The "Salty Fkn Dog" Anthem We Didn’t Know We Needed — Maisie May Bites Back (With Synths)

If you’ve ever worked a customer service job, dated someone with a god complex, or sat next to literally anyone on a delayed Spirit Airlines flight, Maisie May has written your new favorite theme song. It’s called “Salty Fkn Dog [Everybody Has One]”, and it's electric, chaotic, hilariously unhinged—in the best way possible.

Maisie May isn’t your average sad girl with a synth. She’s the kind of artist who dropped out of high school on purpose, enrolled in college classes just to write more music, and moved to New York at 17 with little more than a mic, a mattress, and an alarming amount of ambition. Fast forward a few years, and she’s producing genre-bending tracks from a home studio in East LA while upselling sautéed spinach to celebrities who've forgotten what butter tastes like.

“Salty Fkn Dog” is peak Maisie—offbeat, unapologetic, and sharp enough to cut glass. The production is a full-blown sonic rollercoaster: metallic synth stabs, glitchy beats that sound like your iPhone short-circuiting, and a beat drop that feels like it was engineered by a sleep-deprived robot DJ in a Tokyo basement. It’s future-forward, messy, and undeniably cool—like if Grimes and Charli XCX got wine-drunk and decided to remix your last argument with your ex.

But the real genius here? That "Salty Fkn Dog" metaphor.

Instead of dragging someone the traditional way (ahem, subtweeting or that one friend group group-chat rant), Maisie gives us a scathing-yet-silly name for that person. You know the one. The human eye-roll. The coworker who leaves crumbs in your passenger seat and "forgets" to Venmo you. The person who somehow finds a way to complain about sushi being “too wet.” Everybody has one. They're not a red flag, they're a walking salt lick. And Maisie? She's not just calling them out—she’s giving them a theme song.

Lyrically, it’s a comedy roast in neon boots. She's toeing the line between pop brat and poetic genius. You’ll laugh, then suddenly remember someone who once ruined your birthday brunch and think, oh damn… they were totally a salty fkn dog.

And while the lyrics are cheeky and unfiltered, the production is seriously next-level. It's the kind of track that sounds like it was beamed in from the future—alien club vibes with a bedroom-pop heart. Somehow both DIY and extraterrestrial. Only Maisie could make being petty feel this euphoric.

“Salty Fkn Dog” lands ahead of her new EP blushing,brb (out July 11), which marks the latest chapter in her “two-EPs-a-year-or-I-explode” strategy. Like clockwork, each project serves as a sonic diary entry—a six-month time capsule of heartbreaks, healing, and half-baked theories about the universe.

Whether she’s whisper-singing through a breakdown or turning a hissy fit into an intergalactic banger, Maisie May is building her own world—and “Salty Fkn Dog” is the chaotic anthem playing over the end credits as you walk away from your drama with sunglasses on and zero regrets.

The song slaps, the metaphor bites, and Maisie May remains an unstoppable force of glittery, glitchy, alt-pop vengeance. Stream it. Blast it. Dedicate it to your least favorite coworker. Everybody’s got a salty fkn dog.