Girl Group

Consider the girl group. A divine feminine moment in pop culture: whether the riot grrrls of the ’90s, a sleek, honey-voiced R&B trio, or a glam and campy, dancing quintet. But through history, she—the collective, she—has been constructed by men, made a product of the music industry machine primed for algorithms and girlboss politics. Where is the girl group’s place on the pop pedestal in today’s world? What can happen when the girl group, is girl made? That story starts in Liverpool with Katya, Maria, Thea, Mia and Lil – our Girl Group. The five women met while studying at Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, and have lived together (in youthful chaos and harmony, figuratively and literally) since. Katya, Thea, Maria, and Mia are all from Oslo, while Lil is the resident Yorkshire woman. They each bring their own individual sounds and a full-spectrum of sonic references, and it was their shared frustration with the music industry boy’s club that first laid the foundations for Girl