Overview
- The album Chuck Timely & The Hourglass, released on August 7, includes the track "Love I You" and features a recorded female cameo that Role Model has confirmed is Dakota Johnson.
- Role Model told Rolling Stone he initially resisted putting his partner on the song because he prefers to keep his private life separate, but producer Mason Stoops kept urging her inclusion.
- The cameo is a short, flirtatious spoken exchange on the bridge of the song in which the pair trade playful lines that read like a real-life conversation.
- Role Model describes the record as therapeutic after his 2023 split from Emma Chamberlain and says the collaboration made the song feel special while he and Johnson continue to keep their romance private.
- Fans first picked up the cameo from live clips and a secret performance, and the recorded collaboration shows how small studio moments and covert shows can quickly turn private relationships into public signals and online conversation.