To Hell with It

To Hell with It (stylised in all lowercase)[1] is the debut mixtape by English singer PinkPantheress, released through Parlophone and Elektra Records on 15 October 2021.

The mixtape, which runs for slightly over 18 minutes, features production from PinkPantheress herself, as well as from Oscar Scheller, Izco, Natalia Fletcher, Jkarri, Mura Masa, Zach Nahome, Kairos Laferme, Adam F, and Dill Aitchison.

It is uptempo[23] and has bedroom pop-inspired production[24] with "stirring",[25] "skittering" breakbeats and synths,[26] and it heavily samples Crystal Waters's 1991 house single "Gypsy Woman".

[32][33] "Passion" is a "confessional"[34] jungle[35] and alt-pop[8] song, inspired by R&B[36] and written about PinkPantheress's loneliness[37] after getting abandoned by her friends and family and looking for a place to stay the night.

[44] In it, PinkPantheress sings over a "snappy", "nostalgia-fueled" garage beat and "delicate", "gentle"[45] guitars, about having an unhealthy obsession with a crush and going to lengths such as finding their house and sleeping with their hair under her pillow.

[57] Chris DeVille of Stereogum called To Hell with It "a breezy 18-minute introductory statement" that "establish[es] Pinkpantheress's talent for breathy, fragile, tender-but-chilly topline melodies".

"[30] For The New York Times, Jon Caramanica called To Hell with It "striking", describing its songs as "immediate and flexible" and the samples as "suggestive, but not delineative", also writing that "even her singing encapsulates the tension of memory.

"[20] Jeff Ihaza of Rolling Stone called To Hell with It "strikingly present", writing that it "feels like the kind of genuine and heartfelt openness that the internet once promised", adding that PinkPantheress is "especially gifted [as a songwriter] in meeting themes of despair with unwavering grace.

[51] David Weaver of Clash described PinkPantheress's voice as "a key ingredient" on the mixtape, and called the melodies "catchy, simple, and effectual", the production "fantastic", "clean", and "uncluttered", and the sampling "both sweetly nostalgic and knowingly urbane".

[31] For HipHopDX, Matthew Ritchie called the mixtape "dangerously addicting and affecting" and full of "soul and life", writing that "To Hell with It embodies the ethos of [the 2000s], avoiding the pitfalls of prior artists that latch onto nostalgia as a gimmick" and that "PinkPantheress's voice is the key to what sets her apart.

[29] Hayley Milross of The Line of Best Fit wrote, "Dripping in 2000s nostalgia in a time where the term 'Y2K' is thrown around like confetti, To Hell with It feels genuine.

[61] For Billboard, Jason Lipshutz wrote that To Hell with It "does not labor its points or overstay its welcome" and "is the sound of a rising star understanding and dominating the format that fits her best".

[63] For Pitchfork, Arielle Gordon wrote that, on To Hell with It, PinkPantheress "adds an undeniably contemporary spin on her trove of samples", describing her voice as "strangely soothing" and "an ethereal, pixelated miasma that breaks from the earnest delivery of her British predecessors".

[21] NPR's Mano Sundaresan wrote that the mixtape "serves more as a soft launch than a grand statement" and that the songs on it "feel like hazy dreams from a bygone era.

PinkPantheress in 2022