GTA 6 Trailer 3 Song Is Justice's 'Flower in a Hurricane'. It Came Out That Day

The song in Rockstar's third trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI is 'Flower in a Hurricane' by Justice, the French duo of Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay. SZA and Kevin Parker of Tame Impala sing it, and King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are the third featured act. Rockstar posted the trailer, which it calls the Launch Trailer, at 13:00 UTC on 15 October 2026. Justice's own upload of the song went up on their YouTube channel 39 minutes later.

The same day, Rockstar named Justice as the composers of the game's original score. 'Flower in a Hurricane' is also on Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album, a soundtrack of 34 new recordings that Rockstar announced on 17 September; it can be pre-saved, or pre-ordered on CD and vinyl. The game is due on 19 November for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.

'Flower in a Hurricane' credits: who sings, and what King Gizzard did

The credits that Justice's label, Because Music, sent to YouTube Music name two lead vocalists: Parker and SZA. Parker also plays guitar, and he produced the track with Justice. The list gives King Gizzard no vocal or instrument credit, but all six members (Stu Mackenzie, Joey Walker, Ambrose Kenny-Smith, Cook Craig, Lucas Harwood and Michael Cavanagh) are among the song's 11 writers. The other five are Augé, de Rosnay, Parker, SZA and the Australian songwriter Sarah Aarons.

Take-Two Interactive, Rockstar's parent company, owns the recording itself and has licensed it exclusively to Justice's labels, Ed Banger Records and Because Music.

How the 90-second trailer re-cuts the song

The single runs 3:45 and the trailer 90 seconds, so somebody had to choose. To see what made the cut, we matched the trailer's soundtrack against the single in overlapping four-second slices, comparing harmony and tone colour. From 0:14 to the end, every slice found a close match in the song. The first 13 seconds matched more weakly, because a phone call and sound effects play over them. The order is not the single's:

• Trailer 0:00 to about 0:17: the opening synthesizers, under a phone call and sound effects until about 0:14.
• Around 0:20: the guitar riff, which enters the single at 0:42.
• 0:22 to 0:37: the refrain, which starts at 1:05 in the single and carries the title line.
• 0:38 to 0:49: the verse that starts at 2:05.
• 0:54 to 1:03: the instrumental stretch from 1:52.
• 1:06 to 1:23: the refrain again, 1:18 to 1:35 in the single.

In the single, the first sung line arrives 65 seconds in. The trailer reaches it at 22 seconds.

What 'Flower in a Hurricane' is about

The refrain weighs love against trust. Love, it says, never hesitates, while trust must be paid for, and the singers compare themselves to “a flower in a hurricane” that still makes it to another sunrise. One pass of it ends on a vow to die rather than walk away.

The first verse, from 1:35, stays inside the storm: crashes, floods and an aching heart, swept away once again. The verse that starts at 2:05 is about speed: the two of them want to move fast, they will vanish in a moment the way a second chance does, and they will not let this life rush past; the singer means to keep going until the final breath. The closing verse wonders whether the end of something beautiful is a question of when rather than if.

Rockstar's own summary of the game is about Jason and Lucia, a couple forced to rely on each other when an easy job goes wrong. A song about holding on through a storm, sung by a man and a woman, fits that story closely.

Does 'Flower in a Hurricane' sample 'Money for Nothing'?

The credits say no. Dire Straits' 'Money for Nothing', the 1985 hit Google suggests next to this song's title, is credited to Mark Knopfler and Sting, and neither name is among the 11 writers of 'Flower in a Hurricane'. The two recordings differ as well: by our beat count the new song runs at 126 beats a minute and the old one at 134, and our key-finder places them around C-sharp minor and G minor, six semitones apart.

What the two share is the way in. Each spends a long stretch on synthesizers before the band hits: at about 1:32 on the album version of 'Money for Nothing', and at about 0:49 in 'Flower in a Hurricane', by the same loudness test. The likeness people hear is in the arrangement.

Where people are looking up the GTA 6 trailer song

Shazam's charts took more than a day to catch up with the trailer. Our radar, which reads Shazam's top 100 in 70 countries, found no trace of the song in its readings on 15 October (about 23:19 UTC) and 16 October (about 22:38 UTC). By the reading on 17 October (about 23:08 UTC) it ranked inside the top 100 in 50 countries, 38 of them in the top 50. Its best places were Brazil (7th), Hungary (9th), Norway and the United Kingdom (both 10th), China (11th) and Canada (12th). In the United States it was 16th.

Streaming charts picked the song up sooner but in fewer countries. On Spotify's chart for 16 October, the song's first full day, 'Flower in a Hurricane' entered the global top 200 at No. 41 with 2,129,960 plays and charted in 31 countries, including 27th in the United States. Brazil, seventh on Shazam a day later, was not among them.

YouTube shows the same rush. On its daily music video chart for 16 October the song was fourth in the United States, and it made the top 10 in 21 of the 34 countries where it appeared. By 23:38 UTC on 17 October the trailer had 37.9 million views on Rockstar's main channel, and Justice's upload of the song had 3.5 million.

The first GTA VI trailer built on a new song

Rockstar cut its first two trailers to existing records, as it did the 27-minute Extended Look it released in August. The first, in December 2023, used Tom Petty's 'Love Is a Long Road' from 1989. The second, in May 2025, was led by The Pointer Sisters' 'Hot Together' from 1986. The third plays a song that came out the same day, made by the game's own composers.

The game comes out on 19 November, and we forecast a dip before then and a lift after. In the first Shazam reading our radar takes in November (UTC), fewer than 38 countries will still have 'Flower in a Hurricane' in their top 50. On Spotify's global daily chart for 20 November, the first full day after release, it will rank above its debut at No. 41.