PinkPantheress is back with the first single from her upcoming project, and the “Tonight” music video heralds a new era for the Gen Z pop star. For one thing, it’s a longer song than her usual brisk two minute, 30 second bangers (“ion wanna see NO MORE song length jokes after this song comes out on friday IKTR,” she warned her fans on TikTok). It’s also a straightforward call to action: “You want sex with me? Huh?” she questions her shy crush, demanding: “Come talk to me, come on!”
To accompany this propulsive track is a lush, Bridgerton-esque “Tonight” music video. Or maybe more accurately it’s a Marie Antoinette-style video for the way it blends modern and antique. Directed by Charlotte Rutherford (whose music video bona fides include work with Charli xcx, Camila Cabello, and most recently Katy Perry’s “Woman’s World“), the regency ballroom meets a drag ball as PinkPantheress and her pals make mayhem in an English manor house.
The new song samples Panic! At The Disco album cut “Do You Know What I’m Seeing?” from 2008’s Pretty. Odd. It’s one of several samples PinkPantheress has teased on her upcoming project, as she told MixMag there are musical references from her previous songs including “sampled vocals from ‘Starz In Their Eyes’ by Just Jack, a song that she used the beat from in her 2021 track ‘Attracted to You.'” The as yet untitled mixtape is due out May 9; the artist teased the release in a clip posted to social media (below) that employs the same marriage of high and low culture, as she lounges outside a rural mansion before being approached by a group of PinkPantheress lookalikes who appear as though they’ve just wandered in from the mall. A ringtone goes off that seems to preview the music to come.
Speaking with MixMag about her work, PinkPantheress said, “I have OCD but it doesn’t make me sad it just makes me overthink, however these overthinking things aren’t always bad. For me the only time I tap into emotional parts of myself is in the studio. I don’t go to therapy, I’m not necessarily the most open with my emotions…funnily enough the most open I am with my emotions is in interviews like this, or in my music. These are my opportunities to speak about myself in my most open way. I don’t write lyrics unless I’m in the emotional space of the studio where I know these things will be me basically vomiting the words out on a page.”
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