By Alexandra Pullen
In the week leading up to the release of Suki Waterhouse’s comeback single, Back in Love, I had the melody trapped in my head purely from a short snippet shared on Instagram. On 16th March, the singer took to her page with a video captioned “embracing vulnerability…talking about being in love on main”. The said video included part of the song’s chorus, which has proven to be a complete earworm, and differs dramatically from the singer’s more melancholic and ethereal songs including To Love and Good Looking.
Her 2024 album Memoir of a Sparklemuffin, felt like a bridge for Waterhouse, a transitional period where she began leaning into what is expressed wholly on Back in Love. The freeing and fun feelings seen here can also be heard on the likes of My Fun and Supersad, but it could be said that her lyrics have never been so positive and care-free.
Written by Waterhouse, French songwriter Jules Apollinaire and previous collaborator Natalie Findlay – who has also worked with Blossoms and Remy Bond – the track has a grand and jubilant opening led by trumpets, with a mystical harp piercing through; very reminiscent of the start of a RAYE song. When Waterhouse’s transcendent vocals come in, they sound like honey, with harmonising melodies appearing on every other line.
“I’m loving my lust for life/Turing the dark to light/Happiness hits me when/I’m back in love again/Back to jazz on the radio/Back to beaches away we go/Taking the long way home/Back in love again”, she sings in the chorus. A joyful and blissful celebration of both love and life, Waterhouse seems absolutely smitten. This is also evidently portrayed through the single’s cover art and music video.
Designed and shot by Miles Aldridge, the cover visuals are absolutely inspired by, and show Waterhouse as being struck by Cupid’s arrows several times, emphasising the the thrilling euphoria of the track. This imagery is carried over to the music video, directed by Kaz Firpo and set in Loveland, where a live performance by Waterhouse is occurring. At the end of the video, the singer walks through a red door and into a bright sunlit place, perhaps suggesting the start of a new era in her musical career. Her third album would certainly be welcomed by fans, myself included.
Back in Love ends in a rhapsody of joy as Waterhouse exclaims “I’m back. I’m back. Back in love again.” Accompanied once more by trumpets, but also with a tambourine which adds heaviness to moments of the verses, she appears completely free. Suki Waterhouse has created – and I know this is a bold claim in April – a potential song of the summer for 2026. It is triumphant and uplifting for both listener and artist, and I cannot wait for what is to come.
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