Marcel Winatschek

Kyary Pamyu Pamyu

Kyary Pamyu Pamyu’s house looks like the bedroom of a six-year-old American girl, which somehow feels like the most honest thing I’ve ever heard about a pop star. Found an interview with Francesca Dunn where she just talks about it plainly—champagne, Miyazaki, the recurring nightmare where someone’s chasing her, how she’s moved on from Draco Malfoy to Katy Perry. No performance. No explanation. Just what’s true.

That’s what gets me about it. She doesn’t curate a deeper version of herself for the interview. She just names what she likes and how she lives. Her house looks that way because she wanted it to. That’s who she is.

You listen to PONPONPON for years and think you’ve got it figured out, but you’re just guessing from the outside. The real thing is stranger than you’d imagine. She’s not trying to be interesting—that’s exactly why she is.