“That’s so tacky. I hate that.” That’s what Emily Snow considered her stage identify, Snow Spouse, when her finest buddy and producer, Sam Catalano, a.okay.a. Slush Pet, urged she use it as her artist identify—a play on fairy-tale princess Snow White with a domesticated twist.
It obtained combined reactions from associates who heard it at a celebration. So she determined to make use of it.
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“We wished one thing that sounded acquainted and recognizable and memorable,” she tells me from her automotive—which is parked close to a tree underneath a transparent, blue L.A. sky—over Zoom. “I feel that that story is so foolish, however I feel that it additionally captures the essence of the challenge so effectively. We’ve at all times aimed to create issues that folks have a response to. Whether or not they like it or they hate it…I like when folks have opinions about artwork. And I like making artwork that’s open to opinion and will upset some folks.”
Earlier than she began making music, Snow Spouse was a dancer; had been her complete life, and he or she moved to L.A. to pursue her dream of doing it professionally. In L.A., she started writing songs in her bed room, liking the method a lot she determined to develop into a singer-songwriter as a substitute.
“I by no means thought I might be a songwriter. After which I simply had a number of alone time each time I moved to L.A., so I feel it simply got here from there.”
Snow Spouse exploded into the music scene in 2023 when her breakout single “American Horror Present,” which garnered 55 million Spotify streams and paved the best way for her debut EP, Queen Degenerate later that yr. She launched three singles in 2024—“Moist Dream,” “Pool,” and “Loopy”—and now, she’s again with a brand new track, “What Do Women Do,” a synth-heavy anthem about queerness and what it means to establish as a girl.
What impressed “What Do Women Do”?
I feel all through my life, my queerness has been so fluid. I feel I’m nonetheless processing what it means to me. In an apparent means, “What Do Women Do” is a track about being a lesbian. So it’s basically making enjoyable of the age-old heterosexual query of lesbian relationships, what do ladies do throughout intercourse? It’s a commentary about what it means to even be a girl. So you possibly can view it by means of the lens of so many views; a trans lady, or what does it imply to be a girl as an androgynous particular person? That’s what I like in regards to the title of the track. Clearly within the lyrics I am going into me being with a lady within the context of a cis-woman relationship. However I feel at massive, the track is simply purported to be about femininity. And it may be for anyone that’s questioning their femininity, like, let’s say like a cis man in his bed room, possibly placing on make-up or dwelling a sure fantasy of what ladies do.
It looks like it’s a reasonably private track for you.
To me, it’s simply questioning what even is womanhood and the way does it look to each particular person. And as for me, I’m in a relationship with an androgynous particular person. What’s womanhood to them? I’ve been so impressed by my girlfriend, simply, like, studying about what womanhood has meant to her by means of completely different sections of their life, you understand?
Your mother died while you have been younger. How did that influence your songwriting?
She had most cancers after I was younger, after which she truly ended up surviving that, after which she ended up passing away a couple of years later from a coronary heart assault and a stroke. I used to be 10, so I used to be a child. I feel that each time folks develop up with out mother and father, it turns into a very fascinating life cycle. And so I feel that a number of my life has been devoted to finding out that and finding out my conduct and rising up, if that is smart. And I feel I’m very lucky to be blessed with self-awareness, and I feel that I’ve been blessed to be so introspective. There’s one thing so organic a few lady’s attachment to her mom. So in a lame means, I may say, “Oh, it made me the particular person I’m right now.” However I feel normally, each time there’s an absence of a parent-child relationship in any respect, it makes somebody very fascinating. I feel that it blessed me with empathy. And it’s blessed me with a deep curiosity for all times and a deep curiosity for human connection and understanding and a curiosity for understanding how folks work. I feel that I’ve used songwriting as far as a means…to attach with folks. I went from hating myself and being tremendous suicidal and having zero self-worth into utterly altering my life and loving myself. I haven’t actually touched on these issues but. I feel I’ll after I’m a bit older and I’m prepared to show folks these sorts of tales. However so far as proper now, I feel to this point I’ve used music very a lot as an escapism factor. And I feel that I’ve used Snow Spouse as a catalyst for change.
What do you hope folks will take away from the track after they hearken to it?
I hope that folks recognize femininity and I feel that we’re dwelling in a time the place lesbianism and queerness—and it at all times has been fetishized—have develop into very fashionable, which is such a tremendous factor as a result of clearly that’s by no means occurred earlier than. I simply need us to proceed to understand romance and the emotional bonds that you simply create. I feel that’s why I like to like ladies as a result of genuinely, the emotional bond {that a} lady makes with one other lady is one thing that’s deeper than something I’ve discovered. That’s coming from somebody who’s been in relationships with all varieties of gender-identifying folks. The track to me seems like the way it felt after I first began growing crushes on ladies. That’s such an intense factor. And it’s such a stupendous factor. Ladies have simply such an innate understanding of one another. To not say that straight relationships should not deep. However I feel that it’s only a completely different sort of affection.
You’ve talked about that “I write songs the best way I think about the dances look.” Is that true for this track?
Truthfully, no, which is fascinating. I did have a lot of my id wrapped into being a dancer—not that I’m ever letting that go. I’m at all times going to make music for dance simply because I like dance, however I feel that I nearly used it as a crutch for a really very long time in my songwriting. And now I’m studying to make use of it after I need to, however I don’t at all times should. And it doesn’t should be a crutch. So this is without doubt one of the first songs that I truly wrote with out dance in thoughts.
What’s on the horizon for 2025?
I’ve been engaged on a challenge that I really feel like is the primary challenge that truly represents me as an artist, which clearly sounds tacky. However I feel I got here into music so shortly, and although I like Queen Degenerate and it’s so particular to me, I feel that it captures a lot of my highschool self and it captures a lot of my little one self…a number of the music that I grew up on is in Queen Degenerate. “American Horror Present” was one of many first songs I ever even wrote. So I used to be actually simply beginning to determine. And now that I’ve had one other yr of expertise, I’ve been curating what represents me as a songwriter. I’m simply so excited for folks to grasp me in that means.
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