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HorsegiirL is opening for Robyn tonight (Oct. 2) at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles, but if she's nervous or even antsy to get to the venue, she doesn't let on.

Instead, the German producer projects a sort of grounded calm when we meet at noon on a sunny patio in downtown Los Angeles. Here, the sound of a jackhammer pulverizing some nearby concrete functions as a sort of equal and opposite reaction to both her vibe and the body of work she's most recently released, her June debut Nature Is Healing.

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Celestial and sincere but also often unhinged (listen for the cameo from The Doctor in the album's  An Apple a Day ), the album helped cement horsegiirL's status as a key of-the-moment dance star with strong pop girl (or pop horse) tendencies. These exist in both the structures of her music and the fantastical world building achieved through presenting herself as a stylish equine named Stella Stallion that exists in a natural wonderland world that's like if Lisa Frank met Planet Earth. This persona isn't a gimmick, but a fully realized artistic universe, with its own internal logic and a hyperpop-meets-pop-meets-hardcore-dance soundtrack that horsegiirL has been carving out since her come-up through the Berlin rave scene, which she broke out of with her 2023 single  My Barn, My Rules. 

Planet horsegiirL has its own gravitational pull. In preparation for this story, I'm sent a folder of images of Stella Stallion with a bevy of other pop girls/peers: Sabrina Carpenter, Grimes, Cobrah, Zara Larsson, Kim Petras, North West. (There are also shots of her with actors Adam Scott and Lisa Rinna.) In April, she made cameos during the Coachella performances of English rock darlings Wet Leg and British dance pop star PinkPantheress, moments that followed her own 2025 Coachella debut.

 A major shift was when I played Coachella last year,  Stallion says when contemplating her breakthrough.  I'd played Portola the year prior and that was already a big moment, and I think those two festivals plus what came after was a slow and stead

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