A Girl Like Me: Letters to My Lovers is an extended play by American singer-songwriter and drag queen Peppermint. It was released on October 16, 2020 by Producer Entertainment Group and distributed by Warner's Alternative Distribution Alliance.[3]A Girl Like Me is the first of a trilogy of EPs, with the second installment, Moment of Weakness: Letters to My Lovers, released on April 22, 2022.[4] The lead single from the EP, "Best Sex", was released on October 2, 2020.[3] The EP was also released alongside a short film of the same name.[5] A remix EP called Letters (The Remixes) was released on April 16, 2021.[6]
The EP garnered Peppermint a nomination for Outstanding Music Artist at the 2021 GLAAD Media Awards.[7]
Background
Peppermint originally planned to release a full studio album in May 2020, and issued the lead single for the project, "What You're Looking For" on February 14, 2020.[3][8] However, in an interview with Entertainment Tonight on August 28, 2020, Peppermint announced that the project would in fact be a trilogy of EPs, with A Girl Like Me: Letters to My Lovers being the first in the series.[3]
Composition and themes
The album has been described as "her most personal music yet".[3] Peppermint has said "it really does focus on my life -- who I am as a trans woman -- and everything that's happening right now [with] Black Lives Matter, Black Trans Lives Matter and a lot of the issues that we are dealing with socially."[3] The EPs will feature collaborations with Laith Ashley, Jerome Bell, Daniel Shevlin of Well-Strung, Matt Katz-Bohen of Blondie, Corey Tut and Adam Joseph.[3]
"Best Sex" has been described as "channel[ing] the sensuality of 90s R&B along with a dash of Vangelis-type electronica".[9]
Track listing
All tracks are written by Kya Gina Moore and produced by Electropoint Music, except where noted
A Girl Like Me: Letters to My Lovers track listing[10]
