On Wednesday, as the Bernie Sanders inauguration meme took off, she asked her followers to make one that combined her band with the mitten-wearing Vermont senator, then retweeted some of the amusing results. Trifilio says she’s determined to stay off Twitter and Instagram in 2021, though she’s already backsliding - worse for her than for us, given her sharply funny internet presence. “Now, I just look at the ‘likes’ and how many people are watching the music videos.” Before COVID-19, she says, “you’d talk to people after the show and they could tell you how a song affected them, and I’d get to tell them how grateful I was that they came. Interaction on social media has been an unsatisfying replacement for the face-to-face meetings Trifilio grew accustomed to having with her audience as Beach Bunny came up playing house shows in Chicago’s close-knit DIY punk scene. The singer, who says she’s “not really in a relationship context” these days, remembers making a joke on Twitter about how some of her songs were “pathetic,” only to receive angry replies from fans who told her, “Those songs resonate with me so much - you can’t say that about them.’” Which doesn’t mean that that version of Trifilio doesn’t live on in Beach Bunny’s old music. “Maybe these new songs are me trying to console my past self - and to be angry for her.” “‘Cloud 9’ is framed as a love song, but when I listen to those lyrics now, I almost want to shake my past self: ‘You need to have self-worth beyond a person liking you,’” she said. Removing herself from those relationships during stay-at-home orders led her to look at the circumstances differently. “I was so consumed by it that writing a song seemed like the only option, because I knew I wasn’t gonna leave,” she adds, pointing as an example to “ Cloud 9,” which closes Beach Bunny’s debut with a chorus “that’s basically saying, ‘When he says I’m pretty, I feel worth it.’” “And I feel like a lot of the old songs had this theme of tolerance - like, I tolerate this bad behavior, even though it’s affecting me.’ “I was in a pattern of toxic relationships during the ‘Honeymoon’ era,” she says she realized.
Not long after those Roxy gigs, the band’s touring plans - including its first trip to Europe and what the singer called a “bucket list” appearance at Coachella - were called off because of the COVID-19 pandemic. She attributes the shift in attitude to the ample time she had at home to reflect last year. Trifilio is on the phone from Chicago, where she attended an all-girls Catholic high school and later formed Beach Bunny while studying journalism at DePaul University. Music stars bring songs of hope to Biden inauguration, but COVID and Trump cast long shadowsĪ-listers from Katy Perry to Bruce Springsteen performed on Inauguration Day, but the COVID-19 crisis, and the darkness of the Trump years, muted the celebration.
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