Girlfriends Drops New Single and Music Video 'Congratulations' With Jasiah

Today, girlfriends, the pop-punk duo composed of Travis Mills (musical artist, Apple Music host, actor) and Nick Gross (Big Noise, Gross Labs, Find Your Grind) released their latest single, "Congratulations", via Big Noise Music Group LLC. Listen HERE. To complement the single, girlfriends have also released the music video to "Congratulations" today.

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Having teamed up with rapper Jasiah, "Congratulations" is about loving someone so much it hurts and how nothing ever really goes right. The music video takes viewers back to the early 2,000's through the use of fisheye lenses mixed along with normal focal distance lenses, creating the nostalgic feeling desired. Destined to be the heartbreak song of the summer, the single plays into the idea of taking your power back and losing it all at the same time. "Congratulations" kicks off girlfriends' musically focused 2021 and hints at what's to come from their highly-anticipated sophomore album releasing later this year followed by a national tour.

"Bringing an artist like Jasiah into this song was really exciting for us," said Travis and Nick speaking on "Congratulations". "He brings such a different melodic approach to his songwriting and vocals. Blend that with the throw-back pop-punk chords that Phat Mike from NOFX brought to the table and you get a pretty interesting and epic song. This combination of artists was totally random and we wrote this song in 30 minutes, it came together so fast."

In the Fall of 2020, girlfriends released their self-titled album via Big Noise Music Group. Produced by John Feldmann, whose production and songwriting collaborations resulted in landmark albums by blink-182, 5 Seconds Of Summer, and The Used, the album has garnered over 12 million streams on Spotify. Later this year, girlfriends will be one of the opening acts on Machine Gun Kelly's tour.

Nick and Travis first walked right up to the edge of rock stardom before either of them had even left their teens. The brash and catchy hip-hop Travis made in his Riverside, California bedroom and posted on MySpace as "T. Mills" led to a major label deal, a spot on the Warped Tour, and an electric buzz, presaging the era of SoundCloud emo-rap and laptop hooks that was to come. At 17, Nick found himself in New York's Times Square playing MTV's TRL, in a pop-punk band featured prominently on Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, with a major label contract of their own.

Like the punk rock music that first inspired him as a teenager, Travis sees girlfriends as an outlet for soulful expression and emotional catharsis, a means to process his feelings of grief, uncertainty, and renewed vigor for life, in a way that's likely to connect with others who struggle. Nick is equally enthusiastic to have another crack at pop-punk, the genre that first set him on his career path.

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