{"id":869767,"date":"2026-10-03T20:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T20:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/869767\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T20:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T20:54:09","slug":"pinkpantheress-is-building-pop-empire-as-producer-and-leading-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/869767\/","title":{"rendered":"PinkPantheress Is Building Pop Empire as Producer and Leading Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tPinkPantheress<\/a> has one of the sharpest ears in pop, and she\u2019s using it to build an empire. The British singer-songwriter and producer began her career as an elusive internet figure with a skill for crafting intriguing earworms. Over the past five years in particular, she\u2019s risen up the pop ranks with sharp, deliberate strides, driven by endurance rather than impulse.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThere\u2019s a misguided conception that PinkPantheress has been routinely overshadowed in favor of her collaborators, like Ice Spice on \u201cBoy\u2019s a Liar, Pt. 2\u201d<\/a> or Zara Larsson on the \u201cStateside\u201d<\/a> remix. From the outside, it could look like their guest appearances on the Hot 100 hits catapulted them to career highs while keeping her audience somewhat niche. But their mainstream goals couldn\u2019t differ more from what PinkPantheress wants for herself. Lately, the role of pop producer seems more intriguing to the 25-year-old than pop stardom itself. At her own pace, she\u2019s becoming an undeniable authority on both.<\/p>\n

\n\tLast week, PinkPantheress flipped \u201cTwentyfive Eight,\u201d <\/a>from the new Tinashe album Popstar, in an exclusive remix only available on iTunes. Alongside her collaborator Count Baldor, PinkPantheress pumped the mellowed-out track full of heart-pounding bass. Her version is louder and more biting, but never at the sacrifice of the track\u2019s spirit. It\u2019s distinctly PinkPantheress. There\u2019s a passion and curiosity in her sound that stands out from most everyone else currently driving the sound of pop. It helps that her perspective includes thrilling sold-out crowds as much as it does shaping records behind the scenes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tKelela put it best while honoring PinkPantheress for the TIME100 Next 2026<\/a>, which celebrates the most influential rising stars across industries. \u201cI was instantly floored the first time I heard PinkPantheress,\u201d she said. \u201cWhat I found is an artist who already knows exactly who she is. I understood why people were making the connection between us, but also why it was reductive to stop there because she\u2019s not an extension of anybody. She writes her own songs, produces a lot of her own music, and has an incredibly potent sonic vision.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tPinkPantheress and Kelela first collaborated on \u201cBury Me\u201d from her 2023 debut Heaven Knows.<\/a> It was a fated union. PinkPantheress credits Kelela, along with Kaytranada, as being an essential influence on her exploration of electronic music. They reunited earlier this year on \u201cThe Bridge,\u201d an entrancing entry on Kelela\u2019s album New Avatar. In the duration of her 30-second verse, PinkPantheress creates a musical conversation with multiple diverging tones all stacked upon one another. Her voice is stern in one moment, silky in the next.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI discovered Kelela in 2018 through \u2018Waitin\u2019 and the fibres of my mind changed ever after,\u201d PinkPantheress wrote on X in July. \u201cKelela, you\u2019re a genius and the overwhelming love you get comes as no surprise, you really deserve everything. This is a dream come true.\u201d In her TIME100 note, Kelela praised PinkPantheress for the impact her presence has had on electronic music, writing, \u201cShe\u2019s doing all of this as a Black femme in a genre that has rarely made room for us, which means every track she makes is also a door staying open behind her.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tEarlier this year, Imogen Heap asked PinkPantheress for production recommendations, \u201cany tricks, basically,\u201d she said while calling into YouTuber Derrick Gee\u2019s music series, Solid Air. <\/a>PinkPantheress looked for a second like she might actually pass out, grasping for words that escaped her in the (virtual) presence of an artist whose work is inseparable from her musical DNA. \u201cThat\u2019s gonna hit me later,\u201d PinkPantheress said after watching Heap, equipped with her signature midi gloves, cover \u201cTrue Romance,\u201d a warbling deep cut from Heaven Knows. \u201cAnd it\u2019s gonna make me cry.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tComing from both Kelela and Heap, it\u2019s high praise for PinkPantheress, who was awarded Producer of the Year at the 2026 BRIT Awards in February. She was 24 at the time of the win, making her the first woman and the youngest recipient to receive the honor, which has been presented annually since 1977. \u201cMy music production is the thing I\u2019m proudest of, and I\u2019ve worked really hard at it,\u201d she said at the time. Lately, she\u2019s been working on fortifying her production catalogue with the rising UK girl group, Say Now. PinkPantheress serves as an executive producer on their upcoming debut EP, out in November, Rolling Stone can reveal. <\/p>\n

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\n\tThe first glimpse of the project, \u201cMet My Match,\u201d<\/a> was co-written and co-produced by PinkPantheress. It feels like a reset for the group, who\u2019ve been searching for their footing in pop since forming under the group moniker Needanamebro in 2022. Here, they seem to find it. The song runs along a bouncing track with airy melodies swirling throughout each verse. PinkPantheress leaves a clear mark without leaving it sounding like a dupe of her own music. Beyond the sound of the records themselves, the primary takeaway from her side projects is often as simple as this: PinkPantheress has really good taste.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tHow frequently the musician pops up in unexpected places is a testament to how tapped in she is. Listen closely to \u201cCrush,\u201d the opening track on Jae Stephens\u2019 debut album, Audacity<\/a>, and you\u2019ll hear the distinctly British sound of PinkPantheress lending backing vocals on the refrain: \u201cEverybody said my English accent in the demo was a cancellable offense so I appreciate her stepping in,\u201d Stephens wrote on X.<\/p>\n

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\n\tPinkPantheress is often in good company. She posed with Madonna in a photo from a star-packed MTV Video Music Video Awards afterparty and with Charli XCX at the awards ceremony itself. Last year, PinkPantheress flipped her mixtape Fancy That into Fancy Some More?, an expansive remix project that featured appearances from 22 artists including Larsson, Jade, Rachel Chinouriri, Kaytranada, Nia Archives, Basement Jaxx, and more. In April, her blowout Coachella set <\/a>included guest spots from the Dare, HorsegiirL, actor Tyriq Withers, and more.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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