While rehearsing for her Coachella performance, Slayyyter found out her boyfriend had cheated on her; over the following weeks, her album WOR$ST GIRL IN AMERICA and subsequent Mojave Stage appearance would mark her biggest career successes to date. It’s a classic pop-star rebound story, like Katy Perry receiving a text about her divorce moments before hitting the stage. Three months later, Slayyyter’s back with a new single, “Brand New Chanel$.” It’s a sequel to the prior album’s “Beat Up Chanel$,” and it’s practically a Katy Perry song.

Where WOR$ST GIRL drew from electroclash, “Brand New” maximizes the mainstream pop of the 2010s, particularly Benny Blanco-assisted tracks like “Teenage Dream” and “Your Love Is My Drug.” Those songs were meant to grab listeners in the first 10 seconds; “Brand New Chanel$” takes its time, with a nearly minute-and-a-half build to its first chorus that recalls ’90s techno like “Born Slippy” as much as any Kesha song. “Why’d you let her stay the night?/Did you hide all of our pictures in the kitchen?” aren’t the most visceral details (no pussy palace?), but the content matters less than the desperate delivery and that kick-hi-hat pattern.

When the chorus arrives full of arena-rock drums and synth wails, it could sound like Walk the Moon covering “Dancing on My Own,” but producers Wyatt Bernard and Austin Corona understand why the songs they’re evoking work—even the less-beloved ones. They’re so committed that they even brought on Serban Ghenea, a mixer who’s worked on countless pop records but is particularly associated with the era Slayyyter aims to capture. The sense of euphoric relief might be closest to Kelly Clarkson’s “Since U Been Gone”: By the climax, Slayyyter repurposes the chorus of “Beat Up Chanel$” as a countermelody, kissing off an ex relegated to “those nasty little after parties, stuck in the scene” as she ascends on her own terms.