‘This Project Feels Like My Final Form’: Slayyyter Talks About Her New Album, Which Might Be Her Last Album Too

Talking to Billboard over Zoom from Los Angeles a week before the release of her third studio album, Slayyyter looks fresh faced and pretty while laying in bed talking about music. It’s thus counterintuitive when she reveals that she wanted the aesthetic for this LP, Wor$st Girl in America , to be, as she says “Really gross. I wanted this album to look ugly.” Explore Billboard See latest videos, charts and news But in the context of her trajectory this creative instinct makes sense.

Landing in the music industry after growing up in a “very, very, very, very dysfunctional household” 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 “charm school lessons” other pop stars seemed to have had.

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