- 2026-02-27
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MUSIC
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Catie Turner Releases New Song “Hurt You Now”
American singer-songwriter Catie Turner released a new song “Hurt You Now” on February 11, 2026.
The song the third single, following “Shrinking Violet” and “Grow Out Of You” since the 2025 EP “Growing out of You”.
She dropped a music visualizer, directed by Rafaela Conde and Harry Waring, on February 26, 2026.
She wrote the song with piano for the first time.
The track is her first piano ballad, capturing a toxic relationship and realising she has no choice but to break up.
She co-wrote the song with producer Caroline Baker, aka carobae.
Catie Turner said of the song, “'Hurt You Now' was written about the hardest lesson of the human condition: sometimes you have to rip the bandaid off and leave someone you love if it means the both of you will get better. I had it happen to me before, and in retrospect I can see that it was an act of love; it's me hoping that the person that I have to leave will have the same understanding.”- Catie Turner told LUNA about the song, “I was broken up with and I hated it. I hated them so bad because why would you willingly put me through heartbreak? But then, through learning the lesson, I realised they had to break up with me because if they didn't, all this stuff wouldn't have happened, and I'm way better. That was the inspiration going into writing that song that day, just struggling with the fact that I was in a weird friendship situation.”
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She added, “I definitely wanted to lean into the ballad. I am from the era of 'Skinny Love' by Birdie and just the most gut-wrenching piano ballads, leaning against a window in the car, and I'm like, we have to channel that, because that is this song to a T. You want to run your hand down the window and be melancholic, so definitely had to lean into it and give it all the melodrama.” - source : Apple Music
