Bellah Mae opens her Sony Nashville chapter with Keep It Peachy, a six-track EP that pulls sweetness, heartbreak, confidence, and grit into one sharp country-pop frame.
Co-written across the full project and produced by Brett Truitt, JANEVA, and Steven Solomon, the EP blends banjo, pedal steel, polished pop detail, and Mae’s dry, quick-cut lyricism without losing its emotional centre.
The Solihull-raised artist sits between UK roots, Nashville craft, pop instinct, and punk-edged character. On Keep It Peachy, that mix clicks into place, with Salt and Sugar, Kiss My Levi’s, Boring Me Baby, and Fast Lane turning real-life stories into sharp, funny, emotionally loaded country-pop.
With over 100 million career streams, a growing US presence, and her CMA Festival debut ahead, Mae is moving into a bigger frame without sanding down the personality.
For FM PRO 10Q, Bellah Mae talks Sony Nashville, sharp songwriting, country-pop identity, vocal control, production cohesion, and the gut feeling behind a locked Bellah Mae track.
I think the EP is fun and flirty and sensitive all at the same time. I’m just excited to feel like I’m exactly where I want to be, being super myself…
Q1. Keep It Peachy opens a new chapter with Sony Nashville. What did you want this EP to show about where you are now?
I’m super settled in the music that I’m making and the sound that I have and I think it’s finally feels exactly where I want it to be. It’s fun and a little flirty but still sensitive and soft.
Q2. The title plays with sweetness and resilience. How did that contrast shape the songs?
I truly love everything about the sentiment and imagery of a peach, I love how it’s sweet and soft on the outside but gritty and a strong pit in the middle and I believe that I convey that symbolism through all the songs by writing about real emotions and stories but often dressing them up in a witty or fun way.
Q3. Salt and Sugar is clever, bruised, and sharp at the same time. Where did that idea begin?
I always love finding a more unique way to express what I’m saying in my song concepts. So I wanted to write about someone being nothing like what you thought there yet they portrayed it so well, and I went down a rabbit hole of finding things that resemble each other but are nothing like at the same time.
Q4. Your writing often uses humour to carry heavier truths. How do you make sure the wit still cuts deep?
I think I just blend hard hitting emotional lines laced with a little bit of humor. I tend to say something hyper specific as examples of what happened in the story and that often ends up being unintentionally funny I think.
Q5. You move between UK roots and country storytelling. When did that mix start feeling like your own lane?
I think ever since I started writing and creating so much in Nashville I feel very much understood and at home with the songs that I’m making, I think the people I collaborate with bring the best out of me and really get who I am and what I’m trying to make.
Q6. Kiss My Levi’s, Boring Me Baby, and Fast Lane all have strong attitude and character. How much of that comes from real life?
They’re all written about true stories. Especially with Fast Lane, I love how connected I feel to the real scenario I set that song on, it makes me feel like I’m back on that one specific night falling in live with somebody in the passenger seat.
Q7. FM PRO TECH Q: With Brett Truitt, JANEVA, and Steven Solomon producing, what helped keep Keep It Peachy connected as one EP?
I’ve always written with a small crew of collaborators , and I’ve worked with all three of them for a long time and they also now collaborated with each other through me and this EP so it was such a team effort and it was so important to me that it felt that way so the project felt cohesive.
Q8. You trained as a classical soprano before moving into country-pop with punk edges. Does that discipline still shape how you use your voice?
All the time, I love a rich vibrato and actually struggle to switch it off sometimes, I also think it serves really well not to strain my voice when I’m on tours and in the studio a lot.
Q9. With the US tour and CMA Festival debut ahead, what side of Bellah Mae do you want this EP to bring to the stage?
I think the EP is fun and flirty and sensitive all at the same time. I’m just excited to feel like I’m exactly where I want to be, being super myself, with music out that I love and to keep doing exactly that.
Q10. FM PRO TECH Q: When blending banjo, pedal steel, pop production, and sharp toplines, how do you know when a Bellah Mae track is locked?
If it’s got interesting enough lyrics, unique verses with specific examples, a cool title and a vibe that just makes you feel something, that’s when I know I’ve got something that I love and it’s so hard to know what is the magic recipe and what you’ll connect with what’s you’ve written it, its just a gut feeling.
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