Alessi Rose – Skin
Today, breakout pop artist Alessi Rose teases her next era with the new single “Skin,” out now via Capitol Records.
The track arrives as she gets ready to embark on a massive festival season, and shows off her gift for delivering sharp introspection with a voice as big and dynamic as her anthemic pop.
The first release since the November Deluxe edition of Alessi’s acclaimed Voyeur EP, “Skin” may be her most vulnerable song yet, capturing the pain and confusion of losing yourself while trying to please others. Produced and co-written by Adam Yaron (Alex Warren), it opens on taut piano and her crystal-clear vocals before sweeping up driving acoustic guitar, glowing synths, and drums that pop like fireworks. “Think I’m back in the emptiness, wearing somebody else’s skin / Still I try to be whatever you desire,” sings Alessi. “Now they’re turning on all the lights, who am I without a disguise? / I look at me and don’t even recognize her.” Despite describing such a low feeling, though, her performance and the music give a continuous sense of building toward a breakthrough.
Said Alessi on the origins of “Skin,” “This song was written in a period that felt very different for me I have been lucky enough to be locked away in the studio burrowing into the many feelings I have simmering under the surface, many of them remnants of a crazy last year, and I hadn’t realized how much of my OCD-ridden brain was so dependent on the validation of others — people telling me I was doing good and it was all going to be okay. ‘Skin’ was the realization that the more you try to be everything that everyone else wants, the less you feel like yourself. Sometimes my skin feels uncomfortable, but I’m learning to exist in it honestly anyway.”
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, 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) , PAPER, V Magazine and more. NME, featured Alessi on the cover and proclaimed, “pop’s most brutally honest newcomer is on an unstoppable rise.”
After a knockout Glastonbury debut last year that Billboard hailed as “superstar-cementing,” Alessi is now preparing for an extended festival run that includes Radio 1’s Big Weekend, Isle of Wight Festival, Lollapalooza Berlin, Pukkelpop, and many more — plus a pair of concerts at BST Hyde Park in July and opening for Lorde at Edinburgh’s Highland Showgrounds in August.
Alessi Rose Live Dates
^supporting Lewis Capaldi
*supporting Lorde
May 23 – Warrington, UK @ Neighbourhood Weekender
May 24 – Sunderland, UK @ Radio 1’s Big Weekend
May 29 – Warsaw, Poland @ Orange Festival
Jun 13 – Hradec Kralove, Czechia @ Rock For People Festival
Jun 20 – Landgraaf, Netherlands @ Pinkpop Festival
Jun 19 – Newport, UK @ Isle of Wight Festival
Jun 25 – Odense, Denmark @ Tinderbox Festival
Jun 27 – Paris, France @ Solidays Festival
Jul 9 – Tønsberg, Norway @ Slottsfjell Festival
Jul 11 – Lisbon, Portugal @ NOS Alive Festival
Jul 12 – London, UK @ BST Hyde Park ^
Jul 19 – Berlin, Germany @ Lollapalooza Berlin Festival
Jul 24 – Southwold, United Kingdom @ Latitude Festival
Aug 8 – Newquay, United Kingdom @ Boardmasters
Aug 13 – Gothenburg, Sweden @ Way Out West Festival
Aug 14 – Hamburg, Germany @ MS Dockville Festival
Aug 21 – Hasselt, Belgium @ Pukkelpop Festival
Aug 25 – Edinburgh, United Kingdom @ Highland Showgrounds*
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