I'm A Big Girl b/w Femme Fatale
scum stats: probably 500 copies, nice purple vinyl
Was surprised to learn about this record only in the past month or so. Helmed by Rose Mazzola (daughter of Detroit rock musician Joey Mazzola) this single dates to circa 1995 and is a quaint slice of mid-Nineties pop punk sung by a twelve-year-old girl with conviction.
Name-dropped in Spin magazine at the time, using a moniker derived from a nail polish color, with a label address in the bumfuck town of New Baltimore, Michigan and a heartfelt/endearing cover of the Velvets "Femme Fatale" on the flipside...this hits ALL the right notes.
Rose would later go on to do time in the Distillers as "Casper" and that kinda seems like a logical progression from this spirited take of juvenilia. Wish I would've heard this when it originally came out as I'm sure it would've inspired teenaged me in the relatively adjacent zip code. Oh well. It's inspiring now too, just in a different way. I should probably go make a record with my daughters.
Perfect fit for the life soundtrack of a girl with knee high cherry color Doc Martens and military vintage jacket ( not saying that girl is/was me and said girl is having a wonderful time with this song on repeat while memory lane express leaves the station)
Great fun—well worth the listen.
Thanks for the time warp back to the punk days of the nineties. It wasn’t half bad, in fact, I listened to it twice. Thanks for sharing and I will be looking out for this disc during my yard sales and Goodwill hunts!!