CHINCHILLA has released a new live video for her latest single,
'1:5'. It's a cut from her upcoming EP
'Flytrap', due to be released 7th June, which also features previously released tracks '
Cut You Off', '
MF Diamond', and '
Little Girl Gone'.
Commenting on the single, CHINCHILLA says: "’1:5’ is probably the most personal and vulnerable thing I’ve ever put out. It’s about a feeling of imbalance I guess and lack of power. ‘Do you really only love sometimes? At a ratio of 1:5’. It’s withdrawal. The heartbreak and longing of a feeling. The lyrics are straight from a note on my phone from a time when I was journaling about it, it came so quickly. My heart bled into it and I just fell in love with the song. It soothes me - music is therapy."
Of the video, she adds: “When it came to ‘1:5’, that song is so special to me, I didn’t want to just do a music video. I wanted to create something more vulnerable and raw, a live performance. It’s the most personal song I’ve ever released, and I think the rawness of a live performance mirrors that. I wanted to create something beautiful and aesthetic to watch. I’m a fly trapped and being watched, monitored, controlled… vulnerable yet strong. The trapped fly image is from the concept of my upcoming EP ‘Flytrap’ which ‘1:5’ is on. My mum has an open-hand analogy - ‘If you hold something tightly, you kill it, and that’s what flytraps do’. Maybe the musicians are in my head? They double up as guards too. I just wanted to create a really powerless depiction of what it feels like to be trapped.”
