Ella Mai is back with her first new music in a year-and-a-half.The Grammy-winning songstress shows another side on “DFMU (Don’t F**k Me Up”),” the first single from her long-awaited sophomore album. On the slow burner, produced by Mustard, Ella lets her guard down and allows herself to be vulnerable.Ella Mai Returns with New Single ‘DFMU’
“Don’t f**k me up, don’t let me down / You know I wanna be around,” she sings. “You tugging warring with my heart / Didn’t think it’d ever be so hard / Crazy I’m letting down my guard.”
This marks the first music from the multi-platinum singer since “Not Another Love Song,” which was released in October 2020.
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“This song in this process was very, very hard for me because it was like my life in real time,” she told Apple Music. “So it was almost a therapy session when I was in the session. But I think that’s the best way. All the people that I grew up listening to are always very, very honest. And I’ve always just appreciated honesty.”
Ella has been in the studio working on the follow-up to her self-titled 2018 debut, which will showcase a “new chapter.” “I’m growing up, I’m maturing, I’m turning into a new woman,” she told Billboard in 2019.
Watch the video for “DFMU” below.