Challenging the stereotype of the flawless ‘it girl’ stereotype, LA pop artist Halo Kitsch’s new single takes the experience of evolving from jealousy to self-assurance and distills it into a perfect three-minute pop punk record.
Kitsch’s found inspiration for Between Your Teeth in her experience of suddenly being thrust into the limelight as a result of her first experience of internet virality, as she explains:
‘In the midst of those very humbling months on social media, faced with constant negativity, I found myself suddenly right back in the cyclical phases of jealousy, judgment, and justification … I spent an entire shift dreaming up this perfect girl, legs crossed, hair clean… the anti-me. And to counteract her, I began dreaming up a chorus of qualities that were one-of-a-kind, uniquely mine.’
The result, created as she channeled that more authentic version of herself, sees a song that disassembles notions of fake perfection. Between Your Teeth sees Kitsch sneer at an unspecified, plastic romantic rival, but really it is her own inauthentic sense of an ‘aspirational’ identity of flawlessness that she is deconstructing. It’s a compelling sound, with the energy and ethos coming from the same playbook as Olivia Rodrigo’s higher energy numbers.
Halo Kitsch relocated to Hollywood after California’s Woolsey fire displaced her from her childhood home. Taking that as an opportunity to create something new from adversity, Kitsch began writing music rooted in resilience, with songs that turn ‘heartbreak into bangers’. With a catalogue that comprises more than 20 songs, Kitsch has already released her debut EP, and amassed over 2-million streams across platforms.