Tinashe Explores Pop Stardom on Popstar

Tinashe’s eighth album, Popstar, addresses her anxieties and struggles on the path to fame. The album is described as her most vulnerable and intense, and its metafictional structure focuses on the ongoing discussion around Tinashe’s music. Too Easy is identified as the album’s lead single.

Popstar follows projects including JADE’s That’s Showbiz Baby! and Charli xcx’s Music, Fashion, Film. Sunglasses, produced by Arca, opens the album. Nobody Wanna Dance Anymore is described as a celebration rather than a complaint, while Melatonin is described as the four-minute techno track at the center of Popstar.

Throughout her career, Tinashe has questioned what it means to be a pop star, and Popstar addresses that question directly. Two days before the album’s release, she questioned on social media what it means to be pop in the present day.