In April 2024, something was in the air for Rachel Chinouriri. It wasn’t just the emerging spring weather in London, or the impending release of her debut album in the following month, What a Devastating Turn of Events . This was something less tangible but more powerful: a mindset shift. “It was the moment I stopped being like ‘I sing sometimes, please check me out,’ and started saying ‘I’m a singer,’” Chinouriri tells me on Zoom from her home in the U.K. capital. “Suddenly, everything changed. I’ve learned the ways of becoming an it girl.”

By most conventional standards, the then-25-year-old singer-songwriter was already an it girl in her own right. Her biggest pop single yet, “Never Need Me,” dropped that January, with a music video co-starring Florence Pugh that quickly racked up

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