Today, the Los Angeles-based artist and GRAMMY-nominated songwriter Cailin Russo announces DON’T, a new EP due out March 11. DON’T serves as Cailin’s first new music since the runaway success of her single “Bad Things,” which has seemingly taken up residence in Spotify’s Viral 50 Chart after it was featured during the climactic finale of HBO’s Heated Rivalry. This morning, Billboard praised Cailin’s “momentum into fresh, fearless music.”

She also shares a fresh track from the EP, “I Can’t Help You Now,” and just last week announced a tour hitting major North American cities, detailed below.

Listen to “I Can’t Help You Now” here, and presave DON’T here.

Built around a sultry downtempo pulse and hallucinatory flourishes reminiscent of Portishead or James Blake, “I Can’t Help You Now” is a balladic bloodletting. Cailin’s voice conveys a wounded but decisive sense of finality: “You f*cked yourself…. foolish thinking I’d forget you.” It’s artful and emotive, pop heartbreak refracted through abstract sonic topographies.

Watch the “I Can’t Help You Now” visualizer here

Of the track, Cailin says, “‘I Can’t Help You Now’ is a really universal experience about how we all reach our own breaking points and have to either remake our own mistakes or break the pattern and realize our worth. I’m not sure I’ve gotten there yet, but this experience is about self love, not ego.” 

With the influx of millions of new listeners (290% increase in total streams on Spotify, 279% increase on Apple, 1660% increase in Shazams, and millions of views on socials) appearances atop various charts (Spotify Viral 50, Billboard Emerging Artists, Shazam Most Viral), a grindr collab, and the attendant viral TikTok explanation, the surprise success of “Bad Things” has served as a table-setter for a year of artistic reinvention, as Cailin prepares to release new music throughout 2026.

This overdue notoriety is just the latest twist in an artistic career that has continually defied convention. Cailin’s own distinct projects — including her fiery debut House with a Pool and the restlessly inventive INFLUX — have allowed her to take her combination of pop futurism, and punk poise to top festivals (Lollapalooza, Reading & Leeds) and on tour with Shygirl and Madison Beer.

Her one-offs have had fascinating ripple effects: In 2025, her song “Triple It” became a TikTok sensation, with the likes of Julia Fox, Ellie Goulding, and Suki Waterhouse all posting videos of themselves singing along. In 2021, she grabbed a GRAMMY nomination as a co-writer on Kanye West and The Weeknd’s “Hurricane.”

Cailin was already on the radar of pop luminaries like Rosalía and Addison Rae, but with the explosion of interest around “Bad Things,” 2026 is looking like a level-up year for an artist whose marriage of pop sensibility, imperious attitude, and genre-fluid sonics is ready for the moment.