PinkPantheress has explained explaining why she prefers to keep her songs short and concise.
“I was able to experiment, and making short songs was just a result of me experimenting,” the 23-year-old artist revealed in a recent interview with ABC News’ Prime Playlist.
“A song doesn’t need to be longer than 2 minutes 30, in my opinion. We don’t need to repeat a verse, we don’t need to have a bridge, we don’t need it. We don’t need a long outro.”
PinkPantheress’ debut album, Heaven Knows, features her longest song to date, “Capable,” which runs for 3 minutes and 43 seconds. This is an exception in her discography, where most tracks typically last between 2 to 3 minutes.
By contrast, her 2021 mixtape To Hell With It contains ten tracks, with only three exceeding the 2-minute mark.
“I was trying to make an account on TikTok, and I wanted it to just be Pantheress,” she said. “It was taken, and I was just like, this is a throwaway account anyway so let me just put pink in front ’cause I love the film. I really was planning to change it.”
Initially sharing her music anonymously, PinkPantheress admitted that her sudden rise to fame was daunting. “The only person I feared seeing music was my friends at home,” she noted, adding that she “blocked” some friends from her account to keep her musical endeavors under wraps.
In a light-hearted moment, she mentioned an amusing anecdote involving Usher’s 15-year-old son, Naviyd Eli Raymond, who once stole his father’s phone to message her. “Hello, this is Usher’s son Naviyd. I’m your true biggest fan,” the teenager wrote. “Please follow me back @naviyd I put him on to masterpieces.”
