It’s been over a year since Audrey Hobert released her debut album, Who’s the Clown, but the world still can’t get enough of her whimsically addicting pop songs. It took them a while to catch on: Hobert released “Sue Me” in May 2025, but it didn’t hit the Hot 100 until August 2026, marking her first entry on the chart. It’s the very definition of a sleeper hit — and the power of rhyming “Bacardi” with “Pilates.” The 27-year-old musician is just getting started.
As long as I can go to bed having written a chorus, wake up and remember it, as long as I feel it’s catchy, as long as I feel like I’m saying something true about myself or my life, then it’s a hit.” In the latest episode of the Rolling Stone Studio, Hobert reflects on the wild year she’s had and bringing her energetic live shows all over the world — trampoline and stilts included — while doing her best to stay offline. She also discusses Grammys season and opening for Charli XCX next year. Here are some highlights from the discussion.
Hobert hasn’t seen a lot of Martin films (“I don’t even think I’ve seen Pink Panther,” she admits), but she grew up listening to his comedy albums, like 1977’s Get Small. This is the most genius comedian we have.’ Then, right when I was starting to write songs by myself, I watched his documentary that’s on Apple TV. I’m probably botching it a little bit, but it seems like he tried a few different personas and shticks on stage.
And when he decided to let his freak flag fly and be totally strange is when everything clicked and he got mega famous. Not saying that’s what I want, but I just thought that was really cool.” “I don’t always like to make big blanket statements, but I would go as far as to make the blanket statement that I think it’s bad, more than it is good,” she says. But before I was a singer, I would often get really annoyed by singers specifically on Instagram.
I just was like, ‘Can you get out of my face?’ And now, I feel that I’m just in people’s faces too much. So that is kind of the compass from which I move from. I’m OK to be annoying in real life.
Not really, but I would really hate to be annoying on social media, so I try not to be. It’s cool to have followers and likes though, so that always brightens my day. Check out my next post.” “I have read comments before,” she says.
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