These days, it feels like the UK trio FLO are the last straight-up pop girl group left standing, at least outside of the K-pop machine. FLO made their name by reviving the sleek R&B of the late '90s, and they're extremely good at it. Their very fun debut album Access All Areas came out in 2024, and they followed it with four new songs last December. Today, they've got a new single that feels like it'll at least be a chart hit somewhere.
On their new track "Leak It," FLO sound less like TLC or 702 and more like the UK girl groups who thrived around the Y2K era — All Saints, Sugababes, Girls Aloud, stuff like that. The distinction is slight, but it's real. Fortunately, those girl groups were great, and "Leak It" does that legacy proud. It's a slinky, hooky track about feeling so sexy that you want to post thirst traps and then about the inevitable PR apology that follows. You and I generally can't relate to this celebrity silliness, but that's the fun of it.
The three members of FLO co-wrote "Leak It" with Julian Bunetta and Steph Jones, two of the co-writers of Sabrina Carpenter's "Espresso." Bunetta co-produced it with Tate McRae collaborator Grant. Olivia De Camps directed the video, which literalizes the song's themes in glammy ways. Check it out below.
"Leak It" is out now on Universal.
