♥ Pronouns: they/them |
☆ Cancer sun Scorpio moon Leo rising
✺ Based in: Los Angeles
Tell us about you; who you are, how you began making music.
My name is January aka Girl Online and I’m a singer-songwriter, producer, DJ, artist and poet! I’ve been writing all my life but started making music for real in high school. I would make beats in GarageBand for songs I’d written, upload them to SoundCloud and then I would write my SoundCloud link on my teachers’ whiteboards so people would listen to me haha. I was so annoying but it kind of worked! I’ve had a small but dedicated following ever since ❤
How did you come up with the artist name “Girl Online”?
Originally the concept for “girl online” was to be sort of a multidisciplinary art piece that talked about what it’s like growing up online as a young girl to a woman and the way we mask ourselves + have the capacity to be different people online. But then I just started writing a bunch of love songs and the name just stuck!
Tell us about your latest project, Portrait of a Girl Online. What was the inspiration?
I was in LOVEE and I experienced heartbreak </3 but it’s ok because I got a bunch of songs out of it I guess. I also was going through a really disorienting period in my life where I thought that I was a lesbian. While I’ve realized I’m not, I’m glad it happened because I learned to finally not center men in my life. Creating the EP was really a way for me to process all of that while trying to find my sound which I can definitely now describe as the auditory equivalent of taking molly for the first time.
What was the process of making the project? Who were some key collaborators?
It was so insane – I literally produced one of the songs in a psychiatric ward. I was going through it. But it was super fun. I mostly worked on it alone in my bedroom but definitely could not have done it without Stephen Jung, my manager and mixing engineer, and Joy Cheever who did the mastering. Also shoutout to the amazing Ryl0 for hopping on a verse.
We know you’ve done some shows around Los Angeles. What is your favorite part about doing live shows?
I get that when most people see me live they’re being introduced to my music for the first time, so I really just love hearing positive feedback from people who normally wouldn’t listen to femme produced electro pop. It’s cool to be able to expose people to stuff and it always feels really genuine.
What are you currently working on?
A couple of singles! I really want to make another EP but we shall see if my schedule permits that.
Before we go, what’s something on repeat right now?
Don’t Be So Hard On Your Own Beauty by Yeule!!
Listen to Portrait of a Girl Online here:
Velvet Noise 