Kim Petras

After exploding onto the scene with debut single I Don’t Want It At All – you know, the one that featured Paris bloody Hilton in the music video – Kim Petras has been on an upwards trajectory that simply refuses to falter. A release strategy of one new single each month kept her fresh in the minds of pop consumers and, most importantly, on top of Apple and Spotify’s playlists, arguably the most essential promo a new artist can get for themselves in the age of streaming. It also gained her a legion of loyal fans who flock to her live shows, imitate her style, and pump out memes on an unprecedented scale – she’s affectionately known as “that wooah bitch” to many of her followers on Twitter, paying homage to the infinitely quotable soundbite that pops up in all of her songs. But, as she tells us, the image she fostered for her debut isn’t quite real.

“I feel like my last era was me thinking, ‘If I only ever get to make one record in my life, what’s my favourite kind of music?’ And it’s that super extreme, bubblegum pop, heavily-80s-inspired,