.KarenO will give in to her urges, so long as she’s onstage. Read e_alexjung's conversation with the YYYs singer
. I started feeling like we needed an infusion. Nick and I started talking about making new music in a very noncommittal way. A single. Maybe two songs for the fans. We also had a heart-to-heart about how we’d approach songwriting this many years later and trying toWe were really bonding. And then a month later it was the pandemic. Usually the reason why we’re not touring is,I like high-octane experiences, but I don’t push myself towards them.
, but the ravenous desire for us to be out there doing shows was extremely high. We were touring Europe. The reaction was fanatical, and the intensity was really taking a toll on me.Yeah. I do, like, stage antics, and there are people grabbing at me. There was one moment where I was out lying on a monitor backwards — this led to me— and this girl grabbed my hair and just stuck her tongue down my throat. It was wild.
I mean that’s why we don’t do that many shows. If anybody’s curious. It’s hard to sustain. There really was a spectacle of self-destruction happening, but it was therapy. The stage is a safe space for me. It’s the greatest gift in my life. It’s such a release. It’s like wild ecstasy onstage, something I can’t access hardly anywhere else. All of a sudden, anything I had repressed over my entire life just felt open, free, fun, confrontational, vulnerable. It was a sandbox. It’s childlike.
So fucking crazy, right? Christian Joy made almost every costume of mine ‘til very, very recently. It just goes to show what the sexiest thing that exists is: Confidence, man. When I put on one of her unhinged, what-the-hell-is-this kind of costumes, I feel invincible. I feel sexy. I feel like a superstar when I put on her shit. I’ve always been in the school of thought of “Keep them guessing.” So be completely covered and just show a sliver of ankle.
So I’d start singing and then the talk-back mic would come on, and it’d be David. He’d say something all in this ’50s terminology like [], “Hot fucking dog, Karen! Rootin’-tootin’ swell! It’s so beautiful you gotta keep going!” He’s so supportive and encouraging. Then I felt very confident and natural. After that experience was over, I sat with him. What he does is he dims the lights and there’s these incredible lights that he brings up that illuminate the speakers.
Peter? Oh man, it’s Peter’s day to shine. We were best friends. I met him freshman year at Oberlin College. He was from St. Louis, Missouri. He really felt like a creative soul mate for me. We wrote a lot of songs together in New York before the Yeah Yeah Yeahs that were on a demo tape that’s lost forever. After I transferred from Oberlin to NYU Film, he shortly did the same thing. Brian from our band was also really close to him. He was in a band called Back to Junk with Peter at Oberlin.
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