In a shock flip for the Beckham household’s youngest son, Cruz Beckham has dropped a provocative new single that’s already turning heads for its specific content material.
The 20-year-old’s newest observe, Optics, dives deep into themes of intercourse, medication, and hedonism, making it clear that he’s intent on declaring to the world that he’s all grown up.
Cruz — brother of Brooklyn, 26, Romeo, 23, and Harper, 14 — opens the music with the eyebrow-raising line: ‘Take a thousand selfies in your mattress whereas I journey in mine / I really like me some mushrooms and good head and an erotic 69.’
The refrain is equally more likely to make listeners clutch their pearls: ‘Keep excessive vogue, no comedown, no crashing / However you wanna know the way it appears, I wanna know the way it feels.’
The observe, reportedly impressed by his relationship with 30-year-old Jackie Apostel, who additionally labored on the album’s visuals and design, indicators a brand new, extra mature period for Cruz.
Whereas Optics leans closely into shock worth, Cruz’s second launch from the album, Lick The Toad, takes a extra whimsical route.
Billed as a trippy ode to nature, it swaps sexual provocation for psychedelic metaphor: ‘Let me take a lick of you, mom nature, imma take a lick / Let me take successful of you, mom nature, imma take successful.’
Cruz has been testing his materials at intimate gigs throughout London, together with a efficiency at The George Tavern in East London — a gritty venue that’s hosted everybody from Amy Winehouse to Kate Nash.
His set included Optics, Caroline, For Your Love, and Lick The Toad, drawing a curious mixture of trade insiders and die-hard Beckham household followers.
The rising musician’s debut album, which additionally options songs titled Waste Your Ache, John Lennon, Tie Don’t Match, Yeah Yeah Yeah, and For Your Love, showcases a stunning vary of sounds.
It additionally options contributions from Luke Pritchard of The Kooks, who helped Cruz refine his songwriting.
Cruz’s first-ever launch was the charity single If Each Day Was Christmas in 2016. Extra just lately, his 2024 observe For Ya Love drew viral comparisons to Oasis.
Cruz’s new music comes amid continued rumours of fallouts within the Beckham household which were circulating ever since Brooklyn married Nicola Peltz, 30, three years in the past.
Hypothesis has mounted over the previous few months after the eldest Beckham youngster was absent from David’s fiftieth birthday bash.
David and Victoria, 51, had been additionally nowhere to be seen at Brooklyn’s vow renewal ceremony in August, and now the discharge of Victoria’s new documentary has sparked much more questions.
The household has largely maintained a tight-lipped on mutterings of an ongoing feud, regardless of cryptic social media posts from the kids. As anticipated, Brooklyn has not publicly congratulated his brother on his new music launch.
With Optics, Cruz Beckham appears decided to shake off any ‘nepo child’ tag – the identical one which has lengthy haunted Brooklyn.
Whether or not the specific lyrics mark real creative development or a calculated bid for consideration, one factor is evident: the youngest Beckham needs everybody to know he’s all grown up.
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