After making a searing return with her first solo release in years—“POPSICLE”—a venom-laced anthem that marks a powerful reassertion of identity, rage, and creative control, Lilith Czar has dropped the Edgar Allan Poe-inspired video. From its opening lines (“You two-faced son of a bitch / You fucking make me sick”), she wastes no time reclaiming her voice, launching straight into a snarling chorus that reads like a warning: “Easy rocking bomb pop / Gonna make your heart stop.”
“‘The Portrait’ video for ‘POPSICLE’ was inspired by Poe’s The Oval Portrait – a story about obsession and how it drains the life from everything it touches,” Czar shares. “In the video, I’m posing for a portrait, clearly the antithesis of what’s being painted, but it doesn’t matter. They only ever saw what they wanted to see.”
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Leaning into her Bride of Frankenstein-inspired aesthetic, Czar uses horror as a metaphor. “The Bride of Frankenstein look is symbolic; she was created without consent, expected to submit, and chose defiance. Ultimately, the fundamental refusal to see the subject at all results in the slow suffocation of spirit, until nothing remains but a hollow echo of what was once alive. This is about creative control, autonomy, and the fight to hold onto who you are.”
“POPSICLE,” she says, is “the breaking point. The moment you stop shrinking, softening, and reshaping yourself to fit someone else’s agenda.” It’s an anthem for those pushed to the margins, stripped of agency, or sacrificed to profit. “It’s a fuck-you song,” she concludes. “And above all, it’s about refusing to compromise your integrity.”
She concludes, “It’s a fuck-you song, and above all, it’s about refusing to compromise your integrity.”
Watch the official video for “POPSICLE” below.
