Tiny Raisin

Album: Loveland (2026)
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Songfacts®:

  • Suki Waterhouse's third studio album and major-label debut, Loveland (2026), explores the range of emotions the British songstress feels as a first-time mother. The upbeat third single, "Tiny Raisin," finds her soaking in a bathtub until she's shriveled up like a raisin, contemplating her love for her partner (actor Robert Pattinson), even though he doesn't always do everything right.

    "I was marding [complaining] a bit on this record and kind of getting my grievances out, but in a kind of cheeky way that feels true to me as a person," she told Billboard in 2026.
  • Waterhouse wrote "Tiny Raisin" with Gabe Simon, who also produced Noah Kahan's breakout 2022 Stick Season album, along with Steph Jones (Sabrina Carpenter's "Espresso") and Carrie K (Kahan's "No Complaints"). According to Simon, Waterhouse showed up to the session exhausted and teary-eyed after being on the road with her baby, but the songwriters rallied around her and the cheeky postpartum anthem flowed out.

    "And then Steph Jones and Carrie walk in, and we're all like, 'Let's just have a blast,'" he told the Off The Record podcast in 2026. "And she was just dancing and singing about this tune, about 'That's My Man.' All the things that she loves about her partner and all the things that drive her crazy about her partner, and it's the truth that I think all of us can resonate with. But we wanted this pace, and this energy and this baseline, and it just was silly."
  • The song title came from a conversation Waterhouse and Jones had about men and their inability to take care of details like making dinner reservations.

    "I can lie in the bathtub and be raisined like, 'Have you booked anywhere yet?'' Waterhouse joked to Variety in 2026.

    The complaint is referenced in the first verse, when Waterhouse is questioning her partner's lack of forethought as she soaks in the tub. "Where's the flowers? Where's the champagne? Where's the reservation?," she laments. But then she has a change of heart in the chorus and remembers how lucky she is to have him. "That's my man, hot damn," she brags.
  • Waterhouse told Billboard the song borrows sonic influences from Britpop acts like Oasis, whom she saw live in concert the previous year, and the "kind of spacey, psych-rock feel" of David Bowie's music.

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