“10 Things I Hate About You” by Leah Kate

Easily derived from the song’s title, “10 Things I Hate About You” is a post-breakup song.

In the first verse, Kate doesn’t beat about the bush and says that the reason for the breakup was catching her partner sleeping with someone else. The frustration builds up more when he denies the fact. Furthermore, to feed his ego, he tells his friends that Kate would be “lost without” him, in hopes of making himself look attractive to them. Sure, she doesn’t disagree with that, but Kate definitely knows how to make her revenge sweet.

And how does she do that? By making a list of all the things she hates about him (as the title goes). In this list, she puts up ten factors without holding back any information. Probably the biggest blow to a man’s ego would be his ex-partner dissing him on how bad he is in the bedroom, to the point of her faking it.

With her ex-partner being “toxic” at number five and that she “can’t trust” him at number four, one can easily assume that this relates to when she caught him cheating and his denial to it.

Akin to Miley Cyrus’ “7 Things”, Kate ends her list with “the fact that you made me love you” as the top thing she hates about him. As any bad breakup goes, this would often come to mind as the realisation of having time and energy wasted on a person only for the relationship to end as such can be frustrating.

What else did Kate’s ex do?

Besides sleeping with someone else, he also enjoyed his beers too much to the point of being drunk. Furthermore, he is apparently a heavy smoker – something Kate really hates about her ex. It doesn’t stop there! Kate goes on to reveal that he unashamedly uses his dad’s money for his beers.

Leah Kate sheds Light on “10 Things I Hate About You”

On her TikTok account, Kate recently posted the backstory of this song. She had made a list of ten things she hated about her ex-boyfriend, who treated her like trash, and had it as her phone screen background. Whenever she missed him, she would read it to remind herself that their parting was more of a case of good riddance. This list eventually ended up being her inspiration to create this track and she realized it could help others in similar situations too.

Release Date

“10 Things I Hate About You” was released as a single on 23^rd March, 2022. As of the song’s date of released, Kate did not reveal any details of whether this would be part of an upcoming album.

Kate posted an excerpt of this song on her TikTok and Instagram accounts on 21^st March, 2022. The whole idea behind that was to promote the song’s pending official release in 2 days.

Did Leah Kate write this song?

Yes. Kate co-wrote this song together with:

• Canadian music producer and songwriter, Mike Wise. He has worked with popular artists such as James Blunt and Ellie Goulding.
• American writer and lyricist, Madi Yanofsky. She has collaborated with notable names such as Wiz Khalifa and Alessia Cara.

Reaction from Fans

True to her style of being inspired by the 90s-00s, commentors on the MV’s YouTube page have expressed that they love how her style brings them back to that era, thus making them new fans of her.

Many fans have shared how her experience is relatable to what they’ve been/are going through. To them, it inspires them in their battle with overcoming the pains associated with the demise of a relationship. Interesting to note is that this effect is exactly what Leah personally wished for this track.