July 8, 2026 — (Hollywood, CA) Today, rising pop artist Alessi Rose shares the next taste of her new era with “Dependent.” Out now via Capitol Records, the deceptively breezy cut finds her inward-looking and utterly vulnerable, telling a story of desperate, all-consuming yearning. The song arrives in the midst of a busy festival season for Alessi, and shows the power of elevating intimate emotions to a mainstage-worthy scale. Listen to “Dependent” HERE and watch the visualizer HERE.
Over the last few years, Alessi has demonstrated a gift for making the personal feel universal — she connects with listeners by being unafraid to expose her psyche’s darkest parts. “Dependent” is the latest in this line of sensitive yet anthemic pop songs. Produced and co-written by Josh Scarbrow (Arlo Parks, Olivia Dean), the shimmering acoustic guitars and openhearted melodies provide emotional ballast for a song detailing the toxic thoughts swirling around a doomed relationship. The instrumentation is sprightly and light, which only magnifies the impact of Alessi’s gut-punch lyrics. “I know all the bars where you stay out late,” she sings. “Where all of your girls like to congregate / You told all of them that you’d never change but for me you think you would.” Defiant but wounded, it’s a relatable sentiment for anyone who’s been pulled back into a romantic situation they’d be better off leaving in the rearview.
Said Alessi, “When I love someone it often feels like it’s life or death; like one wrong move and everything comes crashing down as if they are the single domino holding up every little piece of my life, and to have them fall would be catastrophe. I wrote this song at a point where I felt like I needed to be acting against my dependence. I wanted to isolate from everyone that holds me up just to prove that I could do it and be as independent as possible just to say that I am, even if it directly opposed what I wanted and needed at that moment.”
The track follows on the heels of her May single “Skin,” Alessi’s first foray into a bold new direction, using bursting, rock-inflected pop to capture the pain and confusion of losing yourself while trying to please the people around you. Bravely exposed, but never shying away from her instincts for infectious melodies, the track won its share of critical acclaim — Clash called the track one of her “most potent” songs to date and described it as a “personal exorcism.” The visualizer brought out similar themes.
After a huge 2025 that saw her playing arenas and stadiums on both the North American leg of Tate McRae’s Miss Possessive Tour and the European run of Dua Lipa’s Radical Optimism Tour, Alessi entered this year with the wind at her back. She landed on BBC Radio 1’s Sound of 2026 Longlist, Shazam’s Fast Forward 2026 Artists, and Vevo DSCVR’s Artists to Watch 2026, where she sat for an interview and gave stunning live renditions of her singles “oh my” and “First Original Thought.” She was also named to the DIY Mag Class of 2026 in a feature which noted that following an impressive run of “witty and candid indie-pop bangers [Alessi is] writing the upbeat anthems that will take her career to the next level.”
Voyeur (Deluxe) captured that transition in real time, adding three “big, melodramatic pop songs,” as Alessi put it, to the original eight-song powerhouse tracklist. “First Original Thought” was one of those newcomers — a disco-leaning takedown penned by Alessi, GRAMMY® Award winner Blake Slatkin (Charli xcx, Tate McRae), and Amy Allen (the 2025 recipient of the GRAMMY® Award for Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical). Upon release, the cheeky single drew raves from the likes of Rolling Stone UK, who stated that the electrifying track should “push her further towards becoming a household name.”
Made with in-demand producers like Sam De Jong (Gracie Abrams, Lennon Stella), John Hill (Cage the Elephant, Carly Rae Jepsen), Sammy Witte (SZA, Halsey), and Couros (Dora Jar, Saya Gray), Voyeur spotlights Alessi’s singular talent for turning her messiest feelings into arena-sized anthems. With its gorgeous collision of sticky-sweet melodies and razor-sharp lyrics, the EP includes standouts like “Same Mouth,” “Everything Anything,” “That Could Be Me,” and “Dumb Girl.” Along with earning major praise from the likes of NPR’s All Songs Considered (who included the EP on their best new albums roundup) and DIY (“Alessi Rose has firmly secured her status as pop’s hottest new It-girl”), Voyeur scored Alessi the cover of NME, who proclaimed that, “pop’s most brutally honest newcomer is on an unstoppable rise.”
After a 2025 Glastonbury debut that Billboard called “superstar-cementing,” Alessi is now in the midst of an extended UK/EU festival run that still includes Latitude, Lollapalooza Berlin, Pukkelpop, and more — plus concerts opening for Lewis Capaldi at BST Hyde Park in July and Lorde at Edinburgh’s Highland Showgrounds in August. View Alessi’s full itinerary HERE. Intimate, yet irrepressible and unrestrained, “Dependent” feels tailor-made for fans to scream along to as she steps onto these massive stages.
