"I’m surprised it’s taken this long"
The singer told NME that her new single ‘More! More! More!’ was inspired by the frustration of seeing working class people being “trodden on”.
Becky Hill has blasted Jack Whitehall for calling her a “Wetherspoons Whitney” at last year’s BRIT Awards.
The 32-year-old singer/songwriter was left devastated and furious after comedian and 2025 BRIT Awards host Whitehall insinuated that she was less well off because of her Midlands accent.
Whitehall has now responded, in a red carpet interview with blogger ThisIsMax. “I love her,” he said. “Hey, there’s no beef from my side. I saw her at the F1, we were having a good ol’ laugh about it.”
“Do you know what, I feel honoured that I’ve got a diss track written about me, and I’m surprised it’s taken this long. I’ve been throwing musicians under the bus for like nearly a decade now, how has no-one done this already!”
Now, Becky has revealed that the track Daddy Range Rover, on her upcoming third album Rebecca, was inspired by how she felt after Jack “punched down”.
At the time, Hill hit back, sharing a post on Instagram that highlighted how many of the night’s winners had come from highly privileged backgrounds.
Her post pointed out that Charli XCX – who won five awards that night – attended the £38,319-a-year Bishop’s Stortford College, A.G. Cook went to the £27,747-a-year King Alfred’s School and The Last Dinner Party were alumni of Bedales, which costs £52,075 a year. It also shared that Whitehall was educated at the £52,000-a-year The Dragon School in Oxford.
“Imagine being called a ‘Wetherspoons Whitney’ by some privately educated nepo baby,” she wrote.
“My parents worked so hard to provide a middle class life for me, even tho they couldn’t afford it, no one gave me a leg up, I wasn’t near London so I couldn’t go to the BRIT School. So if you associate a Midlands accent with a Wetherspoons that says more about the silver spoon in your mouth jolly ol’ boy.”
Now, speaking to NME this week about her upcoming third album ‘Rebecca’, Hill spoke about her intense new single ‘More! More! More!’, and revealed that it was inspired by the frustration of seeing working class people being “trodden on”.
After explaining that the song was inspired by that feeling of self-sacrifice that came with trying to make her career take off, Hill explained what she hopes the song will mean to listeners.
“I do think that grind is something a lot of people are struggling with, especially in this cost of living crisis. People are pushing themselves to the limit in fear that they aren’t going to be able to feed their family, keep the lights on or support themselves,” she said. “A lot of us feel trodden on, and we accept it.”
“There’s a lot of that on the album,” she added, going on to say that there is a song called ‘Daddy Range Rover’ that also tackles the same topic. “That song is about the ‘Wetherspoons Whitney’ thing because how fucking dare [Whitehall] punch down.”
