Kittie is Surprised People Still Like Them
In the grand scheme of things, I know at least I’m Team Kittie. I mean, what’s not to like about them? But with their reunion and some shows back into the spotlight, they’re apparently surprised that folks are still excited about their music.
Of course, there’s a lot to love about the Canadian femme icons that helped pioneer nu metal. And thanks to their decidedly death metal flair as well, many millennial metalheads (including myself) feel they were absolutely groundbreaking. But during a recent interview with Joshua Toomey of Knotfest.com’s Nu Pod (as transcribed by Blabbermouth), Morgan Lander said it was weird to see all this success during their comeback phase.
“We are as surprised as yourself and as many. There have been a number of years—in the past 10 years, I guess, that Kittie was not an active band. We never broke up, but it was just nothing happening. And we were resolved that the world didn’t really care too much. And it’s been a really cool couple of years to see people respond to the music and rediscover the band and to be invited to cool stuff like this.”
According to Mercedes Lander, the sudden interest in the band began building as their music was rediscovered and used for TikTok content and whatnot.
“I think the big thing is the rediscovery. We started to notice around when we released the documentary that, you know, we started to notice music going viral on TikTok, and we were just kind of, like, ‘What’s going on here?’ And then we started getting offers, which is fantastic.”
It was only a couple months ago that we learned in a New York Times interview that Kittie had decided to get back together for just a few festival dates here and there, but that eventually morphed into realizing they could make new music in 2023, according to Mercedes.
“It did take a little bit of talking into. When we stepped onstage, I was, like, ‘Oh, yeah, this is how it’s supposed to be. This is what I’m supposed to be doing.’ This is a fantastic feeling.”
Mercedes also said the band’s themes are universal because because it’s almost impossible to forget how who doesn’t relate with teenage angst?
“It just kind of proves that teenage angst is timeless. That’s not to say there isn’t still a fire and anger in us now—Yeah, we’re still pissed.”
It really tracks that Kittie are still resonating with fans. Older fans are stoked on the comeback, and gen z kids seem to love nu metal influence and femme inclusion in metal, so I think it’s safe to say that new music from Kittie would be welcomed pretty easily by fans.
