Kim Petras: ‘I am unapologetic about who I am’

The first trans performer to top the Billboard 100 continues to make headlines for her sex-positive pop. But that persona masks a more complex artist

Kim Petras’s Slut Pop era is over. At least, it is for now. That was the title of the 30-year-old German-born, LA-based musician’s last EP, released in February. The first lines of the opening track – cheekily imploring listeners both male and female to disrobe – set the tone. From there, other offerings on the record continued in the same catchily explicit, sex-positive vein.

“It was a very freeing record to make and perform,” Petras says. “I wrote it at the time when OnlyFans was looking to ban sex workers from their platform. It’s fucked up how badly sex workers are treated; how they’re disrespected. I wanted to make music that championed them and took the shame away.”

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