Artists like Cruel Youth

Natalia Noemi "Teddy" Sinclair is an English singer-songwriter and actress. She has recorded music under various aliases, most famously as Natalia Kills. She is currently the lead vocalist of the band Cruel Youth.

Bonnie Leigh McKee is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Her debut studio album, Trouble, was released in 2004 by Reprise Records. After the label dropped her, she took a musical hiatus and established herself as a professional songwriter. She has written 10 singles that have reached number one in either the United States or the United Kingdom, which have sold more than 30 million copies worldwide combined. In 2013, she made a return to music with the single "American Girl". In 2015, she independently released the EP Bombastic.

Zella Day Kerr is an American singer, songwriter, and musician.

Ivy Rose Levan is an American singer. At 16, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue a music career, eventually signing to Cherrytree Records and Interscope Records. In 2013, she released her debut EP on Interscope Records titled Introducing the Dame which peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Next Big Sound charts. The most popular single from the EP was "Hot Damn". Following a three-track single, Frostbitten, released by Cherrytree Records on December 15, 2014, she released the single, "Biscuit", on January 13, 2015. "Biscuit" also appeared on her first Cherrytree EP, No Good, released on August 7, 2015.

Aryn Wüthrich, better known under her stage name Ryn Weaver, is an American pop singer-songwriter who first garnered attention with the single "OctaHate" in June 2014, with Billboard calling the single a viral sensation. Her debut studio album, The Fool, followed in 2015. She has also co-written songs for other artists, including JoJo's "When Love Hurts" (2015), and BTS and Charli XCX's "Dream Glow" (2019).

Kim Petras is a German singer and songwriter based in Los Angeles. After attracting international attention for transitioning as a teenager, she released her debut EP, One Piece of Tape (2011), and wrote tracks for Fergie, JoJo, Skylar Simone, and Twice. In August 2017, Petras released her debut single "I Don't Want It at All", followed by the single "Heart to Break" (2018), which charted at No. 52 on Billboard's Dance Club Songs chart. She followed this with her second EP, Turn Off the Light, Vol. 1 (2018), the mixtapes Clarity and Turn Off the Light, and the single "How It's Done" (2019); the last of these featured on the soundtrack of Charlie's Angels. A further track with Kygo, "Broken Glass" (2020), charted at No. 13 on Billboard's Dance/Electronic Songs chart.

Alaina Marie Beaton, known professionally as Porcelain Black, is an American singer-songwriter and rapper. At age 16, she embarked on her music career as a solo act under the name Porcelain and the Tramps with Virgin Records. However, Black and Virgin could not agree on the music she would record. Her music was posted to her Myspace account, "rockcitynosebleed", where she gained millions of hits. After three years of trying to get out of the contract, she signed with RedOne's Universal Republic imprint, 2101 Records, late in 2009, and began working on her debut album. After many internal problems between the artist and record producer RedOne, Porcelain Black announced the partnership had come to an end, with anticipation of releasing her debut album in the vein of her Porcelain and the Tramps project in 2015.

Kesha Rose Sebert, formerly stylized as Ke$ha, is an American singer, rapper, and songwriter. She has earned two number-one albums on the US Billboard 200 with Animal (2010) and Rainbow (2017), and the top-ten records Warrior (2012) and High Road (2020). She attained ten top-ten singles on the US Billboard Hot 100, including "Tik Tok", "Right Round" with Flo Rida, "My First Kiss" with 3OH!3, "Blah Blah Blah", "Your Love Is My Drug", "Take It Off", "We R Who We R", "Blow", "Die Young", and "Timber" with Pitbull. Her 2009 single "Tik Tok" was the best-selling digital single in history, selling over 14 million units internationally, until surpassed in 2011. She fulfilled her five-album contract with Kemosabe Records by releasing the album Gag Order (2023), and released her first independent album, Period (2025), under her own label, Kesha Records.

Madeline Ashley "Maty" Noyes is an American singer-songwriter. Noyes rose to prominence in 2015 after a guest appearance on the Weeknd's Beauty Behind the Madness album, and contributing lead vocals to Kygo's 2015 track "Stay", which achieved international success. She has since released the solo EPs Noyes Complaint (2016) and Love Songs From A Lolita (2018) and her debut album The Feeling's Mutual (2021)

Sarah Grace McLaughlin, known professionally as Bishop Briggs, is an English singer and songwriter. Her single "River" peaked at number 3 on the US Alternative Chart, and has been streamed more than 485 million times on Spotify. It was included on her debut album, Church of Scars, released in April 2018. Island Records released her second album, Champion, in July 2019, which was included in The Young Folks Top 50 albums of the year.

Hayley Kiyoko Alcroft is an American actress, singer, and author. She has performed in a variety of films, including Lemonade Mouth (2011), Jem and the Holograms (2015), Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015), and XOXO (2016). She also had recurring roles in the TV series Wizards of Waverly Place (2010) and The Fosters (2014) and lead roles in CSI: Cyber (2015–2016) and Five Points (2018–2019).

Alice Victoria Rose Chater is an English singer, songwriter and dancer.