Terrified

It’s terrifying to write about love as someone who’s grown up with extreme behaviors in relationships that would always send me on an emotional rush. The lyrics explain the anxiety of a relationship having no end point and thinking, ‘Oh my god, this might work out.’ I wanted to capture that feeling that I’m finally safe

Jazmin Bean on "Terrified"

This article is about the Traumatic Livelihood single. To see alternate articles, check out the tour or it's intro.

Terrified
Single artwork
Song by
General Information
Title	Terrified
Released	October 13, 2023
Genre	Pop
From	Traumatic Livelihood
Type	Single
B-Side	Piggie • Favourite Toy
Length	3:06 9:66 • 3 tracks (Spotify track list)
Format	Digital download • streaming
Credits
Artist	Jazmin Bean
Writer(s)	Bean • Matt Schwartz
Producer(s)	Schwartz
Label	Aswang Birthday Cake • Island Records • Interscope Records • Universal Music Group
Single chronology
"Favourite Toy" (2023)
"Terrified" (2023)
"Hellhound" (2023)
"Terrified" track list
N/A
Terrified
Favourite Toy
You Know What You’ve Done artwork
Song by
General Information
Title	Terrified
Released	January 19, 2024
Genre	Pop
Type	B-Side
A-Side	You Know What You’ve Done
Length	3:06
Format	Digital download • streaming
Credits
Artist	Jazmin Bean
Writer(s)	Bean • Matt Schwartz
Producer(s)	Schwartz
Label	Aswang Birthday Cake • Island Records • Interscope Records • Universal Music Group
"You Know What You’ve Done" track list
You Know What You’ve Done
Terrified
Favourite Toy
Album artwork
Song by
General Information
Title	Terrified
Released	February 23, 2024
Genre	Pop
From	Traumatic Livelihood
Type	Single
Length	3:06
Format	Digital download • streaming • CD • vinyl
Credits
Artist	Jazmin Bean
Writer(s)	Bean • Matt Schwartz
Producer(s)	Schwartz
Label	Aswang Birthday Cake • Island Records • Interscope Records • Universal Music Group
Traumatic Livelihood track list
Favourite Toy
Terrified
Is This It

"Terrified" is a song by Jazmin Bean. It was released on October 13, 2023, as the the third single from their debut studio album, Traumatic Livelihood, and is the fourth track on the album.

Background

On March 18, 2023, Bean posted a snippet of the song via TikTok. Later on September 11, Bean shared a new snippet of the song again on TikTok where they also revealed the title. They later revealed that their record labels told them to do this, along with with wanting to post another snippet of the song after posting one in their Discord server.

On October 1, 2023, Bean shared a post via Instagram teasing the song and music video with the caption "Something coming very 🔜 ⭐️"

On October 3, 2023, Bean shared a snippet of the video and song along with its release date and pre-save link. Once the song was pre-saved, the page redirected to another featuring an image of a flower field where you were instructed to find all the stars for a surprise. One of the surprises was a snippet of the song, performed live at their show in Paris, France, on September 27, 2023. Another surprise was a snippet of the music video.

Track list

"Piggie" and "Favourite Toy" were released as B-sides to the song in it's single release on Spotify. On the track list all songs are explicit.

Key	🅴 indicates the song is explicit.

Key	🅴 indicates the song is explicit.

Spotify track list
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	Terrified 🅴	Bean • Matt Schwartz	Schwartz	3:06
2.	Favourite Toy 🅴	Bean • Shcwartz	Schwartz	3:02
3.	Piggie 🅴	Bean • John Feldman • Travis Barker	Feldman • Barker	2:58

Official versions

▶	Version	Released on	Date	Length
	Final	Single • Traumatic Livelihood	October 13, 2023	3:06
	Clean	Single • Traumatic Livelihood	October 13, 2023	3:06
Demos
	"Terrified WIP" (unknown demo)	Unreleased (demo for Traumatic Livelihood)	December 25, 2024 (leaked)	3:12
	"Terrified (2)" (unknown demo)	Unreleased (demo for Traumatic Livelihood)	December 25, 2024 (leaked)	3:12
	"Terrified" (unknown demo)	Unreleased (demo for Traumatic Livelihood)	December 25, 2024 (leaked)	3:10
	"Terrified Pass REF Level" (pre-release mix)	Unreleased (demo for Traumatic Livelihood)	December 25, 2024 (leaked)	3:10

Official videos

• Music Video

Video	Information
	Title	{{{title}}}
	Premiere	October 13, 2023
	Length	3:06
	Filmed	October 1, 2023
	Location	UK
	Director	Zak Watson • Jazmin Bean
	Producer	Nahal Ashfari
	Production Company	Time Storm Productions
	Executive Producer	Jake Willis

Gallery

To view the gallery for Terrified, click here.

To view the gallery for Terrified, click here.

Trivia

• Bean considers the only fully happy song on Traumatic Livelihood.
• The song likely inspired the title of Bean's first tour, The Terrified Tour.
• The song and "You Know What You’ve Done" use the standard Traumatic Livelihood opposed to having their own single artworks, as they were released after the album cover was revealed.
• Many other songs from the Traumatic Livelihood use star symbolism being "Favourite Toy", "The Blood Brings Colour and Fluoresce", and "No More Lucky Stars".