{"id":559708,"date":"2026-04-02T06:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T06:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/559708\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T06:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T06:15:07","slug":"slayyyter-wort-girl-in-america-album-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/559708\/","title":{"rendered":"Slayyyter: WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA Album Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Slayyyter<\/a>\u2019s music is vile, explicit, and a threat to common decency. Since her early days as a salon receptionist, the artist formerly known as Catherine Garner has channeled her unbridled id with a head-spinning boldness that would be probable cause for exorcism in most God-fearing countries. Over beats as blunt, chromatic, and gleefully stupid as a Jeff Koons sculpture, the singer has vied to make hyperpop more garish and alarming by being hornier, messier, and more extreme than her peers. Together with producer Ayesha Erotica, she dared listeners to join her Bimbo Summit<\/a> as she barreled through Y2K hedonism without the burdens of taste or conventional morality to slow her down. The mileage one got out of songs like \u201cDaddy AF<\/a>,\u201d \u201cThroatzillaaa<\/a>,\u201d or \u201cPurrr<\/a>\u201d (\u201cDrugs make this kitty go purr\u201d) depended on how willing you were to ride shotgun as she ran the same red lights again and again. Like celebrity gossip, Slayyyter\u2019s unapologetic trashiness could be fabulous in small doses but taxing taken all at once.<\/p>\n

Well, guess what? Slayyyter is back and she\u2019s better (and more awful!) than ever. After staring down 30, experiencing a career lull, and contemplating quitting music altogether, the singer staked her future in the industry on the fate of her fourth record. There\u2019s nothing like a kick in the ass: On WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA, she comes screaming onto the beat with fresh urgency. Deploying a series of small tweaks that nonetheless feel like a total reinvention, Slayyyter doubles down on misbehavior while simultaneously opening up new lanes of creative potential. As with Charli XCX<\/a>\u2019s level-up from Crash<\/a> to BRAT<\/a>, WOR$T GIRL achieves its bite by chucking pop prettiness out the window and swerving hard into club antagonism. It is because of, rather than despite, its jagged edges that Slayyyter can showcase a vulnerability that\u2019s eluded her previous releases. Chaos doesn\u2019t simply heighten her music\u2019s pathos but underlines her humanity.<\/p>\n

No score yet, be the first to add.<\/p>\n

WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA is presented as a homecoming twice over: a return to the singer\u2019s Missouri roots and to the music she blasted on her first iPod. You could uncharitably write her off as a trendchaser, joining the scores of artists moving with the nostalgia cycle to capture the grain and texture of late-aughts music as \u201cY2K\u201d and \u201cindie sleaze\u201d get staler by the day. But that really undersells how well Slayyyter\u2019s production suits her. If previous records massaged her hedonism into silky, professional-grade pop, the sound on WOR$T GIRL is all sinew and scrap metal, a leaner and meaner vehicle for acting out. \u201cCannibalism!\u201d barrels out the gate with a surf rock bassline that staggers and starts as it\u2019s derailed by peals of blaring guitar. Slayyyter shimmies onto the beat like an amoral John Waters heroine<\/a>, cruising over the choppy momentum while recounting a toxic love affair in gasping Fred Schneider<\/a> intonation. At the chorus, she uses her head voice (formerly reserved for Britney imitation) to sound a desperate, one-sided siren song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Slayyyter\u2019s music is vile, explicit, and a threat to common decency. Since her early days as a salon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[776,88,216,777],"class_list":{"0":"post-559708","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-albums","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-web"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}