“That’s so tacky. I hate that.” That’s what Emily Snow considered her stage identify, Snow Spouse, when her greatest pal and producer, Sam Catalano, a.ok.a. Slush Pet, prompt she use it as her artist identify—a play on fairy-tale princess Snow White with a domesticated twist.
It bought combined reactions from buddies who heard it at a celebration. So she determined to make use of it.
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“We needed one thing that sounded acquainted and recognizable and memorable,” she tells me from her automobile—which is parked close to a tree underneath a transparent, blue L.A. sky—over Zoom. “I feel that that story is so foolish, however I feel that it additionally captures the essence of the venture so nicely. We’ve at all times aimed to create issues that folks have a response to. Whether or not they like it or they hate it…I like when folks have opinions about artwork. And I like making artwork that’s open to opinion and will upset some folks.”
Earlier than she began making music, Snow Spouse was a dancer; had been her complete life, and she or he moved to L.A. to pursue her dream of doing it professionally. In L.A., she started writing songs in her bed room, liking the method a lot she determined to change into a singer-songwriter as an alternative.
“I by no means thought I might be a songwriter. After which I simply had a variety of alone time at any time when I moved to L.A., so I feel it simply got here from there.”
Snow Spouse exploded into the music scene in 2023 when her breakout single “American Horror Present,” which garnered 55 million Spotify streams and paved the way in which for her debut EP, Queen Degenerate later that 12 months. She launched three singles in 2024—“Moist Dream,” “Pool,” and “Loopy”—and now, she’s again with a brand new track, “What Do Women Do,” a synth-heavy anthem about queerness and what it means to determine as a girl.
What impressed “What Do Women Do”?
I feel all through my life, my queerness has been so fluid. I feel I’m nonetheless processing what it means to me. In an apparent means, “What Do Women Do” is a track about being a lesbian. So it’s basically making enjoyable of the age-old heterosexual query of lesbian relationships, what do ladies do throughout intercourse? It’s a commentary about what it means to even be a girl. So you might view it by the lens of so many views; a trans lady, or what does it imply to be a girl as an androgynous particular person? That’s what I like in regards to the title of the track. Clearly within the lyrics I am going into me being with a woman within the context of a cis-woman relationship. However I feel at giant, the track is simply imagined to be about femininity. And it may be for any person that’s questioning their femininity, like, let’s say like a cis man in his bed room, possibly placing on make-up or dwelling a sure fantasy of what ladies do.
It looks as if it’s a fairly private track for you.
To me, it’s simply questioning what even is womanhood and the way does it look to each particular person. And as for me, I’m in a relationship with an androgynous particular person. What’s womanhood to them? I’ve been so impressed by my girlfriend, simply, like, studying about what womanhood has meant to her by totally different sections of their life, you understand?
Your mother died whenever you have been younger. How did that affect your songwriting?
She had most cancers after I was younger, after which she truly ended up surviving that, after which she ended up passing away just a few years later from a coronary heart assault and a stroke. I used to be 10, so I used to be a child. I feel that at any time when folks develop up with out mother and father, it turns into a extremely fascinating life cycle. And so I feel that a variety of my life has been devoted to finding out that and finding out my habits and rising up, if that is smart. And I feel I’m very lucky to be blessed with self-awareness, and I feel that I’ve been blessed to be so introspective. There’s one thing so organic a few lady’s attachment to her mom. So in a lame means, I may say, “Oh, it made me the particular person I’m at present.” However I feel typically, at any time when there’s a scarcity of a parent-child relationship in any respect, it makes somebody very fascinating. I feel that it blessed me with empathy. And it’s blessed me with a deep curiosity for all times and a deep curiosity for human connection and understanding and a curiosity for understanding how folks work. I feel that I’ve used songwriting as far as a means…to attach with folks. I went from hating myself and being tremendous suicidal and having zero self-worth into utterly altering my life and loving myself. I haven’t actually touched on these issues but. I feel I’ll after I’m a bit older and I’m prepared to show folks these sorts of tales. However so far as proper now, I feel up to now I’ve used music very a lot as an escapism factor. And I feel that I’ve used Snow Spouse as a catalyst for change.
What do you hope folks will take away from the track once they take heed to it?
I hope that folks respect femininity and I feel that we’re dwelling in a time the place lesbianism and queerness—and it at all times has been fetishized—have change into extremely popular, which is such an incredible factor as a result of clearly that’s by no means occurred earlier than. I simply need us to proceed to understand romance and the emotional bonds that you simply create. I feel that’s why I like to like girls as a result of genuinely, the emotional bond {that a} lady makes with one other lady is one thing that’s deeper than something I’ve discovered. That’s coming from somebody who’s been in relationships with all sorts of gender-identifying folks. The track to me looks like the way it felt after I first began growing crushes on ladies. That’s such an intense factor. And it’s such a lovely factor. Ladies have simply such an innate understanding of one another. To not say that straight relationships aren’t deep. However I feel that it’s only a totally different kind of affection.
You’ve talked about that “I write songs the way in which I think about the dances look.” Is that true for this track?
Actually, no, which is fascinating. I did have a lot of my identification wrapped into being a dancer—not that I’m ever letting that go. I’m at all times going to make music for dance simply because I like dance, however I feel that I virtually used it as a crutch for a really very long time in my songwriting. And now I’m studying to make use of it after I need to, however I don’t at all times need to. And it doesn’t must be a crutch. So this is likely one of the first songs that I truly wrote with out dance in thoughts.
What’s on the horizon for 2025?
I’ve been engaged on a venture that I really feel like is the primary venture that truly represents me as an artist, which clearly sounds tacky. However I feel I got here into music so rapidly, and although I like Queen Degenerate and it’s so particular to me, I feel that it captures a lot of my highschool self and it captures a lot of my little one self…a variety of the music that I grew up on is in Queen Degenerate. “American Horror Present” was one of many first songs I ever even wrote. So I used to be actually simply beginning to determine. And now that I’ve had one other 12 months of expertise, I’ve been curating what represents me as a songwriter. I’m simply so excited for folks to grasp me in that means.
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