Watch Kelsy Karter and Goody Grace in ‘Rest in Pieces’ Video

Cue the voodoo dolls and the spells. On Tuesday, Rolling Stone premiered the music video for Kelsy Karter‘s single “Relaxation in Items” that includes Goody Grace, the singer’s final pop-punk track earlier than reinvention together with her upcoming sophomore album.

“‘Relaxation in Items’ is a track about loving one thing or somebody a lot you may let it kill you,” she tells Rolling Stone. “Principally my angsty lil tune about being an extremist.”

Within the video, directed by Gary Lengthy, Kelsy and Goody play love pursuits which might be doing absolutely the most to harm one another as they play with voodoo dolls of each other. The video is paying homage to 2000s punk.

“We have been children then so we have been frothing over the concept of creating one thing nostalgic impressed by our favourite pop-punk bands,” Karter says. “We coated the partitions with posters of rockstars, discovered some voodoo dolls, put a drum package on a cliff, and known as it a day.”

The one closes a pop-punk chapter for the singer. The monitor serves as a follow-up to her earworm-filled Lacking Individual, which she launched throughout a “darkish time” in her private life. Karter described that document as “emotional rock songs about heartbreak, rising pains, melancholy, revolt, and embracing individualism.” (In 2020, Rolling Stone selected her monitor “God Is aware of I’ve Tried” as a Track You Must Know.)

“This resurgence of ‘punk’ is simply popular culture giving artists permission to put on plaid pants and put guitars in songs once more. However I simply don’t purchase it,” Karter admits candidly. “Punk doesn’t imply ready for permission. It’s a sense, an perspective, power. Not a branding choice. It’s doing what you need, loving who you need, sporting what you need.”

Reflecting on the sound’s resurgence — thanks partially to the likes of Machine Gun Kelly, who pivoted from rap to pop-punk lately — Karter says the mainstream return of the sound is “simply self-indulgent bullocks. Not punk.”

For Karter, who’s been making music with that pop-punk sound for years, it’s time for a pivot. “I’ve spent the final 12 months cultivating a brand new sound, a reinvention, a brand new story. I don’t wanna give away an excessive amount of but it surely sounds nothing like my earlier music. After I got here out of my melancholy I found part of myself I hadn’t met earlier than,” Karter says. “This unstoppable creature. A stronger, wiser, braver model of myself… I wanna present them which you can be something you wanna be.”

She concludes, “And to not sound cocky, however God herself couldn’t cease me now.”