At its core, ‘my band hates u!’ is more than a breakup anthem – it also shines a light on the people that support us through our toughest times and remind us to pick ourselves up and feel empowered to bounce back. This sarcastic girl-boss track embraces the full scope of emotions inherent to heartbreak; Jat processes everything from anger, to longing, to her most vulnerable hurt-feelings while coming to terms with the fact that not everyone we’re attracted to is actually good for us. Listeners can expect a sound similar to tracks from artists like Olivia Rodrigo, Maggie Lindemann, and Dylan on ‘my band hates u!’

When Jat started the writing process for the single, she thought of it more as a joke than a serious project to be released in the future. Jat has an especially close relationship with her bandmates who have become more like the protective older brothers she’s never had, and after confiding to them about her situation, they all made it clear how much they disliked the guy that was mistreating her. In the days following, Jat found herself humming what would be the chorus to this song during a bus ride; it ended up becoming so much more than the casually dreamt up, cheeky concept she believed it to be at the time. She collaborated with producer James McMillan to bring the song to life after developing the initial idea. This track goes out to anyone who knows what it feels like to be let down by someone you should’ve never allowed to have so much power over you in the first place. Jat hopes listeners feel empowered to laugh, cry, and scream-sing this single in spite of anyone who has taken them for granted.

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‘Faking Parties,’ at its core, reflects the initial anxiety of developing a crush and the unhinged lengths we can be willing to go to in effort to procrastinate expressing our true feelings when it’s too soon to tell if they’ll feel the same way. Jat’s full-bodied vocals cut through the gritty pop-punk soundscapes on ‘Faking Parties’ with an energetic brightness characteristic of music from artists like Maggie Lindemann, Olivia Rodrigo, and Avril Lavigne.

‘Faking Parties’ reflects an endearing experience for Jat in which she actually faked being at a party to someone she was crushing on, and had her friends work with her to set the scene and sell the white lie. They joked that she should write a song about the experience, none of them thinking she’d follow through with the track listeners can hear now.

Inspiration for the song actually first struck Jat while she was humming in the shower; she had the hook in her head, and found herself having written a pre-chorus and chorus within 15 minutes. That initial excitement for ‘Faking Parties’ – a lighthearted, humorous, autobiographical recount of a chaotic moment – seemed to fade by the time she was in the studio with her producer. Having worked on a few other tracks the day she introduced the concept to Grammy-nominated producer James McMillan (AKA quietmoney), she kept ‘Faking Parties’ in her back pocket because she wasn’t sure if it was good enough to develop. Once they started working on the demo, the two irrefutably maximized this track’s potential and ended up falling in love with the final product. For Jat, she hopes listeners take away that “it’s ok and totally normal to fall hopelessly in love or act a little unhinged because you really like someone; laughing about it with your friends is a lot better (and more fun) than beating yourself up about it.”

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