She said, “I know I shouldn’t talk bad about my work, especially if other people love it, but I never loved that song. People got in my head about it. They were like, ‘This is going to be a hit.’ I listened to them and I put it out and it wasn’t really a hit. I was like, ‘Shit, this is why you should always trust your gut.’

I will say, when I play it, it does go off. I would never play it at my own show. It’s like a little party trick that I bring out. When I was opening for Taylor [Swift], a lot of people who were at the show and were completely confused by a song like ‘Vroom Vroom’ would actually get the same kind of experience from ‘Break the Rules’ in that they would be able to identify me as ‘a girl with attitude’” And also, even if they didn’t know that I sang it, it’s been on so many adverts or TV shows. The song was familiar. So, that’s why it’s still in my back pocket, just in case.”

Back in 2017, she told Q Magazine, “I made some rash decisions with Sucker, like the song ‘Break the Rules.’ That was so bad. I hate it. I wrote it at a writing camp for other artists with Benny Blanco and Stargate, and I was like, ‘Whoever sings this song is an idiot.’ …Cut to four months later, it’s on my album, and it’s my new single. I fucked myself.”