Charli XCX Stomps on a Table and Breaks the ‘Chains of Love’ in New Music Video

Charli XCX has dropped an appropriately dramatic new music video for “Chains of Love,” the latest single from her upcoming album tied to Emerald Fennel’s Wuthering Heights adaptation. 

Directed by C Prinz, the clip finds Charli performing the song in a grand but empty dining hall where she contends with an unseen force that flings cutlery and candlesticks in her direction, and lifts the giant table off the floor. At the cathartic climax, Charli stomps on the glass table, sending up a storm of shards.

Charli released “Chains of Love” last week, the song arriving fast on the heels of her other recent single, “House,” with John Cale. Both songs will appear on the Wuthering Heights companion album, which Charli crafted with songwriters/producers Finn Keane and Justin Raisen. Wuthering Heights the movie — which co-stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi — is set to arrive Feb. 14, 2026, while the album is slated to drop Feb. 13. 

In a recent statement, Charli said her approach to the companion album was heavily inspired by a quote Cale gave in Todd Haynes’ 2021 documentary The Velvet Underground: “One thing that stuck with me was how John Cale described a key sonic requirement of the Velvet Underground,” she wrote in a note to fans. “That any song had to be both ‘elegant and brutal.’ I got really stuck on that phrase. I write it down on my notes app and would pull it up from time to time and think about what he meant.”

Though not technically a solo album, Wuthering Heights will be Charli XCX’s first project since her hit 2024 album, Brat. 

“After being so in the depths of my previous album I was excited to escape into something entirely new, entirely opposite,” she said of embarking on the project after Fennell sent her a copy of the script. “When I think of Wuthering Heights I think of many things. I think of passion and pain. I think of England. I think of the Moors, I think of the mud and the cold. I think of determination and grit.”

From Rolling Stone US.