Avery Anna has released her new single “Roadkill,” a track that continues the confessional, visually grounded songwriting that has defined her rise. The song, which fans first heard live on her Blood Runs Thicker Tour, is now available on streaming platforms via Warner Music Nashville.
Roadkill
Listen to Roadkill on Spotify. Song · Avery Anna · 2026
The 22-year-old Flagstaff, Arizona native (born Avery Anna Rhoton) blends country, rock, and acoustic pop in material that has grown more ambitious since her viral TikTok bathtub cover of Christina Aguilera’s “Say Something.” After moving to Nashville at 17 and signing with Warner Music Nashville in 2022, she released the EP Mood Swings, the albums Breakup Over Breakfast (2024) and Let Go Letters (2025), and the 2026 EP forgive, forget. A platinum collaboration with Sam Barber on “Indigo” and her ACM New Female Artist of the Year win earlier this year solidified her place among the genre’s fastest-rising voices.
“Roadkill” draws on familiar roadside imagery. Live performances and early promotional material frame the song around a yellow Chevy and the idea of being left for dead on the shoulder of the highway. Lines such as “Without you I would be roadkill, on the road still” position the track as a story of someone who stops, picks the narrator up, and brings them back to life. The metaphor fits Anna’s broader catalog of emotionally direct writing about survival, gratitude, and relationships that alter a trajectory. She debuted the song unreleased in Raleigh during the Blood Runs Thicker Tour and has kept it in the setlist since, giving audiences a preview before the official drop.
The release arrives while Anna is still on the road supporting the tour named for her recent single “Blood Runs Thicker.” With remaining dates ahead and growing streaming numbers behind her, “Roadkill” extends a run of work that prioritizes specific, lived detail over broad sentiment. Whether the yellow Chevy is a literal vehicle or pure metaphor, the central image is consistent: a person on the side of the road, and the one who chooses not to keep driving.
