Agnes Gets Emotional With "One Last Time"

Swedish singer Agnes who won our hearts over with her huge dance hit "Release Me" has instead chosen to make her comeback with a brand new video for her latest pop ballad, "One Last Time," the lead single taken from her upcoming fourth studio album that's scheduled to release this Summer. This time around, the Swedish Idol alum is ditching the high energy dance beats to go a more mature adult contemporary route with her newest ode to fractured love, "One Last Time." is heart crushingly sweet and a power ballad to the core.
"One Last Time" is an epic power ballad seen through a kaleidoscope of Swedish indie-pop and the lyrics are simplistic yet very poignant. It's a hugely emotional song about coming to the painful realization that your other half doesn't want you anymore, and so pleading with them to be held just one last time. The 24-year-old songstress delivers a depressingly stunning vocal performance, reaching for the emotional jugular with a scarily accurate description of the exact moment you're being let go by a lover.
As such, her vocal on it remains fragile throughout only it's been tuned out and turned into a haunting and ghostly cry by studio effects. Agnes said in an interview that the inspiration for the song came from a nightmare that she had one night, where she had "fucked up everything" regarding her relationship: "This is the most emotional song I have ever written. When you write a song that means a lot to you, it becomes a part of yourself. That's the case with "One Last Time." I hope I can touch people with it."
Shot in Stockholm, the Amir Chamdin-directed black-and-white clip is all about the drama and Agnes' big hair. It starts with Agnes walking through the woods, and by the beach, and continues with her sitting on the floor, singing, lying on a parking lot together with the man and crying until it ends with the same scene it started with. The idea behind the video is to describe how it feels when you have wrecked something that means really much to you. The tears that Agnes shed during the clip is real, and she couldn't stop bursting into tears during the filming of the music video.