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Some artists spend a comeback looking over their shoulder. Kim Kay is spending hers on the dance floor. “Animal,” the Belgian pop singer’s latest single, is a pulsating, club-ready electronic track that arrived on September 10 through Belgian Bed Records, and today it returns with a brand-new official music video. Two months after its release, the song still sounds like a door being kicked open.
For anyone who came of age in the late nineties, the name will ring a bell. Kim Kay, born Kim Van Hee in Dendermonde, was the Flemish singer who conquered the charts in French with the Eurodance smash “Lilali,” a hit that traveled well beyond Belgium. Her EMI debut, La Vie en Lilali, followed in 1998, along with a string of bright, bubblegum singles and a 2002 run at Belgium’s Eurovision preselection with “The Sun Shines.” Then, in 2004, a cancer diagnosis stopped everything, and years of health struggles kept her away from the industry that had made her a star.
What is remarkable about “Animal” is how little it asks you to dwell on any of that. The story of how Kim Kay rebuilt her career from her bedroom, recording without a band or an audience, has been told, and told well. This single is the sound of an artist who has moved past needing to tell it. It is confident, upbeat, and built on catchy melodies with a distinctly European pop sensibility, the kind of record that belongs in a club at one in the morning rather than in a think piece.
That European pedigree is the key to why the song works. Eurodance has always been about joy delivered at full volume, and Kim Kay understood that language before most of today’s dance-pop acts were born. On “Animal” she updates it with a bold, contemporary electronic production while keeping the instinct for a hook that made “Lilali” impossible to shake. The result feels less like a nostalgia act and more like a veteran showing the younger crowd where some of their favorite tricks came from.
The single also sits inside one of the most productive stretches of her career. Her comeback EP, Life in Reverse, arrived in July 2025 with “Ordinary Love,” “Wrong Reasons,” and “Od On U.” The heartfelt “To Mom” followed late that year, and 2026 has brought “Rebound,” “Summer Again,” “Animal,” and “St. Tropez,” which has climbed to number eight on the British chart. Listened to in order, those releases trace an artist growing steadily more fearless, moving from intimate, inward songs toward music that wants to fill a room. “Animal” is the moment that shift becomes impossible to miss.
The new video, premiering today on YouTube, gives the track the visual swagger it deserves. It leans into the attitude and energy of the song with striking imagery, and it is a reminder that Kim Kay has always understood pop as a complete package. The hits of her first era came with color, character, and a sense of fun, and this video carries that spirit into a sleeker, more modern frame.
There is a lesson in all of this for an industry that too often writes artists off after a long absence. Kim Kay did not return to recreate 1998. She came back to make dance music that stands up next to anything in the current market, on her own terms and her own label. “Animal” is proof that the instinct never left. It is a track for anyone who needs a reason to move, and for anyone who needs a reminder that it is never too late to turn the volume back up.
Watch the official music video for “Animal” on YouTube at https://youtu.be/Ri7Tf3kFvHs. The single is available now on all digital platforms via Belgian Bed Records.