Looking For You - Julia's New Single





'Looking For You' is the sixth song written by Julia Volkova and Vin Peters for the number one album 'Haunted' and it was choosen to be the thrid official single of the album. The song will be released int wo different versions, one of them being the studio version of it which is featured on the album and the onther one being the live version of the song taken from Julia's upcoming HB0 speciall yet to be released.

The live version of the song will available in form of a mucis video, the performance will be released still in this week on Julia's official VEVO account and it wills erve as an anticipation for Julia's Staple center performance which was choosen for HBO to be premiered on USA summer on TV and also be released as a DVD.

The track keeps telling the story of Carly, the main charatcter of the album and if you want to check the story you can click here.

No music video will be done for this single once it will supported by the live performance of the song in the staple center. Julia is about yo kick off her USA summer tour, where she'll be traveling the whole country for a later European leg of the same tour yet to be revealed. so Stay tune for more info.

Lyrics

Who are you?
I smell your perfume in my sleep
Are you here to harm me?

Where are you
I can hear your voice in my mind
But I still recognize it

Trapped in this dream
I can’t find the exit
One more shot to wake up
But still I am stuck
Light my eyes then I see you
I’ve been looking for you
All my life

I’m alone
No one really cares with me so,
Do I must still have hope?

I’m all alone
Time is not my friend, I’m getting old
But I keep having hope

Trapped in this dream
I can’t find the exit
One more shot to wake up
But still I am stuck
Light my eyes then I see you
I’ve been looking for you
All my life
All my life

Do you hear my heart calling you
Even It doesn’t know you
When I find you, will you love me just
The way I was

I still live the dream
I can't gave up from looking
While in my heart you live
Then I’ll be dreaming

Trapped in this dream
I can’t find the exit
One more shot to wake up
But still I am stuck
Light my eyes then I see you
I’ve been looking for you
All my life

I’ve been looking for you
All my life
I’ve been looking for you
All my life

Technical Information

Recorded – December 2012, UK
Genre – Alternative Rock
Length – 2:46
Label – Chaos Records
Writer(s) – Vin Peters, Julia Volkova
Producer – Vin Peters, Julia Volkova

Sound and Writing

A song about looking someone that was already found but still the person is not available anymore and that loose sensation of being alone again comes to haunt someone’s pleasant dreams.
Sonically it's a chunky pop rock melody, thrashing guitars and oh-so smoky vocals, there's hooks, emotion, thought-provoking lyrics, all topped off with a monstrous chorus that brings plenty of teenaged angst to proceedings.
The song has an acoustic guitar riff start and it grows to a heavy rock chorus mixed with violins and Julia’s husky vocals, it comes back to a slow down melody when it comes to the second verse, but still is bigger than its start. It ends with a solo violin sound, some sort of a introduction to the next song on the album.
It’s not a change on the album’s sounding style so far, the sound of guitars and Julia’s vocal intonation are still the same from previous songs in the album, but now she’s singing more dramatically and it almost could turn into a ballad because of its violins and slow tempo drums sequence.

Sounds Like

Getting Old

It’s been a longtime since our last straight talk, despite your support this last year with Mutual Addiction’s tour and album and everything, I haven’t been really active on social media or other channels. But it’s finally time to sit down and write a little something for you my dearest vampires! I’ve been through a lot of changing the last years, since I started out this solo career and all the opportunities that were bought to me were a blessing on their own ways and I feel so great and happy that you all were always with me. Even though my outrageous behavior makes me sound and look wasted all the time, I truly feel sober when I tell you that I love you all. Said that, I must tell you that Mutual Addiction is over, as for now at least, me and Alex, we had a wonderful year together playing for you all, the music we created together was something I am very proud of, but it has come the time to re-encounter myself again, by my own.
For Alex, he has my love, my mind and all my support for all that he is striving to do for in this next year, I’m happy to have him on my side and to share a special feeling, ‘cause that’s something I never did with anybody before. I’ll always be there for him, in everything that he might need or even in the days that he won’t need me or didn’t want to see me, I’m such a pain in the ass sometimes ;P.
So now that we are putting Mutual Addiction to rest, I have to tell you that I’m back writing, ever since “Haunted” I never left the writing as a soloist and I have a large amount of material right now, I just need to focus on it and start something with it, but it has to be good, I’m not the type of person to release scratches, so it will take me sometime to re-group all of these shattered ideas. But I promise you that I’ll be working on a solo album for 2015 and certainly I’m already thinking about some people that I want to work with, it include producers, writers, singers or band mates, I’m feeling creative now that I start to think about Julia’s solo music.
For those of you who wants to know anything about my private life, I’m still the same chick of before in that aspect, I love Alex and I hope I’ll still be with him, our connection goes beyond the standards of any relationship, we mutual love each other and that’s the thing that I want to keep alive between us, this time we’ll be working on our solo careers will test our love, it will be the very first time after we decided to stablish a relationship that we’ll be away from each other, we’ll manage to have time to be together, but we spent the whole year of 2014 together and I ‘m afraid that won’t be possible for 2015. I’ll bide his time, I know he loves me.
I’m getting old, I think I’m in a point of my life that I have to slow down my routine, I already gave up some bad habits I had, I’m almost 30, I can’t imagine how it’s going to be after I really turn 30, but I got tell you that I ‘m still fresh and hot as hell, for the benefit of my relationship with Alex and also my career. I never was so open about my private life like before, I think it’s because of the fact that I’m a grown woman now, I don’t fear insecurity anymore. Well I hope you won’t forget about me, even if I keep away from spotlight after this open letter, don’t worry, it’s because I’ll be on studio!

I love you, XOXO Julia.

Song: I don’t believe in love
Release Date: May 24, 2015
Length: 4:39
Format: Digital Format, LP
Genre: Hard Rock, Alternative Rock
Label: Songs to love and die by
Writer(s): Julia Volkova, Lilly Stuart, Bill Owens
Producer(s): Julia Volkova, Bill Owens

Julia Volkova premieres her first solo single after a hiatus of two years, which includes an album and a world tour with Alex Simms (Mutual Addiction). It anticipates the release of her upcoming album, the third of her soloist career, in a very comfortable moment for rock music. The song hit radio stations and digital markets on Next Sunday (May 24th), it also will receive a limited LP edition for die-hard fans who wants to buy a physical album by Julia Volkova after so many time of new material absence from the rock goddess.
On May 12th Julia updated her official website with a picture of herself wearing a black kimono half naked, holding a skull on her right hand, necklaces with crucifixes and that diabolical and seductive look, which only Julia knows how to give. With the disturbing image, there was a message saying “Fell the Fear”. Two days after the posting, she tweeted the phrase “Honey, I awake in men their darkest wish” and teased her fans with a line from her upcoming single “I don’t believe in love”.
A quite suggestive name for the singer, once she’s been dating the rock sensation Alex Simms for almost three years now, as far as we concern. Julia experienced so much attention for her private life in the past, her relationships were always guidelines for the tabloids and gossip magazines. She took a more conservatorship attitude with her private life from that experience and now we often don’t see any gossip or outrage attitude by the sexy singer, but only her desirable performances on stage.
Crediting for the song, goes for Julia, of course, her longtime friend Lilly Stuart and The Enlightened producer Bill Owens. Julia worked with producer in Peters on her second album, which lead her to amore dark and heavy rock influence to her sound. For this next chapter she seemed to enjoy this dark and heavy side of her sound and invited producer and songwriter Bill Owens and by listening to this first music, we’re sure that this collaboration brought a level of intensity for Julia’s sound.
Julia plays at the “Best in Northwest Festival” where she’ll have a half hour set, it is also the first live concert she’ll be giving after the end of Mutual Addiction World Tour last year. She’ll be performing some of her old hits plus the newly released track, the anticipation for her performance is big, even though she did not take a headlining spot, we might think its safer for her to play a minor role in a festival, as for now she’s just making her way into the industry again.
The single will receive a heavy promotion campaign, starting with the live concert, a music video filmed and directed by Meiert Avis, expects to premiere in June. Julia will also appears on Rolling Stone June Issue plus she’ll be visiting a couple of TV shows to promote the single. The release is also the first song published by her new record label “Songs to love and die by”, she is already one year and half signed with the label, however this will be the first time she’ll release anything with her solo career supported by the brand.

Song Description

The song has a spooky feel of it enhanced by Julia Volkova’s whispers in the intro and the creepy dark style vibe from beginning to end. Intoxicating as devilishly hell, “I don’t believe in love” sounds like a terrific heavy metal anthem. Not only it is a pleasure to follow them eyes closed, but also one of the grooviest tunes you’ve ever heard from Julia’s repertoire. From infectious guitar hooks complemented by bass and drum smashing, dark lyrics and Julia’ rawness vocals, “I don’t believe in love” is the kind of song that gets the crowd involved and to become totally mad. No waste time, Julia Volkova strike strong.
There’s no denial that we were missing this Julia Volkova, the one with sultry and rawness vocals, demanding us to become her slaves, coordinating us to surrender to her evilness. Not that we missed her singing, because she released an album last year, but the Post-Grunge and sometimes Punk influence of Mutual Addiction kind of masked the hard rock sexy attitude that made Julia one of the most successful rock singers of this generation.
Let’s not forget her songwriting, this time helped by Lilly Stuart and Bill Owens too. So we are used with her ironic and devilish sense of humor, or black humor, more appropriating speaking. The entire song talks about her attractive persona on the track, does not know anything about love, but she is having some fun with young men who didn’t know the woman they’re falling in love. Obviously the song is bigger than just a song about Julia’s sexy seductive skills, it talks about something Julia was always credited for, which is to keep people’s attention for her in odd ways, is it her outrageous attitude? Is it her lesser clothes and bare skin? Is it her misbehavior speech? Well the only thing she knows for sure on this song is that she doesn’t believe in love, at least in the way are used to believe in love, because in the inner lines, she knows that love is a subjective thing.
Julia Volkova is not a young woman anymore, she became a 30-year-old woman last year and part of this maturing is crafted on this track, she’s serious even though she’s ironic, but that’s just how she sounds, sexy, confident and extremely devilish. If you were trying to find a meaning for that phrase she posted on her official website, well you just find out!

Lyrics

(Don’t say you love me, ‘cause I’m not yours)

Did you call me, baby? Or am I just deaf
Boy you should be careful with all the things you say
I know I'm completely irresistible
I’m like a drink of pleasure
But I’m also your perdition
You must know

‘Cause I sold my soul, I don’t believe in love
‘Cause I’m too much old, I don’t believe in love
I’ll stalking another prey, ‘till I exhaust its faith

Did you misbehave? Or are you just feeling free?
Honey, I awake in men, their darkest wish
Once you bite the rotten apple, you’ll meet the truth
Not that your life has been a lie, but fun is with us doomed
You must know

‘Cause I sold my soul, I don’t believe in love
‘Cause I’m too much old, I don’t believe in love
‘Cause I undressed of me all the shame, Shall I be condemned?
‘Cause they don’t have the guts to do the same
‘Cause I’m not fond, I don’t believe in love
I’ll stalking another prey, ‘till I exhaust its faith

Don’t you say you love me!
Don’t you think I belong to you…
I’ve been living in the dark
A nocturnal creative without rules

‘Cause I sold my soul, I don’t believe in love
‘Cause I’m too much old, I don’t believe in love
‘Cause I’m not fond, I don’t believe in love
‘Cause I have no shame, I don’t believe in saints
God doesn’t speak with me as he used to speak
I’m just one of his renegade kids
‘Cause I sold my soul, I don’t believe in love
I’ll say a little pray for you to find another way

Sounds Like

The conceptual video is a mix of imageries and symbols evolving a cross with an arrow pointing down, black and red colors, sexual gestures performed by Julia and other actors and also Julia acting as a rock band performing the song. The video doesn’t follow a storyline or a timeline, it was made to disturb its viewer senses and most of all to increase all the sensual and dark aspects of Julia’s daring personality. The symbolism takes reference of Christians and witchcraft.
One scene consists of Julia performing the track in a hangar with her band, she’s wearing a leather cat suit, boots and heavy dark eyed makeup. The performance is very rock and roll and full of attitude, behind Julia’s angle there’s a cross with an arrow pointing down, the main symbolism of the whole proposal of the video, which is to classify Julia as if she was a sin that everyone wants to commit. She often looks to the camera and lip-sync the lines of the song with evil eyes and seductive moves to her body.



Another scene of the video, consists of Julia in a room full of TV’s that are only showing static , she’s wearing a silk cloak hiding her naked body, still very provocative with the camera, there are fogs on the ground of the room and we can barely see on the walls of the place pentagrams painted in red. She bounces her head side to side as if she was being possessed, while the scenes keep on interchanging, there is a moment towards the end of the video which she opens the cloak revealing that she has a cross with arrow pointing down, painted in back on her body hiding her breast and her vagina.



There’s a room full of chairs which looks like a cinema or something like it, Julia is wearing a dark red corset and a silk black cloak, the cloak is covering the chairs behind the one she is sitting, she is also provocative but in more innocent way. She is looking to the camera filming above her, while she sings the song lines, some sort of people half-naked covered in black are creeping towards Julia’s direction. She didn’t care if they’re getting closer, she kept performing the song as they reach her cloak and get really close to touch her but the scene ends before they get her.



Another that keeps interchanging the others, consists of Julia naked in a dark room, but obviously we can’t see her nude body as a whole. We only see the top of her body and its is covered by a snake, she has an apple on her hand and sometimes her eyes turn to white as if she was the devil herself. For this scene Julia has a crucifix on her necklace, the snake embracing and the apple on her hands is certainly a reference for Eva, in the book of Genesis on the Holy Bible.



So all of these scenes described above, keep on interchanging during the video, sometimes one of them lasts a little longer than the other, but they’re showing for the most part very fast, all of the symbolism in the video makes it looks dark and provocative. Julia is on her best shape, the 30 years old singer is one of the hottest active rock singers in the moment and there’s no doubt after this video.