PinkPantheress Opens a Vibrant New Chapter With the Ambitious ‘Heaven Knows’: Album Review
variety.comJem Aswad Executive Editor, Music The path from TikTok phenom to career artist is a challenging one, and while Victoria Beverly Walker — a.k.a.
22-year-old British singer-songwriter PinkPantheress — has navigated it far better than most, a big test comes with “Heaven Knows,” her first conventional full-length album.
Conventional because her actual debut album, 2021’s excellent “To Hell With It,” squeezed 10 songs into just 18-and-a-half minutes and found the young artist bending pop music’s standards to her TikTok-incubated style: complete songs — with verses and choruses and a bridge — clocking in at 1:48, 1:22, 1:36, with the longest topping out at just over two and a half minutes.
But a few months later she dropped “Boy’s a Liar,” one of the biggest singles of this year, the remix of which boosted her into the upper echelons of the charts with no small thanks to Ice Spice, who slipped a saucy rap into the song’s “Pt.
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