Mykki Blanco returns with the new single “Butt Sex,” while also announcing the new album Cafe Paradiso (Transgressive), which is slated to be released September 4, 2026. While the album may come four years since Stay Close To Music, Blanco isn’t one to leave Pride Month without a “bang,” The single serves as the second teaser of Cafe Paradiso. “Butt Sex” follows lead single “Little Feet,” which featured contributions from Ian Isiah and Breakaway. The single will be released as a 3-track single with extended Dance and Dub mixes.  

In case the title failed to tell you, “Butt Sex” is in-your-face-style punk, explicit in its desires and liberated by making them known. Blanco sings in a confident shout, flaunting his goods while rallying “all my baddies to the floor.”

Directed by Blanco and Matt Lambert (Peaches, Hercules & Love Affair, Austra), the video takes the viewer on a ride through a presumably kinky locale: the Berlin metro system. Blanco and his friends traipse through subway cars, escalators, and platforms, simulating and stimulating pleasure simultaneously. It’s very tongue-in-cheek, where no cheek is left un-tongued.

Blanco shared how the track came to be: “‘Butt Sex’ is a fast-paced spy thriller. It’s a high-speed caper, you’re ducking, you’re dodging bullets, you’re taking a piss in the bad guy’s car. Working on ‘Butt Sex’ with producers Patrick Holland and Physical Therapy was a riot in the studio. I spent hours trying to layer production with my own voice, screaming, moaning, groaning, humming — it was mayhem. Then the boys started creating this insanely catchy, fast-paced electro pop bassline and all of a sudden my screams found a home.”

The director Matt Lambert shared his thoughts on the video’s creation: “It was like coming home to make something with Mykki again – Mykki having taken a break from music and myself music vids for a few years – and around 10 years from the start of our first collaborations. Our creative energy together is one of the most magical ones I’ve had in my life and this being an artefact of that.

Blanco further expounds on working together with Lambert.: “I am in the golden era of my own career and I know it and the gratitude that I feel about my life and about how lucky I am to be an artist is never lost on me. I think because the world is so much harsher now, because these creative arenas are so saturated it’s probably even more amplified. We get to play in front of the world as a job. We get to investigate our ideas and the inner workings of our nice desires and send that out to thousands of people. Matt Lambert is someone who brings out the very best in me, he pushes me to keep being clever and not rest on my laurels or resort to any kind of quick gimmick. He’s very process-oriented but also open enough to know that essentially the best art is always dependent on how alive the moment is.”