Drew

Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles · FARA Records

Drew (Drew Halloran, 22) is the youngest of the three and the only one who grew up genuinely comfortable — raised entirely inside the feed, with his own device by thirteen and no real memory of being offline. He learned production at twelve, not from a course or a mentor but by trying to rebuild festival records from phone-recorded clips he found online, chasing a sound he'd only ever heard through somebody else's phone speaker. That's the direct root of his most useful skill: he mixes crowd noise better than almost anyone, because he spent years learning to hear through it before he ever learned to record without it.

He builds SIDE EYE's records from the ground up — the switch between a bouncy house bed under the choruses and hard punchy drum programming under the raps is his signature move, and the main production event on every track the group makes. Clean and glossy on purpose, so the content can land sour underneath a sound that's entirely sincere about being fun. His influences run festival-EDM production directly, and years of reconstructing records from degraded phone audio, which gave him an unusually good ear for what a crowd actually sounds like underneath the mix.

Comfortable in a way the other two aren't, and aware of it — he's the one member of the group who never had to fight for access to anything, which shapes how he hears the material Vonn and Cass write. He taught himself production by rebuilding festival tracks from other people's phone footage, which is still audible in how he treats crowd noise as a real instrument rather than an afterthought. Easygoing, technical, quietly the group's engine room.