Woo-ah! Kim Petras is formally teaming up with Nicki Minaj for her forthcoming single “Alone.”
On Thursday (April 6), the sassy German pop princess used social media to announce the shock collaboration, writing, “‘Alone’ feat. @nickiminaj out 4/21” on Instagram. Within the accompanying video, Petras sits in an opulent room stuffed with artwork and a blazing hearth and a child pink rotary telephone on the shiny oak desk in entrance of her.
When the telephone rings, she solutions it solely to lip-sync over Minaj’s voice, which pronounces, “Yeah! It’s Barbie and it’s Kim Petras!” over a pattern of Alice Deejay’s 1998 membership basic “Higher Off Alone” earlier than the “Coronary heart to Break” singer lets out her signature “Woo-ah!”
“Alone” would be the Grammy winner’s newest launch in a string of singles that features 2022’s Max Martin-produced “If Jesus Was a Rockstar” and 2023’s “Brr” — the latter of which she carried out at Billboard Girls in Music in March earlier than accepting this yr’s Chartbreaker Award with a heartfelt speech calling for bodily autonomy and “true equality” for girls.
“Girls in pop music had been my solely mates in highschool” she informed Billboard in an unique interview forward of the ceremony. “They had been all the things I needed to be and [gave me] the energy I [needed] to transition and dwell my life authentically. They gave me the energy to be myself
Earlier this week, Petras’ smash collaboration with Sam Smith “Unholy” surpassed one billion streams on Spotify simply months after it earned the trans singer her very first Grammy for greatest pop duo/group efficiency.
Watch Petras tease “Alone” beneath.
