Hello, Louis Theroux here. Welcome to my Spotify podcast called the Adam Buxton podcast.

Not funny. The Louis Theroux podcast, fine.

In this episode, I am going to be speaking to a pop singer, a musical artist, who goes by Pink Pantheress, who has another name, the one she was given at birth, which I'm not going to reveal, because that's part of her mystique. She is 22 years old, not just a singer as such, but also a viral hitmaker. And if you're at all online,

even if you don't know who she is, you've probably heard her songs. And I hope that becomes

clearer in the conversation because her singing style

is very distinctive. Copyright issues prevent me from singing part of her song now. Boisalia. Can I say that?

That's fine. Poisealia. That was too much. Anyway, she shot to fame in less than a year around the time of COVID and

lockdown writing these tiny little songs these fragments that seemed almost perfectly designed for

TikTok in the short attention span in addition though there's anxiety-based lyrics.

There's a depth to the emotional vibe of the songs,

and so she's very much tapped into the generational mood with her lyrics and voice and samples.

Some statistics as of 20th of October, 2023.

On Spotify alone, 2.3 billion streams.

That's 55 million streams per track.

Sometimes I think when you give Spotify or streaming data,

it just sounds like billions and billions, billions and billions.

Anyway, it's a lot.

By any metric, you know, they are extraordinarily big numbers, numbles, which is a tech

term that we use in the tech industry. A numble, it's a lot like a number, but it's not exactly the

same. I haven't looked at my numbers, I'm afraid to. She's previously been very private,

which is part of what makes this interview pretty special. It was recorded in

person in London, in the Spotify HQ. She arrived with her signature handbag under her arm,

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