Princess Nokia – Blue Velvet

Princess Nokia returns with “Blue Velvet”, a single that announces her upcoming album “Girls” due October 10 via Artist House. Nokia describes the track as “both delicate and sinister” and says it “supports women’s rights and women’s wrongs”. She dedicates the song to “my rapist and all of my abusers”, positioning herself as both victim and survivor.

Drawing inspiration from David Lynch’s filmography, Nokia declares herself “David Lynch, babe” and likens herself to Twin Peaks’ Laura Palmer. The song tackles heavy themes around abuse and predatory behaviour while maintaining Nokia’s defiant stance. She uses Lynch’s complex female characters as a framework for her narrative, arguing that being victimised doesn’t mean accepting silence.

Nokia pushes back against interpretations of Lynch’s work that claim he glorified violence against women, instead focusing on how he wrote nuanced, complex female characters who shaped his surreal worlds. “Blue Velvet” continues Nokia’s pattern of confronting complex subjects head-on while reclaiming power through her art.