Ariana Grande has released the official music video for “Hate That I Made You Love Me,” the first single from her forthcoming album Petal, due July 31 on Republic Records. The clip was directed by Christian Breslauer, who was at the helm of last year’s “Brighter Days Ahead,” a short film scored to music from the singer’s 2024 album Eternal Sunshine.
Shot by Academy Award winner Janusz Kamiński, best known for his collaborations with Steven Spielberg, “Hate That I Made You Love Me” opens with co-star Justin Long burying Grande in an underground bunker (an ostensible nod to the lyric “flowers from a tomb”) filled with stacks of black-and-white composition notebooks marked with her “insecurities.” Naturally, she haunts him, causing a fiery car crash, and pursues him until he starts to slowly lose his mind.
Co-written and produced by Grande, Ilya, and Max Martin, the song itself has garnered mixed reviews, with Vulture calling it “one of her worst.” In contrast to 2024’s house-inflected “Yes, And?,” the lead single from Eternal Sunshine, the track is an understated slice of synth-pop, its bubbly production seemingly designed more for Instagram reels than Top 40 radio, but it’s a grower that’s certain to garner heavy rotation through the summer.
Watch the video for “Hate That I Made You Love Me” below:
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