Artist Of The Week #324 - girli
This week’s Artist of the Week is girli - who has just released her third studio album ‘it’s just my opinion’.
With this latest project, girli proves herself as one of the most creative and forward-thinking voices in contemporary pop. it’s just my opinion represents her most daring work to date - an authentic evolution of the queer alternative sound that has become central to her artistic identity. She’s trading gloss for grit, and polish for raw, intimate expression, stomping fully into her role as a popstar and joyfully living her truth.
girli began developing the album in 2025, setting a defined objective to complete the record within nine months while documenting the process for her audience. Returning to a more instinctive approach, she made a conscious decision to create without self-censorship. “When I first started making music, I had a strong political drive that became diluted as I was encouraged to be more ‘commercially viable,’” she explains. “Now, that’s shifted, and listeners are increasingly drawn to artists who genuinely stand for something.”
She took a moment to talk to us about how the album came together.
Hey there Girli, how are you? So your album is out now – how does it feel to have it out there?
It's always such a weird mix of feelings when a project finally comes out. It’s exciting, and I feel so proud of these songs but then there’s also a feeling of “is this it?” - the world keeps spinning, music gets put out every day. As an artist you have to remember that your art is important and also unimportant, and that’s ok! But my fans always make me feel important, they’re the best. They've been waiting a while for this one!
It is called 'it’s just my opinion' – what is the meaning behind that?
I chose the title 'it's just my opinion' because I was promoting the second single from the album, 'slap on the wrist', which is a protest song about perpetrators of sexual violence getting away with no consequences, and my content about the song was getting serviced to so many horrible, misogynistic men on social media, and I was getting so much blind hatred in the comments, and I realised that the hate that people will justify because it's just their opinion is crazy. The way people don't realise just how significant and impactful opinions and words can be is nuts. So I was inspired to call the album that because I feel like my art is becoming more interwoven with activism.
Where was it recorded? Any behind-the-scenes stories you are willing to share with us?
I recorded the album in London and LA. People might not know this, but a couple of really amazing artists have songwriting credits on the album. G Flip co-wrote and tracked drums on Better Undressed, and Maude Latour co-wrote Slap on the Wrist!
What are the key influences behind the album?
I was a teenager in post-indie sleaze London and all the music I listened to was bands. When I started making my own music, I went in a super electronic pop direction and I wanted to inject some of the essence of the indie rock that I grew up loving into this album. I was listening to a lot of Blondie, Wolf Alice, HAIM, Arctic Monkeys when I was making this album. But most of all, the main influence is my yappy mouth. Opinionated til I die, baby.
If the album could be a soundtrack to any film – which one and why?
10 Things I Hate About You. I see a lot of myself in Kat Stratford: frustrated at the world, fiercely opinionated, romantic, complicated.
Do you have a favourite lyric on the album? If so, which one and why?
"She was drunk, you were scum, how the fuck were you turned on?" from Slap on the Wrist. It encapsulates my general “what the fuck?” feeling about the world right now.
Now the album is out there – what's next for you?
Touring it! My favourite part. To scream the lyrics with the fans. I’m playing the album live with a full band in cities across the US, Europe, UK and I have my eyes set on Australia, South America and Asia too. girli’s going global, babe
