RISING STAR ALESSI ROSE SPILLS HER GUTS ON HER HEARTBROKEN NEW SINGLE “FUN”
Rising pop singer/songwriter Alessi Rose returns with the devastatingly vulnerable breakup song “Fun”. Over a breezy synth line to match the ultimately ironic title, Alessi digs deep and spills her guts across the track, blowing up her heartache to a scale worthy of the massive festival stages she was seen playing all summer long.
“Fun” finds Alessi exploring the other side of the romantic yearning she’s so often expressed across her catalog of sensitive pop. While the palette stays soaring and irrepressible — full of glittering production care of frequent collaborator Josh Scarbrow (Arlo Parks, Olivia Dean) — Alessi sings of the insecurities and pain that remain after a relationship disintegrates. “You were a stable room in a crumbling house,” she sings. “Now everything around me has turned to dust.” She looks back, hurt, at all the reassurances she once received and musters a devastatingly pointed question: “When did I stop being fun to you?”
Says Alessi, “‘Fun’ is about the anger and frustration and regret that comes from letting someone know you intimately and intensely, only to become strangers again when it goes bad. it’s the way in which your own view of yourself becomes distorted when all of your flaws and misgivings that you displayed to that person unabashedly then become the very thing that drives them away.”
The new track is the latest demonstration of Alessi’s gift for making the personal feel universal, and connecting by being unafraid to unearth her heaviest emotions. In July, she shared “Dependent,” also produced and co-written by Scarbrow, which detailed the toxicity of a doomed relationship. Before that came “Skin,” unveiling Alessi’s 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 “Skin” one of her “most potent” songs to date and described it as a “personal exorcism.”
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 landing 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 her breakout EP’s original 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 truly revealed Alessi’s singular talent for turning her messiest feelings into stadium-sized anthems. With its gorgeous collision of sticky-sweet melodies and razor-sharp lyrics, the EP launched 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.”
This summer, Alessi undertook a huge UK/EU festival slate that included 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. Billboard has called her live show “superstar-cementing,” and this run proved once again how comfortable she is commanding a crowd. In all its angst and anxiety, “Fun,” is built for an ascendent star aiming for new heights — it is emotion fit for the biggest stage.
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