Bebe Stockwell

One Liner: Sometimes a little Americana, sometimes a little Adele

Wikipedia Genre: No Wikipedia, but like an indie pop sort of thing?

Home:  NYC (via Boston)

Poster Position: Third Quarter - Line 17
Day: Saturday at the Tito's Tent at 2:45pm
Weekend One Only.

Thoughts:  I have been generally enjoying this, but then her weird take on Frosty the Snowman came on for like the eighth time and I was like AHHHHH, I must write this up and move on.  Also, when I started listening, I had conflated this with Bebe Rexha, the pop star with billions of streams on other people's tracks - Guetta, Garrix, G-Easy, and Florida Georgia Line.  NOT THE SAME.

Kind of an odd juxtaposition of sounds, because she sometimes sounds like a stomp/clap/hey artist, and then other times she sounds more like an Adele-lite crooner.  Not sure which one is the aim, but she also has a song with ACL Poster-dweller Hans Williams and the band that was supposed to be here recently but dissed us like jerks, Caamp.  One album, 2025's Driving Backwards.

Her top track is a 2022 single called "Love Me Back."  It does not appear on the album.

Reading the title made me start singing that old Digital Underground song with the "kiss me and I'll kiss you back" thing.  This is not that, but it is pretty enough.  Sort of unremarkable though.  I figured she was English from her sound, but that is incorrect.  Originally from Boston, but now in NYC.  She started playing music at age 5 - her dad apparently made her, her twin, and their little sister learn piano and guitar.  At 15, she attended the Berklee College of Music summer camp and really got her into songwriting and uploading things to Soundcloud.  She thought she was going to college to play lacrosse, but then had a teacher encourage her to go to the Clive Davis School and pursue music.

Her second-most streamed is from the album - "Want Me" has 2.4 million streams.

As parent to someone who has just gone through the gauntlet of college lacrosse recruiting, I'd say that going the music direction definitely seems like the right path.  Very pretty song.  Honestly, other than the "Frosty" song, I have enjoyed listening to all of this.