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Haim^{Pronunciation}"HY-im"; Painful Rhyme with "flyin'" (stylized in CAPS LOCK) is a Los Angeles-based rock band comprised of the three Haim sisters: Este (born March 14, 1986),^note Pronounced "S.T." Alana (born December 15, 1991), and Danielle (born February 16, 1989). It formed in 2007 and its rise to fame is the stuff of Rags to Riches levels.

It began as Rockinhaim in the early 2000s — a family activity with the three sisters' parents where they performed Cover Versions of rock songs at local fairs around the city, until Danielle and Este left to join a girl group called The Valli Girls. Turned off by the management's uninterest in having the band members write the group's songs, they left before the group's demise, and Danielle went to work as a backing guitarist for Jenny Lewis, Julian Casablancas and Cee Lo Green, while Este completed her studies at UCLA.

The sisters rebranded Haim, their parents left the group (or were kicked out, depending on who you ask), and released an EP called Forever in 2012 for free online. After years of being ignored by A&R personnel at nightclubs and amateur concerts, British radio DJ Mary Ann Hobbs heard them perform in Texas, downloaded Forever, and played a selection on her Xfm Radio^note Radio X from September 2015 show when she returned to the UK. The move gave Haim momentum in the UK, Ireland and Europe, and led to the singles "Don't Save Me" and "The Wire", and their debut album Days Are Gone in 2013, which immediately blitzed the charts and by most accounts validated the hype. They were subsequently nominated for Best New Artist at the 2015 Grammy Awards.

The trio then got another big break when they were tapped by Taylor Swift to be the opening act on a leg of her blockbuster 1989 tour. Their second album, Something to Tell You, was released in 2017 to mixed reviews, with a common critique being that it sounded overproduced and too much like straight pop music. Their Darker and Edgier third album, 2020's Women in Music, Part III, won back the crowd with its much more raw and personal approach, which received unanimous critical acclaim and two more Grammy nominations. In January 2023, Haim announced through a video on their TikTok that they were back in the studio working on their fourth album, I Quit, which released June 20, 2025.

Despite often being compared to a (hopefully far less dysfunctional) Rumours-era Fleetwood Mac, HAIM mostly play a variant of Southern California soft rock heavily influenced by '80s pop and '90s Contemporary R&B with elements/formulas of Electro House. Outside of the group, Danielle is a session musician, Este is a film and television composer, and Alana is an actress who debuted in Paul Thomas Anderson's Licorice Pizza.

Click here for their official YouTube channel. Their official website is here.^note Prone to be inactive at times but their mostly used domain.

Lineup:

• Danielle Haim - lead guitar, lead vocals, drums
• Este Haim - guitar, bass, backing vocals
• Alana Haim - rhythm guitar, backing vocals, keyboard, percussion

Discography:

• Forever EP (2012)
• Falling EP (2012)
• Days Are Gone (2013)
• Something to Tell You (2017)
  • Valentine (2017), a 15-minute tie-in short. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.
• Women in Music Pt. III (2020)
• I Quit (2025)

Their music provides examples of the following tropes:

• Advertised Extra:
  • Este and Danielle's backing vocals on Taylor Swift's "No Body, No Crime" are instead credited as an official feature.
  • Their accompanying live drummer Dash Hutton appeared in many interviews when they toured before his departure in 2017. This led to the media believing he was an official member of the line-up and credited him for the drumming Danielle did on the albums.
• All Drummers Are Animals: Averted. The trio don't get to party as much when they tour and prefer to sit in their tour bus watching movies before bed. They've said don't expect any wild stories about them being wreckless when they're in your town or city because they're too lazy for that.
  Alana: I don't need to do drugs or drink or get fucking wasted because I have way too much fun onstage.
• Arrow Catch: Danielle catches an arrow shot by Este in the music video for "Falling".
• Audience Participation Song: All of them. HAIM encourages their audiences to sing (and dance) along to the entire lineup at concerts.
• B-Side: Almost entirely dance mixes with the exception of Send Me Down.
• Band of Relatives: Sisters Este, Danielle, and Alana.
• Bathos:
  • The band admit they enjoy making fun of themselves. Their promotional material is comedic and the last thing a rock fan would expect a rock band to have, and early music videos featured them dancing and Este doing something ridiculous.
    Este: We’ve been performing as a trio and doing shows in our back yard since we were kids.
    Alana: Este would do physical comedy to make me laugh as a baby. She would, like, trip and fall and I would laugh, and that was just our whole lives. [Making goofy social media posts and videos on] TikTok is just an extension of that. It comes naturally. And like, why not? We look at every TikTok as [a Saturday Night Live] sketch—how do you make people laugh in 30 seconds?
  • When they found out Shawn Mendes was secretly in the crowd at a 2017 concert and did Air Guitar to their music, they were flattered and encouraged all their fans to let themselves go at their concerts like that.
  • The promotional photography of the North American One More HAIM tour where the sisters are in various states of undressed and topless with Hand-or-Object Underwear. Fanservice that might work on some viewers, but too goofy in places to be sexually appealing (Not Safe for Work warning: take the photo of the ladies all topless with a bass guitar awkwardly censoring them across the photo). The sisters' wry expressions throughout only make the photoshoot hard to take seriously.
• Break-Up Song: Common go-to topic.
  • "The Wire" is Type I Blew It, I Regret It, But It's Too Late to Apologize.
  • "Right Now" isn't regretful and goes the "don't try to make up" way.
  • Type I Want You Back: "Want You Back", "Ready For You".
  • Type Teetering On The Brink Of A Breakup: "Nothing's Wrong", "Up From a Dream".
• Breather Episode: I Quit, full of breakup songs, suddenly switches with "Spinning", a song about the whirlwind of emotions one gets from Love at First Sight. Then the album gets back to normal with next track's "Cry".
• British Teeth: All the members have admitted to having asymmetrical teeth linings (all blamed on a local orthodontist they believe scammed their parents and many of their school friends), but Alana's are the most noticable in her front upper incisors◊, to the point her Instagram DMs filled with dentists and orthodontists offering their services when the trailer for Licorice Pizza came out.
• Broken Record:
  • Invoked in the pre-chorus and chorus of "I Know Alone", showcasing the Heroic BSoD the narrator experiences as every day blends into a misery with sleep every few hours.
    I don't wanna give, I don't wanna give too much
    And I don't wanna feel, I don't wanna feel at all, 'cause
    Nights turn into days ... that turn to grey
    Keep turning over
    Some things never grow; I know alone
    Like no one else does
    Nights turn into days ... that turn to grey
    Keep turning over
    Some things never grow; I know alone
    Like no one else does
  • The refrain from "The Wire".
    I know, I know, I know, I know
    That you're gonna be okay anyway
  • Crossed with Arc Words, "Don't Wanna" most likely got its name because the phrase and variations appear in the song 60 times in the main lyrics and the backing vocals, invoking the narrator's denial that their relationship isn't working.
• Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl:
  • "Little of Your Love" is this, from the Gentle Girl's point of view, who's encouraging the Brooding Boy to trust her earnest, romantic actions and not to be shy about/scared of reciprocating.
  • "Summer Girl" is also from the Gentle Girl's point of view (crossed with "I Am" Song) when she returns from her long journey to find the Brooding Boy in a worse mental state than she left him.
    L.A. on my mind; I can't breathe
    You're there when I close my eyes; so hard to reach
    Your smiles turn into cryin'; it's the same release
    And you always know, and you always know
    I'm your summer girl
    [...]
    The fears inside your heart's deepest gashes...
    Walk beside me. Not behind me.
    Feel my unconditional love
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Expect the most out-of-left-field comments and behavior to come from Este.
• The Cameo:
  • They respectively performed with Kid Cudi and Jenny Lewis at Coachella.
  • They appear in the music video for Chromeo's "Old 45s" as three patrons at the bar P-Thugg sings at. And then Este cracks someone over the head with a pool cue in the B-roll.
  • They are part of the many cameoes in Rostam's "From the Back of the Cab" music video.
  • Danielle appears in Vampire Weekend's "This Life" music video, along with album producer Ariel Rechtshaid (who was the chief Record Producer for Something to Tell You and Women in Music, Part III) and other Vampire Weekend collaborators. She and Rechtshaid star in its Cold Open where Kyle Field from Little Wings picks them up from outside a store in his (mother's) car and takes them to Mark Ronson's dinner party.
  • They appear at the end of Thundercat's "Dragonball Durag" music video, where (after constantly striking out with women) he finally wins a date with Este.
  • In Taylor Swift's "Bejeweled" music video's Cinderella Whole-Plot Reference as Swift's bullying step-sisters (Laura Dern's their mother/Swift's evil stepmother).
  • In 2014, Danielle was a Special Guest drummer onstage for The Killers.
• CAPS LOCK: The band's name up until the 2020s was stylized like this. This was common for some Indie Pop acts in the 2010s (the time of their claim to fame).
• Celeb Crush: Alana has made it no secret that hers are Drake, Mike Skinner from The Streets, Shawn Hunter from Boy Meets World, Zac Efron, Seth from The O.C., and Sid from Skins. Sid's actor Mike Bailey was her ex-boyfriend in the music video for "The Wire" because of this. Meanwhile, Este's from teenhood was Leonardo DiCaprio and Danielle's was The Band's Levon Helm (although she clarified Helm was more attractive in a "talented musician" way to her ... but it didn't hurt that he was still nice to look at).
• City Shout-Outs: Este ends her verse on "The Wire" with this in concerts.
• Clothes Make the Legend: One way to tell the trio apart in the 2010s was through this onstage and in their music videos. Este wore a skirt or patterned dresses, Danielle wore jeans/trousers (with her shirt tucked in at the front) and a leather/denim jacket/blazer with/or a brimmed hat, and Alana wore a t-shirt and denim shorts. Whenever Este and Alana dropped their signature looks, it must've been important (usually it would be Alana before Este, if the band performed on late night talk shows), but the move to the leather uniformed long pants and bralettes signified the band's maturity and confidence.
• Concept Album: I Quit became one, made at the time all the sisters had no romantic partners and were enjoying not being attached to anyone. Most of the songs are a variation of feeling free of relationship commitments, the occasional feeling of loneliness and growing insecurities when the situation sets in, and the Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism over whether you can handle another relationship/being single in the long term.
• Cool Shades: All three sisters often wear sunglasses. Women in Music Part III is their first album cover to not depict them in sunglasses.
• Cover Version:
  • Back when there was only one album, the trio frequently performed other people's songs onstage (after a few albums, covers are resorted to radio stations). The songs include "Wrecking Ball", "XO", "Oh Well", "Hold Me", "I'll Try Anything Once", "99 Luftballoons", "Strong Enough" (with an assist from Lorde), "Mustang Sally" (rejoined by their parents), and "Rihannon" (with Stevie Nicks herself!).
  • Averted with their albums, where every song is written and composed with input from the trio and a guest songwriter the group are friends with. Despite no explanation for this, the limited commentary Danielle and Este have made about their time in The Valli Girls could hint at why. However, in 2018, their cover of Shania Twain's "Man! I Feel Like a Woman" that they performed on an Australian radio station was released as a single.
• Dancing Queen: Double Subverted in the "Little of Your Love" video because the dance floor was already full of people dancing, but the band lead them by the song's bridge.
• Darker and Edgier: Women in Music Part III, coming after the Lighter and Softer Something to Tell You.
• Disco Dan: During the promo and release of Something to Tell You, the group dressed reminiscently of 1970s casual attire, with turtlenecks, waist-high jeans, Oxford boots, leather jackets and retro sunglasses. Add their long, straight hair parted down the middle and they looked like models straight out of a vintage magazine.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: The album cover for Women in Music, Pt. III where the band — dressed as chefs — stand behind the serving counter of a deli (the famous Los Angeles deli Canter's) throwing disapproving looks at the viewer. They are surrounded by large, hanging salami sausages.
• Doomed Hometown: Averted with "Summer Girl" as the narrator's Los Angeles hometown is fine but they reunite with someone (who's represented in second person) who isn't as untouched as the hometown.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: Danielle's singing style began as a breathy staccato which reminded many listeners of post-Teen Idol Michael Jackson but never featured heavily on an album after Days Are Gone. The last sparks of this were her vocal hiccups in "Little of Your Love".
• Epic Rocking:
  • The girls often have Grateful Dead-style jam sessions at their concerts.
  • Downplayed with the songs themselves. Notably, Women in Music, Part III is the first album where the average song length is three-and-a-half minutes, whereas the previous two had an average song length of four minutes.
• Everyone Is Christian at Christmas:
  • The trio DJ'd and emceed Spotify's 2024 Christmas party.
  • A non-holiday example. Danielle was a Special Guest at Vampire Weekend's Japanese set in 2019 and she and fellow Jewish musician Ezra Koenig did a Let's Duet cover of Dusty Springfield's "Son of a Preacher Man" in a mashup: a song about the narrator recalling a Star-Crossed Lovers sexual relationship she had as a teen with the teenaged son of the priest who frequently visited her family home for sermons.
• Everything Is an Instrument:
  • When covering Sheryl Crow's "Strong Enough", Este eschews her bass in favor of co-lead vocals and a glass bottle, played as though it were a hand-held drum.
  • Danielle played a mug, two glass cups and other crockery, and tinned food containers from The BBC Radio's staff room with two knives during the Live Lounge's performance of Selena Gomez's "Bad Liar".
• The Fashionista:
  • If the trio feature in a magazine for anything but the latest music they're promoting, it'll be photoshoots of them modeling clothes or attending a fashion show they've been invited to. However, their outfits when promoting music or performing are also the common talk of the fashion world and audiences.
  • Of the trio, Danielle, who once admitted to often skipping school as a teenager to visit thrift stores and buy Fashion Magazines. Her first job out of high school was working in a clothes store.
  • A 2025 interview with British GQ ended with the band taking the interviewer clothes shopping at a thrift store they often frequent.
  • Enough to be referenced in a joke on Hacks, in which Ava arrives in Los Angeles and comments that she can't tell which of the many trios of women she's passed are the Haim sisters because everyone's so well-dressed. Turns out the sisters are out of town on tour.
• Female Rockers Play Bass: Although the band is just female members, guitarists Danielle and Alana are sometimes alternated between male session musicians during album recordings (usually for extra flourishes). But Este is almost never replaced by a man for the bass playing, even playing the double bass for "Summer Girl" as two male engineers held her and the instrument upright as she recorded.
• Foreign Culture Fetish: Being embraced and discovered in the United Kingdom was a dream come true for the trio, who were inspired by its 2000s Indie Rock bands, pop groups like S Club 7 and Spice Girls, and mesmerized by 1990s fashion model icon Kate Moss. It shows in their music, which has been described by critics as "trans-Atlantic".
• Genre Roulette: Although best known for soft-rock hits "The Wire" and "Don't Save Me", there's plenty of synth-pop, R&B, and garage-rock weirdness to go around on their first album alone.
• Gentle Giant: Este's known as the Life of the Party member who everyone loves, to the point of borderline Cloudcuckoolander. But she's admitted in interviews that she sometimes exploited Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass so she could switch into If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her... to scare away anyone trying to manipulate or harm her little sisters (especially towards boys and her male friends during their school careers).
• Getting Crap Past the Radar: The song "FUBT". The acronym of the title stands for "Fucked Up, But True".
• Gratuitous Panning: The Women in Music, Pt. III album frequently features this, coinciding with Rostam (notable user of this in his production) joining the Record Producer team. For example, "Summer Girl"'s main riff that's performed on a double bass is two takes panned on opposite ends of the stereo field so far that they don't bleed into the other side in headphones.
• Hanukkah Episode: Appeared on the 2019 Hanukkah album Hanukkah+, covering Leonard Cohen's "If It Be Your Will", the only non-traditional cover song on the album.
• Heroic BSoD: Women in Music, Pt. III is plentiful with this but track 3's "I Know Alone" stands out the most.
• I Am the Band: Being co-Record Producer, the lead guitarist and the lead singer (and the drummer) has made Danielle this, to the point a major selling point of I Quit was when Este and Alana got a solo song.
• Intercourse with You: "All Over Me", in which the narrator tells you she's coming over to your home ready for you to get all over her.
• Lyrical Tic: Danielle often goes "Ha!" throughout "Little of Your Love".
• Male Band, Female Singer: When the band perform live, the trio lead a male team who accompany them.
• Ms. Fanservice:
  • At first it was primarily Este, who often performed in short skirts and always seemed to enjoy the inevitable panty flashes that came with it.
  • Alana's outfit of choice in the 2010s was short shorts, and clips of her rhythmic drumming onstage as she swings her hips back and forth from audiences often went viral on social media for Amazon Chaser and Doesn't Mind a Beating reasons.
  • Upon the release of Women in Music, Pt. III, they all began cultivating this:
    • Their posters and promotional photos frequently features the sisters in various states of nudity, obscured only by using their instruments as Hand-or-Object Underwear. They also promoted themselves on social media in a similar way, posting pictures of themselves nude, using strategically placed copies of the album as Hand-or-Object Underwear. They promoted their "One More Haim" tour with a Red Hot Chili Peppers reminiscent image of the three of them with their pants around their ankles.
    • The music video for "Summer Girl" features the sisters slowly stripping off more and more clothes until they end up in bikini tops and shorts.
      YouTube comment on the video: Just when I'd gotten over my crush on Danielle, she goes and does this.
    • Their tour outfits for the "One More Haim" tour are a matching set of black bras and leather pants that show off their bodies well.
  • Justified Lingerie Scene moments onstage at their concerts, thanks to performing under stage lights during their concerts. Possibly a reason their One More Haim uniform didn't have shirts as notably, their first performance to promote I Quit at a 2025 two-day concert in Los Angeles' The Bellwether had the trio in black t-shirts and slacks, and Danielle went shirtless by the end of the first show.
• Nobody Loves the Bassist: Subverted. Este knows everybody, and everybody loves Este. Listen to her and Darren Criss's podcast for proof.
• Nostalgic Narrator: The entirety of "Take Me Back".
• Odd Friendship: People are often shocked they are childhood friends with Kesha, considering the music that made Kesha famous was completely different in tone, instrumentation and genre to theirs. They admire her for her fast songwriting and she admires them for their vast instrument skills.
• Precision F-Strike:
  • Although the trio's discography never shies away from occasional profanity, "Man from the Magazine" notably ends with a biting one via Wham Line:
    You don't know how it feels, you don't know how it feels, you don't know how it feels... to be the cunt
  • "Relationships" uses this in its chorus, referring to the word as fuckin' relationships.
• Pretty Fly for a White Guy:
  • A game at concerts in the early 2010s was Este breaking into freestyle raps on topics the audience suggested.
  • Danielle has both emulated sagging (wearing slacks below the hips to display the wearer's underwear) by tucking her shirt in at the front of her low rise jeans,^note People who sagged during the backlash from Moral Guardians did this so the shirt hem at the back hanging over their buttocks covered the sag and has done it for real in behind-the-scenes footage: once in a photo from the set of Coach's Spring 2022 Campaign commercials that showed her shirtless and sagging her baggy jeans in front of a mirror, exposing woven boxer shorts; and in a few social media posts from the set of the "Relationships" music video, she sags her slacks and flaunts her briefs' waistband.
• The Quiet One: Danielle doesn't talk a lot in interviews, unless it's a question about composing and music production which makes her Wall of Text. If filmed, even Alana and Este can look stunned.
• Real Life Writes the Plot:
  • invoked Common theme; no doubt thanks to many of their musician influences. The songs in Days Are Gone and Women in Music, Pt. III are this the most: deliberately for the former, whereas the latter was confessed as a well-needed confrontation to issues that couldn't be addressed previously because the trio and their Production Posse were too busy reaching deadlines.
  • Of all their discography, "Take Me Back" is the most blatant because the band revealed that practically all of the anecdotes used in the song were real events with names changed.
• Record Producer: Danielle made sure she sat in this role for their albums and co-produces with an expert.
• Recurring Dreams: Noted in the first verse of "I Know Alone".
  Found another room in a different place
  Sleeping through the day and I dream the same
• Retraux: Haim's songs are often likened to late-70s or early-80s radio hits. For the band, it's intentional Patriotic Fervor for being from the San Fernando Valley by being inspired by Californian soft rock.
• Sampling: Used to bookend I Quit. "Gone" samples the chorus of "Freedom '90" by George Michael and "Now It's Time" samples a guitar riff from "Numb" by U2.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here!:
  • Began with "Running If You Call My Name", and then became the underlying theme of the first few break-up songs of I Quit: "Gone" announces the leaving, "Relationships" discusses why the narrator is uninterested in staying (adding on from previous track's "All Over Me", which is about booty calls), and "Down to Be Wrong" is officially ending the relationship.
  • "Los Angeles" is a downplayed version of this trope. Despite it featuring many moments of the Los Angeles-based narrator wanting to leave, they tried relocating to other parts of the country like New York City but felt like a Fish Out of Water.
• Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll: Not as wild as the stereotypes, but the trio have been open about taking partying drugs and Este admitted sometimes needing a bong hit to combat stage fright. Justin Vernon revealed that he and the trio took turns with a bong when they first met as he improvized a remix on a sampler.
• Shout-Out:
  • The music video for "My Song 5" was a homage to 1990s Trash TV talk shows, complete with Este portraying a guest who confesses to her boyfriend that she's sexually attracted to mimes. Because it's Este.
  • To the Eagles in "If I Could Change Your Mind":
    If I could change your mind
    I would hit the ground running
    It took time to realize
    And I never saw it coming
    Forgive my lying eyes
  • To Joni Mitchell in "I Know Alone".
    It all looked the same, every mile
    Screaming every word of "Both Sides Now"
  • I Quit is named after one of the last scenes in That Thing You Do! that became the album's title by accident. The trio would re-enact the scene during microphone soundchecks.
  • This promotional image of them standing with their pants around their ankles has been interpreted as one to the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who often performed in a similar state of undress in their earlier days.
  • The second verse of "Don't Wanna" uses the phrase "early days". The trio revealed they got the phrase from the British reality TV show Love Island in a BBC Radio 1 interview. Alana is the known Love Island fan of the sisters and talks about spending her free time watching it in many interviews.
  • invoked The images for I Quit's singles are re-enactments of 2000s paparazzi candids that became subjects of Memetic Mutation online in the years since publishing:
    • "Relationships" was inspired by photos of Nicole Kidman doing a Happy Dance down an alleyway in 2001. Long suspected to be taken after her divorce from Tom Cruise was finalized (Kidman has denied this frequently), the band took this angle, each choosing a photo and recreating the expression Kidman had in it as they all did a blissful jog down an empty street with their arms outstretched.
    • "Everybody's Tryin' to Figure Me Out" re-enacts Kate Moss leaning against a car she traveled in. Danielle takes Moss's role in identical clothing and Este is seen in the frame of the open car door looking irritated. There is also a leg of someone wearing sandals in front of Este, most likely Alana's.
    • "Down to Be Wrong" recreates a candid of Scarlett Johansson and Jared Leto embracing at night as Leto checks his cellphone. Danielle stands in as Leto (dressed like Johansson), checking her smartphone instead, as her boyfriend stands in as Johansson (dressed like Leto), kissing her. Alana and Este pose as passersby in the background walking towards the camera's direction, although no pedestrians were caught in the original.
    • "Take Me Back" is loosely based on Keira Knightley and Jamie Dornan walking through a busy street together when they were dating. Este and Danielle are dressed like Knightley and Alana is dressed like Dornan (and even holding a carrier bag like he was) as they walk through Manchester's Piccadilly Gardens, much to the delight of their Mancunian fans.
    • "All Over Me" recreates a street candid of Gwyneth Paltrow leaning back and wrapping her arms around Brad Pitt. Danielle re-enacts Paltrow with Will Poulter as Pitt with Este and Alana on the street corner behind them.
• Sibling Team: Discussed in "Million Years" and "Hallelujah" via The Power of Family.
• Special Guest:
  • On "Warm" by Charli XCX, "Red Eye" by Kid Cudi, "Pray to God" by Calvin Harris, "Bite Down" by Bastille, and "So Bad" by Gesaffelstein.
  • I Quit's music videos have had them for love interests. Drew Starkey featured as Danielle's on-off boyfriend in "Relationships", Logan Lerman co-starred in "Down to Be Wrong", and three co-starred as one for each member in "All Over Me": Will Poulter for Danielle, Archie Madekwe for Este and Nabhaan Rizwan for Alana.
  • Guest songwriters include Tobias Jesso, Jr. and Bon Iver's Justin Vernon.
• Spontaneous Choreography: invoked "I Know Alone"'s music video had a dance break. Although the music video later became a Missing Episode, the trio do the dance break at the end of the song during live performances.
• Statuesque Stunner: Este is 6' 0" and Danielle is 5' 9". In fact, the trio's heights are in age order, inverting Big Little Sister.
• Step Up to the Microphone:
  • Via a case of Early-Installment Weirdness, a few of the songs on Days Are Gone had each member sing a verse (notably "The Wire" and Este leading the eponymous album track). After that album's release, Danielle would be the only singer with Este and Alana singing backing vocals.
  • I Quit has Alana as lead vocalist on "Spinning" and Este as lead vocalist on "Cry".
  • When covering songs, Este is most likely the one to lead, although Alana notably leads the "Oh Well" cover.
• The Three Faces of Eve: Onstage, respectively: Danielle, the wife (lead singer, keeps the setlist on topic, The Comically Serious to her sisters' antics); Este, the Seductress (The Gadfly, often plays along with the audience's flirting); and Alana, the Child (The Baby of the Bunch, sometimes emcees the crowd with playful games).
• The Tease: Alana plays this role when talking to the audience at concerts.
• Title-Only Chorus: Common chorus their songs go for with scatting-like vocalizations sprinkled throughout.
• Tomboy with a Girly Streak: Danielle is the only member best known for not wearing a skirt (or anything that showed off her legs) and is usually wearing male-tailored suits at red carpet events, but is also The Fashionista of the group who taught them how to tailor their clothes and is called the best cook of the trio, who even had a spread in Bon Appétit magazine where she hosted a New Year's Eve party that showcased the meals she made for her guests.
• UST: "Gasoline" implies this.
  You took me back
  But you shouldn't have
  Now it's your fault if I mess around
  [...]
  [I] can't look past what I'm sad about
  You did me bad
  And I did it back
• Title Track:
  • Their first two albums are named after a song on its tracklist.
  • Subverted and inverted with Women in Music, Pt. III, as the album has a song titled "Man From the Magazine" about being judged as a woman when interacting with men in the music industry.
• Valley Girl: Proudly, albeit not from the same background as the stereotypical archetype. Expect a lot of Like Is, Like, a Comma in the trio's interviews.
• V-Formation Team Shot: Their usual performance set-up is Danielle in the middle and front with Este stage left and Alana stage right. The tour drummer is on the drum stage at the back, unless Danielle steps up to the drumkit.
• Visual Pun: The band's Instagram promo for their third album in which they walked towards the camera in the outdoors did this for "I've Been Down" (the trio walk up a hill as the camera acts like a bird's eye view camera) and "The Steps" (the trio walk down a stone staircase).
• A Wild Rapper Appears!: The remix of "My Song 5" adds a verse from A$AP Ferg (unsurprisingly, the album version lacks his verse).
• Woken Up at an Ungodly Hour: "3 AM", in which the narrator's boyfriend calls her in the middle of the night to catch up and stay up longer than planned, perhaps.
• Work Hard, Play Hard: According to Alana, she's held house parties at her home "ever since the day she moved out" her parents' house so when Danielle moved in, Alana reluctantly limited the schedule and they cleaned out her kitchen, which Danielle claimed was full of nothing but expired sauces and alcohol. Before that, there was the Instagram carousel post full of photos of Alana holding alcohol glasses and bottles to thank fans who wished her a happy birthday.
• Working with the Ex: Averted. Fans expected this when Danielle revealed she and Ariel Rechtshaid ended their relationship in 2022 but found out when I Quit came out that this wasn't the case. Although he wasn't a Record Producer on the album, Rechtshaid has songwriting credits for "Relationships" but this factor turned out to be a subversion because songwriting began on the song seven years prior back when the couple were still together.