{"id":2168,"date":"2026-08-10T23:44:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T23:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=2168"},"modified":"2026-08-10T23:44:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T23:44:22","slug":"sound-check-with-jeremy-hecht-bella-kay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=2168","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Sound Check&#8217; With Jeremy Hecht: Bella Kay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-page=\"1\">\n<p>Bella Kay is having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DXo41ScDYQM\/\" target=\"_blank\">a massive 2026<\/a>. The singer-songwriter released her debut album <em>My Reckless Abandon<\/em> on Atlantic Records in July; \u201cIloveitiloveitiloveit\u201d has spent over 20 weeks on the Hot 100; and she just played <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Dbd-13RFVPc\/\" target=\"_blank\">her biggest show ever<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/uproxx.com\/life\/lollapalooza-2024-essentials-guide-from-perry-ferrell\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lollapalooza<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>But Kay found time in her busy schedule to be the latest guest on <a href=\"https:\/\/uproxx.com\/tag\/sound-check-with-jeremy-hecht\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Sound Check<\/em><\/a>, the series hosted by <em>Uproxx<\/em>\u2018s <a href=\"https:\/\/uproxx.com\/tag\/Jeremy-Hecht\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jeremy Hecht<\/a> where music makes tough decisions. And they don\u2019t get much tougher than Tate McRae vs. Sabrina Carpenter.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how it works: Kay picks between a pair of different-sounding songs with the ultimate goal of Hecht guessing her lifetime anthem. This episode\u2019s difficult choices include Gigi Perez vs. Rihanna, Olivia Rodrigo vs. Lizzy McAlpine, Beyonc\u00e9 vs. Megan Thee Stallion. Hecht even had her choose between two of her own songs: \u201cThe Sick\u201d or \u201c21st Street.\u201d Along the way, Kay also opened up about her favorite artists, listening to music in the morning, complicated love songs, her songwriting process, her new era, and more. The quick-fire format led to some interesting and surprising revelations. <\/p>\n<p>Knowing her answers, will Jeremy be able to guess Bella Kay\u2019s lifetime anthem? You\u2019ll have to watch her take the <em>Sound Check<\/em> challenge in the video above to find out.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bella Kay is having a massive 2026. The singer-songwriter released her debut album My Reckless Abandon on Atlantic Records in July; \u201cIloveitiloveitiloveit\u201d has spent over 20 weeks on the Hot 100; and she just played her biggest show ever at Lollapalooza. But Kay found time in her busy schedule to be the latest guest on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}