Songfacts®:

• Is it due to the rain
  Or is she in some pain
  She looks physically fine
  Guess it's something benign
  The girl is crying in her latte
  
  So why is the girl is crying in her latte? "You don't know what happened to provoke it and you don't know what's going to happen to the other people who come in and are crying in their lattes," vocalist Russell Mael told Mojo magazine. "If I were a pretentious person, I would say it encapsulates a certain melancholy of the times. But I'm not a pretentious person."
• The Australian actress Cate Blanchett appears in the sparse, artsy music video. Blanchett's face, a mask of impassive amusement, contrasts her vibrant yellow suit as she grooves robotically to the pulsing synth, the Mael brothers silent sentinels flanking her.
• Sparks first met Cate Blanchett in Paris at the 2022 César Awards when she knocked on their dressing room door to say she'd been a fan forever.
  
  "Our jaws dropped, we exchanged contact information and when it came to making a new video we thought, Cate will bail us out," Russell Mael told Mojo. "We sent her the song, she loved it, she came the next day, did exactly what she wanted and we winged it in the background. Three takes later, we sent her on her way."
• "The Girl is Crying in Her Latte" is the title track of Sparks' 25th studio album. The release sees them return to Universal Music's Island Records, the label that put out their 1974 breakthrough Kimono My House.
• The Girl is Crying in Her Latte entered the UK Albums Chart at #7, the third consecutive Sparks studio album to debut at that position. Their career best chart position in the UK was the #4 that Kimono My House achieved.