Singer-songwriter King Princess sits down with Billboard at Julius’ in New York City and opens up about kicking off her “slutty gay summer” by dropping “RIP KP” as the “slutty anthem for lesbians,” her new album, Girl Violence, her acting debut alongside Nicole Kidman in Nine Perfect Strangers, working with Hugh Jackman on “Song Sung Blue,” her opinions on Donald Trump’s administration cutting funding for LGBTQ+ suicide prevention, her thoughts on Love Island USA and more!
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Stephen Daw: Hi, everyone. I am Billboard‘s Stephen Daw, and I am joined today by the icon, the legend herself, King Princess. Hi, babe. How are you?
King Princess: Hi.
And we’re here today at Julius’ in the West Village, the oldest gay bar in New York City. How’s life? How’s things?
It’s been pretty good. We’re at the beginning of summer.
Hell yeah.
Kind of feels like the beginning. We went to the- we went to a quarry the other day.
A quarry?
Yeah, we swam.
Ooh, OK, so we’re just diving off cliffs at this point.
I think it’s nice, because it’s like we got out of the city on the first day that it was super, super hot, and like, just smoked blunts by the natural water source.
Love that for you.
Which was great, and it really got me in the mood to now traverse the slutty, slutty gay summer.
Naturally, I love that.
It got me ready.
I have to tell you the start of my slutty gay summer was at your Market Hotel show.
Oh, wow!
That was one of the hottest events — both literally and figuratively — that I’ve been to in a minute.
Did you believe the temperature?
It was truly wild.
I always think of my fans as a producing a lot of body heat in general.
And you’re correct to think that.
The lesbians, it’s what Melissa McCarthy is in Bridesmaids. She’s like, “Feel that steam heat? It’s coming from my undercarriage.”
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