Chord Overstreet has a '50s pin-up style in a 2019 setting. He perches on the edge of a coffee counter like a classic Hollywood icon in a diner scene, blond hair flopping over chiselled cheeks, a few rings decorating his fingers and a varsity style sports jacket on his back. His story, his perspective, and his demeanour, however, are wise beyond this ageless exterior. Chord has seen a lot of life, and he has finally found an outlet in which to share his take on it all. OVERSTREET is a band, which is new to Chord. Its references run the gamut from The Beach Boys to The Police, The Beatles to Aerosmith. In 2018, he left Nick Jonas and Demi Lovato’s imprint on Island Records, Safehouse. Now releasing his music independently, his songs are stacked and ready to go. Most of them were written in Nashville about past relationships from a standpoint of anxiety and post-relationship stress.
Chord is a writer first and a frontman second, but OVERSTREET is a vehicle he envisions he can use like Jack Antonoff uses Bleachers. It's way more fun than being on a stage alone. “Music doesn't have any boundaries, you can put whatever colour you want, whether country, rock, pop. I've always hated that you have to pick one genre. You're limiting what you can do,” he reasons of his desire to keep exploring all of his musical flourishes.
With his new found independence, Chord has everything to play for, he's finally able to tell his own stories, while retaining a mystique. He's modern, he's classic, he's here to stay.
