Double Olympic gold medalist Alysa Liu skated to PinkPantheress and Zara Larsson‘s ‘Stateside’ remix on the 2026 Determine Skating Exhibition Gala. Test it out beneath.
Liu was amongst greater than 40 Olympic determine skaters who took half within the conventional exhibition gala on Saturday evening (February 21), which each wraps up this system and celebrates the whole sport.
To mark the event, she delivered a routine soundtracked by an up to date model of ‘Stateside’ that includes Larsson, which comes from PinkPantheress’ star-studded ‘Fancy Some Extra?’ remix album – the accompaniment to the Mercury-nominated ‘Fancy That’.
It comes after the American determine skater – who gained America’s first gold medal within the Winter Olympics’ ladies’s free skating occasion since 2002 this 12 months – expressed her love for PinkPantheress a number of occasions throughout this 12 months’s video games.
Earlier this week, a reporter confirmed Liu a video of PinkPantheress giving her a message, saying: “Alysa, plenty of love, thanks a lot for supporting me. I hope that you’ve a very good present. You’re so inspiring and once I was youthful I used to be obsessive about determine skaters so you’re actually residing my dream. Thanks a lot for the love.”
Liu reacted by saying PinkPantheress is her favorite artist and that if she did the Olympic Gala she would skate to ‘Stateside’.
Try her routine beneath.
UGH SHES SO FABBBB https://t.co/nRYF8y73uH
— pinkpantheress (@pinkpantheress2) February 22, 2026
SONG OF THE YEAR pic.twitter.com/IaAku7rLzm
— ໊ (@clubpantheress) February 22, 2026
In different Olympic information, a steel singer from Italy gained a snowboarding medal at this 12 months’s winter video games.
As for PinkPantheress, her tune ‘Unlawful’ was named NME‘s greatest tune of 2025, the place we famous: “Pink has made headlines for standing by her sub-three-minute hits, and with this adrenaline-fuelled thrillride, she’s as soon as once more proved that’s on a regular basis she wants. Combining winking storytelling smarts, clever sampling, cheeky culture-defining quips (these opening strains!) and dance floor-filling beats, ‘Unlawful’ confirmed us simply how massive she might go. A real feat.”
When requested by NME why she thought the observe had resonated with so many, she mentioned: “I don’t know if it’s something too deep, apart from having a [TikTok] pattern for it helped and in addition the pattern is sort of timeless. I feel the facility of the beat itself is what individuals actually like about it.”
The observe was additionally nominated for a Grammy for Greatest Dance Pop Recording, finally shedding out to Girl Gaga’s ‘Abracadabra’. She can also be nominated for Artist of the 12 months and Greatest Dance Act at subsequent month’s BRIT Awards.
She is heading out on the street this summer season, taking part in festivals together with All Factors East with Lorde and Open’er in Poland.
