Songfacts®:

• "Hemingway" chronicles a harrowing stretch in Girl In Red's life, touching on alcoholism, benzodiazepine addiction, depression, and the emotional wreckage that came with them. Over melancholic synths and a gently building arrangement, Girl In Red sings:
  
  You better give up this act you don't know how to play
  And come back down before it's too late
  
  It's the kind of line that sounds like it's meant for someone else until you realize it's aimed squarely in the mirror.
• Girl In Red released "Hemingway" as a single on May 20, 2025. Just before she dropped it, she said:
  
  "Last year I ended up in a really bad place with addiction, eating disorder and depression that almost killed me. On Friday I'm releasing a song called Hemingway and it tells a part of that story."
• God damn, baby, you drink like Hemingway
  But your writing's no good and your songs all sound the same
  
  As well as writing a few of the 20th century's finest novels, Ernest Hemingway was also famously drunk for a good portion of his life, ultimately dying by suicide. The reference here works double-duty: it critiques the tired trope of the tortured, alcoholic genius while addressing Girl In Red's doubts about her own creative output and sense of worth.
• Girl In Red co-wrote the track with Matias Tellez, a Norwegian-Chilean producer who's also worked with Aurora and Maisie Peters.
• Isak Jenssen directed the music video, shooting it in stark blues and greys. Jensen also filmed Girl In Red's video for "I'm Back" from her 2024 album I'm Doing It Again Baby!.