Beorma – Woman
Birmingham-based Beorma were born during the first lockdown in 2020. Brummie Tom and Portuguese-born Ferns wrote a number of songs by sending parts and ideas back and forth to each other, the result of which was a 7-track EP titled ‘Virtual Emotionality’ that was released at the end of January.
Late 2020 saw the duo release the first two singles from the EP in ‘F U’ & ‘Right Behind You’. Now managed by Indie Midlands Beorma are releasing the third single from the EP titled ‘Woman’, and they’ve done so to purposely coincide with International Women’s Day which takes place on March 8th.
‘Woman’ is a track that not only empowers women from the female perspective but also demands accountability from the male perspective as Tom explains:
“‘Woman’ came about when I saw a post from an old school friend on Instagram talking about how gross it was girls are starting to do OnlyFans and other similar things for money and I found it just plain stupid and hypocritical as that same person had prior shown me ‘nudes’ of a girl he was speaking to and it just angered me into writing something there and then and the first line that came to me was ‘you only seem to enjoy this content if the woman is not consenting’ and it all started from there.”
He continues “I was hesitant at first to be honest as I thought having a straight white man talk about this stuff is kinda redundant but Ferns made a good point saying it’s actually quite refreshing having a guy talk about this stuff and owning up to not being perfect and learning from his mistakes etc.”
Ferns herself commented “What Tom says pretty much sums it up. We really wanted to make a brutally truthful track without making it sound clichê at the same time. Now a days everyone is a ‘feminist’ and there’s hundreds of bad ass women writing amazing, empowering music but I haven’t really heard a track where a guy had taken accountability in such a straight to the point way. Tom just said it how it is and I think that’s what’s so different about this track, and we’d had a conversation about potentially removing the term Gang Bang from the track because maybe it’s a bit too risky but in the end we stuck with it because it’s what makes the lyrics so powerfully honest.”
She concludes “We didn’t want this to be just another track of a woman telling men how badass we are, we wanted it to be about way more than that, accountability is really the point here.”
Musically the downbeat piano combined with the beats and samples helps set the mood to provide a backdrop for such an important message. The blend between the vocals of the duo works perfectly as well with Tom leading the way before Ferns closes the track out.
For such a new act Beorma have heaps of potential. We may be slightly biased now that we are managing them, but I think the future is going to be very bright for this talented duo.
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