“I started sleeping in the middle of the bed / Stopped waiting for you to come in,” Gray coos in her familiar echo-y whisper, drifting across cold, skeletal production. What reads like a throwaway domestic detail becomes a signal of emotional recalibration—and a confident pivot away from absence. In the video, her gestures and glances stretch across the frame like declarations, turning the bedroom into a stage for intimacy and self-possession. 

RANGE caught up with Lila about the single and everything that 2026 might hold.

You’re expected to release your fourth album later this year, but “Middle Of The Bed” is separate from that era. Why did you decide to put it out first?

I’m getting close to finishing my upcoming record, and when you’re in those final stages you start to nit-pick and get really into the minutia of things. It can be really tedious and tiresome. 

While I was working through that, I got really frustrated and just decided to just start on something new as a change of pace. That song ended up being “Middle Of The Bed.” It’s different but complimentary to the upcoming album, so it felt like a natural precursor, but it was clear to me that it deserved its own moment. 

“Middle of the Bed” feels like a private thought that we’re being let into. What emotional headspace were you in when you wrote it?

I was honestly really at peace. I’d been through some ups and downs in my dating life, and I was really exhausted for a while there. This song came to me on the other side of that. I felt comfortable taking up space again, and the lyrics flowed really naturally from there. 

Tell us about the video. What was the process of making it like?

We initially started with a plan for it to only be a visualizer. The day before we started shooting, we were all having ideas for a more conceptual music video and less of just something that looks pretty. 

The shoot went so well, and I remember all of us at the end of the day saying “Well I guess we just shot a music video and not a visualizer!”

How did you want the visual to not only echo the song’s meaning, but its mood?

I made the song once I was feeling like myself again, but the lyrical content only came to be because I had been through some very intense emotions. I wanted the visuals to reflect not only the chaos that led up to this song but the serenity that came after that. 

This visual and song feels like a departure from your last era. Do you also view it this way? What’s your relationship with your own artistic evolution?

I do! I started working with a team this past year, which has been massively helpful to helping to refine and curate a specific vision for the project. I was working as a completely independent artist for so long, so having collaborators to bounce ideas off of has been incredibly rewarding. 

Anything you can tease about your upcoming projects this year?

We’re in rehearsals for some pretty fun stuff right now. I can’t say too much yet but maybe there’s some more music videos, maybe there’s some more singles, maybe there’s a tour…