Naomi McPherson

And the truth is that it's, like, we just weren't meant to make punk music in that way.

That wasn't our actual musical lineage, but it is absolutely, like, our ethos, like, lineage.

And I think...

To me, it's Bikini Kill and it's also the song Boys Wanna Be Her by Peaches.

It's funny because that verse for Wanna Be Her is like, I wrote that in like 2017.

So I would have been like, yeah, very early 20s.

Oh, it's got some early 20s energy to it.

Yeah.

And then we like figured out the rest of the song with our collaborator Leland.

Yeah, we were kicking around chorus ideas because she had all the verses.

There's like more verses that aren't on the song, I feel like.

Yeah, there are.

And we kind of like picked between them.

But the early demo of that song sounded like a cake song.

Like it was like, I think there was like cowbell.

Yeah.

Cake is in the genealogy.

I mean, cake rocks.

But yeah, Bikini Kill kind of the specific idea of like the sort of like parallel of like trying on the dress and being best friends, like an aspect that exists in Rebel Girl.

I think really from a musical standpoint, sorry, we were going for like a La Tigra Decepticon thing.