PinkPantheress

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PinkPantheress
Born2001 (age 19–20)
Bath, England
OriginLondon, England
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Singer
  • songwriter
  • record producer[1]
Years active2020–present
Labels
Websitepantheress.pink

PinkPantheress (born 2001) is an English singer, songwriter, and record producer. In 2021, while attending university in London, she posted several songs to TikTok that went viral, including "Break It Off", and she subsequently signed to Parlophone and Elektra Records. Her singles "Pain" and "Just for Me" peaked in the top 40 of the UK Singles Chart. Her debut mixtape, To Hell with It, was released in 2021.

Life and career[]

PinkPantheress was born in 2001 in Bath, England, to a Kenyan mother, who works as a carer, and an English father, who works as an academic and is based in the United States.[2][3] In her early teens, she was the lead singer in a rock band, which covered songs by My Chemical Romance and Paramore, and performed with them for the first time at a school fête.[4][3] While attending secondary school in Kent, she started writing music to help a friend before eventually writing music on her own.[5] At age 17, she began using GarageBand to produce instrumentals for her friend, fellow singer Mazz, and she later used GarageBand to record many of her early songs while lying down in her university hall late at night.[2][6][7] She started uploading original songs of hers to SoundCloud, and later to TikTok in order to reach a wider audience after her SoundCloud uploads received little recognition.[8]

A snippet of her song "Just a Waste", posted in December 2020, went viral on TikTok.[4] In January 2021, her single "Pain" gained attention on TikTok, and later peaked at number 35 on the UK Singles Chart.[2][9][10] Her breakout single "Break It Off" went viral on TikTok, and she was subsequently signed to Parlophone Records and Elektra Records.[11][5][12] She was featured on GoldLink's studio album Haram! in 2021.[13] She released her song "Passion" in February 2021.[14] After a snippet of her song "Just for Me" went viral on TikTok, she released it in August 2021. It peaked at number 27 on the UK Singles Chart, making it her second top-40 and her highest entry on the chart.[15][16] A music video for the song was released in September 2021 and co-directed by PinkPantheress.[17] In early October 2021, she announced the release date and title of her debut mixtape, To Hell with It.[18] Her song "I Must Apologise" was also released in October 2021.[19] To Hell With It was released on October 15, 2021 through Parlophone and Elektra Records.[20]

In October 2021, she modeled for Marc Jacobs's Heaven collection and starred in the short documentary film Feast on This as part of Spotify's Radar series.[21][22][23] She also announced a string of three live performances throughout London, which will take place in October and November 2021.[24]

Artistry[]

Influences[]

PinkPantheress's stage name was inspired by her TikTok account of the same name, which was named after a question from the game show The Chase, which asked "What is a female panther called?", and the 2006 film The Pink Panther.[5][2] PinkPantheress has listed Lily Allen, Just Jack, Michael Jackson, My Chemical Romance, Imogen Heap, and K-pop songs as inspirations, also citing Blink-182, Good Charlotte, Green Day, early Panic! at the Disco, Linkin Park, and Frou Frou as inspirations for her melodies and beat choices.[25][26][27][6] She has called Hayley Williams a "big influence", stating that she wanted to become an artist after seeing her perform as part of Paramore during Reading Festival when she was 14 years old, and that she had "never seen someone have so much fun on stage and look so effortless while doing it".[28][2]

Musical style[]

Her music has been described as pop,[29] bedroom pop,[14] dance,[19] alt-pop,[30][31] drum and bass,[13] 2-step,[32] jungle, and hyperpop,[2] and often uses samples of other songs, such as dance music from the 1990s and 2000s and jungle, funk, garage, and pop songs.[28][1][33] She has stated that she does not want to box her music into the genres of garage, drum and bass, or jungle, as she considers her music "just [her] dipping [her] toe into the pool".[28] PinkPantheress uses topline writing to write her songs.[34] She has stated that she writes "sadder lyrics to appeal to the youth".[25] NPR's Vanessa Handy called breakbeat loops a "signature of her work", while Kieran Press-Reynolds of Insider also wrote that her songs regularly have "fast-paced breakbeats" and "ASMR-like refrains".[35][36] Rolling Stone's Keegan Brady described PinkPantheress's music as "alt-girl rap" and wrote that she uses "confessional, almost treacly rap-singing" and "dated production technology" in her songs which "tap[s] into a deeply nostalgic sound that conjures the height of Nineties U.K. culture".[33] DIY's Georgia Evans called her "DIY aesthetic that started as GarageBand experimentation" a signature of her music.[26] PinkPantheress has said that her lyrics are usually not based on personal experiences, stating, "A lot of it just comes because I really like storytelling."[4]

The Guardian's Michael Cragg described PinkPantheress's vocals as "sweet but unsettling", while Jon Caramanica of The New York Times wrote that she "sounds like she's flirting and aching all at once."[37][29] Cat Zhang of Pitchfork called PinkPantheress's voice "angelic", "girlish", and "slight" and wrote that she was "one of the rare TikTok artists whose internet fame seems proportional to their potential".[1] Felicity Martin of Dazed called her lyrics "sad" and "wistful".[27] Writing for Nylon, Steffanee Wang called her music "a collage of sounds that fell [sic] simultaneously dated and contemporary", adding that listening to it "feels like being on the internet before social media was a thing".[38] Insider's Kieran Press-Reynolds wrote that PinkPantheress gave uptempo electronic music genres like drum and bass an "introspective, romantic bedroom sound" with her "hushed" vocals.[36]

Personal life[]

As of 2021, PinkPantheress is based in London, England.[29] She is studying film at University of the Arts London.[2]

Discography[]

Mixtapes[]

Title Details Peak chart positions
UK
[39] 		AUS
[40] 		BEL
(FL)
[41] 		IRE
[42] 		NZ
[43] 		US
[44]
To Hell with It 20 78 188 36 27 73

Singles[]

Title Year Peak chart positions Album
UK
[39] 		IRE
[42] 		NZ
Hot
[46] 		US
Rock
[47]
"Just a Waste" 2021 — — — — Non-album single
"Break It Off" 74 — — 30 To Hell with It
"Pain" 35 54 3 —
"Passion" 73 — — 30
"Attracted to You" — — — — Non-album single
"Just for Me" 27 49 5 — To Hell with It
"I Must Apologise" 85 — 34 —

Other charted songs[]

Title Year Peak chart positions Album
US
Rock
[48]
"Reason" 2021 39 To Hell with It

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