Pool Kids's lead singer, Christine Goodwyne, explains why it felt so satisfying to turn her frustrations with online trolls into a song for the group’s self-titled second album.
gets mad online from time to time. Unusually, though, the 27-year-old singer and guitarist of the up-and-coming band Pool Kids has channeled that feeling into a few great pop-rock songs. One of those songs is “Talk Too Much,” the anthemic centerpiece of the band’s self-titled second album, which came out last week; on it, Goodwyne manages to make a virtual argument actually sound fun.
We first met as she sat at the merch table afterward, wearing full early-2000s rock star garb and selling the band’s clever T-shirts and hats that she embroidered herself. A few weeks later, Goodwyne called me from the Chicago apartment she shares with Alvarez after finishing her day job in digital marketing.
“I go through all of these different emotions, and I just can’t come up with lyrics about them or how to say them without being so on the nose with them,” she said. “When I’m frustrated and pissed off at the way someone’s behaving themselves on Twitter, for some reason it just flows out of me—all the things I want to say to them. And [a song] is such a good way to say it without just tweeting back.
She professed a love for TikTok and other social media platforms, and it seems like she is adept at integrating real life and online into her storytelling. One song on the album casually weaves a line about the frustration of being on a group chat with 21 people into a larger narrative about a strained relationship. “It can sound sarcastic, but I’m actually being genuine. I’m trying to say, ‘Listen, I do the same shit, and I’m trying to get better,’” she said.
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