Michelle Buzz and Lance Shipp spent years as industry songwriters, writing for other artists, before deciding to channel that professional polish into something stranger and less reined-in under their own names.
Haute & Freddy signed to Atlantic in January 2026, and Big Disgrace, their debut album that March, leans hard into 80s synth pop with photos of the two of them in ostentatious regal costumes.
Their whole aesthetic runs on a 'runaway circus performer' persona pulled straight from Lady Gaga's playbook, and it's built them a TikTok following on theatrical, visually loud content as much as the actual songs — 'Scantily Clad' and 'Anti-Superstar' among the singles that carry the same maximalist logic.