The SoapGirls: Rebel DNA World Tour 2026

OohYeah caught up with rock's unapologetic sister act after their Nashville stop to talk misfits, bullies, boobs, America, major labels—and why Tennessee may need a few more orthodontists.

The SoapGirls are currently on their Rebel DNA World Tour 2026, with dates across the United States and Europe stretching into 2027. The tour recently rolled through Nashville's Eastside Bowl with a guitar, a bass, a drummer, very few inhibitions, and absolutely no intention of quietly playing their songs and going home.

Sisters Mie Debray (lead guitar/vocals) and Mille Debray (bass/vocals) are loud, funny, confrontational and occasionally outrageous. Along with their drummer, they make up a seriously good three-piece rock band with plenty to say. They'll talk about bullying and acceptance, make fun of somebody five minutes later, question America's obsession with nipples and then tell you how much they fucking love the place.

Or, as we'll call it, SoapGirls sense.

Beneath the theatrics is a seriously good three-piece rock band and two sisters with plenty to say.

OohYeah was there to snap a few pics and let them tell you who they are.

Your shows are almost half rock concert, half conversation with the audience. How much of it is planned?

Mie: Almost none of it! That's probably why sometimes even we don't know where the hell it's going. Every audience has its own personality and we feed off that. Someone shouts something, Mille says something outrageous, I react and suddenly we've gone completely off the rails.

Mille: The songs have structure; everything in between is beautifully dangerous. A live show should be alive. Sometimes it's hilarious, sometimes it's emotional, sometimes it gets uncomfortable—and those are often the moments people remember.

You talk a lot about acceptance, bullying and being unapologetically yourself. When did that become something you felt you needed to fight for publicly?

Mille: When we realised how many people were being made to feel ashamed simply for existing as themselves.

We've been bullied, judged, sexualised, ridiculed and told what we should look like, how women should behave, what we should wear, what we shouldn't say. At some point you either let those voices shrink you or you become louder.

Mie: When people started coming to us after shows saying, “I felt like I didn't belong anywhere until tonight,” it became bigger than us.

Once somebody tells you that seeing you refuse to hide helped them stop hiding, you can't unknow that.

Okay, About the Boobs...

You can't write about a SoapGirls show and ignore the elephant—or perhaps the nipple—in the room.

Mie, the topless part of the show obviously gets attention, but your point seems bigger than shock value. If a man can take his shirt off onstage without anyone caring, why does the same thing suddenly become offensive when a woman does it?

Mie: That's exactly the question.

A man's chest can mean he's hot, sweaty, liberated, performing. A woman's chest apparently becomes a public emergency.

For me, it's never been, “Look at me, I'm topless.” It's: why does my body suddenly belong to everybody else's opinion because I'm a woman?

I'm not responsible for somebody choosing to sexualise me. Nudity isn't automatically sexuality.

My body isn't offensive. The double standard is.

And that brought us to America.

You pointed out onstage that a topless woman can result in somebody calling the police while seeing someone carrying a gun wouldn't. Coming from outside the U.S., what contradictions about America stand out to you?

Mie: America fascinates us because freedom is such a huge part of its identity, but everybody has a completely different definition of what freedom means.

You can encounter things involving guns that seem completely normal to Americans and absolutely surreal to us, while a woman's nipple can cause total moral panic.

Mille: Sometimes it feels like violence can be culturally easier to digest than the human body.

And yet, you seem to genuinely love America.

Mille: We fucking love America.

There's an openness to American audiences. When they love something, they don't stand there politely analysing whether it's cool to show it—they fucking LOVE it.

Mie: It's imperfect, contradictory, crazy, beautiful and sometimes completely fucking baffling—which is probably why we feel at home.

Wait... Didn't You Just Make Fun of That Guy?

Here's where we had to call them out.

After talking about acceptance and bullying at Eastside Bowl, Mie cracked a joke about Tennessee apparently needing more orthodontists.

“Nah, I'm just fucking with you.”

Everybody laughed. But...

I may have completely misread this, so correct me if I did. I remember thinking, “Wait... didn't we just talk about making fun of people?” Was that demonstrating the difference between playful trash talk and actually tearing somebody down—or am I giving you way too much credit?

Mie: Hahaha! You might be giving me slightly too much credit for having a master plan in that exact moment.

But there absolutely is a difference.

We take the piss out of ourselves constantly. We'll take the piss out of a city, the audience takes the piss out of us, Mille destroys me, I destroy her—it's affectionate banter. The intention isn't to make somebody feel small.

Bullying is different. Bullying has cruelty behind it.

Mille: Context and intention matter. If everyone—including the person she's talking to—is laughing, that's human interaction. If someone's genuinely hurt while everybody laughs at them, that's different.

Mie: Also, Tennessee, I formally apologise to your orthodontists. I'm sure you're doing incredible work.

Fair enough.

Rock & Roll's Approved Rebellion

Rock celebrates rebellion, sex and freedom, but women still get judged differently for doing things male rock stars have done for decades. Is rock actually as liberated as it likes to believe?

Mille: No.

Rock loves the idea of rebellion. Actual rebellion can make people incredibly uncomfortable.

A male rock star can be sexual, aggressive, arrogant, half naked and completely excessive and it's mythology. A woman does the same things and suddenly everyone wants to debate whether she's respectable.

Mie: Women are often allowed to be rebellious—as long as it's the approved version of rebellion.

That's not freedom.

If you're going to scream about freedom from a stage, you'd better be prepared when somebody actually exercises it.

The Golden Cage

The SoapGirls know the traditional music business too. They were signed young, experienced the machinery of a major label—and eventually walked away.

You've described that experience as being like a bird in a beautiful golden cage. What did it teach you about success versus freedom?

Mie: Something can look incredibly successful from the outside while you're disappearing inside it.

The cage really was beautiful. We had opportunities young musicians dream about. But a golden cage is still a cage.

Mille: Walking away meant losing security, money, infrastructure and people doing things for us.

But we got ourselves back.

Freedom is expensive. We've paid for it in exhaustion, uncertainty, rejection and years of doing the work nobody sees.

We'd pay it again.

Would you ever sign again?

Mille: We'd never say never to a partnership. But we'd absolutely say never to surrendering ourselves again.

Mie: Anything we sign now would have to amplify our freedom, not purchase it.

Followers Aren't Always Fans

Do artists spend so much time chasing streams, followers and algorithms that they've forgotten how powerful an actual room full of people can be?

Mie: Absolutely.

You can have a million views and still not know whether you've genuinely touched one person.

Then you play to 100 people in a sweaty room and somebody tells you a song got them through something they thought they wouldn't survive.

There's no metric for that.

Mille: We've built this band one room, one person, one conversation at a time.

A follower can scroll past you tomorrow. A fan who remembers what they felt at your show can stay with you for life.

How Have You Not Killed Each Other?

They're sisters, songwriting partners, bandmates and business partners—and then they climb into a vehicle and travel to the next city together.

Most siblings would probably murder each other around week three. How the hell have you made this work for this long?

Mille: Because we're yin and yang.

Mie: And because murder creates an enormous amount of paperwork on tour.

Seriously though, we're complete opposites, but that's exactly why it works. Where one is weak, the other is strong.

Mille: If Mie wins, I win. If I win, she wins.

Mie: Also we know exactly when the other one needs silence.

That's probably the actual secret to touring.

Don't Judge the Photograph

This one hit home.

OohYeah was at Eastside Bowl with Music City Shots, and The SoapGirls are ridiculously fun to photograph. They're visual, theatrical and provocative.

But one photograph can also completely misrepresent what you're looking at.

Does it frustrate you when somebody sees a photograph of The SoapGirls and decides they already understand the band?

Mie: Of course—but it's also revealing.

Someone can look at one photograph and construct an entire story about our intelligence, sexuality, music and character without hearing a single note.

That's exactly the kind of judgment we're talking about.

Mille: If the photograph makes you angry enough to come to the show hoping to hate us, you've already bought the ticket.

Then you see the musicianship, hear the lyrics, experience the conversation and maybe realise your first assumption wasn't the whole story.

We'd rather provoke a reaction than be wallpaper.

One Last Question

What would you tell the 15-year-old girl being bullied right now because she's different and hasn't figured out yet that being different might eventually become her greatest strength?

Mie: Please don't amputate pieces of yourself just to fit inside somebody else's idea of acceptable.

Right now, being different might feel like the thing that's ruining your life. One day it may be the exact thing that builds it.

Mille: The people laughing at you today don't get to write the rest of your story.

You don't have to become hard or cruel to become strong. Cry. Be angry. Be hurt. Ask for help. Find your people.

Mie: So hold on to yourself.

The world has enough copies.

If you've only seen the pictures, you haven't seen The SoapGirls.

Go see the show.

You may love them. You may hate them.

They seem perfectly comfortable with either.

Just don't be fucking indifferent.

THE SOAPGIRLS

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