Sophie Powers is back with her sharpest, most kinetic release yet. “klepto,” out now via Encore Recordings, is a collaboration with Chinese superstar Lexie Liu, and it arrives as a hyper-confident, late-night heist of a pop song, co-written with Jutes and Cam Hunter and produced by Mike Gonek. The companion video, filmed with both artists, plays out like a glamorous escape sequence, all bravado and momentum. “This song belongs in the Louvre and in your headphones,” Powers says. “There’s no shame in stealing the spotlight.” Liu is equally direct: “There’s real power in telling a story where no one has to play small.”
The Toronto-born, Los Angeles-based 21-year-old has been building toward this kind of moment since releasing her debut EP ‘Red in Revenge’ and following it with ‘Glitch: Lvl 1’ in 2024. She has accumulated over 80 million global streams, collaborated with Grimes, Dillon Francis, Baby Tate and K-pop acts IVE, ILLIT and NMIXX, and performed supporting sets for YUNGBLUD, Peaches and Waterparks across festival stages including Warped Tour, Slam Dunk and Seoul’s One Universe. A street performance with Crash Adams recently cracked 120 million views on TikTok, a number that speaks to just how wide her reach has grown. Critics have taken notice too, with outlets calling her “one of pop’s most powerful new voices” and “music’s new wunderkind.”
“klepto” is the latest in a streak of singles that includes “popoff,” “muddy” and “spiderwebs,” and Powers is already in the studio working on her first full-length project, due in 2026. The velocity here is real, and “klepto” makes it clear she is not slowing down.