Grammy-winning producer Imogen Heap heard music in the sound of glacial ice collapsing. That moment—when activist drag queen Pattie Gonia shared field recordings during a livestreamed conversation about climate anxiety—became the seed for "Have You Considered?", a new song that refuses to look away from the problem while insisting on the power of making something together.
The collaboration started as dialogue. Heap and Gonia were talking through what art could do in uncertain times, the kind of conversation that usually ends in resignation. Instead, Heap listened to the recordings of cracking ice and heard rhythm in the destruction. "What began as dialogue became composition. What felt like grief became momentum," the artists said in a statement.
They worked across continents, trading verses and melodies online before meeting in Los Angeles to finish. The song's refrain—"Have you considered if you couldn't have it?"—isn't rhetorical. It's the question underneath climate anxiety: what if the things we take for granted simply weren't there anymore. The lyrics move between disconnection ("cosy comatose in the confusion") and a harder kind of clarity ("no more excuses").
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Start Your News DetoxThe cinematic music video, shot in California's High Sierra near Mono Lake, leans into that visual tension. Dancers attached to boulders on wires move against black and white landscapes in matching black gowns. As the film progresses, their costumes shift to white, the scene fills with light. The choreography comes from BANDALOOP, a dance company that performs on cliffs and natural landmarks—artists who understand how to move through difficult terrain.
What makes this collaboration distinctive isn't that it acknowledges climate anxiety. It's that Gonia and Heap treat it as a creative problem, not a moral lecture. "The opposite of doom isn't hope—it's action. It's art. It's collaboration," Gonia said. That distinction matters. Hope can feel passive, like waiting for things to improve. Action and art are things you make with your hands and voice.
The song arrives at a moment when climate conversations often split into two exhausting camps: either cheerful greenwashing or paralyzing despair. "Have You Considered?" occupies the harder middle ground—acknowledging loss while insisting that what comes next depends on who shows up to build it. The next chapter isn't written yet.
