Songfacts®:

• "All I Did Was Dream Of You" is Beabadoobee's collaboration with the LA-based indie-pop band The Marías. The song captures the feeling of being so consumed by a person that they occupy your subconscious even when you're trying to move on or simply "be." The Marías singer María Zardoya's verse introduces a darker tone, touching on how these dreams can sometimes feel like nightmares or loving in denial.
• The song arrived during a period of stability in Beabadoobee's life; she had been in a relationship with the British director and cinematographer Jake Erland since early 2023. She hasn't explicitly confirmed him as the inspiration here, but the overall tone suggests that even when she tries to complicate things, affection keeps sneaking back in.
• "All I Did Was Dream Of You" departs from the polished acoustic sounds of Beabadoobee's previous work. The Filipina British indie singer-songwriter's '90s shoegaze textures and punchy guitar lines blend naturally with The Marías' signature dream-pop sound, creating a swirling soundscape.
• Beabadoobee and María Zardoya wrote the song with The Marías drummer Josh Conway and New York-born, LA-based musicians and producers Gianluca Buccellati and Alessandro Buccellati. Gianluca has a longstanding working relationship with The Marías - he was the bridge between the two artists on this collaboration.
• Production duties were shared among Conway, the Buccellatis, and Jason Vance Harris, who also contributed guitar and keyboards.
• The video, co-directed by Erland and Lithuanian filmmaker Aboveground, leans into the song's dream logic. Shot in Vilnius, Lithuania, it follows Beabadoobee through snowy landscapes and quietly surreal vignettes. At one point, a car explodes for no obvious reason, and she walks away unscathed and unfazed.
  
  The video was inspired by Yorgos Lanthimos' 2025 black comedy thriller Bugonia, starring Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, and Aidan Delbis.
  
  "I recently watched Bugonia by Yorgos Lanthimos - my boyfriend and I are f---ing obsessed with Yorgos - and that last scene inspired the video, Beabadoobee told Dazed." I made the video with my boyfriend and one of his good friends, Lucas, who is from Lithuania. It was -17C there - I could have died! I was singing on this frozen lake; it was f---ing crazy but it looks so beautiful. It's a nice bridge to the next thing I want to release."