Candle Queen

Background
"it's lit 🔥🔥🔥"

- GHOST

"Candle Queen" is an collaborative song by Lauren Estes and GHOST featuring GUMI. Lauren Estes created the term "Candle Queen" to be synonymous with the term drama queen, with the initial being more "fiery" than the latter. Within a few days after its release, it exceeded 100,000 views.

The song is about a girl who is manipulative and always gets her way. She was spoiled from birth and was never disciplined for her behavior, thus never shaking off this behavior in adulthood. She gets her fix off of adrenaline and attention by causing drama and "flame wars", and constantly playing the victim. In the end, the girl loses her friends and everything she has built after they realize how toxic she was and how she was just taking advantage of them.

Controversy
The controversy around the song comes from people confusing the character's behaviors with. This confusion has caused people to accuse both Lauren Estes and GHOST as ableists. Lauren Estes has stated that the song has absolutely nothing to do with any personality disorder and that the character is.

As for GHOST, they apologized for the lyrics despite not writing them. They interpreted the song as an "own up to your actions" song.