Natalia Kills gets painful and sexy at once with a new video for her autobiographical number, "Saturday Night," which serves as the official second single from her upcoming sophomore studio album, "Trouble," due for release in September 3rd. Painfully sexy, the clip is simple in design yet says so much at the same time and portrays her family issues in a glamorous yet gloomy light as we see the 26-year-old bra-free dance-pop songstress was living every scene and vivid lyric, strolling through a townhouse past scenes of domestic violence and drug abuse.
Kills has tended toward bad girl posturing with songs like "Problem" and "Controversy," but there's a beating heart at the core of her latest single, "Saturday Night," that makes it the best thing she's done this era. over a propulsive synth line straight out of 1983 and hard-hitting drum machine, Kills details her troubled teenage days and pouring her heart out in the lyrics in which she shares with us fans difficult moments she had to go through brought on by family issues like witnessing domestic violence at home. The electro-pop track is dreamy in production but real in lyricism as Kills sings about going out dancing to escape her home. Her hopefulness for something better, though, outlines the tune's powerful chorus.
The song is tough to listen and must have been hard for Kills to record, as it's her most personal song yet, but in the end, that's what makes the song so powerful, and amazing. The personal track receives a just as personal video, which is appropriately dark, very artistic, pretty eerie, tormented and personal. Past videos have seen Kills toying with edgy themes in a way that feels self-conscious or tongue-in-cheek, but the domestic violence and self-harm in the video for "Saturday Night" are rendered sincerely, and with a sensitivity that must have been tough to maintain amidst all the cinematic melodrama.
Kills and director G tried all they could to bring life to the story of the song into a emotional visual, and presenting a horrifying vision of domestic violence in a uncomfortably glamorous setting. The final moments are quite simplistic, but meaningful anyway, and make use of real childhood footage of Kills and her family, suggesting that there's some truth to the fictional narrative at the front end of the video. If so, it makes the video feel all the more haunting - but more than that, it tells the viewer something very personal about Kills, who always felt more like a series of postures than an artist who was relatable on a human level. As with the song, the video makes her truly vulnerable. It's the smartest career move she's made.
Kills has tended toward bad girl posturing with songs like "Problem" and "Controversy," but there's a beating heart at the core of her latest single, "Saturday Night," that makes it the best thing she's done this era. over a propulsive synth line straight out of 1983 and hard-hitting drum machine, Kills details her troubled teenage days and pouring her heart out in the lyrics in which she shares with us fans difficult moments she had to go through brought on by family issues like witnessing domestic violence at home. The electro-pop track is dreamy in production but real in lyricism as Kills sings about going out dancing to escape her home. Her hopefulness for something better, though, outlines the tune's powerful chorus.
The song is tough to listen and must have been hard for Kills to record, as it's her most personal song yet, but in the end, that's what makes the song so powerful, and amazing. The personal track receives a just as personal video, which is appropriately dark, very artistic, pretty eerie, tormented and personal. Past videos have seen Kills toying with edgy themes in a way that feels self-conscious or tongue-in-cheek, but the domestic violence and self-harm in the video for "Saturday Night" are rendered sincerely, and with a sensitivity that must have been tough to maintain amidst all the cinematic melodrama.
Kills and director G tried all they could to bring life to the story of the song into a emotional visual, and presenting a horrifying vision of domestic violence in a uncomfortably glamorous setting. The final moments are quite simplistic, but meaningful anyway, and make use of real childhood footage of Kills and her family, suggesting that there's some truth to the fictional narrative at the front end of the video. If so, it makes the video feel all the more haunting - but more than that, it tells the viewer something very personal about Kills, who always felt more like a series of postures than an artist who was relatable on a human level. As with the song, the video makes her truly vulnerable. It's the smartest career move she's made.
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