Kim Petras believes she's faced a 'double standard' in the music business

Kim Petras believes she's faced a "double standard" in the music business.

The 31-year-old singer has enjoyed huge success with her upbeat tunes, and Kim insists that her music requires "just as much effort as writing a slow ballad".

Kim - whose 2022 single, 'Unholy', saw her become the first openly transgender solo artist to reach number one in the US - told the BBC: "I think there's a double standard in music where the stuff that gets taken seriously is sad and depressed, because those emotions are so hard. But a lot of the time, I feel very depressed and the way to get myself out of it is to write a ridiculous song. If I write a sad one, it's just going to make me sadder.

"So, for me, making happy songs, or slutty songs, takes just as much effort as writing a slow ballad. Just because it doesn't seem like there's any hurt or pain going into the creation of that, it doesn't mean it's not there."