Kim Petras's lockdown listening: 'My fans have truly kept me sane' - MW

Isolation is definitely an experience, but I'm very lucky: I can work with new music while isolating my best friends at Lake Toluca in Los Angeles. I was very active on Twitter and Instagram, and I played Animal Crossing and Mario Kart with my fans after sharing my Nintendo Switch code online - it's really important to me when I watch the fans. because I worry so much about them. They really kept me healthy, so I kept an eye on everyone who needed to speak.




I tried to write as much as possible. I've been working non-stop for two and a half years, on tour after tour, video after video and everything happened so quickly. This time forced me to focus on what I really wanted to do and to promote myself as a writer. I think I played heartbreaking songs and now I definitely have a new vibe, and Malibu is his first taste. I asked people to send me videos where they danced on a clip of the song to isolate themselves and took the beach home; they wear bikinis, cocktails and are super creative. This video is really the cutest thing I've ever seen in my life, I'm so lucky to have friends and fans who can't do things like this.



Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia is probably my favorite album this year. I love her - her aesthetic is really sick. Disco has been on the come-up again for the past few years, and now it is finally hitting its new peak, which is really exciting. People finally want to have fun again! I am so happy that the world has come back around to it.




Gwen Stefani’s Love. Angel. Music. Baby. takes me back to when pop music was all I cared about. I would get home from school, head to my room and watch Stefani’s music videos on repeat. She is an example of how you can be cool as fuck but at the same time be glamorous and have all of those pop-star qualities. This album always makes me smile and gives me butterflies. I've been listening to it on a loop while playing Animal Crossing, cranking it up really loud and playing online for hours on end. Then I go and make music myself at night - I like to inspire myself during the day, because I’m a night writer. Or I listen to it while going on a scooter ride around my neighborhood: the one thing that I look forward to in terms of going outside every day, that makes me feel sane.




I’ve delved back into Daft Punk’s Discovery, but I love every single album of theirs. They have had a huge influence on me since I was really young: two robots making music is a sick concept. It's all so dystopian and future-sounding and that’s exactly what this quarantine feels like, a dystopia.



I still find myself going back to Thriller, and when I listen to it, I’m like: “How are there this many good songs on any album?” It consists of only nine songs, which is the craziest part about it: every second of it is just quality pop music, and the title track is simply the best of the best. I have always admired Quincy Jones’s production, and this record is the starting point for any pop fan.