Slayyyter ‘WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA’ Album Review: An Album For The Moment

Back in the days of pre-enshittified Tumblr, there was a blog called Pop Culture Died In 2009. The now-dormant account, run by blogger Matt James, dug into his mom’s back issues of Star Magazine and the remnants of Web 1.0 gossip sites on the Internet Archive to surface old tabloid covers, ill-begotten paparazzi shots, and other quietly forgotten but deeply influential ephemera of 2000s pop culture. Like many Tumblr blogs, it had a hyperspecific audience: everyone who can conjure, from memory, one specific tabloid photo of Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, and Lindsay Lohan together in a car.  In other words, its audience was Catherine Garner, better known as Slayyyter. She’s an avowed fan of the blog — which isn’t surprising, given that she seems to have existed everywhere else in the online music world. As her stage name suggests, she comes directly from Stan Twitter: Before becoming a musician, she ran One Direction and Fifth Harmony stan accounts called @harrys_anaconda and @camilkacowbello. She spent so much time on early-oughts Tumblr that her recent single “OLD FLING$” was premiered by the Tumblr editorial team — I didn’t know Tumblr even had an editorial team anymore. If she’d come up during the
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