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Hear Charli XCX’s New Single ‘Chains of Love’ in ‘Wuthering Heights’ Trailer

The release marks the latest single from the ‘Brat’ architect’s forthcoming February album for the film

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It’s a big week for Charli XCX and classic romance novel fans alike: The singer has released her second single in four days, “Chains of Love.” It follows the Nov. 10 release of “House” featuring the Velvet Underground’s John Cale.

Both tracks will be on Charli’s forthcoming album Wuthering Heights, inspired by and soundtracking Emerald Fennel’s highly anticipated film adaptation of the famous book by Emily Brontë. The movie will hit theaters on Valentine’s Day 2026, and Charli’s album will arrive the day before, on Feb. 13. “Chains of Love” is featured prominently in the new Wuthering Heights film trailer, also released Thursday. 

On “Chains of Love” Charli XCX is a tortured paramour, speak-singing, “I’d rather lay down in thorns/I’d rather drown in a stream/I’d rather light myself on fire/I’d rather wear all these scars/I’d rather watch my skin bleed/In the eye of your storm.”

In the bombastic hook made even bolder in the movie trailer, Charli sings “My face is turning blue/Can’t breathe without you here/The chains of love are cruel/I shouldn’t feel like a prisoner.” It was produced by Finn Keane, who also made “Von Dutch,” “Sympathy Is a Knife,” and “Everything Is Romantic” with Charli. “Everything Is Romantic” was used in a September teaser for Wuthering Heights. 

In the Wuthering Heights trailer, “Chains of Love” is fleshed out orchestrally while stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi fall in star-crossed love as Catherine Earnshaw, the wealthy daughter of master of the Wuthering Heights estate and Heathcliff, who her father took in as an orphan when they were children. Robbie’s appearance follows her starring role in September’s A Big Bold Beautiful Journey opposite Colin Ferrel. Elordi most recently starred in Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein this month.

From Rolling Stone US.

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