FEATURES NEW SINGLE
"REGULARLY SCHEDULED PROGRAM"
October 26th, 2026 – Basking in the spotlight of a breakout year, Chinese-American alternative pop singer/songwriter Emei uncovers her anxiously awaited new 2-pack 'Night At The Opera: Intermission'out now via Atlantic Records in partnership with multi-GRAMMY® Award-winning mega-producer Ricky Reed’s Nice Life. Fans can listen to the 2-pack HERE.
The release features Emei’s bombastic and blunt new single, “Regularly Scheduled Program". Building anticipation for its release, Emei previewed the track on tour, where it was met with an enthusiastic response from fans. The song opens with seesawing strings punctuated by warped harp plucks, as her sunny delivery contrasts with the seething rage of lines like, “So clearly I’m a little bit unwell, thanks to you my special friend from Hell!” As the track progresses, this playful veneer begins to crack, giving way to glitchy electronic distortion and thunderous drums that underscore her exasperated lament: “You keep coming back. How long will this last? Back to our regularly scheduled program”.
Sour, sticky, and shockingly catchy all at once, the track is like a kiss-off arena-ready anthem born in a Broadway back alley. Reflecting on the song, Emei shares, “I! LOVE! THIS! SONG!!! It’s about feeling like you’re finally moving on and everything is great and then life coming in and being like ‘Psych!!!! You thought!!!!’ It’s about being triggered. It’s about running into your past enemies. It’s about holding it together when life feels like it’s falling apart. There’s lines plucked straight out of my journal and scenes plucked straight out of deranged Disney. I leaked this one for the first time on tour and the crowd erupted in cheers because man it hits even harder live! I cannot wait for my fans to finally have this studio version to rock out to”.
Emei previously teased the two-track release with “Molly”, which has already amassed nearly one million streams across platforms and helped boost her Spotify monthly listeners to just shy of two million.
Emei - "Regular Scheduled Program" (Official Visualizer)
Beyond her own releases, Emei continues to expand her creative footprint with “The Understudy”, her contribution to 'Steps' (Soundtrack from the NETFLIX Film), arriving November 20. The soundtrack features four original songs written and produced by GRAMMY® Award nominee Justin Tranter, with additional vocals by Academy® Award nominee Amanda Seyfried, Rose Gray, and Emei, alongside a score by Academy® Award winner Kris Bowers (Bridgerton).
Speaking about the project, Emei adds, “As a theater kid and animation lover, I was so so excited to be approached by Alyce and Netflix for writing a song for Steps. It’s honestly a dream come true and when I saw the scene we were writing for, I got even more stoked. Understudy is such a special song to me as often in my life I’ve felt overlooked and misunderstood, just like Lilith! It also has so many references to theater lingo and baby theater kid Emei inside me is so happy. It was such an honor to create this one with a great team, spearheaded by Justin Tranter, who is absolutely brilliant. He made it so easy for me to express myself and the scream at the tail end of the song is by FAR my favorite thing I’ve sung into a mic. Can’t wait to see it in its full form in the movie. LILITH 5EVER!”
Emei’s latest releases build on the momentum of her acclaimed ‘Night At The Opera’ EP, which has earned coverage from major outlets including Variety, OnesToWatch, and Billboard. She first ignited her breakthrough with “Scatterbrain”, which has garnered more than 100 million cumulative streams. With her distinctive alternative pop sound and growing presence across music and screen projects, Emei continues to build momentum toward an even bigger projects ahead.
'Night at the Opera: Intermission' Tracklisting
1.Molly
2. Regular Scheduled Program
Listen to 'Night at the Opera: Intermission' here
Watch the visualizer for "Regular Scheduled Program" here
About Emei
A little drama never hurt anybody. Emei knows how to bring it too. She’s an unabashed “theater kid” who grew up into an Ivy League-educated pop femme fatale at the helm of a crazy, candy-coated, and colorful world of her own making. With a bold voice that’s as vibrant as her personality, the New Jersey-born Chinese-American singer/songwriter placed third on Chinese Idol at 15-years-old and later appeared on China’s Dancing with the Stars. Upon achieving a degree in cognitive science from Yale University, she uploaded original music online. Emei made major waves with 2022’s “Late to the Party”, surging on TikTok and igniting her 'End of an Era' EP. However, she reached critical mass with the release of her debut, "Scatterbrain". Touted as one of Spotify’s “Best Pop Songs of 2023” and inciting the applause of Billboard, People, Wonderland, and OnesToWatch in addition to BBC Radio 1 in the UK and Triple J in Australia. Spotify handpicked her as one of Pop Rising’s “Artists To Watch” for 2024 as she notably sold out a series of dates across Australia and headlined her biggest tour to date in 2025 with sold-out crowds coast-to-coast in the US and in the EU. After gathering over a quarter-of-a-billion streams, selling out shows, and attracting multi-GRAMMY® Award-winning mega-producer Ricky Reed (Lizzo, Leon Bridges, Camila Cabello, Phantogram, Jon Batiste) to her corner, she embraces her theatricality on her 'Night At The Opera' EP.
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