With the release of her new song, NYLON caught up with Dobson about what it was like working with Perry, her next album, and the challenges she faced being a Black girl making rock music in the early aughts. “Linda Perry is a legend and working with her was just a dream come true,” she said. Most recently, she was asked by Linda Perry to sing “ White Line Runaways,” the track that ends the Haley Lu Richardson and Barbie Ferreira-led dramedy Unpregnantand is featured on its soundtrack.
Now, at 35, Dobson resides in Nashville where she’s largely been working on her own music the past few years. Aside from a handful of acting roles the past few years, things went quiet.īut that’s changed. Throughout the next decade, she’d go through a rollercoaster with her label Island/Def Jam and release two other albums. With rebellious, uptempo singles like “ Everything” and “ Take Me Away,” her self-titled 2003 debut focused on the rush of teen love. “I've had a lot of young and older Black kids, Black women and Black men tell me how much I've impacted them,” she tells NYLON. In a genre that was largely dominated by white women, Dobson inspired Black alternative kids who saw themselves in her. But Dobson’s songs-fierce pop jaunts with gritty guitar riffs-made a splash with moody emo kids.
At the time, she weathered comparisons to fellow Canadian Avril Lavigne, and rode the pop-punk wave alongside Paramore. Back when eyebrow rings, Chuck Taylors and raccoon eyeliner were all the rage in the early aughts, Fefe Dobson emerged as a singular pop-punk force.
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