Back Dresses is a noise pop group consisting of Ada Rook and Devi McCallion. They met online in 2017 and immediately began collaborating together. Their sound has ranged from light post-punk to glitchy metal, with their most recent album featuring some of their heaviest songs yet.
After quietly releasing a cover of Paper Planes in late 2017, the group began gaining notoriety 5 months later with their debut album Wasteisolation. It was written entirely online, sending files back and forth throughout all night writing and recording sessions over a three month period. The themes of queerness, isolation, existance, and anger expressed through a very raw lens went onto become the signature tone of a Black Dresses album.The viral success of this album pushed the members to move closer together to make future collaborations easier.
The duo released two albums in 2018 Thank you and Love and Affection for Stupid Little Bitches. Both albums leaned less into metal, though still remained as experimental as their debut – shifting through many electronic genres. While the group's popularity continued to grow online, the attention became more intrusive and led to harassment of the members. The situation hit a breaking point just a month after their 2020 album Peaceful as Hell came out. This led to the duo releasing a statement online saying that due to consistent harassment they would be disbanding and pulled all of their music from streaming services.
After taking a year to reflect and collect themselves, they decided to continue releasing music together. In 2021 they released their fifth album Forever in Your Heart and received their best response yet by music critics. The darker themes of their previous albums remained the same, but the music also took a heavier turn overall to match the vocal and lyrical intensity. This year they released their sixth and shortest album titled Forget Your Own Face. [Which features some of my favorite songs by the group]
On a personal note - I appreciate Black Dresses for writing about queerness in a way that very critically speaks about existing in a cishet dominant society. While I can’t personally relate to every aspect that affects the duo, I’m glad there are popular artists who are loud about not accepting the status quo and meaningless half steps queer people are asked to be thankful for.
Stream Forget Your Own Face - it’s only 20 minutes and pride month, so do it :top-use-words:
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My parents are celebrating roe v wade being overturned im so fucking sick they were able to adopt and abuse me because America split my country and half and abortion was made illegal
Get to posting :sicko-queer:
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wait what color do you see? both are wearing black dresses with gold stripes
i like wearing black dresses and a big black hat so i can look like a witch
Is the site not working properly or am I just locked out of everything lol
Just been told by a friend that when they visited their local RMT picket they had a soviet flag up lmao
I haven't seen the left this energised since Corbyn. I want RMT to strike indefinitely.
As long as they’re not doing that “ho ho Ho Chi Minh” chant I’m here for it. I get that Santa’s a communist but shit
Pretty sure they took the basis for the "ho ho ho chi minh" directly from this Vietnamese song rather than Santa.
Alright yeah, shitty joke on my part. My bad. Thanks for the context
Not really shitty. The chant deserves criticism, they had a good idea with bad execution.
These libs I stg. They seriously don't realize none of the people that stripped abortion rights were voted on...?
Well you see we need to vote until the dems have literally every seat in the house and senate and then wait for the supreme court justices to die and get a dem president and then get 9 dem justices and maybe then we can have some rights
So get started :vote:
Also if you want trans people to have rights or Black people to not get murdered by police this is your fault
Changing this electorally would be a generational project. And even then it assumes consistent control of the senate and presidency. And even then assumes traditional dynamics like a shift away from the president's party in midterms stops holding
Going on Reddit is self-harm, holy shit. The smugness of liberals and socdems, the tsk-tsking about MLism and AES countries,while their own countries are declining, and all they have to offer is :vote:. They completely ignore the huge involvement of minorities in socialist organizations and claim it’s just white guys with dreadlocks complaining about free shit.
Fuck :sus-torment:
i feel attacked.
fucking antivaxxers making people with dreadlocks look like douchebags.
insanely fucking frustrating to see people on social media being like "The dems need to do this or that or show us they care or whatever" BUDDY THEY'RE NOT ON YOUR FUCKING TEAM HOW DO YOU NOT GET THIS BY NOW
Just got back my PCR test result and it confirmed what I suspected... I'm part of the Covid gang now:doomer:
My symptoms have remained pretty mild so far. It just sucks that I went in to work because I was told it'd be ok if my rapid tests came back negative.
"> Get pregnant
Turns out you have major health problems
Can’t get an abortion bc you live somewhere like Missouri
Nearly die in labor
tens of thousands in medical debt because the average cost of an uncomplicated birth is $13k
Can’t breastfeed because health and stress prevented milk production
“ok I’ll just use formula”
National formula shortage
Kid manages to make it to elementary school
Kid dies in school schooting
Receive thoughts and prayers"
Amazing country we sure got
there's no torture quite as exquisite as being stuck for 10 hours in the ER waiting room with some unknown problem with your heart that's getting continuously worse, while knowing for sure that you've neither been waiting the longest nor are the sickest. I honestly thought they were telling me that there was nothing wrong with me by way of ignoring me until I asked to leave and the nurse was like nooooooooooo you need to stay.
please send the nukes
nope. just said I'm "near the top of the list". and also no. they took basic tests when I showed up and I don't even know if anything looked off there.
to put this in perspective, a woman who's been sobbing in pain for 4-6 hours (idk, my memory is totally shot tonight) and who security came to check on 2 hours ago (cause she was disturbing people) just got taken in.
so yes, I think you're right. unfortunately for me, they're right and I can't actually walk out of here.
hmm I can't get my post history to load rn but I think I've outlined what's been happening in my last few posts. I'll try and grab links again later.
The good news is that the site crashed because we have such a thriving community. So that's cool.
This site is legitimately super active and that rocks.
I hate “we can do two things at once” libs. Like you fucking losers I’ve yet to see you do ONE thing successfully. Just absolutely useless :agony-consuming:
I hate “we can do two things at once” libs.
Like you fucking losers I’ve yet to see you do ONE thing successfully.
I mean, fair enough then, tbh. :thonk-cri: