Thread for female-fronted, 90s-referencing guitar pop of the 2020s

A month or two ago I made this Spotify playlist to capture a specific vibe I've been stuck in a lot this year:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0YUTB4QchB77fZUaNkF0Bi?si=0287cc3f71d44f9d

Listening to Poppy's (excellent) new tracks made me return to it and want to start a thread to discuss this whole trend and get further recommendations.

Obviously people have been reviving the 90s for a while now, and what these songs broadly are doing is nothing new even in that limited sense, but I'm curious about the sense of convergence whereby the distance between say Olivia Rodrigo and Lucy Dacus just isn't that great.

Why is this (waves hands vaguely) sound so satisfying to me right now?

Calling out a few of the specific tracks I included:

Kitten - "American Football": this song can't decide whether it wants to be "You Belong With Me" or a treatise on concussion, and I guess it is hard to squeeze an entire season arc of Friday Night Lights into a three minute song, but who cares when the guitar glitters so, and just as the singer sounds seduced by the society she skewers, I can't help but love this vague, half-formed display of cynical cosplay.

Miss Grit - "Dark Side of the Party": I'm obsessed with the contrast between the glistening, almost lysergic quality to the sounds of this track (the swirling keyboards, the lurching guitar lines) and the deliberately unaffected and blank vocal performance, like somewhere the overarching brief to write songs like "Here and Now" or "Mother Mother" or "Seether" got sidetracked and waylaid by intermingled daydreams of Wye Oak and Aimee Mann.

Samia - "Show Up": at first there seems something almost generic about this one, and I think it could have done with another round of verse and chorus, but the "over before it began" quality is part of the charm, and its constituent parts combine in a manner that I find extremely emotionally manipulative. Is it the stormy clouds of guitar in the chorus? The way Samia's high, clear vocals, intermittently (and unnecessarily) specific lyrical details and plainspoken transparency ("It's been a whole year / I think that I grew up / But I still cry every time my dad hangs up / No good intention is ever good enough / To feel like I've done nothing wrong") reminds me of early Vanessa Carlton? Or the general resemblance to The 1975's "You"?

illuminati hotties - "Pool Hopping": of course the nineties were also retro-referencing, and if "Pool Hopping" sounds a lot like "Our Lips Are Sealed", well, so did "Spin The Bottle". This is deliberately silly, deliberately frothy, deliberately bratty and (perhaps because of the bandname) the kind of thing I'm habitually suspicious of, like I'm trying to work out whether there are invisible scare quotes around everything, but I can't resist a song that declares "you're twisted like an ampersand".

Pom Pom Squad - "Head Cheerleader": "You said open up your mouth and tell me what you mean / I said, 'I'm gonna marry the scariest girl on the cheerleading team'." "Head Cheerleader" is clearer than "American Football" about precisely where it stands in relation to the American high school dream, even if its lyrics are mostly more allusive. The real attraction for me, though, is less the stabbing at cultural subversion than the slight sourness of the vocals, the way they seem to shiver, lips-twisted, through the chorus declaration "I'm squirming out of my skin / is this really happening to me?"

There's a whole universe of this right now, but you appear to be focusing on the more mainstream-aiming side of it which I'm less familiar with. In the 90s, most of your playlist would've been opening for Weezer or Foo Fighters in a concert hall instead of playing $5 per head at a local dive bar. Anyway, if you want suggestions from that side, lemme know.

For a second I was like, "Didn't we already have this thread?", then I remember I was thinking of this one, of which there is some overlap:
Modern songs that sound like the 90’s

I love this vibe too. Some of those bands/tracks are new to me, and I'll definitely check them out.

Here's few things that I've liked that might fit under this banner:

Slothrust - "Cranium". Slothrust has always been v much 90s influenced and I think they get better with each album.

Slow Pulp - "Idaho". This is from last year. The main riff sounds very Weezer-y but at the same time it's distinct enough that it really doesn't sound like a homage.

Potty Mouth - "Let Go". Grunge-pop, very catchy.

I've also enjoyed the new Willow album a lot, but I guess it's reference points are more 2000s than 90s despite Travis Barker cameos.

I heard "Pool Hopping" for the first time Friday after avoiding Illuminati Hotties due to their name and have listened to it probably 50 times since. Buzzy, angular and absolutely infectious.

Before I saw this thread I coincidentally started to make a bit of a playlist in my head that would fit with it and came up with:

White Lung - "Kiss Me When I Bleed"
Mannequin Pussy - "Drunk II"
Priests - "Appropriate"
Jay Som - "Baybee"
Nilufer Yanya - "Baby Luv"
Mitski, generally

Liked a lot of the rest of the album, too, and was delightfully surprised by how varied and strong the songwriting ("The Sway"!) and lyrics were. The "ampersand" line is one of many that stuck out in a good way. Some of my other favorites are: "Stealth make out/ Breakfast take out" and "Squeezin' a mеlty scoop of ice cream/ I let it drip across your backseat" from "Pool Hopping." The bridge of "MMMOOOOOAAAAYAYA": Love me, fight me, choke me, bite me/ The DNC is playing dirty/ Text me, touch me, call me daddy/ I'm so sad I can't do laundry." The chorus of "Threatening Each Other re: Capitalism": "The corner store is selling spit/ Bottled up for profit/ I can’t believe I'm buying in/ Isn't that genius?"

Also, I loved Samia's The Baby - "Fit N Full" and "Big Wheel" would fit well here. Hadn't heard "Show Up" - thank you!