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Sarah Ditum on Pop

KIMPETRAS, NOW 30, has been famous twice. Her second era of fame began in 2017, with the song “I Don’t Want It At All” — a hymn to pretty girl acquisitiveness. “I want all my clothes designer/I want someone else to buy ’em,” she coos. It’s deliciously shallow and deeply catchy.

In the video, Petras prays to a Paris Hilton shrine. (Who else could play the patron saint of wannabe hotties?) Hilton cameos, and she and Petras make a striking matching set: pouty lips, sleepy eyes and cascades

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