Slayyyter
American singer and songwriter (born 1996)
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Catherine Grace Garner (born September 17, 1996), known professionally as Slayyyter, is an American singer, songwriter, and rapper. She started her career independently releasing songs through SoundCloud.[2] Her mixtape Slayyyter was independently released in 2019. Her first studio album, Troubled Paradise, was released in June 2021, and her second album, Starfucker, in September 2023.[3] In addition to three solo tours, she has also toured with Kesha and Tove Lo.
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September 17, 1996
- Singer
- songwriter
Slayyyter | |
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Slayyyter performing in 2024 | |
| Background information | |
| Born | Catherine Grace Garner[1] September 17, 1996 Kirkwood, Missouri, U.S. |
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| Years active | 2018–present |
| Label | RECORDS • Columbia • Fader |
| Website | slayyyter |
Early life and career
Early life
Slayyyter is from Kirkwood, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, where she has "kind of lived [her] whole life". She went to private grade schools, and later continued her education in public school, where she was "offered great music classes for the first time."[4]
2017–2018: Early approaches to music and first single releases
Slayyyter spent a year in college, studying at the University of Missouri. This time was an "expensive experiment" in which she started her career as a musician, writing "'80s lo-fi pop" that she herself produced and edited, but never published. She later dropped out and committed fully to her music career. Her most frequent collaborator, Ayesha Erotica, is from Southern California. The artists met through Twitter, which is where Slayyyter first developed a following. The artist credits Stan Twitter for introducing her to Ayesha.[5][6]
2019–2020: Singles, The Mini Tour, and Slayyyter
After a 14-second snippet of the song gathered attention on Twitter with over 200,000 views,[7] "Mine" was released on Valentine's Day[8] and in less than 24 hours reached number 38 on the iTunes pop chart in the United States.[9]
In June 2019, Slayyyter embarked on her sold-out debut tour, entitled "The Mini Tour". The tour began on June 24 in New York City, and concluded on July 27 in her hometown of St. Louis.[10]
On September 17, 2019, Slayyyter released her self-titled mixtape, Slayyyter, on iTunes. The mixtape was met with positive reviews and peaked at No. 4 on the US iTunes Pop Chart, and No. 14 on the US iTunes Albums Chart.[9]
She released a remix of Britney Spears' "Gimme More" to her SoundCloud in April 2020.[11] In October and November, she released the songs "Self Destruct" and "Throatzillaaa", respectively.[12][13]
"Daddy AF", from her self-titled mixtape, appeared as the opening track in 2022's black comedy horror film Bodies Bodies Bodies and 2024's romance comedy drama film Anora.[14]
2021: Troubled Paradise
On January 21, 2021, Slayyyter announced her debut studio album, Troubled Paradise, set to be released on June 11.[15] The third single from the album[a] and title track, "Troubled Paradise", and its music video were released the following day.[16]
On January 26, Heidi Montag confirmed via Twitter that she would be collaborating with Slayyyter.[17] However, in a 2023 interview with VICE, Slayyyter confirmed the collaboration would not be released due to a "sample clearance issue", revealing that the two remixed Britney Spears' "Gimme More" but the sample was "crazy expensive to clear".[18]
From February to May 2021, she released the singles "Clouds",[19] "Cowboys",[20] and "Over This!"[21] ahead of the album.
Troubled Paradise was released on June 11, 2021, through Fader Label.[22] Pitchfork's Ashley Bardhan called the project "vibrant and ridiculous".[23] Slayyyter promoted the album by releasing VEVO Live performances for the tracks 'Letters' and 'Troubled Paradise'.[24][25]
On November 5, 2021, she released the standalone single "Stupid Boy", a pop-dance song featuring Big Freedia.[26] Later that year, she released Inferno Euphoria, an EP of remixes from Troubled Paradise.[27]
2022–2025: Starfucker and tour
In early June 2022, Slayyyter played a song on tour titled "Hollywood" (later revealed to be "I Love Hollywood!" from her second studio album). She played 2+1⁄2 minutes of the song.[28]
On July 24, 2022, Slayyyter tweeted, "album almost done" with a lipstick emoji.[29] On July 29, 2022, she tweeted "one sec im finishing it all!!" with a clock and hand hearts emoji after replying to a fan asking for a status on the new music.[30]
On October 3, 2022, Swedish singer Tove Lo confirmed via Instagram that Slayyyter would be the opening act on the North American leg of her Dirt Femme Tour.[31]
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On June 9, 2023, Slayyyter released the synth-pop single "Out Of Time",[32] which Nylon described as a "sleek" return.[33]
On July 20, she announced her second studio album, Starfucker, with "Out of Time" serving as its lead single. The following day, she released the album's second single "Miss Belladonna".[3]
On August 14, Slayyyter announced the third single from Starfucker, "Erotic Electronic".[34] The music video for the single was released on August 17,[35] with the single released the following day.[34]
Starfucker was released on September 22, 2023, with a deluxe edition following on December 1 of that year. The more conventional electropop[36] and dance-pop[37] style of the album deviated from the hyperpop sound of her previous releases. It is Slayyyter's first charting album, debuting at number 17 on Billboard's Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart and peaking at number 10.[38] The album received positive reviews from critics, with several considering it one of 2023's best.[39][40][41]
In order to promote the album, Slayyyter embarked on the Club Valentine Tour, which consists of 17 shows across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. It began on October 25, 2023, in Boston, and concluded on February 17, 2024, in London.[42] As part of Spotify's "Spotify Singles" series, Slayyyter released a cover of Lady Gaga's song "Monster" on October 17, 2023. On a separate but related occasion in early 2024, Gaga later commented that she "loved" a TikTok video of Slayyyter lip-synching to her unreleased song "Brooklyn Nights".[43]
On September 20, 2024, Slayyyter released the single "No Comma".[44]
After releasing the single "ATTENTION!" with Kesha and Rose Gray, the three toured together during the Summer of 2025 on the Tits Out Tour. In an interview, she revealed that starting in late 2025, she will be based in New York City instead of Los Angeles.[45]
2025–present: Worst Girl in America
On August 1, 2025, Slayyyter released "Beat Up Chanels", the lead single from her upcoming third studio album, alongside a music video. The same day, Columbia Records announced she had signed with them.[46] The second single, "Cannibalism!", and its music video, were released on September 12, 2025.[47] A month later, she released the album's third single and its music video, titled "Crank", on October 24, 2025.[48]
On January 13, 2026, she announced her third studio album, Wor$t Girl in America, alongside the release date for the album's fourth single, titled "Dance...".[49] After a month, on February 22, 2026, she announced her fifth single and its music video, titled "Old Technology", released on February 24.[50]
Artistry
Music style
Slayyyter is primarily considered a pop artist. Various sources refer to her as a hyperpop musician,[51][52] but Slayyyter herself has stated the label doesn't accurately reflect her sound and she "want[s] to be seen as a pop vocalist".[53] Her music style has been likened to Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, and Paris Hilton,[54] as well as sounding somewhat "like Charli XCX on whippets".[5] Slayyyter cites Spears, Fergie, Timbaland, Nelly Furtado, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Justin Timberlake, Madonna, Heidi Montag, Janet Jackson, and Whitney Houston as some of the artists she listened to the most growing up and who ultimately influenced her musical style.[55][54][56] Slayyyter's visual style has been defined as "distinct MySpace-era".[57] She frequently collaborates with British-based artist Glitchmood for visuals.[5] During her Starfucker album cycle, she shifted dramatically to a more mainstream and cinematic 1980s synthwave and synthpop-driven electropop and dark industrial club sound with nu-disco influences. She has described her upcoming third album as a punk electronic club and house music album with some influences from her second album, but has also stated that she feels like she’s transitioning to an entirely new, more mature sound.[45]
Personal life
Slayyyter lives in Los Angeles, where she has been based since 2018-2019 after previously growing up in St. Louis, Missouri, and has a strong interest in fashion design, especially celebrity fashion and glamor fashion. She considers herself a visual artist as well as a music artist and has been involved in modeling as a side interest.[citation needed]
Slayyyter has publicly stated that she is bisexual.[56]
Slayyyter previously tried to keep her real name private, going by the pseudonym Catherine Slater, which has been referenced in media as her real name,[58] in an attempt to keep fans and press away from her family.[59]
In 2019, it was revealed that Slayyyter had made a series of tweets in 2012 and 2013 containing racial slurs. She later apologized for the tweets, saying that "I have grown and changed so much in the past eight years and the person I am today is not who I was at age 15. Eight years is a lot of time to reflect, grow, mature and better yourself as a human being. And I know that being young or uneducated about the matter also does not excuse any of these things, but please know that people do change."[60][61] As a result, Slayyyter committed funds resulting from her CD and vinyl sales to the Sylvia Rivera Law Project and Black Trans Travel Fund—two charities benefitting black trans youth.[62]
Discography
Studio albums
| Title | Release details | Peak chart positions |
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| US Dance [63] | ||
| Troubled Paradise |
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| Starfucker |
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| Worst Girl in America |
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To be released |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | ||
Mixtapes
Extended plays
| Title | Release details |
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| Inferno Euphoria |
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Singles
As lead artist
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| US Dance Pop [68] | |||
| "BFF" (featuring Ayesha Erotica) |
2018 | — | Slayyyter |
| "Candy" | — | ||
| "I'm High" | — | Non-album singles | |
| "Platform Shoes" | — | ||
| "Hello Kitty" | — | Slayyyter | |
| "Mine" | 2019 | — | |
| "Daddy AF" | — | ||
| "Crush on U" (with Donatachi) |
— | Taste | |
| "Self Destruct" (featuring Wuki) |
2020 | — | Troubled Paradise |
| "Troubled Paradise" | 2021 | — | |
| "Clouds" | — | ||
| "Cowboys" | — | ||
| "Over This!" | — | ||
| "Stupid Boy" (featuring Big Freedia) |
— | Non-album single | |
| "Out of Time" | 2023 | — | Starfucker |
| "Miss Belladonna" | — | ||
| "Erotic Electronic" | — | ||
| "I Love Hollywood!" | — | ||
| "Makeup"[b] (featuring Lolo Zouaï) |
— | ||
| "No Comma" | 2024 | — | Non-album single |
| "Attention!" (with Kesha and Rose Gray) |
2025 | — | . (...) |
| "Beat Up Chanels" | — | Worst Girl in America | |
| "Cannibalism!" | — | ||
| "Crank" | — | ||
| "Dance..." | 2026 | 15 | |
| "Old Technology" | — | ||
As featured artist
| Title | Year | Album |
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| "Faded" (Boy Sim featuring Slayyyter) |
2018 | Pink Noise |
| "Dial Tone" (That Kid featuring Ayesha Erotica and Slayyyter) |
Non-album single | |
| "Final Girl" (Graveyardguy featuring Slayyyter) |
Here Lies Graveyardguy | |
| "Diamond in the Dark" (Liz featuring Slayyyter) |
2019 | Planet Y2K |
| "2003" (Robokid featuring Slayyyter) |
Sportsangel | |
| "Read My Mind" (Rebecca Black featuring Slayyyter) |
2021 | Non-album single |
| "Hatefuck" (Pussy Riot featuring Slayyyter) |
2022 | Matriarchy Now |
| "Honest" (Peking Duk featuring Slayyyter) |
Non-album single | |
| "Never Like Me" (Devault featuring Slayyyter and Tommy Genesis) |
2024 | Sensation |
| "Behind the Wheel" (Devault featuring Slayyyter) | ||
| "Thrill of the Night" (Sébastien Tellier featuring Slayyyter and Nile Rodgers) |
2025 | Kiss the Beast |
Promotional singles
| Title | Year | Album |
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| "Ghost" | 2018 | Slayyyter |
| "Alone" | ||
| "All I Want for Xxxmas" (featuring Ayesha Erotica) |
Non-album singles | |
| "Everytime" | 2019 | |
| "Cha Ching" | Slayyyter | |
| "Click" (No Boys Remix) (Charli XCX featuring Kim Petras and Slayyyter) |
Non-album single | |
| "Throatzillaaa" | 2020 | Troubled Paradise |
| "Dog House" | 2021 | |
| "Monster" (Spotify Singles) |
2023 | Non-album single |
Music videos
| Title | Year | Director(s) | Album |
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| "Daddy AF" | 2019 | Logan Fields | Slayyyter |
| "Candy" | Revolving Style | ||
| "Mine" | SLEEPxTITE & Revolving Style | ||
| "Self Destruct” | 2020 | Brent McKeever | Troubled Paradise |
| "Troubled Paradise" | 2021 | Munachi Osegbu | |
| "Clouds" | |||
| "Cowboys" | Revolving Style | ||
| "Erotic Electronic" | 2023 | Slayyyter & Kaitlyn Muro | Starfucker |
| "I Love Hollywood!" | |||
| "Beat Up Chanels" | 2025 | Slayyyter & Hannah De Vries | Worst Girl in America |
| "Cannibalism!" | Slayyyter | ||
| "Crank" | |||
| "Dance..." | 2026 | ||
| "Old Technology" |
Tours
Headlining
- The Mini Tour (2019)
- Club Paradise Tour (2022)
- Club Valentine Tour (2023–2024)
- Wor$t Girl In The World Tour (2026)
Supporting
- Charli XCX - Charli Live Tour (2019)
- Tove Lo - Dirt Femme Tour (2023)
- Fletcher - In Search of the Antidote Tour (2024)
- Kesha and Scissor Sisters - The Tits Out Tour (2025)
Notes
External links
- Official website
- Slayyyter at AllMusic
- Slayyyter discography at Discogs