“I wrote ‘Dead End’ when I was sleeping with my ex and hoping for different results. But I knew we’d hit the end of the road. I always stay too long and get more hurt—don’t do what I do!”

Bassist Ciara King describes the track as “an ode to every single burnout episode that any creative has ever had. It’s important to break the fourth wall sometimes and say, ‘this is really hard, isn’t it? You can be exhausted and still love your craft. This one goes out to all our burnt out pals. Keep going.”

“It’s for my friends who carried me. It’s about being accepted as queer, non-binary, and neurodivergent — and loving without judgment.”

“‘sportscar’ is an interesting addition to the deluxe because spittake almost had a different identity. At one point, I considered naming the album Check Engine Light On. I didn’t realize how central the theme of cars was until after writing it.”

“This is the most emotional project I’ve ever made. It holds my new grief, my longing, and all the tiny moments that pulled me through.”

Described as a love letter never sent, Call Me is raw and intimate, built on airy vocals and minimal, dreamy production. Anchored by the haunting line, “maybe someday I’ll love and he won’t have your face,” the song captures the ache of lingering love and the quiet hope of moving on.

“I wrote it when I felt completely consumed by online pressures. There’s this constant stream of new insecurities being invented — it’s dark, but I wanted to reflect that in a tongue-in-cheek way people could connect with.”

“It had been so long since I’d felt that way. I romanticised everything — which I think is necessary to cope with the distance. We’re in different countries, speaking different languages, but we still share this bond.”

“I didn’t intend for something so intimate to become a song, but songs have a funny way of finding you and giving you language for the things you didn’t know you needed to name.”

“It’s about that moment when you’re not sure if your crush feels the same. You want to leave the party, but then they arrive, and suddenly you could stay all night.”

"These acoustic versions were the last three things I recorded on my Fostex 4-track tape machine before the transport broke irreparably. We put them on the Japanese release of my album You Are the Morning as bonus tracks. We were originally gonna use the actual demos that got me signed by Phoebe, but my voice has changed a lot since then and I wanted to redo them but in exactly the same way”

“Teenage Disillusionment is a pretty sensitive song. I’m in a good place now, and it felt like the right time to speak on my past. I’m passionate about advocating for kids who aren’t safe at home, and I want anyone who relates to the lyrics to know they’re not alone.”

“Everything I write is unfortunately a little too true to life. I’d met this girl in a smoking area, swore off love for 14 months, hadn’t kissed anyone—but couldn’t stay away. I tried a ‘situationship’ for two weeks (what even is that?). I hated it. I would’ve followed her into hell. Joyride is me saying, I’m all in, please don’t hurt me.”

Slick, sultry, and no longer decoding mixed signals, Ron Dadon is done with ambiguity. On her bold new single “Say It,” she confronts the men who can’t decide if they want real love—or just the illusion of it.