Watch Banks Sing to a Past Love in ‘I Still Love You’ Video

Banks is sharing among the first lyrics she wrote as she sings to an ex-love. On Monday, the Serpentina singer launched the coquettish, but melancholic music video for the ballad “I Nonetheless Love You.”

“I don’t know your bruises or the place you’ve been these days/However I do know I nonetheless love you,” she sings. The stripped-back video — co-directed by Banks and James Mountford — follows the singer as she sings the observe’s lyrics, together with the sounds of a comfortable piano, to the digital camera.

“I’ve held this track tight for over six years,” she mentioned in a launch. “It felt like a secret I wished to maintain only for myself. However I lastly really feel not solely prepared however so excited to share this with the world. It’s about loving somebody you don’t speak to anymore. Lacking the little issues about them. Even the stuff you thought you hate.”

Banks defined to Elle that she wrote the track effectively “earlier than something occurred to my profession” however she felt the necessity to put it on her new album, Serpentina. “It appears like an ode to the place songwriting for me began, simply alone, for myself,” she mentioned.

The singer additionally advised Rolling Stone final month that she discovered a “new confidence in my very own creativity, in my intestine instinct,” when she labored on her album, out April 8, in the course of the pandemic.

“My vocals trip extra on high of all the pieces than ever earlier than,” she mentioned. “I need folks to really feel like they’re sitting proper subsequent to me once they hear it — whether or not it’s a banger or a ballad.”

To this point, Banks has launched tracks “The Satan,” “Skinnydipped,” “Holding Again,” and “I Nonetheless Love You” from Serpentina.