WHERE IS MY HUSBAND!

Album

Single

Label

Self Released

Genre

Big Band

Composer(s)

Raye;Mike Sabath

Entered Chart

Oct 11, 2025

Peak Date

Apr 11, 2026

Released

19 September 2025

"Where Is My Husband!" is a brassy number that sees Raye searching for her life partner. Clearly tired of scrolling, swiping, and sighing, the singer laments her single status and beseeches the Lord to hurry her soulmate along. Over jaunty horns and jazzy drums, Raye reels off her particulars like a personals ad: "Tell him I'm 5'5", tell him I got brown eyes." As the song progresses the search grows more manic, as she asks the pressing question: "What is taking him so long to find me?" The track culminates with Raye's grandmother delivering the reassuring message, "Your husband is coming." The track comes from a long stretch of singledom for Raye, haunted by the fallout of a devastating breakup years earlier. That heartbreak, so central to her 2023 album My 21st Century Blues, reshaped what Raye wants in a man. "It took me three, four years to get over him. Like, I can't allow myself to fall in love again until it's safe," Raye told Vogue. "I need to know you could never hurt me like that." "I'm an old-fashioned girlie," she continued. "Is it too much to ask that I'm sat at a bar one day and you walk up to me, and we look into each other's eyes and you order me a negroni, and we get talking and you love jazz music and you're intelligent and you're telling me a quote about something and I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'm moved?" While "Where Is My Husband!" is Raye's most direct and playful take on the subject, the theme of searching for (and sometimes doubting) lasting love has previously surfaced in her work. On her 2023 track "Worth It," Raye sings about wanting to be valued in a relationship, reflecting her hopes for a partner who will see her true worth. Another 2023 song, "Oscar Winning Tears," sees her reflect on heartbreak, resilience, and the kind of partner who won't let her down. Raye wrote and produced "Where Is My Husband!" with Mike Sabath, who contributed to much of her 2023 debut, My 21st Century Blues. Raye premiered "Where Is My Husband!" as the opening number of her Glastonbury Festival set on June 28, 2025, where she was accompanied by a brass band. She subsequently performed the song at All Points East and the Montreux Jazz Festival, with each performance building anticipation for the single release on September 19, 2025. Mike Sabath also played drums and bass guitar on the track. The other musicians are: Chris Hill: bass guitar and piano Dan Ellis: percussion Mike Cordone: trumpet Ivan Malespin: trombone Rita Andrade: viola Yasmeen Al-Mazeedi: violin Distant Cowboy: cello Graeme Blevins: saxophone The Reid Brothers (Ed Reid and Will Reid) directed the video. It begins in black and white before bursting into color when Raye appears on stage wearing a striking red dress. We see her searching for a mysterious man before ending with the empowering message to "find yourself and love will find you." "Where Is My Husband" had a rocky start, as the pressure of following up her 21st Century Blues album left Raye feeling hyper-critical of her own writing. "When you haven't written for a long time, you start hating everything you come up with," she told the BBC. To reset, she and producer Mike Sabbath took a day off, walking in the woods and talking about life instead of working. The chorus came to her the very next day. "It was so exciting," Raye said, and from there they just chipped away at the rest of the track. They worked on "Where Is My Husband" right up to the wire, handing in the final mix just eight days before it had to be pressed to vinyl. Raye and Mike Sabath went into the song with a clear sense of direction: Raye was drawing heavily from the vintage glamour of The Supremes, while Sabath wanted to expand the lush, brassy sonics he'd begun developing with her on song "Worth It" from My 21st Century Blues. To jump-start the writing process, they rented a ski cabin in Big Bear Lake, California, for 10 days. Once they settled in, they approached the song "in reverse," designing it around the dramatic flair of Raye's live show. The track began with a theatrical drum roll and bold brass hits before Sabath laid down the keyboard groove that anchors the song. "There's always time to sonically improve something, but there's not necessarily another time when that stroke of inspiration is there," the producer noted to Billboard. Lyrically, Sabath mostly stepped back and let Raye lead, chiming in only when he needed to "Americanize" a line. They built the foundation in Big Bear, then finished the song at a studio in Joshua Tree, where Sabath recorded the horn parts. He later added strings back home. Raye contributed piano and bass in London. Despite thinking the record was nearly finished, Sabath found himself making major mix revisions while jet-lagged in an Uber after landing in Australia. The song's ending became its own saga: Raye originally insisted on a dramatic extended finale, only to call Sabath the night before delivery and say, "We have to remove the ending." Sabath reworked a new ending over the phone with engineer Tony Maserati. Even after turning the track in, both Sabath and Raye felt the master wasn't hitting right. In true last-minute fashion, Sabath texted Maserati out of bed in the middle of the night; the engineer made coffee, went into his studio, and delivered the final bounce. The song was completed just 11 days before its release. So what is Raye looking for in her future husband? On the Today show, she said he must make her laugh most of the time, be curious and able to teach her new interesting facts, and enjoy watching nature documentaries with her, especially works by David Attenborough.

Baby
Where the hell is my husband?
What is taking him so long?
To find me
Oh, baby
Where the hell is my lover?
Getting down with another
Ooh, yeah
Tell him if you see him, baby
If you see him, tell him (Tell him)
He should holler

Why is this beautiful man waiting for me to get old?
Why he already testing my patience?
I only fear he taking time with other women that ain't me
While I've been reviewing applications
Wait till I get my hands on him
I'ma tell him off too for how long he kept me waiting, anticipating
Praying to Lord to give him to my loving arms
And despite my frustrations

And he must need me
Completely
How my heart yearns for him
Is he far away?
Is he okay?
This man is testing me
Uh huh, uh huh, uh huh
Help me, help me, help me, Lord
I need you to tell me

Baby
Where the hell is my husband?
What is taking him so long?
To find me
Oh, baby
Where the hell is my lover?
Getting down with another
Ooh, yeah
Tell him if you see him, baby
If you see him, tell him (Tell him)
He should holler

I'm doing lonely acrobatics, unzipping my dress at 2am
And I'm tired of living like this
He must be out there getting ready, tryna fix up his tie
Uh huh, uh, hello
This where your wife is
Wait till I get your heart going
I'ma turn it up too
For how much I'm 'bout to love ya
No one above ya
Praying to the Lord to hurry, hurry you along
Baby, I intend to rush ya

And he must need me
Completely
How my heart yearns for him
Is he far away?
Is he okay?
This man is testing me
Uh huh, uh huh, uh huh
Help me, help me, help me, Lord
I need you to tell me

Oh, baby
Where the hell is my husband?
What is taking him so long?
To find me
Oh, baby
Where the hell is my lover?
Getting down with another
Ooh, yeah
Tell him if you see him, baby
If you see him, tell him (Tell him)
He should holler

Tuh, tuh, tuh, tuh
Tell him I'm mm
Tell him I'm mm, with the mm, mm, mm
Tell him I'm kind
Tell him I'm 5'5
Tell him I got brown eyes and a growing fear
That if he doesn't find me now, I'm going to die alone, so can he
Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh
Hurry up here, sir
Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh
Uh huh, uh huh, uh huh, huh
I want it, want it, want it, want it, want it
I would like a ring
I would like a ring
I would like a diamond ring on my wedding finger
I would like a big and shiny diamond that I could wave around, and talk, and talk, about it
And when the day is here, forgive me, God that I could ever doubt it
Until death I do, I do, I do, I
Is he about it, 'bout it, 'bout it?
This man is testing me
Uh huh, uh huh, uh huh
Help me, help me, help me, Lord
I need you to tell me

Baby
Where the hell is my husband?
What is taking him so long?
To find me
Oh, baby
Where the hell is my lover?
Getting down with another
Ooh, yeah
Tell him that my grandma said it
Tell him grandma said it
Your husband is coming
I would like a ring
I would like a ring
I would like a diamond ring on my wedding finger, I would like a big and shiny
Diamond, diamond, diamond, diamond, diamond (Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes)

Where is my husband?