CLIP is never one to hide her emotions. The NY-based internet rap princess popped on the scene with her 2020 smash “Sad B!tch” and has since dominated her lane of genre-fluid alt-pop. Since then, she’s graced a 2022 PAPER cover, released a trove of music that expanded her sonic universe…
Judeline logs on for our interview from the back of a cab as it winds through the streets of Madrid. It’s All Saints Day and she is en route to meet her mother for brunch. The 21-year-old Spanish pop artist listens through earbuds as she gazes, relaxed, into her phone….
Kanii was only a senior in high school when his track “I Know” blew up on TikTok. “It was stressful trying to battle doing press and all these other things surrounding the music while still being in high school,” he tells PAPER. When he walked across the stage at his…
Cat Cohen, fresh off the release of her raucous album Overdressed, wants to make it clear that it isn’t okay to get Gatorade delivered from CVS — a new year’s resolution half of New York City should also jot down for ourselves. The fashion savant and recent star of her…
Molly Santana makes it all look so effortless. The Japanese-American pop/rap princess exudes confidence and swag in all she does, including her recent single “Windows Up,” from her latest project Masonic Musik. The 20-year-old’s unique sound stems from a cross-cultural upbringing between Los Angeles and Tokyo, where she attended fashion…
Blame it on the natural thermal pools, ample wine, native soup dishes, or the fact that the land of ice happens to be the home of the kindest people on earth, but Iceland, for all its rumored coldness, is indeed a place of extreme warmth and all-encompassing cool. PAPER witnessed…
It’s impossible to be across all the new music out each Friday. Luckily, PAPER is here to help you out: each week, we round up 10 of our favorite new songs from artists — emerging and established — to soundtrack your life. From the surreal to the sublime, these songs…
Julia Michaels is blasting off towards heaven. The multi-diamond and platinum-certified artist has been in the zeitgeist since she came into our orbit with 2017’s “Issues” and was nominated for a Grammy for Best New Artist. Since then she’s released multiple projects and penned some of pop music’s most memorable…
Oklou’s first solo track in nearly three years, “family and friends,” is disarmingly honest and lyrical — as we’ve come to expect from the French artist, born Marylou Mayniel. “Let me lie forever in bed,” she sings in the chorus, “Blessed by family and friends/ Starting life at the end/…
Fashion FanFic is back at PAPER! This month, the 2025 Grammy Award nominees were announced, and one of the most exciting categories is “Best New Artist.” Among the eight artists nominated, four of them are divas with a strong sense of fashion and image: Chappell Roan, Doechii, Raye and Sabrina…