{"id":973698,"date":"2019-11-24T08:33:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T15:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=917663"},"modified":"2019-11-24T08:33:29","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T15:33:29","slug":"see-king-princess-captivate-with-hit-the-back-in-snl-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/see-king-princess-captivate-with-hit-the-back-in-snl-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"See King Princess Captivate With \u2018Hit the Back\u2019 in \u2018SNL\u2019 Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-24-at-6.38.03-AM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>A month after releasing her debut album <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/king-princess-cheap-queen-new-song-prophet-tour-860645\/\">Cheap Queen<\/a>, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/king-princess\/\" id=\"auto-tag_king-princess\" data-tag=\"king-princess\">King Princess<\/a> made her musical guest debut on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv\/tv-recaps\/will-ferrell-snl-recap-917660\/\">Will Ferrell-hosted episode<\/a> of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/saturday-night-live\/\" id=\"auto-tag_saturday-night-live\" data-tag=\"saturday-night-live\">Saturday Night Live<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The singer, whose real name is Mikaela Straus, hit the stage in all black for a playful performance of her single \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/king-princess-seductive-new-song-hit-the-back-893859\/\">Hit the Back<\/a>.\u201d In-between body rolls and twirling across the stage, Straus sharply belted out the chorus.<\/p>\n<p>The guitar-wielding Straus also stunned with a haunting performance of her rock ballad \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-lists\/50-best-songs-of-2018-764204\/king-princess-1950-764306\/\">1950<\/a>,\u201d where she sang against a smoky backdrop.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mQDcu8dKxY8?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Signed to Mark Ronson\u2019s label Zelig, Straus released her debut album <em>Cheap Queen<\/em> in October. While Straus identifies as genderqueer and a lesbian, she\u2019s hesitant to have her music labeled as \u201cqueer pop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Queer pop\u2019 is literally saying sexuality is a genre,\u201d she told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/king-princess-drag-persona-titanic-905269\/\"><em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a>. \u201cI don\u2019t want to be grouped in with only gay people. That\u2019s ridiculous. I want to battle everyone. If you\u2019re going to compare me, compare me to straight people, too.\u201d But she did say that Cheap Queen was made for her queer fans. \u201cIt\u2019s really for the gays,\u201d she said. \u201cIt is for everybody, but I feel especially the gays will be like, \u2018Damn, the emotions are there and I love that!&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Straus has a handful of North American tour dates beginning January 16th and wrapping in mid-February. It was also recently announced that the singer will be the opener for the European leg of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/harry-styles-2020-tour-jenny-lewis-911413\/\">Harry Styles\u2019 2020 <em>Love on Tour<\/em><\/a> tour from April through June.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/king-princess-snl-917663\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A month after releasing her debut album Cheap Queen, King Princess made her musical guest debut on the Will Ferrell-hosted episode of Saturday Night Live. The singer, whose real name is Mikaela Straus, hit the stage in all black for a playful performance of her single \u201cHit the Back.\u201d In-between body rolls and twirling across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 00:37:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}