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“Blue Velvet” artwork
“Blue Velvet”
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(Sept 2, 2025) – Today, celebrated Nuyorican rapper and songstress Princess Nokia (Destiny Frasqueri) announces her new album Girls due Oct 10th. Alongside the album announcement she shares a new single “Blue Velvet” and a string of upcoming tour dates. The new single is a dark and harrowing track embracing Princess Nokia’s signature rap flow.
Speaking about the song Princess Nokia shares, ”’Blue Velvet’ is both delicate and sinister. It supports women’s rights and women’s wrongs. It straddles the edge of confrontation and dares predatory behavior to be reckoned with.” Largely inspired by David Lynches Fire Walk With Me and Twin Peaks, Princess Nokia canonizes the character Laura Palmer and takes her audience on an off road journey – where the dark feminine is lawless.
The new song showcases the contrasting side of her upcoming album following previous single “Drop Dead Gorgeous,” a celebratory pop banger that’s pure youthful bliss. As she found herself in this new phase of life, Princess Nokia wanted to make an album that was a guidebook to living a fulfilling life: a document of the fun she’s having paired with more existential reflections on what it’s taken to get there.
While Girls is a celebration of growth, it is also ultimately an embodiment of Princess Nokia’s truest, most fundamental self. She’s always been a woman who is fearless in envisioning and pursuing the life she wants and deserves. She says it best herself: “I’ve always been a girl who has my own house, my own weed, and my own squad.” In a way, Girls is a way of honoring and celebrating that self, too: “I want to have fun with my friends for as long as I can,” she says. “And I want my girlhood to last. I want my fun to last as long as possible. And I think that’s a really beautiful thing.”
Princess Nokia will be performing at a string of tour dates across North America and Europe this Fall beginning in the US on the West Coast in September and continuing on to Berlin, Paris and London in November. Listen to “Blue Velvet” above, find full tour routing below and stay tuned for more from Princess Nokia coming soon. |
