SHAB turns trauma into triumph: How new single 'Skin & Bones' tracks her husband's recovery and their "Unbreakable Bond"
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Global pop star Shab releases a new music video today for the emotional and vulnerable track ‘Skin & Bones’. It opens with stillness. White text on a black screen explains that her husband survived a devastating car accident 6 years ago and that the months that followed changed everything, and this is her account of his recovery and their unbreakable bond.
From there, the viewer is plunged into the storm. Rain slams onto twisted metal. Emergency lights flash against a wrecked car wrapped around a tree. Firefighters tear into the vehicle. SHAB runs towards the scene, pulled forward by shock and instinct. At the time of the accident, she was thousands of miles away in Los Angeles when she received the call that her husband had been critically injured back in Dallas. The song captures that suspended moment, the shock, the waiting, and the fear before answers arrive.
But over the years, the song’s meaning has shifted alongside their lives. “‘Skin & Bones’ started out as a very melancholic song, with its roots buried in a time when we understood that my husband was going to survive a catastrophic car wreck but were unsure that he would ever function normally again. But with the miracles of modern science, dozens of procedures, and patience, we have been able to experience normalcy in our lives, and without most people realising in the first place the trauma that we endured.”
That change is reflected in the music itself. While the lyrics remain connected to that original moment, the production has evolved into something more rhythmic and forward-moving. The video follows the same arc. Alongside the emergency scenes, we see SHAB dancing as a physical release. The song no longer sits only in grief but moves through it.
Though it was still difficult for Shab to deal with, “I was surprised as to how difficult certain moments proved during the video production. Towards conveying emotional weight, I mentally tried to put myself back at the same time of the accident. I tried to channel that recall of desperation that I had for twelve hours while returning to Dallas immediately after the accident, not knowing what outcome that I would encounter upon my arrival. I probably broke into tears almost a dozen times during the production.”
The result is a video that doesn’t lean on spectacle or metaphor to communicate its weight. It simply shows the cost of nearly losing everything and the quiet, persistent work of continuing afterward.
Alongside the release of ‘Skin & Bones’, today also marks a different kind of unveiling for Shab: the official launch of her fashion brand, DropTrou. Born from years of shared frustration in rehearsal studios and gyms, the brand is engineered to eliminate what SHAB calls “jumpsuit drama”, introducing discreet technology for real-life practicality, paired with performance-ready fabric. Designed and made in downtown Los Angeles, DropTrou blends functionality with confidence, another reflection of Shab’s instinct to turn lived experience into tangible change.
