Charli xcx is again with one other style of her album of music written for Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Wuthering Heights, the complete trailer for which arrived Thursday (Nov. 13) that includes a brand new tune from the pop star titled “Chains of Love.”
The preview opens with Emily Brontë’s well-known fictional lovebirds, Heathcliff and Catherine — performed by Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie, respectively — sitting collectively within the moors as the previous imagines what he would do if he have been wealthy. The latter is startled when he signifies he’d “take a spouse,” setting off a montage of the couple’s tragic gothic love story.
“Why did you permit me?” Robbie says at one level as Elordi chases after her in a downpour, asking her in response, “Why did you betray your individual coronary heart?”
All of the whereas, Charli’s anthemic, synth-powered observe performs. “I do know the chains of affection received’t break,” she repeats in a hovering soprano melody.
The complete tune is now accessible for streaming, dropping on the identical day because the trailer. It follows on the heels of “Home,” which the British singer-songwriter labored on with John Cale of the Velvet Underground for her Wuthering Heights idea album. The brand new LP is about to drop on Feb. 13 — at some point earlier than the movie premieres in theaters.
In her first-ever publish on Substack, Charli not too long ago shared how the upcoming idea LP got here to be. “I known as Emerald and requested her what she hoped for from my learn of the script,” she wrote in a publish on Nov. 12. “She coyly advised ‘A tune?’ and I advised ‘An album?’ as a result of why not? I wished to dive into persona, right into a world that felt undeniably uncooked, wild, sexual, gothic, British, tortured and stuffed with precise actual sentences, punctuation and grammar. With out a cigarette or a pair of sun shades in sight, it was all completely different from the life I used to be at the moment dwelling.”
“This assortment of songs is an album, and positive, my title’s on the credit, however is it a Charli xcx album?” she added within the publish. “I don’t even know. Nor do I actually care to search out out.”
Watch the brand new trailer for Wuthering Heights that includes “Chains of Love” above, and take heed to the complete tune under.
