Bachelor Girl revisit ‘Treat Me Good’ with a renewed sense of purpose, teaming up with Jessica Mauboy to reshape the track into something both familiar and newly resonant.
Originally released in 1998, the track has always carried a quiet insistence, a demand for respect dressed in polished pop. This new version sharpens that intent. The familiar grooves remain, but they’re threaded through with a modern sheen, lifted by Mauboy’s vocal, which brings a deeper emotional weight and a sense of lived-in clarity. Where the original pushed forward, this one opens out, less urgent, more assured.
There’s a sense of continuity running through the collaboration. For Mauboy, the song isn’t just a revisit, it’s personal history, a track that shaped her early musical world now folded back into her own catalogue. That connection translates into the performance, which feels less like a feature and more like a conversation, two voices aligning around the same message from different vantage points.
For Bachelor Girl, the release signals something broader. Waiting For The Day: Artist Sessions, due in June, reframes their debut album as a shared project, inviting a new generation of Australian artists into its orbit. It’s a move that could easily tip into nostalgia, but instead feels closer to expansion, an attempt to test how these songs hold up when placed in different hands.
That elasticity has always been part of their appeal. Tracks like ‘Buses and Trains’ and ‘Treat Me Good’ were built on strong melodic frameworks, but also on a kind of emotional directness that doesn’t date easily. This new version doesn’t try to update that foundation so much as underline it.
What emerges is a track that feels both familiar and subtly altered, its message of self-worth and mutual respect reframed through a shared perspective. Not a reinvention, but a reminder that some songs don’t need to change much to feel new again.
Stream HERE.
The duo has today also announced their Waiting For The Day Redux tour which will kick off in their home town of Melbourne at Brunswick Ballroom on August 8, before moving through Brisbane, Adelaide and finishing off in Sydney at The Factory Theatre on October 18.
Go HERE for tickets to the REDUX TOUR.
