"I got things in my head that just won't quit/ I'm gonna kill somebody," Luisa Lopez sings in "They Ain't Gonna See Me Coming: An American Western." It’s a track from her latest album, 45, whose noir-flavored video is premiering exclusively on Billboard below.
The singer-songwriter, who recently relocated to Nashville from Houston, isn't killing anybody, of course. But Lopez felt that a first-person perspective would be most effective in this case.
"I'm a big fan of storytelling, and I love Johnny Cash's murder ballad kind of thing," she tells Billboard. "I just gave a lot of thought to what is it that's going on in people's brains? What kind of state of mind do you have to be in to take it upon yourself to go murder your neighbors? You make all this effort to plan and plot and take out people's lives. What would make someone make that kind of plan? I think it's so dark and it's weird 'cause you're saying these things, and it seems like it's coming from you."
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