Kat Von D – With You

Light as a feather and deeply under the skin

If you want to embark on a jour­ney full of emo­tions and long­ing, then there's no way around Kat Von D's "With You" taken from the album "My Side Of The Mountain". The song starts with a calm, almost fra­gile bal­lad mood that imme­di­ately builds an intense close­ness. But synth-heavy melod­ies quickly kick in, giv­ing the piece an unstop­pable energy and tak­ing the track to the next level. What par­tic­u­larly cap­tiv­ates me is the con­trast between the gentle mel­an­choly of the begin­ning and the power­ful syn­thes­iser arpeg­gios that even­tu­ally dom­in­ate the song.

The pro­duc­tion is very bass-heavy over­all, but without being over­whelm­ing. On the con­trary: the low fre­quen­cies gently push the sound for­ward, while at the same time keep­ing it light and float­ing. It is pre­cisely this mix of depth and light­ness that makes the song so catchy. On the one hand, I think the radio edit length is per­fect for a short, intense listen­ing exper­i­ence. On the oth­er hand, I would have liked the song not to end so abruptly – espe­cially when you have really got into the atmosphere.

Lyrically, "With You" reflects a deep yearn­ing that is evid­ent in the lyr­ics: "Now I'm run­ning to the oth­er side to be with you". The repeated lines rein­force the feel­ing of a rest­less desire, almost like an end­less escape into the dark­ness in search of release.

Together with the visu­ally stun­ning music video, Kat Von D man­ages to cre­ate an audi­ovisu­al sym­bi­os­is that will appeal not only to fans of synth pop, but also to those who fol­low the dark Gothic aes­thet­ic. This song is part of our Spotify playl­ist ‘New Synth Pop Songs 2024‘. The playl­ist is updated con­tinu­ously. Follow this playl­ist now and don’t miss any of the latest synth pop hits in 2024.

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Lyrics of "Kat Von D – With You"

All I wanted was everything all the time
Falling into the dark I want to be blind
Couldn’t face the mir­ror, escape it
Nowhere to hide
If it takes me and if it breaks me
I wouldn’t mind
To be with you
To be with you
To be with you

Fade to black
Can’t come back
It don’t even matter
If I can’t have you
I confess
To my last breath
I’ll wait for tomorrow
And die a thou­sand deaths
Until I can be with you

Now I’m run­ning to the oth­er side
To be with you

Drown in flames
To hear your name, again
I’m burn­ing in water
Ashes rain
When I can be with you

Now I’m run­ning to the oth­er side
To be with you