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PinkPantheress & JT’s “Noises” Video Turns Teenage Paranoia Into Halloween Cinema

The UK garage queen teams up with City Girls' JT for a properly spooky visual that's equal parts panic attack and poltergeist
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PinkPantheress & JT’s “Noises” Video Turns Teenage Paranoia Into Halloween Cinema

Right, so PinkPantheress has dropped a Halloween video and it’s actually good, which shouldn’t be surprising but somehow still is. 

The “Noises” visual landed just before Halloween, pulled from her remix project Fancy Some More? that reimagines the Mercury Prize-shortlisted Fancy That.

The remix album came out on 10 October through Warner Records, but this video feels like it was gestating in PP’s brain since she first heard a creaky floorboard as a teenager.

Charlotte Rutherford directs the whole thing, watching PinkPantheress get ready for a night out in what’s obviously a haunted house before JT shows up and basically possesses her.

The premise is simple but it works because the song’s already about that specific teenage paranoia of being home alone and convincing yourself every sound is a serial killer.

We’ve all been there, lying late in bed after watching too many horror films, suddenly hyper-aware that your house makes sounds.

Two crows silhouetted against the moon open the video, then we’re inside watching PinkPantheress’ shadow dance across the wall.

It’s this immediate signal that we’re in horror territory, but not the gory kind.

This is psychological horror, the kind that lives in your head when you’re 17 and your parents are out.

Rutherford switches between colour and black-and-white throughout, which isn’t just aesthetic wankery, it’s about memory and fear blurring together.

Rutherford blends horror with hyper-femininity here, noting the uncanny mix of glamour and eeriness.

That’s the interesting bit actually, because getting ready to go out is its own kind of ritual, and Rutherford turns it into something that sits right next to summoning demons in terms of vibe. Lipstick and poltergeists, basically the same energy.

Wind blows doors open, leaves scatter everywhere, shadow hands reach down from the ceiling like something out of Nosferatu.

But here’s what makes it work beyond just ticking horror boxes: the house itself feels like a character.

Walls rotate to reveal hidden rooms when JT appears, which is less jump scare and more “oh right, this house has been alive the whole time.”

The architecture becomes unreliable, which mirrors how your own home feels alien when you’re alone and scared.

JT plays the spirit of Halloween, literally possessing PinkPantheress, and the genius move here is that she doesn’t try to match PP’s energy at all. They collide in the dark, both scream, then realise they’re stuck together.

It’s less collaboration and more hostile takeover, which is honestly more interesting than if they’d just stood next to each other looking spooky.

When everything switches to black-and-white, JT’s sitting on the couch with PinkPantheress, and suddenly the whole power dynamic’s shifted.

The possessed and the possessor having a chat. It’s weird, but it taps into something about how fear makes you accept really strange situations.

Like, if a spirit possessed you and then wanted to hang out, you’d probably just go with it at that point.

The City Girls rapper brings her Miami swagger to what’s fundamentally a British anxiety track.

The original “Noises” was always the most paranoid track on Fancy That. It captures that hyper-paranoid feeling of being alone and hearing sounds you can’t explain.

The production samples Groove Armada’s “Suntoucher” from 2001, Nardo Wick’s “Who Want Smoke?,” and Z-3 MC’s “Triple Threat.”

PP takes Nardo Wick’s line about stomping rivals and flips it to mean getting caught by your parents when you’ve got someone over.

That’s the trick she’s mastered, taking aggression from one context and making it about teenage anxiety in another.

A UK garage classic from the early 2000s, a Florida drill track from 2021, an 80s electro cut, all mashed together to soundtrack the specific terror of hearing your front door open when you thought you were alone.

The time signatures don’t match, the genres are incompatible, the whole thing should collapse but instead it sounds like what panic actually feels like.

Two minutes long because PinkPantheress knows you don’t need more time than that to devastate someone. Get in, make them feel things, leave before they can ask questions.

Rutherford black-and-white aesthetic encapsulates a classic horror mode, the kind where characters bond through shared terror because what else are you going to do?

The timing’s perfect just in time for Halloween. However, PinkPantheress has been making spooky music about anxiety and paranoia since the beginning.

The house is creepy, the supernatural stuff is played straight, but there’s always this undertone of we know this is ridiculous;  regardless it works.

Both artists survive the haunted house at the end, which feels right. PinkPantheress has always been good at soundtracking that specific feeling of being young and convinced something terrible is about to happen.

Now she’s got the visuals to match, and they’re sharp enough to cut through all the lazy seasonal content everyone else is churning out.

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