For all its wonders, young love is one of the most notoriously difficult things to navigate – and that's doubly true for same-sex attraction as a teenager. So when L.A. singer-songwriter-producer BIIANCO started watching HBO's"I think a lot of queer high school romances are marked by equal amounts of passion and ambiguity," BIIANCO says. "In, Rue spent most of that romance with Jules wondering what the hell Jules was feeling and what she was to her.
But pain in high school can often fuel art later in life, and with "Chlorine" – a self-produced afterhours jam where buoyant finger snaps and layered vocals rub up against lush synths -- BIIANCO draws on anxiety from her past to create something gorgeous in the present. "One of my high school romances was exactly that. My heart was all in, there were kisses in the rain and barefoot summer nights and so much feeling — but it felt like I was solving an endless calculus equation just to figure that relationship out and, in the end, I never did," she recalls.
BIIANCO brought that same abandon to the video shoot in London – although perhaps not intentionally. While the video cleverly features effects that distort the real-world imagery much like the harmonizing effects warp her vocals, there were a few very real scares during the shot -- she was almost hit by a bus twice during filming . "I’m still getting used to that whole thing where Brits drive on the other side of the road," she explains good-naturedly.