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Laura Jane Grace has unleashed a video for her latest single ‘I’m Not A Cop’, which features the musician and her wife driving around local Chicago landmarks acting as police. Taken from her recent album ‘Hole In My Head’ , despite the chorus declaring “ I’m not a f**** cop ” repeatedly, the video sees the pair don pig masks, fake guns and badges. Directed by filmmaking trio Weird Life Films, check it out below.

Earlier this year, we spoke to Laura for our Behind The Lyrics series . Speaking on ‘I’m Not A Cop’, she told us: “On the album ‘Bought To Rot’, I have a song called ‘I Hate Chicago’. This line is a specific acquiesce to the fact that maybe I don’t hate Chicago.



It’s an acknowledgement that Chicago is an okay place, and maybe I was just spouting off at the mouth a little bit with that song. “ I think I got the whole city wrong, and I hope to redeem myself for having some dumb song about hating Chicago. Hating Chicago is a Chicago thing though.

One of my favourite authors of all-time is Nelson Algren, who wrote ‘The Man With The Golden Arm’ and ‘Walk On The Wild Side’. He was the quintessential Chicago writer and has nothing nice to say about it. He talks endless shit about Chicago, and his version of Chicago is the Chicago I truly love and romanticise.

You can buck against what you love and try to run away from it, but it’ll always bring you back.” Laura Jane Grace has recently been announced for this year’s Riot Fes.

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