Watch the Music Video for Kim Petras and Nicki Minaj's '90s-Inspired Collab "Alone"
Sampling Alice Deejay’s “Better Off Alone.”
UPDATE (May 3, 2023): Kim Petras and Nicki Minaj have finally dropped the music video for their highly anticipated collab, “Alone.”
The visuals simultaneously offer a futuristic and nostalgic vibe with Petras and Minaj wearing a variety of outfits that include bright colors as well as black latex.
Petras and Minaj have been teasing the music video for weeks leading up to its release and it did not disappoint.
Watch the music video for “Alone” above.
UPDATE (April 21, 2023): Kim Petras has finally released her collab with Nicki Minaj titled “Alone.”
The new track offers modern-day vibes with a mix of the ’90s as it samples Alice Deejay’s “Better Off Alone.”
Of collaborating with Nicki, Petras told Apple Music, “It doesn’t feel real still. Her singing ‘it’s Barbie and it’s Kim Petras,’ I cried, I was on the floor and then she calls me Kim Petty in it, which all my friends are like, ‘how do we not come up with that our entire lives?’ So she just changed my life in so many ways with that verse and that verse rips, I love her and I’m so inspired by her always, it’s crazy to me. I don’t know how she does it, but she’s just the greatest ever.”
Listen to the track above.
ORIGINAL STORY (April 7, 2023): Kim Petras is giving us the collab we never knew we needed — a Nicki Minaj feature.
Petras took to Instagram to tease the upcoming single; she shared a video of herself answering a phone as a snippet of the song plays in the background. “Yeah, It’s Barbie and it’s Kim Petras,” Minaj is heard saying in the intro, which samples Alice Deejay’s “Better Off Alone,” released in 1999.
Petras recently opened up about the impact female artists have had both on pop music and her career, which makes this song even more fitting. “Women in pop music were my only friends in high school,” she told Billboard. “They were everything I wanted to be and [gave me] the strength I [needed] to transition and live my life authentically. They gave me the strength to be myself.”
“Alone” drops on April 21. Listen to a snippet below.
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