Music: girli Strips Back the Layers: Alt-Pop Artist Confronts Post-Breakup Chaos and Emotional Intimacy in 'Better Undressed'

girli (Milly Toomey) is a fearless alt-pop artist known for her bold, boundary-pushing storytelling. Her sound is highly distinctive, often veering between PC Music, bubblegum pop, pop punk, and rap, creating a style that is both catchy and deliberately discomforting. Much of her work is dedicated to important cultural discourse, focusing heavily on themes like feminism, sexuality, queer culture, and mental health. She graduated from early EP projects like Ex Talk and Damsel in Distress to release her sophomore album, Matriarchy, in 2024. girli has been very open about her personal struggles, revealing she faced a crisis of identity after her last tour, feeling freaked out by external expectations for her career. As an openly queer artist, she continuously links her personal journey to larger social issues, earning a passionate and tight-knit fanbase.

"Better Undressed" is a brand-new single that signals a "creative innovation" and a new, uncompromisingly bold era for girli following her album Matriarchy. While playfully dealing with the topic of hooking up with an ex, the song digs deeper than the surface. The lyrics explore the messy, sad, and vulnerable side of post-breakup entanglement. The core theme is the "aching sense of longing to regain emotional intimacy, not just physical".

girli directly addresses the painful realization that former partners become strangers once "all the clothes are back on", admitting, "I only want to know you in a way where I undress you". The song perfectly balances girli's natural humor with raw vulnerability. The single also manifests a production shift, stripping back her previous high-gloss sound to reveal a grainier, grittier underlayer. The track is not confirmed to be part of a new album yet, though girli has teased a new album drop coming in early 2026.

Band Page: https://www.instagram.com/girlimusic/