Single and music video out Thursday at 5pm. PDT / 8pm. EDT / Friday at 1am. BST. I assume the song and the music video are going to be released simultaneously.

New teaser.

So it is basically a Friday release then.

Another teaser.

Available now.

The wait was worth it. Her best single since "Never Really Over".

Bop. Love the direction she's going in for the album between this and "bandaids"! Can see this being a hit for Katy.

BOP

Is she still with Capitol Records?

This really is the best thing she’s done in years… I’ll be sad if it does nothing for her (likely at this point)

It's nice and definitely "return to her roots" as a pop star. Not sure if it's too similar to what she already did better in 2008-2013 though. I guess the charts will show what people think.

Definitely her best in years but it is similar to her first two eras as said above. I'll take it though. Hopefully it does well.

The AI slop music video not even being able to make a joke properly with 'read between the headlies'

It's alright. Slight bop, but overall pretty forgettable.

Not seen the video but the song is the best she has done in YEARS.

It’s not ai? It’s just CGI, like she’s been doing in her videos since … forever. The same director and producer as all of Ariana’s videos that used the same CGI producers too. Is “headlies” not intentional?

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I preferred Bandaids to this but her voice is just not very good to listen too and that’s where I struggle on this song it sounds like she’s struggling to hit the notes (what aren’t that hard to hit in the first place).

Whilst it's the best thing she's done since Never Really Over I still don't think this is that great sadly. It is alright though.

4 hours ago, 365 said:

It’s not ai? It’s just CGI, like she’s been doing in her videos since … forever. The same director and producer as all of Ariana’s videos that used the same CGI producers too. Is “headlies” not intentional?

There are signs that there could be AI element (we accept "Vista" instead of "Visa" and whatever MasterCard is supposed to say...)

But then there's "Slop" magazines practically dragging AI. So I'm leaning into "it's probably just CGI and the point is that is should look like AI and that AI will be the downfall of everything because it's hard to tell the difference". Idk?

Anyway, song is a banger. Best since 'Woman's World' (fight me x) or maybe even 'Never Really Over' for me, EASILY.

New Music playlists have done this SO dirty! It's so far down on Apple / Spotify.

I can see some of her other songs going viral and charting but for new music I think that ships sailed.

It's a shame as this is great.

26 minutes ago, Mr. C. Joel said:

New Music playlists have done this SO dirty! It's so far down on Apple / Spotify.

She’s just not a charts girlie anymore due to a lot of bad single choices in the past. But I feel like this single is a step in the right direction for goodwill.

It’s not perfect, I think the vocals are a bit phoned in, but the melodies are strong and production is solid. It’s by far better than anything on the last album for me anyway.

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