Bethany Cosentino on alternatives
“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.”
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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!
Bethany CosentinoBethany Cosentino Making music can sometimes make me a bit restless, so it’s fun when I get to be expressive in another way.
Bethany CosentinoBethany Cosentino 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.
Bethany CosentinoBethany Cosentino My favorite record of all time is Fleetwood Mac’s Tusk. It’s made up of a bunch of songs that don’t really sound the same, but they all go really well together.
Bethany CosentinoBethany Cosentino It’s scary when you get to a point where you write these songs that people like, and then you think, “Am I ever going to be able to write something better than that?”
Bethany CosentinoBethany Cosentino I love clothes so much, I always have. It’s awesome to have designers invite me to their shows and openings and send me samples of their work.
Bethany CosentinoBethany Cosentino As artists and creative people it’s such an important time to be expressive and be empowering and supportive of people. It is a time where I feel like everyone has to be together and say, “Hey, we’re all going to be okay. We just need to work together.”
Bethany CosentinoBethany Cosentino I was never really that great at sewing, but I had a good idea of what I wanted things to look like.
Bethany CosentinoBethany Cosentino 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.
Bethany CosentinoBethany Cosentino I don’t think lyrics need to be deep – just write whatever comes out of you. You don’t need to find intense meaning in everything.
Bethany CosentinoBethany Cosentino I buy most of my clothes online, I just sit around and look at websites and say ‘oh that looks cute’ – and then I just buy it and hopefully it fits because buying stuff online is always sort of risky.
Bethany CosentinoBethany Cosentino 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!
Bethany CosentinoBethany Cosentino I like the 50s, party-movie aesthetic of the beach. I’m not really into modern-day beach.
Bethany CosentinoBethany Cosentino I think what we do is really, at times, a complicated thing. But at the end of the day it’s so important that we make art for people that need to escape reality for a second. That’s what music has always been for me. It’s been a way to tap out of what’s going on in my personal life.
Bethany CosentinoBethany Cosentino There are days where I turn on the TV or I look at the news and I’m like, “I want to go to Mars. This is insane.” But I can’t go to Mars! I need to face reality and just to have some hope.
Bethany CosentinoBethany Cosentino I found all these stupid pictures of cats at the beach, and I was like, “They get it, man. They totally get it.”
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