Ema's latest single, "The Vampire Song," arrives like a whisper in the night, it's dark and seductive and packed with stories that haunt you long after the last note fades away. It's a deep dive into a world where love and hunger comingle, and devotion is both viscous and eternal.
The song is an amalgam of alt-indie moodiness and alt-rock power. It's about a female vampire who follows her crush around regardless of the season. Ema does not see the vampire's gaze as a curse so much as a form of strong, seductive love that pursues rather than terrifies. The vampire will do without a brief fling, she wants the one man she gazes at to be her blood, the scent and sign of love.
Every verse of the song carries with it a sense of inevitable destiny, and that she is inexorably headed toward claiming him at last. The ending, in which he dies so the two can be in love forever, has a poetic twist, a love story that doesn't conclude in vows but rather in eternal life. Ema portrays this transformation by escalating the hired music until the emotional pitch matches the vampire's final action.
There's something creepy about it, but also very personal all at once. "The Vampire Song" is one of a kind. The romantic darkness never feels overstated, instead, it is delivered with the human tenderness that makes the supernatural story breathe. This song proves that Ema can take a mythic notion and invest it with something intensely emotional, very musical, and highly memorable.