I don’t really listen to a lot of 90s alternative indie female stuff anymore, but I loved Liz Phair and Kim Deal when I was younger.
BETHANY COSENTINOI don’t really listen to a lot of 90s alternative indie female stuff anymore, but I loved Liz Phair and Kim Deal when I was younger.
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I like the 50s, party-movie aesthetic of the beach. I’m not really into modern-day beach.
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I’d love to have a shoe line, or a sunglasses line, or a purse line. Who am I kidding, I’d like to have an everything line!
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I was never really that great at sewing, but I had a good idea of what I wanted things to look like.
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I think it will be fun to not only play new music, but to get to play different instruments on-stage.
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I am a true believer that a record should not be a bunch of songs that sound exactly the same.
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I always get pissed that I can’t make my voice sound like someone from the 50s who had a very girly, innocent voice, like Leslie Gore.
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I don’t really pay too much attention to designers, I know what I like and I just try to find it, and I always try to find a cheaper deal because I have a tendency to be a cheapskate sometimes.
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One of the cooler moments of my life was sitting front row at Helmut Lang!
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I’m working all the time. When I’m home I try to split my time evenly between resting and preparing for another tour, and writing stuff.
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I have personally been affected by women’s reproductive health issues, and I will continue to support that cause and spread awareness about it.
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I went to school for a short period of time to study fashion. I wanted to become a stylist or a designer. I made clothes when I was a teenager that I used to sell online. My label name was “Baby Jesus” – so incredibly stupid, but whatever, I was 17!
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We went from being a band that was recording songs in my bandmate’s bedroom to a band that’s doing extensive touring and had a record on the Billboard charts and everything happened insanely fast, but it’s not something that I sought out. It just happened.
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Touring is definitely work. You’re spending a lot of time in the car and around the same people and it’s not the easiest thing in the world, but it’s better than working a 9-to-5 job or something.
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I was looking at pictures of cats laying out on the beach and I thought, “Cats hate water, so why would they like the beach?” But then I realized that cats like to just lay around and lounge and be lazy, and what better place to do that than on the beach?
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Advice I would give to anyone trying to find their own personal style: don’t copy anybody, just be yourself, and make your own trends.
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