But I’ve only bought one album, a Charles Mingus album. I only listened to classical and jazz for a really long time and just got a record player. I kind of stopped listening to music for a really long time. I haven’t had a record player for a year. It’s just sad that he’s so much older than me. Nikki: Jessi, Linwood, and I all very much love the Velvet Undeground and have been inspired by them. It felt like she was more like me than anyone else that I had seen, especially as far as being a new artist that was out at that time period. And, you know, she had big eyes and black hair, and I had big eyes and black hair. I was like, “You can be crazy!” I was like, “I can do that.” That was definitely inspiring. But when I was in high school, when I started playing music with other people, I really liked the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Jessi: I didn’t know who they were when I was young, but one of the first female artists when I was young was. I like their work, and it has depth.” Patti Smith is someone that I’m constantly learning more from. I was like, “Those are the girls I look up to, and I think they’re really good musicians. But I don’t know how I feel about Courtney Love anymore. Nikki: I also was first inspired by-well, it was Patti Smith and PJ Harvey when I was a teenage girl. Jessi: There’s more to being a woman than just trying to be. Nikki: Even with girls our age in the rock ‘n’ roll scene, it’s like even if you still rebel, you’re still like, “Well, I just want my boyfriend to be happy.”
Especially in the South, I think that’s happening a lot. And a lot of young women forget to invest in themselves as strong people and build their own character. Jessi: And, you know, there’s a lot of guys in bands and they’re just writing these love songs “cause life is all just about falling in love, and I’m gonna change your whole life.” And then these girls think, “Oh! My whole life is gonna be so much better as soon as I find a guy who sings songs like this to me.” It’s this fairy tale thing. They’re like, “This makes me want to do nothing!”
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Nikki: And they’re just formulated because they know how to reach an audience that doesn’t want to be mentally stimulated. Jessi: Yeah, like you just wrote lyrics for the sake of having lyrics in your song. Jessi: “Warning! This may be a little risqué,” or something on the Fox News report. When they put us on television, it was blurred out. And that’s supposed to be sexy, but a nude picture of our pale, weird bodies embracing each other, not being sexual, is like pornography. So, in comparison to that, I was just like, “It’s weird that is so offensive when that is so acceptable.” Just how overblown sexuality has become where every single pop star is walking around practically nude, but they’re like bleached and tanned and waxed and buffed up with God knows how many chemicals and weird things. And there’s nothing empowering or interesting or sexy about it. And it’s so oversexed that it’s not sex anymore. Nikki: The frustrating thing about it was turning on the television and seeing Miley Cyrus or some fucking dingbat doing what they do on dick floats or whatever it is they do, and I’m just like, “How is this on television? How are you allowed to do that? Your vagina is showing through whatever weird bikini thing you’re wearing on stage. Jessi: It was an interesting experiment to see where the South is at this point. Some people were really offended and other people were like, “This is art and fuck off.” So, in a lot of ways it’s still the South, but it’s progressing. Nikki: It was funny what the reactions were, but it was also cool because it was pretty 50/50. Nikki: I mean, we didn’t put a giant banner of ourselves naked to not get attention. We’d be like, “You really need to go to bed so we can write some real songs,” but then he did get one line in one of our songs. Nikki: -and he’d be like, “Ooh! What about this!” Jessi: We had an RV in the back and had a fire, and my little brother would come out. Me and Jessi have gone and hung out at her mom’s house to write songs together, like camping, doing stuff like that that was fun. I think it’s still like, “This is kind of an experiment let’s see how crazy we can make ourselves.” It’s kind of fun, but it’s also frustrating. Nikki: I feel like if we did it more often we could figure out a new way to do it.
And then we’ve done stuff where we paired off. Jessi: Only a couple times, but it’s happened. Nikki: We’ve tried to write all together. Wherever he needs to fit in, he fits himself in, but we do the beginning for the most part. Jessi: -and that’s where our band mate Linwood comes into it. Nikki: -we get together and were like “What if you did this here, or maybe articulate this better”, and just kind of help each other build the songs together as a band.
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