Suki Waterhouse has released the official music video for her newest single, “To Love.”
Watch the video here:
Speaking to Rolling Stone about the track, Suki shared, “‘To Love’ is a song that I wrote really recently that I was going to wait to put out on my second album. But I felt like it is a very distinct portrait of my heart right now that I wanted to share. I started performing it on tour and got so excited that I wanted to share it with everyone.”
This is Suki’s first release since her EP, Milk Teeth, released in November 2022. The EP featured her most well-received track to date, “Good Looking,” which exploded on TikTok, catapulting Suki to a new level of popularity. The track currently has in excess of 157million streams on Spotify, and pushed Suki into the category of melancholy pop girls amongst contemporaries Lana Del Rey and Phoebe Bridgers.
Listen to “Good Looking” here.
Suki shared her feelings surrounding her songwriting with NME, saying “I felt incredibly blocked in my own autobiographical memory of who I was or what I could be. Jumping into those anxieties helped me feel free. That’s not to say suddenly everything became super joyous and easy, but I think if you want to stay in that state of creativity, the whole thing is, a lot of the time, it’s not a great place to be at all.”
Suki continued, “That’s what has to be appreciated – the pockets of bliss are small and it’s the muddiness in between and the willpower to jump into the fear [that lead you to them].”
Suki has credited “a delusional confidence” for her ability release her art, saying, “I think it’s something to do with an acknowledgement of fear. It’s when you’re not afraid to show up with the things that you’re afraid of that leads to confidence.”
Speaking on her debut album, Suki said, “I wrote the album in much more of a hurt place, a much more hollow and confused space,” with her newest release, “To Love” seeing her move into a more positive, comfortable realm.
Suki’s relationship with Robert Pattinson has made headlines recently, following their attendance of the 2023 Met Gala together, with many fans viewing “To Love” as an ode to Pattinson, though Suki hasn’t commented on this herself.
In addition to her music releases, Suki recently starred in the Amazon Prime TV adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s popular novel, Daisy Jones and the Six. Suki played a character not too dissimilar from her real life persona, starring as Karen, a keyboard player keen to move up the ranks of the LA music scene in the 1970s.
The cast recorded an album as the titular fictional band, with the original songs written by Blake Mills, who has previously worked with the likes of Fiona Apple and Lana Del Rey.
Speaking on the experience of recording the album with her costars, Suki said, “To get to actually play together so much that you genuinely are a band was very unlike anything I’d ever experienced.”
Stream the Daisy Jones and the Six album, featuring Suki Waterhouse, here:
