"Beach House" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter

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, released August 5, 2022, by

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, Schoolboy, and

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as the second single from her sixth studio album ''

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''. The song was written by Jepsen, Alex Hope, and Nate Cyphert, and produced by Hope and SameSame.

Style

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''s Lindsay Zoladz says that on the "cheeky earworm" "Beach House", "Jepsen employs her deadpan sense of humor as she lists off the red flags and deal-breakers that marred relationships with 'Boy No. 1' to 'Boy No. I Can't Keep Count Anymore'", "effectively tap

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into the romantic frustration of endless, ''

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''-esque first dates and long-term singledom." ''

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''s David Renshaw notes that the song "takes its title from a date idea by someone Jepsen explains she has matched with on an app" and includes the singer "detail ngthe notoriously tumultuous landscape of

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et al", including "disappointment in a man whose mum made the picnic they ate together and another potential partner who, of course, turns out to be married", all centered on the chorus lyric "I got a beach house in Malibu and I'm probably gonna hurt your feelings". ''Mxdwn.com''s Federico Cardenas notes that the chorus has backing vocals all sung by men. In an interview with '' Crack''s Ilana Kaplan, the writer described "Beach House" as "the antithesis of the soothing ambience of " Western Wind"", "one of the singer's most playful tracks", and "a campy pop anthem that finds Jepsen and her bandmates larping as boys going on bad dates." The song "features some of epsen'smost absurd lyrics", with the singer saying "It was the shortest straw-pull for who had to sing, 'I've got a lake house in Canada, I'm going to come harvest your organs.'" Kaplan concludes that "while the track veers toward being lighthearted, there are harsh realities within it", with Jepsen saying "I wanted to highlight that feeling when you're disenchanted after eing ona dating app for a hot minute to be like, 'That guy's just going to... he's going to wreck me.'"

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Personnel

– lead vocals, songwriter * Alex Hope – songwriter, producer, guitar, synthesizer, programming * Nate Cyphert – songwriter, backing vocals * Mitch McCarthy – recording and mixing engineer * Chris Allgood and

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– mastering engineers *

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, Bobby Wooten, Jared Manierka, Joey Hendricks, and Tony Marino – backing vocals

Charts

References

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