When we speak, Slayyyter is taking a well-earned break bingewatching movies in her Reno hotel room. In this rare moment of respite, she’s also taking a beat to let it sink in that she’s the 2023 winner of the GAY TIMES Honour for Excellence in Music, her first-ever award. “It feels like such an honour,” she says. “Especially coming from a queer publication that I love!”
She’s currently in the midst of the American leg of her jam-packed ‘Club Valentine’ tour, which will see her stop at 17 locations across the United States, United Kingdom and Ireland. These live shows have been a chance for the star to reintroduce herself to fans in person. No longer hyperpop’s daring ingénue, with second album STARFUCKER she has transformed herself into a vampy neo-noir heroine. It’s a bold reinvention, particularly for an artist whose ascent was fiercely DIY and digital-first – releasing iconoclastic SoundCloud singles which sounded like album cuts from a reality-tv-star-turned-singer and building up a fierce LGBTQIA+ following on stan Twitter, in no small part due to the viral appeal of 2019 single “Mine” (the “oh me, oh my” chorus lives in our head rent-free).
