WORDS / Bri Ng Schwartz PHOTOS / Catherine Powell
It’s an enormous day for Nashville’s Moody Joody, who simply launched their new single “Suburbia” alongside the announcement of their debut album Plain Jane, set to launch October thirtieth. The newest single from the trio is a story of a misplaced good friend who traded town streets for the suburban silence, an overarching theme for the upcoming album. As a fellow former-suburbanite, the sonic world formed by Kaitie Forbes, Kayla Corridor, and Andrew Pacheco is all too relatable: curiosity about what lives past the confines of a hometown, making reminiscences with good pals, and rising up. Regardless of having come of age in numerous suburbs throughout the nation, the three have come collectively to create a sound that’s each acquainted and enjoyable.
Kaitie, Kayla and Andrew haven’t wasted a second of 2026, with launch after launch of singles like “Little Blue Home,” and “Loretta’s Final Name.” This Spring, they opened for The Maine on choose dates of their I Love You, However I Selected The Maine tour. With as we speak’s launch and album on the way in which, there was a lot for us to debate with the group throughout our time collectively. We realized extra concerning the origins of their partnership and sound, initiatives through the years, inspirations and what’s down the pike with stay performances and much more new releases.
How did Moody Joody come to be?
Kaitie: Moody Joody got here to be in 2020 after a number of years of Kayla and I writing collectively and speaking about beginning a band. We lastly had the time, and we have been bored in 2020. Kayla had been working with Andrew on her solo stuff.
Kayla: Andrew and I met at a Pale Waves live performance, after which we wrote a track and ghosted one another for a yr earlier than working collectively once more with Kaitie. We had began “The Warmth” which was our first single. We introduced it to Andrew and all of us completed the track collectively. He produced it in a really brief period of time. We put it out and the universe sort of simply took care of the remaining. It randomly received playlisted and folks began asking us, “What is that this? Is that this a challenge?” And we didn’t have every other songs. We’d simply write a track and put it out. Then we received an agent and every thing simply sort of organically spiraled from that time on.
Andrew: It was sort of an accident.
Kaitie: We all the time say we began the band as a joke, and right here we’re six years later.
Six years is a very long time. How has your collaboration developed since 2020?
Andrew: Once we began the band it was so spur of the second. It was a studio challenge. There have been no concepts of enjoying stay. We have been simply having enjoyable making music, so since then we’ve been in a position to tour a bit which unlocked this complete different aspect of the band. The power of the stay exhibits and all of that had a unconscious affect on our music going ahead and introducing extra natural parts. Simply taking that feeling and placing it into the information. In lots of methods, it’s nonetheless simply the three of us doing just about every thing prefer it was at first. Having the stay component is a brand new chapter.
Kayla: We’re all actually, actually large album individuals. In order that was one thing we all the time needed to do, however due to how we began and making an attempt to simply sustain with the tempo and momentum or exhibits, we might simply put singles out. “Dream Woman” was the primary time we received to essentially contact on doing a challenge, however we wrote some songs and it sort of got here collectively conceptually. However having the place we are actually, having the house to create a full size report, we actually had sort of a clean slate. We had the idea early on after which sort of constructed round it and into it and had the time to essentially construct an entire world and create an entire album. In order that’s been one thing we’ve been in a position to have the privilege of doing after being within the band and combating to get to the purpose to have the house to do it.
You simply did a bunch of Dates with The Maine on their most up-to-date tour. What have been some highlights from these exhibits?
Kayla: Attending to play new music. We hadn’t toured in a year-ish, and this was eight exhibits, but it surely was nice attending to play the brand new songs, see the group response, and getting to speak to new individuals. We performed lots of new markets too, in order that was actually enjoyable.
Moving into the singles a bit, was “Little Blue Home” impressed by a particular place or locations? Or was it extra of an idea?
Kaitie: It was impressed by all of our childhoods. All of us grew up within the suburbs in very completely different elements of the nation. If you develop up within the suburbs, all people has this routine and path for his or her life. In my hometown, it was to get married in your early 20s, have children, after which purchase a home. So the thought got here from my teenage years once I received actually into indie music and realized, wait, I could possibly be an grownup in a band.That could possibly be what my maturity seems like. So the thought simply got here from the thought of how individuals are residing their lives, and questioning what else is on the market? There’s a couple of method to do issues, and you may simply be in a band.
Are there any bands that originated from suburbia that you simply hearken to and love?
Kaitie: My favourite album of all time is “The Suburbs” by Arcade Hearth.
Andrew: New Jersey music inherently has a high quality of the suburbs, or making an attempt to get out of that life-style. Springsteen, Bleachers, and The Gaslight Anthem are a few of my different favourite bands. Once we began the band, one of many first issues that we actually bonded over was the primary Bleachers album and “Rollercoaster.” These have been the vibes that we needed to go for once we first began the band.
A track of yours that additionally jogs my memory of suburbia is “OOPS!” The video jogs my memory of doing karaoke with my finest pals in our hometown bar. What are your whole go- to karaoke songs?
Kayla: “Your Love” by The Outfield.
Andrew: After I was in school, I used to do “Mr. Brightside” . It’s such a cliche alternative, however I really feel like during the last 5 years it’s had such a resurgence. It was all the time an enormous track. Now, I believe I’d go together with “Friday I’m In Love” by The Treatment.
Kaitie: I used to all the time do “All Star” by Smash Mouth. Crowd favorites. The classics.
What do you all suppose makes an amazing pop report? What units aside an excellent one from an amazing one?
Kayla: I simply really feel like authenticity actually makes any particular track be what it’s, and the artist placing it out. I simply instantly considered “Midnight Solar” by Zara Larson as a result of I simply suppose that it’s so good, but it surely’s additionally her.
Kaitie: Having actual storytelling I believe is an underrated a part of pop music. A track with a narrative and a novel perspective is what I really like.
All your music movies are so playful and enjoyable to observe. What goes into your artistic course of of making a story for these?
Kaitie: It begins with just a little seed of an concept. We inform Luke Rogers, who’s our artistic director, our concepts after which all of us brainstorm collectively. We love simply stepping exterior the field just a little bit. The quirkiness in “Little Blue Home” comes from us actually desirous to lean into that Y2K comedy vibe. And identical with “OOPS!”
The video for “Loretta’s Final Name” was superior. I’m all the time impressed when an artist can pull off a shoot in New York as a result of there’s so many transferring elements and so many individuals on the streets. So are there any memorable moments from that shoot?
Kayla: It was a torrential downpour. It added to among the ambiance for positive.
Kaitie: Yeah. We have been all soaking wet by the top. I might ring out my pants by the top of the day.
Andrew: Gosh. I didn’t suppose I used to be going to make it. We have been on the Williamsburg Bridge. It was a freezing, chilly, wet night time.
Kaitie: All of our socks have been moist.
Kayla: However we additionally received to take over MTV’s Instagram tales for that shoot. Simply rising up watching MTV and VH1, that was simply such a particular second for all three of us.
Kaitie: It was a pinch me second.
You could have a New York present developing in July. Do you have got something deliberate but for that set?
Katie: There shall be new music for positive. It’s our first headlining present in New York, which is thrilling. We get to play for an extended period of time, which is enjoyable for us to have the ability to construct out our personal present as a result of often we’re simply doing little units as openers. So there shall be some enjoyable surprises for positive.
Your album Plain Jane is popping out this Fall. What are you able to share about it?
Kaitie: We’re going to be placing out singles this Summer time and simply begin to introduce the album world to individuals. We’ve had that album title in thoughts since we began the band. It’s largely nearly leaving your hometown and turning into probably the most genuine model of your self. The album takes you thru that journey.
Kayla: We’ve all the time talked about our band ethos being proudly owning your humanness. Conceptually, it was simply born from a spot of desirous to take all these completely different human experiences and feelings from us rising up within the suburbs, and what that seemed like: shedding these layers or variations of your self, and exhibiting up in full authenticity with reckless abandon. If you happen to’ve received to burn all of it to the bottom to get there, you then do. It’s additionally all the enjoyable elements too, going out with your folks and having the ability to personal even these little moments.
This summer season is certain to be a defining chapter within the story that’s Moody Joody. With respective performances in New York and LA this July, we will’t wait to see these playful earworms come to life and the world of Plain Jane to return collectively. With its October launch date, it’s set to be the proper soundtrack for vacation hometown journeys and neighborhood dive bar karaoke nights.
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