Formula Indie Sessions _ Interview with women who work
Women who work channels distinct personas of bold, complex women with it’s indie alt pop sounds. Our latest track, H0t Secrets, explores the thrill and tension of hidden relationships for all the wrong (and right) reasons.
What is your earliest memory connected to music?
Watching my great-grandfather play bluegrass on the porch of his old shack in the Tennessee hills.
How did your passion for creating music begin?
I’ve been singing since I could talk and melodies have always been squatting in my head. I didn’t start writing songs until I was 15 though, and mostly as a way to survive the emotional disaster of unrequited crushes. I couldn’t play an instrument, so they came out like poems. Honestly, I still love having a crush today just for the material. Keeps things interesting. I’ve got a few muses rattling around up there, uninvited but reliable.
What’s the story behind your current music project?
We’re recording our EP right now. I knew I wanted the music to center flawed women, but not in a way that judged them, more in a way that let them live in the gray areas where most of us actually exist. I wanted space for contradictions, delusion, brilliance, bad decisions, survival tactics, all of it.
The songs became portraits — each one a different woman, not a saint or a sinner, just someone muddling through the contradictions, the fantasies, the moments of grace and the moments of total nonsense. That’s really where Women Who Work came from.
The hilarious part is that the band itself ended up being me bossing two dudes around while I write songs about all the ways women can be gloriously, disastrously complex and vapid. They’re like my Pips. It’s absurd but charming.
How would you describe your sound to someone who has never heard your music before?
Groovy, electric and smart
What is one thing you’ve learned that completely changed the way you make music?
The piano, yeah. I used to live with my bandmates, Nick and Mike. They were always playing something, and I’d just drift in and sing over the top. Real magical, low-rent stuff. But I’d been writing songs since I was a teenager without touching an instrument, just treating it like a diary.
Then we all moved out, and the silence in my place felt rude, so I bought a keyboard in 2022 and decided I’d teach myself piano. Still not great at it, but I know enough to get the ideas out of my head and into the room. I wrote my first bassline the other day, it felt electric. And honestly, I get away with murder because Nick and Mike are excellent musicians. They give me the space to mumble what I’m hearing, and then we turn it into something that sounds like a real song.
What tools, instruments, or software are essential in your creative process?
I typically write on piano. I just started writing out tabs on my bass. Once I have an idea and some chords, I take it to the boys and hum it out in the studio where we pull in the drums, guitar and bass. Nick does the actual music producing and mixing and uses Pro Tools.
Which indie artist or song are you loving right now?
Alex Cameron is my favorite indie artist and a huge inspiration for my writing. He’s just released a new song Short King that is quite funny (and catchy). For stage presence inspiration, I love Sean Nicholas Savage. He just lets the music rip through him. Seeing him perform is a beautiful experience.
How have your personal experiences influenced your music and artistic vision?
Being a woman in this world trying to get by gives me unlimited ideas. Especially having worked for years in breaking news and now corporate tech, I’ve seen all types. Women Who Work really started when I found myself watching incredible women grind alongside women who’ve decided to prop up the very systems built against them. The Phyllis Schlafly types, the “girlboss” myth all the icons of leaning in until you fall over. And then there was my obsession with the Real Housewives, sacrificing anything to stay relevant as they age — for reasons that, honestly, make perfect sense when you look at the world they’re trying to navigate. It’s just the truth of being alive and figuring out how to get by.
What emotions or messages do you hope listeners take from your work?
I guess I hope more people can see the nuance in life and offer a little more grace, particularly to women
What’s the most important lesson music has taught you so far?
Just learning to trust myself and not hide from the world. I can be prone to shutting down and second-guessing. But in the studio, whether we’re practicing or producing, I end up making a lot of calls based on instinct alone. Doing that over and over slowly builds its own kind of confidence.
What is a dream venue or festival you would love to perform at?
Webster Hall or the Brooklyn Paramount would be excellent. I like that perfect-in-between size. But honestly, the Sultan Room might be my real dream. Tiny, intimate, a little magical… I love seeing shows there.
If you could collaborate with any artist, past or present, who would it be and why?
Lana Del Rey would be the dream. No one does it better than Lana. Her sound, flow and ability to write about the complexities of womanhood are unmatched. The stories aren’t often pretty but the music always is.
Where can our listeners follow and support your music? (Website,Spotify, IG, links)
We’d love a follow on Spotify and our IG @womenwhoworkband
Looking toward the future, what’s your dream for the next chapter of your musical
Journey?
Release more music, perform in cool venues and collaborate with people we actually like. But right now, it’s mostly one foot in front of the other. Sometimes I remember I should probably push myself and aim for the moon, then I shrug and keep walking. Feels about right.
What do you hope listeners will discover about you along the way?
That I’m funny as fuck. I hope they see the light hearted side of these songs and characters and appreciate some of the wit we try to sprinkle in there.
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