Ariana Grande has announced the first single from “Petal,” her forthcoming eighth studio album: It’s called “Hate That I Made You Love Me,” it’s out on May 29 and she described the song in an Instagram post announcing it as “One of my favorite songs that I’ll ever write.”
She added that it was “produced by my favorite collaborators and dearest human beings in the world, the brilliant Ilya and the one and only Max Martin (and me).” Ilya and Martin collaborated on her last album, “Eternal Sunshine.”
“I simply cannot wait for it to be yours,” she concluded.
“Petal,” executive produced and co-written by Grande and Ilya, is due July 31 via Republic Records.
In the album announcement, Grande described the album as, “Something that is full of life and growing through the cracks of something cold and hard and challenging.”
Ilya (whose full name is Ilya Salmanzadeh) is a Swedish-Persian producer who worked extensively with Martin, co-produced and co-wrote much of Grande’s 2024 album “Eternal Sunshine” and has clocked hits with Taylor Swift and Sam Smith, among many others.
The announcement arrived on the heels of her three years of work around the film “Wicked” and its sequel, as well as “Eternal Sunshine” and its 2025 deluxe edition.
While the tour was pegged to “Eternal Sunshine” when it was announced last year, it seems likely the new album will be a highlight of it. Grande said that the tour could be her last “for a long time.”
“The last 10 or 15 years will look very different to the ones that are coming up,” Grande said in an interview last year on Amy Poehler’s “Good Hang” podcast. “I don’t want to say anything definitive. I do know that I’m very excited to do this small tour, but I think it might not happen again for a long, long, long, long, long time. I’m going to give it my all and it’s going to be beautiful. I think that’s why I’m doing it because I’m like, ‘One last hurrah!’”
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