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BEC LAUDER IS HONEST & FREE IN OUR LATEST ISSUE

Rebecca Corosanite took

a steel-capped boot to expecta-

tions and transformed into Bec

Lauder, and now she fronts your

next favourite rock band…

 

Words by Emma Wilkes

 

Bec Lauder got a horse tattoo recently. She’s never been a “horse girl,” but the adrenaline rush she had riding on the back of

an animal for the first time didn’t feel unfamiliar. “To me, it felt like what making music felt like,” she explains.

 

For her, music is freedom, and the hunger for freedom was what bore her rock ‘n’ roll spirit in the first place. Growing up in a deprived inner-city part of South Philadelphia, she felt caged in by the weight of the expectations placed on her, not just by association with her hometown, but by her family.

 

Her parents owned the non-profit charter school she attended, forging a sense of pressure for her to excel academically. “People would make a lot of assumptions about me, because my parents owned the school. They thought I was pretentious, or just not cool,” she says. “A lot of people growing up knew my name, but people didn’t know who I was.”

 

Eventually, her own name felt tainted by perception. After securing a modeling contract and moving into a house of musicians, inspiring her to start jamming and find a voice as a musician, the woman born Rebecca Corosanite cast off the shackles of those perceptions and adopted the name Bec Lauder.

 

“Bec Lauder is like a piece of myself that’s invincible,” she explains. “She’s badass. She doesn’t take shit. Sometimes Bec Lauder gets in trouble. Sometimes Bec Lauder causes problems. I think of her as a superhero from when I was little. When I’m feeling small, Bec Lauder can take care of it.”

 

With this armor, she leads The Noise – completed by drummer Maggie Bishop and guitarist Soph Shreds – into battle. Since their formation in 2023, the trio have tallied up over 100 chaotic shows around the Big Apple, hammering their unvarnished, sepia-toned punk ‘n’ roll sound into shape. On record, if it seems like they’ve found a way to bottle the spark of real, raw live music, that’s because they technically have – they record live and fine-tune later.

“I think a lot of artists, especially nowadays, are like, ‘I want to make a song. I’m gonna sit down with the producer.’ I hate that. It’s not how I do it,” Bec says. Their debut album, The Vessel, in September only turbocharged their rise – and now, Bec’s thinking about how to raise the bar as the band gets more eyes on them (they’ve already clocked up 140,000 Instagram followers). A slot opening for Cage The Elephant spurred her to push herself harder– “It had such a huge pressure because [frontman Matt Shultz] is such an insane live performer,” she says. “And I was like, ‘If I have to play before this guy, I have to be crazy.’

 

“What playing so much does to you psychologically is it proves things to you – that your honesty, the risks you take, how much you let loose is validated,” she continues. “Most performers are scared to really go hard, but I’ve gone hard time and time again, and the people receive it so positively. It is my job to give people an experience, and so I need to

be as honest and as free as I can.”