Scene Queen: “It’s always been about being a conservative person’s worst nightmare”

“What’s the most chaotic thing Scene Queen can possibly do?” This was the question Hannah Collins contemplated while making her debut album. Not an easy answer as chaos lies at the epicentre of the pink Catherine wheel that is her music, both in its audacious genre-hopping and the unhinged, outrageous lyrics that come together to form what’s lovingly known as bimbocore. Such a question of disorder came from the mind of a woman who’s claimed to ​‘put the ho in hotel’, threatened a ​“bastard” catcaller in a song by suggesting she ​‘put a knife up to his boner’, and finished a song with the outlandish sing-along refrain, ​‘Gays with ADHD, listen to me, I am your Scene Queen’. And still, Hannah was going to find a way to top all of that. She was going to...

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