Following its exclusive BBC Radio 1 premiere, Belfast singer-songwriter Bea Stewart returns with “Set On Loving You,” a plain-spoken and unsparing track from her forthcoming EP Wish It Was You, out 7 November 2025 via Cartoon Records.
The single officially dropped on 24 October 2025 and serves as one of the project’s emotional pillars.
The song feels less like a performance and more like a confession. Stewart’s vulnerable vocals and delicate piano set an intimate scene, making the gut punch of the chorus all the more powerful: “Win or lose / I’ll always root for you.”
As she sings these words of stubborn devotion, the track transforms. Harmonies bloom cinematically, wrapping around her voice in a quiet swell that deepens the ache.
Each layer of instrumentation moves with purpose, never cluttering the emotion but amplifying it with subtle precision.
This balance between intimacy and grandeur mirrors the song’s painful theme, born from what Stewart describes as an “unhealthy relationship” she desperately wanted to work.
She captures the addictive contradiction of love at war with itself in a devastating lyric: “I think you might be both the poison and the antidote.”
As the track closes, the arrangement retreats into stillness, returning to that conversational fragility before fading out on a note of weary acceptance.
“Set On Loving You” holds a mirror to the messy, loyal, and sometimes foolish parts of our own hearts; the ones that love even when they shouldn’t.
Lyric video directed by Marieke Macklon.
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