Rolling Stones: new single "Who You Callin' Crazy" drops as a surprise release

The Rolling Stones have today surprise-released “Who You Callin' Crazy”, the new single taken from “Loose Lips”, the upcoming expanded edition of their latest studio album “Foreign Tongues”.

The track moves over sun-drenched, rhythmic sounds, enriched by a saxophone contribution from British jazz musician Courtney Pine. In the lyrics, Mick Jagger tackles the theme of paranoia and other people's judgement with his usual self-deprecating flair.

If I look nervous, about to collapse

if I’m squirming like a rat in a trap

I keep blinking, my nose starts to twitch

I keep scratching, don’t know where to itch

The release of the single anticipates the arrival of the album's new reissue, titled "Foreign Tongues (Loose Lips)", out next November 27 via Polydor/Universal.
Eighteen years passed between the forgettable “A Bigger Bang” and “Hackney Diamonds” to complete a new album of original material, but it then took less than three to arrive at “Foreign Tongues”. It's not just a matter of a third or fourth youth (for the Rolling Stones the second one already arrived a few decades ago...), as Keith Richards made clear in a recent interview: “The only reason 'Foreign Tongues' came out is that we did so much work on 'Hackney Diamonds' that Andrew (Watt, the producer, ed.) and I looked at each other and realized that, in practice, that was essentially a double album, except we preferred to take a break first”. Clearly, in eighteen years quite a lot of hay had been put in the barn, but “Foreign Tongues” isn't a second-tier record compared to its predecessor, nor a collection of leftover material from those sessions: quite the opposite. And that becomes fully clear listening closely to some of the brightest songs populating it: “In The Stars”, “Divine Intervention”, “Covered In You” and “Side Effects” carry a pop infectiousness, a renewed vitality that few would have expected from the Rolling Stones in 2026, in spite of any melancholy over time inexorably slipping away.

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