Icona Pop Leans Into the Dizzy Emotional Rush of Love in ‘Butterfly Feelings’

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Featured photograph by Teitur Ardal courtesy of Ultra Records/ Iconic Sound Recordings.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Following their loved return, multi-platinum, award-winning duo Icona Pop drops euphoric new single “Butterfly Feelings,” out now.

Lifted from their forthcoming album “Ritual”, arriving August 14 via Ultra Records/Iconic Sound Recordings, the track finds Icona Pop leaning into the dizzy emotional rush of falling in love hard and fast.

Co-written by the duo, “Butterfly Feelings” pairs futuristic synths, bittersweet pop melodies, and a snappy club-ready beat with the euphoric vulnerability that has long defined the duo’s music. Anchored by the hook, “My heart is beating, do you feel the same?”, the song captures the electric uncertainty and excitement of new love through Icona Pop’s unmistakable high-energy lens.

Image credit: Teitur Ardal. Courtesy of Ultra Records/Iconic Sound Recordings.

Speaking on the track, Icona Pop shares, “‘Butterfly Feelings’ is a little song about falling stupidly in love. We were thinking of all the times when we had that feeling. You try to deny it in the beginning, but you can’t stop thinking about this person.”

“Butterfly Feelings” follows the release of “Dance To This” and the album’s powerful title track “Ritual” featuring Daya, alongside an official music video directed by Gustav Stegfors.

Built around themes of survival, movement, and self-reclamation, the song introduced a more vulnerable and emotionally grounded side of the duo.

Written during a deeply transformative chapter in the duo’s lives, “Ritual” finds Icona Pop at their most emotionally fearless, liberated, and creatively confident. Across the album, Caroline Hjelt and Aino Jawo explore themes of friendship, reinvention, healing, heartbreak, motherhood, and joy—reshaping the dancefloor into a place for release and renewal.