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TheyLoveThem exists somewhere between a fairy tale, a punk show, and the stories we tell ourselves to survive.

Rooted in New York City's anti-folk and Philadelphia's punk traditions but reaching far beyond both genres, the project builds immersive worlds where jesters become emotional archetypes, childhood becomes mythology, and imagination becomes a way back to ourselves. Equal parts theatrical and intimate, TheyLoveThem invites listeners into songs that feel less like performances than shared acts of remembrance -- spaces where vulnerability and play are not opposites, but companions.

At the center of the project is Love Them (they/them), a songwriter, performer, and board-certified music therapist whose creative practice is guided by curiosity more than certainty. Their songs aren't interested in offering answers. Instead, they linger inside difficult questions, exploring identity, grief, healing, joy, and transformation with the openness of someone still discovering the story as they tell it.

Every TheyLoveThem performance unfolds like a living storybook. Love appears as an emotional, colorful jester, reminiscent of the court jester, showing off a vast emotional landscape -- Love appears sometimes with their band, who act as a chorus of inner voices navigating fear, shame, resilience, hope, uncertainty, and wonder. Rather than disguises, the characters become invitations: reminders that we all contain multitudes, and that even our most contradictory selves deserve compassion.

While Love's background in music therapy informs the project's deep empathy and emotional honesty, TheyLoveThem is first and foremost an artistic practice. These songs are not prescriptions for healing, nor are they interested in reducing complex emotions to tidy resolutions. Instead, they create room for listeners to encounter their own memories, relationships, and inner worlds without judgment. In TheyLoveThem's universe, imagination is not an escape from reality -- it's another language for telling the truth.

Musically, TheyLoveThem blends anti-folk's lyrical candor with punk's emotional urgency, carrying the confessional spirit of Kimya Dawson and Jeffrey Lewis while forging a world entirely their own. Their songs reimagine childhood bedtime stories for adults -- modern fables that explore change, shadow work, and acceptance through playful melodies, theatrical storytelling, and deeply human lyricism. The result is a sound that feels both whimsical and emotionally resonant, familiar yet impossible to pin down.

Their latest album, Everything Changes, is perhaps the clearest expression of that philosophy to date. Framed as a pilgrimage through memory, the record revisits the landscapes of childhood with equal parts tenderness and unease, examining how the stories we inherit evolve as we do. Rather than asking "What happened?", the album asks the quieter question that often arrives years later: "What does it mean to me now?" Across its songs, memory becomes something living -- not fixed, but continually rewritten through time, perspective, and compassion.

Ultimately, TheyLoveThem is an invitation to return to the parts of ourselves we've been taught to leave behind. It is a place where play becomes ritual, fantasy becomes confession, and even the oldest wounds can be viewed with new eyes. In these songs, the jester is never merely entertaining the crowd. They're holding up a mirror -- one painted in bright colors, stitched together from memory, and brave enough to laugh while telling the truth.

Sometimes the truest stories are the ones that begin with "once upon a time."

Love says: “The most important thing to me is getting the audience out of their shell, and getting them out of their own way. Art is playing with color and visual perception, and music is playing with time and spatial perception. Often I see people flock to jam bands in order to space out, and those spaces are important — But what about being in THIS moment? Laughing, crying, and existing with me in THIS space. That’s all I want. I want to help people learn that being themselves, no matter how silly, and loving themselves no matter what are the driving forces of life.”   

Before their work as TheyLoveThem, Love’s claim to fame was the song “Draggin’ Me Down” which was featured on the NYC-based fictional podcast Welcome to Night Vale. While they have many fans from this song that they wrote in a sad moment with their best friend Yo! The Moon, Love stresses that life is about more than wishing you were dead. You hear this yearning for self-love even in this early work. Draggin’ Me Down planted the seeds that would eventually blossom into TheyLoveThem.

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