You probably weren´t expecting a KIM PETRAS rant from me for a Five4Friday, but I am increasingly finding it harder to find new songs to share as I seem to be going through a musical dull patch. BUT I am loving the new music she’s putting out there!
I am also not surprised at all that the minute Kim Petras starts doing really great music the industry starts fucking her around.
From Wikipedia: On 1 July 2025, Petras released “Polo”, which she described as a “kinda reset” of her musical direction;[79] it marks her first song on which she is credited as a co-producer.[80] It was followed by “Freak It” on 29 July.[81] In September, she was featured on the song “Radio” from Frost Children‘s album Sister.[82] The duo had contributed to “Freak It” and she stated that they were heavily involved in her upcoming album.[80] A third single, “I Like Ur Look”, was released on 14 October along with a music video.[80] In November, she held a listening party for the album, titled Detour, at the Plaza Athénée in Paris.[83]
From Wikipedia: In January 2026, Petras posted on X (formerly Twitter) that Detour had been “done for six months”, but that her label Republic Records had not provided her adequate support, including by not paying her collaborators and not giving her a release date.[83] She also stated that she had filmed a music video for her next single two months prior, which Republic also refused to release.[84] Expressing frustration with her lack of control over her career, she concluded by announcing that she had formally requested to leave Republic to become an independent artist again and promising that she would release Detour eventually.[84]
I was slow to get on the Petras bandwagon. Maybe cause at the beginning she was forgettable bubble gum pop and then suddenly she was a queer poster girl and when everyone goes right you can bet your sheep herded asses, I´ll be going left. ICY was the first song that resonated with me and is still one of my fav songs from that year. Future Starts Now was the next song that made me stop and notice. Basic pop that managed to creep into my head and infect it with its unassuming catchy melody that, for me, had a nostalgic throw-back vibe to it to my club days in the 2000s. (No I didn’t like Holy, but great for her.)
These new songs are another level cool and these videos are the shit. If your reading this your a fan and you would have an idea of my stripped – back – VHS – indie – homemade aesthetic that I live for. Besides Radio, that obv had a budget that was luckily put to great use, the styling is FKIN great.
