It was bound to happen. As soon as I post that I'm not doing a Halloween mix this year, someone drops a Halloween album. Do you know how rare single artist Halloween albums are (Not talking about all the crap that surfaces this time every year)? Very. No, I'm still not doing a Halloween mix this year. But there's no reason why you can't.
| 1. Omen 2. Close Your Eyes 3. Transylvania 4. Turn Off The Light (featuring Elvira) 5. Tell Me It's A Nightmare 6. I don't wanna die... 7. In The Next Life 8. Boo! Bitch! [EXPLICIT] |  |
KIM POSTED A BUNCH OF CREEPY HALLOWEEN PHOTOS IN ADVANCE OF THE RECORD'S RELEASE. AIN'T USING THEM. TOO CREEPY. Kim Petras is a 25 year old singer/songwriter. Originally from Germany, she moved to LA (Patterson, New Jersey....sorry, Abbott and Costello joke) at the age of 19 where she began writing songs prolifically and networking. She did the YouTube thing for a while, wrote songs with and for other artists, and released a bunch of singles in 2017 and 2018, but "Turn Off The Light, Vol. 1" is her first long-form project. If I award bonus points to artists who debut with a Christmas album, what kind of points should I award an artist whose album debut is a Halloween album?
Kim is apparently very popular among people who don't restrict their listening to Christmas music. Usually, the videos I post for new releases have between 0 and 100 YouTube views when I post them (you know, unless it's Eric Clapton or something). Kim's videos for this release have been up a day and have tens of thousands of views already. I would describe Kim Petras as a Dance Pop artist. There's a lot of techno and synth going on. Most people just say she's a Pop artist. For her influences, she mentions mostly 80s artists...Queen, Culture Club, Madonna, Blondie. Her fascination with writing songs came about after watching a documentary on Carole King.
Overall, I'd say I enjoyed listening to "Turn Off The Light", even though this brand of Pop isn't usually my bag. But they're certainly well written songs. And there are definitely some tunes, here, that would be good for a dance floor Halloween mix or party. "It's got a good beat, Dick. You can dance to it. I give it an 84." (American Bandstand? Anybody? Bueller? I'm so old.)
Of course the songs on "Turn Off The Light" are largely sexual metaphors (some a bit less metaphorical than others). But there's also a thread that runs through the record as a piece...that of a good girl gone evil (Kim assures us she's just playing a character). "Tell Me It's A Nightmare", for example, is about this evil girl killing her lover, and then she's all like, "You made me do it." Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, makes a guest appearance on the title track.
"Turn Off The Light, Vol. 1" by Kim Petras is digital only and available now at pretty much every online retailer and streaming service.
Kim is apparently very popular among people who don't restrict their listening to Christmas music. Usually, the videos I post for new releases have between 0 and 100 YouTube views when I post them (you know, unless it's Eric Clapton or something). Kim's videos for this release have been up a day and have tens of thousands of views already. I would describe Kim Petras as a Dance Pop artist. There's a lot of techno and synth going on. Most people just say she's a Pop artist. For her influences, she mentions mostly 80s artists...Queen, Culture Club, Madonna, Blondie. Her fascination with writing songs came about after watching a documentary on Carole King.
Overall, I'd say I enjoyed listening to "Turn Off The Light", even though this brand of Pop isn't usually my bag. But they're certainly well written songs. And there are definitely some tunes, here, that would be good for a dance floor Halloween mix or party. "It's got a good beat, Dick. You can dance to it. I give it an 84." (American Bandstand? Anybody? Bueller? I'm so old.)
Of course the songs on "Turn Off The Light" are largely sexual metaphors (some a bit less metaphorical than others). But there's also a thread that runs through the record as a piece...that of a good girl gone evil (Kim assures us she's just playing a character). "Tell Me It's A Nightmare", for example, is about this evil girl killing her lover, and then she's all like, "You made me do it." Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, makes a guest appearance on the title track.
"Turn Off The Light, Vol. 1" by Kim Petras is digital only and available now at pretty much every online retailer and streaming service.
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