Here’s a fun fact for you this morning: you have heard of the duo MUNNYCAT and have never known it.  Whether it’s watching a movie/TV show montage, scrolling through the FYP section of TikTok, or countless commercials ranging from Crest to Apple, the infectious music from MUNNYCAT has captured their earworm-like songs to audiences all around the world with their DIY approach. Today, MUNNYCAT dropped their first single from their upcoming full-length debut album age of the scorpio titled “honest.” 

“The track is a song about the exhausting nature of the male gaze. With bouncy saloon piano riffs and thumping 808s, front-woman K808 sarcastically explains her deep-rooted confidence in a world that isn’t very comfortable with a woman brashly celebrating herself. “I was talking with my girls about how we are so done with shrinking to make space and apologizing for everything. The dichotomy where the world wants women to be hot and perfect, but not be proud about it or celebrate it. Forget that. We are gunna be hot and proud no matter how tiring it can be pushing back against a world that wants us to shrink.

“The idea for the video was born out of me and Khaledzou talking about how it’s so socially acceptable for dudes to have this unearned, bullet-proof confidence, like they are all just John Wayne or something.  So we flipped the script and made me the gunslinger. We had been playing the western video game Red Dead Redemption 2 nonstop and it just all came together. We decided to base the whole music video on the character Sadie Adler from that game, who should totally have her own spin-off”

Khaledzou added, “- plus the track has such a pimp-walk to it. The hypnotic, western saloon piano jangling through it. It all just came together so effortlessly. At the costume fitting for the video, we both came out of our dressing rooms and saw each other for the first time and lost it laughing. All of our sketches and storyboards came to life instantly”

Originally from the infamously corrupt and troubled rust-belt city of Youngstown, OH where they learned so much of the self-reliance and individualism that makes them creatively distinct, MUNNYCAT now lives in sunny Los Angeles creating art side by side. The newlyweds write, produce, shoot, and edit their own videos together, lending new meaning to the phrase ‘dynamic duo.’

Photo Courtesy: Anna Azarov