Sabrina Fuentes was 12 when she decided it was time: she needed to get a job. Like most tweenagers, she spent every waking hour on tumblr back then, barely leaving her room or doing anything other than being online. Eventually her parents were like, “Enough! You can't just rot in your bedroom all day.” They didn't want her to just “go be an unsupervised child in New York”, though so they advised her to do something, anything. Which is how she ended up interning and then working for the streetwear brand VFiles, as a literal kid. “[VFiles] would constantly talk about having interns,” she says now. “I thought, ‘I could do that, that sounds easy, I could staple papers and scan stuff…’ So I just hung out there.”
It was then that the seeds of Pretty Sick – the indie rock band now signed to Dirty Hit (The 1975, Rina Sawayama, Pale Waves), and three EPs and a full-length album deep – were planted. Fuentes would sing, play bass and fuck about with her friend Eva Kaufman, a drummer, and guitarist Ella Moore (now
