{"id":576442,"date":"2026-07-31T02:06:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T02:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/576442\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T02:06:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T02:06:18","slug":"bella-kay-why-noah-kahans-success-means-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/576442\/","title":{"rendered":"Bella Kay: Why Noah Kahan’s Success ‘Means Everything’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBella Kay<\/a> has enjoyed a breakthrough year after her searing single, \u201ciloveitiloveitiloveit,\u201d burst onto the Billboard Hot 100<\/a> at the top of 2026. Her run of success has included the release of her debut album, My Reckless Abandon; the cover<\/a> of the latest issue of Billboard alongside fellow rising stars Slayyyter and Trueno; and some high-profile live bookings in addition to her own headlining shows.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tOne of those enviable gigs is as an opener on Noah Kahan\u2019s ongoing The Great Divide stadium tour, which Bella will join in November for a nine-date run across Scotland, England and Ireland. During the Billboard cover interview with co-chief content officer Jason Lipshutz, she reflected on Kahan\u2019s steady rise to stadium headliner, and what it means to see such a vulnerable singer-songwriter succeed on that level.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think it means everything,\u201d Bella explains. \u201cNoah\u2019s so insanely talented; his album is crazy. I grew up hearing his songs and being a fan, and so it\u2019s super cool to see him doing stadiums. I\u2019m so proud of him. I think he deserves it, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen it comes to Kahan\u2019s authenticity now existing at such a grand scale, Bella continues, \u201cI think it\u2019s really scary to be an artist and put yourself out there on the line like that, and be able to just write what you feel and not care that thousands and thousands of people are gonna hear it and see and feelings and opinions.\u201d That unvarnished truth can be heard across My Reckless Abandon, which was released July 12 and deals with topics including racial identity, struggles related to food and modern teenage romance.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt was really important to me on the album to not just talk about \u2018Oh, I\u2019m in love\u2019 or \u2018Oh, I hate you\u2019 because life is so much more than that,\u201d Bella says. \u201cI think a lot about how my fans, or just people that are going to be listening, will take those songs. I think, when I was growing up, I would have loved to know that somebody else felt like I was feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201ciloveitiloveitiloveit\u201d peaked at No. 17 on the Hot 100 following its January release. In addition to opening for Kahan this fall, Bella will join Gracie Abrams for a run of arena shows in 2027.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor more with Bella Kay, Slayyyter and Trueno, read the full Billboard cover story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bella Kay has enjoyed a breakthrough year after her searing single, \u201ciloveitiloveitiloveit,\u201d burst onto the Billboard Hot 100…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,821,61,60,633],"class_list":["post-576442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-genre-pop","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}