Dazed and Confused Magazine

Tube Girl

“I was just trying to get my foot in the door and now all these doors are open”

No one enjoys the London Underground, not really, it's a sprawling network of grimy carriages, humid air and zero phone service – built to take you from point A to B and nothing more. But Sabrina Bahsoon, known to millions on TikTok as ‘Tube Girl’, is here to romanticise the commute. Standing in the tube car, she dances and lip-syncs to hot-girl anthems like “Greedy” by Tate McRae or Ayesha Erotica's “Yummy”, while her phone camera, capturing herself in wide-angle 0,5x zoom, darts around in every direction. Bahsoon's videos crystallise the conflicting feelings of being in your 20s and shake them off with a body roll. “Hyping myself for a date knowing I'd rather be at home rotting in bed,” one caption reads. “When you were gonna stay in but remembered you'll never be this young and hot again,” says another.

The tube belongs to Sabrina. The platform is her catwalk, the carriage is her stage. The open windows between cars are Bahsoon's personal wind machine, blowing her long dark locks out for maximum glamour. It's a sort of unspoken rule that drawing attention to yourself is

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