"I had been afraid of that so much because it stings and hurts to be analyzed like that."īut instead of cowering, Petras used her fear as fuel, making it the chief impetus behind her new album, Feed the Beast.
"'Biological man! Biological man!' I got that from literally everywhere," Petras says. As if on cue, her breakthrough sparked an avalanche of misgendering taunts. 1 in the U.K., the U.S., and 18 other countries, while amassing more than 1 billion streams on Spotify. In September, she released "Unholy," a collaboration with Sam Smith that became a worldwide smash, reaching No. "I've seen how brutal people can be about your body and your appearance. "I was so incredibly scared that if I ever had a really big hit that people were going to say things like, 'Her left jawbone looks male, so we can tell she's a man,'" says the singer, who has spoken about the complex issues of being trans since the start of her career. Over the past year, Kim Petras has had to grapple with the fact that the thing she's most wanted for her entire life has also filled her with the most dread.
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