Hate That I Made You Love Me Lyrics

The title of "Hate That I Made You Love Me" holds the whole idea. It is a song sung from the more powerful, more guilty side of a lopsided relationship — the voice of someone who knows they made another person fall for them, and who feels the weight, and the regret, of that power. Rolling Stone summed up its stance in a headline: Ariana Grande is "sorry you're so into her".

That tension is what makes the song land. Rather than a simple break-up or a straightforward love song, it sits in the uncomfortable middle: aware of the hurt it describes, and honest about the singer's own part in causing it. It is a conflicted, self-implicating kind of pop ballad, the sort of emotionally complicated writing that has defined much of Grande's recent work.

As the lead single from Ariana Grande's album petal, it also set the tone for a new era, and Grande has called it "one of my favorite songs I'll ever write". A full, line-by-line reading will be added here once the lyrics are available on the page.

"Hate That I Made You Love Me" was written by Ariana Grande, Max Martin and Ilya Salmanzadeh, and produced by the same three. The song was mixed by Serban Ghenea and mastered by Randy Merrill. It is described as a pop, alt-pop and R&B record with synth-pop and downtempo elements.

The accompanying music video, released on 1 June 2026, was directed by Christian Breslauer and shot by cinematographer Janusz Kamiński, with actor Justin Long appearing alongside Grande.

The single arrived as the opening statement of Ariana Grande's petal era, and it made an immediate mark: a debut at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 gave Grande her tenth chart-topper there, tying her with Stevie Wonder, Janet Jackson and Bruno Mars for the seventh-most number ones in the chart's history. It also topped the Billboard Global 200 and the UK Singles Chart.

Coming between her run of blockbuster albums and her parallel film career in Wicked, the song underlined how central Grande remains to mainstream pop, and set high expectations for the album that follows it.

"Hate That I Made You Love Me" is a song by Ariana Grande, released on 29 May 2026 as the lead single from her eighth studio album, petal.

It was released through Grande's own imprint, Babydoll Music, under Republic Records, and was written and produced by Grande with Max Martin and Ilya Salmanzadeh. The album petal follows on 31 July 2026.