The Celebrity Traitor’s Bash Croft drops new heartbreak single Good Light
Bash Croft’s single ‘Good Light’. (Jon Laytner)
Singer-songwriter Bash Croft, also known as Heartstopper‘s Sebastian Croft, has released a catchy new single, “Good Light”.
The 24-year-old is currently starring in the second season of The Celebrity Traitors. While he’s on the TV hunting for Traitors, he’s just dropped his fourth single, with his debut EP “The Great Forever” on the horizon.
The pop boy began releasing music independently in 2025. “Good Light” is a melodically reflective musing on losing a lover and craving them back one last time.
He sings: “I want your body on my body / Take whatever I can get / I know it’s over but right now / Oh, I ain’t over it yet.”
In the indie-pop song, he voices that the relationship is over. Yet, he can’t help but romanticise time with his partner.
‘In short it’s about sleeping with your ex’
Speaking on the track, Bash notes: “’Good Light’ is a song about nostalgia. Not just sonically nostalgic for some of the 2000s songs I love, but thematically it’s about romanticising nostalgia for someone, holding onto the past and wanting to relive something that no longer exists.
“In short it’s about sleeping with your ex. (Do not try this at home, Bash takes no responsibility if this song makes you want to romanticise someone from your past).”
The song follows “Pretty People,” another track that reflects on heartbreak. Croft has previously used his songwriting to express his queerness. In his track “Tokyo”, he references a whirlwind queer romance while in the south of France.
Croft has also used his platform for activism. He co-created the “Queer Was Always Here” initiative with fellow actor Connor Jessup in 2023.
“Queer Was Always Here is a community dedicated to queer lives, queer art and queer history,” the organisation’s website reads. “We work in partnership with Choose Love to secure futures for LGBTQIA+ refugees and displaced people around the world.”
Croft is currently appearing on the popular BBC show The Celebrity Traitors alongside several other LGBTQ+ stars. They also include comedian Joe Lycett, as well as The Last of Us star Bella Ramsey and Industry’s Myha’la, who have been eliminated.
Speaking about his music career, Croft told Dork: “Seeing the effect that someone like Harry Styles had when he wore nail polish or wore pearls, straight men started doing it. It proved to me that with culture and pop culture, the reason that queer people have always felt so connected to it is that it pushes the boundaries of what’s allowed.
“I also think queer music has been put in a genre of ‘queer music’. I don’t want to make queer music, I want to make pop music which is from a queer perspective, and the difference being a lot of the queer identity which is in culture is specific parts that are completely unique to being queer.
“A lot of my experience is all the same things that everyone feels. Queer people also fall in love, have heartbreaks, feel lonely, feel jealous, and I just feel there are things that aren’t being said that I want to say and that feel important.”
“Good Light” is out now. Bash Croft’s debut EP ‘The Great Forever’ does not yet have a release date.
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