Ice Spice Sets Her Sights On Hello Kitty And Betty Boop After SpongeBob Debut
The Bronx breakout plots her next animated moves, teasing fans with dream roles that blend nostalgia, pop culture, and her signature cool.
New York, November 21 EST: Ice Spice has never been shy about aiming high, but her latest career tease feels ripped straight from a Tumblr-core fever dream. Fresh off voicing Isis Gaston in The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants, the Bronx star told TIME she’s ready to step deeper into animation and she dropped the kinds of names that send fandoms spiraling: Hello Kitty and Betty Boop.
“As it turns out,” she told the magazine, “Hello, Kitty! If that’s ever a thing, and Betty Boop! Duh!” According to People, the quote landed hours ago and instantly lit up timelines. And honestly, it makes perfect sense. Ice Spice has built her whole pop persona on a soft-but-sharp aesthetic, part Bratz doll, part club-kid chic, with a little vintage glam tossed in. Hello Kitty and Betty Boop? That’s a bullseye.
What’s striking here is not just the ambition, but the timing. Spice is entering her most visible crossover moment ever, and she seems fully aware she’s operating at a cultural sweet spot where nostalgia, animation, music, and internet iconography blur into one wild, profitable lane.
Finding Her Voice In Bikini Bottom
Ice Spice’s role in Search for SquarePants, hitting theaters December 19, is more than a cameo. She voices a character named Isis Gaston her real name and contributes a soundtrack cut titled “Big Guy.” Entertainment outlets from Hot 97 to Rap-Up have spent the past week chronicling her mini-pivot into Hollywood, noting how the SpongeBob universe seems like an unexpectedly good fit for her breezy public persona.
In her interview, she joked that “making music is like low-key voice acting,” a line that actually tracks. Her rap delivery has always dipped into performance the whispery ad-libs, the punch-line inflections, the cartoonish confidence. For fans, the idea that she’d thrive behind a mic in an animation booth doesn’t feel like a left turn. It feels overdue.
Still, there’s something endearing about how she’s embracing the process. No diva energy, no over-rehearsed corporate polish more like a young artist genuinely discovering a new toy and wondering how far she can push it.
The Kitty And The Boop Of It All
When she tossed out Hello Kitty and Betty Boop as dream projects, it didn’t land as a random wishlist. It read as someone who understands how fandoms, fashion, and film now communicate with each other across TikTok aesthetics and nostalgia cycles.
Hello Kitty, with her massive global footprint and cross-age appeal, sits at the center of Soft Girl culture pastel palettes, cute-core accessories, a playful interior life. Meanwhile, Betty Boop, all monochrome glamour and flirty vintage camp, carries a completely different cultural weight: she’s a symbol of early animation’s rebellious femininity. Ice Spice targeting both icons signals she wants range. She wants to play in whimsical universes while also tapping into century-old cartoon glamour.
No rights-holders have commented, and no movie projects exist in the pipeline at least publicly. But Spice floating the idea is enough to set off speculation. Fans have already begun imagining her in full Boop styling, or voicing a modernized Kitty with Bronx cool baked in. The crossover potential is obvious.
Why This Move Makes Sense Now
Ice Spice is in a rare position: a young artist not boxed in by genre, who understands the value of cultural elasticity. She already built a world that feels cartoonish in the best way bold, referential, hyper-stylized. Moving into animation isn’t just a flex; it’s a brand extension.
That said, the bigger industry trend matters too. Pop stars jumping into voice acting is not new, but doing it successfully with real staying power requires the right synergy. Think Rihanna in Home, Lady Gaga in The Simpsons, or Doja Cat voicing characters across multiple animated series. Ice Spice is entering that lane early enough in her career that it could genuinely reshape her trajectory.
And the studios know the game. Animated films love casting musicians with distinct personas because the marketing writes itself. A Hello Kitty or Betty Boop revival with Ice Spice at the center? That’s an instant internet event. The merch alone would break timelines.
Fans Already See The Vision
Scrolling reactions today, the vibe is mostly excitement mixed with “why does this work so well?” There’s an innate chemistry between Ice Spice’s style and the kinds of characters she’s name-checking. As one entertainment outlet noted this week, her presence feels like “a bridge between nostalgia and new-gen cool.”
She’s built her fame on vibey charisma the conspiratorial smirk, the effortless humor, the approachable glam. Animation thrives on that kind of energy. And while she’s never formally acted before this SpongeBob project, fans seem genuinely eager to watch her evolve in real time.
Still, some are cautious, hoping she doesn’t overextend herself during a moment when her music career is arguably at its strongest. But the general mood is that her instinct for cultural alignment remains laser-sharp.
What Comes Next
Technically, nothing is confirmed beyond her SpongeBob debut. But momentum has a way of creating opportunities, especially in Hollywood’s current nostalgia-hungry wave. If any studio is looking to modernize legacy characters or revive dormant animated icons, Ice Spice just handed them a pitch on a platter.
For now, she’s simply planting seeds with confidence, curiosity, and a kind of playful ambition that feels refreshingly uncalculated. Plenty of artists talk about “expanding their brand.” Very few make the expansion feel fun.
Ice Spice somehow does. And if she does land one of her dream roles, it’ll be because she read the cultural room exactly right.
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A bi-coastal pop culture critic and former indie screenwriter, Gia covers Hollywood, streaming wars, and subculture shifts with razor wit and Gen Z intuition. If it’s going viral, she already knew about it.
