20-year-old viral alt-pop artist Bella Kay has been on a roll since her 2025 debut, and with the release of her first album, My Reckless Abandon, over the weekend, she’s further cementing her place as a pop mainstay.
Bella has a way of putting every raw and vulnerable thought to music, pairing painfully relatable lyricism with top-notch songwriting to create songs that never miss. She’s perhaps best known for her song “iloveitiloveitiloveit,” which has racked up billions of views on TikTok and nearly half a billion streams, and it’s just one of the 13 tracks on the new album that tackle getting stuck in toxic relationship patterns before finally rising above and breaking out of them. Bella recently announced the sold-out The Reckless Tour across North America, with stops at Austin City Limits and Yours Always Festival, and she’ll be joining Noah Kahan on tour in the U.K. and Ireland in November. To celebrate, we’ve collected more than 40 of her best lyrics to use as Instagram captions.
For when someone’s niceness is a problem:
“You’re so sweet, I hate that.”
-“Blur”
For creating a problematic relationship:
“You know I love causin’ problems. Pull me close and watch you solve ’em.”
-“Blur”
For the one who embraces your flaws:
“I know that it’s bad, but you like when I’m messy.”
-“Blur”
For wishing you could ignore the consequences:
“I know there’s a line, but I think it should blur.”
-“Blur”
For wanting more than just friendship:
“I should probably just leave it alone ’cause I know that we’re supposed to be friends.”
-“Promise?”
For when uncertainty keeps you quiet:
“Oh, I want you, but, I’ll never tell you, ’cause if I tell you, you could say I’m not the one.”
-“Promise?”
For when they’ve been the cause of your insomnia:
“Let me paint a picture for you, your voice keeps me up at night.”
-“Promise?”
For always needing to be by their side:
“You only left about a minute ago, but I already need to see you again.”
-“Promise?”
For getting caught up on the tiniest details:
“I like your hair, I like the way it’s in your stupid eyes.”
-“Promise?”
For always thinking people are upset with you:
“Are you mad at me? Did I piss you off? Tell me, did I cross a line?”
-“Say it Say”
For reading too deeply into things:
“I know you hate me. Yeah, I can take a hint.”
-“Say it Say”
(Photo credit: Samantha Monendo)
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For no longer falling for their charms:
“You’re not half as cool as you think you are. No, and I pity the fool who falls for your guitar.”
-“Karaoke”
For wanting a single moment to go on and on and on:
“We could last forever if we never go home.”
-“Karaoke”
For only wanting to know if it’s good news:
“If you love me, let me know, but baby, if you don’t, don’t say it.”
-“Karaoke”
For misreading signals:
“I’ve never been real good at deciphering things.”
-“iloveitiloveitiloveit”
For knowing things won’t end well:
“You’re a bad idea but a real good time.”
-“iloveitiloveitiloveit”
For not always having to play nice:
“I love it when we fight, and I like it when you’re mean. We don’t have to get into what that says about me.”
-“iloveitiloveitiloveit”
For when neither of you are taking the relationship seriously:
“Way too into the games we’re playin’.”
-“STOP”
For behaving badly:
“Oh my God, I think I gotta knock it off. I think I gotta stop.”
-“STOP”
For when they won’t leave your mind:
“You’re probably at some party being cool and cracking jokes.”
-“mindf***”
For when every call goes unanswered:
“Can you pick up the phone? Do you have the guts to fight for us?”
-“marrow”
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For not understanding why they won’t commit:
“Shouldn’t you be sure? Shouldn’t it be obvious? Shouldn’t it be easy to want this?”
-“marrow”
For always having to walk a fine line:
“Don’t be too much, but don’t be too little. If you wanna get out, live right in the middle.”
-“A Father’s Lament”
For being ready to forget:
“I’d forgive you if you come back. You know I love when it ends like that.”
-“i deserve better.”
For never placing the burden where it belongs:
“I love to blame myself. It’s all on me when it goes to hell.”
-“i deserve better.”
For finally understanding your worth:
“I’m not perfect, not ever, but I still deserve better.”
-“i deserve better.”
(My Reckless Abandon via Atlantic Music Group)
For judging yourself too harshly:
“I don’t wanna fall in love, ’cause I don’t believe that I deserve it.”
-“Steady”
For feeling like a walking contradiction:
“Always too much, I’m never enough, never your person.”
-“Steady”
For needing to work on yourself first:
“I can’t treat you right if I treat myself like this. I need to get better, swear I’m working on it.”
-“Steady”
For believing that love is doomed:
“I don’t wanna fall in love, ’cause I know when it’s all said and done, I’m back where I started, more broken-hearted, less of the person I was.”
-“Steady”
For yearning for someone who never loved you back:
“I’m not supposed to miss you. You’re not mine to miss.”
-“wonder wander”
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For knowing they’ll always have a piece of your heart:
“A part of me will always wonder, wonder, wander back to you.”
-“wonder wander”
For accepting the toxicity of a relationship:
“There is nothin’ better I could be. I love the sick because I have to.”
-“The Sick”
For when your ex moves on:
“I think that she might be enough to save you and I’m sorry that that wasn’t me.”
-“The Sick”
For when your loneliness repels people:
“Sometimes I feel like people smell the lonely on me. It seeped in my perfume, or it spilled all over my laundry.”
-“Lonely”
For feeling isolated and unsure what to do with yourself:
“She’s lonely, she don’t got no purpose.”
-“Lonely”
For when they’re nowhere you can go to escape solitude:
“In crowds, in towns, my housе, there’s no where that I’m safe.”
-“Lonely”
For when they always come crawling back:
“All my exes call me crazy, but all my exes still call me baby.”
-“Call Me Baby”
For being tired of stupid questions:
“You hand me matches then you ask why it burns.”
-“Call Me Baby”
For wishing you’d done more:
“I didn’t do you wrong, but I didn’t do you right.”
-“georgia”
For crushing on your ex’s new girlfriend:
“At first I was jealous but I’m over that.”
-“ur new girlfriend”
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For letting them know you’re available:
“I’m a busy girl but I’ll make time.”
-“ur new girlfriend”
For putting someone down:
“I’m super hot, you’re really not.”
-“ur new girlfriend”
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