“1950,” released on February 3, 2018, is King Princess’s debut song. On the day of the song, and visual, release, KP spoke to The Line Of Best Fit about the inspiration of the track:

Queer love was only able to exist privately for a long time, expressed in society through coded art forms. I wrote this song as a story of unrequited love in my own life, doing my best to acknowledge and pay homage to that part of history.

KP has also specifically cited the novel The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith as an inspiration behind the song.

I was reading a lot of gay literature and there was one book, The Price of Salt that really stuck with me because it’s just a beautiful story, and I think what I loved about it was it took place in the ‘50s and the way that queer people were allowed to be public was so censored it and it was all about body language and this kind of icy interaction because you had to hide yourself and so I was interested in the parallel between the metaphor of 1950 being how queer love looks in public and how it’s very similar to having a very cold relationship.

This song doesn’t just serve as King Princess’s debut. This is also the first song to be released by Mark Ronson’s record label, Zelig Records, an imprint of Columbia Records.