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Pretty Bitter Invites You to Dance While You Cry

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Local synth-pop group Pretty Bitter find themselves at an auspicious moment in their seven-year history, having played D.C.’s iconic 9:30 Club not once, but twice in 2022. On April 1, they took home two Wammie Awards, for Best Pop Album and Best Pop Song. Now they’re eyeing an August tour.

If they’re able to pull it off, the tour, which they are crowdfunding, would be their biggest ever, spanning the East Coast and Midwest. It also represents the success of Pretty Bitter’s polished sophomore album, which grew their fanbase outside the District.

Hinges was born of the pandemic, largely written and jammed out while the band was apart. The album dropped last June to messages from people—with whom the band’s wide-screen sound, and unspoken invitation to dance while you cry, resonated—asking Pretty Bitter to visit their cities.

“Singing and playing through our traumas,” bassist and vocalist Miri Tyler tells City Paper over pie with her bandmates at the (now-shuttered) Tastee Diner in Silver Spring. “What has happened is that there has sort of become that sense of community around it.” Tyler, who is trans and the band’s longest-running member, says Pretty Bitter have always been about healing for her, but have come to be about something more.

“The fuck you, I get to be happy in adulthood,” chimes in Em Bleker, the band’s other vocalist, and lyricist, who also identifies as queer. Tyler explains their music is, in part, a reclamation of their adolescence because neither she nor Bleker were able to celebrate their gender identities as they came of age.



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