This miserable 2025 feels like the year where literally nothing is working out, and not even friendships are safe anymore. King Princess has experienced this bullshit first-hand, the Brooklyn vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer and actor born Mikaela Straus has channeled the experience into a searing new tune called “Cry Cry Cry.” The euphoric alt-pop jam with a guitar-rock engine hit the streams yesterday (July 15), and it’ll be featured on her forthcoming Girl Violence album, out in September ahead of a fall tour that delivers her to Boston on November 2. “‘Cry Cry Cry’ is about a friendship with a lady that did not work out,” says Straus. “Sometimes two divas create an explosion.” And sometimes the fallout creates a pitch-perfect pop bop that’ll make us give the suspicious side-eye to the person rolling with us to the beach later today. This year, everyone is suspect.
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