Ayesha Erotica

Biography

Ayesha Alexis Aucellio, known professionally as Ayesha Erotica, is an American indie singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer and web actress. Known for her elusive social media image and sexually-charged music, her songs typically feature 2000s-inspired imagery and a hyperpop sound.
Erotica began releasing music online in 2015 on SoundCloud. She independently released her debut studio album, Big Juicy, in 2016, with her second record, Barely Legal, and the EP, Cumshot, following shortly after. She later gained mainstream attention for collaborating with other hyperpop artists such as Slayyyter and That Kid before taking a hiatus from music starting in 2018, during which her music rose to further popularity on social media. Following her return to music in 2023, she appeared on singles by Joey Valence & Brae and Odetari, among others, and in 2025, released her third studio album, Precum.

Early life

Ayesha Alexis Aucellio is a transgender womanand began to transition at 16 years old in December 2012, shortly after the release of her third album Fergoo from her old alias "Glitterfruitjuice".

Career

Erotica began uploading under the Ayesha Erotica alias in 2015. She rose to prominence with her single SoundCloud releases while living in Huntington Beach, California, before releasing her debut album as Ayesha Erotica, Big Juicy, in 2016.
She met singer-songwriter Slayyyter through Twitter, and Erotica soon sent her the beat to what would become Slayyyter's 2018 song "BFF". Together, the two released several other songs on SoundCloud, including the That Kid collaboration "Dial Tone", which Steffanee Wang of Nylon praised as a "DIY triumph" and Paper's Brendan Wetmore described as a breakout hit for all three artists. Several of the collaborations between Erotica and Slayyyter were included on Slayyyter's debut self-titled mixtape released the following year, with Erotica credited under the alias Ms. Cheeseburger. In 2018, Erotica removed her music from the internet and stopped releasing under the name Ayesha Erotica after a “fan” on Discord doxxed and deadnamed her. Erotica attributed this incident to fellow artist Quinn Fatal; which eventually led to Fatal leaking demos made by Erotica which had previously been unreleased. This series of events led to Erotica's then-indefinite hiatus from music, announcing her retirement through an Instagram post.
Erotica produced the majority of songs on That Kid's debut mixtape, Crush, which was released in April 2020. During this hiatus, many of her songs became popular on TikTok. A mashup of "Yummy" with the song "Righteous" by Mo Beats also found success on TikTok in 2023 due to the virality of videos by influencer Sabrina Bahsoon taken on the London Underground, who became known as the Tube Girl, in which they were featured. In July 2023, Erotica appeared in a livestream with singer Chase Icon, officially announcing her return to music. Erotica returned to releasing music with a series of singles released in the latter half of 2023 to her new SoundCloud account. She then partnered with Mel 4Ever in a collaborative single titled "Tongues" in January 2024. Erotica was featured on the Kets4eki single "Rock Your Body" in February 2024 and on the Odetari single "Break a Neck" in April 2024. For The New York Times podcast Popcast, Jon Caramanica said that the latter song signaled the potential for a "slow mainstreaming of Ayesha Erotica".
Erotica's unreleased song "Spread That Puss" was sampled in Doechii and JT's song "Alter Ego", which was released in March 2024. She was featured on the "Badder" remix of Joey Valence & Brae's song "The Baddest", which was released in July 2024 and became popular on TikTok. It was later featured on the deluxe version of the duo's album, No Hands, which was released in September 2024. Erotica contributed production to Chase Icon's debut studio album, Icon Baby, which was released in March 2025. Her collaborative single with singer Creep-P, "Bite Me", was released in July 2025.
In February 2025, Erotica released the single "Condom". Her first studio album since her hiatus, Precum, was released August 11, 2025.

Artistic style

Pitchfork's Ashley Bardhan described Erotica as "a prolific hyperpop producer" whose music with Slayyyter was "half-joking and brashly sexual", while Cat Zhang of Pitchfork also identified her music as hyperpop and "airhead pop" and wrote that her "bubblegum tracks" contained "saucy, often scandalous quips" and "invocations of Juicy Couture and UGG boots". Zhang also compared her music to Kesha's in the early 2010s, particularly her debut studio album, Animal. Katherine Gillespie of Paper described Erotica's music as "nostalgic and futuristic at the same time". For PopMatters, Nick Malone called Erotica "an online underground legend" with "playfully hypersexual imagery" and "a formidable back-catalog of pop-rap bangers indebted to the music of the mid-2000s". Steffanee Wang wrote for Nylon that Erotica was "Charli XCX-adjacent".
For Paper, Michael Love Michael wrote that Erotica "seems to come from nowhere but the dark web", while Brittany Menjivar of Passion of the Weiss similarly described her as "elusive" and as having "existed in the internet shadows since her 2015 debut". Menjivar added that Erotica's lyrics often use "crude storytelling to comment on social issues" and "religious imagery with a refreshing lack of self-seriousness".
Kim Petras, Aliyah's Interlude, and Slayyyter have named Erotica as an influence on their music. Slayyyter has compared Erotica's production style to that of the Neptunes, and stated that Erotica helped guide her music in its early stages. In August 2026, Pitchfork ranked Erotica's song "Literal Legend" number 28 on its list of "The 37 Greatest Electroclash Songs of All Time", with the site's Walden Green writing: "Name-checking Lindsay Lohan in one breath and Björk the next, Erotica birthed a new high-low canon. There may be no Kim Petras, no Dorian Electra, and certainly no Slayyyter—who bought some [of] her earliest beats off Erotica—without her."

Personal life

Erotica was in a relationship with Brendon "Brendino" Jones from mid-2016 until May 2023. From July 2023 until mid-2024 she was also in a relationship with American rapper Thomas "Yvncc" Roberts.