Worst Girl in America (stylized as WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA) is the third studio album by American singer Slayyyter. It was released on March 27, 2026. The album is inspired by Slayyyter's upbringing in St. Louis and characters from her adolescence. The album was supported by the release of five singles.
In comparison to her earlier releases Starfucker and Troubled Paradise, Slayyyter described the album as "more authentically her" and one where she tried revisiting the formative sounds from her teenage years. The album is also inspired by the music she grew up listening to on her iPod, which consisted of a mix of pop, punk, and rap music.
On September 6, 2024, Slayyyter used a drop text number, +1 314-635-1436, or YYY Text, to coincide with the release of her single "No Comma". It was reinstated as a sign-up feature on the official Slayyyter website to promote Worst Girl in America, stylized as an RSVP, auto-texting fans who enrolled about release dates for future singles and their artwork, video announcements, and merchandise.
"Beat Up Chanels" was released as the album's first single on August 1, 2025, alongside the announcement of her new record deal with Columbia Records. This was followed by "Cannibalism!" on September 12, 2025. "Crank" was released as the third single on October 24, 2025. "Dance..." was released as the fourth single on January 13, 2026, coinciding with the announcement of the album. The fifth and final single "Old Technology" was released on February 24, 2026. On March 16, 2026, Slayyyter announced the Worst Girl in the World Tour, kicking off on September 3.
Slayyyter debuted several tracks from Worst Girl in America, including "Dance...", "Yes Goddd", and "St. Loser", during her set at Homobloc in Manchester on December 6, 2025.
Worst Girl in America received positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 83, based on five reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".
Matt Collar's review for AllMusic noted the influences Slayyyter drew from throughout the tracklist: the "shimmering, Ray of Light-era Madonna-isms of "Gas Station," the Blondie-esque "Unknown Loverz," and the Robyn-like "Old Fling$" with its rising EDM chorus". Collar praised Slayyyter for never failing to make these songs feel her own in spite of their callbacks to the dance music of the 2000s and 2010s. For Collar, Worst Girl in America marked an evolution of the sound of Troubled Paradise and Starfucker, "fusing the classic Britney Spears teen R&B sound with the wry, in-your-face swagger of Kesha" with even more verve than before.
Writing for Slant Magazine, Alexander Mooney stated that the album "channels all of her wildest impulses, but its clamorous highs and thrumming lows are meted out with care and precision". Contrasting the record to Starfucker, Mooney opined that Worst Girl in America marked "more of a sonic achievement than a thematic one" for Slayyyter, where she "find[s] a sound thatâÂÂs unmistakably hers". For Mooney, the album was ultimately "more of a conceptual riff on the up(per)s and down(er)s of acting out than the statement of intent suggested by its virtuosic production".
Robin Murray of Clash praised the record as a "pop meteorite ready to leave an outlandish crater on the side of pop culture" and catapult Slayyyter into the mainstream. While remaining true to the singer's characteristic "rave-pop effervescence", Murray found the album to be more "concise and packed with intention" than earlier works, indicating that Slayyyter has "built on her past, learned from her mistakes, and seems ready to seize her throne".
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