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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.

Bethany 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.
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Advice Being Giving Yourself
One of the cooler moments of my life was sitting front row at Helmut Lang!
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Fronts Moments Sitting
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.
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Needs Thinking Writing
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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Bedroom Song Touring
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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Beach Cat Stupid
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?”
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Song Thinking Writing
Getting to be involved with fashion is one of the coolest things I’ve done.
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Done Fashion Involved
I like the 50s, party-movie aesthetic of the beach. I’m not really into modern-day beach.
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Beach Modern Party
It’s very strange that people would consider me a fashion muse but it’s also flattering. I try to just be myself, and wear what’s comfortable and makes me feel good.
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Fashion Feel Good People
Stevie Nicks has always been my fashion icon, so I wanted to blend her infamous witchy style with the 90s valley girl theme that I was so entranced by as a young girl.
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Fashion Girl Icons
Making music can sometimes make me a bit restless, so it’s fun when I get to be expressive in another way.
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Fun Sometimes Way
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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Car People World
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.
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Clothes Designer Shows
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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Ideas Looks Wanted
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.
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Art Reality Thinking
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.
BETHANY COSENTINO

Girly Sound Voice

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 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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