The new single and music video “Panopticon” from Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter, and visual artist Savannah Pope. “Panopticon” examines the lingering power certain people can hold over us long after a formative experience has ended. Written from Pope’s own history with body image and sexual trauma, the song captures the disorienting feeling of still being watched, measured, and judged by ghosts.
The accompanying video is a piece of art. Drawing from Rococo painting, chiaroscuro, fashion editorials, dressing-room mirrors, and what Pope gleefully calls “Rococo drag,” the video holds fantasy and brutality in the same frame. A measuring-tape sequence turns the scrutiny of the dressing room into a surreal examination of how bodies are observed and constructed. Like the song, the film is lush, severe, beautiful, and unexpectedly funny.
“Panopticon” is part of Pope’s forthcoming EP, a musical fever dream moving through operatic rock grandeur, baroque pop drama, and stripped-down cabaret intimacy. She recently supported Andy Bell of Erasure.
Savannah Pope is a Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter, and visual artist creating at the intersection of art rock, cinematic pop, glam, cabaret, and performance art. Known for her opera-like voice, immersive visual worlds, and visceral songwriting, Pope has supported Andy Bell of Erasure across North America, performed three sold-out nights at Los Angeles’ Fonda Theatre, and sold nearly 100 tickets for her New York headline debut at Joe’s Pub.
Her work has received support from LADYGUNN, Earmilk, We Found New Music, Guitar Girl Magazine, Music Connection, Luna Collective, and more, while her visual content has generated more than two million views. Her forthcoming EP explores trauma, desire, identity, and self-reclamation through operatic rock grandeur, baroque pop drama, and stripped-down cabaret intimacy.Her new single “Panopticon” examines the lingering power certain people can hold over us long after a formative experience has ended. Written from Pope’s own history with body image and sexual trauma, the song captures the disorienting feeling of still being watched, measured, and judged by ghosts. “Panopticon” pulls from movie scores, opera, and the modern theatricality of artists such as Florence + the Machine and The Last Dinner Party. Sweeping orchestration, baroque drama, and cabaret intimacy continually push against the song’s exposed center. It is grand and beautiful music that holds the raw honesty of the lyrics.
The accompanying video is a piece of art. Drawing from Rococo painting, chiaroscuro, fashion editorials, dressing-room mirrors, and what Pope gleefully calls “Rococo drag,” the video holds fantasy and brutality in the same frame. A measuring-tape sequence turns the scrutiny of the dressing room into a surreal examination of how bodies are observed and constructed. Like the song, the film is lush, severe, beautiful, and unexpectedly funny.
“Panopticon” is part of Pope’s forthcoming EP, a musical fever dream moving through operatic rock grandeur, baroque pop drama, and stripped-down cabaret intimacy.
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