Baby Queen

Baby Queen crafts effervescent alt-pop that blends dance-pop grooves, indie-rock edges, and anthemic electro-pop hooks while delivering candid, often wry observations on contemporary existence. The South African-born singer and songwriter issued her first EP, Medicine, in 2020 and followed it the next year with the playful mixtape The Yearbook; her theatrical proper debut album, Quarter Life Crisis, arrived in 2023.

Arabella Latham entered the world in Durban, South Africa, and began composing songs around age ten, treating the craft with greater seriousness by sixteen. Two years afterward she relocated to London, where she gradually penetrated the music business by penning material drawn from her own experiences in the capital. After several years of establishing herself, Latham secured a Polydor contract in 2020, introducing her output with the track “Internet Religion.” The buoyant “BuzzKill” came next, joined by “Want Me,” her tribute to Killing Eve star Jodie Comer. These numbers, together with additional songs, filled out the 2020 EP Medicine.

Amid the initial COVID-19 lockdowns, Latham captured fresh material shaped by extended periods of isolation. “Dover Beach” and “American Dream” surfaced in the first half of 2021 and were later assembled midyear into the frequently wry mixtape The Yearbook.

The 2022 single “Colours of You” became the first of multiple tracks placed in the Netflix coming-of-age series Heartstopper. Later that year “LAZY” appeared in an expansion pack for The Sims 4. In 2023 she rolled out singles ahead of her official full-length debut, issuing “Dream Girl” and the argumentative “We Can Be Anything” before the album itself surfaced in October.