Messy

Album: F1 The Album (2025)
Charted: 100 109
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Songfacts®:

  • "Messy" is a sultry pop ballad from the soundtrack of F1, a film in which Brad Pitt plays a retired racing legend mentoring a young driver, Damson Idris, through the twists and turns of competitive motorsport and (inevitably) the human condition.
  • The song is about love - not the tidy, Hallmark Channel variety, but the sort that's full of late-night arguments and is ablaze with passion. "Maybe if it's messy... then you know it's really love," Rosé sings.
  • Rosé co-wrote the song with Cleo Tighe (Clean Bandit's "Real Love," Calvin Harris' Lovers In A Past Life"), Delacey (Halsey's "Without Me," Dove Cameron's "Boyfriend"), Matthew James Burns (known as BURNS), (Lady Gaga's "Rain On Me" and "Sour Candy") and Peter Rycroft (known as Lostboy) (Tom Grennan's "Remind Me," Kylie Minogue's "Padam Padam").
  • BURNS and Lostboy produced the track, crafting a piano-driven anthem that is both intimate and cinematic.
  • The Colin Tilley-directed video weaves together footage from the F1 movie with shots of Rosé gliding through luxurious locations. We even see her sipping a martini in the bar where parts of the film were shot.

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