Earning widespread attention for its biting honesty and razor-sharp writing, Healing Out Of Spite was born from the wreckage of a last-minute Vegas wedding cancellation and the fallout that followed. ‘Joyride’ captures what came next – a full-throttle plunge into the chaos of wanting someone you know might ruin you all over again.

Written in what CATTY calls “pure panic,” ‘Joyride’ is part love song, part breakdown, part surrender – capturing the emotional freefall that follows a year of holding everything back. Messy, theatrical and emotionally unfiltered, ‘Joyride’ surges with baroque keys, stabbing strings, and spiralling brass – setting the stage for CATTY’s powerhouse vocal.

On the release of ‘Joyride’, CATTY said: “Everything I write is unfortunately a little too true to life. I was in the studio with Nathan and Juliette (the co-writers) and I was telling them about this girl I’d met in the smoking area of a gig but I’d sworn off love for 14 months, hadn’t even kissed anyone in a bar. I was done – love had chewed me up and spat me out but I couldn’t stay away from her. So I tried what I think is called a situationship for all of two weeks (what the fuck is a situationship?) – I hated it. I’ve never been casual about anything and I would have followed her into the depths of hell. So Joyride is basically me saying, I’m all in, please don’t hurt me.”

Navigating emotional whiplash in real time, CATTY cycles through self-doubt (“Here next to you I throw it all away / Watching my dignity circle the drain”), fatalism (“I don’t even care if I get out alive”), and blind hope (“Am I the one? Before the one that stays?”) – all set to a rush of pop-rock drama.

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