“PinkpantheRes is at Turning Point. “This is the MOST EFFORT I’V PUT INTO PRETTY MUCH Anything I’VE Ever Done,“ The Brit Superstar Tells the Hollywood Reporter As She Reminisces on the Last Few MONTHS OF HER LIFE LIFE ANTHER FANCY THAT, WHICH WAS RELEASED IN MAY. “And I Think”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
“This is the most effort i’ve put into pretty Much Anything i’ve Ever Done,“ The Brit Superstar Tells The Hollywood Reporter as she reminisces on the last few months of her life and the roll-out of her Second Mixtape Fancy thatwhochh was released in may. “And I Think There’s More to Come.”
AT Just 24 Years Old, Victoria Walker Has Been Blowing Up Our Screens for Years Now. Emblematic of Gen Z’s Inventiveness, Her Unique Sound-Effortless Blending Nostalgia-Brimming Samples with Diary-Like Lyricism-Is Giving the Music Industry.
TOSE WHO ARIN’T QUITE SO ONLINE MAY BE FORGIVEN IF YOU THINK YOU HAVEN’T HEARD HER MUSIC, But PINKPANTHESS IS EVERYWHERE. “Illegal,” The Leadoff Track From Fancy thathas become a viral hit, featured in over a million tiktok Videos thanks to a tiktok trend where people’s song of pink’s song while shaking Hands “My name is Pink and I’M Really to Meet You / You’re Recommened to Me by People People / Hey, Ooh, Is this Illegal? KNOW that one?
“I DEFINITELY WAS SURPRIZED AT RECOPTION BACAUSE I WAS TOTALLY GOING ON A WHIM, DOING The HANDSHAKE Thing,“ PinkpantheRes Says of the Still-Booming Trend. “I didn’t Really Expert Anything to Come From, But I Was Really Happy to See People Were Enjoying It. I Thought It Was Really Sick.”
For PinkpantHess, It’s Less about the Streaming Numbers and More about the song getting it. “I Want to Release Songs and Let Them Live and Breathe,” She Says About Social Media’s Role in Boosting Her Music. “I Want to have it for a Lot more of the songs[on[onFancy that]too. ”
The Social Media Sound of the Summer Isn’n the First of Pink’s to Go Viral. The Bath-Born Similar Similar Success With 2023’s “Boy’s A LIR PT. 2,“ A TEAM-UP WITH US RAPPER ICE SPICE Songs of the Year.
Since Ten, Saying She’s Gone from Strengt to Strenguth Is an Understatement. PinkpantheRes is Now A Three-Time Brit Award Nominee, Was Named Producer of The Year by Billboard Women in Music in 2024, and Just Last Week Picked Up and Honoryary Degree from The University of Kent for Her Contribution to and Acievments in Music in the Digital Age.
Yet, These Kinds of Pinch-ments are Proving a Little Precarious. “People are less willing to listten to electronic musical that is Made by a Black Woman. That’s Just Fact,” She Says, Adding That She’d Love To Be Recognized More, Burt. Jump in Such A Niche Musical Bracket. “There’s Some Considerations i would like to get as an artist kind of kind and might not be getting Right Now, Since Maybe It’s Harder to Put Me Into A Genre.”
PinkPantHess, Whose Real Name Is Victoria Walker, Is Set To Tour The Us in October and November. Charlie Engman
PinkpantheRes Talks About Meeting A Hero of Hers, Paramore’s Hayley Williams, Who She Calls One of Her Favorite Performers and A Huge Inspiration in Pursuing A Music Career. “WHEN I have the best pinch me moments, it’s like, ‘wow, i Really Need to Hold on to this,’ ‘She Continues,“ Because I Don’t Know When The Next One Wil and Rise the Ranks. ”
And Being Taken Seriously Is Something Pink Clearly Thinks Is Long Overdue. “I Always Feel Like i’m Cutting Through and I’M in a Very Privileged Position Musically,“ She Says. “But [I] Can Feel A Little Bit Like i’m Hitting All These Markers and Still Feels Like I’M Getting Overlobed, Simplay Because there taken a lookause i THINK it just doesn’t make Sense for them. ”
This is What PinkpantheRes Sees As A Natural Challenge for An Artist Navigating the Mainstream Music World. I a mold she’d like to break.
“HAVING THAT PERSON Challenging the Way A Pop Star Should Look OR – WHICH is What I do, unin -guilly and sometimes intenationally – it just dosn’t translate to a Lot of POPLE.
“All I AIM to do is stay authentic and conscience. And Occasonally, What i enjoy doing is [saying]’Well Actually, I’M Gonna Prove You Wrong, and I’M Gonna Do this, You Are Gonna Like It.’ And then on you like it, you’re gonna realize: ‘wait, i don’t know why i never gave her a chance in the first place.’ ‘
LOYAL FANS WILL BE SWARMING TO SELECT VENUES WHEN PINKPANTHPANTHESS EMBARKS ON HER UPCOMING TOUR. She Plays London’s O2 Brixton Academy in September and After that, It’s North America’s Turn, with Gigs in Brooklyn, Toronto, Chicago, La, San Francisco, Oakland and Metnd. “I get less nervous on the tours just because they’re my fans,“ she Says. “There’s Less Pressure WHEN YOU’RE PERFORMING TO PEOPLE THAT ALREADY KNOW The SONGS, RATHER THAN [having to] convert a fan. ”
As we’re talking, PinkpantheRes is still relicing her successful consversion of thoouss of fans after she performs at glastonbury back in june. This year, Thr Was in Attendance on Somerset’s Worky Farm as the Young Singer Graced The Woodsies Stage-But Not Before She Was IntroduCed, Via Video, BY Beloved Documentary-Maker Louis.
“I did an Interview with HIM ONCE, AND I THINK we just vibed,” she reveals about getting theater onboard her Glastonbury Set. “We just check in on each of. [and] I Guess a nod to Being British, I Suppese, Because He’s Such An Icon. ”
PinkpantheRes performed Woodsies with The Gravitas of A Legendary Glastonbury Rocker. She admits she was “Really Scared,” but getting out there, Sporting Some Tartan Capris and Her Signature Brunette Bangs, The Fear Melted Away. What Transpired Was A Brit-Centric Head-Bopping Bash That Pal TheRoux Wuld No Doubt Have Been Busting A Move To.
“Low-key, being british is the strenguth that I have,” she saies about Englishness spilling over into her lyrics, Sound and visuals. “Every Time i’ve Tried to Lean Into A More American Sound, It Ends Up Being A Song That I Don’t Necessarily Think Reflects My Personal Tastes As Much as Wuen I Ie Iean Into Being B. would be quite easy for [my music] to get lost in the crowd. ”
PinkpantheRes Says Incorporating Her Britishness Into Her Music and Visuals Is “Low-Key” A SuperPower. Charlie Engman
Some of Pink’s Biggest Music Inspirations Reflect That Appreciation for Her Fellow Countrymen. She Lists Lily Allen, Kate Nash, Imogen Heap, Calvin Harris and Basement Jaxx Among Her Creative Influences. On Fancy thatshe Pulls from the best of british (and American) Music and Makes Them Her Own: Just Jack’s 2007 Pop-House Hit “Starz in Their Eyes” on “Starz,” Adina Howard “STATESIDE,” AND EVEN US RAPPER Nardo Wick’s “Who Want Smoke ??” on “noises.”
“I do through [the mixtape] Sounds A Bit Different, ”She Says While Comparing Her New Music to Her Discography Up Up Unil Fancy that. “It’s more dance-y. It’s also a bit more provocative and a bit more mature than my earlier work. Maybe more fleshed-out, Production-Wise.”
The Album Was Puther in AROUND Two MONHS LAST AUGUST WITH the Help of A Wider Production Team, Including Aksel Arvid, Count Baldor, Oscar Scheller and Californian Music Music Music Music. PinkpantheRes’s Regency-Aera Inspired Music Video for “Tonight” hasight Bridgerton Meets Skinswhoh the Star Finds Particularly Funny. “I am a big Bridgerton fan, ”she Says.“ That was definitely some of the inspo for sure. I Really Enjoyed Getting Into Character, The Costumes and Stuff… I Guess Those Over-Top and Quite Camp-Y Videos Are A Bit Rare Tese Days. ”
She Doesn’t Consider Herself A Film or Tv Connoisseur in the Slightst, But There Is One Actress in Particular that Gets Pink Fangring: Rachel Zegler. “I Love Her Down,“ The Artist Tells Thr About American Star Zegler, Who Currently Leads The West End Production of Evita. “I Follow her fan pages.”
FOR NOW, This Zegler Stan Is All In On Fancy that. With A Tour Ahead and A MixTape Reaching New Heights, PinkpantheRes Can’s Begin to Imagine What Era of Her Life Is Coming Next. As her poopularity Continues to Skyrockket and Those Addictive Tunes Keep US Hored, She’s Content With Enjoying This Watershed Career Moment.
“We’ll See What Happens, But This was Been A Turning Point for Me,“ Shees. “ITW PROBABLY BE A GOOD IDEA TO START THINING ABOUT [what’s next]but i haveen’t. And Once I do, you’ll be the first to know. ”