In a statement talking about the song, Marcus Mumford said, "Everyone knows loss in one way or another. This song is about that. I'd never sat with anyone as they died before, and it had an effect on me. As it does everyone I know who has experienced it. But there's wildness and beauty in it as well, and a deep honoring, that became the beginnings of this song that we worked up called 'Beloved'. I feel determined for people to take whatever they want from it, and not to be emotionally prescriptive."[1]
A music video to accompany the release of "Beloved" was first released onto YouTube on 20 March 2019 at a total length of four minutes and fifty-one seconds.[4] The music video was filmed in Port Talbot, Wales and was directed by BAFTA nominated filmmaker Charlotte Regan. The video shows a boy and his mother who break free from a hospital, from which she's been she's been confined to. They wander the city in a dreamlike sequence playing simple games, riding horses and sharing a tender moment together before the mother passes away.[5]
^Spencer, Tallie (March 20, 2019). "Watch Mumford & Sons' Emotional New Music Video for 'Beloved'". Billboard. Retrieved February 7, 2023. The solemn, emotional ballad is the fourth track from the band's latest album, Delta, and is about letting a loved one know they just how loved they are before they leave.
^Westrom, Piper (November 19, 2018). "Album Review: Mumford & Sons search for evolution with 'Delta'". Riff Magazine. Retrieved February 7, 2023. That song, as well as others like "Beloved" are proof that Mumford & Sons will always retain a bit of who they were when they were getting started in London's underground Americana and folk scene.
