In an era where pop music can sometimes feel like a jumble of frantic studio sessions and 15-second hooks designed for the algorithm, girli is opting for something radically different: a soul. Her upcoming third album, it’s just my opinion (dropping May 8th via Believe Music), marks a pivot from the high-gloss production of her past toward something grittier, more grounded, and deeply human.
For the first time in her career, girli approached this record as a fully realized body of work from the outset, rather than assembling it piece by piece. “I set about to write an album, which I'd never done before,” she explains. “When you're a pop artist… you kind of end up writing songs with loads of different people and in loads of different places, and you patchwork an album together… whereas with this, I wanted it to be different.” After wrapping the Matriarchy tour at the end of 2024, she gave herself something rare: time. “I had the whole of 2025 just to make this album… I made it with less people in concentrated bursts of time in LA and London.”
That shift in process bleeds into everything. The album feels tighter, more intentional, and thematically cohesive—anchored in the realities of girli’s life rather than the chaos of a touring schedule. “The inspiration was everything that was going on in my life and everything I was feeling,” she says, pointing to themes that range from “queerness and feminism to family dynamics,” as well as the more internal unraveling that comes with your 20s: “Analysing how I feel about myself and my life, and how entrapping being in your 20s can be, and how entrapping being a woman can be.”
Despite the emotional weight, the creative process itself came with an unexpected ease. “This album was a delight to make so creatively, it didn't feel challenging, it felt right and freeing and fun.” But like most artists, the real struggle came from within. “The biggest one… is just self doubt… trying to believe in myself and believe in what I was making was difficult.” That feeling didn’t disappear once the album was finished either. “I had to face another hurdle of doubting myself… wondering, is this good enough to share, and are people going to like it?”
That tension—confidence versus doubt, freedom versus fear—sits at the heart of It’s Just My Opinion. It’s an album that doesn’t pretend to have the answers, but instead documents the process of working through them in real time.
Fans have already gotten a rare window into that process. girli documented the making of the album through a series of vlogs, capturing everything from early ideas to studio sessions. “It was really fun to document the creative process,” she says, noting that one of the biggest sonic surprises came from bringing in live instrumentation. “Having live drums on the tracks and getting to bring in some amazing players to do that” adds a new layer of immediacy to her sound—less polished, more lived-in.
That rawness carries through the tracklist. The album opener, “Blue Sky,” sets the tone with what girli describes as “a whimsical, running naked through a field, freeing, hectic kind of song about wanting to throw your phone in the bin and run away from all of modern life's complications.” Elsewhere, she dives into more personal territory with “Don’t Make Me Cry,” exploring “heartbreak being inherited through family and the impact of a lineage of divorces”—a subject she admits she’s “never really written about… before.”
At its core, though, It’s Just My Opinion is about connection. “I hope listeners feel like, huh, wow, this girl really gets me!” she says. “I hope that they can feel seen and heard and like all the confusing things that they feel… are felt acutely by me too.”
Even the album title reflects that push and pull between expression and dismissal. What initially reads as a throwaway phrase is actually loaded with meaning. After releasing one of the album’s earlier singles, girli found herself on the receiving end of relentless backlash. “I was opening my phone every day to this cacophony of bullshit in my comments,” she says, much of it justified with the same phrase: it’s just my opinion.
Instead of backing down, she leaned in. “I wanted to spin that on its head and be like, well, this is just my opinion. Here's an album full of songs by a queer feminist woman.” But there’s a second, more insidious layer to it too: “When you're a woman, when you're a minority, your opinion is dismissed. Like, ‘oh, it's just her opinion.’… it doesn't matter.”
That dual meaning becomes the thesis of the album—both a defense and a challenge. A refusal to be quiet, and a recognition of how often voices like hers are minimized.
As for what’s next, girli isn’t slowing down. “I’m releasing my album. I’m touring North America again… I’m vying for a chart position in the UK… putting myself out there every day on TikTok because that’s what it’s all about now.” And in true girli fashion, she’s doing it without overthinking the optics: “Cringe is just a concept. I’m more in people’s face than ever.”
If her past work carved out space in alt-pop for bold, boundary-pushing storytelling, It’s Just My Opinion feels like her stepping fully into it—unfiltered, self-aware, and entirely on her own terms.
it’s just my opinion arrives May 8th, keep an eye out for it! Catch girli on tour across North America this June.
