Emily's Sassy Lime formed in 1993 after the teen girls sneaked out of their homes one night to see a
Bikini Kill and
Bratmobile show, striking up a correspondence with
Molly Neuman, the drummer of the latter band. As
first generation Asian American girls in a punk band, they faced contradictions in expectations. They did not live very close to each other and did not own cars, so they often had to write their songs over the phone, sometimes leaving seminal ideas for tunes, jingles, and melodies on each other's
answering machines. When they finally did have a chance to record, they did so on a 'singalodeon', a cheap off-the-shelf
lo-fi tape recorder. They barely ever practiced (often forbidden from doing so by their parents who considered their studies a bigger priority), making their sound a random, spontaneous
indie garage punk-
noise collage of "Whatever, just play." ==Later activities==