Biography
Los Angeles serves as home base for TV Girl, whose distinctive indie pop fuses '60s bubblegum, vintage soul, and hip-hop. A steady stream of varied, sample-driven singles and EPs led to the seductive full-length debut French Exit in 2014. Later works such as Who Really Cares in 2016 and Death of a Party Girl in 2018 shifted the sound toward light psychedelic dream pop. Offshoot efforts encompass the 2021 collaboration Summer's Over with Jordana and the 2020 pseudonym experiment Aestheticadelica by TV Girl and Bloodbath64. After “Blue Hair” spread widely online, the band issued its fourth studio album Grapes Upon the Vine in 2023, then joined George Clanton for the vaporwave mini-album Fauxllennium the next year.
Brad Petering and Trung Ngo, both from San Diego, launched TV Girl in 2010 by drawing on classic girl group, French pop, and hip-hop sources. Early notice arrived when “If You Want It,” built on a sample of Todd Rundgren's “Hello It’s Me,” won praise from numerous music blogs. Controversy followed when Rundgren's label moved to remove the track over copyright claims. Undeterred, the band issued its self-titled EP, which featured “If You Want It,” before the year ended. In the ensuing period TV Girl remained highly active, releasing multiple singles, the EPs Benny and the Jetts and Lonely Women, and the mixtape The Wild, The Innocent, The TV Shuffle.
Issued independently in 2014, French Exit became the group's first album. Airy vocals, unusual samples, chiming guitars, and organs supported its exploration of the darker sides of love and revenge. The brooding “Lovers Rock” scored modest chart success in the U.K. and parts of Europe. Ngo had exited by the arrival of Who Really Cares in 2016, after which Petering worked with Jason Wyman and Wyatt Harding. Described as "an album about sex," the record added psychedelic hues and placed even greater weight on dance beats and singular samples. Death of a Party Girl in 2018 sustained the psychedelic and dream-pop leanings while scoring another success with “Blue Hair.” Petering then concentrated on production and a run of cryptic side projects involving unnamed collaborators. Maddie Acid's Purple Hearts Club Band, a psych-rap outing fronted by vocalist Madison Acid, appeared in 2018. The vaporwave project Aestheticadelica, credited to TV Girl and Bloodbath64, followed in 2020. That same year brought the compilation The Night in Question: French Exit Outtakes, after which TV Girl paired with bedroom pop musician Jordana for Summer's Over in 2021.
Around this time TikTok sparked fresh interest in both the debut album and “Blue Hair,” driving the latter to viral status. Petering answered in 2023 with two new albums: Grapes Upon the Vine, continuing TV Girl's main catalog, and Ace of Tre, recorded under the name Varial Heel. True to their changeable methods, the band's subsequent release was the electronic-leaning 2024 mini-album Fauxllennium, shared with vaporwave hero George Clanton.
Brad Petering and Trung Ngo, both from San Diego, launched TV Girl in 2010 by drawing on classic girl group, French pop, and hip-hop sources. Early notice arrived when “If You Want It,” built on a sample of Todd Rundgren's “Hello It’s Me,” won praise from numerous music blogs. Controversy followed when Rundgren's label moved to remove the track over copyright claims. Undeterred, the band issued its self-titled EP, which featured “If You Want It,” before the year ended. In the ensuing period TV Girl remained highly active, releasing multiple singles, the EPs Benny and the Jetts and Lonely Women, and the mixtape The Wild, The Innocent, The TV Shuffle.
Issued independently in 2014, French Exit became the group's first album. Airy vocals, unusual samples, chiming guitars, and organs supported its exploration of the darker sides of love and revenge. The brooding “Lovers Rock” scored modest chart success in the U.K. and parts of Europe. Ngo had exited by the arrival of Who Really Cares in 2016, after which Petering worked with Jason Wyman and Wyatt Harding. Described as "an album about sex," the record added psychedelic hues and placed even greater weight on dance beats and singular samples. Death of a Party Girl in 2018 sustained the psychedelic and dream-pop leanings while scoring another success with “Blue Hair.” Petering then concentrated on production and a run of cryptic side projects involving unnamed collaborators. Maddie Acid's Purple Hearts Club Band, a psych-rap outing fronted by vocalist Madison Acid, appeared in 2018. The vaporwave project Aestheticadelica, credited to TV Girl and Bloodbath64, followed in 2020. That same year brought the compilation The Night in Question: French Exit Outtakes, after which TV Girl paired with bedroom pop musician Jordana for Summer's Over in 2021.
Around this time TikTok sparked fresh interest in both the debut album and “Blue Hair,” driving the latter to viral status. Petering answered in 2023 with two new albums: Grapes Upon the Vine, continuing TV Girl's main catalog, and Ace of Tre, recorded under the name Varial Heel. True to their changeable methods, the band's subsequent release was the electronic-leaning 2024 mini-album Fauxllennium, shared with vaporwave hero George Clanton.
Albums
Grapes Upon the Vine
2023
Aestheticadelica
2020
The Night in Question: French Exit Outtakes
2020
Death of a Party Girl
2018
Who Really Cares
2016
French Exit
2014
Lonely Women
2013
Singles
