Overview

• Bailey announced the project on Oct. 8 with a social‑media teaser featuring a red gown, moody visuals, and a narrated prologue that opens, "Once upon a time, there was a young girl that believed in love."
• Billboard reports the album is scheduled for release via Parkwood Entertainment and Columbia Records.
• The rollout follows her 2025 singles "Back and Forth" and "Braveface," preceded by "In Your Hands" in 2024 and "Angel" in 2023.
• The solo launch builds on a decade with Chloe x Halle, who signed to Parkwood in 2016, earned multiple Grammy nominations, and released The Kids Are Alright and Ungodly Hour, alongside Bailey’s heightened profile from The Little Mermaid.
• Complex notes she has been filming the romantic comedy Italianna this year, and a judge in August ordered both parents in her custody case to refrain from posting about their child on social media.