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Slayyyter Previews 'Wor$t Man in America' LP with Self-Directed Video

Slayyyter's 'Wor$t Man in America' arrives December 4 with lead single 'I Think He's Got a Girl.' Her self-directed video pairs Marilyn Monroe glamour with raccoon-pelt Midwestern kitsch as the live run crosses four continents.

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  1. "Wor$t Man in America" is set for release on December 4
  2. "I Think He's Got a Girl" is the lead single, with a video Slayyyter directed herself
  3. Slayyyter released "Brand New Chanel$" and "Crank 2" earlier in 2025 as reworks of earlier singles
  4. Slayyyter recently remixed Turnstile's "Birds" for the band's "Never Enough: Versions" album
  5. The "Wor$t Girl in America" tour continues to Europe and the UK later in 2025, then Australia, New Zealand, and South America in early 2027

Slayyyter will release her new album "Wor$t Man in America" on December 4, with "I Think He's Got a Girl" arriving as the lead single.

A self-directed video accompanies the track. The clip opens with Slayyyter in a Marilyn Monroe mold — coiffed curls, a white halter swimsuit — then pivots hard to Midwestern imagery: a raccoon-pelt dress, a flaming charcoal grill. Slayyyter directed the video herself, a credit she doesn't always take on her releases.

The song's premise — suspicion that a partner is seeing someone else — runs through the visual split. The glamour and the kitsch are both versions of Slayyyter on screen, available to the camera at the same time.

What does a self-directed video actually mean here?

Slayyyter has spent most of 2025 building runway for the new album. She released two reworks earlier in the year — "Brand New Chanel$" and "Crank 2" — re-imaginings of "Wor$t Girl in America" cuts "Beat Up Chanel$" and "Crank." Those tracks served as a sonic preview. The new video extends that authorial grip from the studio into the visuals.

The two aesthetics in the clip — old-Hollywood swimwear and raccoon-pelt kitsch — also do narrative work. Slayyyter treats them as equals rather than setting one up as a joke. That tonal parity suggests "Wor$t Man in America" will bounce between registers rather than lock into a single mode.

Why swap the "Wor$t Girl" branding for "Wor$t Man"?

The title shift is the most legible change on the album. "Wor$t Girl in America" gave Slayyyter a marketable alter ego — the bad-decision glamour girl with a Midwestern streak. "Wor$t Man in America" pivots that frame: it implicates the person Slayyyter is singing about, not Slayyyter herself. The raccoon-pelt-and-grill iconography in the video could be read as the man's world, viewed through her lens.

The single's title — "I Think He's Got a Girl" — reinforces the swap. The "he" is now the focal point of the bad behavior, even if Slayyyter's framing remains the lens through which listeners hear it.

Where else has she shown up this year?

Outside her own catalog, Slayyyter recently remixed Turnstile's "Birds" for the hardcore band's "Never Enough: Versions" album. A pop artist taking on a Turnstile cut is unusual: the band's audience doesn't typically overlap with Slayyyter's. The placement reads as a deliberate cross-genre reach and positions Slayyyter as someone who can move outside pure dance-pop.

The "Wor$t Girl in America" era also generated coverage that gave the singer a wider frame. Past features — including Walden Green's "Saint Slayyyter" profile — laid out how the "Wor$t Girl" identity became a brand Slayyyter now extends into "Wor$t Man."

How does the live schedule fit in?

Slayyyter has been road-testing new material on the U.S. leg of her "Wor$t Girl in America" tour. The run moves to Europe and the UK later in 2025, then to Australia, New Zealand, and South America in early 2027.

For fans, the practical question is timing. The album drops December 4, the video is now streaming, and the tour will cross four continents through 2027. Slayyyter is using the live dates to lock in the setlist before the record arrives — and the video shows what the staging will have to compete with on stage.

Source: Pitchfork

slayyyter, pop, music-video, new-album

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