Ariana Grande Is Sorry You’re So Into Her on ‘Hate That I Made You Love Me’

It’s the first taste of the star’s eighth studio album Petal

Ariana Grande has released “Hate That I Made You Love Me,” the first single from her upcoming album Petal. The song was produced by her long-time collaborator Ilya alongside Max Martin.

The buoyant pop song sees Grande reflecting on a lost love who may have had stronger feelings for her than she did for them. “Hate that I made you love me,” she croons over a shimmering, ambient instrumental backdrop. “Sorry if I made me your type/ Yeah, I hate that I made you love me/ ‘Cause I barely tried.”

An official music video for “Hate That I Made You Love Me,” directed by Christian Breslauer, will premiere on Monday, June 1 at 8 a.m. PST.

Beyond the lead single, not much is currently known about Grande’s eighth album Petal, except that it was executive produced and co-written by Grande and Ilya. Before its reveal, the singer joked that she would need “an extra brain and four more arms” to release another album. Upon the LP’s announcement, she described the record as “a little feral.”

“It was kind of about breaking up with all different kinds of negative attachments — whether it’s my own monsters in my own head, external voices, things that no longer serve me,” she said. “It was a writing experiment for me to use that as a template so that I could be talking about one thing and sharing something, and people could use it however they want and apply it to their own lives.”