And you thought your last breakup was tough? Lykke Li took her last breakup really, really badly. On the song "Gunshot," she compares a failed relationship to a bullet going through her head; for the track's brand-new music video, the Swedish singer dons some ghostly makeup and performs a parking lot mourning parade that ends with her face-down in the concrete, convulsing from imaginary gunshot wounds. The clip features some of the singer's most savage sentiments to date, and it is a stark and striking thing, and might be her most depressing music video ever.
Taken from her third album "I Never Learn," an onslaught of emotion about the ups and downs of twentysomething womanhood, this Greg Kurstin-produced searching power breakup ballad "Gunshot" finds an anguished Li longing to get her lover back. Speaking with NME, the Swedish songstress explained how the ending of a relationship had a major impact on the writing of her "I Never Learn" album. "I wrote 'Gunshot' straight after a meditation I had and the words just came out kind of violent words. So this is also the moment in, in a relationship where you've fucked up and some things you can never take back," Li says of the song. "I think that a lot of people can relate to that moment where it's just gone forever."
The 28-year-old Swedish singer has always been an artist's artist, establishing herself as more than a mere musician but an actual slave to some muse who only allows her to be creatively fueled at its whim. She has a reputation for being temperamental and difficult, but always those things in slavish devotion to best actualizing her art. In her latest music video for "Gunshot," Li finally lets her artistic side take over the visuals she creates. For the first time she is giving us a piece of performance art not based in any realistic depiction of the song or her actual persona.
Filmed in Paris and directed by Parisian duo Fleur and Manu, the clip finds Li in the middle of an urban wasteland. she looks like a wraith, with corpsepaint makeup and an ill-fitting trench coat, and she dances expressively across a burnt-out apocalyptic parking lot. There seems to be some kind of shantytown there, and she encounters colorful characters - bloodthirsty little kids, girls who seem to twerk compulsively, dirtbike trick riders - without seeming to notice any of them. Maybe the video is some kind of extended heartbreak metaphor, and maybe it all just looks cool. Either way, you can watch it below.
Taken from her third album "I Never Learn," an onslaught of emotion about the ups and downs of twentysomething womanhood, this Greg Kurstin-produced searching power breakup ballad "Gunshot" finds an anguished Li longing to get her lover back. Speaking with NME, the Swedish songstress explained how the ending of a relationship had a major impact on the writing of her "I Never Learn" album. "I wrote 'Gunshot' straight after a meditation I had and the words just came out kind of violent words. So this is also the moment in, in a relationship where you've fucked up and some things you can never take back," Li says of the song. "I think that a lot of people can relate to that moment where it's just gone forever."
The 28-year-old Swedish singer has always been an artist's artist, establishing herself as more than a mere musician but an actual slave to some muse who only allows her to be creatively fueled at its whim. She has a reputation for being temperamental and difficult, but always those things in slavish devotion to best actualizing her art. In her latest music video for "Gunshot," Li finally lets her artistic side take over the visuals she creates. For the first time she is giving us a piece of performance art not based in any realistic depiction of the song or her actual persona.
Filmed in Paris and directed by Parisian duo Fleur and Manu, the clip finds Li in the middle of an urban wasteland. she looks like a wraith, with corpsepaint makeup and an ill-fitting trench coat, and she dances expressively across a burnt-out apocalyptic parking lot. There seems to be some kind of shantytown there, and she encounters colorful characters - bloodthirsty little kids, girls who seem to twerk compulsively, dirtbike trick riders - without seeming to notice any of them. Maybe the video is some kind of extended heartbreak metaphor, and maybe it all just looks cool. Either way, you can watch it below.
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