When Freya Skye first performed “Bad Taste” at her debut headlining show in New York in December 2025, she wasn’t sure the song would ever leave the scene of the stage.
The then-unreleased track was stripped back to just Skye and her guitarist, Donnie. “I remember being terrified,” Skye tells Billboard. “It was my first ever headline show I’d ever done, and I was in New York … It was quite exposed and vulnerable.”
Then came the moment that changed her mind. “By the last chorus, [the crowd] was singing the words and I was like, ‘Well this is great. I feel way less alone by the end,’” she…
