Kim Petras

Professions :

Pop music means everything to me. I've been listening to pop since I was kid, running home from school to watch Britney Spears and Spice Girls and Christina Aguilera music videos, and it felt like it was a world to escape to for me personally.

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Sitting one seat away from Nicki Minaj at Marc Jacobs left me speechless. I couldn't say anything - and that's the first time that's ever happened to me! We locked eyes for a second, but I was too scared to talk to her. She looked incredible, of course.

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I love Halloween, and I love spooky stuff. I love horror movies. I love everything creepy, and I've always kind of wanted to do this, just do really dark pop.

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As I was finding my musical style, I found my personal style as well, and moving from Germany to L.A. was part of that, raiding the secondhand stores in L.A. trying out different beauty themes, finding my love for huge lashes and big, long hair extensions.

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I want to become one of the songwriting greats. That's my number one goal.

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I'm obsessed with music videos, and I just go on marathons of watching a ton of music videos.

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I feel like I kind of earned my stripes working with The Stereotypes. It was maybe my 6th songwriting session I've ever been to, and they just gave me and a writer I used to write with 3-4 tracks and kinda just let us come up with whatever.

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I love Bob Marley so much. Honestly, all of Madonna's discography. She has so many amazing, fun songs. Or Cyndi Lauper. The thing is, at the same time, I also love listening to Lana Del Rey all the time, the saddest thing you can do to yourself.

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I love amazing lyrics paired with amazing melodies.

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I'm always working with other collaborators.

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I thought I was just going to be a songwriter for other people! And now I get to put out my own music, which is amazing.

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I would love to work with Drake. I think he's such a pop star, and he's dropping amazing songs.

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I want to grow as a vocalist, and I want to really kill every single show and just become better.

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As a kid, I watched every Madonna documentary and tour. I was obsessed with her - and with any pop star of the '80s.

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There's a soft spot in my heart for the color and fantasy of the '80s.

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One day, after a big music meeting, my manager took me to Sephora and said I could get whatever I wanted, which is the dream scenario.

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A lot of writing depends on being comfortable around the people you work with. I want it to feel like I'm working with friends.

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I think an online presence is super important. I find new artists and songs I like on socials or Spotify. It's really how people find you. I don't take posting on socials very seriously though.

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I definitely always took my problems and turned them into music, and the more I can make myself feel happy, the better. But yeah, I definitely feel like music was always a place for me to, like, escape to. I just love songs that are fantasy.

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It's a recurring thing: It's that I fall really deeply for bad relationships. It's just always been this way and not changing.

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