It’s 8 a.m. in New York, and Slayyyter is calling me from the makeup chair as she gets ready for this morning’s Area fashion show . Her outfit? A leather jacket and black slip dress with a diamanté-studded pack of Marlboro Golds pinned to her chest. “I’m a rhinestone girl!” the musician exclaims. “I love the whole fashion show thing—getting dressed up, seeing the clothes, all of it.”

You need only watch her new, self-directed music video for the grungy pop banger “Cannibalism,” released today, to understand why. In one shot, she’s sprawled across the floor in the dressing room of a seedy burlesque club, wearing a ’00s Moschino dress decorated with embroidered dolls, as showgirls and drag performers vamp nearby. In another, she sings in a junkyard wearing a vintage mechanic’s playsuit, r

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