Chances are high that if you’ve been on TikTok lately, you’ll have heard a clip of a song with an ear-catchingly memorable cough right before a brutal breakdown. The song you’re hearing is Sleepwalker, and the creators of said earworm tune are The Pretty Wild, a Las Vegas-based duo made up of sisters Jyl and Jude Wylde. But while the “mosh-cough” might’ve made them TikTok famous, they insist it wasn’t just a clever marketing ploy.
“Honestly, I do weird shit,” Jyl admits with a smile. “I make weird noises. It wasn’t intentional like, ‘This is going to be the thing’. It’s my authentic weirdness. I just do these things, and then they end up in songs. Sometimes Jules has to say, ‘No, we’ve got to can that’ when I go too far, haha.”
