![]() ![]() Straus was flushed and loose, cheerily announcing how drunk she was. As was the singer’s mother, Agnes Mullaney - petite, with a big smile and a mane of rock-girl hair. “I’m glad Daddy came,” she would later say, using her pet name for the producer. Ronson was there at the first of two deranged, joyous, sold-out January shows King Princess played at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles. But when you’ve got that razor-sharp wit, you can get away with it.” “There’s a bit of a Gallagher-y thing to it,” says the producer Mark Ronson, who released Straus’s debut on his own Zelig Records, referring to the fractious Gallagher brothers from Oasis. “I want you to come to my apartment after this,” she said, staring me down during a moment of tenuous calm as her makeup artist sprayed a fine mist of glittering fuchsia across her cheekbone, “because I can tell it’s inconvenient for you.” In between takes at the video shoot for “Ohio” - a slow-burn ballad that descends into an unhinged rock jam - she asked several members of her team to smell her armpits (noting that the left one was noticeably more rank than the right) and talked colorful smack about other artists, esteemed music-industry institutions and an ex-girlfriend’s new girlfriend. ![]() In the time we spent together, I saw her mime masturbation after talking about how hot she thinks the singer Rosalía is (“She gave me a hug, and I was like, ‘You smell good.”) declare that if she were a man, she would “have a small, but it would work good” and announce that she wants to give her girlfriend a cast of her vagina for their anniversary. But in person - her birth name is Mikaela Straus - the singer comes off as a different kind of throwback: a bawdy, trash-talking caricature of old-school rock ’n’ roll excess. Listening to the yearning R&B swoon of “Prophet” - from King Princess’ debut album, “Cheap Queen” - you may imagine its maker as a sad-eyed recluse, one who wears her sorrow like armor. At 21, she has the lush, broken voice of a hard-living lounge singer in a David Lynch film, and her music is similarly timeless: guitar-driven torch songs with lyrics sharpened by what sounds like a thousand years of love gone wrong. Hanging out with King Princess can feel like entering a time warp. ![]()
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