Frankie Cosmos - Bitch Heart

What this video is

Released May 7, 2025 as the second single from Frankie Cosmos's sixth album 'Different Talking' (Sub Pop, June 27, 2025), 'Bitch Heart' arrives at a moment when indie-rock bands are grappling publicly with digital alienation and the erosion of pre-smartphone selfhood. The video's infrared/thermal photography literalizes this anxiety: human bodies rendered as heat signatures, stripped of social-media-legible…

Why it matters

A landmark of 2020s indie-rock music video practice, 'Bitch Heart' exemplifies the convergence of BFA/MFA fine-art video tradition with indie-pop promotion. Its use of infrared and thermal cameras to stage a conceptual narrative about wildness vs. domesticity distinguishes it from contemporaneous…

The director

Eliza Lu Doyle (b. 1993, based in New York) is an interdisciplinary artist working across video, writing, and performance. She holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (2016) and an MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University…