Web Necromancy: Sit Down With King Princess, for Dull Magazine (France, circa December 2018)

 

Her Majesty Miss King, circa 2018:

V is for Victory!

Really not sure what it is about some KP content being deleted from the web or privated everywhere, but once more we have discovered an obscure video from 2018 on a Chinese version of Youtube called BiliBili. BiliBili  has preserved an interview KP did with French culture magazine, "Dull". (What a name for a culture magazine, it's like calling a tall guy "Shorty"....!) We estimate the date of the video to be around December 25th, 2018, since that was the earliest record of it existing on the Reddit. 

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:

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: 

Now I feel like I need to search BiliBili before I search elsewhere, lol.

Enjoy!