Alessia Cara shares tender ‘(Isn’t It) Obvious’ and announces new album ‘Love & Hyperbole’

Alessia Cara has shared new single ‘(Isn’t It) Obvious’ and announced her upcoming album ‘Love & Hyperbole’.

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Her fourth full-length album, which she told fans on Instagram is her “best work to date”, arrives on February 14, 2025, and you can pre-order and pre-save it here.

The new track, which features a guitar solo from John Mayer, follows the release of ‘Dead Man’, and sees her touch on long distance relationships, with her singing: “I see it on your face and on your mind / You see the cracks in the ice / Without my hand to hold / I’m the first to know / You’re gripping on the waist of other times.”

“If ‘Dead Man’ is about emotional distance, then ‘(Isn’t It) Obvious’ is about being physically apart from someone but reminding them how much you love them,” said Cara in a press release.

“As I was coming up with the lyrics I was pulling a lot of inspiration from singer/songwriters like John Mayer, so it’s mind-blowing to me that he ended up actually playing on the song.”

Ahead of the release of her third album ‘In The Meantime’, Cara appeared in NME‘s In Conversation series, and touched on dealing with the pressure that came with her breakout success as well as writing songs with Salaam Remi – the producer who worked with her musical hero Amy Winehouse.

“[The success of debut single ‘Here’] gave me a soapbox that I hadn’t intended to stand on – it was like, ‘Oh, now I’m like speaking for all the introverts in the world,’ which is wonderful,” she said. “But then I find that I’ve grown into myself and I’m not so much of an introvert anymore, and I feel like I still have to speak for that group of people.”

In a four-star review of her third offering, NME shared: “In the Meantime’ also feels cohesive because a painful break-up is clearly a recurring theme. ‘I’m not even yours any more, but I deserve an award for getting over you – call the Academy,’ Cara sings deliciously on ‘Drama Queen’, a tropical bop that recalls Alicia Keys‘ brilliant ‘In Common’.