Over the past few years, dominant and badass women have commanded the spotlight and electrified the music scene. The world accepted and women continued to shed the stereotypes and hypersexualization that was once an expectation for success. KILLBOY is the poster child for unconventionality and left-of-center sounds/looks. The singer grew up in a rural small town in Texas and entertained herself by skateboarding and self-learning instruments/production. This boredom shaped her into the alter-ego, KILLBOY, a sometimes dark-pop, sometimes hip-hop persona. She speaks her mind, has no filter and takes shit from no one. That’s the kind of energy we need from artists in 2021, we have no time for bullshit this year. Her animated voice carries her to great heights while being backed by hard-hitting synth-pop production, similar to rising stars Ashnikko and Fletcher.
While there’s lingers of 2000’s nostalgia embedded in her beats, her vocals are fresh and draw similarities to Halsey. She kicked off her music career with the unapologetic anthem ‘WHEREDAFUCC,’ a flex on both her singing and rapping abilities blasted with a Cassie-Me&U-type beat. She made quite the statement and made us wonder how she could follow that up. She lived up to the hype and delivers single-after-single of empowering, “fuck off” anthems like ‘666’ and ‘THAT’S OK I’LL JUST FUCK MYSELF.’ Each powered by head-bobbing, electro-pop sonics skyrocketing the tracks to higher grounds and making her a serious player in the pop world.
She has continued her kill streak with her new single ‘U + ME,’ a bad-bitch anthem that sees the singer strutting and building on the stylistic tones of her pasts singles. The song landed her a spot on New Music Friday and is accompanied by a galactic ranger in the music video. The video follows KILLBOY throwing back shots in an alternative-colorful dimension and features beautifully choreographed space and party clips.
KILLBOY gave us the low down on the story behind ‘U + ME’ and how the song came into fruition: “I was home alone. My crush was sending me paragraphs and being mad because I had a boyfriend. I said something heartless to which she responded ‘wow’ proceeded to block me, and I got bored and started writing this song. Like any other song I write, I just started describing what happened: We were in the whip, on the I-5, I was on the phone, she was about to cry, I couldn’t understand why she was so mad at me.”
Check out the music video for 'U + ME' here.
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