Welsh pop saviour CATTY drops her new single 4am (Back in His Bed) today – 5th September 2025. The latest taste of a new project landing this autumn, following her previous singles Joyride and Prized Possession. A late-night confessional wrapped in shimmering synths and slow-burn drama, the track sees CATTY veering into darker, MUNA-esque territory. There are flashes of Florence Welch’s emotional sweep and even echoes of Miley’s Wrecking Ball in its push-pull of power and fragility, but CATTY’s voice makes it unmistakably her own. Pulling from her queer identity, messy crushes and a lifelong Stevie Nicks obsession (amen, sister), the Welsh singer crafts pop songs that feel very intimate. She’s already opened for Stevie Nicks and supported Dylan and Beth McCarthy on tour, so she’s no stranger to big stages. If you like your heartbreak loud and your pop unapologetic, she’s one to watch. We caught up with CATTY to talk all things life and music – and yes, we asked about Amy Spalding’s cameo in her Joyride video (obvs).
“I wrote 4am about being someone’s little play thing while she figured out if she liked her boyfriend or not. I’ve since realised this may be bit of a lesbian right of passage. Why have so many of us experienced this? And why does it make us feel good about ourselves to hear “I don’t like women but I like you.” It made me feel ten feet tall before it made me feel like the smallest person in the world. I’ve worked on my self esteem a lot since this happened but I still feel sad that I was ok with only being wanted sometimes – I never want to be that person again. It is actually such a sad song if you ignore the lyric “eating me out when you’ve got food at home” which is hilarious.”
Tell us a bit about yourself. How did you get into music?
I’ve always been really, really shy, but I was on holiday with my parents when I was about 13 and I really wanted to do karaoke. I’d never sung before, and it was so out of character that my parents were super reluctant to let me do it – I would literally cry if I was the centre of attention, I hated it so much. But I begged and begged them to put my name down until they finally gave in, and I sang Mariah Carey’s ‘Hero.’ Big tune. I never looked back after that. We’d recently lost my grandad too, and my grandma was completely at a loss, so it kind of just became this project that we worked on together. I would sing in bars, she would come with me and tell everyone she was my manager.
Talk us through the inspiration behind your new single 4am (Back in His Bed)
There was a period in my life where I felt a bit like an experiment. I didn’t really have a lot of lesbian friends, but I would often find myself in the smoking area with someone who said they weren’t gay but had feelings for m,e and I fell for it every time. Ate it up. Then my co-writers, Nathan Juliette and I birthed the “eating me out when you’ve got food at home” lyric and ran with it.
What is your coming-out story? Sorry, but everyone loves a coming out story
It was a bit like that whack-a-rabbit game at an arcade. Everyone could see me try to come out of that damn hole, but I kept going back in again because I didn’t like anyone’s reaction, so I probably ended up coming out a bunch of times. The most memorable is the day I finally had enough, my parents came to visit me in London, and they said “show us where you go out” so I took them to Freedom Bar in Soho, gave them two drinks each and told them I was a lesbian. They weren’t surprised in the slightest. I think they were just grateful they hit the rabbit, we were all getting tired of the game and watching me wince every time anyone asked if I had a boyfriend. The next day became less about my sexuality and more about how hungover we were.
If you could use a magic telephone to call yourself at 15 years old, what would you say?
I know school is hard for you, but stop skipping it. And stop trying to make the boys like you, you don’t like them either.
What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever been given?
Stop trying to be good! As soon as you get on stage and try to be good, you’re out of the moment. Be in the moment. Think less.
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What do you think of the Queer Scene? Where do you go out?
I don’t actually go out that much, I’ve recently learned when to go home I think and I’m grateful for that. You’ll find me in a beer garden in East London or at my friends’ shows.
Who’s your celebrity crush and why?
Aubrey Plaza. I love dry humour, and I love a bit. I feel like she’s great at that.
Amy Spalding features in your music video for Joyride. How did this come about, and was it fun to shoot?
She has this magnetic force to her that I was drawn to the second I met her. She kissed me at a party, and I ended up writing the song about her, so it made sense that we would star in it together. It was so fun to shoot, but it was also very difficult to write, produce, style, organise and put it all together as an independent artist, but she makes everything feel like it can be done.
When can people see you next performing, and where?
I’m going to Europe to play for the first time! We have a few shows in Germany at Reeperbahn and a little more on UK soil before the end of the year that I can’t quite tell you about yet, but operation get-CATTY-more-shows is a go. I need artists to let me open for them.
Thanks for chatting with us, CATTY. Check out her music here.
Nonchalant x
This article was written by one of our creative team writers here at Nonchalant Magazine.
