Horsepower is the new project of NYC-based songwriter and (mostly) reformed horsegirl Charlotte Weinman, and “Are You Blushing?” serves as the moniker’s first single. Translating a background in theater and a prior musical career indebted to aiding other songwriters into a personal statement of her own, the track sees Weinman channeling the elegant balladry of Mitski and a modern dream-pop sensibility into a song about the involuntary thoughts that tend to come with a prospective romance.
“This song is about having a crush that invades your brain space like contagion,” Weinman shares. “It’s a little scary because you're not in full control of your thoughts, and also because the brain is a powerful thing—you can use it to think a crush to death. It’s also about the way every crush is a mirror, and sometimes what’s addictive about being imaginative about a crush is really the reflection of ourselves the crush offers back—the visualization of our lives through the crush.”
Check out the video for “Are You Blushing?” below—which features, among other things, a toy horse googling “Am i actually like a pervert???????”—and find more info about Horsepower’s upcoming show at NYC’s Night Club 1010 here.
