Rising artist Bellzzz delivers her debut EP, “Dear Elizabeth,” a five-song tract as fearlessly lush as it is direct. Running under 17 minutes, this diminutive but electrifying project bears the weight of a full-length insurrection. “Dear Elizabeth,” welcomes you into a technicolor realm where openness and rebellion can stride. With her wildly bent electronic pop, unflinching honesty, and feminist heat, Bellzzz is mounting a quiet revolution.
The EP’s breakout single, “Conquests,” is a biting takedown of sexual double standards, shines the brightest. Riding a woozy, off-kilter hook, Bellzzz finger wags at a hypocritical society that lionizes men for their experience and shames women for the same. She stated that this is about hypocrisy and sexual double standards. Men show off their girlfriends like trophies, but women get slutshamed. When we speak up, we’re told that we should be grateful that things are better now and our concerns are dismissed. Not content to question the system, “Conquests” flips the middle finger straight at it, with an equally wicked video accompanying it.
Songs like “Far Away” and “It Was Nice While It Lasted” expose Bellzzz’s gentler underbelly, briefly unmasking the emotional stakes behind her glamorous pop patina. “Far Away” floats like a dream over glitchy production, while “It Was Nice While It Lasted” is a gentle exhale post-heartbreak, languorous and cinematic in melancholy and quiet strength.
“Plastic Unicorns” glimmers with strangeness, and “Dog” comes off with a punch. Both show Bellzzz’s versatility, moods, and personas, which switch out like outfits in a digital closet. Every track is a chapter, but they all echo the same message as Bellzzz tells her own story on her terms.
With “Dear Elizabeth,” Bellzzz has made more than one debut. She’s introduced herself as a genre-bending truth-teller who isn’t afraid to name names, upend norms, and make way for people who were told to be quiet. It’s alt-pop with a bite and a heart.
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