Songfacts®:

• After a seven-year gap, Katie White and Jules De Martino - aka The Ting Tings - returned in June 2025 with their fifth album, Home. With its sun-soaked, 1970s-inspired sound, the album marked a dramatic departure from the plucky indie pop that defined early hits like "That's Not My Name" and "Shut Up and Let Me Go."
  
  "Dreaming" captures the hesitation they felt in revealing this reinvention.
  
  Jules told Songfacts: "'Dreaming' deals with our trepidation of finding the sweet spot again as a band... whether it's necessary?"
• At one point, The Ting Tings were so unsure of how their new direction would be received that they briefly renamed themselves "De Martino & White" - a decision referenced explicitly in the song's chorus:
  
  Maybe we can get it back
  If we changed our name
  
  "We gave ourselves distance by creating the new band name," Katie explained. "We made the logo and cut out pictures of all our fav artists - Steely Dan, Eagles, Dire Straits, Bread, Supertramp, Elton, Carpenters, Christopher Cross - put them all on a mood board and didn't change the new band name until we were about to go public."
  
  As for why they ultimately kept their original name: "We realized as independent artists we had built our band The Ting Tings ground up. We were proud of such and we had fans. We wanted to show them our new music so we swapped the new band name back."
• "Dreaming" went on to become a surprise viral hit on TikTok, where it's been used in nearly half a million videos, including one from Liverpool F.C. celebrating their Premier League win in May 2025.
  
  Katie is a fan of Tiktok. "You genuinely can get discovered here," she told Songfacts. "In fact our new single from the new album has had over 1.3 million videos created using our new music and has reached a 2 billion audience. And it provides a better royalty rate than Spotify. It's exciting."
• Home was recorded in the band's home studio in Ibiza. Having become parents during the COVID pandemic, Katie and Jules embraced a slower, more reflective approach to writing and recording.
  
  "Ibiza has definitely helped us slow down and focus on what matters to us these days," Jules shared. "The songwriting and recording process is not a rush anymore and we don't expect anything more than what we can achieve on basic instruments. No more in-the-box sessions. All the new songs work exceptionally well just on a Rhodes or acoustic guitar. Our acoustic guitar collection has grown a lot though."