“It’s Slayyyter season,” declares The Fader in their new feature on the pop provocateur, and the numbers back it up: her upcoming album WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA is already charting in the Top 10 on US Apple Music Pop Albums at #9: over a month before its March 27 release date via RECORDS/Columbia.

The rollout has been a masterclass in controlled chaos, and now Slayyyter is ready to own the moment she almost walked away from.​ “Things will only get busier, which is very scary,” she told the outlet, “but I’m ready for it.”

She admits she made the project thinking her career arc was wrapping up. “I made all this music thinking everything was done for me, which is a crazy thing to say,” she shares. Music isn’t her forever-plan; she’s eyeing fashion and directing, but the response has her rethinking everything. “I don’t want to just do music forever,” she says.

“I just made this project with crazy wacko shit, and thought, ‘Cool, that’ll be that.’ But everyone is responding to it and I’m like, ‘Holy shit.’” What’s wild is how different it is: gritty, raw, far from “typical dance pop,” and a sharp pivot from her last project’s Hollywood gloss.​

When asked about her iconic “gay off that tequila” line from “CRANK!,” she leans in: “I do, famously. That’s my best one-liner on that song. We made that in New York actually, so maybe that’s the New York energy. [I] wrote it in 30 minutes, really quick.” Quick, quotable, chaotic… classic Slayyyter.​

“Anytime I make anything I just want people to feel inspired to do their own thing,” she says. “This project is so near and dear to me in a way that albums, projects, and visuals have not been in the past, because it feels so reflective of my actual life story. There’s so much of me as a person.”​

From St. Louis dive-bar grit to NYC ambition, WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA is Slayyyter at her rawest! And if pre-save charts are any indication, it’s about to be her biggest yet.