Today, Montreal musician Ada Lea dropped the new single and music video for hurt.
It is the follow-up to the 2020 EP woman, here and 2019’s full length LP what we say in private and taken from the upcoming album one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden which comes out on September 24, 2021 via Saddle Creek and Next Door Records.
A intimate raw and emotional alterna-pop tune that gets to the core of your emotions.
About the track:
“hurt” lives in a snowy Montreal winter, a city that Levy calls home and lives and breathes through her music. It thrums with bass and brooding keys, as Levy uses frank language and imagery:
‘somebody hurt me badly, now I’m stuck in a rut // now I don’t know my body // I could say it or say nothing at all // take a walk or take none at all // get on a bus back to montreal // tell my friends or say nothing at all.’
When the song hits its peak, her voice is carried by a swirl of strings and quick-tempoed keys. In the accompanying video, directed by Monse Muro, Levy sits at a decorated table, awash in desaturated colors. Peculiar images and colors flash through as the song grows in intensity.
“I wanted to find a way to communicate complicated feelings using the simplest language possible,” says Levy. “I came with a narrative and removed almost every detail, so as not to obfuscate the feeling – but left it open in terms of a resolution: was this hurt necessarily a bad thing?”
hurt gets:
/10.
Ada Lea – hurt [Music Video]
