Carolesdaughter: “I think my next thing will be a full-length, now that I know what I’m doing”

Carolesdaughter. Credit: Cassidy Skye
(Image credit: Cassidy Skye)

When this issue of Australian Guitar hits shelves, Thea Taylor will be in the country for her first-ever shows on local ground. Just a few years ago, however, she would’ve sworn that the closest she’d ever come to Australia would be in the form of something smuggled out of there illegally. Before making a name for herself as Carolesdaughter, the SoCal-native was a problem child, rebelling against her strait-laced Mormon parents by delving into body mods, hard drugs and perhaps their greatest fear of all, punk-rock. 

Taylor’s four-year stint of inter-personal calamity – into which she was thrown at age 13 – saw her dragged in and out of rehab multiple times. Her last trip lasted six months, and thanks in no short part to the acoustic guitar she brought along to keep her company, changed her life forever. In the year and some months since then, she’s become a household name of any pop-punk fan with a TikTok account, and earlier this year released her banging debut EP, Please Put Me In A Medically Induced Coma. She’s clean these these days, but the chaos hasn’t stopped – only now it’s the kind that leaves her cheeks sore from smiling so much.

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Ellie Robinson
Editor-at-Large, Australian Guitar Magazine

Ellie Robinson is an Australian writer, editor and dog enthusiast with a keen ear for pop-rock and a keen tongue for actual Pop Rocks. Her bylines include music rag staples like NME, BLUNT, Mixdown and, of course, Australian Guitar (where she also serves as Editor-at-Large), but also less expected fare like TV Soap and Snowboarding Australia. Her go-to guitar is a Fender Player Tele, which, controversially, she only picked up after she'd joined the team at Australian Guitar. Before then, Ellie was a keyboardist – thankfully, the AG crew helped her see the light…