Fake Dad is a Los Angeles based duo who continues to one-up themselves with their boundary-pushing rock. Their latest release “Machinery” is the final single off their upcoming project Holly Wholesome and the Slut Machine. The track sheds light on the experience of being a woman in the music industry; how often times, female artists are pinned against each other. It highlights how burgeoning musicians are conditioned to hate each other by the industry that profits off them.
“Machinery” is a gritty, grunge-tinged catharsis that pounds the pavement with choppy percussion, powerhouse riffs, and dimensional vocals from lead singer Andrea de Varona. She sings, “Tired of watching you get what you want / While I sit back eating from your palm.” The pensive verses unravel into an anthemic release at the heart of each chorus. “Machinery” is a full-throttled clap back at the state of our modern music industry.
Revealing more on their track, de Varona confides, “The song is about the pressure for women in music to package themselves as consumable, f*ckable products just to be taken seriously—and how that pits them against each other and themselves. This angry, teeth-grinding rock/pop track was written right after an industry showcase where every girl performing wore the exact same spike-studded bra—too concerned with sizing each other up to actually have a good time. As they eyed each other with loathing and borderline obsession, I stood in the corner feeling really sad that nobody was trying to connect, which is what we were all supposedly there to do. This song was written as a response to the way this kind of woman on woman (or more generally, artist on artist) hate perpetuates these spaces while the real culprits—our sick, sad society governed by narcissistic, billionaire white men—totally fly under the radar. In the end, the man is the real one we’re calling out. The one that we’re sick and tired of watching get what they want, while we sit back eating from their palm.”
Fake Dad is comprised of Andrea de Varona (she/her) and Josh Ford (he/him). The duo got their start in New York City after meeting at a party in East Village, and the rest is history. Building momentum for the release of their highly anticipated project, Holly Wholesome and the Slut Machine, “Machinery” gives us just a taste of what’s on the horizon.
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