KING PRINCESS: a prodigious talent with nothing to hide

At the start of 2018, the Brooklyn talent King Princess (a.k.a. Mikaela Straus) attracted interest immediately with her queer love anthem called 1950. Now she’s delivered Cheap Queen, an equally striking debut album that is largely written, produced and played by the 20yo herself. The first signing to Mark Ronson’s Zelig Records, King Princess speaks to Richard Kingsmill about growing up in her father’s recording studio, her openness to her writing and talking about her sexuality, and how the record changed after getting her heart broken.