“If I say I’m trash, you can easily replace me,” says rapper as he requests a snappy collaboration
Ellie Goulding and Juice WRLD team up on the breezy new sadomasochistic track “Hate Me.” “Hate me, hate me/Tell me how much you hate me/Tell me I’m trash and you can easily replace me,” Juice WRLD sings over smoothly programmed drums and palm-muted guitar. “Tell me I smoke dope and I’m wasting my money every day/Maybe there’s no one around to numb my pain.”
Throughout, Goulding confronts her ex about romantic regret and paranoia: “I bet you wouldn’t close your eyes and kiss her/I bet you’re still walking on a tightrope,” she sings. “I miss you so much, you’re going crazy/You don’t have to say it, baby — I know.”
The pop singer touted the song’s “tongue-in-cheek” nature in a statement, acknowledging that “the lyrics are definitely different from most of my other songs, but it’s fun to play around with them a bit.”
Goulding has previously released videos for “Sixteen” and “Flux” and recently appeared on Good Morning America’s Summer Concert Series and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Juice WRLD’s sophomore album, Death Race for Love, was released in March and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. Goulding promoted the album with the video for “Hear Me Calling” and was interviewed for Rolling Stone’s “First Time” series in early June.
