Muna announce biggest tour behind 'Dancing On The Wall'
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- Muna played Pet-A-Palooza, a Las Vegas dog adoption festival, as one of their first gigs — the guitar feedback caused the dogs to howl throughout the acoustic set, guitarist Josette Maskin recalled.
- RCA Records dropped Muna in 2020 citing pandemic-era cost-cutting; Phoebe Bridgers signed them to her Saddest Factory label in 2021 and provided guest vocals on breakthrough single "Silk Chiffon."
- Muna's fourth album "Dancing On The Wall" features darker music and harder-hitting lyrics, with track "Big Stick" critiquing American imperialism — including war in Gaza and the militarisation of US police forces — sung from the perspective of "Big Brother."
- Harry Styles and Taylor Swift handpicked Muna as tour support, won over by songs like LGBTQ anthem "I Know A Place" (written as a response to the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting) and breakup track "Stayaway."
- Muna will launch their biggest-ever tour this autumn, titled the Gets So Hot Tour after the album's opening track — playing to crowds frontwoman Katie Gavin says they "could never have imagined" a decade ago.
- The band situates themselves alongside Chappell Roan, Renée Rapp, Lil Nas X, and Troye Sivan in the mainstream breakthrough of "queer pop," with Maskin saying they were "at the cusp of the reclamation of the word 'queer.'"
Why it matters: Muna's biggest-ever tour and most politically charged album arrive as queer pop expands into the mainstream — with Chappell Roan, Troye Sivan, and Lil Nas X achieving crossover success alongside them. Three band members who lost their major-label deal in 2020 now command arena-sized crowds, and the album's explicit political content (Gaza, US police militarisation) signals a refusal to soften despite polarised US discourse.
