Front woman extraordinaire Karen O has just released “Rapt,” the first single from her upcoming solo album Crush Songs, a collection of lo-fi songs centered around her experiences with love at the beguiling age of 27. Along with the single, O has released a simple but tremendously effective video that finds her completely underwater, dolled up in lipstick and a bright red sequined dress, swirling through the weightlessness.
The track is as vulnerable and bare bones as you’d imagine, with only O’s tender voice and some chords from an acoustic guitar driving the mood. It’s a quick confession — clocking in just shy of two minutes — but in that time O manages to encapsulate the contradicting tenderness and pain of love, and with uncensored honesty. Like she says, “Love is soft / Love’s a fucking bitch.”
Watch the video below.
Crush Songs drops from Cult Records on Sept. 9
