PinkPantheress canceled her concert at the Primavera Festival in Spain last June due to “partial hearing loss.” She posted a statement to her followers that read, “In order to return to the stage, I need time to recuperate.”
In October, however, the 21-year-old stated that years of exposure to loud music had rendered her right ear 80% deaf.
Hearing loss can be terrible for any singer, but PinkPantheress, speaking to the BBC from Los Angeles, is now accepting of her condition.
She says,
“To express the obvious, composing music has become more difficult.” “But I’ve done all of my mourning already. I’ve actually done that.”
She explains that the deterioration “happened gradually.” “I assured myself that regardless of the outcome, I would still have a functional ear. As long as you safeguard that, you will be alright.
Hence, I try not to worry about it. Instead, PinkPantheress is optimistic.
Statistical breakthrough
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After earning fame with a series of underground EPs and mixtapes, her single Boy’s A Liar, Pt. 2 has just broken into the top 10 for the first time.
The song hit number three on the Hot 100 in the United States, marking the biggest breakthrough by a UK act in quite some time. At home, only 1,200 sales separate her from Miley Cyrus’s Flowers, the current market leader. She shrieks, “I didn’t even know that!”
If she succeeds in dethroning Miley Cyrus when the new chart is released on Friday, the singer has already made preparations to celebrate.
“You realize what? “I’m going to an amusement park!” she exclaims. “I’m like, I’m in a hurry!”
A brief bit of history PinkPantheress, who was born in Bath and raised in Kent, uploaded her first song, a cover of Michael Jackson’s Just A Waste, to TikTok on December 25, 2020.
She generated buzz for the next 18 months by releasing 15-second clips of her unfinished works and developing any songs that garnered popularity with fans.
She covered her face in recordings and continues to use a pseudonym to conceal her identity (a name attributed to her on the internet, and to which her songs are credited, is also said to be an invention).
In August of 2021, she went viral with Just For Me, a throwback to the UK garage that introduced many American TikTok users to the genre.
In the fall of the same year, she released her debut mixtape after being signed by Parlophone. Faithful to her TikTok roots, its ten tunes of adolescent heartbreak lasted only 19 minutes.
Nonetheless, it contained as many melodic ideas and sound creations as a double album by some musicians.
Following winning the BBC’s Sound Of 2022 contest, she abandoned certain aspects of her anonymity and went on what she calls a “step-up year,” elevating her songwriting and production.
This culminated with the release of the Take Me Home EP in November, where the original solo version of Boy’s A Liar debuted.
“Not considered serious”
Within a year and a half, the PinkPantheress sound – chirrupy, sped-up vocals; 90s and 00s samples; peppy instrumentals, and melancholy lyrics – has become TikTok’s signature musical style.
She rejects the labels “new nostalgia” and “drum and bass revivalist” and claims her upcoming work would explore “alternative soundscapes” and “genres we’re not accustomed to hearing from mainstream ladies”.
The obstacles women face in the music industry are a subject that gets her particularly excited. In a recent TikTok, she criticized the fact that only 2.8% of songs are produced by women, stating, “That’s unacceptable. Let’s solve it.”
She asserts that the problem is a male-dominated business that actively or unconsciously intimidates younger female artists.
“As a child, I avoided entering certain rooms because I knew I wouldn’t be taken seriously,” she explains.
“When I entered the studio, there was no one that resembled me, and people didn’t really pay attention, you know?
“This is what discourages [women], and I believe the best way to overcome this is to make music with other women.
“When you make music with other women, you are not in a position to feel inferior or to be treated differently according to your gender.
Then, you increase your confidence. The past 18 months have been a steep learning curve in terms of her own self-confidence.
Due to her emergence during the pandemic, her public presence is still evolving, and she is still establishing her footing as a live performer.
Well, certainly, she replies. “Absolutely sure. For sure. For sure, for sure, for sure. Well, it’s been a progression.”
She adds that filming a music video with Ice Spice helped. “There were occasions when I observed her and thought, ‘Okay, so she does this?’
It was almost as though she were giving me advice.
Boy’s A Liar symbolizes her entry into the mainstream, yet she is not abandoning her kind approach to her music career.
She states,
“I have not begun planning [an album] at all.” “I’m simply taking my time. I feel like this year has already been so chaotic and hectic, so I’m taking a brief break.”
And possibly, depending on Friday’s position on the charts, a trip to a theme park.
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