Assassin

2019

English

"Assassin" is Au/Ra's first single released after her X Games EP in 2018. The song's release was hinted at in a tweet featuring its first lyric, and officially announced on April 15, 2019. A lyric video and music video followed on May 2. The track gained popularity after being featured in the trailer for season 2 of the Netflix show Elite. Au/Ra described "Assassin" as a self-realization, initially writing it about someone else but later recognizing it as her own self-sabotage. She states the song is about self-destruction, making wrong decisions, killing opportunities, or letting anxiety control oneself, and emphasizes the importance of identifying these self-destructive patterns to work on fixing them.