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The end of a TV show can be a very confusing time for a lot of people: viewers who will miss their onscreen friends, networks looking to fill a time slot, and the stars of the show who may have no clue where to turn next. Luckily that\u2019s not a problem for Hacks star Meg Stalter, whose final-season victory-lap press tour has centered around the actor and comedian\u2019s forthcoming \u2026 pop-music career?<\/p>\n
Stalter first teased her single \u201cPrettiest Girl in America\u201d on Instagram<\/a> at the end of March, and she\u2019s been steadily hyping up her career pivot ahead of the Hacks finale, appearing on the traditional media circuit, doing pop-ups<\/a>, and cameoing at Coachella<\/a> and on DeuxMoi<\/a>. It\u2019s admittedly hard to tell, in part because her single is very real, whether this is an actual attempt to pivot, or an extended bit, or some unclear combination of the two. Lo and behold, \u201cPrettiest Girl in America\u201d was released on May 1, and it\u2019s very much a real song. Does it also happen to include the lyrics \u201cI\u2019m the prettiest girl in America, but that don\u2019t make me a bitch\u201d? Well, yes, but that\u2019s par for the course with most pop songs these days. In fact, I\u2019d go so far as to say it\u2019s quite eloquent, even if she\u2019s rhythming \u201crestaurant\u201d with \u201crestaurant\u201d at one point.<\/p>\n But asking \u201cIs this music supposed to be good?\u201d or \u201cWait, is there seriously going to be a whole album of songs like this?\u201d is neither satisfying nor helpful, especially when it seems like just about everyone \u2014 even Zane Lowe<\/a> \u2014 is in on the joke. When it comes to the style of Stalter\u2019s comedy, the best way forward is through. It doesn\u2019t matter if she\u2019s trolling us about her pivot to pop \u2014 it matters that she\u2019s being really funny about it no matter what.<\/p>\n When she went on Late Night with Seth Meyers<\/a> on May 5 to promote her album, she rocked up in an outfit that looked, uh, suspiciously similar to Madonna\u2019s getup at Coachella that went missing after her performance<\/a>, though she denied the allegations of theft. Talking about the inspiration for her new single, Stalter explained that, \u201cas a songwriter, you kind of write about your life, and I noticed that I was the prettiest girl in America.\u201d She went on to shout out the \u201c400\u201d people who worked on the song (\u201cYou had 400 people and you still rhymed \u2018restaurant\u2019 with \u2018restaurant\u2019?\u201d Meyers asked) and nearly picked a fight with him when she realized that she wasn\u2019t actually invited on the show to sing her new song. Seated across from Meyers, a stellar improviser in his own right who \u201cyes ands\u201d her every escalation, Stalter shines doing the kind of deranged coquette persona she so often inhabits during her press tours.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n For all that her fans are championing her new song, not everyone is her biggest supporter. \u201cI did not want her to do it,\u201d her Hacks co-star Paul W. Downs said in an interview with Stalter on Good Morning America<\/a>. \u201cI said, \u2018Please do not do music.\u2019\u201d Downs later specified that he didn\u2019t want her to do music only because it means she\u2019s retiring from acting. Those who want to see Stalter back onscreen, however, may not have to wait long. Toward the end of her conversation with Meyers, Stalter clarified she won\u2019t be acting \u201cunless a role or an audition\u201d comes her way. So if you run across an opportunity to see Stalter perform live \u2014 as she did at her look-alike contest<\/a> \u2014 run, don\u2019t walk. Maybe one day the prettiest girl in America will be at the Garden.<\/p>\n Sign up for the Vulture Daily<\/p>\n An entertainment newsletter for the pop-culture obsessed.<\/p>\n Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice<\/p>\n