PinkPantheress made her TV debut last night, appearing on The Tonight Show to perform a dance-ready medley of three of her songs. With the help of a DJ and a group of backup dancers, the British musician showcased a lively mash-up of “Illegal,” “Girl Like Me,” and “Tonight.”
All three songs come off PinkPantheress’ most recent mixtape, Fancy That, which arrived on May 9. It marked her first major release in two years, following her 2023 debut album, Heaven Knows. The 10-track mixtape notably sampled Panic! at the Disco’s song “Do You Know What I’m Seeing?” on “Tonight.”
“Sampling is funny because everyone has their opinions about it. Some people think it’s stealing or unoriginal, which is something I dealt with a lot when I was starting,” the musician told MixMag. “But for me sampling is my way of sharing a love for something and reinterpreting it. I would only sample something I love, I would never sample something for the thought of it having nostalgia-bait or whatever reason. I do it because I want to reinterpret something I love to different audiences.”
PinkPantheress will embark on a short tour, An Evening With PinkPantheress, in North America this fall. The live event will make nine stops across six cities: The tour will begin in October with two back-to-back shows at Kings Theatre in Brooklyn, followed by another pair of shows at Toronto’s Massey Hall. PinkPantheress will stop in Chicago for a night at Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom before heading to Los Angeles for two nights at the Wiltern. The live run will conclude with shows in San Francisco and Oakland in November.
The singer is getting back into the swing of touring after canceling all of her scheduled 2024 appearances this past August. “I was full up. There was something that I needed to address, and so I had to leave,” the musician told Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 earlier this year. “And I did that for my own good. And obviously it was a very sad moment for people that wanted to see me but couldn’t see me. But obviously, what goes around comes around, and I’ll be back again.”
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