“Haunt Me, Take Everything” — Seattle Darkwave Duo Dark Chisme Shares Video for “Beautiful Obsession Killer”

Haunt meTake everythingEverything you want from meWon’t let me beSo far gone 

To want someone who is bad for you is to kneel before a beautiful fire crackling in the dark, place your hand in the flame, and mistake the burning for proof that the feeling is real. Desire can turn into a kind of faith, where every wound becomes scripture, every absence an altar, every small kindness a false resurrection. The mind, desperate to make suffering mean something, mistakes the pain for depth and possession for devotion. This kind of fixation survives because beauty keeps excusing the damage. It teaches the heart to confuse ruin with revelation, to believe that being hurt by someone is proof that the feeling is profound. You know this person is poison, yet the poison gives your longing a shape. That is the torture: part of you sees the cage, names the bars, and still polishes them until they shine.

With Beautiful Obsession Killer, Seattle duo Dark Chisme, vocalist-producer Christine Gutierrez and multi-instrumentalist E, take this dark desire out of the candlelit corner and shove it onto the dance floor. Their song opens with a cheeky Popcorn-style synth figure, the kind of rubbery little riff that could have been Italo/synth-pop fluff in weaker hands, before the beat drops in with enough muscle to turn the room into a pressure cooker.

The song treats fixation as a glamourous disease, which is exactly how fixation likes to dress. The lyrics circle someone beautiful, dangerous, and emotionally carnivorous, a figure who drains the speaker while still looking too good to resist. That contradiction gives the track its charge: desire as bad judgment with perfume on its collar, attraction as a trap you help assemble because the trap knows your name. The repeated title becomes less a hook than a diagnosis, the phrase hammered until pleasure and threat start sharing the same lipstick.

Gutierrez sings with the kind of authority that keeps the drama from sliding into diary-page melodrama. There are echoes of Shirley Manson in the cool steel of her delivery, Curve in the humid electronic pressure, and Sneaker Pimps in the way pop menace slips through the machinery without asking permission. Yet her voice belongs to the present tense, alive with command, appetite, and a bruising clarity that cuts through the synths rather than floating above them.

E builds the track like a club machine with a beating gothic heart, letting house and techno discipline the ache until the whole cut moves with predatory elegance. The rhythm keeps pushing forward while the melody tightens around the throat, and the result feels lush, mean, and wonderfully unsafe.

The video, filmed by Brennan Moring and Bella Petro at Victory Studios in Seattle, turns that danger into an explosive performance piece set in hyperspace, with Gutierrez framed amid blooming flowers as if romance itself has learned to detonate. Dark Chisme understands that beauty can be bait, and here they make the bite feel almost worth the scar.

Watch the video for Beautiful Obsession Killer below:

Dark Chisme plays The Roxy Thursday, July 2, 2026, with Spike Hellis, Meldamor, and Pride Month Barbie.

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Beautiful Obsession Killer is a track featured on Dark Chisme’s self-titled debut album. Listen below and order the album here.

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