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Though the message comes in the form of a lush song, Marissa Nadler<\/a> shows the dark side of love in the video she directed and animated for her song “Janie In Love.”<\/p>\n

Nadler turns the concept of love into an unnatural force, one that breaks its target into pieces. “You’re a natural disaster,” she croons. “You touch and the earth will crumble\/\u00a0You speak and hurricanes attack.” The black and white video includes stop-motion footage\u00a0that is both beautiful and unnerving: a winged doll with its parts scattered across the ground, faces of sand and dirt that appear and dissolve, a snake-like creature made of clay that pulses and changes shape. We see clips of the singer walking in a desolate forest, but\u00a0her face is mostly obscured by shadows, or blocked\u00a0by her arms. Animated leaves fall and collect at the bottom of the screen, and the video ends with snow falling in the forest. \u00a0The love referenced in “Janie In Love” does not end with\u00a0flowers blossoming or the sun shining, but cold and darkness, making her\u00a0message clear: This love was doomed from the beginning.<\/p>\n

Marissa Nadler’s\u00a0Strangers\u00a0<\/em>is out now via Sacred Bones. Order the album here<\/a> and listen to “Janie In Love” below.<\/p>\n