Feature Video: King Princess - RIP KP
Queer strip club purgatory awaits King Princess in this week's Warren Fu-directed Feature Video, 'RIP KP'.'We need debauchery this summer' says Brooklyn-based artist King Princess (a.k.a. Mikaela Straus or KP to her mates!) about her newest single 'RIP KP'. The first taste of her upcoming LP Girl Violence, KP says the track is about 'the sexy side of girl violence – when love takes over your brain like a cordyceps and suddenly you're getting fucked all over your house, acting a fool. It's the perfect way to open the record: dramatic, unhinged, and a little tongue-in-cheek.''RIP KP's' appropriately unhinged music video is directed by Warren Fu (who has directed clips for artists including the Weeknd, Daft Punk, Pharrell Williams, The Strokes, the Killers, Hayley Williams, Mark Ronson and Julian Casablancas to name a few) and sees KP enter the surrealist strip club Cherry's for a truly wild time. Foot martini's, stripper clowns and a touch of public urination help paint an abstract, chaotic picture of Girl Violence. KP explains 'girl violence is very sneaky. It's not physical, it's deeply emotional, spiritual, and spooky. Women are both amazing and sinister—including myself—and it's my curiosity to understand all the love, loss, and changes that come out of my love for women. Why are we so inclined to cause and receive chaos? If you've experienced even an iota of it, then you'll have a story to tell. And these are mine."
Written upon the death of an old life and the beginning of a new King Princess era, KP explains 'I wrote it during a full ego death – leaving LA, my label, my old life – and somehow landed back in NYC making the music I would've obsessed over at 15. It's a slutty anthem for the lesbians.'
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