“Bloom Baby Bloom” is the first and lead single from UK rock band Wolf Alice’s fourth studio album, The Clearing, which was released on 22 August 2025. The single, accompanied by a music video, was teased on the band’s social media accounts for weeks before its eventual release on 15 May 2025.
[Verse 1]
Do I have to make you sit on your hands?
Fucking baby, baby man
Do you want me to show you who I am?
See this fire in my eyes, boy?
That's your flash in the pan
[Pre-Chorus]
Look at me trying to play it hard
My despair masked by a flawed façade
Look at me trying to play it hard
I'm so sick and tired of trying to play it hard
[Chorus]
But I'll bloom, baby, bloom
Watch me, yeah, you'll see just what I'm worth
Yes, I'll bloom, baby, bloom
Every flower needs to neighbour with the dirt
(Wow!)
(Cool)
[Verse 2]
Uh, I'm mad!
I start to think it's me who's been bad
But I'm no bottle in a paper bag
I just am who I am
(One, two, three, come on)
I know the dark things come out in the night
(Play it hard, play it, play it, play it hard)
(Play it, play it hard, play it, play it, play it hard)
But how many things in one go can you put on the line?
[Pre-Chorus]
Look at me trying to play it hard
I'm so sick and tired of trying to play it hard
[Chorus]
But I'll bloom, baby, bloom
Watch me, yeah, you'll see just what I'm worth
Yes, I'll bloom, baby, bloom
Every flower needs to neighbour with the dirt
[Bridge]
And if you knew me
You'd know that it would hurt
Feel like I won't flower in spoiled earth
[Chorus]
But I'll bloom, baby, bloom
Watch me, yeah, you'll see just what I'm worth
Yes, I'll bloom, baby, bloom
Every flower needs to neighbour with the dirt
Yes, I'll bloom, baby, bloom
Watch me, yeah, you'll see just what I'm worth
Oh, just breathe, baby, breathe
Every flower needs to grow up by the weeds
(Wow!)
Bloom Baby Bloom was written by Ellie Rowsell & Joel Amey & Joff Oddie & Theo Ellis.
Bloom Baby Bloom was produced by Greg Kurstin.
Wolf-alice released Bloom Baby Bloom on Thu May 15 2025.
Ellie Rowsell:
I wanted a rock song to focus on the performance element of a rock song and sing like Axl Rose, but to be singing a song about being a woman. I’ve used the guitar as a shield in the past, playing it has perhaps been some way to reject the ‘girl singer in band’ trope, but I wanted to...