Some pop records feel like a playlist. Others feel like a scene. Fox Sinclair’s new single “Work of Art” sits firmly in the second camp. It is electro pop with film-score ambition: a live string quartet cutting across punchy drums and synths, and her soulful vocal sitting right in the middle of the frame.
That cinematic instinct is not a gimmick. Sinclair is a Louisiana native who came up as a dancer before moving into filmmaking, and she talks about building a song the way a director builds a scene. You can hear that in the arrangement. The strings do not just decorate the chorus. They give the track scale. The drums stay physical. The synths keep it in electro pop, synthpop, and alt pop territory without turning the whole thing into a cold digital wash.
She came to Los Angeles from Baton Rouge with a hunger for more than one art form. She studied production at the School of Audio Engineering, worked with artists like Faith Evans and T.I. under producer MyGuyMars, and landed at 17 Hertz in Hollywood. She later joined a writing team through Paradise Records with Fernando Garibay, writing for Afrojack, and performed at LA rooms like Peppermint Club, Sayers, and Petite Hermitage. Dance stayed the through-line. Ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop, a college dance degree, experimental contemporary work. She has said her body needs to move, no matter the style.
That physical background also explains why her music has already found screens. Her song “Soft” scored a scene in The Terminal List on Amazon Prime, and her catalog has been placed in Scrambled (Lionsgate), Kill Me Now (Live Nation), and the feature film Peridot. Sync like that is not luck. Supervisors reach for tracks that feel visual, and “Work of Art” is built that way from the first bar.
There is another layer to her story that makes the title land. After years in studios and on stages, she found a home at Jumbos Clown Room, the East Hollywood rock-and-roll bikini bar and landmark. She has talked about the women there as empowered and in control, and about pole work as musicality and audience engagement rather than just tricks. Her earlier single and video “Soft” leaned into that world, featuring influential names in pole dancing and focusing on the frustration of being taken advantage of and the exhaustion of being too sensitive. “Work of Art” feels like a continuation of that same unapologetic, movement-first pop, only bigger and more score-like.
She is now managed by TV personality and producer Randy Jackson. “Work of Art” is the first of several singles leading to her album, arriving next year. In a year when electro pop and synthpop keep pulling listeners who want dance energy with actual songwriting, this is a smart first statement: honest, physical, and cinematic instead of generic festival gloss.
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What do you think of Fox Sinclair’s cinematic electro pop? Does “Work of Art” feel like a film scene to you too? Drop your take in the comments.
