July 2, 2025, MERE RITZ, the throwback-to-the-future alt-pop provocateur known for spinning emotional mayhem into glitter-doused anthems tears through the midweek haze with her latest dispatch, “Hump Day.” Dropping today, the track is a delightfully batshit trip down post-breakup whiplash, where retribution, honesty, and retro glamour intersect.
“Hump Day” is a Freudian alt-pop fever dream, a funhouse of emotion draped in sparkling vocals, scalding guitars and nagging hooks. MERE RITZ reveals violent feelings for an ex with a theatrical wink and never quite retreats into despair or surrender. Instead, she plows herself straight through the muck, spinning empowerment from chaos like nobody else can. The track begins with dreamy vocals floating over polished alt-pop production. But don’t get too comfortable, the frustration that bubbles under the surface boils over into a scorched-earth guitar distortion some few minutes in that chews through the track like pent-up anger cut loose. This tension between sweetness and savagery is what gives “Hump Day” its electric bite. The metaphor is sassy but apt, this song is about getting over the speed bump of a toxic ex and leaving them in the dust, not gently, but with the tires squealing. Whether you’re crawling toward healing or speeding past regret, “Hump Day” challenges you to floor it and claim the wreckage.
This isn’t MERE RITZ’s first rodeo. Her previous single, “Rodeo Clown,” spread like a wildfire amongst tastemakers and tastemakers in the making, earning a coveted place on Grimy Goods’ best new music roundup among songs by Clairo and Lykke Li. On “Hump Day,” she doubles down on her ethos, celestial-sugar pop for earthly messes, swaddled in Y2K memories and future-proof flair.