Finn Wolfhard "I'll Let You Finish" Single Review

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Sanne Boere | May 2026

It’s easy to forget that Finn Wolfhard didn’t start as a ‘music guy’ in the public eye. For a lot of people, he’ll always be tied to his screen roles first (think of Stranger Things, IT, and Ghostbusters), but over the past few years, he’s been quietly building a sound that feels a lot more personal than performative.

It’s a little messy, a little offhand, but very indie in spirit. With “Fire From The Hip” (out 10 July) shaping up to be his most fully realised project yet, “I’ll Let You Finish” feels like a telling preview of where he’s headed.

The single opens with a sense of emotional disorientation: “Feeling ripped off, feeling struck by you” immediately sets a tone that’s both accusatory and unsure. Wolfhard’s vocal delivery rides that tension, giving the impression of someone circling their own thoughts rather than resolving them. There’s a looseness to the structure that works in its favour; it feels conversational, almost tossed off, but never careless. 

The chorus is deceptively bright. Lines like “You got the money, honey, I got the time” carry a kind of jangly charm, but there’s an undercurrent of imbalance: money versus time, desire versus hesitation. It plays like a critique of mismatched priorities in relationships, wrapped in an indie-pop hook that sticks longer than you expect. 

Verse two leans further into specificity, almost awkwardly so, “You got a Bengal cat, did she cost a lot?”, which ends up feeling intentional. Wolfhard seems interested in the banal details people fixate on when they don’t know what else to say – those small, defective questions that mask bigger uncertainties.

The bridge is where things take a sharper turn inward. It’s abstract, bordering on surreal: wanting to “put [his] friends in a net” and fill his house with them speaks to a craving for closeness that feels slightly claustrophobic. There’s a push-pull between connection and isolation that mirrors the earlier lyrical tension, but here it’s less ironic and more exposed. 

And then there’s the outro, the moment that will likely define the song’s conversation. Directly referencing the infamous 2009 MTV VMAs interruption, where Kanye West cut off Taylor Swift to praise Beyoncé, Wolfhard recreates the speech almost verbatim, “I sing country music, so thank you so much for giving me a chance to win a VMA award / Yo, Taylor, I’m really happy for you, I’ll let you finish / But Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time / One of the best videos of all time, time.”

It’s a bold, slightly jarring choice. On the one hand, it ties into the song’s themes of recognition, validation, and the surreal nature of success. On the other, it risks overshadowing the emotional core with a piece of pop culture that’s already heavily mythologised. 

Still, the reference doesn’t feel random. Positioned after lyrics about dreaming of winning and not expecting it, the outro reframes the song as a commentary on ambition and the strange theatre of public validation. It’s less about the interruption itself and more about what it represents: the fragility of achievement in a hyper-visible world. Especially as someone who’s more widely known for their acting career, and trying to break free from that through music. 

“I’ll Let You Finish” isn’t a perfectly tidy single, and that’s exactly why it works. It’s messy in the way real thoughts are messy, jumping between sarcasm, longing, and self-awareness without smoothing over the edges. 

If this track sets the tone for “Fire From The Hip,” listeners can expect a record that embraces imperfection and leans into the uncomfortable space between confidence and doubt.

Listen to “I’ll Let You Finish” here!

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