Multi-platinum alt-pop artist BENEE found success by growing from the digital grassroots. It started with the help of Soundcloud’s technical ground and TikTok’s 2020-fueled algorithmic sunshine. Now, with over 5 million monthly listens on Spotify, BENEE is in full bloom and thriving. She has just dropped her sophomore album Ur An Angel I’m Just Particles, through Republic Records. Track by track, BENEE takes the listener through an audible rapture beginning with Demon and rising in the end with Angel. BENEE reveals that Angel “is so different from all the other songs because it is the first time that I had written about losing someone.” Almost everyone experiences grief, yet it feels deeply private to every person it shadows. Somehow, she has managed to take those intimate feelings from her inner core and create poetry.
Kendra Brea Cooper: You seem to have found a beautiful way to lyrically express the intersection between your inner and outer worlds. Is there a song (or songs) on this album that you found emotionally cathartic to write?
BENEE: Maybe Heaven? It stands out in that way because everything else is a bit more general, broad, and not as sentimental in that way. It gave me this weird release after writing it. Now I listen to it, and it feels so comforting because I lost someone, and obviously, something everyone deals with is losing someone. It is the last song on the album , and it was also part of the ascent chapter (of the album). I think in that way, it kind of was a deep sense of relief after writing it and having it conclude the album.
BENEE has touched the sky with Ur An Angel I’m Just Particles, and it’s likely her musical destiny will have her standing on the clouds.
