The New Yorker Festival

King Princess Talks with Amanda Petrusich

金公主(King Princess)对话阿曼达·彼得鲁西奇(Amanda Petrusich)
Pop rocks.
流行摇滚。

“Girl Violence,” the third and most recent album by the singer and multi-instrumentalist Mikaela Straus, a.k.a. King Princess, ushered in a new era for her experiments in sonically fluid sapphic pop. If “1950,” her breakout single, from 2018, was emblematic of a vintage musical matrix that she has spent much of her career so far riffing on, “Girl Violence” longs to synthesize those sounds into something more peerless and forward-thinking. Straus, equal parts pop agitator and quirked-up rock star, wants to add more ferocity to songs of the queer canon. She brought her learn-as-you-go energy to a performance and talk with the staff writer Amanda Petrusich at the twenty-seventh annual New Yorker Festival.

歌手兼多乐器演奏家米凯拉·斯特劳斯(Mikaela Straus),艺名金公主,其第三张也是最新专辑《女孩暴力》(Girl Violence)开启了她在声波流动的萨福式流行乐实验中的新纪元。如果说她2018年的突破性单曲《1950》代表了一种复古音乐矩阵——迄今为止她职业生涯的大部分时间都在这一矩阵上即兴发挥——那么《女孩暴力》则渴望将这些声音合成为某种更无可匹敌、更具前瞻性的东西。斯特劳斯既是流行乐的煽动者,又是风格乖张的摇滚明星,她想为酷儿经典曲目注入更多凶猛之气。在第二十七届纽约客节上,她将这种边做边学的能量带到了一场演出和与特约撰稿人阿曼达·彼得鲁西奇的对话中。

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