Charli xcx Delivers Second Original ‘Wuthering Heights’ Song for ‘Wild, Sexual, Gothic’ Film’s Trailer

Charli xcx is back with another taste of her album of music written for Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Wuthering Heights, the full trailer for which arrived Thursday (Nov. 13) featuring a new song from the pop star titled “Chains of Love.”

The preview opens with Emily Brontë’s famous fictional lovebirds, Heathcliff and Catherine — played by Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie, respectively — sitting together in the moors as the former imagines what he would do if he were rich. The latter is startled when he indicates he’d “take a wife,” setting off a montage of the couple’s tragic gothic love story.

“Why did you leave me?” Robbie says at one point as Elordi chases after her in a downpour, asking her in response, “Why did you betray your own heart?”

All the while, Charli’s anthemic, synth-powered track plays. “I know the chains of love won’t break,” she repeats in a soaring soprano melody.

The full song is now available for streaming, dropping on the same day as the trailer. It follows on the heels of “House,” which the British singer-songwriter worked on with John Cale of the Velvet Underground for her Wuthering Heights concept album. The new LP is set to drop on Feb. 13 — one day before the film premieres in theaters.

In her first-ever post on Substack, Charli recently shared how the upcoming concept LP came to be. “I called Emerald and asked her what she was hoping for from my read of the script,” she wrote in a post on Nov. 12. “She coyly suggested ‘A song?’ and I suggested ‘An album?’ because why not? I wanted to dive into persona, into a world that felt undeniably raw, wild, sexual, gothic, British, tortured and full of actual real sentences, punctuation and grammar. Without a cigarette or a pair of sunglasses in sight, it was all totally other from the life I was currently living.”

“This collection of songs is an album, and sure, my name’s on the credits, but is it a Charli xcx album?” she added in the post. “I don’t even know. Nor do I really care to find out.”

Watch the new trailer for Wuthering Heights featuring “Chains of Love” above, and listen to the full song below.