Slayyyter has been a main pillar of my musical universe since the release of « Mine » in 2019. Her unique blend of chronically online girly pop lyricism, nostalgia, and tooth-ache-inducing production has been imitated by many in the hyperpop scene but never replicated. I’ve wondered for a long time when Slayyyter would finally release an album that could stand up to her impressive body of 2000s’-nouveau anthemic singles.
I knew WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA was bound to be a completely different type of Slayyyter record from the moment I heard the second single, « CANNABALISM!, » dangerously intimate, sexy, bass-forward and vocally experimental. This song is a complete world unto itself, yet it lives harmoniously in the same universe as dirty electronic, rap-inspired and drug-fuelled « OLD TECHNOLOGY, » and techno-show girl track « $T.LOSER. »
WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA is a glittering and gutteral romp through what it feels like to a girl in 2026 and it couldn’t have come at a better time. Throughout this album, Slayyyter supplies nasty bars, hedonistic dance aesthetics, deliciously grungey vocal delivery with fuck you experimentation reminescent of Death Grips. « CRANK » and « I’M ACTUALLY KINDA FAMOUS » are standout tracks in their red-hot intensity in an album that delivers heater after heater without impunity.
In a meditation on romantic obsession, Slayyyter gives us Lana Del Ray on speed in « UNKNOWN LOVERZ. » She also pays homage to other greats of the 2010s with True Romance-era Charli XCX flavour on « OLD FLING$ » and Lorde-inspired elements of her delivery on « GAS STATION. »
The crown jewel of this record comes in the form of its final track, « BRITTANY MURPHY. » Slayyyter merges dance synths, addictive auto-tune, and sincere guitar in a contemplation of mortality and fame. Through this distillation of ideas, influences, and intimacy, an even more powerful and confident Slayyyter emerges, and I am completely obsessed.
