Sam Fang
Chase Icon has never exactly been shy about telling the world just how expensive, fabulous and completely untouchable she is. Her new single certainly isn’t going to buck the trend.
“MONSTAR” continues that tradition with all the designer name-drops and financial flexing you’d expect, but while the latest single has plenty of Chase’s trademark swagger, it doesn’t quite have the same spark as some of her best work. To be fair though, that bar is stupidly high, especially for an artist who’s perfectly curated her image from day one.
“Chase Bank, yeah I look like cash / Spend that money and I make it back fast”
Honestly, the woman knows her brand.
The chorus cycles through designer boasts with the repeated “Want it, I get it, got it,” and while there’s nothing particularly groundbreaking happening lyrically, Chase’s personality does a lot of heavy lifting. The verses are where “MONSTAR” really comes alive, with that swaggerific delivery that makes even the most familiar flexes feel like they’re coming from someone who genuinely believes every word.
And Chase’s belief in herself is really the secret weapon here, and it’s what’s been driving her career to new heights consistently over the last few years.
Chase’s Swagger Saves Her From Becoming a Monstar
On paper, “MONSTAR” isn’t doing anything we haven’t heard before.
Designer labels? Check. Money? Check. Getting whatever the hell she wants? Obviously. A chorus built around a catchy, repetitive phrase? Absolutely.
But Chase has always understood that the delivery can be more important than the boast itself. She has an exaggerated confidence that makes these songs feel less like generic luxury rap and more like you’re being dragged into her personal fantasy of celebrity excess. It’s ridiculous, it’s fun, and crucially, she seems to be having a fucking blast with it.
That makes “MONSTAR” easy to enjoy even when the songwriting itself isn’t particularly adventurous or different from her previous releases.
At 2:15, This MONSTAR Is Practically Built for the Feed
The biggest question is what “MONSTAR” is actually supposed to be. At just 2:15, this thing barely has time to get comfortable before it’s over. That’s not necessarily a criticism—short songs can absolutely work—but “MONSTAR” feels almost engineered for the current social media ecosystem.
There’s a hook. There’s a look. There’s a few quotable flexes. There’s enough attitude to make a TikTok or Instagram clip out of it, then it’s done. As a standalone single, that’s perfectly fine. The song accomplishes what it sets out to do without overstaying its welcome.
Fans should be more curious about how it might function as part of a longer Chase Icon project, and that’s where the inevitable comparison comes in.
Icon Baby is proving to be fucking difficult to follow. That album understood Chase’s particular brand of weird, irreverent pop-rap so well that practically every song felt like it had its own little personality. The hooks were ridiculous, the production was playful and Chase sounded completely at home inside the chaos.
If “MONSTAR” eventually finds itself on a longer-form project, it’ll be interesting to see whether it becomes part of a larger evolution or simply represents another extremely Chase Icon moment. For now, it’s the latter, but given her recent sonic developments with “Better Luck Next Time”, Chase’s sound is slowly but surely heading into new territory – and it’s safe to say the best is yet to come.
