ARTS & CULTURE MAGAZINE

Empress Of is back with a new song. Lorely Rodriguez wrote “Dream House” after her family home was destroyed in the 2025 California wildfires. In a press statement, Rodriguez described flying to Norway after her house burned down. “It felt jarring and lonely,” she shared, “not exactly the comfort I was hoping for, but one afternoon I made a little voice memo while playing a piano mumbling the phrase….I wanna build a dream for you. That’s when this whole thing kind of started.