Girl In Red shares heartbreaking new single ‘Blue’

Girl In Red is back with the vulnerable new single ‘Blue’ – her first new music in over a year.

Released today (Friday October 9) via Columbia Records, the new single marks the first to be released from Marie Ulven since she dropped the raw standalone track ‘Hemingway’ last summer.

Capturing the same emotive songwriting style that she has had since the beginning, the new track takes on feelings of uncertainty, and explores the feeling of loss after a relationship comes to an end.

It also comes with a music video directly by Ulven’s longtime creative partner Isak Jenssen, which is filmed in her Oslo hometown and explores how her heartbreak has made her into the person she is today.

When she dropped ‘Hemingway’ last summer, Girl In Red explained that it was a song that explored her previous battle with “addiction, ED and depression that almost killed me”.

Falando com a NME sobre a reação à música, Ulven nos disse em Glastonbury 2025: “Estou muito tocado pela resposta porque é uma música muito vulnerável sobre dependência, coração partido e problemas de relacionamento, e como tudo isso se entrelaça.”.

The singer is also set to make her acting debut in the upcoming film Low Expectations, which will be released in the UK & Ireland in early 2027.

Screen Daily, which reported the news of the film’s release, described the synopsis as following “Maja, who falls apart at the height of her music career. Depressed and broke, she moves back home with her mother and works part-time at a local high school, where she slowly finds her way back to life.”.

Girl In Red also spoke to NME at Glasto about how she was finding the venture into acting, sharing: “There are some similarities between music and acting. When I’m playing songs live, sometimes I’m not really in the mood for that song at all, but I’m just tapping into it and it sort of becomes a performance.

Similarly, when I’ve been acting, it’s also taking on a character. I’m tapping into someone who I’m not, and into feelings that I’ve probably felt before, but I’m not feeling them there.

I’m working out how I can make it seem like I am.

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