April’s ‘IT Girl’

The Ides of March came for the world of punk and punk rock in the late ’80s, but with the fertilization of the new millennium and the freckles of spring showers, Amy Taylor has sprouted as April’s IT Girl!

As an avid consumer of pop culture and the social media editor, I have the perfect skill set to ordain the next It Girl.

A girl who has evolved into a walking muse through her signature style, unique lifestyle and chic way of thinking.

And I, my fellow readers, have found this month’s girl!

Taylor, better known as Amyl, is the lead singer of The Sniffers, a scantily-clothed Australian rock ‘n’ roll band currently touring the country and much of Europe in summer 2025.

This punk princess and the rest of her crew are rising icons of pop culture, chairoting the retro speaker fuzz of pub rock bands, mullets and of course…

Teeny-eeny-weeny bikinis!

In a time where “the girls” or the current pop stars of the industry curate and manicure an image of chic after parties in the penthouses of NYC and lackluster 15-second choreographed TikToks, it’s about time we get a gal who rocks it out over an animated prison fight scene between Invincible and an ancient mystical dragon.

When it comes to divining, the next woman of the hour or, in this case, month, the privilege should fall onto none other than the on-stage flexing blondie from Mullumbimby, Australia.

It’s no secret that Taylor dives into the raunchy or non-traditional visual eye-catcher, but from her perspective, it’s all in the name of fun.

In an interview with PAPER magazine last November, she said, “I definitely wanted [the music] to mean something, but I also wanted something that felt fun and carefree and not too serious. I wanted to make people laugh.”

From obscene lyrics featured throughout her and The Sniffer’s third studio album “Cartoon Darkness” and a plethora of sexual innuendos appearing as key themes throughout music videos, Taylor challenges the ideas of conformity through her music and eccentric wardrobe… or rather the lack thereof.

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As the only female member and lead singer of the band, it’s a common misconception that Taylor’s often minimal display of clothing is tramp-esque or even seductive. But when you take into consideration her bandmates and their visible areolas behind her, it's clear that her costume design is more of an homage to the traditional raw rock ‘n’ roll scene.

As an It Girl, Taylor has curated an aesthetic that consists of flipping bird(s), pink corsets lined in a skirt of animal fur and doing whatever the f*** you want.

“I’m making decisions for me and sorry that you don’t like that but it’s not stopping me,” she said in the same interview with PAPER. “You might be over there hating, but I’m over here doing this. F*** those guys.”

She sings, screams and at times in incoherent spurts, speaks her truth over clashing instrumentation about her feelings towards the government, self expression and “Jerkin’” off.

At the 2025 Brit Awards, Taylor said to The News Movement in a TikTok interview that she doesn’t really need a pregame ritual to get hype before shows.

“Sometimes the rage of the world [just] channels right through [her],” Taylor said in the interview.

If you thought teenage angst was just a phase, or something unsuitable for the world of record deals and the monetization of likeness, Taylor disagrees or, more honestly, doesn’t care.

While I do not know whether icons are “Born This Way” or made, this 29-year-old rockstar from the outback has earned her spot as April’s one and only It Girl!

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