Slayyter

Slayyyter Biography by Stephen Thomas Erlewine The St. Louis-based Slayyyter combines an unabashed love of Y2K-era pop with an arch artiness inspired by Lady Gaga and Charli xcx, along with a facility for meme culture. She broke out in early 2019 with her single "Mine." A viral success, the effervescent song brought Slayyyter out of the pop-underground following she'd cultivated through a series of releases on SoundCloud. It earned the singer mainstream attention, culminating with the 2019 release of her self-titled debut mixtape. She further honed her sound with her 2021 full-length, Troubled Paradise, and in 2023 celebrated retro '80s sounds with the provocative Starfucker. Typically brash singles such as "No Comma" and "Beat Up Chanel$," as well as a featured appearance on Kesha's "Attention!," were among Slayyyter's output in 2024 and 2025. A third album, the electroclash-infused WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA, arrived in 2026. A native of suburban St. Louis, Catherine Slater began writing and recording her own music while she was studying at the University of Missouri. After a year in college, she dropped out of school so she could concentrate on her music, adopting Slayyyter as her stage name. Striking up creative relationships through social media, she eventually met the Los Angeles-based Ayesha Erotica, and the pair began collaborating long-distance. Slayyyter began uploading music to SoundCloud in 2018, starting with an Ayesha Erotica collaborative single, "BFF." Several songs followed that year, including "Alone" and "Hello Kitty," which was produced by Boy Sim. The song "Mine" arrived in early 2019 and went viral, reaching several digital pop music charts. She supported "Mine" with a tour dubbed "The Mini Tour," leading up to the release of her debut mixtape, Slayyyter, that September. In June 2021, she returned with her debut studio album, Troubled Paradise, which featured a more polished pop production via a handful of producers, including Wuki, Gupi, Zakk Cervini, and others. Inferno Euphoria, an EP of remixes, followed by the end of the year. After delivering a couple of collaborations in 2022, including "Hatefuck" with Pussy Riot, Slayyyter launched the cycle for her second album, Starfucker, with the release of "Out of Time," quickly following that new wave-inspired single with the similarly styled "Miss Belladonna." The album was released in September 2023, and before the end of the year, Slayyyter issued the non-album track "Makeup" featuring Lolo Zouaï. In 2024, she was featured on Devault's "Never Like Me" and the producer's cover of Depeche Mode's "Behind the Wheel," and she released the nihilistic and discordant "No Comma." During the next year, she assisted Kesha with "Attention!" and continued with the confrontational singles "Beat Up Chanel$" and "Cannibalism!" These landed on her third album, 2026's WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA, which took influence from her St. Louis upbringing and found her returning to a harder-edged, Y2K-inspired electroclash sound.