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”’TV Girl”’ is an American [[indie pop]] band from [[San Diego]], California, consisting of lead vocalist Brad Petering, drummer Jason Wyman, and keyboardist Wyatt Harmon.<ref name=”Interview with Interview Magazine”>{{cite web|url=http://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/discovery-tv-girl#_ |title=Discovery: TV Girl|last=Taylor|first=John|publisher=Interview Magazine |date= August 9, 2012|
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”’TV Girl”’ is an American [[indie pop]] band from [[San Diego]], California, consisting of lead vocalist Brad Petering, drummer Jason Wyman, and keyboardist Wyatt Harmon.<ref name=”Interview with Interview Magazine”>{{cite web|url=http://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/discovery-tv-girl#_ |title=Discovery: TV Girl|last=Taylor|first=John|publisher=Interview Magazine |date= August 9, 2012|=November 7, 2014}}</ref><ref name=”Interview with Rocksucker”>{{cite web|url=http://rocksucker.co.uk/2011/10/interview-tv-girl.html |title=Interview: TV Girl|last=Abrams|first=Jonny|publisher=Rocksucker |date= |=November 7, 2014}}</ref>
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The band released its first three EPs in 2010 and a mixtape in 2012. It followed this with its debut album, ”[[French Exit (album)|French Exit]]”, in 2014. Their second album, ”[[Who Really Cares (TV Girl album)|Who Really Cares]]”, was released in 2016, with further albums following in 2018 (”Death of a Party Girl”) and 2023 (”Grapes Upon the Vine”), alongside three collaboration albums: ”Maddie Acid’s Purple Hearts Club Band”, ”Summer’s Over”, and ”Fauxllennium” in 2018, 2021, and 2024 respectively.
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The band released its first three EPs in 2010 and a mixtape in 2012. It followed this with its debut album, ”[[French Exit (album)|French Exit]]”, in 2014. Their second album, ”[[Who Really Cares (TV Girl album)|Who Really Cares]]”, was released in 2016, with further albums following in 2018 (”Death of a Party Girl”) and 2023 (”Grapes Upon the Vine”), alongside three collaboration albums: ”Maddie Acid’s Purple Hearts Club Band”, ”Summer’s Over”, and ”Fauxllennium” in 2018, 2021, and 2024 respectively.
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== History ==
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== History ==
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TV Girl was formed in [[San Diego]] in 2010, by friends Trung Ngo and Brad Petering as a leisure activity with no particular ambition other than experimenting and hanging out.<ref name=”:0″>{{Cite web |last=Courtney |first=James |title=What Comes After Chillwave? California’s TV Girl |url=https://www.sacurrent.com/music/what-comes-after-chillwave-californias-tv-girl-2382282 |access-date=December 29, 2023 |website=San Antonio Current |language=en}}</ref> The name of the band is taken from a song by [[Beat Happening]].<ref>{{Cite web| url=https://www.whrb.org/archive/interview-tv-girl/| last=Harris| first=Ilana| title=Interview With TV Girl| date=June 22, 2016| access-date=January 21, 2025}}</ref> That same year, the band released their self-titled debut EP, which attracted attention when they sampled [[Todd Rundgren]]’s 1973 solo version of “[[Hello It’s Me#Todd Rundgren solo version|Hello It’s Me]]” on their song “If You Want It” from the EP,<ref name=”iywi”>{{Cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/news/11253-if-you-want-it/|title=If You Want It|website=Pitchfork|date=October 22, 2010|access-date=March 7, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://music.apple.com/us/artist/tv-girl/468460706|title=TV Girl – Apple Music|via=[[Apple Music]]|access-date=October 3, 2023}}</ref> leading to a [[takedown notice]] on the band, issued by [[Rhino Entertainment]], who owns full rights to the Rundgren song.<ref>{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2011/dec/21/note-tv-girl/|title=Beats and Samples: TV Girl|date=December 21, 2021|
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TV Girl was formed in [[San Diego]] in 2010, by friends Trung Ngo and Brad Petering as a leisure activity with no particular ambition other than experimenting and hanging out.<ref name=”:0″>{{Cite web |last=Courtney |first=James |title=What Comes After Chillwave? California’s TV Girl |url=https://www.sacurrent.com/music/what-comes-after-chillwave-californias-tv-girl-2382282 |access-date=December 29, 2023 |website=San Antonio Current |language=en}}</ref> The name of the band is taken from a song by [[Beat Happening]].<ref>{{Cite web| url=https://www.whrb.org/archive/interview-tv-girl/| last=Harris| first=Ilana| title=Interview With TV Girl| date=June 22, 2016| access-date=January 21, 2025}}</ref> That same year, the band released their self-titled debut EP, which attracted attention when they sampled [[Todd Rundgren]]’s 1973 solo version of “[[Hello It’s Me#Todd Rundgren solo version|Hello It’s Me]]” on their song “If You Want It” from the EP,<ref name=”iywi”>{{Cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/news/11253-if-you-want-it/|title=If You Want It|website=Pitchfork|date=October 22, 2010|access-date=March 7, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://music.apple.com/us/artist/tv-girl/468460706|title=TV Girl – Apple Music|via=[[Apple Music]]|access-date=October 3, 2023}}</ref> leading to a [[takedown notice]] on the band, issued by [[Rhino Entertainment]], who owns full rights to the Rundgren song.<ref>{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2011/dec/21/note-tv-girl/|title=Beats and Samples: TV Girl|date=December 21, 2021|=October 20, 2023|last=Crain|first=William|magazine=[[San Diego Reader]]}}</ref>
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In 2011, the band released their second EP of four tracks, ”Benny and the Jetts”, along with a music video for “Baby You Were There”, from the EP.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Singh|first=Amrit|url=https://www.stereogum.com/772462/download-tv-girls-benny-and-the-jetts-ep/news/|title=Download TV Girl’s Benny And The Jetts EP|magazine=[[Stereogum]]|date=July 28, 2011|
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In 2011, the band released their second EP of four tracks, ”Benny and the Jetts”, along with a music video for “Baby You Were There”, from the EP.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Singh|first=Amrit|url=https://www.stereogum.com/772462/download-tv-girls-benny-and-the-jetts-ep/news/|title=Download TV Girl’s Benny And The Jetts EP|magazine=[[Stereogum]]|date=July 28, 2011|=January 5, 2024}}</ref> At the time of release, Joel Williams had also joined the band.<ref name=”:0″/>
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In April 2012, TV Girl released the single “I Wonder Who She’s Kissing Now”,<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Goble|first=Corban|url=https://www.stereogum.com/994821/tv-girl-i-wonder-who-shes-kissing-now-stereogum-premiere/news/|title=TV Girl – “I Wonder Who She’s Kissing Now”|magazine=[[Stereogum]]|date=April 6, 2012|
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In April 2012, TV Girl released the single “I Wonder Who She’s Kissing Now”,<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Goble|first=Corban|url=https://www.stereogum.com/994821/tv-girl-i-wonder-who-shes-kissing-now-stereogum-premiere/news/|title=TV Girl – “I Wonder Who She’s Kissing Now”|magazine=[[Stereogum]]|date=April 6, 2012|=January 5, 2024}}</ref> which would be part of their first mixtape ”The Wild, The Innocent, The TV Shuffle”, released a month later. The mixtape was given away for free with an accompanying downloadable coloring book.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Goble|first=Corban|url=https://www.stereogum.com/1022932/download-tv-girls-the-wild-the-innocent-the-tv-shuffle-mixtape-stereogum-premiere/news/|title=Download TV Girl’s The Wild, The Innocent, The TV Shuffle Mixtape|magazine=[[Stereogum]]|date=May 4, 2012|=January 5, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|last=Pearis|first=Bill|url=https://www.brooklynvegan.com/stream-or-downl-1/|title=stream or download TV Girl’s new “mixtape”|magazine=[[BrooklynVegan]]|date=May 7, 2012|=January 5, 2024}}</ref> The release would have constituted their debut album, but according to Petering and Ngo the work was more appropriately defined as a mixtape.<ref name=”Interview with Interview Magazine” />
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In 2013, they released the single “She Smokes in Bed”, which would be part of TV Girl’s third EP ”Lonely Women”.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Goble|first=Corban|url=https://www.stereogum.com/1358352/tv-girl-she-smokes-in-bed-stereogum-premiere/news/|title=TV Girl – “She Smokes In Bed”|magazine=[[Stereogum]]|date=May 22, 2013|
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In 2013, they released the single “She Smokes in Bed”, which would be part of TV Girl’s third EP ”Lonely Women”.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Goble|first=Corban|url=https://www.stereogum.com/1358352/tv-girl-she-smokes-in-bed-stereogum-premiere/news/|title=TV Girl – “She Smokes In Bed”|magazine=[[Stereogum]]|date=May 22, 2013|=January 5, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|last=Pearis|first=Bill|url=https://www.brooklynvegan.com/stream-tv-girls/|title=stream TV Girl’s new EP, ‘Loney Women’|magazine=[[BrooklynVegan]]|date=June 19, 2013|=January 5, 2024}}</ref> That same year, TV Girl underwent a pivotal change when Ngo had left the band, leaving Petering as its sole member. Petering, formerly focused on beats, seamlessly embraced the role of primary vocalist following Ngo’s departure (although Ngo would return to record backing vocals for French Exit songs “Birds Don’t Sing” and “Hate Yourself”). Soon thereafter, Jason Wyman and Wyatt Harmon joined forces with Petering.<ref name=”:0″ /><ref name=”:1″ />
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In 2014, TV Girl released their debut album, ”[[French Exit (album)|French Exit]]”, which was called “remarkably solid” by ”Bandwagon Magazine”.<ref name=”:1″>{{cite web |last1=Sheridan |first1=Christopher |title=Album Review: Tv Girl – French Exit |url=https://bandwagmag.com/2014/09/album-review-tv-girl-french-exit/ |website=Bandwagon Magazine |date=September 12, 2014 |access-date=March 8, 2022}}</ref>
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In 2014, TV Girl released their debut album, ”[[French Exit (album)|French Exit]]”, which was called “remarkably solid” by ”Bandwagon Magazine”.<ref name=”:1″>{{cite web |last1=Sheridan |first1=Christopher |title=Album Review: Tv Girl – French Exit |url=https://bandwagmag.com/2014/09/album-review-tv-girl-french-exit/ |website=Bandwagon Magazine |date=September 12, 2014 |access-date=March 8, 2022}}</ref>
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===Musical style and songwriting===
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The band employs a genre not easily defined, with major inspiration from [[sampledelia]], [[indie pop]], [[Lo-fi music|lo-fi]] and [[electronic music]] found in most of their works (apparent in albums ”French Exit”, ”Who Really Cares”, ”Death of a Party Girl” and ”Summer’s Over”), while taking on more [[Trip hop|trip-hop]]-like elements in other works (found especially within ”Who Really Cares” and ”Maddie Acid’s Purple Hearts Club Band”), and in some cases, more mainstream characteristics related to [[Gospel music|gospel]], [[garage house]], [[funk]] and even [[jazz]] (specific to ”Grapes Upon the Vine”). Altogether, the band proclaims themself as a “hypnotic pop” group,<ref>{{Cite web |title=TV Girl |url=https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Y6dVaC9DZtPNH4591M42W |access-date=December 3, 2023 |website=Spotify |language=en}}</ref> due to their use of [[sampling (music)|sampling]], keyboards, and [[reverb]] effects.<ref name=”Medlock”>{{cite web|url=https://berkeleybside.com/tv-girl-plays-it-frustratingly-safe/|title=TV Girl plays it frustratingly safe|last=Medlock|first=Dylan|website=The B-Side|date=June 4, 2018|
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The band employs a genre not easily defined, with major inspiration from [[sampledelia]], [[indie pop]], [[Lo-fi music|lo-fi]] and [[electronic music]] found in most of their works (apparent in albums ”French Exit”, ”Who Really Cares”, ”Death of a Party Girl” and ”Summer’s Over”), while taking on more [[Trip hop|trip-hop]]-like elements in other works (found especially within ”Who Really Cares” and ”Maddie Acid’s Purple Hearts Club Band”), and in some cases, more mainstream characteristics related to [[Gospel music|gospel]], [[garage house]], [[funk]] and even [[jazz]] (specific to ”Grapes Upon the Vine”). Altogether, the band proclaims themself as a “hypnotic pop” group,<ref>{{Cite web |title=TV Girl |url=https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Y6dVaC9DZtPNH4591M42W |access-date=December 3, 2023 |website=Spotify |language=en}}</ref> due to their use of [[sampling (music)|sampling]], keyboards, and [[reverb]] effects.<ref name=”Medlock”>{{cite web|url=https://berkeleybside.com/tv-girl-plays-it-frustratingly-safe/|title=TV Girl plays it frustratingly safe|last=Medlock|first=Dylan|website=The B-Side|date=June 4, 2018|=April 3, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://thirdcoastreview.com/2017/10/13/a-night-of-electronic-excellence-at-beat-kitchen-with-tv-girl/|title=A Night of Electronic Excellence at Beat Kitchen with TV Girl|last=Ramirez|first=Julian|website=Third Coast Review|date=October 13, 2017|=April 3, 2022}}</ref> The band was upset when their music was labeled “sun-drenched California pop”, pointing out that there are no lyrical allusions in their music that warrant the title.<ref name=”Interview with Interview Magazine” />
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Lyrically, a majority of TV Girl’s discography revolves around love and relationships. One example of this tendency is the song “Lovers Rock”, a love ballad named after the [[reggae]] sub-genre of [[lovers’ rock]]. The subject matter of TV Girl songs is generally melancholic and sad, but simultaneously sarcastic and humorous.<ref name=”Interview with Interview Magazine” /> Some motifs in the band’s lyrics include heartbreak, cynicism, memories, cigarettes, hair, sex, women’s first names, suicide, and loneliness.
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Lyrically, a majority of TV Girl’s discography revolves around love and relationships. One example of this tendency is the song “Lovers Rock”, a love ballad named after the [[reggae]] sub-genre of [[lovers’ rock]]. The subject matter of TV Girl songs is generally melancholic and sad, but simultaneously sarcastic and humorous.<ref name=”Interview with Interview Magazine” /> Some motifs in the band’s lyrics include heartbreak, cynicism, memories, cigarettes, hair, sex, women’s first names, suicide, and loneliness.
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* Released: June 5, 2014<ref>{{cite web|url=https://tvgirl.bandcamp.com/album/french-exit|title=French Exit {{!}} TV Girl|website=[[Bandcamp]]|=September 28, 2023}}</ref>
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* Released: February 26, 2016<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tvgirl.bandcamp.com/album/who-really-cares|title=Who Really Cares {{!}} TV Girl|website=Bandcamp|=September 29, 2023}}</ref>
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* Released: May 8, 2018<ref>{{cite web|url=https://tvgirl.bandcamp.com/album/death-of-a-party-girl|title=Death of a Party Girl {{!}} TV Girl|website=[[Bandcamp]]|=April 19, 2024}}</ref>
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* Released: June 30, 2023<ref>{{cite web|url=https://tvgirl.bandcamp.com/album/grapes-upon-the-vine|title=Grapes Upon the Vine {{!}} TV Girl|website=[[Bandcamp]]|=April 19, 2024}}</ref>
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