You can be all of it and everything in between.” Women and non-binary people can be do whatever they want. You don’t have to fit into stereotypes, and you also don’t have to be anti-stereotypes. “Men aren’t the only ones who get to be multidimensional,” Cohen adds. That’s what we want to put out to people, is that freedom.” It was very liberating, and that has fed my ideology with this whole thing. "It’s not an anti-men thing, but I had never experienced an environment like this that was like, here’s another kind of people who can just be themselves and not depend on someone else. The only people I had to play with and deal with were men. “That, to me, is huge because all of my musical experience before that was dependent upon men. “I remember at our first show, I had this very distinct feeling that there are no men here who are essential to this art that we’ve created and to the community standing the way that it is,” Scarpati recalls. So by saying we’re ‘not-a-girl-band,’ we’re saying we want to allow people to be people and not be put into a box.”Īt the same time that Moon Kissed's members don’t want to be put in the “girl band” box, they are also intensely proud that their band was built upon - and in many ways for - the female and non-binary experience. “If you’re a woman writer and you’re writing about anything, it’s automatically put into ‘Chick Lit.’ If you’re a Black writer, you’re put into 'Civil Rights,' no matter what you’re talking about. “I’ve heard a lot of writers also talk about this,” Scarpati says, jumping in. “Every girl band is reluctant of this, and it’s hard because I’m so proud of who we are, but I also want to make sure that we’re not being boxed in, ever, because that goes against everything we stand for.” “We don’t want to ignore the fact that we’ve all studied music and we’re all good at what we do,” Cohen says. That’s why Moon Kissed insists they don’t want to be called a “girl band.” Most of their written material online refers to them as a “not-a-girl-band synth-pop trio.” They explain that their aversion to the “girl band” title isn’t an anti-girl thing, or even an anti-girl-band thing it’s an anti-label thing.
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