{"id":541034,"date":"2026-06-18T05:08:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T05:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/541034\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T05:08:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T05:08:19","slug":"slayyyter-worst-girl-in-america-interview-with-the-pop-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/541034\/","title":{"rendered":"Slayyyter: Worst Girl in America Interview With the Pop Star"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\tlayyyter<\/a> used to buy into the idea of luxury as a symbol of status and style. Just a few years ago, she believed it enough to run up a credit-card charge for a designer purse straight from the retailer, even though she knew she couldn\u2019t afford it. \u201cIt fell apart within, like, a month,\u201d Slayyyter says, lounging on a couch in New York.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 29-year-old has arrived at Rolling Stone\u2019s office in distressed cutoff denim shorts and custom boots self-designed to look like she\u2019s been trekking through sludge \u00e0 la Kate Moss at Glastonbury 2005. This is more of Slayyyter\u2019s vibe these days: She\u2019s embracing being a bit rough around the edges, wearing her hair however it dries, sourcing her wardrobe from vintage shops and creating whatever she can\u2019t find there herself. It\u2019s all in the spirit of Wor$t Girl in America, her third studio album, released this spring.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cI never fit the box of beautiful, chic pop star,\u201d Slayyyter says. \u201cI just wanted to approach this music and be down to get ugly, be down to get gross.\u201d Wor$t Girl in America washes away the Hollywood glamour she tried on with her second album, Starfucker<\/a>, in 2023. In retrospect, she sees that album similarly to that ill-fated bag she purchased. Slayyyter figured listeners would buy into the fantasy she had built around satirizing fame \u2014 but it was only flashy until it fell apart. The money she poured into touring wasn\u2019t coming back, and frankly, she wasn\u2019t having fun.<\/p>\n

\n\tSlayyyter got her first taste of success a few years earlier, in 2019, when she self-released a debut mixtape<\/a> featuring the underground pop hits \u201cMine\u201d and \u201cDaddy AF.\u201d Growing up in Missouri, she had spent her teenage years on Tumblr, watching the way online success alchemized the careers of artists like Marina and the Diamonds, Lana Del Rey, and Tyler, the Creator. When she first saw it happening with her own music, it made her hunger for more. After she moved to L.A., people around her filled her head with promises that her mainstream breakthrough was imminent.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen it didn\u2019t come after her 2021 debut, Troubled Paradise, or Starfucker, Slayyyter thought maybe she should call it. \u201cI feel like everyone thinks I\u2019m kind of corny,\u201d she remembers voicing. \u201cThis isn\u2019t working.\u201d She began to plan Wor$t Girl in America as her final sendoff. \u201cI was so depressed while making a lot of it, and I felt so hopeless,\u201d Slayyyter says. She reached a decision that she admits, in hindsight, was a little dramatic: \u201cI will leave behind one really great album that I\u2019m proud of and it probably won\u2019t go anywhere, like the rest haven\u2019t, and that\u2019s fine.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tA future without music wouldn\u2019t have been completely bleak. She considered taking some classes and turning her love of making clothes into a new career. Maybe she could have been content with that. But her life wouldn\u2019t have been half as electrifying as the one she\u2019s been living for the past few months.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cEverything is different now,\u201d Slayyyter says. She first felt the shift in April, when she delivered one of the most acclaimed performances at this year\u2019s Coachella festival. Thousands of bodies spilled out of the Mojave Tent as the singer raged onstage, two weekends in a row. The two-punch combo of \u201cCrank\u201d and \u201cYes Goddd\u201d sent an electric current through the crowd, while \u201cBrittany Murphy\u201d and \u201cGas Station\u201d dug deep into her thoughts on death and abandonment. \u201cI feel like I blacked out during that performance,\u201d Slayyyter says. \u201cI got offstage and hugged my friend Anna, and just cried. I was like, \u2018Oh, my God, we did it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tCoachella marked Slayyyter\u2019s first performance with a live band. She limited the set to songs from Wor$t Girl in America to make a statement about this transformative phase of her career. Still, she\u2019s thankful for the lessons of her earlier releases. \u201cAll that music felt like building blocks to figuring out my sound, and it took me a long time,\u201d she says. \u201cThis could have never been my debut album.\u201d <\/p>\n

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\n\tA few months after the festival, Slayyyter is in the process of making new music inspired by the sudden influx of attention she\u2019s received \u2014 even from people she suspects only like her now because everyone else does. \u201cI want to live here for a little longer, so I\u2019m kind of making an inverse album, if you will,\u201d she says. \u201cI just want the core of everything to feel like me, because it finally feels that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIf it all ended with Wor$t Girl in America, Slayyyter wanted to be sure this album represented not only the artist she\u2019d been for the past eight years, but also Catherine Grace Garner \u2014 the person beneath the pop-star costume. \u201cStarting out, it all felt a little bit more like a character or a fantasy, because I didn\u2019t feel secure with being myself as much,\u201d Slayyyter says. This time, she adds, \u201cI didn\u2019t feel the need to create a character. I really am this person.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tWhen Slayyyter shows up for our interview, she introduces herself to everyone on set as Grace. Earlier in her career, even the idea of people trying to find her real name made her uncomfortable. Her younger self would stagger at how much she lays bare on Wor$t Girl in America. \u201cA lot of this album comes from feeling like the annoying girl who\u2019s being a little too much at a party, or feeling like you don\u2019t fit in with people,\u201d Slayyyter says.<\/p>\n

\n\tBack home in Missouri, her favorite pastime used to be drinking with her skater friends at \u201ckickbacks where it would just be trash and cigarettes and bullshit everywhere,\u201d but she\u2019s become more of a homebody as she approaches 30. The night before we spoke, she made her late-night debut on The Tonight Show and celebrated for a few hours afterward, then called it a night. \u201cI\u2019ve gotten really good at stopping when I need to stop,\u201d Slayyyter says. \u201cWhen you\u2019re someone who has depression or someone who has struggled in your life, it\u2019s easy to fall into traps where it feels so good to numb things with drinking or going out.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tEarlier in her career, Slayyyter got the sense that \u201cpeople maybe underestimated my abilities, or my talents, or my taste levels,\u201d she says. She hadn\u2019t yet realized that \u201cmaybe you shouldn\u2019t get so drunk and do 10 shots and be crazy\u201d around the people she wanted to take her seriously.<\/p>\n

\n\tThese days, Slayyyter has learned to accept the comparisons she often receives to other pop artists, like fellow Midwest princess Chappell Roan<\/a> and boundary-pushing star Charli XCX<\/a> (who gave her career an early boost by featuring Slayyyter\u2019s songs on her \u201cThe Motherfucking Future\u201d playlist). \u201cIt\u2019s human nature to need familiarity to grasp onto something new,\u201d she says. \u201cTrajectory-wise, though, I do understand. Chappell, her first Coachella was such a moment that led to this big breakthrough. I do understand it feels like a familiar rise, because it\u2019s like a slow burn of eight years of having a career and then these moments are all coming after the fact. But I feel like I\u2019m always doing my thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSlayyyter\u2019s self-directed videos for Wor$t Girl in America use bloody body horror to dismantle the social and beauty standards women are held to, especially in pop. She has an affinity for scary movies (\u201cI saw The Substance six times in theaters. I\u2019m not kidding\u201d), but also visuals that \u201cmake you feel unsettled, or things you feel like you\u2019re gonna get in trouble for watching\u201d \u2014 she loves the Prodigy\u2019s infamous 1997 music video for \u201cSmack My Bitch Up,\u201d for instance. <\/p>\n

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\n\tBeyond that, her influences are wide-ranging, extending to a viral picture of Rihanna rolling a blunt on her security guard\u2019s head at Coachella in 2012. \u201cThat went triple platinum on Tumblr,\u201d she says. \u201cHang it in the Louvre.\u201d When Slayyyter returned to Tumblr in 2024, she remembered exactly why she loved it so much as a teen. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t about luxury,\u201d she says. <\/p>\n

\n\tIt wasn\u2019t about fame, either. \u201cI am never interested in calling myself famous,\u201d she says. She might not be able to help it, though. A quiet life back in Missouri doesn\u2019t seem to be in the cards for Slayyyter anytime soon. The spotlight is calling.<\/p>\n

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