Among the international releases of the day included in the Playlist Ready Foe the Weekend stands out the new Pinkpantheress single, ‘stateside’, which advances the next British singer and singer mixtape. ‘Fancy That’ comes out on May 9.
The first advance, ‘Tonight’, was an expression of lust. ‘Stateside’ goes much further turning this desire into an uncontrollable obsession. Like a sibylin panther, Pinkpantheress “Stalkea” to the “handsome American” that he likes to chasing him even from one country to another, tracking his plane to stand directly at his hotel, “by his side, in his bed.”
‘Stateside’ is pure Pinkpantheress combining humor with a sinister background: “I have never been abroad,” the artist sings. “But now I knock on your door.” His dark side also emerges: «Do you say that you have never met a British girl? No one treats me in this way ».
Of course, all this is a fantasy, but it is a very well raised fantasy at the rhythm of Breakbeat -The Dare is a producer- and that has its metatext, because Pinkpantheress incorporates an interpolation of ‘Freak like me’ of sugababes into the melody of ‘states’. Because for Freak, she.
‘Stateside’ is added to the tradition of pop songs about harassing a person. Although, unlike ‘Every Breath You Take’ by The Police, with ‘Stateside’ there can be no confusion: it is the ‘Baby Reindeer’ by Pinkpantheress.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRZPDH24A1M
