Joydrop was a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 band in the late 1990s and early 2000s from Toronto, Ontario. The band consisted of vocalist Tara Slone

Tara Slone

Tara Slone is a Canadian rock vocalist.Born in Montreal, Quebec, and raised in Nova Scotia, Slone began pursuing classical voice training at the age of 12 with the goal of becoming an opera singer. At the age of 18, she attended Concordia University to pursue a degree in music...

, guitarist Thomas Payne, bassist Tom McKay, and drummer Tony Rabalao.

The band released two CDs, Metasexual and Viberate, and had notable chart hits in Canada with their songs "Beautiful" and "Sometimes Wanna Die". The former was used on the soundtrack of the film Ginger Snaps II: Unleashed

Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed

Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed is a 2003 Canadian horror sequel to Ginger Snaps, written by Megan Martin and directed by Brett Sullivan...

, playing as the end credits roll. The latter single was featured prominently on MTV2

MTV2

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 in the US during the summer of 2001, thanks in part to a music video featuring Tommy Lee

Tommy Lee

Thomas Lee Bass , best known as Tommy Lee, is an American musician and founding member of glam metal band Mötley Crüe. As well as being the band's long-term drummer, Lee founded rap-metal band Methods of Mayhem, and has pursued solo musical projects...

. They appeared as themselves, performing their two hit songs, on an episode of Special Unit 2

Special Unit 2

Special Unit 2 is a short-lived, American sci-fi/comedy television series, filmed in Vancouver, BC and aired on UPN for two seasons from April 2001 through February 2002...

.

Following the band's breakup, Slone released a solo album, and was a contestant on Rock Star: INXS

Rock Star: INXS

Rock Star: INXS is the first season of the reality television show Rock Star where 15 contestants competed to become the lead vocalist for the Australian rock band INXS....

. Tony Rabalao also went solo and put out a CD under the name Lehlo but plays in Tara's band as well. Tom McKay is a producer and worked on Tara's and Tony's CDs. Thomas Payne is writing and producing with other artists.

Metasexual (1999)

Viberate (2001)

Singles

• Beautiful (1999)
• If I Forget (exclusive to Canada) (1999)
• Spiders (exclusive to US) (2000)
• Sometimes Wanna Die (2001)
• American Dream Girl (2001)

Filmography (brief mention)

Coyote Ugly (2000)
A one-second newspaper advertisement is shown for the "Songwriter Showdown" featuring JoyDrop playing at the Bowery Ballroom, along with: The Skank Honkies, Papa Vegas, The Suicide Machines, Vertical Horizon, Eve 6, Verbena, Edwin McCain, Beth Hart, Excel, The Pietasters, Bis Train, and Pennywise.