PinkPantheress on not becoming a K-pop star: “I used to cry myself to sleep”
nme.comPinkPantheress has revealed that she used to cry herself to sleep because she couldn’t become a K-pop star.The ‘Boy’s A Liar Pt.
2’ singer revealed her love for K-pop and her desire to become an idol during a new video interview with i-D. “There was one year where I– [laughs] I remember I would go to bed upset each day that I know I couldn’t be a K-pop star,” she said.“Because, I am, at the time, I thought you had to be Korean to be a K-pop star,” she added.”I used to cry myself to sleep, even though I can’t perform like that.
I can’t dance at all. Like, I just love watching it.”Later in the video, PinkPantheress also named five of her favourite K-pop acts.
They notably include four SM Entertainment groups – SHINee, f(x), Red Velvet and EXO – as well as global juggernauts BTS.Elsewhere during the interview, PinkPantheress also said that the biggest challenge of making her upcoming debut studio album, ‘Heaven Knows’, was “putting myself into the headspace of wanting to make an album [because] I’m really lazy so I was not trying to do anything”.‘Heaven Knows’ will be released this Friday (November 10).
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