Several months ago, during the months long process of reclaiming access to the original r/kingprincess reddit, I asked KP if she liked this website.
I got a really enthusiastic answer!
This was before I finally found Glastonbury!
But it's awfully sweet that KP likes what I'm doing here and doesn't mind we gather All The Things in One Place for her and the world.
KP has posted a cute snippet of herself grooving in the studio with her friends and Razz the dog, who inquisitively sniffs the camera as a nice warm moody ethereal track floats through the air:
"Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, where she observed a number of the music industry's greatest artists at her father's recording studio Mission Sound, King Princess turned down a record deal at just 11 years old in favour of finishing school.
At only 19 years old, King Princess burst onto the international market earlier this year with her gold certified, breakout single "1950" which broke the top 30 on Spotify. The track has been streamed over 14 million times in Australia and New Zealand, following a single tweet from Harry Styles. His quoting the lyrics went viral, and the tweet has generated over 300,000 likes and 100,000 retweets to date.
Her incredible debut EP "Make My Bed" was released in June via Mark Ronson's Zelig Records (out now through Sony Music New Zealand) as the label's first release. Featuring the exquisite new single, 'Talia', which has been streamed over 14 million times worldwide to date and an additional three previously unheard tracks, "Make My Bed" is an incredible insight into what we can expect from pop's exciting new artist.
"a prodigy in the making" -- Mark Ronson
"a songwriter, producer, and musician who is truly challenging the traditional ferms of pop music today" -- Coup De Main Magazine
"There's an inherent sense of sweeping romance and melancholy in her songs that renders them captivating." -- PAPER
"'1950' is about as close to perfect as a pop song can get." - Pitchfork
As an intensifying vocalist, multi instrumentalist, songwriter and producer, King Princess is a pop superstar in the making and this show is not to be missed! Secure tickets now to avoid disappointment."
-- Sauce: KP's opening tour in NZ:
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Her Majesty Miss King, circa 2018:
Back in 2018, Sofiane Ait Slimane interviewed KP for Dull, you can watch the video here for the first time in 6 years thanks to Bilibili's archive of this rare interview.
It first came to my attention a few weeks ago when I was scrolling backwards through the endpoint of the results of KP's official Reddit. When I won the reddit back in May '24, I was stoked to see that there was such a glut of content going back to mid 2018, all the way through around mid 2023, when the Reddit was shuttered. Thankfully that closure didn't mean the threads were outright deleted --- that would have been a true loss to the historical record of this artist.
Roughly 20 pages of content with 25 threads each have been preserved in the Reddit, and further backed up against disaster or homophobia with the Wayback Machine.
Around 474 threads in, you could see this interview was posted, but the OP's account has been deleted, the thread had no comments, and the link itself to the video interview was dead. See the red below:
To the Wayback Machine we go! But, the video wasn't preserved....
So in frustration, I start googling the magazine itself, at one time it did have a semi functioning wordpress, but that too, is almost devoid of info:
Finally we can see a little blurb and what once was the video...
But it took actually typing various keywords over and over into google to finally churn up China's results:
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| Look at that smile! |
So now, thanks to a Chinese video sharing site, you too can listen to this great interview with a very young KP (approx 19 years old in this interview) and hear her gush over Lady Gaga and meeting her and seeing her concerts:
"Sit Down With King Princess"
by Sofiane "So'lution" Ait Slimane, for Dull Magazine, France, circa late 2018:
So we have a little tiny bit of this show, some concert vloggers on Youtube posted some snippets of 1950 and Talia, but not much more.
KP came on in the early afternoon, on Day 3, Sunday, the 19th of May, 2019.
Did you attend? Did you take concert videos? Contact us if you attended, write us a message below, or email us, we really do want to build a full picture of all KP's tour perfs for you!
Currently, there is only a photo KP posted herself to Twitter for this show. Did you attend? Did you take concert videos? Contact us if you attended, write us a message below, or email us, we really do want to build a full picture of all KP's tour perfs for you!
KFOG Radio Interview with King Princess by Danica Lopez, San Francisco, July 24th, 2018
Since the recovery of the KP Reddit, a vast collection of over 450 topics has displayed interviews, images, concert footage, and fan art dating back to around mid 2018. We found this interview with KFOG radio buried deep inside the reddit and decided to bring it to you here. This one shows just how youthful and talented KP was and is to this day.
Interestingly it was recorded the day after her sold out Rickshaw Stop performance and the day of her performance at Great American Music Hall.
“When you’re young and you’re straight and you’re dealing with heartbreak you need that song that gets you through it and makes you cry and puts you back together. Gay people need that too! And it seems obvious but it’s really necessary – you need people who look like you and sound like you, on radio and in television, film, writing.”
"I don't understand how you can live in 2018 and allow someone else make your music sound a certain way. that's just some crazy sh*t to me."
It's the I-know-myself-and-that's-everything attitude that allowed Mikaela Straus, aka King Princess, to release a debut EP that is entirely her own. Not bad for a nineteen-year-old. But Straus isn't any teenager. With an eloquence and knowing beyond her years, Straus is taking her place in mainstream alt-pop as a queer artist who knows what she wants. "I didn't have anybody who was gay who was making music the way that I needed them to," King Princess tells KFOG. "It's not their fault. It's a systematic issue. But it's also really possible to be gay in this industry because everybody is really hungry for authenticity. I think the system that is in place grants very little authenticity. I think there is space to be made." King Princess talks signing with Mark Ronson, the importance of representation in music, Netflix's "Glow," and more with host Danica in this interview at KFOG.
Listen to the whole interview here:
LISTEN ON KING PRINCESS ARCHIVES SOUNDCLOUD
Watch below on youtube:
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wanted to see in the world. You can download it here
Long Story / Blog Post / *Nerd out with me!* to WHY I made it:
I love remixes.
They are an integral part of being a music fan for me, because they help feed me with more of my favorite artist while I wait out the gaps between the tours and the next albums and the next Big Thing the artist ends up doing. Back in 2008, when I first discovered Lady Gaga, I absolutely couldn't get enough of her music into my mind, and I downloaded every single song she ever released, and every single demo or unreleased track that hackers released for her. But even that wasn't enough, while I enjoyed them all over and over again, it was the remixes that absolutely fed my soul during the droughts. Got boring chores like mowing the lawn, raking leaves, doing laundry, or washing dishes? Add headphones and music and uptempo REMIXES of your favorite artists, and it will be done in no time! and you can disconnect your mind while you do so! Peak Pisces escapism in action!
It really was an amazing time to be a Lady Gaga fan. DJs all over the internet, nightclubs, and radio were taking Gaga's malleable voice, chopping it up, and editing it over different sounds that even further advanced the pop culture and excitement around her. They made their own sonic cushions for her acapellas, and further mashed her up with other pop queens or made entirely new creations with her music. As a Gaga fan, you were always fed, you just turned to the remixes to paint the inside of your consciousness with sound and light. Remixes & compilations popped on blogs, on facebook groups, and in web forums. I downloaded as many as I could. And blasted them into my ears daily. Note to anyone reading this: I did this too much, and I now have tinnitus, so do not blast it too loud directly into your ears, because then you, too, will never know true silence and will have bells ringing in your ears for the rest of your life. And need to sleep with a noise machine to stop the ringing. Do not be like me back then. Be smart. Protect your ears.
That being said:
It's not enough to hear the music, I need to MARINATE INSIDE IT FOR HOURS, PLEASE. This is achievable with REMIXES! (*at a safe volume, kids!)
Fast forward 16 years. In the Lady Gaga fandom, I'm now known as the Audio Queen. I have close to 38,000 different remixes, edits, mashups, covers, orchestrals, stems, acapellas, and instrumentals of Lady Gaga to date. In 2017, I gifted her an Ipod backstage with 600 of the absolute best of my collection for her ears, as a record of how her fans, young, old, professional, and bedroom -- interpreted her art and painted their visions of sound with her voice. I've even made several albums of my own over the years, The Necromancy Projects Vols 1 and 2, and Gagaween 2012 through Gagaween 2022.
Late last year, I fell in love with another artist, who was every bit as talented and vocally adept as Lady Gaga --- miss King Princess. And so I had to do what I do best --- make a remix album for KP!
King Princess is one of the hardest artists to find remixes of currently. It's taken days of scouring the web to dig up the material to make this compilation album. Of the 30+ tracks I found, I listened to all of them very carefully, only picking about half of those that I considered to be the very best. While every remix is special, some are too generic and simple to make the kind of album I wanted. I don't want overlays of instruments, or hyper sped-up accas or extremely slowed-down male voice Prosody versions of KP --- (mild exception to that rule for track 13, I felt the deeper darker Back Of A Cab brought out a specific mood of melancholy that was even more profound than the album version.) I wanted quality, I wanted something you can play in the car while you drive, and groove to, something you can burn to CD and take to your DJ at your Sapphic Pop party and dance your ass off to, something that will spread KP's voice far and wide through the clubs the way Gaga's was, all those years ago. The way Billie, Charli, and Chappell are now. King Princess should have that, too. I need to be the change I want to see in the world!
Only a precious few of King Princess' tracks have been remixed professionally, mostly due to the fact that they have a firm grip on how their music is interpreted and thusly do not seem to ever release the official accas, instrus or stems needed for the DJs to attempt to craft new worlds with their voice. (Yet. Key word has to be "yet". They don't release them, *yet*) (*prays*) (*raises hand in remix starved fan*) Currently, only Hit The Back, Pain, & Only Time Makes It Human have been officially remixed (to our knowledge, google is very spotty on this, and no stems or acapellas are available on DJ City or Beatport)
Despite that setback of no raw materials to cook sound with, a few gems of remixed KP exist on Soundcloud, Youtube, Mixcloud, and the depths of Russian DJ pools, of all things. I gathered every single one of them. Half are presented here. Please enjoy a thorough collection of the best chopped and screwed KP that the web has to offer of this royal pain in the butt! (to find in EDM flavor, that is. Wasn't talking about hitting the back button too hard :) )
Noticeably harder to find online than remixes of KP are decent covers of KP. You have to separate the wheat from the chaff! To my surprise, another queen of Sapphic pop royalty covered KP: Girl In Red has covered Talia in her own unique style and dreamlike echo, you can find that on this compilation as well.
Please enjoy this alternative way to feed on King Princess sound while we wait to be fed Girl Violence! (KP3, hopefully later this year)
You might say you could, hmmmm eat that girl for lunch, so to speak....! (remixically speaking, of course!)
KING PRINCESS: CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF YOU
THE REMIX COLLECTION VOLUME 1 (DOWNLOAD BY CLICKING HERE)
TRACKLIST:
1. 1950 (Boe Logik Remix) circa 1-2021
2. Talia (Radkid Remix) 10-16-2019
3. Upper West Side (Skylan Remix) 10-10-2018
4. Holy (FRAQ Remix) 10-21-2021
5. Cheap Queen (MNTRY Rework) 6-26-2019
6. 1950 (DJ Chaney Remix) 4-6-2021
7. Pussy Is God (Killer Prince Remix) 4-4-2019
8. Prophet (Dan Tempo Remix) 8-16-2019
9. Talia (Cover by Girl In Red) 7-6-2018
10. 1950 (Elissa Suckdog "Dudes Try" Remix) 10-16-2019
11. 1950 (Frank Walker Remix) 5-15-2018
12. 1950 (GTSBY Remix) 4-21-2019
13. Back Of A Cab (Slowed & Deep Mix by Victor) 5-13-2020
14. 1950 (Nio Remix) 4-20-2019
15. 1950 (Seth G. Violin Remix) 6-8-2018
16. 1950 (Amy Lilley & Lapsley Cover) 11-24-2022
17. 1950 (Tyler Kahn Remix) 5-14-2022
BONUS LIVE UNRELEASED KING PRINCESS TRACKS
18. Cry, Cry, Cry (When You Hear This) (Live In Syracuse, New York, April 14th, 2023)
19. Julie's Watching (Live In Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 7th, 2023)
Enjoy the very best of the Internet's KP remixes all in one place for the very first time in a fanmade capacity! This compilation is not intended to infringe any copyrights, and is made with respect and credit to all artists and creators wherever possible under the US 1976 Fair Use Act.
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Surprise! A new snippet appeared on KP's instagram today. KP is now sponsored / fueled by Glaceau VitaminWater, and posted a couple little spots on her story featuring the drink.
New lyric alert: "Not everybody loves like this." (No kidding, bb, that's why we are hardcore fans.)
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| absolutely not vitamin water - a cute photo of KP toasting the viewer photo credit: Luca Dangelo on instagram 8~7~2024 |
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| Mark Ronson's label shouted out the anniversary on Insta as well |
