Cody Jon is part of that new wave of Australian pop kids who grew up on YouTube, musical theatre and 2000s reruns, then turned it into something sharp of their own. Raised in Eora / Sydney, he was doing professional musical theatre by ten, then disappeared into GarageBand and home demos, quietly building the toolkit that now sits behind his very online, very self-aware pop project.
His world is nostalgia without cosplay. Cody leans into 2000s pop and R&B, jazz chords and old-Hollywood touches, but filters it through bedroom production, heavy hooks and a very current sense of humour. Triple j Unearthed and press around his DEATH WOBBLES EP have pegged him as a rising pop force with songs that feel like they were written directly to the listener, all tight choruses and conversational lyrics about crushes, chaos and overthinking. Rolling Stone AU/NZ picked him up for an “In My Room” session, framing him as an Australian pop star quietly building a global lane, with shows stretching from Sydney to Tokyo and Austin.
Becky’s Plan was the first real calling card: a fast, hooky track about the friend zone, written like a petty rom-com plot cooked up over text, produced with Taka Perry and pushed via Saint Lucky as his proper arrival single. Dirty follow-up dirty dancing, with Charley, doubles down on the teen-movie energy. It is built off a true first-night-out story that turned into a pop snapshot of sweat, chance encounters and film references, pitched as a bright, hook heavy single that keeps his “temporal mish-mash” thing front and centre.
Cody’s thing is simple: big choruses, clever lines, choreography ready pockets in the arrangement, and a visual world that looks like the DVD bargain bin you grew up on, shot through TikTok. That mix has taken him from Unearthed premieres to SXSW, Rolling Stone coverage and headline dates at home.
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