Have you ever dealt with someone who acts like you should be writing thank-you notes just for being in their orbit? The kind of guy who ghosts without explanation then has the audacity to act wounded when you finally call them out? Julia Kate knows exactly what that looks like, and “Be Nice Princess” is her lighting the match on that whole dynamic. This is guitars-blazing, drums-pounding, fuck-your-superiority-complex rock.
The 20-year-old Sherman Oaks songwriter—yeah, she’s a valley girl, get over it—currently studies at Berklee when she’s not tearing up LA venues like The Troubadour. She opens with questioning why it’s me doing all the calling / before I realized it was me you were ignoring. That lightbulb moment we’ve all had. When you finally stop making excuses for someone’s shitty behavior and see it for what it is. You’re doing all the work while they can’t even bother to text back.
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Julia paints the whole scene: traffic lights, city bites, dinners end at midnight / people stare, like they care, it’s all a show don’t cry about it. Everything with people like this is performance. You’re supposed to look happy while they treat you like you’re lucky they showed up. YAY! Then comes the line that shows just how deep the dis went: they all said I wasn’t a good singer anyway. The casual cruelty people throw around when they never valued you in the first place. That comment that sticks because it reveals the truth about how little you meant to them.
The chorus is where Julia takes all that hurt and turns it into rage. You broke my heart in a different kind of way / waves rushed in, hit every type of pain—she’s acknowledging the mess of it. The complexity. Then comes the part where she’s still trying to make sense of it: don’t know what I did to you / it’s killing me / is it hard to see / are you too good for me now? That question lands hard because we’ve all asked it. What did I do wrong? The answer is usually nothing—they just decided you weren’t worth basic respect.
Then: acting like you’re the royalty of the town / on your high horse you need to be knocked down. Be nice, princess / you will be on your own now. She’s talking directly to her ex here, calling them “princess”—the one who thought they were too special to treat her with basic decency. The sarcasm is vicious. You will end up alone somehow.
The production matches every ounce of that rage. Guitars that slash, drums that demand you move. Julia’s voice cuts through with zero polish, zero filter. This has that Phoebe Bridgers and Olivia Rodrigo emotional honesty. The kind of track that makes you want to drive too fast with your windows down, middle finger up.
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By the time she’s demanding so take a bow, remove your crown / I know you never cared ’bout me now, you’re fully riding shotgun on this revenge mission. She’s stripping away the fantasy they built around themselves. Blocked me on everything, you only care about diamond rings—calling out the shallow, materialistic bullshit that masquerades as substance. Some people care more about their image than actual connection, and Julia’s done pretending that’s acceptable.
What makes “Be Nice Princess” hit is the refusal to beg for scraps. Julia’s making sure everyone knows who the villain was before they get to rewrite the story. She’s been working with producer Johnny What and musical director Nick Rosen since high school, building her sound through her “just a kid” EP in 2022 and “yearbook” in 2023. This track shows all that work coming together.
So the next time someone ghosts you then acts wounded when you call them out? That person who made you question what you did wrong when the answer was nothing? Julia Kate already wrote your response. People who act like royalty without earning it end up exactly where this song predicts—alone, wondering why nobody stuck around to worship at their feet.
