Odie Leigh would never have called herself a musician before the depths of the 2020 pandemic, when her rapper roomies made a bet: Whoever records a song that goes viral first, wins. Slightly ticked off that they hadn�t included her in the wager, she decided to hit them with her best shot, and Odie was crowned the victor when a track she wrote blew up on TikTok. �I was like, �I'm gonna show y'all. I'm gonna win,�� she recalls, laughing. �Then I woke up to a bunch of comments on TikTok being like, �Oh my God, release this. This is amazing!� Now, I�m a musician.�
Four years after posting what she calls �that silly joke song� on TikTok, Odie Leigh has continued to transform and evolve as an artist � from what she calls �acoustic, ethereal folk sad girl music� to a harder-edge tunes that flirt with early Aughts pop-punktivism. That trajectory culminates in her first LP, Carrier Pigeon. �All the music I've released up until this point can kind of be thrown into the indie folk acoustic genre,� Odie says. �But I never set out to make Americana music. I never set out to make folk music. I'm just a girl with an acoustic guitar.�