Ellen Benediktson Pushes Into Darker Territory With Blood, Love and Impulse on New EP WID4L
Ellen Benediktson dives into yearning and impulse on her second EP, WID4L. Following her debut EP Good Girl, Ellen pushes both her sound and artistic expression further, exploring the beautiful and destructive extremes of love in a maximalist pop landscape.
"In a world that feels overwhelming, I become more self-aware than ever," Ellen explains. "There's nothing smart about acting on impulse, but it feels so good in the moment. When the world is burning, it feels even more necessary."
Released May 15th via Icons Creating Evil Art
Stream on all major streaming platforms here
With WID4L, Ellen Benediktson expands her world and makes sure there are no question marks left. From the lyrics and production to the visuals and themes, the EP's core message is clear: emotional impulsivity " recognizing your patterns, but still running right into them. Ranging from obsession and jealousy to self-irony and romantic self-deception, the EP explores the push and pull between mind and body.
Drawing on influences from indie pop and electro-pop, Ellen and her core team of producers build on what they established with Good Girl, creating both familiarity and surprise. Lyrically exploring indulgent self-sabotage, Ellen cuts to the core of passion for passion's sake. Each track becomes another reckless drive into a field of red flags. Extending this theme into the visuals, Ellen takes Lady Macbeth's red hands and dresses them in high fashion, creating a pop-gothic dreamscape of glossy productions about deadly sins.
"A warning that pulls you in. I wanted the red on my hands to feel corporeal, like the emotions just spill out and can't be washed away."
"The cover art for the EP had to feel like an explosive, messy ending. The idea was: 'what if I just smeared myself in a ton of red goo?' " like all the emotions had left my body and turned into something physical. It's both beautiful and kind of creepy."
Across five tracks, Ellen maps out her universe:
Tracklist:
Only Lovers
Jealousy
i'm that girl
WID4L
i tell my friends
Only Lovers is the EP's focus track, a bittersweet love song with tension-driven verses exploring the darker sides of love. The song's angelic pop chorus opens up to the idea that all the pain love brings might be worth it in the end, because "only lovers hurt like this".
"I've romanticized falling apart for love " and have fallen apart. Only Lovers is about chasing a love that's too intense to survive, where the pain becomes proof that it was real."
Photo credit: Jolina Elísh
"In a world that feels overwhelming, I become more self-aware than ever," Ellen explains. "There's nothing smart about acting on impulse, but it feels so good in the moment. When the world is burning, it feels even more necessary."
Released May 15th via Icons Creating Evil Art
Stream on all major streaming platforms here
With WID4L, Ellen Benediktson expands her world and makes sure there are no question marks left. From the lyrics and production to the visuals and themes, the EP's core message is clear: emotional impulsivity " recognizing your patterns, but still running right into them. Ranging from obsession and jealousy to self-irony and romantic self-deception, the EP explores the push and pull between mind and body.
Drawing on influences from indie pop and electro-pop, Ellen and her core team of producers build on what they established with Good Girl, creating both familiarity and surprise. Lyrically exploring indulgent self-sabotage, Ellen cuts to the core of passion for passion's sake. Each track becomes another reckless drive into a field of red flags. Extending this theme into the visuals, Ellen takes Lady Macbeth's red hands and dresses them in high fashion, creating a pop-gothic dreamscape of glossy productions about deadly sins.
"A warning that pulls you in. I wanted the red on my hands to feel corporeal, like the emotions just spill out and can't be washed away."
"The cover art for the EP had to feel like an explosive, messy ending. The idea was: 'what if I just smeared myself in a ton of red goo?' " like all the emotions had left my body and turned into something physical. It's both beautiful and kind of creepy."
Across five tracks, Ellen maps out her universe:
Tracklist:
Only Lovers
Jealousy
i'm that girl
WID4L
i tell my friends
Only Lovers is the EP's focus track, a bittersweet love song with tension-driven verses exploring the darker sides of love. The song's angelic pop chorus opens up to the idea that all the pain love brings might be worth it in the end, because "only lovers hurt like this".
"I've romanticized falling apart for love " and have fallen apart. Only Lovers is about chasing a love that's too intense to survive, where the pain becomes proof that it was real."
Photo credit: Jolina Elísh
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