Niccijade Reeves-Alhark
Staff Reporter
King Princess, according to an interview with rollingstone.com, was born in and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. She was born with the name Mikaela Straus and grew up around music, since her father owned Mission Sound Records.
Straus identifies as genderqueer with she/her pronouns and as a lesbian. Her songs surround these topics and her struggles with them, including love, breakups, and infatuation from afar. Her debut song, 1950, is an ode to those in the LGBTQ+ community who faced barriers in terms of expressing their queerness in times like 1950, she claims in an interview with Genius. A year after her debut song, came her debut album, Cheap Queen, which went over her own troubles in life along with the overall concept of moving on.
My personal favorite song from her would be Prophet. Prophet has a somewhat limbo feeling to it, a slow but attention grabbing beat, with lyrics that tell a story of infatuation over someone who’s only concerns are being successful and fulfilling a prophecy. When listening to it you can feel the emotions of delusion and when they crash into something of despair through the instrumental that she also takes a part in making thanks to her talent of being able to play various instruments. PAIN, her most recent song, on the other hand, has an upbeat vibe to it with a strong bass that remains throughout most parts of the song. On this catchy instrumental, Straus sings about how she is constantly going through a loop in her relationships that always leaves her in pain and how she “can’t help turning her love into pain”. It is definitely a head bopper and something I would play if I felt like dancing and questioning my life choices at the same time. If you want to start listening to her I recommend these two songs, because they represent two sides of the spectrum she produces.
The reason King Princess as an artist is important is because her being an artist and part of the LGBTQ+ community allows there to be more representation in the music industry. Her unique style allows others to get another look into a queer persons life and their views.
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