Q&A: Bekah Bossard Lays it all Bare on “In Your Head”
INTERVIEW
INTERVIEW
☆ BY KIMBERLY KAPELA ☆
LOVE, LOSS AND THE MESS IN BETWEEN — Marking her first release since 2024, rising London-based indie artist Bekah Bossard returns with “In Your Head,” a piercingly vulnerable and emotionally charged single that captures the jagged edges of heartbreak. Known for weaving softness and bite into her sound, Bossard delivers a track that is a raw confession and unflinching self-examination, accompanied by gritty, guitar-driven production.
A slow-burning anthem for anyone who’s ever questioned their own lovability in the wake of loss, “In Your Head” hits with lyrical candor and a sonic edge.
“I wrote In Your Head after a big breakup,” Bossard says. “I really believed that if anyone really got to know me, they couldn’t love me anymore. So I guess it felt like I was writing an apology for disappointing my ex, while also making a disclaimer for any future relationships—that I’m a mess.”
Bossard doesn’t linger in self-blame; instead, she confronts it and ultimately rises above. “I see it all very differently now,” she says. “I know that we all deserve love regardless of our chaos. The right people will not only tolerate it, but embrace that—hold you through it and love you for it.”
“In Your Head” signals a new chapter for Bossard, one rooted in emotional honesty and artistic risk. “In Your Head,” is a powerful reminder that healing often begins in the rawest moments, and that heartbreak can be fertile ground for transformation.
LUNA: Thank you for talking to Luna. Our readers would love to get to know you and your music more. For any readers who aren’t familiar with you yet, what inspires your artistic style and sound?
BEKAH: I think what inspires me the most is just my emotional world. I think that's how I make anything, so they're very closely interlinked, which means anything I make is horrifically personal. I feel like they bounce off each other, just consistently.
LUNA: What kind of atmosphere or emotional space do you aim to create for your listeners?
BEKAH: A huge thing for me is finding connection, finding understanding within music. I hope that through my music, people might see parts of themselves or feel a deeper understanding towards themselves because I think that's the point of music.
LUNA: You described your newest single “In Your Head” as an “apology” and a “disclaimer” wrapped into one. Can you talk about the inspiration behind the single and what themes or emotions you explore?
BEKAH: It's so funny looking at that song in hindsight, because I feel hindsight is 20/20, so I feel such clarity around it now, but at the time, I was so confused. I was in this total whirlwind of emotions, and I had just come out of a really big breakup, and I think it just got to a point where all the craziness around me had quietened down, but I was still in a chaotic space myself. I had the thought of maybe I'm the problem, and I think that's what I wrote that song about. I guess it was this weird acknowledgement of being like this person that probably thought I was great, and turns out I'm not, and that's how it felt when I wrote it.
LUNA: “In Your Head” is such a raw and emotionally charged song. How did the song evolve from its initial idea to the final version? What did that songwriting and recording session look like?
BEKAH: I only ever really write by myself, apart from a couple rare times. It's stayed very much the same from when I wrote it, I was just sitting in my living room and no one was home, and it came out of this chaotic, emotional world, and it hasn't really changed. I showed it to my friends, and I was really lucky that they play in the band with me. They wrote their own parts for it. It happened very organically and it was very fluid and really wonderful, and it never really changed from the minute I wrote it. It just sort of seems to happen with most things I write. I love to build the sonic world around it with people I love, but the core of it and the structure never really changes.
LUNA: This is your first release since 2024—what made “In Your Head” the right reintroduction? What story are you trying to tell with this new chapter?
BEKAH: It just felt right to be honest. My writing has always been very vulnerable, but this felt like a real open swinging door into my mind and the way I see things and see myself. It felt like a good reintroduction into my world, if people want to come in, they know what they're getting themselves in for.
LUNA: When you feel a creative spark coming on, what do you need in your space to nurture it? Are there any rituals, objects, or energies you always return to?
BEKAH: I've always loved just to be alone when I write, which is sort of the only time I love to be alone. I'm not really wired to be alone, but I do love to be alone when I write. For this record, I've had this old acoustic guitar that my friend lent me years ago that she hasn't asked back for, but I wrote everything on that old guitar, and it never leaves my bedroom. It feels really like it's very sacred to me. It doesn't get thrown around at gigs or anything.
LUNA: What is the ideal environment to experience your music? Is there a particular setting, mood, or time of day that enhances the listening experience?
BEKAH: I think if you're on a train or any public transport, I think that's the place where I need music the most. I get very overstimulated and feel very lonely quite a lot of the time when I'm traveling, and that's when I really cling on to music. If anyone ever feels alone, then they can have me with them.
LUNA: What inspires you to push boundaries within your sound? Are there any specific experiences, artists, or moments that have encouraged you to explore new musical territories?
BEKAH: I love Indigo De Souza so much. I think the entire world of their music and personality is so incredible and intimidating but inviting, all at the same time, and how they just scream and say shit in such a candid way, in the coolest, most unafraid, but beautiful and eloquent, somehow all at the same time. I listen to them probably every day, and they're just beautiful.
LUNA: How are you feeling in this current era of your career and what does the rest of the year look like that you would like to share with Luna?
BEKAH: I feel really excited. I think that I didn't know if I would because there was a lot of anxiety around it, and I just had a really, really shit year this past year, but it really has given me so much life to release music and to connect with people and to be back in that process. I'm just putting out lots and lots of music. It's pretty much like a song every month from now on, which is really exciting. It's incredibly self indulgent and cathartic to let all of those feelings go. It's already made me feel so so happy, which has been really nice.
