supermodel* drops new single ‘blue monday’
supermodel* is dropping his new shambolic alterna-pop single ‘blue monday’ out now on his own label you can do it too*. With regrettably relatable lyrics and a subtly sticky hook, the song is a tribute to chasing love that just isn’t meant to be — and another sad-boy-summer-ready bop from the genre-defying project founded by Los Angeles-based artist and producer Frankie Beanie.
The new tune arrives in the midst of supermodel*’s UK/EU tour, with a pair of British headliners behind him, and festival stops ahead of him including, among others, Paris’ Main Square, Madrid’s Mad Cool, Sweden’s Way Out West, and Belgium’s Pukkelpop. Frankie’s been posting short, doc-style recaps from stops along the way, including Czechia, London, and the Netherlands.
Written and produced by Frankie, ‘blue monday’ opens on upbeat drums and acoustic guitar as he lets out some slacker blues in his trademark cigarette-damaged rasp. He addresses a person who’s tying themselves in knots trying to please a disinterested lover, and bumming out their friends in the process. Over shimmering guitar and a sugar-sweet riff, he delivers the hook: “She’s over your head, and you can’t / Quite remember what she said, you see it / All on her face, walk through your place, still can’t get out the daze / Wasting away, you feel like… sh*t.”
“blue monday” follows the early June release of “adidas,” which Clash called “a deliciously dark post-breakup ode.” The single arrived alongside a striking single-shot music video directed by Frankie that caught him dancing out his feelings in a strobe-lit subway car.
Before that came “cherry garcia” which Travis Mills spun on Apple Music 1 this month. The sticky, summery, ’90s-coded cut about falling in love also came with a self-directed music video, also complete with choreography (although he was rocking Timbs that time), that found Frankie shooting his shot with a mostly unimpressed donut shop employee.
For those who caught it, supermodel* had one of the most unassumingly impressive videos of 2025 — for the project’s inaugural single “i used to live in england” — in which Frankie more or less recreates Christopher Walken’s iconic dance from Fatboy Slim’s “Weapon of Choice” video, but in an abandoned-looking office space. The song itself is a hypnotic swirl of minimal dance-punk rhythms and razor-sharp cultural references — unguarded and often hilarious.
In October, Frankie collected the entire oeuvre to date on his supermodel* ep, including the fuzz-bomb “no future” (which came with a DIY visual inspired by Jamiroquai’s famous “Virtual Insanity” video) alongside emotionally revealing highlights like “your house” and “my heart.” The sonically unpredictable six-song set signalled both a new beginning for Frankie, and also the culmination of a lifelong journey through punk, UK indie, hip-hop, and dance culture.
Born and raised in Front Royal, Virginia, Frankie played in high school punk bands before relocating to Liverpool, England, at age 18 in pursuit of a music degree he quickly lost interest in. While abroad, however, he co-founded an earlier project and stayed in it just long enough to learn what he really wanted (and also really didn’t want) to do. In 2024, he landed in L.A. and, after losing two day-jobs in a row, decided to put his all into what would become supermodel*.
The Line of Best Fit documented that origin story in a deep-dive profile in December. Since the start of 2026, Frankie has been dreaming up his next chapter and dropping hints of what’s next across his various online accounts, which include candid Tumblr posts and “radio” episodes on SoundCloud. In just two days, supermodel* kicks off a UK/EU tour that includes headliners in Liverpool and London alongside a host of festival appearances carrying him well into August.
See the itinerary below, and stay tuned for more.
supermodel* live dates
Jul 02 – Gdynia, Poland @ Open’er Festival ^
Jul 03 – Berlin, Germany @ Baketown Festival ^
Jul 05 – Arras, France @ Main Square Festival ^
Jul 11 – Madrid, Spain @ Mad Cool Festival ^
Aug 13 – Copenhagen, Denmark @ Syd for Solen ^
Aug 15 – Gothenburg, Sweden @ Way Out West ^
Aug 21 – Hasselt, Belgium @ Pukkelpop ^
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‘blue monday’ Artwork