“Illegal” by PinkPantheress

"Illegal" landed on 6 June 2025 as the third single from Fancy That, PinkPantheress's second mixtape, on Warner Records. It's built on a sample of Underworld's "Dark & Long (Dark Train)", with Darren Emerson, Karl Hyde and Rick Smith sharing the writing credit alongside her, and she produced it with aksel arvid, who also engineered, while Nickie Jon Pabón mixed. It's a sly, glittering collision of 2-step garage, new jack swing and dance-pop.

She'd been teasing it since March, first with a TikTok snippet and then during her DJ set on The Lot Radio. Once it was out, TikTok ran with it, turning it into a trend of two people shaking hands as the camera flips between their points of view. That October the remix album Fancy Some More? added versions with Seventeen's Mingyu, Vernon and The8 and with Anitta.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.