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ARTIST..: PinkPantheress
ALBUM...: To Hell With It
GENRE...: Electronic
STYLE...: Drum'n'Bass, Dance-pop, Atmospheric Drum and Bass, Contemporary R&B, Alt-Pop
YEAR....: 2021
LABEL...: Parlophone
COUNTRY.: UK
PLACE...: London, Greater London
BORN....: 18 April 2001, Bath, Somerset, UK
ENCODER.: LAME 3.100 -V0
BITRATE.: 247 kbps avg
QUALITY.: 44.1kHz / Joint Stereo
SOURCE..: CD
TRACKS..: 10
SIZE....: 33.02 MB
URL..: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Hell_with_It
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PinkPantheress
- TRACKLIST
1 Pain 1:36
2 I Must Apologise 1:48
3 Last Valentines 1:13
4 Passion 2:18
5 Just For Me 1:56
6 Noticed I Cried 1:22
7 Reason 2:11
8 All My Friends Know 1:58
9 Nineteen 2:33
10 Break It Off (Bonus) 1:36
Total Playtime: 18:31
Victoria Beverley Walker (born April 18, 2001), professionally known as
PinkPantheress, is an English singer, songwriter, and record producer from
Bath, England. Her moniker is derived from the Pink Panther, an animated
character from the popular franchise of the same name.
NOTICE: Artistname is PinkPantheress (not Pink Pantheress) see booklet11.jpg
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The 20-year-old UK producer broke out on TikTok with snippet-sized songs that
ache with nostalgia for the recent past. Her intimate, lived-in music
succeeds where cheaper imitations fail.
Within the cultural whirlpool of TikTok, home movies of high schoolers from
2004 represent a strange utopia: "[Life] just seemed to be happier and easier
back then," reads a top comment on a popular video. Like many of her peers,
the British producer and singer PinkPantheress projects a sense of
wistfulness about the early aughts. "[M]usic was so unpolished and cool
because I feel like people weren't afraid of being a little bit cringe," she
told i-D. Since releasing her first song on TikTok in late 2020, she's
cultivated a sound that she calls "new nostalgic"; for the 20-year-old
singer, that means websites designed to look like Myspace profiles and music
videos uploaded with intentionally low resolution. On her debut mixtape, to
hell with it, PinkPantheress sketches a Y2K fantasy that's strongest when she
uses the past as a guide, not a gimmick.
PinkPantheress is savvier and slicker than other young musicians who've
cribbed aesthetics from the 2000s. Unlike newly minted viral stars like Jxdn
or Addison Rae, PinkPantheress has put her songs at the forefront of her
fame, obscuring her identity behind a moniker adopted from her TikTok
username. It wasn't until months after her first TikTok that viewers got more
than a glimpse of her face; her real name remains almost impossible to find.
And then there's the music itself, quicksilver slices of bubblegum breakbeats
that blink to life and fade out in just over a minute. Her breakout song,
"Pain," sampled UK garage megahit "Flowers," but slows it down to match her
sleepy state of mind. Rather than try to overpower the sample with her
lyrics, she fills the space with "la la las," letting the simple two-note
sample breathe, revealing the "lo-fi hip hop beat" inside the pulsing,
dance-ready rhythm of the original. Her songs have a welcome, deceptive
simplicity that's missing from the cynical sheen of ultra-famous U.S. TikTok
artists; she's content to let a beat simmer, sing a few coy phrases, and
leave before the concept grows tired.
But what sets PinkPantheress' music firmly in the modern day is her voice, an
ethereal, pixelated miasma that breaks from the earnest delivery of her
British predecessors. Her pinched coos feel hyperreal, the edges of her
syllables sharpened as if sung by a swooning voice-to-text machine. There are
obvious comparisons to futuristic singers like Grimes and Poppy, but
PinkPantheress' strangely soothing vocals also recall the performative
over-enunciation of "TikTok voice." That intimate quality reflects the
recording process for most of her early singles, which were tracked lying
down in her college dorm room because she felt unable to sing standing up.
The combination of retro samples and Clairo-esque bedroom pop delivery breaks
the early-2000s spell: Sure, those songs were perhaps more "cringe," but
their vocals were overdubbed to the high heavens. PinkPantheress feels like
she's whispering in your ear.
While she's clearly a passionate scholar of the early millennium, she also
seems aware that this era of her career can only go so far. Most of her songs
are maddeningly fleeting, as if a longer look would reveal cracks in the
facade. But PinkPantheress is beginning to push beyond genre tropes; though
to hell with it is essentially a collection of previously released singles,
the tape's new songs hint at broader palettes and bigger risks. Where earlier
lyrics were almost all outward projections onto an anonymous crush, "Reason"
and "Nineteen" reflect on her own life. The latter, with its crashing waves
and drawn-out violins, is the closest the record gets to a ballad. "I wasn't
meant to be/This bored at 19," she confesses, a grounding moment on an album
saturated with post-party depression. It's a slow and sensual track
underscored by a low bassline, and unlike the rest, it builds without cutting
to a breakbeat drop. It still doesn't exceed the maximum allotted time for a
TikTok, but it's constructed for private sentimentality, not internet
virality.
PinkPantheress succeeds where cheaper imitations fail because her reference
points feel lived-in rather than opportunistic. She adds an undeniably
contemporary spin on her trove of samples, imbuing them with the intimacy and
immediacy that comes from a childhood spent on self-confessional platforms
like Tumblr and TikTok. On to hell with it, PinkPantheress sculpts a
digital-age paradise that exists only in an invented memory of the past,
setting the stage for a career set more firmly in the present.
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Shoegaze
is a genre of alternative rock that
originated in the late 80s. The genre is very
difficult to define, and it is even more difficult to evaluate music
within it. Generally, the genre is characterized by its
shimmering vocals, reverberating guitars, and
textural distortion that create
a tranquil, opaque
feeling.
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