Who Is She? Walk Us Through Goddess Energy Track By Track
Photo by Frank Correa
Seattle darlings Who Is She? are playful and free, and their new LP Goddess Energy reflects that seamlessly. The supergroup—Tacocat’s Bree McKenna and Emily Nokes, Chastity Belt’s Julia Shapiro and Lisa Prank’s Robin Edwards—are happily in control of their femininity and their music. Nowhere is this fact more clear than on their new album, where they gleefully rail against Jeff Bezos, mourn old streaming services and pay homage to that ever-forgotten day of the week, Thursday. The album is a celebration of community and womanhood, brought to life through joking song-a-day challenges and joyous nighttime jams.
Power pop is back, and Who Is She? is leading the charge—reveling in their girlhood with witty glee. The supergroup granted us access into their songwriting process as they skipped through each track on their newest triumph, and it’s just as witty as you’d expect. We recommend tuning into Goddess Energy as you make your way through the band’s musings.
“Goddess Energy”
This song (and the name of the album) is a tribute to our friend Aaron Greene, who once politely declined having lunch with us because he said it would be “too much goddess energy.” We thought that was the funniest, most kind diss ever and it been an inside joke for a long time so we decided to write a song about it.
“96 Ghouls”
This one is inspired by the ghoulish process of online dating and how it ends up dehumanizing people. You collect and label people ghouls as well as becoming a ghoul yourself. Sometimes you hate your ghouls, but you also love them because they’re yours. There’s a ghoul in all of us!
“MoviePass”
We wrote this when the beloved but ill-fated movie subscription service MoviePass was a thing of the past, but we must have cast a spell for it to come back. This song is about existing in this brief, beautiful glitch in time where we could see as many movies as we wanted in the theater. MoviePass was the one that got away, a love that burned bright and fast, and knowing it’s over but wishing you could go back. Movie theaters also are significant to Bree and Robin, who both worked as popcorn-scoopers in their early 20s. We also think that this song definitely cast a spell for MoviePass to come back.
“Thursday”
We are big fans of “day of the week” songs like “Manic Monday” and “Friday, I’m in Love,” and we realized there weren’t enough songs about Thursday. So we decided to write one!