With the release of her new project ‘Clarity’, Kim Petras has well and truly arrived

If you could bottle the millennial American dream – fame, fortune, love, and the risk of losing it all in an instant – you'd probably get Kim Petras. When she burst onto the pop scene in 2017 with single ‘I Don't Want It At All', she was debuting as a pop star that had spent over half a decade writing songs for other artists, and the first taste of Petras pop we got was a bubblegum ode to superficiality and sugar daddies.

She spent most of her first ‘era' singing about everything she wanted to be, but on her first full length – not album – project, Kim is ready to open up more.

"My first era was when I didn't think I could ever be a pop star," she says from across the pond on her US headline tour. "I was just a songwriter for other people in LA, and I wasn't feeling confident in myself. I didn't think I was good enough; I didn't think I was pretty enough. I didn't think my songs were good enough, all of those things. I love all of those songs about what I've wanted to be like, like this super confident, bratty pop girl. I was blown away when people reacted well.

"Once I found my fans I felt more confident and was like ‘ok people actually wanna listen and hear what's going on in my brain', so this one, 'Clarity', is much more of that. Obviously, it's still larger than life; it's not depressing. I was going through something, I've been cheated on, I felt really bad, and for me, I've always gone into the studio, reflected on what's happened to me, and figured out how I actually feel. I'm just hoping people can relate to this, that people who are going through the same thing can enjoy it and not feel alone."