PinkPantheress was born in Bath, England, and raised in Kent, but on Friday (April 25), she came “Stateside” for her latest single.
“Stateside” arrives three weeks after “Tonight,” the lead single from her upcoming mixtape, Fancy That, which is out May 9 via Parlophone and Warner Records. The club anthem, which samples Panic! At the Disco’s 2008 track “Do You Know What I’m Seeing?,” hit No. 5 on Hot Dance/Pop Songs and No. 25 on Bubbling Under Hot 100. She joked that Doechii “chewed” her up when performing the “Tonight” dance backstage at H&M’s inaugural music festival in Los Angeles earlier this month.
Fancy That will include seven more songs, but in a Reddit thread last week, the English singer-songwriter-producer said “Stateside” and “Illegal” were the songs she enjoyed creating the most. “I really wanted to make music where it sounds like a statement is being made with the songs. I feel like that was what appealed to me, and it’s something that I wanted to take on board,” she said in her Mixmag cover story in March, adding that listening to Fatboy Slim and Groove Armada while making the project inspired “the size of the music.”
Fancy That is PinkPantheress’ first project in two years since she dropped her debut studio album, Heaven Knows, which peaked at No. 61 on the Billboard 200. The “Boy’s a Liar” hitmaker dropped her debut mixtape To Hell With It back in 2021, and it reached No. 73 on the Billboard 200.
Listen to “Stateside” below.
