Kim Petras Quotes

Kim Petras

Profession : Musician

Birth : August 27, 1992

Pop music means everything to me. I've been listening to pop since I was kid, running home from school to watch Britney Spears and Spice Girls and Christina Aguilera music videos, and it felt like it was a world to escape to for me personally.

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I want to become one of the songwriting greats. That's my number one goal.

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I love amazing lyrics paired with amazing melodies.

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I love Halloween, and I love spooky stuff. I love horror movies. I love everything creepy, and I've always kind of wanted to do this, just do really dark pop.

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I really feel that my fans have given me a lot of confidence.

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I'm obsessed with music videos, and I just go on marathons of watching a ton of music videos.

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I'm always working with other collaborators.

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I thought I was just going to be a songwriter for other people! And now I get to put out my own music, which is amazing.

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I would love to work with Drake. I think he's such a pop star, and he's dropping amazing songs.

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I want to grow as a vocalist, and I want to really kill every single show and just become better.

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As a kid, I watched every Madonna documentary and tour. I was obsessed with her - and with any pop star of the '80s.

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There's a soft spot in my heart for the color and fantasy of the '80s.

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I feel like I kind of earned my stripes working with The Stereotypes. It was maybe my 6th songwriting session I've ever been to, and they just gave me and a writer I used to write with 3-4 tracks and kinda just let us come up with whatever.

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One day, after a big music meeting, my manager took me to Sephora and said I could get whatever I wanted, which is the dream scenario.

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A lot of writing depends on being comfortable around the people you work with. I want it to feel like I'm working with friends.

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I think an online presence is super important. I find new artists and songs I like on socials or Spotify. It's really how people find you. I don't take posting on socials very seriously though.

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I definitely always took my problems and turned them into music, and the more I can make myself feel happy, the better. But yeah, I definitely feel like music was always a place for me to, like, escape to. I just love songs that are fantasy.

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It's a recurring thing: It's that I fall really deeply for bad relationships. It's just always been this way and not changing.

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I'm just trying to make the kind of music that I'd listen to as a teenager and forget about all my problems.

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I love Bob Marley so much. Honestly, all of Madonna's discography. She has so many amazing, fun songs. Or Cyndi Lauper. The thing is, at the same time, I also love listening to Lana Del Rey all the time, the saddest thing you can do to yourself.

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