A Cold Play
| "A Cold Play" | ||||
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| Single by the Kid Laroi | ||||
| from the album Before I Forget | ||||
| Released | 5 September 2025 | |||
| Length | 2:59 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Songwriter | Charlton Howard | |||
| Producer | KBeazy | |||
| The Kid Laroi singles chronology | ||||
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| "A Cold Play" on YouTube | ||||
"A Cold Play" (stylised in all-caps) is a song by Australian rapper and singer the Kid Laroi, released on 5 September 2025 through Columbia Records. His fifth single of 2025, it serves as the lead single from his second studio album, Before I Forget (2026), after an initial version of the record was scrapped. The lyric reveal his "wishing he could fix someone" with fans speculating the song is about Tate McRae, with whom the artist split in July 2025. Three weeks later, McRae issued her response track titled "Tit for Tat".
"A Cold Play" was voted in at number 72 on the 2025 Triple J Hottest 100.