PENELOPE SCOTT

Listening to Penelope Scott’s music is like sitting aboard a deranged amusement park ride, twisting and turning through caves of malaise and Generation Z satire. This student-turned-TikTok sensation writes songs that contain the absurd humor of meme culture, an acute awareness that virtually all institutions are broken, and the candor of someone sincerely trying to wrestle with her demons. These songs are cathartic, thought-provoking and laugh-out-loud funny, and the artist who writes them is far more interested in capturing specific feelings than in respecting the boundaries of a genre.