Slayyyter

From her breakthrough 2019 self-titled mixtape through 2021’s Troubled Paradise, 2023’s STARFUCKER, and this year’s WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA, SLAYYYTER has proved herself to be one of the great shape-shifters of our time, taking the past, present, and future of pop and twisting it to her will. While her early releases established a devoted cult following, WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA marked her boldest reinvention yet. Her third studio album is authentically her. She revisited her upbringing in St. Louis, and decided to make “iPod music” — a free-for-all of feral punk, corroded pop, and raunchy rap — conjuring the “Midwest-core tweaker bar rat” characters of her youth. Early singles “BEAT UP CHANEL$,” “CANNIBALISM!,” and “CRANK” steadily built hype for the project ahead of its release, with fans fervently embracing the raw, swaggering SLAYYYTER that emerged from the ashes of her past selves. The album became her highest-charting album to date, debuting at No. 22 on the Billboard 200 and No. 1 on Top Dance Albums, while earning widespread critical acclaim from outlets including Rolling Stone, Billboard, Pitchfork, and many more. Its success also earned SLAYYYTER two 2026 MTV VMA nominations, including ‘Best Dance’ with “DANCE…” This year, she brought that momentum to major festivals such as Coachella, Governors Ball, Lollapalooza, with audiences doubling in size each time.