French musician Stéphanie Alexandra Mina Sokolinski aka SOKO (who was also the voice of Isabella in Spike Jonze’s film ‘Her’) has shared a music video for her latest single ‘Ocean Of Tears’, a second track off her upcoming second album ‘My Dreams Dictate My Reality’. It’s the follow-up to her critically acclaimed 2012 debut album ‘I Thought I Was an Alien’ and will be released through indie label Because on March 2. In the video we see a fuzzed-out SOKO drowned in a sea of donuts and bunny heads. Explaining the inspiration behind the song and accompanying video, the Los Angeles based grunge pop singer-songwriter explains: “I’m actually pretty straight-edge. I had never had weed until I was 27. My friends were making fun of me for being such a square, so I started writing music while smoking every now and then. I wrote ‘Ocean Of Tears’ completely stoned out of my mind.”

The same logic applies to the video in which she stages a grainy, psychedelic day in the life recorded with a Fisher Price VHS camera from the 1980s. “I wanted to lose control, lose a sense of self, and just have fun,” she says. Partner in crime was director Nina Ljeti – whose second film will feature SOKO – with whom she headed to friends’ houses to shoot donuts, bunnies, and swimming pools. Watch the result below, which came with a big hangover for the singer: “It actually took me a week to recover because my body is so not used to it!” she reveals.