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PinkPantheress
Born2001 (age 22–23)
Bath, England
OriginLondon, England
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Singer
  • songwriter
  • record producer[1]
Years active2020–present
Labels
Websitepantheress.pink

PinkPantheress (born 2001) is an English singer, songwriter, and record producer. In 2021, while attending university in London, she posted several songs to TikTok that went viral, including "Break It Off", and she subsequently signed to Parlophone and Elektra Records. Her singles "Just for Me" and "Pain", the latter of which was certified silver in the UK, from her debut mixtape To Hell with It (2021), peaked in the top 40 of the UK Singles Chart.

Early life

PinkPantheress was born in 2001 in Bath, England, to a Kenyan mother, who works as a carer, and a white English father, who works as a statistic professor.[2][3][4] She has one older brother, who works as an audio engineer. When she was five years old, her family moved from Bath to Kent, where she grew up.[5][6] Her father moved to the United States to work at a university in Austin, Texas when she was 12 years old, while she and her mother stayed in England.[7] She took piano lessons as a child, and, at age 12, sang "Stand by Me" by Ben E. King at a school talent show. In her early teens, she was the lead singer in a rock band, which covered songs by My Chemical Romance, Paramore, and Green Day, and performed with them for the first time at a school fête.[8][3][5] She began working at around age 13, taking jobs at Marks & Spencer, Claire's, and the Co-op as a teenager.[9] She studied film at University of the Arts London until 2022, when she dropped out.[10][2][9][11]

Career

While attending secondary school in Kent, she started writing music to help a friend before eventually writing music on her own.[12] At age 17, she began using GarageBand to produce instrumentals for her friend, fellow singer Mazz, and she later used GarageBand to record many of her early songs while lying down in her university hall late at night.[2][13][14] She started uploading original songs of hers to SoundCloud, where they received little attention. After a video posted to her personal TikTok account received over 500,000 likes, she began posting her songs on the platform as PinkPantheress in the hopes of reaching a wider audience.[4][15]

Snippets of her songs "Just a Waste" and "Pain" went viral on TikTok in January 2021, with the latter later peaking at number 35 on the UK Singles Chart.[8][2][16][17] Her breakout single "Break It Off" also went viral on TikTok, and she was subsequently signed to Parlophone Records and Elektra Records.[18][12][19] She released her song "Passion" in February 2021, and was featured on GoldLink's song "Evian" from his studio album Haram! in June 2021.[20][21][22] After a snippet of her song "Just for Me" gained attention on TikTok, she released it in August 2021, along with a music video co-directed by PinkPantheress released the following month.[23] It was her second top-40 and highest entry on the UK Singles Chart.[24][25] In early October 2021, she announced the release date and title of her debut mixtape, To Hell with It and released her song "I Must Apologise".[26][27] To Hell With It was released on October 15, 2021 through Parlophone and Elektra Records, debuting at number 20 on the UK Albums Chart.[28][29]

PinkPantheress performed live for the first time in October and November 2021 in London.[30] In January 2022, she was announced as the winner of BBC's Sound of 2022 poll.[31] In January 2022, she released a remix album of To Hell with It.[32] She was nominated for the Brit Award for Song of the Year at the 42nd Brit Awards for "Obsessed With You" by Central Cee, which sampled her song "Just for Me", and performed a virtual concert in Roblox for the Brit Awards.[33][34][35] She appeared on the song "Bbycakes" with Mura Masa, Lil Uzi Vert, and Shygirl in February 2022, and released her song "Where You Are" featuring Willow in April 2022.[36][37]

In April 2022, PinkPantheress will go on a European tour in support of To Hell with It.[38] She will be featured on "Tinkerbell is Overrated", a song from Beabadoobee's upcoming sophomore album, Beatopia, scheduled for release in July 2022.[39] She is also scheduled to perform as an opening act on Halsey's upcoming Love and Power Tour throughout the spring of 2022.[40]

Artistry

Influences

PinkPantheress's stage name was taken from her TikTok account of the same name, which was inspired by a question from the game show The Chase, which asked "What is a female panther called?", as well as the 2006 film The Pink Panther.[12][2] PinkPantheress has listed My Chemical Romance, Lily Allen, Just Jack, Michael Jackson, Kaytranada, Frank Ocean, Imogen Heap, and K-pop songs as inspirations, also citing Blink-182, Good Charlotte, Green Day, early Panic! at the Disco, Linkin Park, and Frou Frou as inspirations for her melodies and beat choices.[41][4][42][5][43][13] She has called Hayley Williams a "big influence", stating that she wanted to become an artist after seeing her perform as part of Paramore during Reading Festival when she was 15 years old.[44][2][9] She has also stated that she was inspired by an interview with Doja Cat to pursue music as a career, and was inspired to post her songs on TikTok by Lil Nas X's rise to fame through social media.[5]

Musical style

PinkPantheress's music has been described as pop,[10] bedroom pop,[20] dance,[27] alt-pop,[45][46] drum and bass,[22] 2-step,[47] jungle, and hyperpop,[2] and often uses samples of other songs, such as dance music from the 1990s and 2000s and jungle, funk, UK garage, and pop songs.[44][1][48] PinkPantheress uses topline writing to write her songs, which are frequently short in length.[49][6] She has described her own music as alt-pop and "a form of D'n'B that's acceptable to listen to at home", and has stated that she writes "sadder", "dark" lyrics to "appeal to the youth", often to contrast them with her "happy instrumentals".[7][41][50]

NPR's Vanessa Handy called breakbeat loops a "signature of her work", while Kieran Press-Reynolds of Insider also wrote that her songs regularly have "fast-paced breakbeats" and "ASMR-like refrains".[51][52] Rolling Stone's Keegan Brady described PinkPantheress's music as "alt-girl rap" and wrote that she uses "confessional, almost treacly rap-singing" and "dated production technology" in her songs which "tap[s] into a deeply nostalgic sound that conjures the height of Nineties U.K. culture".[48] DIY's Georgia Evans called her "DIY aesthetic that started as GarageBand experimentation" a signature of her music.[42] PinkPantheress has said that her lyrics are usually not based on personal experiences, stating, "A lot of it just comes because I really like storytelling."[8]

The Guardian's Michael Cragg described PinkPantheress's vocals as "sweet but unsettling", while Jon Caramanica of The New York Times wrote that she "sounds like she's flirting and aching all at once."[53][10] Cat Zhang of Pitchfork called PinkPantheress's voice "angelic", "girlish", and "slight" and wrote that she was "one of the rare TikTok artists whose internet fame seems proportional to their potential".[1] Felicity Martin of Dazed called her lyrics "sad" and "wistful".[43] Writing for Nylon, Steffanee Wang called her music "a collage of sounds that fell [sic] simultaneously dated and contemporary", adding that listening to it "feels like being on the internet before social media was a thing".[54] Insider's Kieran Press-Reynolds wrote that PinkPantheress gave uptempo electronic music genres like drum and bass an "introspective, romantic bedroom sound" with her "hushed" vocals.[52]

Discography

Mixtapes

List of mixtapes, with release date, selected chart positions, and album name shown
Title Details Peak chart positions
UK
[55] 		AUS
[56] 		BEL
(FL)
[57] 		IRE
[58] 		NZ
[59] 		US
[60]
To Hell with It 20 78 188 36 27 73

Remix albums

List of remix albums, with release date and label shown
Title Details
To Hell with It (Remixes)
  • Released: 28 January 2022[62]
  • Label: Parlophone, Elektra
  • Format: Cassette, USB, digital download, streaming

Singles

List of singles, with year released, selected chart positions, certifications, and album name shown
Title Year Peak chart positions Certifications Album
UK
[55] 		IRE
[58] 		NZ
Hot
[63] 		US
Rock
[64]
"Just a Waste" 2021 — — — — Non-album single
"Break It Off" 74 — — 30 To Hell with It
"Pain" 35 54 3 —
"Passion" 73 — — 30
"Attracted to You" — — — — Non-album single
"Just for Me" 27 49 5 — To Hell with It
"I Must Apologise" 85 — 34 —
"Bbycakes"
(with Mura Masa, Lil Uzi Vert, and Shygirl)[66] 		2022 71 — — — Soundtrack to a Death, Part 2
"Where You Are"
(featuring Willow)[67] 		58 69
[68]		 8 — TBA
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released.

Other charted songs

List of other charted songs, with year released, selected chart positions, and album name shown
Title Year Peak chart positions Album
US
Rock
[69]
"Reason" 2021 39 To Hell with It

Awards and nominations

List of awards and nominations, with award, year, category, nominated work, result, and reference shown
Award Year Category Nominee(s) Result Ref.
BBC Sound of... 2022 BBC Sound of 2022 Herself Won [70]
Ivor Novello Awards 2022 Rising Star Award Pending [71]
Best Contemporary Song "Just for Me" Pending
NME Awards 2022 Best Song in the World Nominated [72]
Best Song by a UK Artist Nominated
Best Mixtape To Hell with It Nominated

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