![]() Still, there’s silliness to both - check the Regrettes’ fuzzy and propulsive “Picture Perfect,” which quotes Salt-N-Pepa’s “Push It,” or Cherry Glazerr’s light-stepping “Trash People,” in which Creevy brags about wearing underpants three days in a row. “I’m constantly contradicting myself every day with my quote-unquote philosophies,” Creevy says, “but the only things I take seriously - and the only things that energize me - are music and feminism.” Women don’t have that.”Ĭherry Glazerr and the Regrettes, who have shared bills together, including a recent benefit for Planned Parenthood, live on different ends of the punk-inspired spectrum. ![]() You may be competitive with your fellow man, but it’s competition for all the opportunities that the world offers you. “It’s such a small-scale thing, and it’s self-defeating,” she continues. They’re vicious little animals competing for the attention of a man. But women are competitive to each other on such a small scale. “Women are so highly competitive with each other,” Creevy says. “It’s necessary, to give a lady love,” she sings. She details being a loner, then hanging with the boys, and then a rush of noise arrives in the song’s final moments to release the tension as she appears to find solace in female solidarity. The song opens “Apocalipstick” with sharply pointed guitars that wind up and down while Creevy, with a cutting upper register, slices through the stutter-step melody. Ask Creevy to explain the songs, and she’ll give one-word answers (“death,” “drugs”) or seemingly completely made-up ones, such as the moment she describes “Told You I’d Be With the Guys” as a document of fish pedicures. Her personality - half-serious but a little wry and cynical - is all over Cherry Glazerr’s “Apocalipstick,” which the Secretly Canadian label will release on Friday. 26, are relative newcomers on the local scene, having only played their first show last February, Creevy is a wizened veteran. If the Regrettes, appearing at Hollywood’s Amoeba Music for a free show on Jan. I wanted to make sure everyone heard this song. I didn’t have a Lydia singing that song to me. “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. Later, she’ll joke, “I’m not good at parties.”
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