Video: Lola Kirke, ‘Supposed To’

Daiana Feuer on June 14th, 2018

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Known primarily for her acting roles in “Mistress America,” “Gone Girl” and “Mozart In The Jungle,” Lola Kirke has music in her blood. Her father is Simon Kirke, drummer of Bad Company and Free, as a matter of fact. Following a self-titled EP that came out in 2016, Kirke’s debut full-length “Heart Head West” will be released by Downtown Records on Aug. 10. Tracked live to tape in East Los Angeles with Wyndham Garnett (Elvis Perkins in Dearland, Wyndham), “It’s a really personal record about basically everything I thought about in 2017 — time, family, loss, social injustice, sex, drinking, longing-essentially everything I’d talk about with a close friend for 40 minutes,” she says.

Where the album’s first single “Monster” was soft, slow and moody, “Supposed To” offers a slice of upbeat Americana, featuring Lilah Larson (Sons of an Illustrious Father) on guitar. Kirke directed the video, which centers around an aging woman breaking all the rules. “The song ‘Supposed To’ is really about the intense pressure I feel to be what other people think I should be and what I think I should be,” says Kirke. “How rebellious would you feel if you had spent your life just doing things that you felt that you were supposed to do? That society told you to do?”

||| Watch: The video for “Supposed To”