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  "publishedAt": "2026-04-06T16:05:36.000Z",
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  "textContent": "\n\n\n\n_This is_ PAPER Diaries_, an unfiltered look into the thoughts and lives of creative people making it happen for themselves — in the real world, on the internet and in our wildest fantasies. This week, we caught up with global it girl Ashnikko, currently touring in support of her latest album_ __Smoochies _._\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nAshnikko, frequent PAPER star, once told this magazine: \"At the core of my songwriting is playfulness. have to work hard to maintain that and preserve it, like a little flame I have to keep stoking.” In his review of the album, writer Ivan Guzman wrote \"That flame burns all over the record — in its cotton-candy sweetness, its filth, its flirtation with chaos.\"\n\nFrom the looks of it, Ashnikko's tour is no different, featuring outrageous stylings and a brief spat with a doppelgänger onstage. Backstage, there's all the trappings of a global pop phenom: Diet Cokes, loose wigs, gluten free crackers and more hairspray than could reasonably fill the atmosphere.\n\nIn her recent chat with PAPER, Ashnikko told us: \"I feel like there’s an ebb and flow to having a music career. You can become disillusioned by it all, and then you have to work to find the core of why you make music again. It’s a constant practice: finding it, losing it, finding it again. I think on my last album, I maybe lost it a little bit.\"\n\n_Smoochies_ , she said, \"really reminded me that I can approach music from a joyful place.\" From the looks of it, that joy has followed our it girl on tour. Read the full diary below!\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n### \"I'm gluing my Britney mic to my face with prosthetic glue AND tape because I sweat so much. How did she do it?!\"\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n### \"This is my it girl wig!!\"\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n### \"Miss Suzanne Walsh did it again — the tour styling on this run is spectacular!!\"\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n### \"Picking my favorite hats every night is an impossible task but god chose me do it, so I must.\"\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n### \"The immovable fringe!\"\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n### \"The pre-show serve!!!!\"\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n### \"Look at the packed out Shrine !!!\"\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n### \"Can't a girl have a theatrical moment upon the stage?\"\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n\"Safety pin through the brain? Starface on my boobies?\"\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n### \"I had to kill the it girl in me.\"\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n_Photography by Maroun_",
  "title": "Ashnikko Fought Her 'It Girl' For This World Tour"
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