Serena MC recently caught up with Florida native and Los Angeles–based indie-pop musician, Caroline Kingsbury, when she toured through the Bay Area last month and played the Brick & Mortar Music Hall. Tune in on Saturday, June 13th at 4pm to hear their conversation.
With Caroline Kingsbury, expect a larger-than-life energy to her iridescent make-up. Stevie Nicks-esque boot-and-blazer get-ups. Ready-to-risk-it-all ballads that are abundant in brutally honest and vulnerable storytelling lyrics. It’s evident from her raw lyrics and refreshingly vintage sound that the likes of The Killers and Bruce Springsteen have infused Caroline Kingsbury’s songs with a modern queer sensibility.
Inspired by the 1981 musical comedy film of the same name—a cult follow-up to The Rocky Horror Picture Show— recent EP, Shock Treatment draws on the film’s themes of societal pressure and the blurred lines between reality and fantasy. With her signature fearless style, Kingsbury imagines a world of reverse conversion therapy, where queerness is not only normalized but celebrated, and heterosexuality is marginalized—flipping the script in that’s both thought-provoking and emotionally resonant.
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