Midnight, headlights, and a chorus that does not ask permission. That is the first hit of Running Away, the track Matilde G is using to mark a louder chapter. Her pitch is blunt: raw guitars, big drums, an explosive vocal. Turn it up, the chorus hits hard. She is not wrong.
Running Away sits on Beautiful Wreckage, her first full rock album, released in October 2025. She calls it one of the wildest songs on the record. The story is a love triangle, temptation, and the moment you know you have to break free before you lose yourself. The video was shot in a wreck yard: metal, broken glass, and Matilde smashing cars with a baseball bat. In her words, sometimes breaking things is the only way to breathe again.
The lyric sheet matches that energy. She is speeding on the freeway, locking eyes, already running before the wrong turn locks in. The verses cut the flirting short. Call me but all your words are wasted. She does not want to play the bases. She does not go from the bar into the bedroom. The hook keeps returning to the same line: I am running, I am running away. Always caught up in a chase. Happens like every day. Then the image that sticks: gotta run a mile in high heel shoes, quicker than that dude, and her too. Later she admits the attention is exhausting. Can not keep them off me. The song is not a soft exit. It is a sprint.
Writing credits go to Matilde Girasole, Jonathan S Bluth, Dave Amezcua, and Vincent Ott. The production choice fits the lyric. Alternative rock works here because the arrangement can carry both the chase and the refusal. Big drums push the chorus. Guitars stay raw instead of polished. The vocal is the thing that has to land hardest, and the pitch frames it as explosive rather than pretty. That is the point of this era. She has said it plainly: no more cute, just real. She is not a content creator. She is an artist.
Matilde G is a 20-year-old Italian-born singer, songwriter, and performer based in Singapore. She built an audience first as a pop artist, then shifted. Beautiful Wreckage was written and co-produced between Los Angeles, Stockholm, and Italy. She has said rock became the only way she could tell her story, and that these songs scream, cry, and love deeply, just like her. Her own framing of the sound is rebellion, energy, and vulnerability, with reference points in Halsey, Paramore, Yungblud, and Maneskin, still personal rather than a copy of any of them.
The numbers she cites are hard to ignore for an artist this young: over 30 million streams across 180 countries. Live, she has played Italy, Mexico, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, the Maldives, and the UAE, including the Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix, the sold-out Amerigo Vespucci World Tour, and an opening slot for Bad Gyal. Press mentions in the bio include Billboard Italy, Billboard Vietnam, MTV, CNA, TGCOM24, Dubai One TV, Radio Kiss92, NTD TV, Gladys, and Naluda. Awards listed include a World Entertainment Award in Los Angeles for Best Pop Song on Fighter (2025), MUSIVV Awards in Dubai for Digging for Diamonds (2023) and Fighter (2024), an Apollo Global Music Award for My Instincts Are Tragic (2025), LIT of the Year in New York (2025), and a Hollywood Independent Music Award for Best Original Song on My Instincts Are Tragic (2025).
Female-fronted alternative rock is in a useful moment. Listeners who grew up on Paramore-style hooks and Måneskin-era attitude are open to records that keep the chorus massive and drop the gloss. Running Away sits in that lane without pretending the lyric is abstract. Temptation, a third person in the frame, and the decision to leave before the night decides for you: that is pop-rock storytelling with the volume turned to rock.
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What do you think of this turn from pop into alternative rock? Does the wreck-yard video match the chase in the chorus, or is the vocal the part that sticks? Let me know in the comments.
