Photo by Patrick Wymore

With the new Death Valley Girls album Welcome To Earth out on October 9th, the crew have managed to squeeze out their latest single ‘How Losing Everything in the Fire Taught Me to Love Myself’.

The song touches on front woman Bonnie Bloomgarden’s resilience and outlook on life after tragically losing
everything in the Los Angeles Eaton wildfires back in 2025. Throughout the chaos the singer discovered the idea of freedom, which is reflected in the track.

Along with the song, Death Valley Girls have also shared an accompanying video which you can check out below.

Touching on the song, Bonnie Bloomgarden said:

“I spent my whole life trying to change myself, trying so hard to be ‘normal’ and imagining that everyone else was entitled to a level of worthiness I hadn’t yet earned. The fire forced me to stop focusing on who I needed to become and start learning how to feel safe with who I already was. After a lot of therapy, which I was very, very lucky to have access to, I realized I wasn’t just recovering from trauma—I was becoming comfortable with myself. This song is about losing everything, being terrified, and finally discovering that even when I have nothing, I have all I need.”

Regarding the video, director Dylan Mars Greenberg mentioned:

“Immediately listening to this song I wanted to create something really kinetic and I imagined Bonnie flying through the sky. I have always been enamored by older methods of effects where they did effects in camera, and my entire life I had wanted to try using rear projection. Instead of a green screen, where you’re just on a big green wall and have to add the background in post, rear projection allows the environment to be projected in real time. We actually used a slightly different process provided by the studio, the Clubhouse, that used front projection, but either way we were able to do everything in the camera. I could see Bonnie flying through the air through the eye of the camera in real time and I think that’s what really added to the dream quality of the film. My partner Glitter Macabre did Bonnie’s makeup which was also based on a few ideas I had, Glitter than created a sketch that really brought the look into a tangible space and then that sketch became a reality on Bonnie’s face. The makeup itself represents flight, the wings of her eyes are like the wings of a bird. The video is about Bonnie’s character, lost and flying alone, finding love and friendship in the sky.”