Kim Petras was born on 27 August 1992 in Cologne, Germany, and in 2006, when aged just 13 years old, she appeared on a German television current-affairs show in which she discussed her medical gender transition. In November 2008, Petras announced that gender-confirmation surgery had been completed, and it was claimed that she was the youngest person in the world to have had that surgery at the time. Her music career began immediately afterwards, releasing a string of singles under Joyce Records, with 'Fade Away' appearing in 2008, and 'Last Forever', 'Die For You' and 'Boomerang' all coming out in 2009, while her debut extended play, 'One Piece Of Tape' followed two years later. Throughout the next few years she worked with producers including The Stereotypes, C.J. Abraham, Stephen Dresser, Johan "Jones" Wetterberg, Edward Ellis, and Aaron Joseph on a music career, releasing demos on her SoundCloud page. In August 2017, Petras released her debut single for BunHead Records, with 'I Don't Want It At All', and in October 2018 she released the 'Turn Off The Light, Vol. 1' EP, as a Halloween-themed extended play. In February 2019, she released three singles titled '1, 2, 3 Dayz Up', 'If U Think About Me...', and 'Homework', and although she hasn't publicly expressed plans to release an album with these eleven "neon head" digital singles on it, she has referred to this period of her career as "Era 1".
Her debut album 'Clarity' was released in June 2019, and in August she announced that there would be a limited edition vinyl pressing of 'Turn Off the Light, Vol. 1', with Vol. 2 being released exactly a year after the first part, but in fact 'Turn Off The Light' became her second studio album, released in October 2019, featuring all of the songs from the EP plus nine new tracks. On 7 May 2020, Petras released the single 'Malibu' as the lead single from her next album, and announced that 'Turn Off The Light Vol. 3' would be released sometime in 2021, although neither of these plans came to fruition. In August 2021, she signed to Republic Records and released 'Future Starts Now' as the lead single from her upcoming major-label debut studio album, and she performed two more singles from the forthcoming album — 'Coconuts' and 'Hit It From The Back' — when she appeared at the 2021 MTV Europe Music Awards. On 10 February 2022, after teasing some of the songs on TikTok, Petras announced a surprise EP titled 'Slut Pop', which was released the following day, but there was no sign of the new album, and in July she finally announced on Twitter that the album, titled 'Problématique', had been scrapped. In September 2022 Petras released the song 'Unholy', which was a collaboration with Sam Smith, hitting number one in various countries upon release, including Australia, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand, and it was also her first career entry on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, eventually topping the chart in October 2022. With her career now established worldwide, we can go back and listen to the album which would have been her major label debut had it not been shelved.
Track listing
01 Problématique
02 Future Starts Now
03 Revelations
04 Deeper
05 Confessions
06 Hit It From The Back
07 Je T'adore
08 Something About You
09 Born Again
10 Coconuts
11 All She Wants (feat. Paris Hilton)
12 Your Time To Cry
13 Malibu
14 Sex Talk
15 Love Ya Leave Ya
16 Left My Body
