PinkPantheress
In just a few short years since bursting onto the pop music scene, British singer PinkPantheress has risen to the heights of the Billboard Hot 100 chart and released a string of projects from her 2021 mixtape To Hell With It to her 2023 debut album Heaven Knows. For her latest outing, her sophomore mixtape Fancy That, the “Boy’s a Liar” singer continues to incorporate new influences into her unique bedroom pop sound and carving her own path in an industry that seeks to box her in.
PinkPantheress gave a first taste of the album last month with lead single “Tonight,” which became her latest song to break the top 40 on the Hot 100. On Fancy That, she explores the ups and downs of relationships with tracks like “Girl Like Me” and “Nice to Know You” and takes time to dance and have some fun on “Noises” and “Romeo.” She even gives a nod to To Hell With It on “Stars” by sampling Just Jack’s 2007 release “Starz in Their Eyes” as she did on her 2021 track “Attracted to You. ”
To help create the party, PinkPantheress looked back in time to classic British dance and electronic acts like Basement Jaxx, Groove Armada, and Fatboy Slim. “I loved the size of the music,” she told Mixmag of these past inspirations. “All the music sounds so big and grand and present, and I really wanted to make music where it sounds like a statement is being made with the songs. I feel like that was what appealed to me, and it’s something that I wanted to take on board.”
As for her place in the music world as an artist with a one-of-a-kind sound and approach to fame, PinkPantheress refuses to let outside noise get to her.
“A lot of my career has been people telling me their perception of me rather than me saying who I am,” she said. “Being a ‘popstar’ or being in the public eye can definitely make you lose yourself. I am somebody who knows myself down to the bone but I’m telling you, being a singer makes it so easy to think about what people think or want to hear and it makes you lose elements of your beginnings.”