40 Fun Facts About Jazmin Bean

At Jazmin Bean's first live performance in a bar, what did they rub all over themself while singing?

Chicken liver was the prop, smeared on in front of about ten people while Bean was still underage. Producer Jessica Winter had to clean up the mess afterwards.

Aswangs, the shape-shifting monsters behind Jazmin Bean's early looks, come from which nation's folklore?

The Philippines is part of Bean's heritage, and their grandmother passed its eerie folklore down to them. Bean's own record label is called Aswang Birthday Cake.

Jazmin Bean covered I'm a Slave 4 U, a 2001 hit for which pop star, on the Worldwide Torture reissue?

Britney Spears made the Neptunes-written original a worldwide hit. One reviewer called Bean's cover a deconstructed mess that turns cultural icons inside-out.

Jazmin Bean began doing makeup as a young teenager by copying the looks of which line of fashion dolls?

Monster High dolls were the template for those first looks. Bean has said the made-up face is the one that shows how they see themself.

Jazmin Bean says they wrote the song Worldwide Torture during a school exam in which subject?

Maths was the paper Bean was meant to be sitting. The song became their debut single in August 2019, with a video they directed and paid for themself for £500.

Which speed-metal Jazmin Bean song about being friendless at school did they later claim to have written as a joke?

Hello Kitty casts cartoons and toys as a way to cope with a lonely school life. Its December 2019 video helped Bean attract a major-label deal.

Jazmin Bean's father is the founder, singer and guitarist of which English rock band formed in Newcastle in 1989?

The Wildhearts were founded by Ginger Wildheart, who started out as a guitarist in the Quireboys. His band went on to score several top 20 singles in Britain.

What did Jazmin Bean do with the debut album they had mostly written before entering rehab in 2022?

Scrapped it and started over: none of the songs written before rehab made Traumatic Livelihood. Bean says the old album sits in the vault and could still come out one day.

Which famous rock drummer is among the producers credited on Jazmin Bean's debut album Traumatic Livelihood?

Travis Barker of Blink-182 co-produced the album's lead single with Goldfinger frontman John Feldmann, who also co-wrote the song with Bean.

Jazmin Bean started making music at 15 after enrolling at a London school to study what?

Filmmaking was the plan: Bean meant to write soundtracks for their own films, then kept the music and dropped the films because they disliked the course.

Which 1990s London punk band, who shared bills with the Sex Pistols, had Jazmin Bean's mother Angie Adams on drums?

Fluffy released the album Black Eye in 1996 and split two years later. Bean says Adams was still drumming while pregnant with them.

The buzz around Worldwide Torture led Jazmin Bean to sign with Interscope and which other major record label?

Island Records and Interscope reissued the EP in November 2020 with six extra tracks, turning a release Bean had recorded for free into a major-label record.

Yandere, Jazmin Bean's 2020 single about murderous devotion, is a sequel to which earlier Worldwide Torture song?

Saccharine voiced a crush and a fear of intimacy, and the sequel accepts those feelings. The Saccharine video was shot for £2,000 with help from Bean's mother.

Which Australian musician delivers the screamed guest vocals on Jazmin Bean's bass-heavy 2020 single Monster Truck?

Zheani answers Bean's baby-doll sweetness with a screamo freak-out. The Forty-Five later ranked the track among the best hyperpop songs of all time.

Which guest artist features on Princess Castle, the Jazmin Bean track that Clash called trans-dimensional pop music?

Cottontail joins Bean on a blend of alternative pop, heavy metal and electropop. A video for the song helped promote the November 2020 reissue of the EP.

Which 2019 Ari Aster folk-horror film has a soundtrack that Jazmin Bean names as a musical inspiration?

Midsommar has a score inspired by Nordic folk music, written by British electronic musician Bobby Krlic. Bean singled it out for its orchestral qualities.

Which 2005 stop-motion fantasy film helped spark Jazmin Bean's love of the macabre as a preteen?

Corpse Bride made a fan of Bean, who calls its co-director Tim Burton a genius. They have also named the film's soundtrack as an inspiration for their own songs.

Which Jim Henson puppet series does Jazmin Bean count among the inspirations for their fantasy-creature style?

Fraggle Rock sits beside Japanese toys, drag culture and Tim Burton films among Bean's influences. They have described the whole style as a form of escapism.

Which lead single from Traumatic Livelihood did Jazmin Bean write as a bridge from the sound of Worldwide Torture?

Piggie calls out predators in the music industry over a synth-pop and rock hybrid. Written three months after rehab, it was not originally meant to be on the album at all.

Which second single from Traumatic Livelihood did Jazmin Bean give an upbeat melody and lyrics about low self-worth?

Favourite Toy was one of the first three songs written for the album and helped set its direction. An acoustic version appears on the Extended Edition.

Which 1990s-inspired ballad, described as Jazmin Bean's first pure love song, also gave their 2023 tour its name?

Terrified is about the anxiety of realising a relationship is honest and safe after several abusive ones. Bean wrote it because few songs treat love with appreciation.

Which vengeful Jazmin Bean single from January 2024 did many listeners first mistake for a breakup song?

You Know What You've Done was written to purge feelings of remorse and revenge, so that Bean could forgive the people who had hurt them. It was the album's fourth and final single.

At which British rock star's own festival did Jazmin Bean debut It's Not My Fault (It's Yours) in August 2024?

Yungblud staged the first Bludfest at the Milton Keynes Bowl, and Bean played the new song there days before releasing it. They had recorded it on a whim.

Jazmin Bean set out to blend trip hop with which other genre on the Traumatic Livelihood track Charm Bracelet?

Country music meets trip hop on a song in which Bean tells themself to accept what they cannot control and simply keep going.

On the closing track of Jazmin Bean's Traumatic Livelihood, they compare life to tending what?

A garden is the central image of The Blood Brings Colour and Fluoresce, which Bean says is about finding magic in the badness. They wanted the album to feel optimistic.

Which instruments did Jazmin Bean favour over electronics on Traumatic Livelihood to make the album sound timeless?

Strings recur across the album because Bean felt electronics would date it by tying it to a niche. The result is a softer, more grandiose pop sound than the debut EP.

Which singer's 1964 Burt Bacharach ballad A House Is Not a Home did Jazmin Bean cover for the Extended Edition?

Dionne Warwick recorded the song for writers Burt Bacharach and Hal David. Bean's version comes from the Strawberry House Sessions, backed by cello, harp and lute.

On which nation's albums chart did Jazmin Bean's Traumatic Livelihood peak at number five in March 2024?

Scotland gave the album its highest placing. Across the UK it reached number 22 on the Albums Sales chart without entering the main albums chart.

At which English festival did Jazmin Bean play their first-ever festival set in 2021, on The Pit stage?

Reading was the first festival Bean had ever been to, let alone played. They described their outfit that day as a conservative yeti, but very pink.

Which Cult Candy Cosmetics product did Jazmin Bean launch in 2024 with a shade for every Traumatic Livelihood track?

An eyeshadow palette relaunched the vegan makeup brand, which Bean had co-founded with their mother in 2019. It promptly sold out.

Which fashion magazine filmed Jazmin Bean's two-hour hybrid creature makeup routine for an Extreme Beauty tutorial?

Vogue's video drew millions of views. In it Bean disguises their nose, draws on a cat-like mouth and finishes with violet contact lenses that cover the whole iris.

Which Canadian pop-punk star did Jazmin Bean name alongside Nicki Minaj and Gwen Stefani as a dream collaborator?

Avril Lavigne headed a wish list that surprised an interviewer expecting darker heroes. Bean said having any of the three on a song would make them lose their mind.

Jazmin Bean wrote and recorded the Worldwide Torture EP while working towards which British school exams?

GCSEs were under way while Bean recorded with four producers, who worked for free on a promise that the record would succeed and they would be repaid later.

Jazmin Bean recorded Worldwide Torture at Octagon Studios, in which south London district?

Brixton is where Bean made the EP with four producers, among them Jessica Winter, who went on to work on their debut album as well.

Jazmin Bean appears as the featured guest on Hellhound, a 2023 single by which American singer-songwriter?

DeathbyRomy, born Romy Flores, released the track in October 2023, a year after her EP Entropy.

Which producer, also known as The Drill, was Jazmin Bean's main collaborator on Traumatic Livelihood?

Matt Schwartz produced most of the album, and Bean credits him with pushing them to collaborate more and with making the record sound cohesive.

DIY's review of Traumatic Livelihood likened Jazmin Bean's deliberate vocal delivery to which Welsh pop singer?

Marina Diamandis, once billed as Marina and the Diamonds, was the reference point for what the reviewer called Bean's operatic side. The review praised an accomplished pop record.

In which US city did Jazmin Bean host a Traumatic Livelihood listening party for fans at the Black Rabbit Rose?

Los Angeles hosted the playback, where Bean spent time with a few dozen fans before the album came out in February 2024. A short acoustic tour of the UK followed.

Jazmin Bean said their 2026 single Darling used real instruments and none of which vocal effect?

Autotune was out on Bean's first release in over a year, a softer song that Kerrang! said switched up their vibe. Bean called it saying hi to Jazmin Bean again.

Which guest vocalist joins Jazmin Bean on Carnage, their 2022 single about getting what you want at any cost?

Lucy Loone shares a song that Bean called a love letter to their end goal. Bean co-directed its video with Shan Phearon.