My Top 3 Songs From: Emotional Creature (Beach Bunny, 2022)

If you’re into the modern alt-pop music scene, you might have already heard of the band Beach Bunny. With just over 7 million monthly listeners on Spotify along with a few TikTok viral songs, Beach Bunny is definitely a band to watch in 2023. Their most recent album Emotional Creature is a vulnerable and honest indie-rock bedroom-pop album about the intricacies of love, as well as the simultaneous excitement and anxiety that comes with the unknown possibility of love. In this blog post, I’ll be breaking down my three favorite songs off Beach Bunny’s second full length album, Emotional Creature. 

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Weeds

Weeds is a song about reckoning with the fact that the singer places her identity in her significant other, and faces an identity crisis when that person leaves. This song is empowering because it’s not only her acknowledging that this behavior is bad for her, but she also talks herself through why viewing herself in this way is so toxic. We get to hear her building herself up in the process of having this internal intervention. The alternative rock sound of this song compliments the lyrics by emphasizing the frustration the singer has with her own actions and thought processes. Personally, I believe the outro of the song is the most powerful part, with the dreamy backing vocals, the strong drum beat, and the repetition of the lyrics below which show the singer’s growth in her viewing of herself in the situation with the subject of the song. This is one of the strongest songs on the album, and it really showcases Beach Bunny’s ability to put such complicated inner conflicts so beautifully.

“You keep taking another piece of me,

Not your problem, not my problem.”

Scream

Scream is a song about the complexity of feeling all of your emotions at once, and wishing you could go back to a time when your emotions were simpler and easier to understand. The lyrics are extremely relatable for twenty-somethings, especially women, who often feel suffocated by their emotions. The energetic electric guitar accompanied by the powerful vocals help emphasize the song’s theme, which is the frustration with conflicting inner feelings. The singer misses how easy it used to be to romanticize love and relationships, and now her head and her heart are in a battle of invalidating her feelings. The fact that she knows this struggle is happening inside of her and it still continues is enough to make her want to Scream, and if that isn’t relatable I don’t know what is. This song showcases Beach Bunny’s ability to explain something you have felt a million times but never been able to put into words. 

“Falling for the afterthought of feeling what I want

I want to feel everything, but when I do it makes me

Question if I’m falling wrong”

Karaoke

Karaoke is a song about meeting someone and clicking with them instantly, not questioning if it’s meant to be because you want it to be. The upbeat, indie rock sound makes you feel like you’re hearing this on the radio on the drive the singer speaks of in the first verse. The echo-ey vocals and electric guitar make this song sound like the daydream the lyrics describe. One thing Beach Bunny does well, especially in Karaoke, is matching the sound to what the song is about. Sometimes you meet someone and you click instantly, and even if there’s plenty of good reasons to doubt the certainty of this connection, aren’t there also plenty of reasons not to question it and to just enjoy the possibility of something great? 

“Suddenly, you look at me and my heart just bloomed

Have I known you for years or for hours?”

It’s easy to see why Beach Bunny’s music has resonated with so many people, myself included. I'm so excited to see what the future holds for Beach Bunny, so if you enjoy upbeat tunes with deeply-felt lyrics, keep an ear out because this band isn’t going anywhere.