Mar 22, 2024 By Mark Redfern (with Andy Von Pip)

Welcome to the tenth Songs of the Week of 2024. This week Andy Von Pip and Scott Dransfield both helped me decide what should make the list. We settled on a Top 11 this week, narrowed down from the 16 songs we seriously considered. More

Mar 21, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Bat For Lashes (aka Natasha Khan) is releasing a new album, The Dream of Delphi, on May 31 via Mercury KX. Now she has shared its second single, “Letter to My Daughter,” in which she sings to her daughter. More

Feb 23, 2024 By Mark Redfern (with Andy Von Pip)

Welcome to the seventh Songs of the Week of 2024. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, Mark Moody, Scott Dransfield, and Stephen Humphries all helped me decide what should make the list. We settled on a Top 8 this week, narrowed down from the 20 songs we seriously considered. More

Feb 22, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Bat For Lashes (aka Natasha Khan) has announced a new album, The Dream of Delphi, and shared its title track via a music video. More

Oct 12, 2022 By Austin Saalman

After returning from her exhausting Two Suns tour in 2010, English singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Natasha Khan, otherwise known as indie pop favorite Bat For Lashes, experienced a crippling bout of writer’s block, which lead her to contact Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke. More

Dec 21, 2021 By Joey Arnone

On Friday, Bat For Lashes (aka Natasha Khan) performed a livestream Christmas special, available on demand via Veeps until Christmas Eve. The performance included a cover of Björk’s “The Anchor Song” from her 1993 album Debut alongside Julianna Barwick. More

Dec 21, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our new print issue, which is our special 20th Anniversary Issue. It’s a double issue celebrating two decades of the magazine (our first issue came out in December 2001). The issue has shipped out to subscribers and stores and can now be bought from us directly here. The issue features two special covers, each featuring a different group of musicians together. More

Sep 28, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Bat For Lashes (aka Natasha Khan) has shared a cover of The Carpenters’ 1970 classic “We’ve Only Just Begun.” More

Feb 03, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Bat For Lashes (aka Natasha Khan) released a new album, Lost Girls, in September via AWAL Recordings. Now she has released a new live EP, The Boys of Summer, which starts with a cover of Don Henley’s 1984 hit “The Boys of Summer” and includes three live versions of Khan’s own songs: “Desert Man,” “Daniel,” and “The Hunger.” More

Nov 05, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Bat For Lashes (aka Natasha Khan) released a new album, Lost Girls, in September via AWAL Recordings. Now she has announced some new 2020 North American tour dates. More

Sep 06, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Bat For Lashes (aka Natasha Khan) has released a new album, Lost Girls, today via AWAL Recordings and it’s our Album of the Week. We also have streams of other notable albums and EPs released today: Iggy Pop, Lower Dens, Death Cab for Cutie, Frankie Cosmos, Miles Davis, and Kindness. More

Sep 06, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to another Songs of the Week. It should’ve been a quiet week due to Monday’s Labor Day holiday here in America. And it was quiet at first, but then in the latter half of the week there was a rally of worthy new tracks. We settled on 11 tracks this week (we did only nine last week). More

Sep 06, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Bat For Lashes (aka Natasha Khan) has released a new album, Lost Girls, today via AWAL Recordings. Now that the album is out, you can stream the whole thing here. More

Sep 02, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Bat For Lashes (aka Natasha Khan) is releasing a new album, Lost Girls, this Friday (September 6) via AWAL Recordings. Now she has shared another song from it, “Desert Man.” More

Aug 23, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to another Songs of the Week. It was another incredibly strong week for new songs. Last week we ended up with a Top 12, instead of our usual Top 10, and here we are again, except this time with a Top 13. Like last week, there are also a whole lot of honorable mentions. More

Aug 19, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Bat For Lashes (aka Natasha Khan) is releasing a new album, Lost Girls, on September 6 via AWAL Recordings. Now she has shared another song from it, “Jasmine.” More

Aug 09, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to another Songs of the Week. With last week’s list we had a clear #1 and #2 in Angel Olsen and HAIM. This week it was a bit more of a challenge to decide the final order. But we still managed a solid Top 10. More

Aug 05, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Bat For Lashes (aka Natasha Khan) is releasing a new album, Lost Girls, on September 6 via AWAL Recordings. Now she has shared another song from it, “The Hunger,” via a self-directed video for the track. More

Jul 26, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to another Songs of the Week. It was another strong week for new tracks. There are some repeat offenders (artists who have had previous Songs of the Week in recent months), some newbies, and a surprising collaboration. More

Jul 25, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Bat For Lashes (aka Natasha Khan) is releasing a new album, Lost Girls, on September 6 via AWAL Recordings. Now she has shared another song from it, “Feel For You,” which has a strong ‘80s vibe. More

Jul 02, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Bat For Lashes (aka Natasha Khan) is releasing a new album, Lost Girls, on September 6 via AWAL Recordings. Previously she shared its first single, “Kids in the Dark” (which was one of our Songs of the Week). Now she has shared a video for the track. Khan directed it herself and stars as the album’s main character Nikki Pink, in this case as a vampire stalking a lover, backed by a gang of female vampires. More

Jun 14, 2019 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to another Songs of the Week. We couldn’t quite limit it to a Top 10 this week, there were enough strong new tracks to stretch it to a Top 11. There were several notable albums announced this week, which meant a lot of strong new singles to choose from. More

Jun 10, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Bat For Lashes (aka Natasha Khan) has announced a new album, Lost Girls, and shared its first single, “Kids in the Dark.” In the last week she has also shared some teaser videos for the album. More

Feb 05, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Beck recently shared a new track, “Tarantula,” which is a cover of a 1983 song by Colourbox (who were signed to 4AD), which was also covered by This Mortal Coil in 1986 (their version is likely more an influence on Beck’s). Last night Beck stopped by The Late Late Show with James Corden to perform the song. He was joined by a backing choir that featured Feist and Alex Lilly (who both sing on the studio version of the song), alongside Bat For Lashes (aka Natasha Khan) and The Bird and the Bee’s Inara George. But that’s not all; he was also accompanied by the LA Philharmonic, conducted by Philharmonic music director Gustavo Dudamel. More

Feb 02, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Bat For Lashes (aka Natasha Khan) has teamed up with Dominik Scherrer to soundtrack the new BBC/Netflix show Requiem. The first episode premieres in the U.K. on BBC One tonight (it’s Netflix premiere date is TBA). Below is the duo’s theme for the show, “Aigra,” via Pitchfork. More

Sep 09, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our 2016 Protest Issue (out September, October, and into November), which is out now both digitally and on newsstands. We’ve done a Protest Issue every U.S. Presidential election year since 2004 and as before this issue features articles examining the intersection of music and politics and photo shoots with musicians holding protest signs of their own making. Then in mid-October we will be launching our charity Protest Auction, in which we auction off all the protest signs in the issue, with all profits going to the American Cancer Society. More

Sep 01, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Bat For Lashes (aka Natasha Khan) released a new album, The Bride, back in July via Parlophone/Warner Bros. Now she has shared a video for “Joe’s Dream.” More

Aug 04, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Since 1992 the Mercury Prize has been awarded to the best British album of the year, meaning an album created by a citizen of the U.K. and Ireland. It’s become one of the biggest honors a British musician can receive and can also boost an album’s sales in the U.K., especially if it wins. Now this year’s nominees have been announced. More

Jul 05, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Bat For Lashes (aka Natasha Khan) released a new album, The Bride, last Friday via Parlophone/Warner Bros. Yesterday Khan and band stopped by BBC 6 Music to do a Live Lounge session with Lauren Laverne. More

Jun 22, 2016 By Joshua M. Miller

Today Amanda Palmer shared a cover of Bat for Lashes’ 2012 ballad “Laura,” which features Australian musician Brendan Maclean. More

Jun 20, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Bat For Lashes (aka Natasha Khan) is releasing a new album, The Bride, on July 1 via Parlophone/Warner Bros. Previously she had shared “I Do,” “Joe’s Dream,” “In God’s House” (as well as the video for “In God’s House”), and the video for “Sunday Love.” Now Khan has shared a professionally shot live video of her covering The Carpenters’ 1970 song “We’ve Only Just Begun.” More

Jun 07, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Bat For Lashes (aka Natasha Khan) is releasing a new album, The Bride, on July 1 via Parlophone/Warner Bros. Previously she had shared “I Do,” “In God’s House” (as well as the video for “In God’s House”), and the video for “Sunday Love.” Now Khan has shared another song from the album, “Joe’s Dream.” Listen below. More

May 27, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Bat For Lashes (aka Natasha Khan) is releasing a new album, The Bride, on July 1 via Parlophone/Warner Bros. Previously she had shared “I Do” and “In God’s House” (as well as the video for “In God’s House”). Now Khan has shared another song from the album, “Sunday Love,” via its video. More

Mar 18, 2016 By Joshua M. Miller

Bat for Lashes has shared a video for her song “In God’s House” of her new album The Bride that’s out July 1. More

Feb 19, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Bat For Lashes (aka Natasha Khan) has shared a brand new song, “I Do.” It’s a short little minimal track that showcases Khan’s vocals. “I Do” comes with a note reading, “Save the Date, 1st July 2016, Til death do us part.” Perhaps Khan is teasing the release date for her new album? The image also includes a necklace inscribed with “The Bride.” Perhaps that’s the title of her new album? More

Jan 04, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Coachella has announced the line-up for their 2016 festival, which goes down in Indio, California over two weekends in April (with the same bill each weekend). Friday and Saturday are headlined by two newly reformed bands, LCD Soundsystem and Guns N’ Roses (featuring the reunion of Axl Rose and Slash). Calvin Harris headlines Sunday night. More

Sep 22, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

SEXWITCH is a collaboration between Bat For Lashes (aka Natasha Khan), producer Dan Carey, and the psych-rock band TOY. The band is releasing their self-titled debut album this Friday (September 25) via Echo/BMG. You can stream the whole thing. More

Sep 18, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

SEXWITCH is a collaboration between Bat For Lashes (aka Natasha Khan), producer Dan Carey, and the psych-rock band TOY. The band is releasing their self-titled debut album next Friday (September 25) via Echo/BMG. We’ve already heard its first single, “Helelyos,” and now they’ve shared another track from the album, the hypnotic, near 7-minute long “Ha Howa Ha Howa.” More

Aug 24, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Last week Bat For Lashes (aka Natasha Khan) was slowly announcing something via a game of hangman on top of moody black & white photos on her Instagram and Twitter accounts and included some snippets of new music. More

Aug 19, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Bat For Lashes (aka Natasha Khan) has been slowly announcing something the past few days via a game of hangman on top of moody black & white photos on her Instagram and Twitter accounts and now she has shared a 15-second snippet of new music. More

Jul 11, 2014 By Michael Wojtas

Welcome to Under the Radar’s weekly playlist, where we compile the best and most exciting tracks to debut online in the last week (give or take). In this mix we’ve got new songs by alt-J, Jenny Lewis, Bat For Lashes, Jessie Ware, Jeff Tweedy, Cut Copy, Anna Calvi and David Byrne (covering Connan Mockasin), Twin Peaks, Cassie Ramone (ex-Vivian Girls), Laetitia Sadier (ex-Stereolab), We Were Promised Jetpacks, Speedy Ortiz, Generationals, and more. Look no further, your Friday and weekend playlist is here. More

Jul 10, 2014 By Laura Studarus and Scott Dransfield

Now here’s a cool concept—a collection of songs by the likes of Bat For Lashes, Goldie and Ghostpoet, all featuring elements of the human body. More

May 23, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Back in the day when sparkly vampires ruled the cultural landscape, two amazingly cool singer/songwriters (that would be Beck and Bat For Lashes’ Natasha Khan) came together for a collaborative tune. More

Apr 03, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Speedy Wunderground is a label that values immediacy. All recordings must be made within 24 hours. No lunch breaks, no mixing, and only minimal over-dubs. More

Jan 03, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

While the days of watching music videos on television are long gone, over the past several years the visual art form has certainly found second life (like so many other things) as an excellent online commodity. More

Sep 10, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

This fall Academy Award-nominated actress Saoirse Ronan will star in a new motion picture titled, How I Live Now. More

Aug 14, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Last night Natasha Khan, a.k.a. Bat for Lashes, performed London’s Shepherds Bush Empire continuing to support her 2012 album The Haunted Man. More

Aug 09, 2013 By Julia Underwood

This weekend, Gothenburg, Sweden hosts the sixth annual Way Out West Festival. We sent writer/photographer Laura Studarus down to cover the action. Check out her photos of Angel Haze, Of Monsters and Men, HAIM, Bat For Lashes, Håkan Hellström, Miguel, and The Knife. More

Jul 18, 2013 By Laura Studarus

Bat For Lashes is hitting the road in support of her ghostly third album, The Haunted Man. More

Jun 10, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Next month Speedy Wunderground will release Zendooni: Funk, Psychedelia and Pop from the Iranian Pre-Revolution Generation, a new compilation celebrating a bygone era Iranian pop music. More

Apr 24, 2013 By Julia Underwood

Last night, Bat For Lashes performed at the Henry Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles, CA. More

Apr 22, 2013 By Laura Studarus

April 20 was the second day of second weekend of Coachella’s 2013 run. We sent photographer Helen Boast down to cover the action. More

Feb 20, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Bat for Lashes’ Natasha Khan is still going strong these days in support of latest LP The Haunted Man. More

Feb 12, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Celebrating the Hallmark sales boom known as Valentine’s Day, Vogue has been running a special video series welcoming a select group of musical artists to their studio to perform love songs. More

Feb 06, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Each week Sirius radio station XMU invites some of the biggest names in indie rock for an evening pleasant conversation and the opportunity to perform a special stripped-down session of music. More

Jan 16, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

With her third LP The Haunted Man, Bat for Lashes’ Natasha Khan came away with one of the standout records of 2012. More

Dec 21, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Reconnecting with director Noel Paul, Bat for Lashes’ Natasha Khan has premiered yet another moving music video, this time around for “A Wall,” her newest single from The Haunted Man. More

Nov 08, 2012 By Laura Studarus

Last weekend, Bat For Lashes stopped by British late night TV show, Later…With Jools Holland. More

Oct 25, 2012 By Christopher Roberts

Here’s a new playlist we’ve made over at Rdio featuring some of the tracks that have been in heavy rotation in the Under the Radar offices of late. Some are artists interviewed in our last two issues, others might be interviewed in future issues, and the rest are just songs we’re really into. More

Oct 24, 2012 By Matt Fink

Though every artist has his or her own trajectory, Bat For Lashes’ Natasha Khan seemed like the kind of songwriter whose creative gestures would only become more and more elaborate with each successive release. Having made a creative leap from her 2008 debut, Fur and Gold, to the conceptually adventurous Two Suns in 2009, she emerged as an artist whose work would likely only get more and more complex and ornately adorned. Yet when she sat down to work on her third album, The Haunted Man, she found herself moving in precisely the opposite direction. More

Oct 15, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Next week Natasha Khan, a.k.a. Bat For Lashes will release her much-anticipated new album The Haunted Man. More

Oct 11, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Making a recent stop on Zane Lowe’s BBC show promoting her upcoming new album The Haunted Man, Bat For Lashes’ took on a cover of Rihanna’s “We Found Love.” More

Oct 05, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Gaining some serious steam in the lead-up to her upcoming third album The Haunted Man, Bat For Lashes has followed-up the stream and video of her lead single “All Your Gold” with a remix by Hercules and Love Affair. More

Oct 03, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Broadcasting today from Maida Vale Studios in London, BBC 6 Music recorded Bat for Lashes as Natasha Khan and her band performed a seven song mini-concert, featuring songs from Fur and Gold, Two Suns, and the artist’s forthcoming third album The Haunted Man. More

Oct 01, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Releasing her newest album The Haunted Man this month, Bat For Lashes has unveiled a stark visual for the record’s lead single “All Your Gold.” More

Sep 19, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Leading up to the October release of her new album The Haunted Man, Bat for Lashes has already released a number of choice cuts from the record. More

Sep 13, 2012 By Laura Studarus

On October 23, Natasha Khan returns to the world with third Bat For Lashes album, The Haunted Man. Ahead of that, she’s been drip-feeding us cuts of her dazzling new synth-driven masterpiece. More

Sep 07, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Releasing her highly-anticipated new album The Haunted Man on Oct. 22 via EMI’s Capitol Records, Bat For Lashes, aka Natasha Khan, has revealed that her upcoming performance today at this year’s iTunes Festival will be streamed live online. More

Jul 23, 2012 By Laura Studarus

Yup, that’s Bat For Lashes’ Natasha Khan. Naked. Wearing a man fur. We’re going to do us all a favor and try not to read into the stunning, yet oh-so-very-NSFW image. More

Jun 14, 2012 By Laura Studarus

Yesterday, Bat For Lashes (aka Natasha Khan) announced her first album in three years, The Haunted Man (out October 15). After big reveal, the multi-instrumentalist played her first show in almost as many years—airing out several new cuts along the way. More

Jun 13, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Natasha Khan, aka Bat For Lashes, has announced the follow-up to her 2009 Two Suns. More

Oct 19, 2011 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar is excited to announce the release of the indie music and entertainment print magazine’s 10th Anniversary Issue which hits newsstands next week. The extra-sized 10th Anniversary Issue features cover artists Joanna Newsom and Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold together in an exclusive photo shoot and joint interview. Exclusive video taken during the cover shoot of Robin Pecknold and Joanna Newsom arm wrestling can be found here. More

Feb 22, 2011 By Mike Hilleary

No stranger to putting her own unique take on the works of others, demonstrated by a beautiful cover of Radiohead’s “All I Need” last year, Bat for Lashes’ Natasha Khan has released an equally fitting rendition of Depeche Mode’s “Strangelove.” More

Jun 02, 2010 By Laura Studarus

As previously announced, Twilight’s newest installment Eclipse includes contributions several Under the Radar-friendly bands including Vampire Weekend, Florence and the Machine, Metric, and a show-stopping duet between Beck and Bat For Lashes. Today, for a scant 24 hours, the powers that be are offering a preview of the album in full. More

May 14, 2010 By Laura Studarus

Sad but true, sometimes you can have too much of a good thing. Well, sad for us that is. Swamped with back issues—which I’m all sure we can agree is a good thing—Under the Radar is passing them on to you with a sale on selected issues. The question is, can you have too much of a good thing? We’re offering two dollars off most available back issues! More

May 12, 2010 By Laura Studarus

Today the third Twilight film Eclipse‘s soundtrack was announced. This time Under the Radar-friendly artists Metric, Beck, Bat For Lashes, and Florence and the Machine join the franchise who’s last installment included Thom Yorke, Lykke Li, and Grizzly Bear. More

Feb 25, 2010 By Laura Studarus

At last Friday’s show at De La Warr Pavilion in England’s Bexhill-on-Sea, mysterious songstress Bat for Lashes pulled out an unexpected, yet shockingly appropriate cover of Radiohead’s “All I Need” (complete with string section). We have the video. More

Sep 08, 2009 By Mark Redfern

Speech Debelle has won this year’s Mercury Prize, it was just announced at a ceremony in London. The British rapper was something of a surprise winner and beat out the likes of The Horrors, Friendly Fires, Bat For Lashes, The Invisible, Florence and the Machine, Kasabian, Glasvegas, and others. Debelle took the stage and immediately gave a shout out to one of her fellow nominees. “Big up The Invisible,” she said. Debelle had told BBC 6 Music radio earlier in the evenining that The Invisible were her favorite other nominee. Ironically, despite her name, Speech Debelle gave a short speech. She thanked her label, producers, and family (“my gran’s over there”).The winner is awarded 20,000 pounds and Debelle also said, “Thank-you to whoever’s name is on the check.” More

Aug 24, 2009 By Kyle Lemmon

Bat For Lashes’ Two Suns only came out in April, but there’s already a 2xCD/DVD Special Edition slated for a September 7th release, according to the official BFL site. We’re quite smitten with our Spring issue cover artist so we welcome such a seemingly premature deluxe treatment. More

Jul 21, 2009 By Mark Redfern

Every year since 1992 The Mercury Prize has been awarded to the best album recorded by an artist from either the United Kingdom or Ireland. Last year Elbow won it. This morning 2009’s nominees were announced. They include Bat For Lashes, Florence and the Machine, Friendly Fires, The Invisible, Glasvegas, The Horrors, Kasabian, and others. More

Jun 17, 2009 By Mark Redfern

Bat For Lashes concluded their current tour for a sold-out show at the El Rey Theater in Los Angeles. Natasha Khan was backed by a three-piece band. They opened with a one-two punch of “Glass” and “Sleep Alone,” the two songs that open Bat For Lashes’ acclaimed sophomore album, Two Suns, which was released in April. Midway through the set Khan performed a stripped down version of Karate Kid-inspired single “Daniel,” but then for the last song of the encore all four members performed a full-band version of “Daniel.” That’s double the “Daniel!” More

Apr 11, 2009 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar‘s Spring Issue will be hitting stands soon. Bat For Lashes’ Natasha Khan graces the cover and the issue features an in-depth nine-page interview with Khan that traces the long road to her amazing new album Two Suns. More

Jun 26, 2014 By Matt Fink

For Throwback Thursdays we are posting classic interviews from the Under the Radar print archives to our website. For this Throwback Thursday we revisit our 2007 article on Bat For Lashes, our first interview with Natasha Khan.

Jul 05, 2016 By Charles Steinberg

Puzzlement gives way to fascination when absorbing Natasha Khan’s new album as Bat For Lashes. The unambiguous titles of the album, The Bride, and opening track, “I Do,” lead you to think that maybe Khan devoted an entire project to the subject of her own marriage. More

Aug 11, 2013 By Laura Studarus

Tired from indulging in a late night Stay Out West show? Yup! Ready to do it again? Yup! Particularly excited that day two of Way Out West was stacked with Under the Radar favorites, including HAIM, Local Natives, Bat For Lashes, Håkan Hellström, and The Knife? Duh.

Apr 21, 2013 By Laura Studarus

And now on to talking about the music. Specifically Guards, Savages, Bat For Lashes, Major Lazer , Hot Chip, The Postal Service, The xx, and Phoenix.

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Oct 19, 2012 By Austin Trunick

Natasha Khan, on the cover of her third Bat For Lashes album, stands nude save for a necklace, a naked man draped over her shoulders as if he were a feather boa. As far as artists posing nude for album art goes, it’s pretty tasteful—she’s in more decent repose than John and Yoko on the cover of Two Virgins, yet it feels more revealing than Prince’s Lovesexy—with the nude man-boa covering her possibly controversial bits, and vice versa. More

Aug 11, 2009 By Lorraine Carpenter

A report from day three of Lollapalooza 2009, including Lou Reed, Bat For Lashes, The Raveonettes, Neko Case, and Jane’s Addiction. More

Apr 11, 2009 By J. Pace

Two Suns finds Natasha Khan sharing the conceptual zeitgeist with Beyoncé by exploring her own Sasha Fierce, an alter ego named Pearl-a “destructive, self-absorbed, blond femme fatale” to contrast her everyday “mystical, desert-born spiritual self.” More