This song is essentially about always kind of running away from people who are good for you and running towards the people who are dangerous, you know? Kind of going for bad people and maybe it’s because they’re a bit more fun and exciting… but also bad for you. And I think that’s something that everyone’s sort of been through at some point, maybe… I hope it’s not just me.

I really wanted to make a statement with this video and really sort of come back to life in a new skin, I suppose, which is actually, I feel like most comfortable like this. Fans of mine who have been with me for a long time, they might be able to see similarities to that video to like how I kind of was with my first album which is kind of interesting. You know, I’ve always wanted to make a funeral video because I’m fascinated with funerals and I also like the idea of taking the lyric “Let the good ones go” very literally, so essentially the video is kind of about me attending my boyfriend’s funeral, and I decide to go wearing not many clothes and I do a lot of dancing and I dance on a grave at the end, and it’s hot and it’s fun so I had a great time shooting it.

Today, I, the inimitable Charli XCX, am releasing a brand new single ‘Good Ones’, accompanied by a twisted, dramatic and quite frankly electrifying music video.

The first single of my new chapter embraces all that my life has to offer in today’s world – fame, glamour, inner demons and global hits. ‘Good Ones’ was produced by Oscar Holter of Max Martin’s Wolf Cousins entity, and laments my inability to keep hold of healthy relationships, instead being endlessly drawn back to the dysfunctional and toxic.

Filmed in Mexico and co-directed by my new favorite director: Hannah Lux Davis, the ‘Good Ones’ video sees me dramatically mourning the untimely loss of my partner as I battle with the realisation that once again I’ve abandoned the goodness in my life, in favour of the sinister, with a visual aesthetic that marks a new era of me: Charli XCX.

– Charli XCX via press statement