Beba releases the single Mood Blu: ‘The warrior in me takes care of the little girl’

Roberta in the wake of Inside meAlso Blue Mood It reconciles you with your rap roots: after a musically heterogeneous 2023, what brought you back to your origins?
I like to remember that we artists are people first and foremost and that I do everything myself. Music is influenced by what I experience. When, in 2023, I explored the genres, I was a little confused myself, I had lost self-esteem and confidence. I would have taken more time if it weren’t for the record dynamics that are challenging. Once I put the pieces back together, the first thing I felt was the need to make music like when I started, also to heal myself since rap lyrics have always communicated strength to me. So it was a natural transition.

You started 2024 with a challenge to yourself, a challenge between your two souls: there can’t be a winner, obviously, but have they made peace?
I spent a lot of time making the little girl fight with the most naive soul and victim of the life that the warrior who made me win many challenges suffered. Now here we are, I had to let the warrior take care of the little girl.

What are the texts in which you tried to heal yourself?
I’m actually talking about my lyrics. But music by other artists has also been therapeutic as have books.

It seems like you have a conflicted relationship with discography, “when music becomes work”: today you consider yourself a former naive, are you still naive or are you a true warrior? I’ll add that you sing “Italian music is an old man who looks at you and drools” so there is also disenchantment.
The second bar you mentioned, the drooling old man bar, is for the audience. The relationship with the discography is conflictual, I don’t like to lower my head but if you want to do this job you have to understand certain dynamics. I know those who sit at the table with the right people and make their way, I struggle, I have strong values, it was a problem that passion became work and you have to submit to preconceptions, judgments and rules.

You open Blue Mood “with all the excuses I tell myself” as if the internal dualism becomes more extreme over time: are you still very anxious? Where is the queen who wins over the king of Groupie?
I’m very anxious, at the time of Groupie there was no room for the little girl and I had the knife between my teeth. I sacrificed an important part of myself in that period. Today I let the anxious little girl and the queen live together without one crushing the other.

In Toned The word clothes comes up often: how fashion addicted are you, do you have a tidy wardrobe and what is the item of clothing you can’t say no to?
I’m not a fashion addict, I love going out dressed well and I create my own looks, if I look for inspiration outside I go back in time, like the Gwen Stefani of the nineties. I have a huge amount of clothes, it relaxes me to buy them but only on the internet. The most represented item is the bra even if I don’t wear it; I like the underwear anyway.

Man today is Narcissus like what you sang? Why did you choose intimate and strong words coming out of covid to get your life back?
It’s an old story, six years passed before I was able to digest it. I reclaimed a drawer of my life that had been closed for some time and it did me good. It was a personal liberation, it’s difficult to talk about toxic relationships even with friends. Many girls who see themselves in my lyrics thank me, I created something important for someone and it remains my favorite song.

“We have the duty to love, the right to screw everything up”: don’t you think the verbs should be reversed?
I wrote it during the crisis with my ex. I was torn because I felt transported on one side but on the other I wasn’t happy and I said to myself…how can I throw it all away?

Tell me about Clearprotagonist of one of your songs?
She was my dearest friend from middle school to high school, we missed our last year of high school due to misunderstandings, in reality we never argued: then she closed it down and I never saw her again for ten years. It’s a romantic story if you think about it, I wrote her a letter that became a song, she listened to it and we became friends with her again.

Let’s take a song like Lesbian Chic: it has more quotes and references than a literary text and what’s more it tells about everyday life, or at least some of its nuances. How was it born? Is there a starting idea?
With M¥SS KETAwe adore each other, she invited me to her studio, there were two ideas of mine and one of hers. But above all two women who had mutual respect.

“I am a song that should not be felt but listened to” It’s a beautiful love phrase. In a hundred years, which song of yours would you like to always be heard?
Narcissus. It’s the song I’m most proud of, it was well communicated and represented. I don’t listen to her because she touches me.

Speaking of years, this year you celebrate an important birthday: will the new album arrive? After Chrysalis the… butterfly Beba?
For now I’m thinking about singles and there will be several. I’m a simple person, I invite a maximum of twenty people to birthdays.

What will happen in the next few weeks?
I hope to have a summer both in the studio and on tour. Some things will take some time because I’m practically starting from scratch. I can tell you that the next single is ready and the one after that too. I have always been undisciplined and this time I am constant. Furthermore, I now have a good team and therefore I am optimistic about my consistency.