◇ image via WikipediaTrixie Mattel
Trixie Mattel is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Violent Femmes, Orville Peck, Shakey Graves, VINCINT and Vanessa Williams. Those roots explain a lot about how Trixie Mattel arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Alaska Thunderfuck, Dolly Parton, The Chicks, The Highwomen and Indigo Girls, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Iggy Azalea, Rebecca Black and Alaska Thunderfuck 5000, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 19 connections around Trixie Mattel, reaching back through Violent Femmes and forward to Iggy Azalea. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Brian Michael Firkus, better known by the stage name Trixie Mattel, is an American drag queen, television personality, singer-songwriter, DJ, and entrepreneur originally from Marinette County, Wisconsin. She is known for her exaggerated, 1960s-influenced style, distinctive eye makeup, and musical repertoire that blends comedy with acoustic pop and folk-country music, with skills in guitar and the autoharp. In 2015, she competed in the seventh season of the drag reality television competition series RuPaul's Drag Race and returned to win the third season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars. Mattel has also made guest appearances in various iterations of the Drag Race franchise, additionally appearing as a judge on the spinoff series Queen of the Universe (2021–2023).
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Trixie Mattel connections
Trixie Mattel grew out of Violent Femmes, Orville Peck, Shakey Graves and VINCINT, shares an orbit with Alaska Thunderfuck, Dolly Parton, The Chicks and The Highwomen, went on to shape Iggy Azalea, Rebecca Black and Alaska Thunderfuck 5000. 19 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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