With UK Country Music on the rise and the genre and lifestyle finding a more prominent place within the music and fashion industry, there has been more room for signed and independent artists to garner more recognition.

Take Bellah Mae for example, a singer/songwriter who hails from Solihull in Birmingham, Mae is taking the UK country music scene by storm with her pop infused, country tunes that could challenge the mainstream market.

Bellah was raised on country music and inspired by storytellers. Signed by Island/EMI Records, Bellah Mae’s relatable and honest lyrics have resonated with many which has seen her go viral on TikTok, receive streams of over a 100K, play two sold out UK tours and have a co-sign from Tate McRae.

With age comes wisdom. With life experience you learn to care less about the opinion of others. At just 23, Mae has a desire to inspire her fans to take control of their narrative, to be confident and unapologetic but also embrace the bad days. This mindset flows throughout her latest single ‘Bad Day To Be My Ex’. Written in Nashville by Bellah, Brigetta Truitt, and produced by Brett Truitt, the Pop, R&B infused track is fun, uplifting and incredibly catchy.

Of the track Bellah says “I’ve really learned that I don’t have to be too strong all the time — I can still be soft. But if you break my heart… I’ll write an absolutely savage song about you. “Bad Day To Be My Ex” is an example of just that.”

With a lyric dedicated to Pamela Anderson, Bellah draws in inspiration from Anderson’s career from being a 90’s icon to now inspiring women all across the globe by taking control of her career and no longer playing to the ever so tiresome pressures of the media

“I love that Pamela has really taken control of her career; despite everything she’s been through in the industry. Same with Dolly Parton. These are powerhouse women who have had to prove themselves over and over.”

“It’s a damn shame that I make you live in regret. Looking so good baby no way you can handle it. Looking like a Gen Z Pamela Anderson” – Bad Day To Be My Ex

In 2024, her EP Never Waste A Heartbreak was, in Mae’s terms, “more poignant and reflective”. Her new music shows her natural growth as a person but also as an artist. In her new projects, fans will see a more dominant force in Mae’s writing where she unapologetically expresses what’s on her mind and what she has experienced.

“My earlier music made me want to sit in my bedroom and process everything, whereas my new songs make me want to get out, blast them in the car, and just live,” she explains. “I’ve realised that the way I process things — breakups, changes, different life phases — has evolved. With these upcoming songs, I just don’t care as much about the little things. There’s a freedom in that and you can hear it in the music.”

With several more songs to be released, all that have been written and recorded in Nashville, Mae hopes her music will encourage women to face their challenges, embrace their pain and not to be afraid of who they are.

“Knowing that my fans — who are mostly young women, which I love — are growing up at the same time and feeling the same things I am, if my music can inspire confidence in them, that’s amazing to me. This new music is about me learning to give a couple of fucks less.”

Bad Day To Be My Ex is available now here.