Sam Quealy – Girl’s Night
This Friday (1/30), techno-pop princess Sam Quealy will release her sophomore album JAWBREAKER.
On her new LP, Quealy sculpted a lavish sound full of heavy ‘80s and ‘90s influence, sprinkled with disco, new wave, eurodance, high-voltage edge as she mixes nostalgia and raw honesty with moments of unabashed freedom, vulnerability, and healing. The project encourages listeners to embrace the messy chaos thrown at them as Quealy weaves a tapestry that brings together the past’s magic with the present’s edge.
As a final taste of the album, today Quealy shared focus track + video “Girl’s Night.”
A true synth soaked 80’s it-girl anthem, the song encapsulates Quealy at her best as she loses all abandon on a hard-charging beat. The song journeys through the mayhem of a night out, beginning with the best part of the night, getting ready with your friends, to the end, staying out until the lights come back up on the dancefloor.
“It’s all about a wild, carefree girls’ night out, getting dressed up, dancing till dawn, and living for those spontaneous moments that make the night unforgettable,” Quealy expands. “Just pure fun, freedom, and a little bit of chaos.” The video perfectly embodies the blasé ethos of the song as Quealy and friends suit up to party till the morning, her hair growing larger and messier with each passing moment of her crazed night out.
Sam Quealy is a fearless creative chameleon—singer, songwriter, dancer, rapper, and performance artist. Known for her unhinged tracks and magnetic, almost otherworldly aura, she leaves audiences unable to forget her. With the look of a pop star and the attitude of a rock star, she has exploded onto the scene with a deafening bang—and she’s only just getting started.
Her debut album Blonde Venus earned widespread acclaim, with features in Vogue France, Harper’s Bazaar France, Les Inrocks, Metal Magazine and more, alongside TV appearances on Quotidien and Arte. She has delivered standout performances at major festivals including Solidays, Dour, Fusion, Flow, and the Montreux Jazz Festival, while touring internationally as a support act for Yelle and La Femme.
In a departure from the volatile techno-pop of her debut Blonde Venus, JAWBREAKER, with abundant use of live instrumentation, lending a potent luminosity to the project’s songs on lust, longing, and self-celebration. “With the first album there was a lot of discovery and experimentation—I wasn’t following any rules, and it feels very niche and underground,” says Quealy. “This album still has the nihilistic feel of the first record, but there’s a lightness and positivity as well. When there’s so much depressing news all the time, I wanted to create something that makes everyone feel good.”
A multidimensional creative force, Quealy played a vital part in developing the music videos for JAWBREAKER, embedding each visual with the type of outlandishly striking images that immediately become iconic (e.g., a whirlwind motorcycle chase in “LONDONTOWN,” a scene where she faces off against a pack of male bodybuilders in “LOVE LASSO”).
As with all her videos (as well as her mesmerizing live performance), Quealy infuses both visuals with frenetic yet highly sophisticated choreography—an element that spotlights the exquisite dancing prowess she’s cultivated her entire life.
Upon moving to Paris in the late 2010s, Quealy worked as a showgirl at a cabaret but soon pursued her lifelong love of music. “At first I was mostly experimenting with writing lyrics, but during Covid I picked up guitar, learned piano, learned how to use Ableton,” she recalls. “It felt like I was able to take everything I loved—music, dance, performance art, fashion—and pour it all into one medium where there’s no rules or limits on what you can create.” Before even releasing her debut album, Quealy earned acclaim from tastemakers like Office Magazine, who praised her “dystopian club bangers” and noted that her music “represents the collective mindset of a generation that has come of age in an increasingly unstable world.”
Her music continues to resonate far beyond the stage, with high-profile syncs for Netflix (Élite, Under a Dark Sun), Swarovski, and Babybel’s 2025 global campaign. With more than 150K combined followers and listeners, Sam Quealy’s star is rising fast—her magnetic energy proving impossible to ignore.
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