NEW WAVE: aura-centric girlhood music
Being cute on purpose, soft with precision, and weird as powerful.
A new gen of girl artists are curating the nicest worlds.
Discover: Ice Spice (US), PinkPantheress (UK), BB Trickz (ES), and Theodora (FR). United by taste, scenic art, and what feels like the best trained TikTok feed.
As AI is starting to fill in technical gaps, from pitch correction to beat generation, vibe, vision, and universe curation becomes the value.
About the musical composition
The traditional path of becoming a pop star is being very skilled, and blessed with incredible talent. But these artists build music where vocals are a layer, not the centerpiece.
Each of these tracks shows how composition leads the mood:
1. BB Trickz: Super | Watch here
Spanish drill with a lo-fi, street style, tom boyish layer
Vocals feel flat on purpose
It’s trap with Tumblr energy, made for TikTok and underground clubs
Visuals are ironic and self-aware
BB Trickz is rapping to exist in a new kind of space: pretty, scatty, and online.
2. Theodora: Fashion Designa | Watch here
Paris-based, but deeply rooted in African diasporic rhythms
Congolese rumba, soukous, and amapiano, all filtered through a subtle Afro-fusion lens
The vocals almost melt into the beat: there’s a cinematic quality
Theodora is singing to build soundtrack.
3. PinkPantheress: Illegal | Watch here
Her whisper-light vocals are signature
The production drives everything, early 2000s UK garage remixed
Theme songs of girlhood: nostalgic, fast, fleeting
PinkPantheress makes music like it's Disney Channel all over again.
4. Ice Spice: Did it First | Watch here
Her bars are simple, repetitive, but that’s the point
The beat does the heavy lifting, but she brings the attitude
Addresses and exposes themes of coming of age gilrlhood
She’s is a girl in orbit.
About musical universe curation
AI tools keep on advancing (from AI-generated music to smart mastering tools), it’s no longer rare to have perfect pitch or lush production. What matters more is how artists combine elements: genre, aesthetics, lyrics, imagery, into something cohesive and ever more surprising.
Taste is becoming the new talent.
The new gen girl artists are aura composers. They know which beat, which hairstyle, which filter, which tempo. That’s the skill AI can’t really fake (so far).
About an algo artist: Moliy
Ghanaian artist Moliy was able to engineer a moment. “Shake it to the Max” is built around one simple, girly, body-positive dance move, instantly TikTok-worthy and clout generating.
Global connection by linking up with Jamaican dancehall icons for the remix.
Her voice stays light, flirty, and playful
Moliy’s ‘girlhood’ is commanding. One dance move, one hook, one mood, and she turned a lowkey bop into a pan-African anthem.
About musical girlhood
We’ve evolved from the pop princess past idea of girlhood: it’s weirder, smarter, more fractured. The girls of now are playing with hyperreality: FaceTiming their crush in a teenage looking bedroom, doing anime-inspired power moves, shooting videos in Tokyo alleyways , or mixing flirtation with full control.
Across Ice Spice, PinkPantheress, BB Trickz, Theodora, and Moliy, we see girlhood not as regression, but as a language that ignites conversation. One that’s playful, surreal, nostalgic, and totally self-aware.
Key Motifs:
Visual surrealism (Ice Spice as a hyper-femme icon / PinkPantheress’s soft dreamscapes, Theodora’s Jean-Paul Goude meets Michel Ocelot meets Frida Orupado inspired music video.)
Performative softness (digitalisation aesthetics, pink light, selfies: all knowingly stylized)
Genre-as-identity (BB Trickz merging streetwear drill with anime-core energy)
Boss lady energy that’s not about domination, but ultimate taste and originality
Naive love songs that still feel in control. A new kind of emotionality
Visual proposal as part of authorship
Girlhood as agency in aesthetics and diverse narratives: being cute on purpose, soft with precision, and weird as powerful.
In many ways, this mirrors the age of self-production and generative tools. The artist is the instigator, the editor, visual director, algorithm coder, movement starter.