MUNA Trivia | 60 facts about the indie pop band

MUNA is an American indie pop band consisting of Katie Gavin, Josette Maskin, and Naomi McPherson.

So let’s find out some trivia and facts about the band.

1. Muna is an American indie pop band
2. The name is stylized as MUNA
3. The band consists of Katie Gavin, Josette Maskin, and Naomi McPherson
4. They released two studio albums with RCA Records
5. These albums were About U (2017) and Saves the World (2019)
6. Then they signed with independent label Saddest Factory Records
7. They released their third studio album, Muna, in June 2022
8. Muna is based in Los Angeles
9. The trio met in college at the University of Southern California
10. They began working together in 2013
11. With Maskin and McPherson playing together on guitars and Gavin adding synth bass and vocals
12. Gavin had introduced McPherson to Maskin
13. Gavin and Maskin were music majors
14. While McPherson double-majored in narrative studies and American studies & ethnicity
15. The two guitarists, Maskin and McPherson, had been used to playing ska and progressive rock
16. They settled on a different sound when their initial collaboration with singer Gavin resulted in a pop song
17. Beginning their collaboration in an experimental mode, they evolved towards hooky electronic pop
18. In the summer of 2014, they self-released their debut EP, More Perfect, on Bandcamp and SoundCloud
19. Its success led to their signing by RCA Records in the US and Columbia Records in the UK
20. Gavin and McPherson dated for three years and broke up shortly after being signed
21. RCA released their self-produced debut major label EP, Loudspeaker, in May 2016
22. Their debut full-length album, About U, was released on February 3, 2017
23. Dutch DJ/producer Tiësto remixed “Winterbreak” in May 2016
24. Muna played Lollapalooza 2016 in Chicago in July 2016
25. They toured America with Grouplove in the fall of 2016
26. The band made their late-night network television debut on November 7, 2016, on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
27. In June 2017, it was announced that the band would be the opening act on the North American and European tour dates for Harry Styles
28. In 2017, their song “I Know a Place” was featured in The Carmilla Movie, following the original web series based on Sheridan Le Fanu’s novella of the same name
29. In 2018, Muna was featured playing “I Know a Place” live in the Netflix movie Alex Strangelove, which chronicles the sexual awakening of teen protagonist Alex Truelove
30. In 2018, the band began work on their second full-length record
31. In June 2019, the band announced their second album, Saves the World, which was released on September 6, 2019
32. The album was preceded by its lead single, “Number One Fan,” followed by the singles “Who,” “Stayaway,” and “Taken”
33. Following their London shows at the Village Underground, it was announced that Muna would be returning to the UK for their Saves the World Tour in December 2019
34. In 2020, shortly after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Muna were dropped by RCA for “not making enough money”
35. It was then announced in May 2021, that Muna had signed with Phoebe Bridgers’ record label Saddest Factory, which operates in partnership with Secretly Group’s Dead Oceans
36. In September 2021, Muna released their single “Silk Chiffon” featuring Bridgers, their first since signing to the label
37. Rolling Stone called it a “buoyant track with an uncharacteristically bright declaration of queer love”
38. The song was chosen by a number of publications for their year-end lists of 2021, including Rolling Stone, Consequence of Sound, and Line of Best Fit
39. These publication ranked it at number one
40. Muna later joined Kacey Musgraves’s 15-city winter tour between January and February 2022
41. In March 2022, the band released the single “Anything But Me” and announced that their third studio album, self-titled Muna would be released on June 24, 2022, through Saddest Factory and Dead Oceans
42. The following month, they performed the single on Ellen DeGeneres’ final season of her daytime talk show
43. The album’s third single “Kind of Girl” was released in April 2022, alongside a Western-inspired video with the trio playing “with the gendered nature of the song”
44. The band performed the song on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon the following month
45. Following their self-titled third album’s release, Muna was acclaimed by music critics who have scored it as the band’s highest-rated album according to media aggregate site Metacritic
46. It became the band’s first charting album on multiple charts including the UK Albums Chart, US Billboard 200 and in Australia and Scotland
47. The same day of release, Muna released the fourth single from the album “What I Want” with its music video
48. The trio also released their cover of Britney Spears’ “Sometimes” (1999) for the Hulu LGBTQ American romantic comedy film Fire Island in June 2022
49. Muna are currently an opening act on selected March through July 2023 US dates of Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour
50. They are also the opening act for the Australian leg of Lorde’s Solar Power Tour
51. In March 2023, Muna performed to a sold-out crowd of 15,000 people at the closing ceremony of WorldPride Sydney, alongside Ava Max and Kim Petras
52. In April 2023, the band performed their first set at Coachella
53. Shortly after, Muna released a new single “One That Got Away” alongside a “criminal underworld” inspired music video
54. All three members identify as queer
55. McPherson is non-binary
56. Initially wary of being pigeonholed as a “queer band”
57. Muna later came to embrace the opportunity to use their musical fame to help inspire younger people to be comfortable with their identities
58. Their songs frequently address issues of sexuality and gender
59. They describe one early song, “So Special”
60. They also called it “an anthem for the slut-shamed girls of the world who have to assert their own value”

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