Bea Kristi is not a pop star. People seem to be confused about that. The young London-based singer-songwriter who (unfortunately) decided to call herself beabadoobee has had a weird, vertiginous come-up &#8212; signed at 18, a year after getting kicked out of Catholic school, when the first song that she ever wrote went viral on…

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