On the X post in question, Kim Petras has been up to more than reaching out to Mamdani, who last year declared his affinity for the pop star’s music. (I’m with Mayor Mamdani, by the way—Petras does make some great hype music to get ready to.) She’s also been pre-promoting Detour, which had been trapped in limbo due to a dispute with her label, Republic Records. In addition to teasing the album’s first single “Need for Speed,” which will drop this Wednesday, she affirmed that Detour now has a release date—she wouldn’t tell me what it is, but said that, pun intended, we’re now back on track.
“It’s my pride and joy,” Petras says of the album. “I really shed, I think, a lot of my previous styles. I wanted to break all the rules and reinvent myself and work with exciting artists that I love, and be rebellious against traditional pop and how clean my vocals were.”
Petras, I’d say, created some of the most delicious high-energy, infectious bubblegum pop of the past decade. She’s ready to go deeper. Detour is “what I think the future of music sounds like, rather than how I fit into the current mainstream climate.”