![]() “When I was in middle school and high school, I didn’t have that song,” Gariano says, seated with her bandmates at a West L.A. “That was the song that made me want to do this,” Regrettes guitarist Gariano, 19, says of forming the band. The song helped secure management and a record deal with Warner Bros. “A Living Human Girl” seems to have accomplished that plea. “When you think of someone younger, you think, ‘Oh, I’m smarter than you.’ It feels horrible. “Gender set aside, just by being a kid, people automatically assume you’re dumb,” Night says. Maybe the grown-ups don’t have it figured out, after all. In turn, there’s another, perhaps unintentional, underlying message to “Feel Your Feelings Fool!” and Cherry Glazerr’s “Apocalipstick,” each out this month. It isn’t lost on either act that they each have albums hitting at a time when women’s rights are a matter of debate on Capitol Hill and our president-elect has been heard on tape demeaning women. “I heard that she’s a feminist, so she must not shave her pits,” Night hollers late on “Feel Your Feelings Fool!” and, at a record release party Friday night at the Echo, she took a moment to dedicate the band’s most aggressively explicit song to incoming President Donald Trump. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times ) Cherry Glazerr is apt to decorate its stage with images of female anatomy, while the Regrettes, on song after song, bluntly and sarcastically tackle ignorance and stereotypes. It also sends a message, arguing that Hollywood’s pop music machinery has long failed to capture the mixed-up, muddled and angry feelings of adolescence. “A Living Human Girl” is the centerpiece of the Regrettes’ debut album, “Feel Your Feelings Fool!” As a whole, the 15-song work turns the confusion and frustration of modern times into high-energy blasts rooted in freedom of expression and individuality. “I’m not a bitch for saying what is real,” Night snaps, delivering the lyric moments after mocking her breast size and just before she broadcasts news of her period. Stretch marks, acne, greasy hair, a disinterest in exercising - Night turns them all into causes for celebration, with a 1960s-inspired girl group stomp and a punk-rock snarl. Or, rather, she had a 2½-minute manifesto that points a middle finger at our culture’s unrealistic view of femininity. The Regrettes’ Genessa Gariano, for instance, discovered what had been missing from her middle- and high-school life when she met Night. “When you’re a teenager and you’re in a band, people always feel the need to just jab-jab-jab-jab,” says Lydia Night, the Regrettes’ 16-year-old lead songwriter Yet answering endless questions about youth is a reality both bands have had to face. ![]() “I get pretty much everything here, but I go to Pasadena to live out my fantasy of being a suburban housewife.Later, she’ll joke, “I’m not good at parties.” “Where I live is a really cool part of town,” Creevy notes of Highland Park. She can step into a very different world in nearby Pasadena for a nice dinner at Sage Vegan Bistro. “They have good breakfast tacos and little breakfast burritos that are really delish,” she says before sharing that she’ll usually order a burrito with egg, cheese, and spinach. It’s the kind of place Creevy liked to go during quarantine: a humble burrito stand with no indoor seating. “or until food runs out,” as its website promises. I get pretty much everything here, but I go to Pasadena to live out my fantasy of being a suburban housewife.”įor a quick breakfast, she’s often at Tacos Villa Corona on Glendale Boulevard, open from 8 a.m. “Where I live is a really cool part of town. “It’s a lot of pressed vegetables-it’s a celery, apple, kale, lemon situation. Sometimes I just want a green juice, but it’s because I probably had a fricking street dog last night,” she says with a laugh. ![]() When at home, she’ll run over to La Tropicana Market, a community grocer with espresso, a deli, and a juice bar. “And I just remember thinking-not in a cocky way-but I’m like, ‘ I can do that.’ And you just have to do it. Ever since, she’s spent time living in the disparate neighborhoods of Koreatown, Laurel Canyon, and Silver Lake as a teen, she found lasting inspiration to create music while attending a performance by the noise rock duo No Age in Chinatown. “Every time I go somewhere else, and then I come back home, this feeling washes over me: ‘Ahh, I’m finally back in the best place ever.’”Ĭreevy was born in New York, and her family bounced around between there, Chicago, and LA until settling for good in Los Angeles when she was 12. “I just really love the culture of Los Angeles-there’s a lot of magic here,” she says, sitting in her Highland Park living room. Clementine Creevy can imagine living somewhere else, far away in another part of the country, but the bandleader of Cherry Glazerr isn’t ready to leave LA.
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