Of all the model-to-musician pivots (Naomi Campbell’s half-decent 1995 R&B LP Babywoman; Kate Moss’ spidery guest vocal with then-boyfriend Pete Doherty’s band Babyshambles; Tyra Banks’ truly terrible Disney theme song Be A Star), the idea that Cara Delevingne might secretly harbour dreams of pop/rock stardom makes more sense than most.
Since her beginnings, stomping the runway for Burberry, Chanel and more as a teen, Delevingne has cultivated an image that’s a little more wildcard, a little less predictable than many of her aloof peers. At the Met Gala in 2017, she shaved her hair off and painted her bald head silver. In the mid-2010s she was in an 18 month relationship with alt-world hero and guitar virtuoso St. Vincent. When Delevingne began teasing a new project to her 38 million Instagram followers with the almost pop-metal drop of debut single I Forgot, it became immediately clear that the now-33-year-old wasn’t aiming for a classic mainstream trajectory but something undeniably weirder.
