Christine Nicole Chlapecka, aka Chrissy Chlapecka, is making enormous candy-flavored pink waves everywhere in the net. The TikTok star and unapologetic left-wing activist has grow to be a key participant within the “#BimboTok” scene, flipping the script on the bimbo stereotype with a fierce, queer, and feminist twist, proudly owning it and utilizing it to empower a complete new imaginative and prescient.
Chrissy’s debut single, “I’m So Sizzling,” has actually put her on the map within the music scene. Rolling Stone even dubbed her one in all “The Brightest Pop Stars to Watch in 2023,” praising her charisma and likening her to pop legends like Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. Using that wave, she additionally snagged the fourth spot on Folks’s “Proficient 2024 Spring Rising Artists” checklist.
In June, Chrissy launched her EP, “Girlie Pop,” the place she’s all about celebrating individuality and confidence. Chrissy is now able to take issues up a notch with new tracks, larger productions, and all of the love on her newest EP, “Girlie Pop: Encore.” She describes this new drop as bolder and extra genuine, saying, “I wished to take that power even additional—extra daring, extra unapologetic, extra me.”
Stick round for our chat with Christine, the place she spills the tea on her journey and what’s subsequent for this rising star.
How do you hope “Girlie Pop: Encore” empowers listeners, significantly inside the LGBTQ neighborhood?
Actually, I wrote this version of the EP whereas I used to be having my very own sexuality disaster this 12 months. I’ve recognized as Bi for an extended portion of my life, particularly on-line. However inside this previous 12 months, slowly, and slowly, I simply felt prefer it didn’t characterize me anymore. I got here out as a Lesbian to my pals months earlier than I had completed it on-line, and it actually introduced inspiration to my tracks “My Solely Dream Is To Be Beloved” and “I Solely Need You.” I lastly felt like I totally understood myself and understood the sort of love I wished and wanted to really feel human. I had just lately come out round a month and a half in the past on-line as a Lesbian, and I’m completely happy to share my journey with my viewers. I really feel like inside these tracks I’m being a extra genuine model of myself as a result of I FEEL extra genuine. You possibly can actually hear it in my voice, within the manufacturing and within the susceptible lyrics I’m actually able to share. I lastly really feel like me. I hope these tracks are inspiring to those that have probably gone via one thing comparable inside their sexuality, or individuals who discover deep consolation within the love they provide and obtain that makes them really feel proud.
How has the #BimboTok motion influenced the themes and messages in “Girlie Pop: Encore”?
I believe whereas creating #BimboTok, I used to be positively enjoying a enjoyable character that was getting an vital level throughout: be who you wish to be, love who you wish to love, put on what you wish to put on, and be pleased with who you’re. I’m so completely happy I received to share that message with my viewers, and I actually imply it. Now, I really feel as if I’m able to open my viewers as much as a extra susceptible model of myself that wipes the “character” I had created away. I believe the mission “Girlie Pop” itself actually performed into my years on-line that I like so deeply, however “Girlie Pop: Encore” is an entrance inside who Chrissy actually is as an artist and only a human being. The masks can solely look ahead to so lengthy and as goofy and campy as I’ll all the time be, it was time to let individuals in and see past the theatrics… into extra theatrics… however extra of who I’m right now and who I’m growing into.
Are you able to describe how your sound has advanced out of your debut single “I’m So Sizzling” to the tracks on this EP?
My sound has utterly modified completely. Whereas I like the work I had completed in my first 12 months of music, it’s simply not who I’m as an artist anymore. I come from a Musical Theatre background – I’ve all the time been a powerhouse vocalist and performer. I wished to start out making music that basically showcased that facet of me that I personally know finest, the candy lady whose dream was Broadway. My goals have shifted and adjusted, however I discover myself pulling inspiration from a 16-year-old me who lived and breathed theatre in the way in which I dwell and breathe pop music right now. I’m So Sizzling was enormously impressed by the early 2000s, and when you’ll nonetheless hear hints of that in my new music – I felt it was time to evolve and alter right into a singer and performer that I’m extra acquainted with – and grow to be a star in her personal lane. These subsequent 3 tracks positively present an evolution and a departure, merely inside my vocal placement, sonic, and themes of the music typically. I’m past pleased with it and re-inspired to maintain making artwork that feeds that a part of who I’m.
How do you conceptualize hyperfeminine as being empowering?
Femininity IS energy. I’ll by no means not consider this. There’s power, gentleness, artistry, and pure bravery that comes with being a female particular person and taking that to the utmost excessive. Femininity is one thing deeply threatening to so many individuals in our world, they consider acts of disgrace and violence in direction of it are acceptable due to their deep hatred and worry in direction of it. I really feel so deeply linked to who I’m once I embrace that a part of me. For God’s sake, I don’t paint myself pink on stage for no cause. I do it as a result of I dwell and breathe the inventive energy that my illustration of femininity brings out in me.
As an artist, activist, and content material creator, how do you stability your varied roles whereas staying true to your message? Do you are feeling like numerous issues can get “misplaced in translation” between these mediums?
I don’t essentially suppose issues get misplaced in translation to myself, personally. I do suppose that when altering instructions in your profession, individuals might get confused, however I believe that’s okay. I positively made a giant swap once I modified from content material creation to being a full-time artist, not all of my followers caught with me – however I believe that’s okay. I really feel as if I’m lastly turning into the particular person I actually wish to be and the particular person I used to be meant to be, and I do know that my artistry is what’s going to make me huge. Folks might not perceive my journey or why switched careers, however I do know that they’ll be again on board ultimately. It’s about regaining belief. I’ve the utmost confidence in myself and the place I’m going to be sooner or later, and my messages by no means change — simply the way in which I current them to my viewers. I’m nonetheless the identical lady, simply somebody who’s growing and rising up. My morals and my beliefs haven’t modified.
What do you envision on your musical journey after “Girlie Pop: Encore”? Are there any new instructions or tasks you’re enthusiastic about?
“Girlie Pop: Encore” positively impressed what’s to return subsequent musically for me. I really feel as if I unlocked part of myself that’s the important thing to who I’m as an artist and I’ll turn into sooner or later. I do have numerous music I’m sitting on that I’m actually excited to share with my viewers in time. Proper now I’m constructing a world and perfecting it, a lot of that has come from the transition I’ve made vocally within the story constructing that encore has impressed. I really feel again to my roots, the 16-year-old lady dying to be the lead within the musical – thoughts you, I all the time received the half I wished. And I’m going to deal with the profession I’ve now.
And what in regards to the speedy future? What can we stay up for?
For the speedy future, I’ve two headline reveals in November that will likely be taking my viewers on a visit via girlie pop encore. I’ll be enjoying on the Roxy in Los Angeles on November twenty third and Lincoln Corridor in Chicago on November twenty ninth. I’m extraordinarily enthusiastic about these reveals, I really feel like I’ve grown lots as a performer since my first tour ever in June. Aside from that, I’m excited to maintain constructing my artistry and the world I’m constructing for my viewers.
