Mollie Elizabeth, the singer behind viral hit ‘Run Rabbit’, announces her ‘People Pleaser’ EP for Oct. 30 and shares new single ‘Kiss The Ring’
Mollie Elizabeth has had the kind of year most new artists only imagine. Now she wants to show what comes after the viral moment. The singer-songwriter will release her new EP, ‘People Pleaser‘, on Oct. 30, and has shared its playful new single, ‘Kiss The Ring’. The project arrives on the back of ‘Run Rabbit’, the breakout hit that has passed 90 million streams and turned a homeschooled kid from Washington’s Cascade Range into one of pop’s most watched new voices.
The EP’s guiding idea is transformation, finding light inside darker experiences. Elizabeth has long believed that even life’s most painful and confusing moments can hold their own kind of beauty and romance. “I needed to look at the world through rose-coloured glasses,” she says, crediting that outlook with saving her life. With ‘People Pleaser’, she wants to offer listeners the same refuge: a space for beauty and wonder they may not find elsewhere. It is a sentiment that explains why her songs so often sound sweet while saying something sharp.
The Song That Changed Everything
‘Run Rabbit’ was the turning point. Written and produced with Josh Murty and released through Neon Gold Records and Futures Music, it built momentum before it even came out, racking up more than four million views on TikTok from a snippet alone. In its release week, it became the fastest-streaming new song in the world. Its whimsy is deceptive. Beneath the stomping chorus and storybook visuals sits a song about growing up in an unhealthy household.
It was not her first brush with virality. Elizabeth began making songs on a $12 microphone and first caught attention when an early demo of ‘Vegas Venetian’ spread online. Her debut EP, ‘Dirty Blonde’, followed in June 2025 on Neon Gold, and this summer she released ‘Puppet Show’, a pointed take on the pressure to be perfect, through Interscope Capitol.
Old Records, New Wounds
Her sound makes more sense once you know where she comes from. Elizabeth grew up on an isolated mountain in Washington’s Cascade Range, raised on her mother’s Rosemary Clooney, Doris Day and Connie Francis records and her father’s love of The Zombies and The Kinks. Those influences surface in songs that blend vintage jazz, orchestral pop and modern production, many of them first worked out on a pink ukulele. She now lives on her own in Los Angeles, but the mountain is still audible in the music’s dreamy isolation.
Plenty of young artists borrow mid-century glamour. What sets Elizabeth apart is how she uses it. The sweetness is real, but it is often a frame for something harder, whether family trauma, beauty standards or the urge to please everyone. The title ‘People Pleaser’ hints that the new EP will keep pulling at that thread.
‘Kiss The Ring’ and a London Date
If ‘Run Rabbit‘ and ‘Puppet Show’ leaned dark, ‘Kiss The Ring’ shows Elizabeth at her most playful, a reminder that her world has room for mischief as well as melancholy. It is a smart preview, one that suggests the EP will balance confession with charm rather than settle into a single mood.
UK fans will get an early chance to hear the new songs live when Elizabeth plays London’s Hoxton Hall on Nov. 17. The Victorian music hall is a fitting room for an artist whose songs feel like they could have drifted out of another century. For a songwriter who started with a cheap microphone and a ukulele, it is quite a stage. ‘People Pleaser’ arrives Oct. 30.
