Number One Popstar: I Hate Running Number One Popstar (aka director, photographer and recording artist Kate Jean Hollowell) offers up a clever, comedic takedown of fitness expectations with her irreverent single, “I Hate Running.” Hollowell directs the official music video, where she stars as an aerobics guru and author who presents her book Work on Yourself, Loser! to an oddball group of color-coordinated attendees. Humor aside, the track itself …
Swedish singer-songwriter Anna Leone returns with the tender “Once,” produced by Paul Butler. An ode to naivety, regret and ultimately acceptance, the enchanting folk song is accompanied by a video filmed in the Azores archipelago, Portugal. At once ethereal and grounded in nature, the dark, dreamy visuals come from “the idea of being stuck in your ways, going through the same patterns, but then choosing …
Anna Leone: My Soul I An incredibly impressive debut, Swedish singer/songwriter Anna Leone has crafted an impossibly perfect, heartbreaking ballad. Released earlier this month, “My Soul I” now has a video which recently premiered on Fader and it’s full of appropriately slow, sweeping shots. A gentle melody, matched with lyrics about ill-fated love, this song is heavy with sorrow and yet entirely beautiful. Yeah Yeah …
