MUNA search for connection over validation on bold new single ‘So What’

MUNA have shared a captivating new single called ‘So What’, which sees them prioritise connection over validation.

The track is the latest to be shared from their forthcoming album ‘Dancing On The Wall’, which is out on May 8 via Saddest Factory Records/Secretly Group. Pre-order it here.

It sees them lean into an epic yet understated feel. “The party, the premiere
The opening, I get invited/ The black dress, the necklace/ MM6, it’s all included,” frontwoman Katie Gavin sings amid a growing beat. “And there’s a lot of people here tonight/ With their best shoes on drinking for free/ There’s a lot of people here tonight/And most of them would want to go home with me”.

“We’re at the point in our career where we’ve been to a lot of fancy parties in beautiful rooms with important people and we know the particular sadness of realising it doesn’t make you feel better,” the band shared.

“We’ve learned the hard way that validation is hollow and we actually just want connection. This is a song about going to one of those parties and leaving worse off than when we got there.”

Already the LA trio’s fourth studio album has been previewed by the title track, ‘Dancing On The Wall’, which came out last month and was described by the band as “the best parts of MUNA – coming from a really emotional and lonely place, but the song itself makes us feel powerful and euphoric”.

As for the album as a whole, the long awaited follow-up to MUNA’s 2022 self-titled third album is set to see the band lean into a heightened sense of emotional intensity, and strike a balance between euphoria and unease.

It is produced by the band’s own Naomi McPherson, and aspires to be a record that “sits comfortably in tension”.

To celebrate their return, MUNA will play a series of intimate underplay shows in LA, New York and London this May. Check out a list of dates below and find any remaining tickets here.

MUNA’s 2026 live dates are:

MAY
08 – The Shrine, LA
16 – Music Hall Of Williamsburg, NYC
17 – Music Hall Of Williamsburg, NYC
18 – Music Hall Of Williamsburg, NYC
26 – Heaven, London
27 – Heaven, London
28 – Heaven, London

In the time since MUNA’s last album, singer Katie Gavin has released a debut solo album, titled ‘What A Relief’, which arrived in 2024. McPherson has also made an acting debut in the biographical comedy film about SNL that year, titled Saturday Night.

Their 2022 record marked their first as an independent act, after signing to Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory Records the previous year.

During a Cover interview with NME, the band spoke about being dropped by major label RCA for “not making enough money”. They said it was “easier in certain ways” to work with an independent label, and that they now had a “lot of creative freedom”.