When you go to a live show by Nashville band Bully, here’s what you’re going to see: An awesome chick dressed in jeans and a T-shirt who is mad at a guy who has wronged her. She’s giving both him and his bad excuses the middle finger through loud drums, punk-influenced rock’n’roll guitar riffs, and bittersweet indie pop vocals (that definitely sound a bit Stefani-esque). This girl has her best dudes (who also happen to be her band) behind her (literally)…and that girl is Alicia Bognanno. Nashville’s Bully are self-releasing a self-titled EP , and ahead of that they’ve put out its lead track, “Milkman.” Considering their hometown of Nashville and their love of distorted guitars, there’s a little garage rock in there, but “Milkman” has big pop hooks that wouldn’t have been out of place on ’90s rock radio.
It makes sense to me then, that the Bognanno-fronted Bully be named what they are.
Bully is not the fist-thrower who picks a fight for no reason. Bully is a girl who believes in people standing up for themselves, whether it be in the way you dress, voting to protect women’s rights, or by yelling at some jerk from an indie venue stage somewhere in the USA.
When interviewing the badass Bognanno, I feel like she doesn’t even realize how badass she actually is, how much she can be a role model for young women in the music industry, and, really for anyone who just wants to be themselves—wearing denim and old tees, because, well, they’re just fucking comfortable.
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