FLETCHER Shares New Album — Would You Still Love Me If You Really Knew Me? — Today
MULTI-PLATINUM, ACCLAIMED QUEER SINGER/SONGWRITER RELEASES NEW SINGLE “HI, EVERYONE LEAVE PLEASE" — LISTEN HERE & WATCH THE VIDEO HERE
July 18, 2025 — (Hollywood, CA) Today marks the highly anticipated release of Would You Still Love Me If You Really Knew Me?, the third studio album from critically acclaimed Queer singer/songwriter FLETCHER. Out now via Capitol Records, the multi-platinum-selling hitmaker’s latest LP arrives as she shares her new single “Hi, Everyone Leave Please” — a brutally honest track that’s equal parts confessional outpouring and self-reclamation. Go HERE to stream/download Would You Still Love Me If You Really Knew Me?, listen to “Hi, Everyone Leave Please” HERE, and view the official video, HERE directed by Birthplace, comprised of Pfion Vince and Madison Phipps.
Both produced and executive-produced by FLETCHER and GRAMMY®Award-winning producer/songwriter Jennifer Decilveo, Would You Still Love Me If You Really Knew Me? is the most emotionally daring offering yet from FLETCHER. As she opens up about a period of intense personal reflection, the Asbury Park-born artist matches her most incisive songwriting to date with a raw and stripped-back sound rooted in her force-of-nature vocal work.
Co-written and produced by FLETCHER and Decilveo, “Hi, Everyone Leave Please” centers on a chameleonic vocal performance from FLETCHER. At the chorus, FLETCHER delivers a plea for peaceful solitude, shifting into a tender fragility that’s brilliantly contrasted by the track’s fuzzed-out guitar riffs. Built on a hard-hitting arrangement of live drums, bass, guitar, and synths, the track ultimately achieves a profoundly cathartic impact, morphing into a soaring anthem that boldly states her needs: “Hi, everyone leave please/I need a moment to say/Bye to who I’ve been/Hi to who I’m next.”
FLETCHER shares, “‘Hi, Everyone Leave Please’ is a song that has been living inside of me for a long time.
It is plea for freedom. For space. For myself. It’s me finally saying out loud the things I’ve carried: the tension I feel about competition, the frustration of the constantly moving goal posts, the sadness of the never-enoughness, the weight of the inescapable burnout. The core of how I’ve always grappled with the pains of being an artist in the music industry.
I’ve had this dream of being a massive pop star since I was a little girl. But somewhere along the way, the thing that once lit me up started to dim me. This song is the moment I finally gave myself permission to say, maybe this dream doesn’t fit me anymore.
I’ve stood close enough to the top of the mountain to see what’s up there. And for me? It isn’t what I thought it was going to be.
Music is so sacred to me. It has saved my life time and time again. And that is what I’m fighting to preserve. My love for it. Along with my physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being.
Much like the album title, this song started as something addressed to everyone looking at me. But it ends being addressed to only one person. The girl looking at me from the other side of the glass. Can I have a moment to myself? What if I jump off the pedestal? Will I hear my own thoughts without the noise of everyone else’s opinions, projections, dissections, and expectations? And if the dream I’ve had my whole life, that everyone rallied around me to make come true, doesn’t feel good anymore, is that okay? Can I let that be okay?
It is a record full of questions, for myself, for family and friends, for fans, for the industry, for the world. It captures that fine line I’ve always struggled with of desperately wanting to be seen and loved by everyone but also my deepest desire to know myself out of the spotlight and off of the stage.
I’m not all of who I once was, and I’m not yet who I’m becoming. I’m somewhere in the in-between. That’s where this song lives. Where this whole album does, really. In the liminal, blurry space of letting go and making room for new dreams I don’t even have the words for yet.
This entire album is about that feeling. And this song is the seed it grew from. It’s the permission slip to let go, to evolve. Even when the stakes seem like they couldn’t be higher and there’s everything to lose. But when you’re standing at the fork in the road of either losing yourself or losing everything else? I’ll choose the latter every time.
I’m ineffably grateful for this journey. For both the love and resistance I have received over the years. There isn’t a moment of it I would undo. I hope this record keeps you company like the way it has for me, and meets you where you are. That it serves as a reminder of your own bravery and that it is okay to protect your peace. And to continue finding yourself on the other side of all the noise.
Forever Cari, Forever Fletcher”
Once again revealing FLETCHER’s commitment to absolute authenticity in her artistry, “Hi, Everyone Leave Please” arrives on the heels of her recent single “Boy” — a gorgeous introduction to the unvarnished emotion of Would You Still Love Me If You Really Knew Me? After premiering last month, the bittersweet ballad earned praise from the likes of Rolling Stone, who named the track one of their “Songs You Need to Know.”
Although a potent sense of abandon has always defined FLETCHER’s work, Would You Still Love Me... embodies a more unrestrained energy than ever before, largely due to the pure catharsis of songs like “Congratulations!” “‘Congratulations!’ came from contemplating the idea of not receiving the applause anymore and allowing myself to be curious about what that would feel like.” On “Don’t Tempt Me…,” FLETCHER presents a strangely glorious twist on the classic heartbreak ballad. “It’s a song about me questioning my purpose, within the context of the very toxic relationship between me and the music industry. Should I stay or should I go,” she says. “I wanted to try to capture all the nuance of that relationship, which has been the greatest journey of my life but also one that I started to lose myself in.”
Would You Still Love Me If You Really Knew Me? is FLETCHER’s first studio album since In Search Of The Antidote: an early-2024 release that debuted at No. 3 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart and won raves from major publications like Rolling Stone (“FLETCHER has established herself as one of pop’s most versatile stars,”), The Line of Best Fit (“proves that nobody does heartbreak anthems quite like FLETCHER”), and Clash (“each track on this album is ridiculously strong in its own right. Much like the artist behind them”). After completing the In Search of The Antidote Tour — a massive global headline run with sold-out stops at historic venues like New York City’s Radio City Music Hall and the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles— FLETCHER released the 21-song double LP THE ANTIDOTE: FLETCHER LIVE. With her catalog also including you ruined new york city for me (a 2019 EP featuring her platinum-certified breakthrough smash “Undrunk”) and THE S(EX) TAPES (a 2020 EP that shot to No. 1 on iTunes across all genres), FLETCHER made her full-length debut with 2022’s critically lauded Girl Of My Dreams (a No. 15 debut on the Billboard 200, featuring her iconic hit “Becky’s So Hot”). To date, FLETCHER’s music has amassed over 2.5 billion streams worldwide.
Tracklist for Would You Still Love Me If You Really Knew Me?
SIDE A
1. Party
2. Hi, Everyone Leave Please
3. Don’t Tempt Me…
4. The Arsonist
5. Boy
6. Chaos
SIDE B
7. D i s t a n c e
8. Good Girl / Gone Girl
9. All of the Women
10. Congratulations!
11. Would You Still Love Me?
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About FLETCHER
One of the most vital Queer voices in pop, FLETCHER is a one-of-a-kind artist fiercely devoted to fully expressing her truth. After exploding onto the scene with her platinum-certified breakthrough smash “Undrunk” (a Billboard Hot 100 hit that reached No. 1 on Spotify’s Viral Chart), FLETCHER went on to build an ardent global following thanks to her unbridled storytelling, unapologetic presence, and endlessly thrilling live show. Praised by leading outlets like Rolling Stone, TIME, Interview Magazine, and more, the acclaimed singer-songwriter hails from Asbury Park, New Jersey, where she cultivated her passion for music and unforgettably candid storytelling. With over 2.5 billion streams to date, her catalog includes powerhouse EPS like 2019’s you ruined new york city for me and 2020’s THE S(EX) TAPES (a deeply intimate project that shot to No. 1 on iTunes across all genres and featured her Platinum hit single “Bitter”). Released in 2022, FLECHER’s acclaimed debut album Girl Of My Dreams delivered the smash single “Becky’s So Hot” which earned raves from NYLON, Billboard, Vulture, and more; landed on Billboard’s Hot Rock and Alternative Songs chart; and garnered nominations from the MTV Video Music Awards and MTV Europe Music Awards. In support of the LP, FLETCHER performed on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.” As she cemented her status as a cultural force, FLETCHER won the 2023 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Music Artist and founded her own “FLETCHER & Friends” festival in Asbury Park in addition to launching the hugely popular Meet Her At The Bar: Pride Month Experience (a series of pop-ups in support of women-owned Queer bars across America). On her 2024 sophomore album In Search Of The Antidote (a No. 3 entry on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart), she doubled down on her music’s soul-searching honesty and quickly drew praise from top publications like Them, The Line of Best Fit, and Rolling Stone (who stated that “FLETCHER has established herself as one of pop’s most versatile stars. She can pen a heartbreak ballad or craft a raucous dance hit and have tens of thousands sing the words back at her”). After embarking on the In Search of The Antidote Tour — a blockbuster global headline run featuring sold-out dates at famed venues like Radio City Music Hall in New York City and the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, as well as stops in major cities across the U.S., Europe, Australia, and New Zealand — she released the 21-song double album THE ANTIDOTE: FLETCHER LIVE. Continuing her commitment to constant evolution in her artistry, FLETCHER’s third album Would You Still Love Me If You Really Knew Me? is out now via Capitol Records.
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