Songfacts®:

• "Material Lover" is Sienna Spiro's glossy-but-grounded contribution to the soundtrack of The Devil Wears Prada 2. Written specifically for the film, the song explores the uneasy truce between material pleasure and craving genuine human connection. Rather than apologizing for appreciating luxury and beauty, Spiro reclaims the label "material lover" as a badge of honor, arguing that aesthetic appreciation and emotional depth are not mutually exclusive.
• The title is a play on the phrase "material girl" - a familiar cultural shorthand for someone obsessed with wealth and possessions - but Spiro reframes it as something more nuanced: a person who loves real, tangible, human-made things.
  
  "One of the themes of the film is that the magazine stops getting printed as much because everything's digital and everything's on social media," Spiro explained to Philippine Star. "And I really relate to that. I'm 20. That's kind of my generation - all online. And I really care about real things and I really care about things made by humans and things you can touch."
  
  She added that the song was partly a response to the idea that "materialistic" is automatically an insult: "I'd way rather be materialistic than be fake and have something made by robots."
• Sienna Spiro co-wrote the track alongside:
  
  American songwriter and record producer Michael Pollack, who has penned songs for Maroon 5, Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, and Ed Sheeran, among many others. He scored his first US Top 40 radio #1 with Maroon 5's "Memories" (2020), followed by Justin Bieber's "Ghost" (2022) and Miley Cyrus' "Flowers" (2023), which also reached #1 on the Hot 100.
  
  Israeli record producer, songwriter, and musician Omar Fedi. After relocating to Los Angeles at age 16, he became one of the most acclaimed producers of his generation, co-writing 24kGoldn's "Mood," The Kid Laroi's "Stay" and Lil Nas X's "MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name)"), all of which reached #1 on the Hot 100.
  
  Pollack and Fedi had already collaborated with Spiro on "Die On This Hill" and "The Visitor," helping establish the cinematic, emotionally direct sound that runs through her work.
• Omer Fedi played guitar and bass on the track. The other musicians are:
  
  Lemar Carter: drums
  Dylan Day: guitar
  Benny Bock: keyboards
  Julien Knowles: trumpet
  Daniel Rotem: saxophone
  Ido Meshulam: trombone
  
  Spiro noted that her music is "done by real musicians - everything's played by people pretty much all in the room and all live," with all her vocal takes being one takes.
• The video, co-directed by Spiro and Ivy Tellin, was filmed at Electric Lady Studios, the legendary Greenwich Village studio founded by Jimi Hendrix in 1970. Spiro wanders from the studio into the streets of New York, surrounded by glamour yet rooted in tangible reality, which neatly mirrors the song's central argument that authenticity and style are not enemies.
• The Devil Wears Prada 2 is a sequel to the 2006 original and was directed by David Frankel, with Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci, Justin Theroux, Lucy Liu, and Kenneth Branagh reprising or joining the cast. "Material Lover" is Spiro's first song to appear in a movie.