Photo by Charlie Engman

The next phase from PinkPantheress was already looking promising with the release of the project’s first single, “Tonight”, but let’s say “Stateside” is indeed the best song off the British experimental pop songwriter and producer’s new mixtape, Fancy That. If that’s the case we’re going to be well set heading into a summer where many will be angling to create their own BRAT summer effect, but there’s a certain irony in the fact that the very Internet pop-minded artist would step into the studio with the Dare — a cornerstone in BRAT‘s success — because she thought he was British and had no idea what other big projects the New York City-based producer had worked with. In loosening her “loose British-only rule”, the creative partnership between Victoria Beverley Walker and Harrison Patrick Smith is an organic fit that was bound to happen, with both being apt students of y2K-era aesthetics as rendered for today’s hyper-speed consumption pace. Those same rules that apply to her studio partnerships clearly don’t apply to her romantic trysts, however. “And maybe you can be my American hot, hot boy,” she teases in exhale. This story might sound familiar to another tune of Aughts intercontinental lust beating through sleek, retro-futuristic dance-pop, updated with a modern look book in mind from two of its culture’s most fashionable influencers.

Directed by: Emma Berson

PinkPantheress’ Fancy That will be released May 9th on Warner Records UK.