"Musical family" Natalie Mering and Michael Collins – aka Weyes Blood and Drugdealer – have a friendship that dates back over a decade, having first met by chance in Oakland, California. The pair have released two singles together over the years – 2016's "Suddenly" and 2019's "Honey" – and today's release of "Real Thing" makes three.

The track began as a demo that Collins laid down with co-writer and producer Max Baby in Paris. As Collins describes in a press release:

"Immediately I realized that it was the perfect thing to show Nat, who I had been wanting to collaborate with again for years. After that we started working on it via multiple trips back and forth across the US, and it just became one of my favorite things we’ve ever done.”

“Natalie took the wheel and really wrote such amazing lyrics and harmonies as usual,” he added, saying "I can’t really ask for more in terms of someone who inspired me to even get to this place in my songwriting."

Watch the video by James Mason below: