Premiere: Ariel Beesley, ‘So Baby’

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Airel Beesley (Photo by Richie Davis)

Ariel Beesley’s sexy/smart New Wave music projects a timeless duality: the need to preserve one’s own identity vs. giving something up for a relationship.

On her second single of 2020, “So Baby” (coming out Friday), the singer-songwriter channels her frustrations in an ’80s-styled dance number, hitching a ride on a propulsive synth beat on the road to her own empowerment. Co-written with Daz Cordeux, “So Baby” inevitably arrives at the conclusion that Beesley’s better off if she remains “so good at loving myself.”

“I wrote ‘So Baby’ when I was mad as hell, to put it kindly,” she says. “It’s basically me holding up a mirror to men that are trash and treated me like so, then coming full circle and realizing I’m a hell of a lot better without that noise — something a lot of the music I’m writing boils down to at the moment. The realization that I’m worth a lot, I matter, and I’m not going to let anyone in my life that makes me feel otherwise.

“I hope people listen to this song and feel the same way about themselves, because anyone that treats you poorly doesn’t deserve to be in your life. No time for babies, baby.”

After releasing a self-titled EP in 2018, Beesley has slowly been working on her debut full-length. She expects to release it in 2021.

||| Stream: “So Baby”

||| Previoously: Quarantunes, “Honey (Lick It Up),” live at the Lodge Room, “Palm Springs” video, “Palm Springs,” “Slower Than Usual”