Before Ari Abdul and Ella Boh were pop’s most-watched couple, they were co-workers. The two met around 2022 in a writing session, quietly co-wrote roughly thirty songs together, and only made the relationship public with the May 2025 duet “out of order.” By the time fans learned their favorite dark-pop artist was dating her collaborator, that collaborator had already helped write years of the catalog they loved.
How did Ari Abdul and Ella Boh actually meet?
Abdul told the story herself on a March 2025 TikTok Live: “Ella and I met three years ago... in a writing session because Ella is a very talented writer and has helped me write so many songs... we were peers... we wrote a lot of songs together. We wrote Slow Dancing.” That last detail is the tell: “Slow Dancing” closes Abdul’s 2023 CCTV EP, which means Boh’s fingerprints were on the discography a full two years before anyone connected the names.
The paper trail runs deep. Boh co-wrote “You” (April 2023), “DON’T” (May 2024) and “Girls on the Internet” (August 2024), plus Abdul’s features on the Chris Grey “Let the World Burn” remix and the Presley Regier “Questions” remix. On a December 2024 live, Abdul put a number on the iceberg: the two had been collaborating for two years and had around thirty songs together, most still unreleased.
When did the partnership become public?
May 8, 2025. That is the release date of “out of order,” a duet on Boh’s Milk & Honey EP via Bamboo Artists, and per French Wikipedia the moment the two were officially a couple in public. Three months later came “No Fair” (August 15, 2025), an Abdul single featuring Boh that press coverage describes as inspired by their own relationship. The songs did the announcing; there was no statement, no exclusive, no rollout.
The relationship went public the way it started: as a co-write.
What does Ella Boh do on Ari Abdul’s records now?
Almost everything. The Songwriters Hall of Fame, which gave Boh its 2025 Abe Olman Scholarship, states it plainly: “Ella is locked in producing dark-pop breakout artist Ari Abdul, managing creative direction with the same intensity she brings to her own records.” The credits back it up: on “Alive” (June 2025), Boh is a co-writer and co-producer alongside Grammy-nominated producer Stint; on “LEAVE ME HERE” (July 2025), MusicBrainz lists her as writer and producer. Abdul’s self-titled debut project, her most personal work yet, runs through Boh’s hands as both pen and board.
That makes this a rare structure in pop: partner, primary co-writer, producer and creative director, all one person, while Boh simultaneously runs her own artist project and a 40-song pitch-writing catalog that includes a Selena Gomez collaboration.
The domestic era
The couple’s TikTok and Twitch lives have become the fandom’s primary news source, and the picture they paint is more sitcom than power couple. Both are 24. They live together. “We fully live alone together... but our lifestyle is that of like a 12-year-old boy,” Abdul joked on a January 2026 stream. They play Roblox on Twitch with friends, and in April 2026 they announced Abdul’s 1 million TikTok followers milestone live on stream, mid-tour.
The professional output has not slowed for any of it: “So Good,” “Ego” and “ENAMORED” carried Abdul’s self-titled era into mid-2026 while Boh toured her own BLURRY project. Three years of quiet co-writing turned out to be the durable part, the partnership was already load-bearing long before it had a name. Whatever the pair releases next, the safest prediction in dark pop is that they wrote it together.