Musically, Magdalene makes the whole thing sound like enormous fun. Huge pop hooks arrive with a sleazy indie-rock edge, while her theatrical vocal moves effortlessly between seductive, sneering and gloriously unhinged. The anthemic chorus is built to stick, and a jazzy breakdown later in the track pushes its showbiz theatrics even further. The sinister undertones may become clearer once you know the story, but the satire never feels gimmicky – beneath all the excess is a genuinely brilliant pop song.

The accompanying video gleefully commits to the bit. Magdalene revels in her role as the executive, surrounded by hopeful stars in a world of glamour, debauchery and deliberately overblown excess. Colourful, chaotic and unapologetically camp, it turns the industry’s familiar imbalance of power into something ridiculous enough to expose its ugliness. Weird, clever and ridiculously catchy, ‘Super Lucrative Jukebox Baby’ makes a compelling case for Magdalene’s self-appointed title: pop star for freaks.

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“’Red Siren Pick Up’ is about worshiping chaos and running towards it to feel alive,” says Magdalene. “The music video follows a runaway bride in psychosis who falls in love with a rock star on television. News breaks that he’s tragically killed in a car accident by an old white truck. She becomes fixated and falls in love with the truck that killed him.”

Co-produced and written by Slushpuppy (KATSEYE, Cortis) and Dylan Harrison (ADÉLA), ‘Red Siren Pick Up’ blends explosive pop hooks and indie rock energy into Magdalene’s most volatile and emotionally raw release yet. The accompanying music video, directed by Boned and PJ Charles, expands the song’s surreal mythology into a twisted Americana horror story. Magdalene stars as a runaway bride unraveling after the death of a televised rockstar, played by Current Joys. As grief gives way to delusion, she becomes consumed by the truck responsible for the accident.

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