Chelsea's baroque musical style has been attributed to her classical training, and the
New Zealand Herald has praised her "angelic vocals and acerbic wit". Her best known song, "
The Cigarette Duet" received significant press exposure after its video went viral on
YouTube in early 2012, recently reaching over 100 million views. This led to her being featured on
The Guardian's "New Band of the Day". Chelsea is also known for her distinctive and influential visual style which emerged with her creation of homemade low budget music videos beginning in 2011. Chelsea cites
Andy Warhol and director
Robert Altman as influencing her visual style and more recently has begun making visual content for other artists directing and editing music videos for In The Sunshine and Politics by Jonathan Bree. The self-directed music video for 'I Love My Boyfriend' is an example of her signature visual style which often incorporates mixed multimedia and
VHS with an editing style that favours long voyeuristic shots as depicted in early music videos for 'Yulia' 'Ice Reign' and most famously 'The Cigarette Duet'. For the music videos from her second album
The Great Cybernetic Depression, Chelsea began working exclusively with New Zealand based video artist Simon Ward who directed the web series Aroha Bridge with Jessica Hansell and collaborates with New York-based New Zealand contemporary artist
Jess Johnson. Simon Ward directed the music videos for 'Is It All Ok?', 'We're So Lost', 'We Are Strangers' ,'We Were Meant 2 B' and 'No Church on Sunday'. Simon Ward also directed the music videos for 'Frack' and 'Caution Repetitive' from her first album ''Lil' Golden Book''. Chelsea's song " When The World Turns Grey" from
The Great Cybernetic Depression was remixed in a collaboration with the German electronic music producer,
Robin Schulz. The remix is on the album
Sugar released by Schulz in September 2015. In August 2016, Chelsea released a cover of the song "Cold Glass Tube" by
the Reduction Agents, which is available on the album
Waiting for Your Love: A Tribute to the Reduction Agents. This was followed up by an album of covers called
Aftertouch which features her signature dreamy electronic productions of songs by a variety of artists including Lucinda Williams, Elvis Presley, Interpol and Nirvana. In May 2018, Princess Chelsea released the album
The Loneliest Girl which features the runaway hit 'I Love My Boyfriend'. In 2019 Chelsea moved to
Waiheke Island in New Zealand and took a self-imposed hiatus from music after experiencing a mental health collapse. In 2022 Princess Chelsea collaborated with French electronic artist Mattyeux from the project
Videoclub on the duet 'Sometimes' released on Warner Chappell France. In March 2023 Princess Chelsea collaborated with
Jonathan Bree and
Nile Rodgers on the duet 'Miss You'. In April 2023, Princess Chelsea won the
Taite Music Prize for her fifth album
Everything is Going to be Alright which chronicles her recovery from a two-year-long mental health crisis . On March 6th 2024, Teenwolf reunited for a one-off gig supporting
Shonen Knife on
Waiheke Island. In 2025, Chelsea performed the song "You and Me" with
Jonathan Bree for the soundtrack to the
Netflix film
Plankton: The Movie. ==Discography==