Odd One Out

Album artwork

## Singles

1. Play It Cool (Non-album)
Released: 16 Mar 2018
2. Day Month Second
Released: 7 Jun 2018
3. Young
Released: 14 Sep 2018
4. Deal With It
Released: 24 Jan 2019

**Odd One Out** is the debut studio album by GIRLI, released on April 5, 2019, through Virgin EMI and PMR Records.

## Background

The entirety of Odd One Out was written by GIRLI with two groups of artists only, in order for her to "feel more comfortable": Frederik Thaee, Ryan Spraker and Tom Peyton of Fast Friends, and MNDR and Peter Wade, with additional co-writing from Anthony Rossomando in songs Pink and Stick Out. The album was originally not meant to be one:

> We were just making songs together, us three, and then [with] these guys called Fast Friends who are this awesome trio. I'd gone to LA before and I'd done the whole 'let's do pop writing sessions', had some good ones and had some terrible ones where it was like 'I feel like a product right now, this isn't creative, this isn't fun', so I went back and I just worked with these two people and it was so fun.
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The project was finished in mid 2018, while track Hot Mess was taken from GIRLI's then-previous release of the same name.

### Title

In an April 2019 interview with Gay Times, GIRLI said of Odd One Out's title:

> I felt that I don't fit in with the pop world and I don't fit in with the indie world – where do I fit? And I started to think that I don't really fit anywhere.
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In a promotional zine of the same name, she explained she was bullied and kicked out of multiple friend groups throughout school, causing her to feel "like a weirdo":

> When I was a kid, I felt like the odd one out a lot. I had a very loving childhood, but school was different. In the first two years of school, I was bullied. I did things differently, felt like a weirdo. In year eight, I was diagnosed with OCD. It helped me understand some of my behaviour, but didn't make having and keeping friends easy. I got kicked out of a lot of friendship groups and made fun of throughout school.
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> After school, I went to music college and started experimenting with my style. I made friends who accepted me for who I was and who also experimented with their appearances. Not everyone will get you, and you're different. But that's ok. You gotta love yourself, and that's all that matters. I get stared at in the street a lot. I get people shocked by my pansexuality. I get people who don't get my music. But it's ok! 'Cause I get me!
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## Composition

Musically, Odd One Out is an electropop and synth-pop album, which touches themes of love, breakup, self-love, lost youth and struggling with mental illness. The record's music has been described as "the old-school punk rock sound with its loud and abrasive attitude", while specific tracks such as Day Month Second, Friday Night Big Screen and Hot Mess have been praised due to their "bubbling synths", "introspective airiness" and "heavy dose of sarcasm" respectively.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 https://web.archive.org/web/20210614191325/https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/interviews/girl-debut-album-reintroducing-her-to-world-interview
2. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20230512111754/https://www.vice.com/en/article/59xwkx/girli-tarot-cards-interview-odd-one-out-2019
3. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20201128172843/https://www.gaytimes.co.uk/culture/girli-is-using-her-platform-to-ignite-conversations-around-feminism-sexuality-and-mental-health
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20191215194523/https://girlimusic.com
5. ↑ https://www.discogs.com/release/13470685-GIRLI-Odd-One-Out
6. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20230813175218/https://www.clashmusic.com/reviews/girli-odd-one-out
7. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20230819013859/https://diymag.com/review/album/girli-odd-one-out-album-review

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