I was thinking about the way Wet Leg sings about boys, especially in a song like "Wet Dream," and how they often make fun of men. A music video, also directed by Teasdale, was released on the same day as the release of the single.

Keeping you in the loop with what is happening in our world - records from Domino Mart, news, discounts and exclusives. They were a new thing and somebody had the great idea not to wait for them to evolve – to put them in a studio and capture that newness whole. As she chants about being trapped in bad scene after bad scene, her vocals lurch and spiral, sidling away from the unrelenting rhythm section and canine guitars like a child going floppy to escape her parent’s arms.Wet Leg on their first ever gig | The Evening Show with George Godfrey | Radio X How did Wet Leg meet? On “Convincing,” the album’s biggest tonal outlier, Chambers sings wryly devastated Angel Olsen cosplay. Humorous songs, the wacky songs often made by women, are always suspected to be artifice or calculated.

Powers: We represent three different generations and it's interesting: We all hear a bit of our youth in this band, the kind of moment in youth where you're still wild and experimenting, but you're also realizing that maybe this isn't so good for your brain.n certain circumstances, your personal information may be collected by artist representatives and passed on to Domino for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy rather than collected by Domino directly.

No personal information is collected from you via the Applications, using the Web API developed and maintained by Apple Inc. Or the B-52s, with Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson skewering traditional femininity by wearing pink wigs and cocktail dresses, and then singing unhinged, sci-fi Stepford Wives songs like "52 Girls.

If you don’t already love Wet Leg, chances are their swift rise and self-deprecation induce a particular kind of cynicism. The song went viral in 2021, having had millions of streams and video views, and it won the Grammy for Best Alternative Music Performance at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards. Ganz: I don't know, it's never embarrassing when I climb on the hood of a car and lick the windshield. Cills: I have admittedly been skeptical of Wet Leg — not in the sense that I think they're an "industry plant," because those things don't really exist — but I do think Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers are very savvy and it's interesting that we're talking so much about the '80s, the era of the music video, because the pressures on artists to stand out in an overcrowded field and make a really strong visual and hook that can be looped on TikTok into a meme are more intense than ever.

Wet Leg are heading to Australia in February to support Harry Styles and will be appearing at the star's UK shows next summer and will be on the bill with Pulp at Finsbury Park in July. A routinely great artist, much of Sufjan's universal appeal comes from his skills as a gifted narrator, pairing personal musings on love and devotion with commentary on American culture, whilst welding folk and electronica, the ambient and existential. The first thing that she says is trying to convince us that her parents don't know that the "Big D" is not actually her degree. Wet Leg was recorded in April 2021, before the band had even played live, with Speedy Wunderground's Dan Carey acting as main producer.Teasdale sings about an ex who texts her when she appears in his wet dreams, as well as doing other increasingly ridiculous things like " exposing himself on the side of the road, climbing onto the hood of her car, licking the windshield. The 2,300-capacity Forum must have been booked before everything kicked off but they’ve wisely decided to stick with the smaller venues while they still can. Right from the start of Wet Leg, Teasdale and Chambers focus was fun, and a dry sense of humour ripples through the album. For a certain audience aware of rock history and how the genre has risen and fallen, it was impossible to turn away from those songs. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy , external and privacy policy , external before accepting.