MOLLIE ELIZABETH DROPS NEW SINGLE, “PETTY CRIMES”
After taking on the toxicity of today’s impossible beauty standards in her recent single “Puppet Show”, Mollie Elizabeth examines another thorny predicament on the theatrically playful yet elegant “Petty Crimes”. The track tells the story of a young woman who reaches out for help only to find her concerns minimized and misread, feeding into a self-destructive cycle where “She’s always making headlines / For petty crimes / By design, she’s traumatized.” Her expressive, dreamy vocals are buoyed by exquisite strings and lighthearted horns and handclaps. The song was produced by Joshua Murty, with string composition by Kyle Gordon and Mark Rudin.
“In my experience, you have to hit rock bottom as a young woman to be taken seriously by doctors. I was misdiagnosed for years, on medications my body didn’t need and that didn’t help me at all,” says Mollie Elizabeth. ”‘Petty Crimes’ is about my final call for people to believe me when I say something is wrong, and the realization that going feral is the only way to get them to listen…”
In the accompanying video, which she conceived and directed, Mollie plays a heroine on the run, clad in a hospital gown. She finds solace in an abandoned shed where she has a tea party with some mischievous rats and dances with an ax. Or is the soirée all in her head?
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