Singer-songwriter, Beabadoobee, has shared her ethereal and grunge-tinged single, ‘All I Did Was Dream of You,’ featuring American alternative band, The Marías. This is Beabadoobee’s first new music release since her 2024 album, ‘This Is How Tomorrow Moves.’ In her Instagram post, announcing the release, the singer said, “I have missed this i’ve missed youuuu and this year is going to be unreal.” Watch the cinematic music video below.
Beabadoobee told Dazed she was inspired by Yorgos Lanthimos’ 2025 film, Bugonia when it came to the ‘All I Did Was Dream of You’ music video. She said, “that last scene [in the film] inspired the video.” Shot in Lithuania and co-directed by longtime collaborator Jake Erland alongside Lithuanian director AboveGround, the video opens on the image of a smoking car wreck, and ends with the fiery beginnings of the event. Between, are stoic and cinematic shots of the singer against various backdrops including frozen lakes, snow-covered city corners and bars decked in wood paneling. The singer described the experience of shooting the video to Dazed: “it was −17C there – I could have died! I was singing on this frozen lake; it was f**king crazy but it looks so beautiful.”
The Lanthimos inspiration is felt throughout the video through various uncanny images: the singer lounging on a bare bed as a crowd peers through the window at her, a desolate meat counter near closing time with the singer lying in a case next to the raw meats and dancing in a spotlight on a snowy field as a flare lights up the sky. The images call to themes present in the dream pop-alt rock song: longing, nostalgia, and the desire to understand others’ perceptions of oneself.
María Zarodoya, lead singer of The Marías, could not be in the video, but Beebadoobee said “she sang beautifully on the song and was really encouraging.” The Marías were nominated for Best New Artist at the 68th Grammy Awards earlier this year.
Beabadoobee has taken two years off releasing new music of her own. But just earlier this month she contributed a cover of Eliot Smith’s ‘Say Yes’ to the War Child charity collaboration ‘Help(2).’ But 2026 is set to be an exciting year for the singer. She says ‘All I Did Was Dream of You’ acts as a “ a nice bridge to the next thing I want to release” and that she “can’t wait to release something.” She went on to say her two year break allowed her look at her music with “more integrity” and that if she doesn’t believe a song is “perfect” she does not want to release it.
Critics have said the single is “ a soft reset, a moment of stillness, a shared vision between two artists who understand the power of atmosphere. It feels like the start of a new chapter — not louder, but deeper.”
