Swedish provocateur COBRAH returns with her new single and accompanying music video, ‘Torn’, inviting viewers into a surreal, latex-coated fever dream of dominance, submission, and rebirth.
In the accompanying video, COBRAH sits alone under sterile lights, combing her silky bleach blond hair as a wetter, more menacing version of herself materializes from behind her. Trapped in a glass box, she wrestles against her own reflection, a body double she can’t seem to dominate or escape. Her lyrics whisper “Why can’t I think? Did I do wrong?” before being slowly sealed in latex — a full-body membrane, glossy and suffocating. The climax sees COBRAH literally and figuratively consumed by pressure, leaving behind only a warped silhouette in a vortex of latex and breath.
It’s grotesque and gorgeous and scary to watch. The track mirrors that descent: starting with breathy, vulnerable vocals that spiral into a dark club crescendo, the sound of pleasure and panic collapsing into one another. “‘Torn’ is the interlude of a new beginning,” COBRAH says. “It’s the beauty in pain, and the opening of my inner self.”
image by Axel Ahlgren
