Victoria Beverley Walker (born 18 April 2001), known professionally as PinkPantheress, is an English singer, songwriter, and record producer.

Born in Bath, Somerset, and raised in Kent, PinkPantheress began her musical career in 2021 while attending university in London, where she produced songs using GarageBand and posted them on SoundCloud and TikTok.

Several of them, including "Break It Off", became popular on TikTok, and she signed to Parlophone and Elektra Records and released her debut mixtape To Hell with It later that year.

[7] Her father moved to the United States to work at a university in Austin, Texas when she was 12 years old, while she and her mother stayed in England.

[8] Walker took piano lessons as a child, and, at age 12, sang "Stand by Me" by Ben E. King at a school talent show.

When she was 14 years old, she became the lead singer in a rock band, which covered songs by My Chemical Romance, Paramore, and Green Day, and performed with them for the first time at a school fête.

[6][9][14] Two of PinkPantheress's songs, the Adam F-sampling "Break It Off" and the Sweet Female Attitude-sampling "Pain", went viral on TikTok in early 2021, with the latter peaking at number 35 on the UK Singles Chart in August of that year.

[58] Her collaborative single "Turn Your Phone Off" with Destroy Lonely was released in July 2023, and she was featured alongside Hyunjin of the K-pop group Stray Kids on a remix of the Troye Sivan song "Rush" in August 2023.

[62] That same month, she announced the Capable of Love Tour for the United Kingdom and Europe, spanning from February–April 2024,[63][64] with North American dates added later on in November.

[10][3] PinkPantheress has listed My Chemical Romance, Lily Allen, Just Jack, Michael Jackson,[69][70] Kaytranada,[7] Imogen Heap, Frank Ocean,[6] as inspirations, also citing K-pop songs, Blink-182, Good Charlotte, Green Day, early Panic!

[17][81] She has described her own music as alt-pop and "a form of D'n'B that's acceptable to listen to at home",[8] and has stated that she writes "sadder", "dark" lyrics to "appeal to the youth",[82] often to contrast them with her "happy instrumentals".

[85] Rolling Stone's Keegan Brady described PinkPantheress's music as "alt-girl rap" and wrote that she uses "confessional, almost treacly rap-singing" and "dated production technology" in her songs which "tap[s] into a deeply nostalgic sound that conjures the height of Nineties U.K.

[70] The Guardian's Michael Cragg described PinkPantheress's vocals as "sweet but unsettling",[74] while Jon Caramanica of The New York Times wrote that she "sounds like she's flirting and aching all at once.

"[86] Cat Zhang of Pitchfork called PinkPantheress's voice "angelic", "girlish", and "slight" and wrote that she was "one of the rare TikTok artists whose internet fame seems proportional to their potential".

[12] Writing for Nylon, Steffanee Wang called her music "a collage of sounds that fell [sic] simultaneously dated and contemporary", adding that listening to it "feels like being on the internet before social media was a thing".

[87] Insider's Kieran Press-Reynolds wrote that PinkPantheress gave up-tempo electronic music genres like drum and bass an "introspective, romantic bedroom sound" with her "hushed" vocals.