Inside Out by Bec Leigh: Seven Songs on Self-Worth From a Singer Who Spent Years in Cover Bands
Inside Out by Bec Leigh: Seven Songs on Self-Worth From a Singer Who Spent Years in Cover Bands
An Australian Pop EP From 2023 About Lies, Toxic Love and Looking Past Appearances
Bec Leigh released Inside Out on 30 June 2023, a seven-track pop EP about self-worth, lies and looking past appearances. Three years and eight singles later, it is still the fullest picture of what she writes about.
Bec Leigh has Inside Out, the EP’s title track, in the playlist below, with the singer’s full run of coverage on the Bec Leigh artist profile. Inside Out came to this desk through PopHits.Co Music Charts, which verifies independent artists and places their releases across its network of music news titles. Give it a spin before the rest.
That story starts on stage. Bec Leigh is a singer-songwriter from Adelaide, Australia. She started singing seriously after a traumatic break-up in her early twenties, when music and performing became her way back. Adele is among her influences.
From the Alan Barnes Band to Her Own Songs, the Years Before Inside Out
For years she sang other artists’ songs. She shared the lead vocals in the Alan Barnes Band, then fronted other bands around the city. She opened for James Reyne on his Australian tour and headlined Tunarama in Port Lincoln.
Then she wanted songs of her own. Red Flags came out in November 2022 and Mirage in March 2023. Then, that April, an interview on Coast FM 88.7 with Ron Bellman put her songs into the station’s rotation, Dulaxi reported later that year.
Inside Out by Bec Leigh Runs From Pretty White Lies to Next Life in 26 Minutes
The EP runs seven tracks and about 26 minutes, each one on a different part of the same theme. Pretty White Lies opens on a partner who keeps lying. A Million More is a reminder to notice small moments before they pass. Its narrator wants to jump in the ocean and catch the sunset before it is too late.
Inside Out itself takes on the pressure to look a certain way. Mirage watches someone fall into a manipulative relationship. Years & Tears is about taking your strength back after a toxic one. Wild Imaginations looks at the damage done by assumptions. Next Life closes on lasting love.
The title song is her favourite of the seven, she told Punk Head, because it takes on judgement head on. She has also described the whole EP as a way of working through relationships, loving and abusive. So for her, music is something that can help people heal.
How Bec Leigh Made Inside Out, From Acoustic Melodies to Her Home Studio
She worked with a co-writer on the songs. Each one started from a backstory and a concept, then took shape first as an acoustic melody. On the title track, Miranda Glory Inzunza and Cari Cole share the writing with her.
She recorded most of the vocals in her home studio and some at Timms Tunes studio. Then she worked out the musical direction with her producer, who also mixed and mastered the EP. Once the music was settled, she re-recorded the vocals and added harmonies, and that big, expressive voice carries every song. The EP is also on Apple Music and as a set on SoundCloud.
Adele, Lauren Spencer-Smith and the Pop Tradition Inside Out by Bec Leigh Joins
Pop has made some of its biggest records from this material. Adele wrote 21 after a relationship ended and named it after her age at the time. She made it with co-writers including Paul Epworth, Ryan Tedder and Dan Wilson. Inside Out comes from the same kind of place, on an independent scale.
Lauren Spencer-Smith showed in 2022 how far one self-released song about love gone wrong can travel. Fingers Crossed reached the top 10 in Australia and the UK after a demo of it went viral on TikTok. Mirage and Years & Tears sit in that same lane.
From the MusicDrops.News curator team: “The running order is the smartest thing about Inside Out. The hurt comes first and the love comes last, so it ends somewhere better than it starts.”
After Inside Out, Bec Leigh Kept Releasing Singles, From Scars in 2024 to Will I Ever
The EP was not the end of the run. Since then, eight singles have followed. They run from Scars in June 2024 through In Your Eyes, Twisted, Intuition, Twice and Mr Wonderful to Will I Ever in June 2026.
Away from her own records, she also teaches young musicians and works as a vocal coach. She passes on what she learned on stage.
So the EP is still the place to start. After years of singing other people’s songs, Inside Out remains the clearest picture of her own. It is worth hearing in order, from Pretty White Lies to Next Life.
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