records. The Marías, who received a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist this year (losing to Olivia Dean), bring their pop experimentalism to the collaboration.
