On her latest single “Emotionless,” singer and songwriter Ashley Kutcher needs a break from feeling. The soft acoustic track with heartbreaking lyrics arrives alongside a music video directed by Anya Salmen that captures the emotional purgatory Kutcher has found herself in.
“I think that I’m feeling too much / Every thought leads back to us / Can only hate someone you love / And now that were done,” she sings. “I wanna be emotionless / I wanna feel emotionless / You’re outta my bed, so get outta my head / I wanna be wanna be fine.”
In the visual, Kutcher is surrounded by emptiness – first by the window of her apartment, then by the winding spiral staircase. Even in the New York City streets and on the quick-moving subway, she’s all on her own, reeling through the emotions of a breakup that won’t break.
“Emotionless” follows Kutcher’s latest singles “Love You More” and “ Nothing’s All The Time,” both of which similarly showcase the singer’s poignant songwriting. When the former track was released, she wrote on social media: “I’ve spent the past year figuring out who I am as an artist & songwriter. Since my EP I’ve truly realized what feels the most me, & since then I’ve been making songs that feel so right.”
She’s speaking of her 2021 EP One Eighty, which contained the smoldering acoustic track “Love You From A Distance” and the retrospective cut “The Night You Left.” Of the project, she shared: ‘“One Eighty’ is a collection of songs I wrote as my life took a complete turn. It’s a project of discovering who I am as an artist. Together these songs tell my story and I could not be more excited to share it.”
The 23-year-old singer and songwriter is gearing up to release her debut album later this year featuring the aforementioned singles.