King Princess has had a remarkable rise for an artist with only a few singles to her name. Next up? Her first LP
Photo: Mark Horton/Getty Images Mikaela Straus is upstate, riding a horse. She’d been scheduled for an interview right now, yet the information didn’t make its way to her. “I’m quite literally still at the barn,” she apologizes moments later over the phone, “but I could FaceTime you from my grandma’s house in 45 minutes?” The 20-year-old singer-songwriter who records as King Princess lives in L.A., and she’s currently visiting family in Saratoga Springs.
In the months since, she has had a remarkable rise for an artist with only a few singles to her name — touring the world, gracing the cover of V magazine, and starring in a Gap campaign. Now comes her first LP, Cheap Queen, a melancholy work that lingers on the women who have broken her heart. Straus has a sense of humor about it. “The album is fucking sad, girl,” she deadpans, when we connect from Grandma’s place.
Do the remixes bring the joy back to the music-making process while you’ve been under album pressure? The album contains so much distress. On “Watching My Phone,” you sing, “And I know / I can’t be the million girls you’re going to meet.” Do you pick up the pen in the moment, or do you sit with a feeling?
It’s very much an ode to my friends. “Cheap Queen” was an interlude. I was going to name the album after the interlude because it was so cute. And [my team] was like, “No, bitch. It’s a song.” So I made it a full-length song. It’s an homage to my community. We are all cheap queens. It’s a drag term for someone who is resourceful, who makes something out of nothing, who is a creator on a budget. That’s how I feel.
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