"Stateside" started as the second single from PinkPantheress's second mixtape Fancy That, released April 25, 2025. She has called it her favorite song on the mixtape — a big beat / drum and bass track about the early stages of a crush, falling for an American, built on samples of Adina Howard's "Freak Like Me" (1995) and Groove Armada's "I See You Baby" (1999). The full story is in the Wikipedia entry for the song. It pairs naturally with yesterday's post on "Illegal," the track that opens the same mixtape.
This video is the Zara Larsson version, one of four "Stateside" remixes on the remix album Fancy Some More? (October 10, 2025) — the others feature Bladee, Groove Armada, and Kylie Minogue. Larsson wrote and recorded her verse while opening for Tate McRae on tour, co-writing it with MNEK, and told People it happened fast: "wrote my verse, sent it in, and then it was out like four days later." She also admitted she got scared she had been replaced when she saw Kylie Minogue's name on another version.
The Charlotte Rutherford–directed video, with the two singers as mannequins in store displays themed on their own 2025 releases, arrived January 15, 2026, and the song was released as a single the next day. It went on to top the Billboard Global 200 and reach #6 on the Hot 100 — Larsson's highest US chart placing to date — and in February 2026 Olympic gold medalist Alysa Liu performed to it at the Winter Olympics exhibition gala. The pair finally performed it live together for the first time at All Points East in London that August.
This is the song that hooked me and made me a fan of her. There was a sudden wave on TikTok of people using this song, and I ended up checking out all the rest of her tracks. It's 100% pure hit material. Also, I was amazed to see the performance of the skater Alysa Liu when she skated to it — just an amazing combination.
— Red Hector
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