Butterscotch B*tch: Lestat Drops New Single and Season Clip as His Glam-Rock Meltdown Hits Full Volume
Lestat de Lioncourt has never been subtle, but with Butterscotch Bitch he seems fully committed to making sure no one else gets a turn speaking for him. The vampire rockstar has dropped a brand-new single alongside a 45-second teaser from the upcoming season of The Vampire Lestat, and both arrive like a glitter-coated declaration: this is his story now, and he’s telling it at full volume.
The clip, which surfaced just hours ago, teases not just the single but a season that feels like a descent into Lestat’s psyche across time. We get flashes of the human before the vampire, echoes of his fractured family life, and the emotional chaos that continues to follow him centuries later. It’s messy, theatrical, and deliberately disorienting… exactly what we’ve come to expect from his latest public reinvention.
Butterscotch Bitch, marks the fourth single in Lestat’s ongoing musical rollout for the series. The track is composed by Daniel Hart and performed through the human vessel of Sam Reid, following earlier releases like Long Face, All Fall Down, and Dancing With Myself. Together, they form an increasingly chaotic portrait of Lestat as both myth and musician—an artist who refuses to settle into anything resembling stability.
And Butterscotch Bitch might be his most unfiltered release yet.
The title alone sets the tone right away: “butterscotch” evokes sweetness, decadence, and golden excess, while “bitch” cuts through it with something sharper, camp, and self-aware. It’s glamorous and abrasive at the same time—very Lestat—and immediately signals a track built on contradiction rather than clarity.
That contradiction runs through the song itself. Lestat is constantly shifting between states: seductive and grotesque, adored and resentful, powerful and unraveling. There’s a near-constant fixation on appetite, where desire and violence blur into the same gesture. But what keeps the track from tipping into pure darkness is its sense of absurdity.
There’s humor here, even when it’s bleak. He’s theatrical to the point of self-parody, then suddenly devastating in the next breath. That swing between diva energy and emotional collapse is exactly what makes the track feel so aligned with who Lestat has been presenting himself as: a spectacle to be witnessed. A star who cannot decide if he wants to be worshipped, pitied, or feared… so he insists on all three.
In that sense, Butterscotch Bitch doesn’t just continue his musical arc, but cranks it up. This is Lestat fully leaning into the idea that pain, ego, desire, and spectacle are all part of the same show. And he’s very much running it. It also fits neatly into the larger rollout of this era, which continues to blur the line between myth-making and media satire.
On the release, Hart said, “‘Butterscotch Bitch’ is, I hope, the song that feels the most like Lestat, as it’s the song I wrote with the most knowledge of Lestat under my belt to date. And why not end the songwriting with a song that Lestat wrote about himself? He is, after all, The Lestat-iest Lestat that’s ever Lestat-ed.”
However, the Brat Prince himself isn’t on the same page as his composer, “‘Butterscotch Bitch’ is, I hope, the song that feels the most like Daniel Hart, as it’s the song he wrote on a toilet in between vegan burritos and sessions for his Mother Mary score. May it find a home on Anne Hathaway’s rescue dog grooming playlist.”
Following earlier singles (and despite Lestat’s opinion on the song), this new release feels like another step in the French vampire’s attempt to reclaim his story after Daniel Molloy’s (Eric Bogosian) published account reshaped it for the world. And with The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only set for June 2, there’s also growing anticipation that Butterscotch Bitch will make its way into the live set. Whether that’s a promise or a threat remains to be seen.
Either way, Lestat has spoken again. And as always, he’s done it loudly, messily, and entirely on his own terms.
The Vampire Lestat will premiere on AMC and AMC+ on Sunday, June 7 at 9 pm ET/PT. Seasons 1 and 2 of Interview With the Vampire are available to stream on AMC+ (US only), Netflix, and Prime Video (depending on the region). Follow us on X and Instagram for all queer stuff!
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