{"id":805166,"date":"2020-03-12T11:10:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T17:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=966228"},"modified":"2020-03-12T11:10:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T17:10:41","slug":"ava-max-claims-her-throne-on-kings-and-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/ava-max-claims-her-throne-on-kings-and-queens\/","title":{"rendered":"Ava Max Claims Her Throne on \u2018Kings and Queens\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/AvaMax.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ava-max\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ava-max\" data-tag=\"ava-max\">Ava Max<\/a> accepts her pop crown on her new song, \u201cKings and Queens,\u201d the first single from the singer\u2019s upcoming debut album, expected to arrive later this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Produced by regular collaborator Cirkut, \u201cKings and Queens\u201d boasts a pulsing verse and a dramatic hook peppered with regal synths \u2014 there\u2019s even a guitar solo that has a distinctive Queen-esque quality to it. The track finds Max delivering a message of female empowerment with a big voice and a few clever winks as she sings, \u201cNo damsel in distress, don\u2019t need to save me\/Once I start breathing fire you can\u2019t tame me\/And you might think I\u2019m weak without a sword\/But if I had one it\u2019d be bigger than yours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cKings and Queens\u201d marks Max\u2019s first song of 2020 and follows a break-out 2019 that saw her single, \u201cSweet But Psycho,\u201d become a global hit. She also released a handful of other tracks over the course of the year, including \u201cSo Am I,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ava-max-freaking-me-out-new-video-906130\/\">\u201cFreaking Me Out,\u201d<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ava-max-new-songs-freaking-me-out-blood-sweat-tears-865746\/\">\u201cBlood, Sweat and Tears\u201d<\/a> and \u201cTorn.\u201d<\/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\/ava-max-new-song-kings-and-queens-966228\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ava Max accepts her pop crown on her new song, \u201cKings and Queens,\u201d the first single from the singer\u2019s upcoming debut album, expected to arrive later this year. Produced by regular collaborator Cirkut, \u201cKings and Queens\u201d boasts a pulsing verse and a dramatic hook peppered with regal synths \u2014 there\u2019s even a guitar solo that [&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":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-19 09:24:22","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}