The Linda Lindas kicked off their music profession battling racist, sexist classmates, and now they’re dealing with off with haunted dolls. Their new tune “Speaking to Myself” dropped Wednesday (March 2), full with a spooky music video impressed by the “Dwelling Doll” episode of The Twilight Zone.
Directed by Ryan Baxley, the “Speaking to Myself” video lifts its creepy, noir aesthetics straight from Twilight Zone and exhibits the Linda Lindas ladies taking part in with new dolls they obtained within the mail — earlier than they arrive to life and activate their house owners. “We’re all speaking to ourselves about issues we can’t assist,” the band sings as they throw punches in opposition to their evil toys. “So discuss to me, trigger I’m speaking to myself.”
“Speaking to Myself” is the second single off their upcoming album Rising Up, whose title observe was launched Feb. 1. The tune explores themes of loneliness and isolation, straight impressed by the point wherein it was written. Due out April 8, the LP was crafted in quarantine on the top of the pandemic.
“The tune is concerning the spiral you go into once you’re lonely,” 14-year-old band member Lucia de la Garza mentioned in an announcement. “You begin to query your self and all the selections you’ve made. I’m at all times trying again on conversations and going, ‘Oh, I ought to have mentioned this, I ought to have mentioned that.’ But it surely’s additionally about needing different folks, not only for reassurance, however as a result of we’ve all discovered from the pandemic that you simply want different folks to speak to with a view to keep sane.”
The four-piece woman group — which additionally contains Mila de la Garza (11), Eloise Wong (13), and Bela Salazar (17) — first turned heads in 2021 when a video of them performing a fiery authentic tune written a couple of prejudiced classmate — “Racist, Sexist Boy” — went viral on-line. They spoke to Rolling Stone in February about their forthcoming album, saying that Rising Up is clear of the musical progress they’ve attained since they launched their self-titled EP in 2020.
“We get nearer to one another after we write songs about what we’re feeling,” De la Garza instructed the journal. “We’re placing a bit piece of ourselves on the market to point out who we’re. That’s sort of scary, but it surely’s so much much less scary once you’ve acquired three different folks to do it with you.”
Watch the Linda Lindas battle possessed dolls of their new “Speaking to Myself” video under:
