![]() ![]() I think they sort of idealize this rock ’n’ roll lifestyle. This is gonna sound elitist, but I feel that a lot of the people I’ve been involved with in the fashion industry in relation to my music have always been sort of unaware of the hardship and reality of being a musician. If you’re making a 20-minute song for the Saint Laurent runway show, licensing your song to a fashion company or whatever. It’s kind of baffling, and I’m talking big brands, iconic brands, fashion relationships. They pay musicians so much more than could get for anything else. That’s interesting and funny, kind of coy and a tongue-in-cheek response because the fashion industry fuckin’ pays. I may have a slightly different take on it than Devendra does. So what’s your take, as someone who both works as a model and takes her music very seriously? All I’ve ever heard from the fashion community are horror stories. And he said it was the fashion community, which blew my mind. I asked him who bests respects his ability to work across disciplines, the music or the visual art community. And we were talking about how hard it is to be treated as an interdisciplinary artist. I once talked to him about this art coffee book he was putting out on a fancy German press. Well you and him operate in a similar dichotomy insofar as you both have some connections to both the music, and fashion community. dude, but also very different from you guys sonically. I’m thinking about my first chat with Devendra Banhart. (Lisa Lake/Getty Images for Anheuser-Busch) But at the same time, I’m not, and everyone deals with their own bullshit no matter where they are.Ĭherry Glazerr performs onstage during the 2016 Budweiser Made in America Festival. I don’t need this!” Then after a year in the real world I started to wish I was surrounded by a bunch of baby teenagers and ramen and homework. I think there was a moment when I was really upset that I didn’t have any peers my own age, ‘cause I was like, “Fuck that, I don’t wanna gonna go to college, I’m just gonna go straight into adulthood. I suppose that’s just something everyone always deals with. But yeah, I suppose that lyric was just borne out of a moment of self-doubt. If we’re being honest, I’m always gonna be a self-conscious child, really. You know, I don’t know how much I’ve really changed and how much I’m gonna change. Do you still feel that way now, as a young woman, after making this badass record?Īre you still consciously exploring the vitality of youth, as people have labeled the driving force of your first album? That comes up on the new Cherry Glazerr record too, right? There’s a lyric on “Only Kid on the Block” about being treated as a child by everyone. Maybe it’s about uprooting yourself and putting yourself in a new scene or society? No! That’s what people go to college for, but you don’t always need to pay somebody $30,000 and leave your hometown, either. The first time I ever had real, visceral, emotional and political awakenings. ![]() I remember just being at The Smell every night not knowing who was playing until the doors opened, so I could see my friends and we could figure ourselves out, smoke cigarettes and be angry and talk to each other and live with each other. How you and your bandmates work and play together, even just fucking around, seems rooted in a communal comfort that people can’t have in traditional venues that are corporately booked and managed by commercial interests. More about how you just treat people decently in a tight space. Maybe it also sets new models for the climate to follow, taking into account how inclusivity and gender dynamics work, without becoming a “P.C.” issue. spaces are hubs for liberalism and we need to control this situation. Apparently after the fire in Oakland there was all this weird chatter from right-wingers that said D.I.Y. It’s hard because it’s under attack all the time. I very much will always continue to support D.I.Y. No, I think they were so vital in cradling a lot of my early musical exploration and experimentation. Could you have come up and for lack of a less trending word had a “safe space” to figure out your songs and your shit without them? The question I’m sure you get ad-nauseam about you being a “young woman in music” contributes to my theory that the youth are taking over Los Angeles. Your city seems better at keeping these spaces all-ages and thriving. ![]() If the space is open for more than a year I always applaud that. The nature of it is just fucking very loosely curated spaces run by kids. It’s a characteristic of the DIY scene not being a sanitized, stable establishment. It’s sad and it sucks, but there’ll just be more all-ages spaces that pop up, that come and go, that come and die. The Smell and Pehrspace are still open, but yeah, they’re getting shut down and it’s an all-ages space. ![]()
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