Dum Dum Girls are an American indie pop band from California that formed in 2008. Their name comes from The Vaselines‘ album Dum Dum, Talk Talk‘s single Dum Dum Girl and the Iggy Pop song “Dum Dum Boys”.The band is the project of singer and songwriter Kristen Gundred whose stage name is Dee Dee. Write about what you know. That’s what they say. But that’s a lot easier said than done when what you know is very, very difficult to bear. That was the challenge Dum Dum Girls’ leader Dee Dee faced when writing the songs for the band’s moving second album Only in Dreams. “The first record was basically the first songs I’d ever written,” says Dee Dee, “and I was thinking nostalgically about being a teenager. This record, it was pretty much impossible not to write about very recent, very real things.”
