Blondshell works out what she wants by saying it out loud

Sabrina Teitelbaum stumbled into Blondshell. First, she was just Sabrina, uploading songs to Soundcloud and playing open mics on the Lower East Side. She didn’t go to performing arts school, so she spent all of her free time working on music. In uni, she was BAUM, experiencing Los Angeles for the first time and pining for pop stardom. Teitelbaum was performing often and cementing herself into an exciting creative community. But, something didn’t feel quite right. Blondshell was born in 2019, with an acoustic demo of a raw, grungy song called “Olympus.” “I wanna save myself, you’re part of my addiction / I just keep you in the kitchen while I burn,” she admits in the pre-chorus. “Olympus” allowed Teitelbaum to embrace a sound that felt truer to her craft. “It sounds like such a stark transition from the outside because anybody else just hears what you put out,” she says. “But, I had been growing for a long time, and that was gradual for me, from where I was standing.” Sign up to Best Fit's Substack for regular dispatches from the world of pop culture Teitelbaum recalls a conversation with producer and close friend Yves Rothman (FKA Twigs, Girlpool), in the days leading up to the rel...