The album will drop this fall ahead of the tour starting in Austin
New York City’s own King Princess – the project of Brooklyn-based vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer and actor Mikaela Straus – announces her triumphant third record Girl Violence. Her first release with Section1, Girl Violence will be out on September 12th, with lead single “RIP KP” out now. The song debuted recently with a performance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and is out now alongside a Warren Fu-directed masterpiece, as well as an announcement of a global tour.
Made in collaboration with Jake Portrait (Lil Yachty, Alex G, Unknown Mortal Orchestra), and Aire Atlantica (breakthrough: SZA’s “Low”), this new King Princess record is the sound of Straus picking up the pieces after her world fell apart – fighting for freedom, stepping back from the limelight and major label system, breaking up, moving away, and returning to NYC where she was born and raised. Through it all, she somehow found the agency and creative spirit to fight the misconceptions and create the album she was destined to make, in a potent return to self. Perennially underestimated, she now wields the chip on her shoulder as a weapon, upping the ante and taking the reins on Girl Violence.
The video for lead single “RIP KP,” directed by Warren Fu, finds King Princess in her own personal hell: a particularly demonic – and extremely gay – afterlife limbo. The song itself serves as one of the album’s defining statements. Brimming with erotic euphoria and King Princess’ voice cracking with lust, “RIP KP” is hands-down the sexiest cut she’s ever conceived. Straus tears into the uninhibited edges of desire with reckless abandon while straddling the line between vulgar and proper, calling into question if that line even exists in the first place.
King Princess says of the song, “‘RIP KP’ is about the sexy side of girl violence – when love takes over your brain like a cordyceps and suddenly you’re getting fucked all over your house, acting a fool. It’s the perfect way to open the record: dramatic, unhinged, and a little tongue-in-cheek. I wrote it during a full ego death – leaving LA, my label, my old life – and somehow landed back in NYC making the music I would’ve obsessed over at 15. It’s a slutty anthem for the lesbians. We need debauchery this summer.”
King Princess will preview the brilliance of Girl Violence in full tonight (Fri, June 6th) for an intimate, sold-out crowd of lucky fans at Market Hotel in Brooklyn and will take it on the road for a proper tour later this year. Starting off at Austin City Limits in October, she will tour throughout North America including shows in her hometown of NYC at Brooklyn Paramount and capping off the U.S. run with The Wiltern in Los Angeles. She’ll then tour throughout the UK and Europe in December. Tickets go on sale Friday, June 13th at 10 am local time.
The announcement of Girl Violence comes in the midst of Mikaela Straus’ television debut, as she stars in the current season of Nine Perfect Strangers on Hulu, alongside Nicole Kidman. Later this year, she will make her feature film debut in Song Sung Blue, an upcoming movie starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson.
King Princess 2025 Tour Dates:
June 4 – Brooklyn, NY @ Market Hotel (Sold Out)
Oct 3 – Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits
Oct 10 – Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits
Oct 25 – Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music Works
Oct 26 – Atlanta, GA @ Buckhead Theatre
Oct 28 – Richmond, VA @ The National
Oct 29 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount
Oct 31 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club (late show)
Nov 1 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
Nov 2 – Boston, MA @ House of Blues
Nov 4 – Toronto, CAN @ HISTORY
Nov 5 – Royal Oak, MI @ Royal Oak Music Theatre
Nov 7 – Chicago, IL @ The Salt Shed
Nov 8 – Minneapolis, MN @ Uptown Theater
Nov 10 – St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant
Nov 11 – Kansas City, MO @ The Truman
Nov 13 – Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
Nov 14 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot
Nov 16 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo
Nov 17 – Portland, OR@ Roseland Theater
Nov 19 – San Francisco, CA @ The Regency Ballroom
Nov 21 – Anaheim, CA @ House of Blues
Nov 22 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern
Dec 3 – Dublin, Ireland @ Vicar Street
Dec 5 – Glasgow, Scotland @ Queen Margaret Union
Dec 6 – Leeds, UK @ Beckett
Dec 7 – Manchester, UK @ New Century Hall
Dec 9 – London, UK @ Brixton Electric
Dec 13 – Brussels, BE @ La Madeleine
Dec 14 – Paris, FR @ Le Trianon
Dec 16 – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Melkweg Max
Dec 17 – Berlin, Germany @ Astra Kulturhaus
