After many months of performing their new song in concerts, the global girl group, Katseye, has released their long-awaited single, “Internet Girl.” Many eye-cons tuned in to the single on its release date, January 2, 2026, along with its visualizer posted on their YouTube channel under the same name.
Katseye gained a majority of their fame after the release of “Gnarly” on April 30, 2025, gaining tens of millions of followers across all social media platforms in just seven months. From then on, they have been expected to maintain the same level of quality in their upcoming releases. With that in mind, their team played into it, making a song with similar elements to the previous hit, which is the exact reason the song failed. Going from song-to-song in Katseye’s discography, it’s easy to tell that they have a diverse sense of style when it comes to their music, which, at this point, is a part of their brand: not letting their fans know what’s next. Since the fans saw how popular “Gnarly” was, they automatically expected the next song to be inspired by it, so when Katseye’s team was seen playing it safe and not exploring different genres, like the rest of their songs, it made the song ultimately distasteful.
“I hate this song. I hate their voices. I wish to protest and get this song removed from Spotify. It’s just capitalizing off of ‘Gnarly,’ and it’s a failed attempt at that; they’re just trying to regurgitate the same success,” sophomore Slater Winfield-Smith said.
The lyrics weren’t particularly well-received either, especially the audio sample, “I’m getting out of here,” which was also used in Melanie Martinez’s song, “Fire Drill.” This caused a slight controversy because of Martinez’s reputation, especially her allegations of sexual assault, resulting in many fans insulting the fact that Katseye was ignorant of this issue. Additionally, the specific lyric was perceived as tone-deaf when paired with the following repeated lines, “eat zucchini,” a sexual innuendo that many fans found insensitive following the baby voice.
“It’s a very controversial song because of the whole baby voice used in it, and the sexual undertone of the lyrics,” junior Isabella Shaw said.
Of course, many fans simply think the overall tune and rhyming of the song didn’t compare to their previous material, sounding like a song for the group and their fans to dance to, instead of focusing on the overall meaning behind it.
“I didn’t understand the hype behind ‘Internet Girl’ at all. I think it’s definitely not a genius song, because there’s nothing overly fantastic about it, but it can be fun to dance to if you don’t care that much about the musicality of it,” senior Calista Farmer said.
“The song was just random, like the lyrics are just confusing. ‘Eat zucchini,’ what does it even mean, you know? Also, it’s just repetitive, too, because they just say that for the rest of the song,” junior Grant Hoover said.
Others thought it sounded like it wasn’t made for the fans, feeling like “Internet Girl” sounded like it was exclusively made by Katseye’s producers, providing no input from the members of the girl group, and creating a very nonspecific topic that would make them more money.
“It was kind of self-centered around the person who created it, so I didn’t like it very much. As a viewer, it seemed like it was just generic and corporate-sounding,” sophomore Caleb Klinger said.
Maybe in the future, the team behind Katseye’s new hits will look back to “Internet Girl’s” debut and find a new way for them to convey a message to their fans. Even so, fans can still look forward to Katseye’s next release.
