--- title: Eden XO's New, Spacey Music Video for "El Barrio" description: The pop singer takes a darker track with a tale of ill-advised love on an alien planet in the trippy new music video for "El Barrio." canonical: https://time.com/4517397/eden-xo-el-barrio-video/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-03T23:38:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:37:16.336Z og:title: Watch Eden xo's Spacey New Music Video for "El Barrio" og:description: The pop singer tells the tale of ill-advised love on a trippy foreign planet. og:url: https://time.com/4517397/eden-xo-el-barrio-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Eden xo's Spacey New Music Video for "El Barrio" twitter:description: The pop singer tells the tale of ill-advised love on a trippy foreign planet. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Eden xo Commits to Neon-Tinged Love in the Trippy Music Video for 'El Barrio' > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Oct 3, 2016 11:38 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Oct 3, 2016 11:38 PM UTC Pop singer Eden xo has been the frontwoman for rock bands, has opened for Britney Spears, and has [impersonated a hard-partying Sleeping Beauty for a music video](http://time.com/3973261/eden-xo-the-weekend/)—but it looks like she’s finally coming into her own in the trippy, stylized new video for her latest single, “El Barrio.” The peroxide-blonde ingenue (real name: Jessica Eden Malakouti) has the manicured look of a modern-day Gwen Stefani as she breathily sings the story of love against all odds—”classic good girl meets bad boy,” [as she told Idolator.](http://www.idolator.com/7647175/eden-xo-el-barrio-watch-video) It’s not just a random storyline, either; it’s partially based on her mom’s life, she explained: “She ran away to Mexico and got married when she was just 19\. There’s a whole story there that’s not mine to tell, but it gave me some good inspiration to draw on.” Except that in the neon-lit world of Eden xo, the titular “barrio” is actually an alien planet of black lights and crinkly silver surfaces, which matches nicely with the spacey vibe of the synth-forward melody. “Everyone I used to know thinks I’m insane in the membrane,” she sings, decked out in an elaborate headpiece. “My mother told me I should break ties.” Looks like the allure of her neon-tattooed extraterrestrial lover is hard to quit. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4517397/eden-xo-el-barrio-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4517397/eden-xo-el-barrio-video/"},"headline":"Eden xo Commits to Neon-Tinged Love in the Trippy Music Video for 'El Barrio'","datePublished":"2016-10-03T23:38:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:37:16.336Z","description":"\"Took a trip in his whip, now I'm whipped...\"","url":"https://time.com/4517397/eden-xo-el-barrio-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Music"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4517397/eden-xo-el-barrio-video/","name":"Eden xo Commits to Neon-Tinged Love in the Trippy Music Video for 'El Barrio'"}}]}] ```