Dove Cameron drops new spiky banger, 'Lethal Woman,' ahead of debut album 'Alchemical: Volume 1'

Dove Cameron releases a new single ahead of her debut album 'Alchemical: Volume 1.'

Dove Cameron's latest single starts with the sound of maniacal laughter and then a piano riff that could have been swiped from "The Phantom of the Opera." She's just getting started.

"Lethal Woman" is a club banger about a woman "sharp as a knife under the table" that includes sounds of banging on a door, a gun being cocked and heavy production elements. The lyrics include the playful rhyme: "Game recognizes game/By the way, what's your name?"

"We threw everything including the kitchen sink into that song," Cameron tells The Associated Press ahead of its release, the latest track from her debut album due Dec. 1, "Alchemical: Volume 1."

"I think my favorite thing about the song actually is that we switch keys like six times and you hardly really notice," she says, laughing. "It just adds this kind of unhinged quality that to me just really takes us over the top."

"Alchemical: Volume 1" contains six new songs and two previous hits, "Boyfriend" and "Breakfast." The second volume could come as early as the top of next year. The title is inspired by the transformation of matter.

"In this first half, it's very much about exploring all the different sort of versions and avenues of yourself as you're growing and changing and transmuting into something else," she says.

"Lethal Woman" may be a bit unhinged but it's the sound of a young artist enjoying herself, embracing naughtiness, adding a sprinkle of her beloved Broadway and strutting away with a switchblade on her hip.