Italian pop artist BERENICE reclaims a tired pickup line in her breathtakingly bold single “Everybody Loves Italian Girls” – an irresistible, euphoric pop anthem that celebrates female friendship, self-worth, and the thrill of finally being seen in all your loud, funny, dramatic, unforgettable glory.

Stream: “Everybody Loves Italian Girls” – BERENICE

I hope people feel bigger after listening to it. Bigger, louder, less embarrassed of themselves.

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Being desired is not the same as being seen, and Italian pop artist BERENICE knows the difference well enough to laugh, wink, and shout it back through a chorus built for a roomful of friends.

Her explosive new single “Everybody Loves Italian Girls” takes a tired pickup line and turns it into a glitter-bright pop rallying cry – loud, charged, cheeky, and bursting with the kind of confidence that comes from refusing to shrink.

Brash hooks, playful drama, catchy melodies, and full-body catharsis make the music feel like a celebration and a correction at once: An irresistible ode to female friendship, self-worth, and the unforgettable relationships that make life feel bigger, brighter, and beautifully alive.

Love’s a stereotype
Got a license plate on my ass
Oooh, my girls and I
Make the dream guy look second-class

Pretty ladies, hold me tight
Make me dizzy, by your side
Oooh, I think I might
have a crush on you!
Everybody loves Italian girls!

Atwood Magazine is proud to be premiering “Everybody Loves Italian Girls,” the breathtakingly bold new single from BERENICE. Out June 1, 2026, the song arrives as another high-voltage blast from Matilde Liboni’s technicolor pop universe – a world where heartbreak wears heels, chaos comes dressed in glitter, and female friendship gets the stadium-sized chorus it deserves.

Born in Northern Italy and now based in London, BERENICE makes pop music that lives for the drama without ever losing its heart. She’s drawn to artists who build entire worlds around feeling – Gwen Stefani, Blondie, Lana Del Rey, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, early Madonna – and her own songs chase that same larger-than-life spark: huge, playful, stylish, and emotionally exposed beneath the shine. Already championed by Sir Elton John, BBC Radio 1, and Rolling Stone UK, and fresh off a seven-million-plus TikTok viral moment, BERENICE is carving out a lane all her own: Pop for girls who are loud, hilarious, theatrical, resilient, and done making themselves easier to digest.

“As BERENICE, I’m building a world where heartbreak can be funny, chaos can be glamorous, and female friendship can feel as cinematic and important as romance,” Liboni tells Atwood Magazine. “I want the songs to feel huge and playful on the surface, but with real vulnerability underneath. Like laughing too loudly at dinner while secretly having an existential crisis. Very Italian of me, honestly.”

Out of that world comes “Everybody Loves Italian Girls,” a song born from one exhausted pickup line and blown wide open into a full-force celebration of the women who made BERENICE feel louder, braver, and more sure of herself.

“Everybody Loves Italian Girls” began with a phrase BERENICE kept hearing after moving to London, one that arrived disguised as a compliment but carried an entire fantasy before she’d even opened her mouth. “It genuinely became this recurring thing,” she recalls. “It was everyone’s chat-up line, and after a while it starts feeling less like people are seeing you and more like they’re interacting with an idea of you.” Rather than shrug it off, she sharpened it into a hook.

“At the same time, I do love Italian girls,” she smiles. “I love how expressive we are, how emotional we are, how dramatic we are, how we can turn a coffee into a three-hour therapy session. So instead of rejecting the phrase entirely, I wanted to redirect it.” In her hands, the phrase becomes a spark, a wink, a warning, and a celebration all at once – a way of reclaiming the gaze and redirecting it toward the women who actually make her feel powerful.

“Yes, everybody loves Italian girls… but not for the reasons you think,” she says. “Not because we’re decorative or romantic fantasies. Because we’re loud, funny, emotional, resilient, chaotic, intelligent, and unforgettable. It’s my girls.”

Ragazza italiana,
From Roma to Havana
Oh boy, we love the drama
Ha ha

Cute, he’s even trying, trying hard
But he don’t understand
(No no, he don’t know, no he don’t know)
My girls treat me nice, treat me right
My kind of romance

So lady ladies, turn it up
Got me blushing, look at us
Oooh, I think I might
have a crush on you!

That force comes alive from the very first second. “Everybody Loves Italian Girls” struts forward on intoxicating drums, funky, fiery guitars, and smoldering synths that ebb, flow, and glow beneath BERENICE’s powerful front-and-center vocals. She doesn’t ease into the song so much as seize it, turning the very first line – “Love’s a stereotype, got a license plate on my ass” – into an opening salvo that’s as cheeky as it is confrontational – and instantly magnetic. By the time the chorus erupts, the whole track feels lit from within: A full-throttle pop anthem with its hair blown back, its heels on, and its arms wrapped around the friends who know exactly how to make the night feel limitless.

The brilliance is in how much feeling BERENICE packs into the fun.

“Everybody Loves Italian Girls” is cute, but never slight; playful, but far from empty. Its flirtation belongs to the girls first – “My girls treat me nice, treat me right, my kind of romance” – and its bridge lands like a mantra for anyone who’s ever been told to take up less room: “Dance it off, scream it out / Never beg, never bow / Trust your gut, call it out.” BERENICE makes self-worth sound communal, turning confidence into a shared language and volume into a form of care.

Everybody wants a woman
Who’s smart and makes their exes nervous
Oooh, everybody loves Italian girls!

Cinque, sei. Cinque, sei, sette, otto.
Dance it off, scream it out
Never beg, never bow
Trust your gut, call it out
If he’s dull, get a cab
Say it twice, say it proud
Girls like us like it loud

Oooh oh, I think I might
have a crush on you
Everybody loves Italian girls!”

“The bridge is exactly the advice I would give to my 15-year-old self,” BERENICE shares. “Me and my friends were loud, expressive, emotional – and growing up in Northern Italy, there was always this expectation to be subtle, feminine, chic, and composed. We always felt too big, too bold, too much. For a long time, it felt like we were being squeezed into a box that was never really made for us. I wish I could go back and tell my younger self not to shrink just to fit someone else’s idea of what a girl should be.”

This sense of reclamation gives “Everybody Loves Italian Girls” its backbone, but the song clicks because BERENICE never lets the message weigh down the rush.

She understands that pop music can be wildly fun without sacrificing depth, and deeply personal without losing its sparkle. “Everybody Loves Italian Girls” is undeniably euphoric, memorable, and wildly easy to love, yet its charm comes from more than the chorus’s instant stick or the track’s strutting, technicolor lift. BERENICE transforms self-worth into a party you can sing along to, making empowerment feel not like a lesson, but like an invitation – bright and impossible to resist.

BERENICE’s hope is that the song doesn’t simply entertain; she wants it to leave a mark on the body, the mood, the room. “I hope people feel bigger after listening to it,” she says. “Bigger, louder, less embarrassed of themselves. Even though the song is playful, there’s a real message underneath it about not reducing yourself just to be easier to digest. I hope people hear it with their friends in the car or getting ready to go out and feel this sense of collective confidence.”

She continues, “Making it also reminded me how important community is creatively. So much of this song came alive because of the people around me, my friends, the chaos of London, conversations after nights out, all of it. It made me realise I want my music to feel increasingly alive and human and shared.”

This shared pulse is her song’s secret weapon. “Everybody Loves Italian Girls” sounds like it was made for packed rooms and open windows, but its real charge comes from the way BERENICE turns private self-recognition into a group celebration – the kind you don’t just hear, but join in on. It’s her party, and everybody’s welcome.

After all, everybody loves Italian girls.

Stream “Everybody Loves Italian Girls” exclusively on Atwood Magazine, and dive into our full conversation below as BERENICE opens up about reclaiming that pickup line, celebrating the women who make her feel most alive, and building a pop universe where drama, humor, vulnerability, and self-worth all get to dance in the same room.

The song is a rush, a release, and a reminder: Being desired will never be the same as being seen – and BERENICE makes being seen sound absolutely electric.

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A CONVERSATION WITH BERENICE

BERENICE: I think the main thing is that I make pop music that doesn’t take itself too seriously emotionally, but takes feelings very seriously. I grew up in Northern Italy feeling a bit “too much” all the time, too loud, too emotional, too theatrical, and music became the place where I could turn all of that into something fun instead of something shameful.

As BERENICE, I’m building a world where heartbreak can be funny, chaos can be glamorous, and female friendship can feel as cinematic and important as romance. I want the songs to feel huge and playful on the surface, but with real vulnerability underneath. Like laughing too loudly at dinner while secretly having an existential crisis. Very Italian of me, honestly.

BERENICE: “Forgot To Love You” is a really important one to me because it’s probably the moment where I stopped hiding behind irony quite so much. It’s dramatic and emotional, but there’s something very restrained and lonely about it too.

I’d also say “Wifey Material” because it captures a different side of me entirely. It’s playful and sharp and a bit provocative, but underneath the humour it’s really about the strange performance of femininity and the pressure to package yourself into something “desirable.” I love songs that can wink at you while still saying something real.

BERENICE: I grew up obsessed with artists who understood world-building and personality as much as songwriting. People like Gwen Stefani, Blondie, Lana Del Rey, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, even early Madonna. I love artists where you immediately know whose universe you’ve stepped into.

Right now I’m most excited by the fact that my music feels more honest than ever, but also more fun. For a while I thought vulnerability had to sound sad and stripped back to be “real.” Now I think joy, humour, friendship, and even silliness can be just as revealing.

“Everybody Loves Italian Girls” started from this phrase me and my friends kept hearing after moving to London. “I love Italian girls” was always meant as a compliment, but it became such a recurring thing that I started finding it funny and strangely fascinating. There’s such a strong idea people have of what an Italian girl is before they even meet you. So I wanted to play with that and flip it into something that I could use to celebrate my girls instead.

BERENICE: I wanted it to feel like a group of girls kicking the doors open at a party. Very loud, very unapologetic, slightly chaotic.

That opening lyric came from this feeling of being turned into a bit of an idea sometimes. Especially as an Italian woman abroad, people already have this whole mythology in their heads before you even speak. So the lyric is intentionally exaggerated and tongue-in-cheek. It’s me playing with the stereotype while also rolling my eyes at it a little.

At its core though, the song is really about the people who make you feel more yourself. The friends who make you louder, braver, more alive. Mine just happen to be Italian girls.

Musically, I wanted it to feel massive and communal, almost like a football chant collided with glittery pop music. The chorus needed to sound bigger than logic. Something you scream with your friends after two drinks and suddenly fully believe.

BERENICE: When I first moved to London, it genuinely became this recurring thing. It was everyone’s chat-up line, and after a while it starts feeling less like people are seeing you and more like they’re interacting with an idea of you.

But at the same time, I do love Italian girls. I love how expressive we are, how emotional we are, how dramatic we are, how we can turn a coffee into a three-hour therapy session. So instead of rejecting the phrase entirely, I wanted to redirect it.

The song basically says: Yes, everybody loves Italian girls… but not for the reasons you think. Not because we’re decorative or romantic fantasies. Because we’re loud, funny, emotional, resilient, chaotic, intelligent, and unforgettable. It’s my girls.

BERENICE: That genuinely means a lot because I’m obsessed with choruses. I think a great chorus should feel slightly irrational, like your body understands it before your brain does.

I grew up loving massive pop moments that almost feel communal or cinematic, where everyone suddenly becomes the main character for three minutes. I wanted this chorus to feel like that. Like the emotional equivalent of standing on a table with your friends screaming the words back at each other.

Also, I think female friendship deserves choruses that big. Romance gets all the anthems. I wanted the girls to have one too.

BERENICE: For me, it’s about refusing to shrink yourself.

When I was younger, especially growing up in Italy, I often felt there was this ideal version of femininity that was very composed and elegant and subtle. And I just wasn’t subtle. Neither were my friends. We were emotional and chaotic and loud and expressive.

This song feels like the opposite of apologising for that. It’s me looking at the women in my life and thinking: actually, you’re the magic. Not the people validating you. Not the relationships orbiting around you. You.

BERENICE: I hope people feel bigger after listening to it. Bigger, louder, less embarrassed of themselves.

Even though the song is playful, there’s a real message underneath it about not reducing yourself just to be easier to digest. I hope people hear it with their friends in the car or getting ready to go out and feel this sense of collective confidence.

Making it also reminded me how important community is creatively. So much of this song came alive because of the people around me, my friends, the chaos of London, conversations after nights out, all of it. It made me realise I want my music to feel increasingly alive and human and shared.

BERENICE: I’ve always loved artists that feel a bit larger than life emotionally. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are a huge one for me because Karen O performs like every feeling is the end of the world, which I love. Blondie too, because they make everything feel cool and fun without losing personality.

Lately I’ve actually been listening to a lot of MEEK. There’s something so intense and driven about her music, it feels very all or nothing emotionally, and I really connect to artists who fully commit like that.

And I’ve been obsessed with The Last Dinner Party recently too. I love anything theatrical, dramatic, slightly crazy. Probably not a surprise.

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