""Femcels! Femcels! Femcels!" Rowan Miles and Gabriella Turton cry over speedy video-game bleeps, sounding like they've just won the lottery. "You are listening to the Femcels, we don't have sex ever!" In this deranged parody of the life of two sexless young Brits, having greasy hair and scuzzy teeth sounds like so much fun. I Have to Get Hotter is an audio cartoon-with charmingly disheveled, pixelated production and doofy spoken-word passages about feeling like the "indiest girl at school.""
"In "You're Gay and You're in Love With Me (Please Let Me Touch Your Boobs)," only the second-longest song title, the girls reminisce on an afternoon at a Counter-Strike tournament, with its fetid odor of "incels and hotdogs." "Rowan, if you want a girl to like you, you just have to say, 'You're gay and you're in love with me,'" Turton coaches her friend. "And if that doesn't work, you can just always go, 'PLEASE LET ME TOUCH YOUR BEWBS!'""
Rowan Miles and Gabriella Turton perform as the Femcels, delivering an audio-cartoon aesthetic with disheveled, pixelated production and doofy spoken-word passages. The songs parody two sexless young Brits, celebrating greasy hair, scuzzy teeth, and indie-girl affectations while lampooning gaming culture and insecure tryhards. Lyrics reference Counter-Strike tournaments, incels, hotdogs, and absurd song titles like "You're Gay and You're in Love With Me (Please Let Me Touch Your Boobs)." The duo met online; Miles is an illustrator and Turton is a coder. They began releasing music in early 2024 and have performed alongside EsDeeKid, fakemink, and collaborated with Worldpeace DMT and producer Ike Clateman.
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