SCENE QUEEN - BIMBOCORE EP
It’s no news that Scene Queen has been absolutely blowing up on TikTok. Having amassed a following of 466.4K as of this release, her track ‘Pink Rover’ ended up to be a trending track for makeup transitions within the alternative community.
She writes and creates videos on the issues women face in the industry and in the world as a whole, and is absolutely not afraid to speak vocally about the problems she faced getting to where she is now.
Her first track on this EP, ‘Bring it On’ was teased on her TikTok, when she first made the switch to the Scene Queen name.
The track talks about people trying to compare and bring her down, but she is refusing it, saying she is her own person, and will continue to be, and name drops a few people who have inspired her with such thinking. She goes on to say that she’s happy the way she is, and doesn’t plan on changing for the sake of approval of others. This is so important, especially for younger audiences to be their own person and not try to live up to the standards.
‘Pretty In Pink’ is the track that started it all. She tells of the story behind the song via TikTok, that her first name was Rose, and that is when she was signed under Hopeless Records, however, a bigger artist had just released a song under the same name. She goes on to explain that with the announcement of her single, her mental health took a drastic turn, and she needed to push it back. She talks about her troubles with food and eating as the result of thinking she needed some type of way for the industry to like her, which she says is the exact thing she’s talking about in this song.
The events after this, and people’s reactions are what began the next single, ‘Pink Bubblegum’ and she says she realized thousands of young women followed her, and just want to feel safe in their scene, thus ‘Pink Bubblegum’ began and Scene Queen would become a safe space for women, and LGBTQ+ communities. She goes on explaining how she grew up in the scene and found how toxic it was to women, and left before making her comeback and keeping the name as a homage to her younger self.
Her fourth track,’Pink Panther,’ is a track Scene Queen jokes would be the way some of her family finds out about her bisexuality. It’s a track about a sexual experience while also being able to appreciate the women she is currently with. The instrumental does sample the infamous Pink Panther in the bridge as Scene Queen goes more in depth about the events, before going back into the chorus.
‘Pink Rover,’ has been one of Scene Queen’s biggest tracks to date. Having over 4.5 million streams via Spotify, and becoming a trending sound on TikTok, the track helped to further spread her message behind the Bimbocore community. She explains via TikTok that she is sick of the way the rock scene tries putting women against each other and constantly comparing them to other women. She goes on to say that women in the rock community are in a ‘sisterhood’ and reflects this by using a sorority in her music video for this track, and praying to the women who inspire her to show that, also stating she refuses to compete.She also expresses that the scene she creates is not for men to harass others, and is a way at coming back at them.
The last track, ‘Pink Paper,’ is very much a hype song. Scene Queen perfectly ends this EP with this track, showing more of a takeover vibe as the other tracks spoke more on her issues in the industry. It’s a perfect way to end an EP on the struggles of women and LGBTQ+ communities within the scene, pushing the fact that everyone is their own person, and should never feel the need to live up to what others want them to be.
Overall, this EP absolutely blew away all expectations. Scene Queen is doing an insane job at creating this space for the community she’s created. Now being able to play shows and festivals, it’s certain that this community will only continue to grow with every release. It’s amazing to watch her get the recognition she very much deserves.
Nikki Davidson
★★★★★