Thea Gustafsson — who writes, records, and produces under the moniker Becky and the Birds — is a disciplined person by nature, with her formal musical education at Musikmakarna Songwriters Academy of Sweden and avid violin-playing as a child inspiring her unending need for perfectionism. This rigid mindset deeply implanted itself in her craft and her life, though she refreshingly doesn’t see the point in holding herself to these standards as of late.