Trans Punk Duo Um, Jennifer? Wants You to Meet the “Fishiest Girl in New York City”
The best-named band in the tri-state area explains their surreal new music video.
Um, Jennifer?, a duo that describes themselves as “trans slut rock nyc,” makes scuzzy-sweet songs about transness, queer love, and simply trying to figure out what the fuck is going on. (Like, in life.) The band has been releasing music for just over a year, but in their hometown of New York City, they’ve already drawn a devoted fan community that brings cardboard signs to their shows to declare their fealty. Um, Jennifer?’s debut single, “Girl Class,” explores the multitudes of transfemininity through the simple conceit of a phone call; when I saw them play over the summer, guitarist and vocalist Fig Regan hilariously play-acted her part by taking a call from a child’s princess phone. Live, they were thrilling: funny but also low-key deep, instrumentally loose but also high-key deliberate as they cranked through tracks like “Cut Me Open,” “Sweet Until I’m Not,” and “Went on T.”
