Alessi Rose – Dependent
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.
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.
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).
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.”
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.
Alessi Rose Live Dates
^supporting Lewis Capaldi
*supporting Lorde
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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