A new era for Bailey Bryan has commenced!
The 25-year-old singer/songwriter is entering a new phase in her career with the release of her upcoming project, Sensitive Bad Bitch Music Vol. 1, which will be available on all music streaming platforms beginning Friday, April 7th.
An up-close document of her journey to self-love, the EP expertly showcases Bailey’s vulnerable-yet-confident songwriting that has earned her dedicated listeners across the globe. It also shows the Washington native’s diverse musical palette, as this new body of work exemplifies her transition from being country music’s sweetheart to pop’s newest “sensitive bad bitch.”
“I’ve dabbled in so many different genres in the past and I felt pressure to label my music a certain way in so many different scenarios. Calling my music sensitive bad bitch music is my way of escaping and not conforming to any specific genre since I have so many musical influences,” Bailey tells Celeb Secrets reporter Juliet Schroder exclusively about her sound in a virtual interview. “If I had to put a label on my music right now, I’d say it’s pop R&B with retro funk and nineties elements, but what the music is about and what the constant in my music and my lyrics has always been is embracing vulnerability in like a badass way.”
“But because I’m extremely dramatic and a sensitive person, I felt a little bit disqualified from being a bad bitch. I didn’t want anyone to feel like they were not able to be one because they have emotions, so I put this balance in my songs where even if its the most sensitive emotional song, you’re still going to feel confident while listening to it,” she continues.
Sensitive Bad Bitch Music Vol. 1 is the follow-up to her 2021 appropriately-titled project Fresh Start, which continues to showcase the rollercoaster of emotions a sensitive bad bitch truly goes through each day when faced with real-life moments like self-reflection and acceptance, the painful experience of loss and letting go, the complexities of maintaining a situationship and the pure euphoria of unabashed lust.
It also details her tough decision she made to pack her things and leave Music City for the City of Angels to pursue releasing pop music, which listeners got a small taste of thanks to Bailey releasing “RIP” back in January, which she says was just a part of “growing up” that she needed to do.
“I wrote [‘RIP’] when I was cutting ties with some people that I worked with that were kind of holding me back. I used to do country music and I made the decision to transition from country to pop, and that was just a part of growing up [that was needed],” Bailey shares. “Some people I worked with thought it was a negative change and would say that I can’t do this or that I can’t handle the transition, and that instilled a lot of fear in me around that time. I came to the other side of it and wrote [‘RIP’].”
Recognizing that it was both a big and scary change, Bailey tells Celeb Secrets that becoming the pop artist she’s always dreamed of was the right choice that she needed to make.
“[‘RIP’] got me through that fear once again. I wrote this because I want to embody this fearless evolution and embrace change. It’s been a struggle, but also the most important thing in my life.”
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The new project also features standout singles “Tragic” and “Passion,” along with the emotional “Credits (outro)” that details the painful experience of parting ways with her former label; the bass-heavy “Upside Down” and the gang-vocal-fueled and funk infused “IYKYK.”
When speaking with Celeb Secrets, Bailey opened up about the inspiration behind her song “Passion,” which she says came from a mediocre date at Sweetgreen with an NBA player that she matched with on a dating app.
“I wrote ‘Passion’ after I went on a really boring date with an NBA player… like it was really boring. This guy didn’t wanna date me. It was so much back and forth — I basically had to force him into taking me on a date. He finally took me on a date to Sweetgreen in Studio City and we sat outside next to the street and then multiple times he would like tell me that I was talking too loud. It was just such a weird vibe… nothing terrible happened, but it was just a waste of my time,” Bailey recalls.
“I had a session right afterward, so I got into the studio and I was just like, ‘it’s been so long since I’ve felt excited about a date and had someone like really sweep me off my feet and act like they really wanna be there and things like that.’ I was like, ‘you know what, I need passion.’ And then I turned it into, I turned it into the song ‘Passion,’ which sounds like a whole other scenario, but it literally came from like a Sweetgreen date with a bench NBA player,” she laughs.
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As for what’s next, Bailey says she hopes to take her new music on the road by playing live shows, along with continuing the “sensitive bad bitch” story by releasing a volume two.
“I really want to do a tour. I don’t have any plans for a tour right now, but I’m speaking it into existence. And when I do, it will be a really dope tour. I just wanna like perform this music for people,” she says passionately. “I also want to put out a ‘Sensitive Bad Bitch Music Volume Two,’ or another project that will be sensitive bad bitch music.”
For more on Bailey Bryan’s music, watch our full interview below — you can connect with Bailey by giving her a follow on Instagram at @baileymyown and presave Sensitive Bad Bitch Music Vol. 1 here.
