Last year, following her creative intuition also led her to one of her biggest musical triumphs in a decade (and one of last year’s most inescapable innuendos): Nasty.
Alongside her 12.5 million monthly listeners, we aren’t the only ones who have noticed, either: the singer, songwriter, producer and creative visionary has racked up an enviable list of collaborators over the last decade (including Charli xcx and even Britney Spears), and has certified herself as her genre’s most resilient underdog.
Despite international recognition, never ending disputes with her label over her direction led to years of delayed and cancelled projects and, unsurprisingly, left her without a sense of who Tinashe was.
Unless you lived under a rock last summer (or you just don’t have TikTok), the song – on which she beckons someone, anyone to match her “freak” against a sultry, languid dial-tone melody – went viral.
It wasn’t until their disbandment that the Tinashe of today began to take shape, though, with a series of experimental, introspective mixtapes (which impressively, she taught herself to produce) catching the attention of critics.
