King Princess Laments On Relationship Toxicity With ‘Girls'

Ahead of her upcoming third album ‘Girl Violence’, sapphic pop royalty King Princess have released their sultry new single, ‘Girls’.

A beautiful hybrid of an angsty rock song with the undertones of a lilting, 1950s-esque romantic ballad, ‘Girls’ provides a subversive perspective on the conflicting interests in a toxic relationship dynamic.
The waltzing, vintage-sounding instrumentation of the song speaks wonderfully to the feeling of desire and longing for another, echoing an Elvis-like pining for a lost lover. Pairing this with soaring choruses that inject a distressed, practically pained, quality cleverly makes ‘Girls’ a conflicted track in both composition and lyricism.
It is a song that speaks to worshipping a partner and having to let them go. The simple refrain, “girls bring me to my knees”, wailed raspily throughout the track, dances on the knife-edge of pleasure and pain, acknowledging both the beauty and the hurt caused by their relationship.
Repeatedly concluding, “to let you back in, that would be violence, that would be chaos”, before admitting that they “want to try it”, this song is an intelligent, all-encompassing depiction of the internal conflict caused by unhealthy relationships. 
Providing an insight into the ‘Girl Violence’ around which the new album is themed, King Princess is clearly not shying away from chaos, emotional mess or relationship turbulence with this record.


Susie Long
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