Pinkpantheress

PinkPantheress shuffles through impulse in a playlist she calls "a bit of f-ckery"

PinkPantheress calls her playlist “a little bit of f-ckery,” a fitting title for a selection that mirrors the unpredictable texture of her own tracks. Inviting Rolling Stone into her musical archives, she offers up a playlist fluctuating between the Afrobeats rhythms of Davido and the slick electronica of Kaytranada.

Sprinkled with voices like Normani’s, the array feels less curated and more like a chaotic shuffle through instinct and impulse. She doesn’t curate peace; she welcomes clutter.

PinkPantheress questions why a Black woman making electronic music still shocks some

PinkPantheress points to an unspoken friction between her identity and listeners' expectations, asserting that audiences remain hesitant to engage with electronic music authored by a Black woman. She suggests this reluctance isn't subtle—it’s baked into industry decisions and public reception alike.

Her genre-defying work, including the May release Fancy That, often gets misread or ignored, not for lack of merit, but because what she represents doesn’t fit tidy categorizations the industry favors.