Luvcat’s new single “Lipstick” dives into the pleasure and pain of kink. Accompanied by a surreal doll-themed video.
Underground sensation Luvcat returns with “Lipstick,” a sultry, sharp-edged new single that melds gothic glamour with razor-sharp wit. Written after a chance meeting with a man who called her “doll”—and ended up drumming on the track—“Lipstick” is a deeply visceral ode to power, kink, and surrender.
“Lipstick is a song about love and kink,” Luvcat shares. “The desire to please and feel like a little doll to be played with but shown tenderness and devotion in equal measure.”
The accompanying music video, co-directed by Luvcat and Ollie Bradley-Baker, is a surreal, theatrical nod to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’s “Doll on a Music Box.” 
“I used to dress up as her as a kid… a wind-up doll come to life to terrorize the town,” Luvcat recalls. “Some things never change I guess.”
The single follows the success of “He’s My Man” and “Love and Money,” which helped establish Luvcat’s reputation as a genre-bending siren of indie-cabaret. With over 25 million streams and endorsements from NME, Billboard UK, Rolling Stone UK, Clash, and more, she has fast become one of 2025’s top artists to watch.
Luvcat has recently wrapped her European tour, with stops in Paris, Cologne, Berlin, and Warsaw, and is now preparing for over 30 festival dates, including Glastonbury, Reading & Leeds, and Radio 1’s Big Weekend. She’ll be in New York and LA later this month, with two sold-out underplays and two secret pop-ups, including a watch party in LA to celebrate “Lipstick.”
