Elly Xia Turns RIGHT WHERE I WANT HIM Into a Hyperpop Hook for the Shy, Nerdy Boys She Likes
Elly Xia Turns RIGHT WHERE I WANT HIM Into a Hyperpop Hook for the Shy, Nerdy Boys She Likes
A Bratty Hyperpop and EDM Club Track That Flips Who Holds the Power
Elly Xia built her hyperpop single RIGHT WHERE I WANT HIM around one repeated line, and that line is the title. The Chinese-German artist and producer, based in London, United Kingdom, released it on 25 September 2026. It mixes hyperpop with EDM, it is bratty from the first line, and it runs just 2 minutes 38 seconds. It is also a club track about liking shy, nerdy boys while staying firmly in charge.
Elly Xia’s RIGHT WHERE I WANT HIM is in our hyperpop playlist below, and every piece written about her so far is listed on her artist profile. The single came to this desk through PopHits.Co Music Charts, which verifies independent artists and places their releases across its network of music news desks. Play it loud once, then keep reading for how the hook was built.
The Repeated Title Line Is the Hook of the Hyperpop Single RIGHT WHERE I WANT HIM by Elly Xia
Back to that line, because the whole song is built to deliver it. After the second chorus the title turns into a refrain: got him right where I want him, again and again. A clipped where I want him fills the gaps in between. It is the part a club crowd learns first. By the end it comes round so often that the phrase is half lyric and half rhythm.
Elly Xia has been writing toward hooks like this for years. Born and raised in Hamburg to Chinese parents, she started on classical piano. At 16 she began posting multilingual covers to YouTube, and later she formed an indie rock band, Verbatim, while studying in Scotland. Her songs mix English with Mandarin and German. Her titles often carry more than one language, as come back // zurück // 回来 did in 2025. This single carries three cities instead.
The Lyric of RIGHT WHERE I WANT HIM Gives the Narrator the Upper Hand Over a Shy, Nerdy Boy
The words around that refrain flip the usual crush song. The narrator is the confident one and the boy is shy. In the chorus, she states her taste plainly: I like my boys nerdy, and I like my boys shy. He offers to take her to Shanghai, and she answers that she would take him higher. Later the offer becomes Berlin, and by then she has him right where she wants him.
Those cities matter. Shanghai and Berlin sit in the song beside the city she calls home. So a flirt on a dancefloor also maps the three cultures she moves between.
The writing stays playful about power, too. She calls her games dirty and herself sly, and the boy ends up begging her not to go. In the late section she finds it sweet that he thinks he is in control. Then she asks whether he even wants her if he will not paint her like Goya. It is a joke with a museum in it, and it keeps the bratty pose from turning cruel.
Fans who spent 2024 inside Charli xcx‘s Brat will know the attitude, because that album made brat Collins Dictionary’s word of the year. It is confident, a little mean and funny about it. RIGHT WHERE I WANT HIM takes the same attitude and points it at a crush.
Elly Xia Packs Verse, Refrain and a Goya Bridge Into the Hyperpop Rush of RIGHT WHERE I WANT HIM
The structure moves just as fast as the lyric. A verse sets up a night out with the girls, and the chorus states her type. Then a second chorus swaps Shanghai for Berlin before the refrain takes over. The chorus returns once more, and the Goya section arrives late. So the song lands its joke and gets out in under three minutes.
The production, meanwhile, goes straight for the club. It pairs the big, euphoric lift of EDM with the chaotic, maximalist energy of hyperpop, the sound of music made by people who live online. Nothing is held back for a second listen, because the hook is the point.
Who Made RIGHT WHERE I WANT HIM, and Who It Is For
Two people built that rush. Elly Xia wrote, sang and co-produced the track, and Wolf Cutt, credited as Ben Dunkerley, co-wrote and co-produced it with her. Wolf Cutt is an EDM producer who spent 15 years on the craft before releasing a debut mixtape, FOR THE HELL OF IT. That mixtape fuses electro, hyperpop and trance. They also produce for many young pop artists, which explains how easily this single sits between club music and pop.
That middle ground also has a history. A. G. Cook founded the label PC Music in 2013 and turned glossy, overloaded pop production into a movement. Its sound came to be called hyperpop. RIGHT WHERE I WANT HIM belongs to that line, but it leans further toward the club.
ElectroPop.News’s curator team: “Play the refrain twice. The way the title folds into where I want him is a sharper hook than most choruses manage, and it stays in your head after one listen.”
This one is for listeners who like their pop loud, funny and a little bratty. Fans of hyperpop, of EDM made for big rooms and of crush songs where the narrator stays in charge should start here. It starts as a night out and a crush. It ends with the refrain still going, the shy boy begging and Elly Xia exactly where she wants to be.
Stream RIGHT WHERE I WANT HIM on Spotify or Apple Music, or save it on your preferred platform. Follow Elly Xia on Instagram, TikTok, SoundCloud and her YouTube channel, and find the rest on her Linktree.
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Elly Xia Turns RIGHT WHERE I WANT HIM Into a Hyperpop Hook for the Shy, Nerdy Boys She Likes