Songfacts®:

• "Animal" is Katseye's invitation to let your wild side out. It's a song about being bold and unapologetically uninhibited, even if that's not how you usually act in day-to-day life. Throughout the track, the group sees right through their partner's polished exterior, uncovering a more instinctive, hungry, and energetic self that only emerges behind closed doors. Most of us have that side. Some people just have better publicists.
• Ed Sheeran co-wrote the song with his frequent songwriting partner Johnny McDaid, along with producers Blake Slatkin and Omer Fedi. Slatkin and Fedi previously worked together on Katseye's 2024 single "Touch."
  
  Sheeran's presence helped steer "Animal" toward a more grounded, radio-friendly pop construction, rather than the hyperactive, algorithm-conscious approach heard on tracks such as "Gnarly," "Internet Girl" and "Pinky Up." It's pop designed to be catchy rather than to make you wonder whether your phone has developed a software fault.
• The music video takes the song's public-versus-private theme and turns it into a surreal playground of surveillance rooms, mirrored identities, shifting characters and stylized confrontations. Katseye move through a world where nobody seems entirely sure who is watching whom, which is generally how surveillance works when you add pop stars and mirrors.
  
  Demi Moore cameos as an authority figure who encourages Katseye to abandon restraint and embrace their more liberated side. Her command, "Alright, let's get wild," serves as the video's turning point, effectively giving the group permission to stop behaving themselves. From there, the carefully controlled personas give way to the full force of the "animal" within.
• Ed Sheeran became an instant Eyekon after hearing "Gnarly" while traveling in Mexico in 2025. Impressed by what he heard, Sheeran reached out to the group himself, hoping to work together. The connection eventually led to "Animal."
• Katseye first met Ed Sheeran in France at the NRJ Music Awards, a well-known French pop-culture award show. He told them he had written a song for them, laying the groundwork for "Animal."