Mean Jolene was started by Jolie Cota Flink and Adam Sharp in the tiniest of practice spaces during the summer of 2015 in Austin, Texas. They met in 2012 and immediately bonded over their Chicago origins. They’ve been writing songs together ever since, with the exception of a month or two between their previous project dissolving, and the birth of Mean Jolene.

After a turbulent period of health issues, a band break-up, and a long-term relationship ending, Jolie started writing a bunch of new songs that ranged from love songs about drugs to bitter songs about boys. After a few months, Adam and Jolie were ready to flesh out their sound. They asked their good friends Will Glosup and Ben Seligson to join and that’s when the songs realized their true potential – short, fast, energetic, pop music with surf and punk influences.

Mean Jolene’s 10-song debut LP, Salty, expresses themes of extreme highs and lows: In many ways the band’s songs exhibit a fine balance between sweetness and edginess, where sometimes disturbing lyrical content is delivered with innocence and through power-pop instrumentation.

“Doubt It”, which is the 3rd single from the album, gets its premiere here. About the song, Flink states, ““Doubt It” is a galloping and driving song that exudes a sense of urgency and instability while flip-flopping between tense, dissonant verses and extremely melodic and harmonic choruses.”

Flink continues, “While “Doubt It” doesn’t tell as linear of a story as some of the other songs on the album, it continues to build on the album’s overall themes and vibe, which mostly narrates a self-defining and indulgent period of substance abuse and countless romances in order to cope with disturbing and tumultuous emotions. “Doubt It” specifically coveys feelings and emotions of insecurity, self-deprecation and the self-fulfilling prophecy of expecting nothing ever to work in your favor.”

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