Alternative pop-rock singer Zoe Ko had been working in the music industry for over two years when everything changed for her overnight with the release of her first single, “Line” in 2022. The 23-year-old completely embraces brutal honesty, cheeky fun, and her own unique thrifted aesthetic in her music and personal life. Her songs resonate most with today’s female youth for their undeniable charm and fierce lyrics. The music video for her latest single “DIRT,” released under Big Loud Rock and produced by Jonny Shorr (UPSAHL, GAYLE), conveys all of this and more with its authentic display of NYC nightlife, demanding speakers, and gritty location. Raised in New York City, the singer talks about getting into music and how difficult it was to find her own sound: “I didn’t feel like I landed on who I was yet as an artist sonically. I released a few little things that eventually took off, but nothing ever really stuck with me yet. It took the pandemic for me to really get space and quiet for the first time. Then I learned the guitar over the pandemic more seriously. That’s when I started writing the beginnings of “Lovesick in Public” and “Line,” I wrote on guitar myself. Then eventually when I moved back to New York and brought that to one of my favorite producers. Then we took and made it into now what is Zoe Ko, but it took a second.” She is currently on tour for her debut EP Baby Teeth in North America.
Zoe Ko spoke with B-Sides host Pete Mar about her muses Amy Winehouse and Gwen Stefani, high school, and her parents’ music taste growing up, more.
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