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MUNA is an American band consisting of Katie Gavin, Josette Maskin, and Naomi McPherson. Their music is typically described as "dark pop" or "dark girl pop," meaning pop that deals with heavy issues The band's name is properly spelled in all capital letters.

History
Based in Los Angeles, the trio met in college at the University of Southern California and began working together in 2013 after discovering their musical chemistry at a party, when Maskin and McPherson began playing together on guitars and Gavin added vocals. Gavin and Maskin were music majors, while McPherson double-majored in Narrative Studies and American Studies & Ethnicity. The two guitarists, Maskin and McPherson, had been used to playing ska and progressive rock, but when their initial collaboration with singer Gavin resulted in a pop song, their bond was sealed.

Beginning their collaboration in an experimental mode, they evolved towards hooky electronic pop and 80's rock. In the summer of 2014, they self-released their debut EP, More Perfect, on Bandcamp and Soundcloud. Its success led to their signing by RCA Records in the U.S. and Columbia Records in the UK. RCA released their self-produced debut major label EP, Loudspeaker, in May 2016. Their debut album, About U, was released in February 2017.

All three members identify as queer. Initially wary of being pigeonholed as a "queer girl band," they later came to embrace the opportunity to use their musical notoriety to help inspire younger people to be comfortable with their identities. Their songs frequently address issues of sexuality, self-worth, trauma, racism, and gender. They describe one early song, "So Special," as "an anthem for the slut-shamed girls of the world who have to assert their own value." According to McPherson, "It would have meant a lot to me when I was, say, 12, to know of someone in a band and think they were cool and know they were out." McPherson added, "I am out and I feel safe being out because the three of us are a little army for one another. I don't feel afraid to be myself. That makes me proud to be queer. That's the whole point of why we do this. We want a safe haven."

Their single, Loudspeaker, is about facing sexual assault. The band released the song years after Gavin's assault, because it "had a deeper emotional effect on [her] than [she] was allowing [herself] to feel". "That happens a lot in situations like that. When you're taken advantage of, it's never as clear as it would be on TV. So a lot of times, with women, we don't even identify that we've been sexually violated. So it can be months, it can years after the fact.The girls say that "the idea of freeing yourself and not caring what other people have to say about it" is essential to their music, and "Loudspeaker" does just that.

The band members have chosen to keep all gender-based pronouns out of their lyrics, which has helped earn them a devoted queer following.

Dutch DJ/producer Tiësto remixed "Winterbreak" in May 2016. MUNA played Lollapalooza 2016 in Chicago in July 2016, toured the U.S. with Grouplove in the fall of 2016, made their late-night network television debut on Nov. 7, 2016 on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and Jimmy Kimmel Live on February 6, 2017

Discography
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Extended plays

 * More Perfect (2014)
 * Loudspeaker (2016)

Singles
 Albums 
 * Winterbreak (2016)
 * About U (2017)