In the track, The Giver hitmaker sings as an angry, bitter person who finds glee in her ex's misfortune following their split.
While the singer wrote the track to help her process the break-up, she has to revisit those feelings whenever she performs the song and that has left her unable to move on from those emotions.
"You have to lock into different characters for each song. Especially like My Kink Is Karma, I'm less worried about hitting the notes rather than just screaming as hard as I can," she said on the Las Culturistas podcast. "I actually still feel p**sed. I don't know if I'll ever get over it. I don't know if I'll ever not be mad."
Podcast co-host Bowen Yang then asked if it was the song's fault that she was "locked into this sentiment".
"Yeah, and that's what's so hard about writing about exes because you're locked in, especially if you hate them," Chappell replied. "I get angry every time I sing it. It's real! It's very real."
The pop star released My Kink Is Karma as a single in 2022 and it reached a newfound audience after the breakout success of her 2023 debut album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess.
Elsewhere in the interview, Chappell shared that she's better at performing ballads live and confessed that she's not always in the mood to sing a slow, sad song.
"It's so different live. You can really really feel the ballads. I'm actually better at performing ballads than I am pop songs because I have a ballad voice way more suited for it. The ballads go so heavy live because they sound better," she added. (Music-News)
