With her new single, “Bad Day To Be My Ex,” Bellah Mae proves that heartbreak can come with a banging hook and a lot of sass. Melding slick R&B textures with Mae’s fresh swagger of a pop star, the song struts into a place like it owns it.
“Bad Day To Be My Ex” was released with the kind of fire it’s clear that it was written with. It takes a raw accumulator of bad breakup vibes and turns it into nothing less than pop empowerment. Bellah establishes that she is not game to play nice from the first beat. The production is slick and shiny, but a piercing edge lurks beneath it like velvet-covered brass knuckles. And that’s what makes the song hit so hard. It’s catchy and confident, but within that groove is a softness and strength that can coexist within a single breath.
“Bad Day To Be My Ex” is just savage, but in the best way possible. It is the type of track where you can cry a little but dance a lot and scream the chorus from your car at red lights. And that emotional variability is what renders it so real-feeling. Mae’s journey reflects her growth in her sound and her self-awareness. She’s not just talking about the pain and revealing to us what she did with it. The result is a song that encourages without lecturing and entertains without sacrificing substance.
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