

Their new song they were promoting on TikTok I’d Rather Die, features questionable lyrics like “I don’t know how you think we’re gonna fuck / When you can’t get it up / I’m sick of hearing it’s the alcohol” and “I’m just saying / It’s not fair to / Leave me hanging like this.” It almost seems fittingly hypocritical that the band has songs about questionable consent given their ties to producer Dr. Looking at the lyrics, it seems like it’s trying too hard to be empowering to women to the point of being problematic again. It sounds like what Disney Channel thinks punk sounds like with as many expletives and as much autotune as they can fit. Putting all the controversy aside, is their music actually good? Short answer: no. The difference here is that Lorde never tried to hide how she got her start while people feel that Tramp Stamps are putting on an inauthentic front of being self made. Some of the most popular artists today can be described as industry plants, like Lorde who was signed to Universal Music Group before her first EP came out. Luke, and started out a little too polished, they had been given one of the worst accusations a new artist can be branded with: industry plant.Īn industry plant can be described as an artist or band that has major label backing to ensure success.

Maybe a little too well.Įver since people started noticing that they didn’t dress punk a few months ago, they have ties to producer Dr. Their website says that they write songs about “the kind of stuff women talk about all the time with their friends, but no one’s ever put it into this kind of music before,” despite female centric genres like Riot Grrrl music being prominent for decades.ĭressed in Dolls Kill and bright colored hair and writing lyrics about how bad straight white men are at sex, it seemed like they would fit right in on the Y2K obsessed, man hating queer Gen Z side of TikTok. Tramp Stamps is a self proclaimed skate punk girl group based out of Nashville made up of lead singer Marisa Maino, guitarist Caroline Baker, and drummer Paige Blue. TikTok users had declared them an industry plant and started devoting videos gaining hundreds of thousands of views explaining why they aren’t actually punk and how they are terrible people with terrible songs. Unfortunately for them, they weren’t gaining views because people liked their song, in fact it was the opposite. The problem with Tramp Stamps isn’t that they are industry plants, it’s that their music isn’t good.Ī new band called Tramp Stamps started gaining views on a TikTok they posted of themselves lip syncing to their new song I’d Rather Die, a move that is pretty common for new bands.
