I Like Ur Look<\/a>,\u201d an audacious, self-assured introduction to her next chapter. Playful, seductive, and packed with Kim\u2019s signature energy, the track channels the thrill of attraction into a shimmering anthem, blending early 2000s pop-punk with an EDM-fueled chorus. The song is co-produced by Kim Petras, Nightfeelings, Margo Wildman, Frost Children, and written by Petras, Reade Wildman, Madison Love, Angel Prost, Lulu Prost, and Nick Weiss.<\/p>\nFor the music video, premiering later this week, she styled herself in a self-built fashion archive of 2000s Louis Vuitton. \u201cIt finally feels like I get to wear what I want to wear,\u201d she says of the upcoming visual, which she promises includes \u201ca really amazing fake boyfriend.\u201d<\/p>\n
Below, we hopped on a call with Kim to talk about her upcoming era, her new single and music video, and what fans can expect from the album ahead.<\/p>\n
V: How would you describe this new era and the world you\u2019re building with the upcoming album?<\/p>\n
Kim Petras: It\u2019s an interesting one! I broke my ankle last year, and that kind of stopped my whole world. I couldn\u2019t perform, and I had to get surgery, which made me really introspective. Usually, I\u2019m always on the go\u2014and I\u2019ve been on the go for like ten years. I missed going out, wearing heels, feeling like myself, and performing so much. But that downtime also made me adventurous\u2014looking into myself and asking, Why do you do this? Where do you want to take it? What do you want to stand for?\u00a0<\/p>\n
And what I realized is that I want to stand for creative freedom. I want to be someone who pushes music forward and doesn\u2019t necessarily go by, \u201cThis is what my label wants,\u201d or \u201cThis is what radio sounds like.\u201d I want to move with the current zeitgeist of music and find the thing that differentiates me. When I first came out, I was making really nostalgic \u201980s pop, at a time when that wasn\u2019t what anyone else was doing. And it felt awesome to carve out my own little strange pocket of music that the mainstream wasn\u2019t fucking with at the moment, but it\u2019s what I wanted to do.<\/p>\n
This album has that same energy. It\u2019s inspired by my friends, by that need to go out again and connect with the people I think are the future of music. Working with trans girls on this record\u2014Angel from Frost Children and Margo XS\u2014made me feel so understood and free. I don\u2019t care about anything but the art of this.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That\u2019s what unlocked this really poppy, weird, abrasive new world that matches my fashion, which has always been really important to me. It\u2019s also a bit of a nod to the 2000s and the sounds I grew up listening to.<\/p>\n
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Photo Credit: Daniel Sachon<\/p>\n
V: Let\u2019s dive into \u201cI Like Your Look.\u201d Talk to me about the song.<\/p>\n
KP: \u201cI Like Your Look\u201d really just started because everyone around me was constantly looking fab\u2014Angel and Lulu from Frost Children, Margo\u2019s personal style. We\u2019d meet up at my house; I built a studio there and picked out all the furniture myself. That process made me realize I had no idea what my style was when it came to furniture or home stuff. My dad\u2019s an architect, so that kind of made me feel embarrassed.<\/p>\n
So I told myself, Okay, I have a broken ankle\u2014I\u2019m going to pull myself together and make this space mine. My stylist would come over every day and just be like, \u201cOh, obsessed with your look!\u201d I think we all needed to dress up to feel creative, which is what connects us in a really cool way.<\/p>\n
At one point, we were like, You know what? That\u2019s actually one of the best things you can hear from your friend. Getting a compliment on your outfit is honestly one of the best feelings in the world. So immediately we thought, Let\u2019s write about that feeling. It\u2019s also kind of a strange song, because it\u2019s about dressing up for someone who has no interest in you, but you try to win them over with your fashion and how good you look. The hook sounds really happy, but underneath it\u2019s actually about wishing you could have someone you just can\u2019t.<\/p>\n
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Photo Credit: Daniel Sachon<\/p>\n
V: This project marks the first time you\u2019re co-producing your music. What inspired you to take that creative control, and how has that shift changed your process in the studio?<\/p>\n
KP: I come into sessions pretty often with fully fleshed-out ideas, melodies, chords, everything. In the past, because I came up as a songwriter, people didn\u2019t really bring up that I should probably be credited as a co-producer. I just assumed that if I wasn\u2019t sitting at the main computer, and I was just playing my little chords in the corner, that somehow didn\u2019t \u201ccount\u201d as producing. But this time around, I finally had people kind enough to say, \u201cNo, you are a co-producer. This is how it goes for everyone else.\u201d I\u2019ve learned a lot. I comped a lot of my own vocals on this record, which was new for me.<\/p>\n
I\u2019d been craving that challenge. I was doing so many sessions where it felt like I was just writing the same boring pop songs over and over because people kept saying, \u201cWell, this is what works.\u201d After a while, that just makes you feel like shit.<\/p>\n
So I decided to stop listening to everyone else. I dropped my management, got rid of the corporate world, and everyone who\u2019s always had a say in what I wear or what I release. And I found people who support my vision 100%, and luckily, I\u2019ve gained friends who feel like family.<\/p>\n
Now I feel so much more connected to what\u2019s actually happening in the clubs. That\u2019s always been my goal: to make gay club music. So now I feel like it\u2019s the kind of clubs that I currently want to go to that would play this music. It feels fucking amazing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
V: What are the musical inspirations for the album? Are there any artists or songs in particular you\u2019ve been listening to get in the mood?<\/p>\n
KP: My own music catalog inspired me more than anything else\u2014some of my favorite moments from my career: \u201980s pop singles, Turn Off the Light, and Slut Pop. I thought, What if we could build a sonic world that combines all these characters I\u2019ve created over the years and fuses them into one? We were hyper-focused on not pulling too much from outside influences, except for maybe Avicii and early 2000s EDM. EDM was huge on our list.<\/p>\n
I was also really inspired by Frost Children\u2019s album Sister\u2014it\u2019s one of my favorite albums ever\u2014and by Margo. Porches is another writer I\u2019ve loved for a long time, and he actually has a few songs on this record that I think people won\u2019t expect.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not just a straight-up club album; it has really deep moments for me. Moments that felt scary to write about. I\u2019ve always preferred to wrap myself in a character rather than air out my diary. The worst thing is when I go into a session and someone asks, \u201cWhat\u2019s happening in your life? How are you feeling?\u201d I don\u2019t want to talk about real shit\u2014I want to come up with some fantastical and weird concept. It irritates me when people say the most creative thing you can do is just tell the truth. Creating something that\u2019s not real is creative too.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There\u2019s this song [in the upcoming album] that\u2019s about my dad. When I was a kid, every weekend we would go to my meetings to get hormone therapy. I was like 10, 11, 12, and we\u2019d go to meetings with psychologists all across Germany. We would take these road trips to find someone who would treat a kid who\u2019s transgender and get me on therapy. And every trip\u2014he\u2019s an architect\u2014so he would make an effort to show me all kinds of architecture on those trips. There was this one building that got torn down, and they built a really ugly one instead. I just felt like it wasn\u2019t this magical, brutalist, sick building that was there before. Now it\u2019s like a modern apartment building with a pool or something, and I don\u2019t like it.<\/p>\n
My dad would always complain that they tore down something beautiful. And a lot of the time, I think about how people criticize being an openly trans artist\u2014when you talk about it, people say, \u201cYou\u2019re ruining your beautiful body that God gave you.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
So I compared it to that building\u2014something that used to be there, that was beautiful, and then they tore it down and ruined it. It\u2019s a standout song for me.<\/p>\n
V: What can fans expect from the music video? What inspired the looks, and what kind of vintage influences did you pull from?<\/p>\n
KP: I put together all the looks in this video and styled myself for the first time. It\u2019s a lot of 2006 to 2011 Louis Vuitton, which is just this romantic thing to me that I\u2019ve always been obsessed with. It finally feels like I get to wear what I want to wear.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The video\u2019s about me talking to a guy who\u2019s telling me what he likes and doesn\u2019t like. I adjust myself to everything he says. In the video, I don\u2019t really have a personality\u2014I\u2019m willing to change for whatever other people like. That\u2019s something I relate to. In my dating life, it\u2019s been hard not to change myself into what I think other people want. That\u2019s the storyline: he says, \u201cI hate bananas,\u201d and I spit out a banana; then he says, \u201cI love Australia,\u201d so I make a dress with an Australian flag to impress him.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, it never works to change your personality to what you think someone else will like. The looks and fashion in the video really emphasize that message\u2014the need to put on all this stuff and become all these things you\u2019re not, just to appear effortless and lovable. I\u2019m really excited for people to see it. It feels like something I\u2019ve always wanted to do. Plus, I got a really amazing fake boyfriend in the video, so I can\u2019t wait for everyone to see it.<\/p>\n
V: You worked with mostly trans artists and collaborators on this upcoming project \u2014 can you talk about what that creative environment was like and what it means to you?<\/p>\n
KP: I really want to put my fans onto the Frost Children and Margo XS\u2014and Margo XS\u2019s project deBasement, which is amazing. It\u2019s a banger. Our brains merged on this project, and it wouldn\u2019t be the same without them. I loved working with Sophie; she was one of the few trans girls of that moment who was like, \u201cI love you and I want to work with you. I think what you\u2019re doing is amazing.\u201d I always wanted a sisterhood or a girl group of trans girls. I\u2019m just so happy that I found this sisterhood with them, and that we get to talk with each other about how we see pop, and how exciting it is that we exist at the same time and do our shit.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The goal is to make music that emotionally makes me feel something. And \u201cI Like Ur Look\u201d is really one of my favorite songs that I\u2019ve done in a long time. It reminds me not to compare myself to greatness.\u00a0<\/p>\n
V: When you think about this new era, what emotions or ideas are at its core? What do you want listeners to feel when they hear this music?<\/p>\n
KP: I want you to make erratic decisions and turn your life around. For me, this was like\u2014I wish I could reinvent myself completely, get in a car, drive to the desert, I don\u2019t fucking know\u2014start a new life and throw away everything that ever defined me. Just get rid of all that old shit that doesn\u2019t matter anymore. Be in the now, trust myself, and look fab.<\/p>\n
All of this music is a sharp turn in attitude. I\u2019m not writing for people to like me anymore. I\u2019m writing what makes me get up, what makes me feel like, this is exactly what I want to hear. It makes me feel like I can be anything, and get rid of the chains of the past, and just start over.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What does it mean to rebuild yourself from the ground up? For Kim Petras, pop\u2019s favorite provocateur, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-75122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Photo Credit: Eli Sheppard<\/p>\n