Three women, three chords, and a whole lot of pent-up frustration about lettuce. Drama Dolls have unleashed “Salad,” and the L.A. trio turn the misery of a never-ending diet into a loud, funny, and painfully relatable anthem. It’s out now. The track swings back to their trademark hard-hitting drums, screaming vocals, and tongue-in-cheek lyrics that somehow land with total sincerity, and it’s a riotous reminder that the group can make the smallest gripe feel enormous.
The premise is gloriously simple. “I want some fried dough. I want some pizza,” goes the rallying cry, and the group don’t bother dressing it up. “This song is about the emotions that come up when you realize that you have to eat salad for like the rest of your life and you are sick of it and sad,” they explain. It’s a mundane anxiety blown up to full volume, and that’s the joke and the catharsis rolled into one.
Drama Dolls give us a chance to scream out our irritation through the joy running through every song. Formed by Egg, Scrambles, and Mama-T, the trio throw age expectations out the window and make loud, chaotic rock with reckless abandon. They’ve got range too. The blistering “I Hate Your Face” rips with the fury of a thousand suns, the brat-punk anthem “Horchata” is an instant classic, and “We Like to Party” rides danceable ska and new wave beats. Across all of it, the group cover the full spread of old-school SoCal punk filtered through modern mixing board polish. These three Dolls are showing us how to enjoy life through creativity no matter what state you’re in.