Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.PinkPantheress, aka Victoria Walker, is lauded as a figurehead of Gen Z pop. Her songs are shaped by a culture of screen time and smartphones. Beats scroll by while the UK singer lightly croons her thoughts, as though composing a voice note. Changes in tempo or emphasis are made with an abrupt swipe. Tracks are over in two or so minutes, at once breezy and busy.TikTok was her launch pad: she gained 1mn followers within a year of first posting as PinkPantheress in 2020. Traditional music industry exposure came with a major label deal and big hit single, \u201cBoy\u2019s a Liar Pt 2\u201d. In 2023, she released her debut album, Heaven Knows, featuring longer songs. Meanwhile, live shows went from sketchy affairs where the singer seemed to have accidentally wandered on stage holding her handbag to large-scale gigs involving dancers and backing musicians.Her new release Fancy That reverts to a more casual approach. Billed as a mixtape rather than a full-fledged follow-up to her album, its nine tracks last just over 20 minutes. They illustrate ideas expounded in an interview that went viral last year, when PinkPantheress treated conventional song structures as antiquated (\u201cWe don\u2019t need to repeat a verse, we don\u2019t need to have a bridge\u201d). Her words provoked a bemused reaction from Dionne Warwick, who tweeted a question mark in response, like a senior manager confronted by the lax working habits of a young colleague.But PinkPantheress\u2019s ethos is less carefree than it seems. Fancy That brings a sharper, more powerful quality to her sound, like the latest model of a smartphone. The 1990s and 2000s musical references that run through her music are neatly arranged and chosen. \u201cIllegal\u201d samples Underworld\u2019s \u201cDark and Long\u201d, which is used in Trainspotting\u2019s soundtrack, for a dizzy tale of halfhearted drug experimentation. \u201cGirl Like Me\u201d makes use of Basement Jaxx\u2019s classic anthem \u201cRomeo\u201d to accompany verses about mismatched romance. \u201cStateside\u201d is a Y2K dance-pop throwback about a fantasy transatlantic hook-up. Verses are jettisoned and bridges are burned, but the tradition of storytelling in song is well served.\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606\u2018Fancy That\u2019 is released by Warner Records UK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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