# Looking for the name of a contemporary girl singer **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 9, 2019, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-name-of-a-contemporary-girl-singer/830854 "2019-03-09T23:18:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darth\_Hamsandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4bbf92/32.png) [@Darth\_Hamsandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Hamsandwich)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2019, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-name-of-a-contemporary-girl-singer/830854/1 "2019-03-09T23:18:47Z")
Hi SD folks, maybe you guys can help me remember what I forgot. Okay, the singer has been in some truly strange videos. I would classify her as sort of Goth, I guess. Her stage name, if I remember correctly, starts with a “P” and it’s only one word (like Cher, for instance). In one of her videos she rolls around on the sand at the beach and it seems as if she is lamenting a lost love. I think the idea was that she threw herself into the ocean and drowned. In another video, there are shots of her sitting in a forest on a chair facing a dog. In yet another video, it is set up as a reverse time lapse with the singer singing to herself while sitting at a table (flower petals emerge from her mouth at on point, fruit becomes unspoiled.) Oh, and lastly, her hair is black, straight and cut kind of shoulder length. Does anyone have any idea who this current singer is? She has such a haunting voice and I’d like to watch the videos of her again. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2019, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-name-of-a-contemporary-girl-singer/830854/2 "2019-03-09T23:29:34Z")
Really a “girl”? Under 18? ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Hamsandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4bbf92/32.png) [@Darth\_Hamsandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Hamsandwich)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2019, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-name-of-a-contemporary-girl-singer/830854/3 "2019-03-09T23:30:58Z")
She looks like she is possibly in her early twenties, but she could pass for 18 I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2019, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-name-of-a-contemporary-girl-singer/830854/4 "2019-03-10T00:22:30Z")
[Kimbra?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=872133) ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Hamsandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4bbf92/32.png) [@Darth\_Hamsandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Hamsandwich)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2019, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-name-of-a-contemporary-girl-singer/830854/5 "2019-03-10T00:27:00Z")
No, it’s not Kimbra. Good guess though. She definitely has the look. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2019, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-name-of-a-contemporary-girl-singer/830854/6 "2019-03-10T00:35:04Z")
Plorde? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2019, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-name-of-a-contemporary-girl-singer/830854/7 "2019-03-10T01:38:51Z")
Amy Lee? ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2019, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-name-of-a-contemporary-girl-singer/830854/8 "2019-03-10T03:38:44Z")
[Mitski?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zdFZJf-B90) ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2019, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-name-of-a-contemporary-girl-singer/830854/9 "2019-03-10T20:23:34Z")
Pink? ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2019, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-name-of-a-contemporary-girl-singer/830854/10 "2019-03-10T21:53:53Z")
Is it [Phildel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxE_i9WP2Ac)? ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Hamsandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4bbf92/32.png) [@Darth\_Hamsandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Hamsandwich)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2019, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-name-of-a-contemporary-girl-singer/830854/11 "2019-03-10T23:52:24Z")
Thanks for all the responses, but alas, none of them are her. No worries. I’ll stumble upon it sooner or later. ---
**Author:** ![Teddie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@Teddie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teddie)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2019, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-name-of-a-contemporary-girl-singer/830854/12 "2019-03-10T23:58:41Z")
I believe you may be referring to the amazing Billie Eilish. ---
**Author:** ![Teddie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@Teddie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teddie)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2019, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-name-of-a-contemporary-girl-singer/830854/13 "2019-03-11T00:00:18Z")
She is definitely still a girl at 17 years old. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Hamsandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4bbf92/32.png) [@Darth\_Hamsandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Hamsandwich)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2019, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-name-of-a-contemporary-girl-singer/830854/14 "2019-03-11T05:00:57Z")
Found it! Her name is [Pixx](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5UQuVVKIg4). I was wrong about the Goth description. She seems to be all over the map as far as genres go. Indie would be a good descriptor, I think. Some of her videos are really haunting. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2019, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-name-of-a-contemporary-girl-singer/830854/15 "2019-03-11T05:24:53Z")
Aah, I see the problem - I don’t generally think of [Pixx](https://4ad.com/artists/110)as having black hair, or being Goth (never seen her earlier videos, thanks for the tip) ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2019, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-name-of-a-contemporary-girl-singer/830854/16 "2019-03-11T14:29:43Z")
> [@Penfeather](#): > > Plorde? I laughed irrationally hard at this 😃