Kelsy Karter says bye to pop-punk as she debuts the video for “Rest in Pieces.”
The single closes a pop-punk chapter for the singer. The track serves as a follow-up to her earworm-filled, which she released during a “dark time” in her personal life. Karter described that record as “emotional rock songs about heartbreak, growing pains, depression, rebellion, and embracing individualism.”
“This resurgence of ‘punk’ is just pop culture giving artists permission to wear plaid pants and put guitars in songs again. But I just don’t buy it,” Karter admits candidly. “Punk doesn’t mean waiting for permission. It’s a feeling, an attitude, energy. Not a branding decision. It’s doing what you want, loving who you want, wearing what you want.”
Reflecting on the sound’s resurgence — thanks in part to the likes of Machine Gun Kelly, who pivoted from rap to pop-punk in recent years — Karter says the mainstream return of the sound is “just self-indulgent bullocks. Not punk.” For Karter, who’s been making music with that pop-punk sound for years, it’s time for a pivot. “I’ve spent the last year cultivating a new sound, a reinvention, a new story. I don’t wanna give away too much but it sounds nothing like my previous music. When I came out of my depression I discovered a part of myself I hadn’t met before,” Karter says. “This unstoppable creature. A stronger, wiser, braver version of myself… I wanna show them that you can be anything you wanna be.
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