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“hot girl bummer,” blackbear’s first single since his fifth studio album, ANONYMOUS, was released alongside a low-budget music video directed by Gilbert Trejo, which blackbear and his best friend Cesar Silva creative directed. This was followed on November 21st, 2019 by a new, higher budget video via Vevo, directed by Adam Powell.

The song is blackbear’s spin on the #hotgirlsummer trend. Megan Thee Stallion fans, who created the trend, inspiring the song “Hot Girl Summer” reacted negatively to the song, claiming that blackbear appropriated the idea of the song. blackbear, however, claimed the song “has to do [with] the caption trend” and doesn’t parody the song. In fact, he teased the song and title during July 2019, before the release of Megan’s “Hot Girl Summer” on August 9th, 2019.

On the cover art of this playful, energetic track, Maddy Crum, who was previously featured in Aidan Cullen-directed short film, THE ANONYMOUS SAGA, is pictured with a face covered in colorful stickers and a nosebleed. She shared an Instagram story wearing merchandise and another using the official Snapchat filter designed by Harley Wrecks to mimic the cover a few hours before release.

The release date, August 23rd, 2019, marks the one year anniversary of “the 1” and the sixth year anniversary of “N Y L A,” both singles of his.