KITTIE: ORIGINS/EVOLUTIONS (2018)

All I remembered about Kittie was that they were teenage girls and that they were nu-metal. I'm not sure if I had ever heard them before this movie. Sure enough, their early "hits" were painfully bad. But it was pretty impressive how well they could play at that age. Turns out they have about six albums and a rotating cast of members, outside of the two sisters that are the main songwriters.

The movie lightly touches on sexism in the music industry, although I can imagine that these women have had to deal with it throughout their careers. I assume that was a conscious choice by the band (it looks like they made this doc.) This focuses the movie more on the music than whatever issues they had to deal with working in a male-dominated industry. At times, things were hinted at. One bassist talks about how she was treated by a producer and how it led to her eating disorder, ultimately forcing her to leave the band. Although the movie seems to end before it happens, she dies by suicide in 2017.

This was a pretty interesting look at a band I would have never listened to otherwise. Would have been more interesting with an in depth look into industry sexism, but instead we have this pretty standard, average, watchable rock documentary.