Arizona-based songwriter Victoria Bigelow has a handful of EPs and singles under her belt dating back to 2019, most recently releasing Songs for No One Vol. 1 back in August. And while she hints at plenty more to come in the near future, today she’s sharing a music video for the EP cut “Panic Room,” a track which she previously noted addresses her “struggle with anxiety, and the moments when you have someone who loves you there to help talk you through it.”
Yet in spite of its title sharing a name with David Fincher’s 2002 tight-space home invasion thriller, Bigelow instead looks to a different movie from the director’s filmography for inspiration on the video. “As someone that loves Halloween and the thrill of not knowing what’s around the corner during the season, we wanted to create a visual that has a similar anxious, unsafe vibe,” she shares. “And I wanted to pay homage to one of my favorite books and movies, Gone Girl!”
Rather than claustrophobic, the track echoes the wide-open spaces of Bigelow’s home state while the occasional vocal similarities to Lana Del Rey make the femme-fatale narrative of Gone Girl an apt fit (there’s an homage to Pulp Fiction in the clip, too, for the buffs out there). Check out the Devan Skaggs–shot video below, and stream the EP here.
