Zolita opens a new chapter with “Hell’s Belles,” a country-tinged pop track co-written with artist Gatlin that sets the tone and sound for her next project. The song is sharp, self-aware, and fully committed to its premise: a sapphic reimagining of bro country built around the kind of Southern bad girls Zolita has clearly spent some time thinking about.
“It’s a sapphic take on the ultimate bro country song, ‘Boys Round Here,'” she says, “and is an ode to all the southern bad girls I’ve fallen for over the years.” The track blends country textures with her signature pop sensibility and cinematic edge, arriving as both a standalone statement and a deliberate preview of what comes next.
The video matches the music’s energy and then some. A campy, sexy thriller, it follows a detective who goes undercover at a girls’ reform camp turned lesbian cult and falls for its charismatic leader. Tatiana Ringsby, Zolita’s longtime collaborator and star of the “Somebody I F*cked Once” trilogy, plays ‘Hell,’ alongside LGBTQ+ influencers Kyra Green, Georgia Bridgers, Becky Missal, Lauren Payton, Alyssa Eels, and Sierra Fujita as cult members.
The inspiration is personal. “The ‘Hell’s Belles’ video was inspired by the six years I spent inside a kundalini yoga cult,” Zolita reveals. “It’s my way of processing the experience through humor, fantasy, and pop spectacle.” A series of extended dialogue scenes and a mockumentary-style mini-series expanding the cult’s world are also on the way.
Zolita has spent a decade building one of independent pop’s most distinct and fully realized artistic identities. She’s sold out Bowery Ballroom and The Troubadour, played Governors Ball and Boston Calling, and her work has earned recognition from PAPER, V Magazine, DAZED, and Rolling Stone. This summer she takes the stage at All Things Go DC.