Slayyyter
Catherine Slater, known professionally as Slayyyter, is an American pop singer and songwriter, currently based in St. Louis. She started her career independently through SoundCloud. She was originally named Slater, before renaming herself to Slayyyter. Her single release "Mine" reached number 38 on the iTunes pop chart.
Early life and career
Early life
Slayyyter is from Kirkwood, Missouri, a small suburb of St. Louis, where she has "kind of lived whole life". She went to private grade schools, and later continued her education in public school, where she was "offered great music classes for the first time."2017–2018: Early approaches to music and first single releases
Slayyyter spent a year in college, studying at the University of Missouri. This time was an "expensive experiment" in which she started her career as a musician, writing "'80s lo-fi pop" that she herself produced and edited, but never published. She later dropped out and committed fully to her music career. Her most frequent collaborator, Ayesha Erotica, is from Los Angeles. The artists met through Twitter, which is where Slayyyter first developed a following. The artist credits Stan Twitter for introducing her to Ayesha. She intends to move to LA.Apart from Slayyyter's debut single "BFF", the singles "Ghost", "Candy", "Alone", "Hello Kitty", and "All I Want for XXXmas" also sprung from the collaboration between the two artists. Slayyyter's 2018 single releases included "I'm High" and "Platform Shoes".
2019-present: Singles, The Mini Tour, and ''Slayyyter''
After a 14-second snippet of the song gathered attention on Twitter with over 200,000 views, "Mine" was released on Valentine's Day and in less than 24 hours reached number 38 on the iTunes pop chart in the United States.In June 2019, Slayyyter embarked on her sold-out debut tour, entitled "The Mini Tour". The tour began on June 24 in New York City, and concluded on July 27 in her hometown of St. Louis.
On September 17, 2019, Slayyyter released her self-titled mixtape, Slayyyter, on iTunes. The mixtape peaked at #4 on the US iTunes Pop Chart, and #14 on the US iTunes Albums Chart. She released a remix of Britney Spears' "Gimme More" to her Soundcloud in April 2020.
Artistry
Music style
Her music style has been likened to Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton, as well as sounding somewhat "like Charli XCX on whippets". Slayyyter cites Spears, Timbaland, Nelly Furtado, Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake, Madonna, Heidi Montag, Janet Jackson, and Whitney Houston as some of the artists she listened to the most growing up and who ultimately influenced her musical style. Slayyyter's visual style has been defined as "distinct MySpace-era". She frequently collaborates with British-based artist Glitchmood for single artworks.Personal life
Slayyyter is openly bisexual. She spoke about her sexual orientation with Gay Times magazine in March 2019, "Honestly, I kind of always knew I liked girls as a kid, but didn’t think it was okay for me too...It wasn’t until high school or maybe a little bit after, that I realised, ‘Alright, I definitely like boys and girls, I’m not ashamed of that anymore.’ Now that I’m 22-years-old, I finally feel like I’m at a point where I don’t need to hide my bisexuality. I’m ready to fully embrace it and be myself. It feels good."Discography
Mixtape
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