Sophia Stel – Bitches Talk Sh*t
Fresh off the announcement that she’ll be opening for Lorde at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles next month, Vancouver artist and producer Sophia Stel has just shared her new single “Bitches Talk Sh*t”.
An anthemic, self-produced track rooted in candid one-liners (“Cause you’re a rock star, you should have a lot of money/Course I am a pop star, but I’m still very up and coming”) and an upbeat, house party-ready refrain (“Bitches talk shit they don’t know shit about”), the song is also accompanied by a new music video Stel shot with some of her best friends during a celebratory night in at the apartment she shares with her two brothers in Vancouver. “Bitches Talk Shit” stamps her first single with A24 Music and arrives amidst her ongoing headline tour, which includes 22 stops across North America and Europe.
2026 Tour – Upcoming Dates:
04/23 – Fabric – London, GB
04/25 – King Tut’s – Glasgow, GB
04/26 – The White Hotel – Manchester, GB
05/01 – Elsewhere – New York, NY
05/02 – Ukie Club – Philadelphia, PA
05/03 – DC9 – Washington, DC
05/04 – Purgatory at Masquerade – Atlanta, GA
05/06 – Empty Bottle – Chicago, IL
05/08 – Lost Lake – Denver, CO
05/09 – Brick & Mortar – San Francisco, CA
05/28 – Lodge Room – Los Angeles, CA
05/30 – Barboza – Seattle, WA
06/04 – Club Dada – Dallas, TX
06/05 – 29th Street Ballroom – Austin, TX
06/06 – White Oak Music Hall – Houston, TX
The song comes on the heels of a banner run of months that has seen Stel make her runway debut at Ann Demeulemeester’s Paris Fashion Week SS26 show, grace the covers of The Face and NME, and model spreads for Palace Skateboards and BASKETCASE following the release of her breakout EP, How to Win At Solitaire, the deluxe edition of which features collaborations with Mura Masa, Tommy Genesis, and Cecile Believe.
How to Win At Solitaire was produced, written, and recorded by Stel in a makeshift basement studio at Vancouver’s since shuttered Paradise, the DIY club she worked in at the time. Released in September, it served as her second project following her 2024 debut EP, Object Permanence. The 2025 deluxe edition featured sleeper hit “I’ll Take It”, which rapidly caught fire on TikTok — and earned her co-signs from Troye Sivan and Megan Skiendiel of KATSEYE. Hailing from the Pacific Northwest, she first cut her teeth within Vancouver’s local music scene, turning heads for her free-flowing prose, Y2K-indebted visuals, and mythos-tinted autobiography. Coupling lyricism inspired by her everyday life with patchwork aesthetics infused with the spontaneous, DIY ethos of homemade digicam videos.
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