Macy Rodman (born Macy Lee Brown; 1989) is an American singer-songwriter, comedian, podcaster, and

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. Rodman's style combines

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and

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with 90s inspired club-pop beats, eliciting comparisons to

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, Portishead,

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, and

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. She has released three studio albums, ''The Lake'' (2017), ''Endless Kindness'' (2019), and ''Unbelievable Animals'' (2021).

Early and personal life

Rodman was born in

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in 1989 and moved to

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at age 18 in 2008 to go to the

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. She later dropped out. Rodman is a

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and started her transition shortly after moving to the city. She lives in

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, New York.

Career

Rodman became involved in the Brooklyn drag scene after moving to New York through DJing and performing. She then began to host a weekly alternative drag show called Bathsalts. In June 2022, Rodman was featured on the cover of ''My Comrade'', an underground magazine covering drag. Rodman released her debut EP, ''Help'', in 2016. Her first two albums, ''The Lake'' and ''Endless Kindness'', were released in 2017 and 2019 respectively, on Sweat Equity. She released two remix EPs, called ''Neovaginal Dilation Expansion Pack''s, in 2020 for her songs "Berlin" and "Vaseline". Rodman signed to Shamir's Accidental Popstar Records in 2021, and released her third studio album, ''Unbelievable Animals'', the same year. Rodman wrote the songs for the album during the

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lockdown. The album consists of twelve songs written in the span of a month deals with heartbreak and pandemic anxiety and combines "radio-rock shine with dirt-punk roots, like the energy in a '90s nightclub", with "a dash of ''

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''-esque experimental pop and ''

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''-style club bangers." In 2022, she produced Ysak's single "Crossroads." On March 4, 2022, Rodman released an EP of ''Unbelievable Animals'' remixes called ''Uncontrollable Flammables'', featuring remixes from Ariel Zetina, False Witness, Veronica Electronica, Michete, Yufi, Jim Cannon, Penelopi, So Drove, and M Zavos. In 2023, she remixed Softee's song "Isn't Enough." Rodman hosts the

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podcast ''Nymphowars'' with Theda Hammel.

Discography

Studio albums

Remix albums

Extended plays

Singles

References

External links

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