XKYLAR is a Los Angeles-based DJ, producer, and visual artist who spent years making other people's shows look good — she documented Kim Petras' Feed the Beast tour visuals and has worked behind the scenes for Remi Wolf, MUNA, and ADÉLA — before stepping forward with her own music. She is a genuine one-woman production: as PAPER put it when premiering her "HOT" video, she produces all her own music and makes all her own visuals, drawing on the loud, unserious pop of 2007–2010. The "SPEAKERS" video is hers top to bottom, too — directed, edited, and styled by XKYLAR herself.
"SPEAKERS" is a track on her debut EP WHY IS NOBODY DANCING?, released June 26, 2026 — eight tracks in 17 minutes, built to be heard front to back as one continuous dance experience rather than a pile of singles.
Reception was honest rather than glowing, and the song is more interesting for it. The NT Daily review of the EP (3.5/5) hears the intro and chorus of "SPEAKERS" as very close to Peggy Gou's 2023 dance hit "(It Goes Like) Nanana" in cadence and subject, and hears Lady Gaga's The Fame in her sing-speak delivery elsewhere on the EP — while still concluding she had made "a compelling, danceable debut EP." She is back in this series later with "PARTIES IN LA," another track from the same EP.
This is a pretty intense two minutes of pure electro pop. It might come on too strong at first, but about 10 minutes from now you're gonna be singing in your head la la la la la…
— Red Hector
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