TURN OFF THE LIGHT, VOL. 3

## ***TURN OFF THE LIGHT, VOL. 3***Extended play by Kim Petras

"**Turn Off The Light, Vol. 3**" (stylized in all caps) is an upcoming extended play (EP) by Kim Petras. It is Halloween themed and the final chapter of the "Turn Off The Light" EP trilogy, expected in 2024.

## Background

Petras released *TURN OFF THE LIGHT*, which she described as "the whole damn story" in October 2019, initially set to be released under the name *Turn Off the Light, Vol. 2*, Throughout the following year, fans began to speculate that a third volume may be released on October 1, 2020, however Petras never acknowledged the project's existence. Two days before the expected release date, she posted a video to her Instagram story in the studio with a snippet of 'Party Till I Die', fuelling rumors of a potential Vol 3. A little over a week later on October 9th, Kim shared another snippet of the track. 'Party Till I Die' was surprise-released on October 23rd, 2020 as an addition to the original mixtape.

1 hour before the global release of the track, Kim went live on Instagram to announce it would be dropping that night and finally addressed the Vol 3 rumors for the first time, confirming that the EP did exist and she planned to release it that year, however it had been pushed back to 2021; "The song is coming out and I want you guys to consider it as Turn Off the Light volume 2.1 because we’ve decided to drop Turn Off the Light next year when I can perform it live. Turn Off the Light three, the final chapter of the trilogy. I just I can’t do it if I can’t perform it live for you guys immediately. It needs to be fresh and there’s a bunch of stuff I wanna do to make it a really epic thing. I know you guys are really all starving for the final chapter and me too, like I had it planned but you know this year has been crazy."

The release was then expected on October 1, 2021, however Petras announced that it had been delayed indefinitely on October 2nd, stating "unfortunately the story isn’t fully completed yet . turn off the light 3 is a mysterious girl . i promise she will manifest one dark day." During an Instagram live on October 5 Kim discussed the 3rd volume of "Turn off the Light" not being released that year, stating that “The third [volume] is coming I promise, but it’s just my debut album happened and I had to focus on it [...] I want Turn Off the Light to get what it deserves as much as you guys, I want to make it as big as possible. I’m gonna drop it, just not right now [...] so please don’t be mad at me, I know it’s upsetting, I know I promised it and I’m really really sorry that I did. I shouldn’t have promised it [...] so I’m really sorry about that and I love that you guys are mad, because that means you love Turn Off the Light  [...] and it’s gotta be a big moment and right now it would just take away from the debut album."

A few weeks later, Kim co-hosted The Travis Mills Show on Oct 31 2021 on Apple Music and opened up about the delay of the 3rd volume, as well as revealing she plans to make it the darkest chapter of the trilogy, and some potential features she has hoped for; “Well it’s always been kind of my dream to make this three chapter trilogy. I think that’s always been the goal and we started working on [Turn Off The Light, Vol. 3], but then kinda got sidetracked by my debut album because we were like we should really focus on that […] I think for the last chapter you have to go like double as hard as you did in the rest and you know, I want it to be like this dark masterpiece at the end, I want it to be kind of the darkest chapter […] I’m gonna start focusing on that very soon now that I’m done with my album […] but I’m so happy that people are passionate that they are pushing for it […] If I drop the last chapter, you know I want that to be my main focus and my main thing that I’m doing and right now that’s not possible because I have a whole album that I need to be focusing on that I think is amazing that deserves my attention. […] There’s a couple features that I’ve always wanted to put on it like Rammstein, […] I think it would be one of the most crazy things ever if I got Rammstein. You know, Rob Zombie would be amazing. Danny Elfman is somebody that we’ve been talking about since the beginning, kind of like ‘wow, Danny Elfman would kind of be the person to work with.’”

During a TikTok livestream on Dec 2 2021, she further reiterated that “Turn off the light 3 is still on the table, It was always meant to be a 3 part story.“ On 16 Dec 2021 during a Twitter space, Kim stated that she is working on a TOTL-related things behind the scenes and other projects besides her debut album.

On September 5th 2022, she announced to “avoid disappointment” on X that the project would not be released that year, but confirmed it would come out “eventually tho”, a few weeks before the expected release date.

On Oct 31 2022 while co-hosting The Travis Mills Show on Apple Music, Kim gave another update on the third volume in the trilogy; "I want to establish who I am as an artist and then redirect everyone back to this killer persona [...] it was always meant to be a trilogy, always needed to be a trilogy. I know exactly what I wanna do. It’s just not the right time, but just telling you I’ve always had like big plans for Turn Off the Light. There have been like movie conversations, there have been like show TV show conversations and like musical conversations all that stuff like I’m doing that alongside my career because I just don’t wanna fuck Turn Off the Light up  [...]  I wouldn’t ruin that and rush it and make it bad you know."

As of 2023, Kim has not given any update on the release of the project. Since her debut album *Feed The Beast* has been released, it is believed that the project will release on October 1, 2024, but as of now, nothing has been confirmed.

## Themes

The EP is heavily inspired by Halloween, and is expected to tell the final part of a story that is told on the album Turn Off The Light. The tracks tell the story of a monstrous relationship, in which none of them come out alive, but found life after death.

## Tracklist

No tracks are confirmed for the project yet, however it is possible that the following songs may be on it:

* Time For A Crime

## References

https://youtu.be/Cg7d\_\_8LL94?si=\_zxk8bbHO4d\_BwPN