On her latest single “Get Out,” singer-songwriter Kris Kolls stations herself in psychological limbo — that suspended state where someone knows exactly what needs to happen but can’t yet make their body move towards the door. The decision exists. The action doesn’t. Kris Kolls built an entire track inside that gap.
“This entire song is built on moments I’ve personally lived through,” she says in a recent interview. “There was a period in my life when I was truly in that state — and it lasted for quite a long time.” That prolonged paralysis became source material rather than something to escape. The wider emotional spectrum — the layers, the contradictions, the internal noise — all existed. But Kris Kolls kept returning to that specific stillness. “Not speaking about that specific state would have felt dishonest,” she explains. “That’s where everything began.”
One lyric distills the whole conflict into seven words: “Trying to scream but the quiet’s louder.” For Kris Kolls, silence isn’t absence — it’s weight. “It’s not only about pain; it’s about depth,” she says. “Sometimes silence really is louder than any scream.”
The music video fractures identity into three visual chapters, each one a different version of the same story. The little black dress with a microphone captures Kris Kolls as storyteller — “100% me,” she says, “and how I currently feel the world.” The black lace top staged among books reflects intellectual solitude. “I’ve always searched for answers in books — I consider them my best companions.” Then comes the silver coat, black gloves, elevator walls. Gloss as armor. Surface as hiding place. “But even there, I’m still in my own elevator,” she notes, “and it doesn’t always take me to the right floors.”
The momentum continues April 30 when “I Want More” arrives — an electropop pivot Kris Kolls envisions in nightclubs and convertibles rolling down Ocean Drive.