Marking her first solo release in several years, Lilith Czar returns with a vengeance on her explosive new track, “POPSICLE.” From the first brutal lines—“You two-faced son of a bitch/You fucking make me sick”—Czar leaves no room for misinterpretation. She tears through her frustrations before crashing into the snarling chorus: “Easy rocking bomb pop/Gonna make your heart stop.”
In her own words, Czar describes “POPSICLE” as “The breaking point—the moment you stop shrinking, softening, and reshaping yourself into something that isn’t you just to fit someone else’s agenda. It’s a song for every person who’s been told their worth depends on anything other than their own force. At its core, it’s about obliterating the box you’re told to fit inside and rejecting the expectation to conform.”
She concludes, “It’s a fuck-you song, and above all, it’s about refusing to compromise your integrity.”
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On Instagram, Czar expanded even further, introducing a key visual symbol. “The Banshee. The Fury. A symbol of defiance, a refusal to conform, and divine rage,” she writes. “Emblematic of anyone who dares to go against the grain—and the voice inside you that rises when the world refuses to listen. POPSICLE is just one of five stories unfolding through this lens.”
Listen to “POPSICLE” below.
Alongside the single, Czar also unveiled a powerful visualizer that brings the Banshee symbolism to life. Styled and directed by Czar herself, the visualizer’s striking makeup was created by her husband, Andy Black of Black Veil Brides.
Of the imagery—particularly the crown of thorns—Black explains, “The symbolism here is meant intentionally to evoke something, but not in an oppositional or aggressive way.”
Czar adds, “This song is about many things, but one of the key elements is the way I—and so many women—have been made to feel by a cold and callous industry. Humiliated and tortured in service of someone else’s ideas or financial aspirations.”
Watch the visualizer for “POPSICLE” below.
