Petite Meller

It’s a surprisingly conventional greeting from a singer whose brief career has already been marked by accusations of playing up to the Lolita archetype and – after filming a video with Kenyan schoolchildren – cultural appropriation.

For this is the crazy world of Petite Meller: donning triple oversized hats a girlish persona and her trademark rouge she is a little force unto herself and the audience love her for it.

But the vision of kitsch at the Institute of Contemporary Arts brought to mind a different transgressor.

Petite Meller is a newcomer to the pop scene who.s hard to pin down.