Some relationships end long before we’re ready to let them go. On her haunting new single Take Me Back, Charlotte Cardin captures that emotional limbo with striking honesty, transforming lingering heartbreak into one of her most vulnerable and cinematic releases yet.
Written by Cardin alongside Jason Brando and produced by Brando and Sam Avant, the track explores the complicated emotions that surface when someone once special to you has seemingly moved on while you remain tethered to the memories. Floating between desire, regret, and nostalgia, Take Me Back finds Cardin confronting the painful realization that letting go is often easier in theory than in practice.
“Take Me Back explores that somewhat selfish sorrow that you feel when you ask for space, then you realize that the other person may have used that space to get over you.”
– Charlotte Cardin
“Take Me Back explores that somewhat selfish sorrow that you feel when you ask for space, then you realize that the other person may have used that space to get over you,” Cardin shares on the single. The accompanying music video elevates that emotional depth even further. Directed by Oscar-nominated Quebec filmmaker Vincent René-Lortie, the visual was shot on film across Sicily, from a remote island to Italy’s southern coastline. Featuring Cardin alongside a male partner and sixteen dancers, the video creates a dreamlike world suspended between memory and reality.
Inspired by contemporary European cinema, René-Lortie blends 16mm textures, sweeping Mediterranean landscapes, and powerful physical performances into a visual experience that feels both intimate and epic. Every frame appears pulled from a fragmented memory, reinforcing the song’s themes of absence, longing, and the impossibility of returning to what once was.
“Take Me Back” by Charlotte Cardin is out now. Stream here.
