Haim Are Ready For ‘Single Girl Summer’ in Latest Album Tease

You’ve already had your “hot girl summer,” so, naturally, it’s time for “single girl summer.” At least it is according to the caption on an Instagram post from Haim on Tuesday (April 1), in which the sister trio previewed another song from their upcoming fourth album. In the clip, the siblings chill out on a stoop as lead singer Danielle lip synchs along over the marching drum-like beat as blasé New Yorkers walk through frame without breaking stride.

“Renters’ rights, squatters’ rights/ I’ll be the gatekeeper for the rest of my life,” she sings along to the funky rhythm. “I don’t want your charity/ Spend a night in the cold if it keeps me free,” she adds. While the group only provided a 12-second preview of the song, the self-actualized nature of the lyrics are in keeping with the theme of the untitled album’s first single, “Relationships,” which delved into the hot-cold nature of affairs of the heart.

As if any other clues were needed that the new album might lean into the labor of love lost, the caption over the video reads: “this is your sign to leave him.”

At press time the trio also featuring drummer Alana and bassist Este Haim have not announced the title, or release date, of their upcoming album, the follow-up to 2020’s Women in Music Pt. III. In a recent interview in i.d. magazine, self-proclaimed “serial monogamist” Danielle said the new album is the first they’ve made without the involvement of her longtime boyfriend, producer Ariel Rechtshaid, and that she’s single for the first time since 2011. “Being single now, I’m just trying to embrace it, because I’m… I feel like I’m the age where I need to embrace it,” she said.

Alana said that the album is “the closest we’ve ever gotten to how we wanted to sound,” with Danielle diplomatically adding that working again with another longtime collaborator Rostam was “very quick, kinetic with him, which I really love as an artist… Maybe before, it wasn’t that way, it was kind of a more… longer, searching, labored situation.”

According to the article, the proof is in the meat of songs such as opening track “Gone,” described as a “blast of post-breakup energy that feels like one long, cathartic scream after years of pushing everything down thanks to lyrics such as: “You can hate me for what I am/ You can shame me for what I’ve done/ You can’t make me disappear/ You never saw me for what I was.” The track reportedly features an as-yet-uncleared sample from George Michael’s “Freedom ’90.” In a tribute to her love of Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter, Danielle said she was inspired by the samples on that album, noting, “It doesn’t feel ‘F–k you’ to me — it feels like… ‘I’m gonna do my thing.’”

Check out the new song preview below.