Kylie Jenner releases Fourth Strike with Terror Jr as King Kylie
Kylie Jenner made her first official foray into music on Oct. 14, releasing Fourth Strike, a collaboration with Los Angeles pop duo Terror Jr that revives her King Kylie alter ego and ties into a relaunch of her Kylie Cosmetics line. The track premiered on Jenner’s YouTube channel and was distributed on streaming platforms under the moniker King Kylie, marking the reality star and entrepreneur’s most direct musical appearance to date.
On Fourth Strike, Jenner provides breathy, spoken-sung vocals on the bridge and closes the song by whispering King Kylie. Lyrics in her segment include One strike, two strike, let me get the mood right and I just wanna tell you, I’m sorry. The song is presented as a sequel to Terror Jr’s 2016 single Three Strikes, which was used in an early Kylie Cosmetics lip gloss campaign and sparked years of fan speculation about Jenner’s involvement. At the time she denied singing on that track; on Monday she said she approached Fourth Strike to settle the rumor by actually featuring on the follow-up.
Terror Jr is composed of Lisa Vitale and David Campa. The group and Jenner revisit a visual and narrative through the new commercial that accompanies the...