PinkPantheress discusses her first two Grammy nominations, her recent remix video for “Stateside” featuring Zara Larsson and the story behind her collaborations on Fancy Some More? including physical therapy with Anitta and being a day-one fan of Seventeen.
Katie Bain:
We’re here at The Luckman Club at Soho House West Hollywood with the lovely and talented PinkPantheress. Let’s start with the Grammys, and let’s go back in time a little bit to recent history, November 7th, when nominations came out.
PinkPantheress:
Oh yeah.
I would love to know what you were doing that morning.
I was in bed, and then I got woken up with the news. The coproducer of the whole project, and then, specifically “Illegal,” sent like an invisible text, like, where you can make it invisible. And he was like, did you see I was so scared. Like, yeah, it was shocking. I was in bed, though, I remember.
Did the news carry you through the day?
It definitely did carry me through the day. I was very, very happy. Obviously, I was like, ecstatic. And I was just getting so many messages of, like, “congratulations and congratulations.” And I don’t think I celebrated, but I think, oh, I think I did. I think I went to get dinner, but like, it wasn’t like a whole shebang.
I know that you’ve said in the past that you feel like you haven’t been sure if you’ve broken through. I’m wondering if these Grammy nominations, your first two, make you feel like you have broken through, or if it changes that at all for you?
Yeah, I’d say everything I do is for pretty much representation. So obviously, I’m from the UK. There is a lot of, you know, UK influence in my music, so everything that I do is to kind of like, represent where I’m from and what I stand for. It was very exciting for me to have seen, like, both my project and then something like “Illegal,” you know, get nominated in such a wide sense. And I’m not necessarily, I’m gassed for myself as an artist, but I think more than anything, I’m just happy that, like, what my music stands for, and the type of people that enjoy my music, like, we can all celebrate together because, you know, you know, at the end of the day, it is still, still an alternative genre, like it’s dance electronic and, yeah, I’m just happy that there’s like, representation in there.
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