The Irish singer-songwriter spoke to NME to weigh up the competition, tells us about her 'Brat' summer along with progress on new material, and why "there’s a real conversation that needs to be had about the industry’s ambivalence towards what’s going on in Gaza"
The 12 artists up for the award were shared this morning, with the winner announced in September
Boiler Room, “I’m so Julia”, the Lorde remix, the ‘Apple’ dance… here’s how we ended up in a ‘Brat’ summer
The overall winner of the coveted award will be revealed in September
“I think you aspire to be brat — you don’t just become brat”
"Kamala IS brat"
"I feel like there's so much possibility within any space to really transform it into something completely unexpected"
"That would definitely be a pretty big swing," the pop singer said
"She brought it up... that wasn't planned"
"I love that we truly did work it out on the remix"