carolesdaughter

One Liner: Ex-Mormon rocker with a face like a pincushion.

Wikipedia Genre: No Wikipedia - hard rock, goth rock, emo, grunge
Home: California

Poster Position: Late Addition
Weekend One Only.

Friday at 3:15 on the BMI Stage.

Thoughts:  Immediate thought during the first track is that this is for sure a TikTok artist.  The first track has 93.5 million freaking streams, and only one other even cracks a million.  She only has seven total tracks on Spotify, and two of those are alternate takes of the other tracks.  Here is that big one - "Violent."

Ew.  Well that was creepy.  Its kind of a pretty song, but the imagery provided along with it is certainly not pretty.  Unless you're super goth and scary and into scary shit.  This is called a "cathartic trap-acoustic pop song" in one article I read.

Real name is Thea Taylor.  She was raised in a strict Mormon family, one of ten kids, in southern California.  Home schooled, and it sounds like she moved around alot by high school because she was in five different high schools before just dropping out entirely.  She learned music by playing with her family members, and in one interview says that she wasn't allowed to use headphones because her parents wanted to hear what she was listening to.  That would have severely stunted my musical growth in high school.  If I knew my mom was listening to "Sir Psycho Sexy" or "Big Dumb Love" every time I was, it would have definitely limited my enjoyment of those songs.

She finally rebelled, got into punk, made multiple pilgrimages to rehab, and picked up the guitar for herself.  The name really is from her mom - she says no one is better than Carole

And, I was right about that song above.  Here is the quote:

"When a follower on her TikTok asked the artist to make the track available on the app, she obliged. Before long, the song was everywhere, soundtracking 300,000 videos on TikTok to date, including clips from popular creator @scoobiezoobie and pop star Madison Beer. Ironically, the track almost didn't make it to streaming: she had built the song on top of a random copyrighted beat she found on YouTube and, because of that, at the time couldn't even upload it to Spotify (where, a year later, it has since been streamed nearly 60 million times)."

"Brat" is horrible.  Like, absolutely just terrible.  Releasing that into the world is a war crime and a violation of the Geneva Convention.  "Porcelain Jesus" also unpleasant, but not quite as much.  Her most recent single is the other one I'll leave you with though, this is the pleasantly titled "please put me in a medically induced coma."  975k streams.

Nope.  Absolutely not on board with that one.  More of the pop punk that this festival is embracing this year, but I'm not on board with the lyrics or the music in that one.  Seems like she's just trying to shock value, and doing it over a very generic REBEL tune borrowed from Avril Lavigne's b-sides.  Just no thanks.

I would not go see this one.