Moody Joody

One Liner:  A little HAIM, a little recent Taylor Swift, in synth pop gals

Wikipedia Genre:  No Wikipedia, but this is pop, synth pop

Home: Nashville

Poster Position: Bottom Quarter - Line 21
Weekend One Only.
Friday.

Thoughts: This totally reminds me of HAIM.  Some of the songs also crib from the Taylor Swift sound on her recent albums, all breathy vocals and tired Jack Antonoff beats.  "The Heat" is a perfect example of that.  This is two ladies - Kaitie Forbes and Kayla Hall - with a male producer named Andrew Pacheco.

The copy in this one bio is painful: "Moody Joody does not fit in any boring box — nor would they want to. Equal parts swoony, sexy, and, well, moody, the Nashville trio is all about “owning your humanness.”  "swoony, sexy, and moody" is a hard no for me, dawg.  Which is unfortunate, because I am not disliking the sound of the actual tunes.  That same bio also mentions that they were originally on a mission to be "a girl Bleachers," so there you go with the Antonoff thing I am hearing.  They also have one of those annoying schticks where every album or single has a photo on the front with their eyes scratched out.  Disclosure in 2005-ass decision.

"The Heat" was their initial single in 2020, and it is still one of their top streamers at 1.9 million streams.

You hear that Taylor sound?  Very much sounds like the recent stuff that I don't love from Ms. Swift. Still no real album for them, the closest is a 2024 EP called Dream Girl.  The top song on that one is the top streamer overall with 2.9 million streams.  "Velvet Connection."

 

There's that HAIM sound with the 80's synths and harmonies over the top.  Significantly too much shrugging in that video.  yes, I can see that you are both very pretty.  Stop shrugging so much.

Yeah, I don't hate this.  But I definitely don't just love it either.  They are going to get one of those terrible early Friday slots, so I likely don't have to worry about it anyway!