It's hilarious, right?" The more that I got out of it, the more that I wanted out of it. It was silly to me that people paid attention to it. I honestly kind of thought it was just a joke. I literally just made a song as a joke when I was like 17 and then I got all these people talking about it and I was like, "Well, maybe I can do this." I never had that dream to be a musician at all. Kitty: When I first started making music when I went viral, I didn't spend time working at it before that happened.
How were the problems you had to deal with making MGC different from the ones you might've run into on past projects? I think it's more dimensional than my last album because of that. I had to learn to play keyboard better to be in my band and do a good job, so there's a lot of keyboard stuff. I should finish this," and then doing it. I've been going through my computer and picking out a random file that I've started two years ago and being like, "Wait, this is cool. This is like a collection of stuff that I've made since then. That's a whole other story, but a lot of them, I just kept with me and changed and remade. I started writing all these new songs and then none of them were ready in time to put on my last album. I spent all of that time that I was in limbo learning more about production. The people that I was working on producing it with just didn't work out and I moved out of LA. This is a confusing, convoluted story, but when I was working on Miami Garden Club, basically everything went wrong. Kitty: Some of the songs on this album I started a really long time ago. Thrillist: Where'd the idea for Rose Gold come from? Compared to Miami Garden Club and The Pom-Poms EP, it seems like you're trying to keep the same vibe going while also experimenting a bit more. Thrillist recently hit up Kitty to talk about her newly released album, what she’s been up to all these years, and her musical past and future. Now, she’s going back to the basics - writing and producing entirely on her own - on her latest solo outing, Rose Gold, out April 5. On top of all of this, she’s explored new avenues by scoring games for a range of indie games. Kitty's most recent project saw her and Ray forming the Pom-Poms, a rowdy rave-pop duo that hit the ground running by releasing a debut self-titled EP in September 2018. She’s stepped up to the mic as the vocalist for indie rock outfit American Pleasure Club (formerly called Teen Suicide) and even contributed vocals for Ricky Eat Acid - the respective band and solo project of her husband and frequent collaborator Sam Ray. Diehard fans and new listeners all came out in support of it. The album sounded similar to '80s synthpop, while still maintaining her cloud rap roots.
Kitty's last full-length solo album, Miami Garden Club (2017), was a fully independent venture that sprang from a successful Kickstarter campaign she had launched back in August 2015. In the past few years, she’s continued with more solo work while also jumpstarting a bunch of new collaborations with artists like indie rappers DVS and Sprightly along the way. To distance herself from her stint as an internet firebrand, she’s been keeping busy by trying her hand at a range of different musical styles at her own pace in a retreat away from the venom of online. Pretty soon, she found herself in an unwanted spotlight, everyone eagerly awaiting her next move. What started out as a silly hobby making songs back in high school quickly made the rounds across the web. After years of being relegated to a passing fad after the popularity of her 2012 track " Okay Cupid," the former internet phenom, who now simply goes by Kitty, has spent ample time experimenting outside the formula of anxiety-ridden cloud rap anthems that launched her career - and a genre of self-made bedroom producers that followed - in the first place. Any millennial who spent their high school and middle school years scanning the music forums and Tumblr blogs of the early 2010s more than likely remembers running into the music of Kitty Pryde.
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