Kelli Owens Hutton made a record called Soccer Trophy and in the process created a genre called ‘MomCore’. Soccer Trophy is brutal truth. Two minute guitar driven rock and roll songs about children, middle-age, marriage and all the shit. It’s also funny, revealing and moving.
Kelli partnered with Grammy-nominated (in children’s music, but still…) producer Liam Davis. They made the record in her Chicago home studio, aka the laundry room. A multi-instrumentalist Kelli played every instrument except the drums. Ok, she played bass on like half the songs too.
A Berklee College Of Music grad and major-label wash out (Atlantic records but who’s counting) Kelli took a long time off making music to raise her kids. They are a pain in the ass but she loves them anyway. The Dog of course comes first. Somewhere in there is also her husband.
The second single “Shut Up” was released September 19, 2024 and the full record will be released in 2025.
“The video was shot at Berger Park in Chicago, IL. This is the playground I took my kids to every day when they were little. I used to swing them in that baby swing that my guitar is in! I never imagined after they grew up that I would go back to that park and shoot a ‘MomCore’ video!”
“I would say the highlight of the shoot was when the Catholic school nearby let the girls out for recess and their teacher upon seeing me in my vintage Betsey Johnson jumpsuit and stilettos yelled ‘Girls! We only have 3 minutes! Then we’re heading back to class!’”.
“This song is an inner dialogue I am having with my daughter after she was being very rude and shall we say, exercising her newfound ability to express herself. To be blunt she was being a little shit! I went into my studio to write (aka the laundry room) and the song just poured out of me. I didn’t edit it and allowed it to come out. To me this song was the birth of MomCore. It is also the only song on the record that was written in one session. What you hear is exactly what I wrote that day.”
