Molly Burman

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Molly Burman
Birth nameMolly Ciara Burman
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Molly Ciara Burman is an English musician from Hornsey. She has released two EPs, Fool Me With Flattery and Worlds Within Worlds, and is a member of Loud LDN. Her father, Lance Burman, was a member of Chiefs of Relief.

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Life and career

Molly Ciara Burman [1] was born in Kentish Town, [2] before moving to Hornsey. [3] Growing up, she listened to her parents' music, such as the Beatles, Fleetwood Mac, and David Bowie, [4] and aged six, she and her father wrote a Christmas song together; [5] she would resume writing again after listening to Adele's 19, [6] and switched from writing on piano to writing on guitar after becoming obsessed with the Vamps. [2] She and her father started producing tracks together when she was thirteen. [5] She released her first single, "Happy Things" in 2018, took a break from music, and then resumed releasing music in 2021 after returning to Spotify and discovering that "Happy Things" had acquired a million listens on the platform. [5]

In March 2021, she released "Fool Me With Flattery", which she wrote using the stereotype of a mansplaining misogynist after a day of misogyny from men in her life, [7] having thought of the first lyric on the bus home and the rest in her room. [8] The following month she released "Everytime", a song about learning to enjoy her own company following multiple instances of being ghosted, [9] and in June 2021, she released "Debt", a riposte to a sex pest she encountered during a night out, [10] which was accompanied by a music video. [11] Later that year, she released the Fool Me With Flattery EP, [5] which featured "Fool Me With Flattery", "Everytime", and "Debt", and was written, recorded, and produced by Burman and her father. [11] In March 2022, she released "Pretty Girl", which she wrote after listening to "All the Pretty Girls" by Kaleo, [12] and about feeling insecurities. [13]

In May 2023, she released "Beautiful People", a song about dating while queer, [14] having realised that she was attracted to all genders aged 19 [5] after listening to her queer friends' playlists and watching RuPaul's Drag Race , [15] and having realised that all of her songs to that point had been about men. A video was shot for the song using her friends from her local pub, [5] the Faltering Fallback. [15] She then released "Potential", a grunge song [5] about seeing a partner for what they were instead of what they could be. [16] In August 2023, she released Worlds Within Worlds, a six-track EP, named after the notion that everyone has their own solar system, and with each track set on a different planet of MollyLand; [17] the song was promoted with the lead track "Friday Pretty", [5] which was written about her local pub quiz, [15] and included it, "Beautiful People", and "Potential". [18] In 2024, she began performing as one fifth of Molly & The Dolly Shop. [19]

Artistry and personal life

Burman's music has been described as indie pop by The Line of Best Fit [5] and as alt-pop by Clash . [6] Her Fool Me With Flattery EP was influenced by Maxi Priest's "Love Train", David Bowie's "Magic Dance", Shirley & Company's "Shame Shame Shame", Lucius's "Until We Get There", and Kimbra's "Settle Down". [11] Burman's grandfather was the director for the London Vintage Jazz Orchestra [20] Dave Burman, [21] her mother is an Irish singer who sang with Shane MacGowan and as part of the singing comedy act The Frigidaires, [5] and her father was Lancelot Andrew Robert "Lance" Burman, [1] a guitar teacher, [15] who played bass for Chiefs of Relief, [5] and played bass and guitar on Mekon and Marc Almond's "Please Stay", [22] a cover of the Cryin' Shames' song, [23] which charted at No. 91 on the UK Singles Chart. [24] She is a member of Loud LDN, [25] a collective of London-based women and genderqueer musicians set up in May 2022, [26] which she joined a month after it was created. [3]

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