February 2026 - Music

British R&B singer Ella Mai has spent the last few years quietly cementing herself as one of contemporary R&B’s most emotionally resonant voices. Rising to fame with her breakout hit ‘Boo’d Up’, Mai has built a career on understated vulnerability and storytelling that feels personal and universal. Her third studio album ‘Do You Still Love Me’, arriving after 2022 full length ‘Heart On My Sleeve’ continues this trajectory, arriving as a tender and self-assured meditation on love in all its forms.

Spanning 13 tracks, the project feels intimate without ever sounding small, driven by Ella’s honeyed vocals and a production palette that favours warmth and harmony.

Opening with the ballad adjacent ‘There Goes My Heart’, the album begins with a fitting introduction to its central theme, the insistent pull of emotion. Mai reflects on how the heart has a way of leading you into places you never planned to go, nor expected to arrive at. It’s vulnerable and unguarded, setting the tone for a record that puts honesty above spectacle.

That same emotional openness continues on ‘Do You Still Love Me’, where lush production wraps itself around Ella Mai’s voice as she sings with devotion and urgency. The track feels like a question asked in the middle of the night, capturing the grey space between certainty and doubt. From here, the album begins to string together interconnected stories of love, detailing the dynamics of commitment, compromise, and emotional risk.

On ‘100’, Mai explores partnership from a refreshingly realistic perspective, suggesting that love isn’t always equal in effort or timing. Whether one partner is at ’30’ and the other at ’70’, the song speaks to showing up fully for each other. “Love isn’t 50/50,” Mai sings, offering a mature take on relationships that acknowledges imbalance while advocating mutual care.

‘Somebody’s Son’ builds further on the album’s themes, finding Mai admitting that she’s falling, even when she knows vulnerability comes with consequences. One of the album’s most quietly powerful moments comes on ‘Luckiest Man’, which reminds listeners that love doesn’t have to erase self-worth. Even while immersed in emotion, Mai maintains a sense of personal grounding as she sings about valuing herself alongside her devotion to another.

The record closes with ‘No Angels’, a gospel-tinged finale that ties everything together. Mai reinforces the idea that perfection is a myth, as neither she nor her lover are perfect like angels, yet her vocals are so convincing they almost make you believe otherwise.

Ultimately, Ella Mai’s third album stands as one of her strongest vocal performances to date. It’s reflective, and expansive while staying true to the real lover-girl songstress we know Mai to be. ‘Do You Still Love Me’ is a project that embraces love’s imperfections while celebrating its power to transform.