Cara Delevingne has dropped her first two songs as a major-label artist via Warner Records. The tracks, I Forgot and Out of My Head, show little restraint. I Forgot moves between stripped-down balladry and hyperpop distortion so wild you can practically feel it rattling your speakers. Delevingne recorded it with producer BJ Burton (who's worked with Charli XCX and Bon Iver), and the whole thing is designed to feel like her real self breaking through the polished, carefully curated version the world has known for years.
"There was this thing of wanting it to feel like the real me was breaking through the phone," she tells Rolling Stone.
These songs are deeply personal. They process her sobriety, which she achieved around 2022. She describes the rawness of living life "exposed and unmedicated" for the first time, that arid vulnerability that comes when you can't numb yourself anymore. "You realize you're not invincible," she says.
Fiona Apple is involved. The legendary indie icon not only appears on Delevingne's upcoming debut album (dropping late summer on Warner), but she co-wrote the club-ready track Need It with her. The pair traded lyrics on Post-it notes like teenagers in a study hall.
Delevingne's been singing and writing her whole life (she even appeared on Apple's Fetch the Bolt Cutters years ago), but she always knew her moment would come later. "There was this part of me that always thought I was gonna do it," she explains. "I just knew I was going to be a bit older and have that experience under my belt."
The debut drops this summer. A six-month tour kicks off in June — and some dates are already sold out.
