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\n\tBut in the context of her trajectory this creative instinct makes sense. Landing in the music industry after growing up in a \u201cvery, very, very, very dysfunctional household\u201d in St. Louis, in her earlier years Slayyyter often presented herself (intentionally or not) as a party animal in blonde extensions, the messy girl crying in the bathroom at the end of the night. The heaviness and swagger of her music paralleled these tendencies, with the work developing a significant cult following even as she judged herself for not abiding by the metaphorical \u201ccharm school lessons\u201d other pop stars seemed to have had.<\/p>\n
\n\tComing after a period where she seriously considered quitting music, Wor$t Girl In America<\/em> is a rejection of trying to be something she\u2019s not, with the music and corresponding visuals trading polish for rawer, rougher, darker and more emotionally vulnerable themes. The music also slaps, synthesizing industrial, electro-pop and iPod party music into a work that feels honest and the right kind of raunchy.<\/p>\n\n\tAhead of a 30-date (and largely sold out) North American and European tour behind the project \u2014 and her Coachella debut next month \u2014 Slayyyter talks about the new music with Billboard<\/em> below.<\/p>\n\n\tThis part of your bio stood out to me: \u201cLeading up to her third album, Slayyyter was sick of the music industry and of herself, or at least people\u2019s ideas of her. A crisis of faith was purged in Miami during a stint split between the studio and nightclubs.\u201d Want to unpack that a bit?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tI went to Miami for a month with a friend, and was thinking about where I stood in music and everything I\u2019ve done, and how my last album didn\u2019t really do what I guess people thought it was going to do. I had a come-to-Jesus moment of, like, \u201cYou know what? I am just going to make a really crazy last project, and I\u2019m going to make it cool to myself, and not try to make it sound appealing to anyone but me.\u201d I wanted to reference things that inspired me when I was a teenager.<\/p>\n
\n\tThen what happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tWhen I came back from Miami, we started work on this project, and I just kept saying, \u201cI\u2019m going to go back to school after this. I\u2019m done. This is going to be my last project. I\u2019m going to do one last rollout and give it my all, and then I\u2019m going to tell my team that I\u2019m over doing this and shift gears, because it\u2019s not working out.\u201d Then I rediscovered my love for making music while working on everything, and ended up signing to Columbia for this project, and everything has been so great. I really felt hopeless, so I think all of this music came from a place of wanting to make a project that fulfilled me, and then to move on with my life.<\/p>\n
\n\tDid having that idea that you were going to move on with your life when the album was done affect what you were making?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tThe biggest mantra I had going into the studio was, \u201cIf I die tomorrow, would this be a song I\u2019d be proud of or think was cool, or would it be a song that if people put it on at a party, I\u2019d be embarrassed about?\u201d <\/p>\n
\n\tI have a lot of songs that are of the time. I\u2019m not trying to hate on my older music \u2014 because everything serves its purpose at different times in life\u00a0\u2014 but I wanted to make something about more than just being a Twitter meme artist. I went in referencing things I didn\u2019t think were going be very popular with my audience. I wasn\u2019t working with songwriters or making music from a place of, \u201cThis is going be huge,\u201d or, \u201cWe need to make this sound like a hit.\u201d I was going in and making things that felt right and cool to me.<\/p>\n
\n\tWor$t Girl In America<\/em> is out on Columbia Records, after you had initially considered releasing it independently. What were those early conversations with the label like?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tI kept saying things that ended up not even being so true. I was like, \u201cI want this to be really gross. I want this album to look ugly. I want to be ugly. I want to be myself. I don\u2019t want to do the whole beautiful fashion thing, and I don\u2019t want the images to feel super curated and stylized. I want to style myself. I want to wear wrinkled jean shorts off my bedroom floor, and that\u2019s the spirit of this album. And I want to wear grills and lean on a natural swagger rather then curating something glossy and pop star.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThey were so down for and intrigued by that. And I was surprised, because I feel like when someone says \u201cI want to look ugly and crazy,\u201d that\u2019s not a great selling point. But I feel like they understood my vision from the beginning, and didn\u2019t want to dilute or override my creative decisions, because they respected the cult following I\u2019ve built for myself. They\u2019ve been so incredible in helping uplift my vision and giving me advice, tools and strategy to roll this music out properly, and give this album what it needs.<\/p>\n
\n\tHow much of wanting to be ugly and gross was a reaction to the very high gloss pop star image you presented with your last album Starf\u2013ker<\/em>? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tI think it had a lot to do with it. All the imagery for Starf\u2013ker<\/em> was very glamorous and Hollywood starlet, a lot of makeup and fashion and everything. It was fun to play with that, but it also doesn\u2019t feel true to me. It definitely married the music very well \u2014 and, like, I love that album. I\u2019m not trying to talk s\u2013t on a previous project just because this is the new thing I\u2019m doing. But I was sick of not only my own over-stylized imagery\u2026 I feel like everything we see these days is just so over-stylized. Big makeup, big hair moments. Nothing feels loose or effortless. And even when people are doing effortless visuals, there\u2019s still a lot of stylization and curation that goes into everything \u2014 and I just felt so disconnected from where I was when I started making music, which was a very DIY approach to everything. Sometimes I would look crazy, but there was a charm to it.<\/p>\n\n\tI laughed at the line in your bio that described you as \u201cMidwest core tweaker core.\u201d Tell me about who that is, and how much of it is drawing from your childhood and young life in Missouri.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tOh that is 100% me, honestly. Whenever I tell people about my musical beginnings, I always says how I was, like, plucked out of St. Louis and dropped into this world without charm school lessons on how to walk and talk, and like, \u201cHey, maybe don\u2019t have 10 drinks at a party and go berserk.\u201d I feel like I came onto the scene with crazy looking platinum blonde hair extensions, and I was a hair salon receptionist, and always felt like I was too much.<\/p>\n
\n\tI just felt so nervous and out of place that I would overcompensate with being drunk or crazy. I\u2019ve honed it back over the years, and I\u2019ve matured a lot, but it\u2019s funny to look back on, because I was just taken from this townie bar culture and dropped into this very other place \u2014 not by mistake, but I wasn\u2019t like, prepped for it.<\/p>\n
\n\tHave you changed?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tI\u2019ve grown out of it a lot. People are always shocked when I say this, because I know this album feels like a fever dream party trip \u2014 but I do not really like to drink that much anymore. I try staying out of trouble as much as possible. I stay home and do little hobbies and watch my movies and whatever. The tweaker energy is a funny thing looking back. I really used to feel like the party clown.<\/p>\n
\n\tThere\u2019s some sensitive stuff on this album, particularly in the second half. To what extent if any is this music a reckoning with that party clown past self?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tI have had a reckoning with my past, and have become a little more self-forgiving about issues I might have or why I am the way I am. A movie that inspired me a great deal for this project was Uptown Girls<\/em>, which is my favorite movie of all time. since I was a little little girl. Re-watching it as an adult, there\u2019s a lot of themes about maturation and how your childhood conditions you to be the way you are.<\/p>\n\n\tI used to be so hard on myself. Like \u201cGod, why do you have to drink so much? Why are you so crazy? Why can\u2019t you just be normal and not have freak outs in the bathroom?\u201d As I\u2019ve gotten older, I\u2019ve been more self forgiving, because I had a difficult time as a kid.<\/p>\n
\n\tDo you want to say more about that?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tI grew up in a very, very, very, very dysfunctional household. I don\u2019t really have a relationship with my father, and he affected me a lot from a young age. That all kind of conditioned me to be the way that I am now. It\u2019s not an excuse for acting crazy or being whatever, but I think I have matured and grown a lot, and I look back on my past self, and don\u2019t cringe as hard. Me being drunk on the mic at someone\u2019s DJ set who doesn\u2019t want me onstage, that\u2019s okay. It doesn\u2019t really matter. Like, nothing matters. We\u2019re all gonna die. I think if people understood more about where I come from or what my childhood was like, it wouldn\u2019t all seem so embarrassing or crazy or out of place.<\/p>\n
\n\tIs this project then a sign of maturation?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tDefinitely. I tapped back into my high school influences, and some of the songs have an immature, teenage angst. But it feels like I\u2019ve grown into my skin and into myself as like an artist. This project feels like my final form and who I am at the core as an artist. <\/p>\n
\n\tNow that\u2019s you\u2019re on the other end of making it, are you still ready to go back to school and leave this part of your life behind?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tI honestly don\u2019t know if I would go back to school. I would love to. I have pretty severe ADHD and get really fixated on hobbies and things like sewing and costume construction. I feel like I\u2019m too old to go back to school for that, but maybe I\u2019m not. I\u2019d love to take classes and lean more into that, because I am obsessed with clothes. I love constructing my own costumes, which I\u2019ve done a ton during this album cycle. <\/p>\n
\n\tBut really, the biggest lesson I\u2019ve learned throughout music and through past projects is to not put expectations on anything. I feel very grateful that people are paying attention and resonating with this music, and I don\u2019t really need some big breakthrough to sleep at night.<\/p>\n
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