Ariana Grande has revealed the first single from her forthcoming album Petal, announcing on Friday that “Hate That I Made You Love Me” will arrive on May 29. The news comes more than a week after she unveiled the album’s artwork and release date, and marks the opening salvo for Grande’s eighth studio record, due July 31.
Grande shared the single announcement on Instagram alongside two black-and-white portraits that mirror the Petal album imagery. “One of my favorite songs i’ll ever write produced by my favorite collaborators and dearest human beings in the world, the brilliant [Ilya Salmanzadeh], the one and only max martin (and me) i simply cannot wait for it to be yours,” she wrote, naming longtime collaborators Ilya Salmanzadeh and Max Martin as producers on the track. The single’s credits underscore the team behind Petal, which the singer has said was made with several of her regular creative partners.
Petal will contain 12 tracks and is being produced by Grande together with Max Martin, ILYA and Peter Lee Johnson. The album will be released on Grande’s BabyDoll Music imprint through Republic Records. Grande first announced Petal on April 28, sharing a short teaser titled “Petal in the Pavement” and the July 31 release date — a campaign that included the monochrome visuals fans have since associated with the project.
In an Instagram reel describing the new record, Grande framed Petal as an expression of growth and boundary-setting. “It’s called ‘Petal,’ basically about something that is full of life, growing through the cracks of something cold, hard and challenging. It’s kind of about breaking up with all different kinds of negative attachments — whether it’s my own monsters in my own head, external voices and things that no longer serve me,” she said, adding that the album is “a little feral as well” and comes from a place she had previously been “too shy or polite to tap into.” The singer punctuated that sentiment with a defiant “f**k it,” underscoring a more candid creative stance.
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The Petal title has appeared in Grande’s public life before: she used a flower-as-growth metaphor in a March Vogue Italy cover story and even referenced the name earlier this year when promoting a lip gloss called Petal for her R.E.M. Beauty brand. Those echoes suggest the album’s theme of continued personal transformation has been developing publicly over the past year.
Ahead of Petal’s release, Grande will hit the road. She begins the Eternal Sunshine tour on June 6, embarking on roughly two months of dates across North America before closing with a run of 10 shows at London’s O2 Arena. The upcoming trek is her first major tour in seven years and arrives as fans anticipate how the new material will translate to the stage.
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“Hate That I Made You Love Me” will be the first official taste of the Petal era when it drops on May 29, setting the stage for what Grande describes as a more unguarded chapter in her music. Pre-orders and further promotional details around the album and single were released when Petal was first announced, and fans have been watching Grande’s social feed in recent weeks for additional previews and artwork.
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