Kyd the Band [no longer playing the Fest]

The Internet doesn't give a reason that I can find, but he's not on the schedule anywhere...

One Liner:  Forgettable poppy alternative with a hint of R&B/electronica

Wikipedia Genre:  No Wikipedia, will call it pop alternative
Home: Nashville, via northern California

Poster Position: 25

Weekend Two Only.

Thoughts: I clicked on this one fully expecting a kiddie limits band - how in the world is there a group called Kyd the Band, down there on the bottom of the poster with Koo Koo Kanga Roo, that is not at all kid-adjacent music.  This is more of a pop R&B type sound, and after just having slogged through James Blake for hours, I'm not down with it.

No real albums, all just singles.  Most popular single, by a mile, is "American Dreamer," with 2.6 million streams.

Catchy pop stuff.  But the lyrics are confusing me - is he saying that he wants to buy her a house, but he's not going to actually pay for it, and if the house gets foreclosed, he hopes that she'll squat in the house anyway?  Seems like it would be better if he actually paid the mortgage.

Real name is Devin Guisande.  And his brother might also be part of the band?  Not sure - sometimes I read that this band name (Terrible band name, by the way) is his own pseudonym, other times I see that it involves other people.  His website bio says that he grew up in northern California, left home to go live on the floor of a room he shared with an ex-bandmate while he worked on making music, but then "landed cuts with Bone-Thugs-N-Harmony [and] NF."  He "landed a cut" with Bone Thugs?  What does that even mean?  Anyway, he went on tour opening for NF (a pretty solid rapper who came to ACL a few years back) and has been gaining popularity ever since.  Huh.  His bio on his label website says that he wrote five songs for Bone Thugs.  I don't know if that makes me proud of this dude or feel terribly sad for Bone Thugs that they aren't even writing their own tunes for no one to listen to.

The second most popular track is his most recent single, "Easy," released in June 2019, and already with 882k streams.

Has that EDM vibe of a brassy-sounding hook singer you've never heard of, but then the music itself is less electronic (well, that drum machine is definitely electronic, but it straddles the line between heavy notes from the piano and that aggressive drum machine.  He looks like one of the fake Eminems from that time they had a room full of fake Eminems as the real Em rapped in "The Real Slim Shady."  Also, seems unsafe to let that little boy ride that dirt bike, even if he does miss dad.  "Sad Songs" has a crappy 21 Pilots mixed with Rebelution vibe.

I will not go watch this.