KIM PETRAS COVERS METAL AW 24/25 - THE ERROR ISSUETALKS CREATING CHARACTERS THROUGH HER CAREER, EVOLVING AS AN ARTIST AND HOW NATURE IS INSPIRING HER NEW MUSICPhoto Credit: Morgan MaherOFFICIAL PRESS RELEASENEWS PROVIDED BY Cutting Edge Published: November 25, 2024 -- Grammy award winning pop sensation Kim Petras has been unveiled as METAL’s latest cover star for their AW 24/25 issue. The issue is available to purchase HERE. Accompanying the stunning images, Kim chats with Prishita Maheshwari-Aplin about making music inspired by nature, creating characters to explore different sides of herself, making mistakes and evolving as an artist. On connecting with nature and being inspired:“I’ve been outside more and just listening to the trees and birds and being a little more present to the actual sounds around me. In the past, I’ve been super inspired by synthetic sounds. I liked life more when it was synthesised, when you took natural sounds and made them seem like they’re from space. But recently, I’ve been really interested in the rhythms of life, and the poetry and the sounds in nature. It’s very in my mind currently with my new music. This strange way of making philosophy out of the world. So yeah, listen to nature, kids.” On creating characters through her music:“Whenever I felt sad as a teenager, I would just listen to pop music or put on pop music videos. So I think my music has enabled me to be a more confident version of myself. My personality and my characters intersect a lot, and honestly I think I created all of them so I could be them on stage. Also, my fans inspire my concepts back to me now.” “I went from growing up feeling like an alien in every single room I was in, to becoming a really isolated person, making music by myself all the time. And so, especially in my younger years, it really mattered to me to prove to people that, first of all, I am an artist. And then also that I can be a million things — that I’m not just one thing, because nobody is. I’m still on that little journey of creating more characters, which are in essence me and parts of myself that I like to call characters, because it’s more detached from me as a person.” On the importance on evolving as an artist:“You naturally change all the time as a human, and that’s a great thing. I’ve always really appreciated Prince too, for that reason. He had a million voices that he would use and little characters that he vocally expressed in his music. And I would say the same thing for Michael Jackson and for Freddie Mercury, that they just all have these different characters that help tell the story. Because I feel like no one is just one thing. Honestly, anything that stays the same for too long feels stagnant to me. So, my goal is to kind of always change and evolve” METAL 51 A/W 2024-2025 - The error issuePhotography @morgan.maher
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November 25, 2024 9:15am ET by Pressparty |