Speaker 1: Pushkin.
Speaker 2: The youngest. Hiam's sister, Alana, started playing music with her
Speaker 2: older sisters Danielle and SD when she was just four
Speaker 2: years old. Back then, the three of them were part
Speaker 2: of their family band Rockenheim, playing charity gigs all over
Speaker 2: la in the valley where they grew up. After high school,
Speaker 2: Danielle was jamming and Laurel Canyon when Jenny Lewis spotted
Speaker 2: her and invited her to join her touring band. Not
Speaker 2: long after, she hit the road again, this time playing
Speaker 2: guitar and drums for Julian Casablancis. But eventually Danielle came
Speaker 2: back home, but did to start a band with her sisters.
Speaker 2: In twenty twelve, Hyam dropped their first EP, Forever, to
Speaker 2: critical acclaim. Pretty soon they were opening for a listers
Speaker 2: like Taylor Swift, Rihanna, and The Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Speaker 2: On today's episode, Lee ro sits down with Alana, Danielle,
Speaker 2: and st to talk about their new album I Quit,
Speaker 2: co produced with longtime collaborator Ross Them. The album dives
Speaker 2: into the highs and lows of single life in your thirties.
Speaker 2: The sisters also share why they still think like an
Speaker 2: opening band even when they're headlining stadiums in the moment
Speaker 2: they realize as kids that not everyone was growing up
Speaker 2: playing in the band with their parents. This is broken record,
Speaker 2: real musicians, real conversations. Here's Lea Rose with him.
Speaker 3: So I want to give you guys an opportunity to
Speaker 3: go really deep on the new album.
Speaker 4: Okay, Yeah, I've.
Speaker 3: Been listening to it, and I just want to say
Speaker 3: up top that I think the songwriting on the album.
Speaker 5: Is really really strong, thank you.
Speaker 3: And I was reading through the lyrics and I feel
Speaker 3: like it's like reading a really great short story where
Speaker 3: you I know where the writer like, I know exactly
Speaker 3: what the writer is going through, and I feel like
Speaker 3: the production around it is so strong and it's really
Speaker 3: complimenting the writing. And I think you guys have done
Speaker 3: a fantastic job on the Yeah, it's been so great.
Speaker 3: So let's talk about the first song on the album, Gone.
Speaker 4: Does this?
Speaker 5: Do you see this sort of like.
Speaker 3: When you were sequencing the album? Do you see this
Speaker 3: as sort of setting the tone for the entire album?
Speaker 6: Yeah, So when we started writing this song, it was
Speaker 6: actually towards the end of the album process, and I think,
Speaker 6: you know, we as sisters were talking about like what's
Speaker 6: missing from the story, what's missing from a sonic perspective,
Speaker 6: And I think we were listening to a lot of
Speaker 6: the Beyonce Cowboy Carter album and just loving the way
Speaker 6: that she was mixing all of these samples and referencing
Speaker 6: things that I think she's always done and it's something
Speaker 6: that we've always really love in.
Speaker 4: Certain songs, and we've never done that, we've.
Speaker 6: Actually so the sample and question is a sample from
Speaker 6: George Michael's Freedom ninety Freedom ninety.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 5: I was so excited when I figured there out.
Speaker 6: I was like, yes, We're such huge fans of George Michael.
Speaker 6: Has always been faith like has been a touchstone in
Speaker 6: the high and like Sonic universe since the beginning. And
Speaker 6: so I remember feeling like, Okay, we we I feel
Speaker 6: like we need a track one. We need to like
Speaker 6: bring the listener in story wise, and how do we
Speaker 6: how do we do that? What's the kind of feeling
Speaker 6: that we kind of want this track one to evoke?
Speaker 4: And it was this kind of like.
Speaker 7: Freedom, you know, And it was a I think when
Speaker 7: I went into the studio, and first of all, we
Speaker 7: were at the point where like Rosson was like we
Speaker 7: have the album.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and we were like, keep going right the album.
Speaker 4: It means that there is one more song in you.
Speaker 8: I feel like anytime that sentence is uttered in the studio,
Speaker 8: you have one more.
Speaker 4: You always have one more. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Do you guys feel like exhausted by this process? Is
Speaker 3: it like pulling teeth like getting the songs out or
Speaker 3: do you have more than enough?
Speaker 6: Oh? Getting the songs out is I think the most
Speaker 6: fun part. I think finishing songs is a bit tougher
Speaker 6: because we just really want to perfect the production, I think,
Speaker 6: but we've been a little bit more looser about that.
Speaker 5: I think, yeah, like less precious, less precious.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, great for us.
Speaker 3: And for my mental Yes, and I feel like the
Speaker 3: I'm jumping ahead, but I feel like the last third
Speaker 3: of the album things sort of change. Was that something
Speaker 3: I mean, do you think that's accurate? And is that
Speaker 3: something that was sort of I also saw Rostam post
Speaker 3: about it and say track eleven, twelve, and thirteen are
Speaker 3: different from anything you've ever heard from Higham.
Speaker 4: I have to look at the sea.
Speaker 5: They can tell you what they are say.
Speaker 4: They are crying, spinning and baby blood on the street.
Speaker 4: On the street.
Speaker 5: It's try to Feel My Pain, Spinning and.
Speaker 8: Cry, Yeah, try to feel my pain. Yeah with specifically
Speaker 8: with Cry and Spinning. I think what he's explaining is
Speaker 8: that it's the first time on any High album that
Speaker 8: I'm singing lead on Spinning as he's singing lead on Cry,
Speaker 8: which we've never done before, and those songs actually came
Speaker 8: very like. The thing that's amazing about working with Rossam
Speaker 8: is it's like he's he's like a cheerleader. He's up
Speaker 8: for anything, like there's no there's no bad ideas. And
Speaker 8: I think making Spinning it was like a funny day
Speaker 8: where I was like falling in love with somebody that
Speaker 8: I wasn't supposed to fall in love with.
Speaker 4: Now in hindsight, I'm like, why did I fall in
Speaker 4: love with this person?
Speaker 8: But it's that like ooey gooey first like three weeks
Speaker 8: of like starting to detect someone and starting to talk
Speaker 8: to somebody, and I was like fully in this like
Speaker 8: rabbit hole, falling down this rabbit hole, and.
Speaker 4: We decided to write a song about it.
Speaker 8: The relationship did not last, stockingly did not last.
Speaker 4: But it was so fun.
Speaker 8: I mean, just to side it, he was like, let's
Speaker 8: you know and honestly, up until the last couple of
Speaker 8: weeks of the album, like I was like, we didn't.
Speaker 8: I was like, I don't I love this song? Does
Speaker 8: it fit on this album? And it felt like where
Speaker 8: it was in the sequencing it kind of fit having
Speaker 8: Cry and yeah, I'm.
Speaker 4: Very close to their like little sisters too.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but yeah, it's different, different stuff. Trying to think
Speaker 8: we still you know, we still try new things in
Speaker 8: this band.
Speaker 3: How do you guys feel about singing lead? Is that
Speaker 3: something that you wanted to happen before or how do.
Speaker 8: I mean, honestly, we'll see how it goes live. It's
Speaker 8: gonna be great. No, it's it's all that I mean.
Speaker 8: I honestly, sometimes I look at Danielle and I'm like,
Speaker 8: I don't know how you do this.
Speaker 3: Like I was playing the guitar at the same time,
Speaker 3: I was thinking.
Speaker 4: Like Danielle can sing lead.
Speaker 8: Danielle sing lead, you know, see like on a unicycle
Speaker 8: at this point, like yell it.
Speaker 4: Like I look at her and I was like, I
Speaker 4: do not know how you do this? All the time, yes,
Speaker 4: because it's I mean, I'm in ah, my little sister,
Speaker 4: I'm a little sister. That's an but it's definitely something new.
Speaker 8: It's a new it's a new feeling that I never
Speaker 8: was like striving for, but happy that it happened. But
Speaker 8: there was never a point where I was like I
Speaker 8: want to sing lead.
Speaker 4: I'm like anything.
Speaker 8: I was like, roth, I don't want to, like Danielle
Speaker 8: will sound better on this song, and everybody collectively like, no,
Speaker 8: it's good, it's good, it's good. But no, there was
Speaker 8: like never a point where I was like trying to
Speaker 8: sing lead. If anything, I love giving it to Dinyelle.
Speaker 6: But also that's a testament to that Like ross Dam,
Speaker 6: we were just trying new things in the studio and
Speaker 6: he always is so open to that, which is really
Speaker 6: nice to have and a producer.
Speaker 4: And I love how cry came out. I think it's
Speaker 4: such an important part on the album. It's fun. It's
Speaker 4: fun to write too and not.
Speaker 1: I mean when you listen to the song and you
Speaker 1: listen to the what the sentiment is, you wouldn't think
Speaker 1: it would be fun, but it was really.
Speaker 4: Is it fun because it's cathartic?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was fun because like I was, I think
Speaker 1: I'd been holding in a lot of just this feeling
Speaker 1: of like being tired of crying so much about things
Speaker 1: that had happened to me, and then wanting to just
Speaker 1: kind of be done with the tears and to be
Speaker 1: moving on into something that you know, didn't make me
Speaker 1: cry tears of pain anymore, and more tears of joy.
Speaker 4: Totally, yes, less oily, more joy, you know.
Speaker 1: No, So I in the studio it was, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm really lucky that Danielle and Alana can they can
Speaker 1: kind of tell when I think we can all kind
Speaker 1: of tell when we come into the studio and something's up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I think that day in particular, I'd gotten a
Speaker 1: text message from an X and I was feeling really
Speaker 1: really emotional about it.
Speaker 4: And they knew.
Speaker 1: Without me even saying anything, that something was wrong. And
Speaker 1: the second they said that, I immediately burst into tears
Speaker 1: because they they you know, they can without even like
Speaker 1: just a look, they know exactly what's going on. And
Speaker 1: so I think the lyrics just kind of fell out
Speaker 1: of of all of us.
Speaker 4: I think that we've all kind of been there.
Speaker 1: Then. Yeah, it's to the Lana's point, it's going to
Speaker 1: be interesting seeing it live. But I think I think
Speaker 1: all of us, I think with the songs that we do,
Speaker 1: we kind of are transported. Whenever we're singing them, we're
Speaker 1: transported almost back to the place that.
Speaker 4: We were when we wrote it.
Speaker 1: I think there's definitely been times, I think, when all
Speaker 1: of us have cried on stage at the point, and
Speaker 1: I think a lot of that comes from, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of reliving the place that.
Speaker 4: We were when we wrote it, when we.
Speaker 1: Were experiencing it, and I think it's a it's a
Speaker 1: blessing in some ways.
Speaker 4: It's also it can be kind of fucking rough.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it doesn't you know, it doesn't deter us from
Speaker 1: wanting to play them live and wanting to tour, which
Speaker 1: is the good news.
Speaker 4: We like, you know, we still love playing live.
Speaker 5: I feel like that's a little bit rare.
Speaker 3: A lot of people I interview it sounds like they
Speaker 3: kind of hate.
Speaker 4: Being on the road. I know, it's just got comfortable.
Speaker 8: And I think it just goes back when we started
Speaker 8: High I'm Officially in two thousand and seven. We genuinely,
Speaker 8: I mean, we've been playing instruments together.
Speaker 4: Since I was four years old. We've been live since
Speaker 4: I was a baby.
Speaker 8: But when Hi I'm officially started in two thousand and seven,
Speaker 8: we always just considered ourselves a live band rather than
Speaker 8: a recording band, because we genuinely didn't have the knowledge
Speaker 8: of we would go into a studio.
Speaker 4: We'd like, save up all of our money for a year,
Speaker 4: go to a.
Speaker 8: Studio, sounds really great, and rehearsal we hosted for months, months, years,
Speaker 8: like literally we were rehearsed. We would make sure our
Speaker 8: parts were perfect, and we would go find a studio
Speaker 8: that we could afford, and we would have one day
Speaker 8: and in our minds, we have, okay, we have one
Speaker 8: day to record seven songs. Yeah, oh my gosh, if
Speaker 8: somebody can do that, like amazing, we could not.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we just we didn't have that.
Speaker 6: We didn't have the knowledge of I mean going into
Speaker 6: a studio and recording instruments even just like like no idea,
Speaker 6: you know, how do we just we didn't even know
Speaker 6: that we could refer and say can to the engineer,
Speaker 6: hey can we get this to sound like that?
Speaker 4: We just had no for knowledge or the engineer would
Speaker 4: be like, we'll do it in post. Yeah, like wech
Speaker 4: tells you that. That's like you can't me that.
Speaker 6: From two thousand and two twelve, when we finally figured
Speaker 6: out kind of what our sound was we were just
Speaker 6: play live, like every weekend, whatever gig we could get
Speaker 6: in La, we just played.
Speaker 8: And our goal in recording was just so we could
Speaker 8: play live. Yeah, because back in then, you wouldn't be
Speaker 8: able to get booked on gigs unless I mean I'm
Speaker 8: aging myself, but you had to have a my space,
Speaker 8: and what venues would do is they would go on
Speaker 8: your MySpace, they would look at you know, your track,
Speaker 8: and if they liked it, they would book you. And
Speaker 8: like we could not, I mean, to our credit, we
Speaker 8: always knew that the that.
Speaker 4: If we didn't like something, we didn't want to put
Speaker 4: it out.
Speaker 8: Even back in the day, even to get a gig,
Speaker 8: we were like, if it's not good.
Speaker 4: We can't do this.
Speaker 8: So there's not many I mean there are some please
Speaker 8: don't look at but there are some recordings that are
Speaker 8: out there. But really we thought that all we wanted
Speaker 8: to do is play. And even from our earliest gigs
Speaker 8: of like our first tours, like we were just so
Speaker 8: forever grateful to be out in the road because we
Speaker 8: would play like four people in LA and once we
Speaker 8: started toying, I mean my first tour, luckily Danielle was
Speaker 8: playing with Julian Casablancis at the time on his solo record,
Speaker 8: and he graciously gave us the opening slot for a
Speaker 8: couple of gigs.
Speaker 4: And I was in high school, I was seven, Like cool,
Speaker 4: does people think you were super cool for doing that? Yeah?
Speaker 4: I mean yes, well I thought I was cool.
Speaker 8: Finally for the first time, I think it was I
Speaker 8: had looked, I had looked at I mean, obviously the
Speaker 8: Strokes is such a you know, pivotal band in our
Speaker 8: musical upbringing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, But going on.
Speaker 8: Tour at fresh eighteen, I thought, you know, this is it,
Speaker 8: this is gonna be my life. Didn't happen quite as
Speaker 8: fast as thought it was going to happen. But the
Speaker 8: just that first tour, like that first like taste of
Speaker 8: like we could play music together in other places, in
Speaker 8: other cities.
Speaker 4: Like our valley haunts, was mind blowing.
Speaker 8: And so every band that took us on tour, I
Speaker 8: mean opening, those few years of opening were the greatest
Speaker 8: years I think our lives, because it was just we
Speaker 8: were just so forever grateful that a band would take
Speaker 8: us out on the road and would want us to play.
Speaker 4: And still to this day, I'm like, I love opening.
Speaker 4: It's great. Yeah, and it seems like you're.
Speaker 3: Pressure build though, you know, because if somebody is there
Speaker 3: to see the big like whoever is the headlining act,
Speaker 3: Like do you feel like you have to win them
Speaker 3: over or do you guys?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's not going week. Yeah, it's not
Speaker 4: for the week, but you have to go in knowing
Speaker 4: I have. Yeah.
Speaker 6: I think we still go out on like our own
Speaker 6: shows when we're headlining, like with the same.
Speaker 8: People are gonna leave after our opener. Now we're like, oh,
Speaker 8: we're actually here for us. But I think that's like beautiful,
Speaker 8: big Yes, I think we'll forever have big, big, open
Speaker 8: mentality because it's actually more fun that way. I mean,
Speaker 8: wee we did have always taken our live show extremely
Speaker 8: seriously and because that's also where we have the most fun.
Speaker 4: So recording has now kind of like caught up with it.
Speaker 8: I think now we're more comfortable in the studio and
Speaker 8: we have a lot more fun in the studio. But
Speaker 8: there is nothing like showing up to a city. You
Speaker 8: like wake up and you're in a new place. You
Speaker 8: like have to get your bearings, have to figure out
Speaker 8: what you're gonna do, and you play a show.
Speaker 4: It's like that first light drop still to this.
Speaker 8: Day, Like no matter where I am, what show when
Speaker 8: the lights go off, it's the biggest high I'll ever have.
Speaker 4: In my life.
Speaker 3: I know a lot of people struggle with like keeping
Speaker 3: that high going specifically.
Speaker 4: We're good. We've been touring for over what is.
Speaker 8: It well, almost fifteen years, Like it's.
Speaker 4: So crazy that it doesn't end.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's because you keep on going a new venues,
Speaker 8: Like it's just exciting.
Speaker 4: Nothing is ever the same, No tour is ever the same.
Speaker 3: Yeah, do you guys hang out with each other when
Speaker 3: you're not like doing sound check or what's the like
Speaker 3: off dates, I get.
Speaker 9: In, I get in the car, and I leave off
Speaker 9: and go let those three individual buses were always Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're always together. We always always got together. Yeah, No, we're.
Speaker 8: All well because also it's like what I don't I'm
Speaker 8: also I have the worst sense.
Speaker 9: Of direction, Like I how did you talk about that?
Speaker 8: Like I am it's a hi am jokes Like every
Speaker 8: time I'm like you guys, we gotta go right, it's
Speaker 8: left Like I like me alone in the stace, even
Speaker 8: with like phone and a map, like I will get
Speaker 8: I will wind up somewhere, not like in a different state, like.
Speaker 4: They're like, how did you get that? So I'm happy
Speaker 4: to be with them all.
Speaker 2: Now. Time for a summer sit moment, brought to you
Speaker 2: by the Starbucks Coffee Company. One of the things I
Speaker 2: love most about summer are the summer songs. You know them,
Speaker 2: the songs that make you want to roll your windows
Speaker 2: down and drive just a little bit longer or walk
Speaker 2: a little bit slower to enjoy the moment. I mean,
Speaker 2: just thinking about some of the songs from last year,
Speaker 2: like Hot to Go by Chapelarone, Espresso by Sabrina Carpenter,
Speaker 2: and Nasty by Tanache make me so excited for the
Speaker 2: summer to come. Summer songs have become the unofficial soundtrack
Speaker 2: to so many of my summer memories, whether I'm on
Speaker 2: a hike, cutting them on local Starbucks, or just stuck
Speaker 2: in traffic pretending I'm somewhere cooler. These are the tracks
Speaker 2: I never get tired of. They sneak on my playlist
Speaker 2: every summer without fail. When you boil it down, Summer's
Speaker 2: about two things, trying to stay cool and trying to
Speaker 2: enjoy as much summer fun as possible. Luckily, I've found
Speaker 2: something that helps with both the Summer Burrier Refresher from Starbucks.
Speaker 2: Just take a sip at a second to cool down
Speaker 2: and then each summer moment. Years before Broken Record, I
Speaker 2: used to work at Starbucks, so I love seeing which
Speaker 2: seasonal menu items are now available. My favorite this summer
Speaker 2: is the Summer Berry Refresher, a bright blend of berry
Speaker 2: flavors all shaken with ice import over raspberry flavored pearls.
Speaker 2: This beverage delivers a burst of raspberry flavor in every sip.
Speaker 2: Being in Los Angeles, the summers can be brutally long
Speaker 2: and hot, so I couldn't wait to try this one out.
Speaker 2: And man, the beverage really is refreshing. The Summer Berrier
Speaker 2: Refresher is the perfect companion to cool you down. I
Speaker 2: promise I'm all in for the ice beverages at Starbucks.
Speaker 2: There's something about the first sip of something iced and
Speaker 2: refreshing that hits differently when the sun's high in the
Speaker 2: afternoon sky. I like to carve out a little moment
Speaker 2: of me time, so I swing by my neighborhood Starbucks,
Speaker 2: grab a drink and just be for a bit before
Speaker 2: I head into the studio to record Broken Record and
Speaker 2: especially now that summer is here, that ritual is even sweeter.
Speaker 2: I was very excited to see the Summer Barry Refresher
Speaker 2: return to the Starbucks menu and Broken Record host Leah
Speaker 2: Rose recently tried it too on her recent vacation back
Speaker 2: East Lea. What made you stop by Starbucks and pick
Speaker 2: up a summer berry refresher?
Speaker 5: So I tried the Summer Berry Refresher on a super
Speaker 5: super hot, humid Maryland day.
Speaker 4: I was sweating.
Speaker 3: We were lugging a bunch of stuff around, getting ready
Speaker 3: to go to the pool, and I saw Starbucks and
Speaker 3: to my husband, I'm like, pull over, pull over, poll over,
Speaker 3: I need to get this summer Berry refresher drink. And
Speaker 3: I got it, and it's so beautiful And the first
Speaker 3: thing I wanted to do was take a picture of it.
Speaker 2: And of course it looks nice, right, it looks nice.
Speaker 3: It looks so beautiful, the colors are so pretty, and
Speaker 3: it has those raspberry pearls. But I was so hot,
Speaker 3: I just like had to drink it immediately. I started
Speaker 3: drinking it. And the craziest, most unexpected thing about it
Speaker 3: is those raspberry pearls.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they're nice, A nice little touch They're.
Speaker 3: A nice touch, and they add more flavor to it,
Speaker 3: like each pearl when it bursts, it's like a whole
Speaker 3: different berry flavor.
Speaker 4: I was so into it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just the texture of this is different, and it
Speaker 2: just makes that drink so refreshing nice. It's crazy.
Speaker 3: It was incredible and it immediately did the job. And
Speaker 3: I was so happy that I pulled over and got one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my kids love it too. It's hard. Now. I
Speaker 2: love my coffee, but every time I go to Starbucks,
Speaker 2: now I got to think about I'm I gonna get
Speaker 2: my coffee drink or I want to get my Summer
Speaker 2: Barrier Fresher. And you know, I'll be honest, like lately,
Speaker 2: the Summer Barrier Fresher is really winning. It's really winning
Speaker 2: that battle.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, it's the perfect summer drink. And it's funny because
Speaker 3: my whole family suddenly was fighting over it. My son
Speaker 3: wanted to try it. He wanted the raspberry pearls. My
Speaker 3: husband wanted to try it. So I ended up getting
Speaker 3: like a third of the drink.
Speaker 2: I know, you almost hate to drink it. It looks
Speaker 2: so beautiful, I know.
Speaker 3: Oh, and I didn't even get a picture of it
Speaker 3: because we drank it too fast. I need another one.
Speaker 2: The Summer Barrier Fresher is like the beverage version of
Speaker 2: a summer song, easy bright, maybe a little unexpected, but
Speaker 2: hits the spot and makes everything feel more like summer.
Speaker 2: It's become part of my rhythm. So if you're building
Speaker 2: your own soundtrack for the season, I'd also recommend adding
Speaker 2: a Summer Bearer refresher to your rotation. It's refreshing, travels well,
Speaker 2: it might just become part of your summer memory reel too.
Speaker 2: Your Summer Bary Refresher is ready at Starbucks.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry I laughed earlier when you said your relationship
Speaker 3: didn't work out, the one that you really.
Speaker 8: Honestly, my relationship that I've had has been a laugh
Speaker 8: so you can please please feel free to.
Speaker 4: Laugh at anything. Yeah, I didn't mean to laugh at you.
Speaker 3: I was just laughing because it reminded me of the
Speaker 3: line in the song relationships, where what is it?
Speaker 5: Fucking relationships?
Speaker 4: Don't they all end up this? Or they don't? What
Speaker 4: is it? Yeah?
Speaker 5: So it just reminded me of that, But I'm sorry.
Speaker 8: The depth of our soul, Yeah.
Speaker 5: So tell me about that song that's the first single right,
Speaker 5: first single single.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it is actually the oldest song on the album.
Speaker 5: Okay is this someone That's in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 6: Started at Sean I wrote it. I started to write
Speaker 6: it on my phone on an airplane. We were going
Speaker 6: to Australia and I just opened up my garage band
Speaker 6: on my phone, which I've written started, not written like
Speaker 6: whole songs, but definitely started ideas on.
Speaker 4: I love garage band.
Speaker 6: It's what like superstitiously, I still write on garage band
Speaker 6: because that's what we started writing on in like.
Speaker 4: Twenty ten ten, right when we got your first when
Speaker 4: I got my first back.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but having garage band like truly blew my mind.
Speaker 8: So I had on your phone is is even crazier?
Speaker 6: It's yeah, it's really awesome. And anyway, so I started,
Speaker 6: you know, this melody kind of came to me fucking
Speaker 6: relationship and I was like, wait, that's good. It's a
Speaker 6: good melody and it's a good lyric and that like
Speaker 6: you know, that kind of rarely happens. I feel when
Speaker 6: you get the lyric and the melody at the same time,
Speaker 6: it's kind of like it feels like.
Speaker 4: God is Yeah, something has been worldly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's harder for you guys, melody or lyrics.
Speaker 6: I wouldn't say like harder. I think melody maybe comes
Speaker 6: a little quicker, really actually a lot quicker. Yeah, I
Speaker 6: think so that's amazing, a little bit more labored over
Speaker 6: and but yeah, melody, melody is like, melody is pretty quick.
Speaker 3: How do you know you're not just singing something that's
Speaker 3: already out there that you've heard.
Speaker 4: Oh, we've done that before. That's the best.
Speaker 3: Like you're like, oh, that's time after time.
Speaker 4: Like she if I sing something, you're like, no, that's
Speaker 4: this other song.
Speaker 5: But she knows her music knowledge.
Speaker 4: I think name that. I don't I want you to
Speaker 4: go and name that tune.
Speaker 3: Because there's a like shazamam, but it's I don't think
Speaker 3: it's sam every day.
Speaker 8: If I if you ever have that, like, why is
Speaker 8: that so all? You can literally hum it to Essie
Speaker 8: and she's like it's insane.
Speaker 4: Honestly, we've tested it. I'm a woman of many talent.
Speaker 1: That is like, that's very valuable, most proud of, most
Speaker 1: proud of artist, song title, sometimes album title.
Speaker 4: I don't have that.
Speaker 6: I I can't, yeah that I have acquired, but that
Speaker 6: doesn't stop us from I mean, I do it too.
Speaker 6: There was a whole.
Speaker 1: Period of time where everything I wrote sounded like Jurassic Park,
Speaker 1: the Jurassic Park.
Speaker 4: Who along as long.
Speaker 5: As have you just seen it?
Speaker 4: Williams Fan?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well yeah, you know, yeah, Yeah, I think melody,
Speaker 1: I think meland he is.
Speaker 4: I mean, I think they're both important. It's also just fun.
Speaker 8: You're in the studio and you're passing around to mic
Speaker 8: like it's very much like a group effort melody wise,
Speaker 8: like just throwing things.
Speaker 6: We actually start a lot of our songs from drum
Speaker 6: patterns or you know. That's actually a big high end
Speaker 6: thing where all drummers. First our dad is a drummer
Speaker 6: and taught us drums. He we had two drum sets
Speaker 6: set up in our living room growing up, and yeah,
Speaker 6: it was incredible and he really imparted his.
Speaker 4: Like drum percussion. Did the neighbors ever complain, I like, oh, no,
Speaker 4: they were lucky. They liked it. Yeah, they liked it.
Speaker 1: Which was when we had that We had one like
Speaker 1: a xylophone player on one side, like a he I think,
Speaker 1: wasn't he in like classic harmonic, classically trained?
Speaker 3: He was like?
Speaker 4: And then on the other side it was he was deaf.
Speaker 4: He was deaf. Yeah, he had a death neighbor.
Speaker 9: So so never like not having perfect for you guys,
Speaker 9: I know, I.
Speaker 6: Know he really lucked out actually because there was a point,
Speaker 6: you know, my dad loves collecting instruments. There was a
Speaker 6: point where it was like two drum sets, Timballe's, Longa's
Speaker 6: cow bells, so like we would all just be jamming. Yeah,
Speaker 6: my dad was obsessed with the recycler, which was which
Speaker 6: was Craigslist.
Speaker 4: Before Craigslist, it was like, oh, it was like a
Speaker 4: little magazine every week.
Speaker 8: And Mike okay, and this is obviously before you know,
Speaker 8: the Internet, so people didn't know what they had.
Speaker 4: So like my dad would get things at like crazy.
Speaker 8: Ten dollars, fifteen dollars, like collecting as many things that
Speaker 8: he could get. Yeah, my dad was like an original
Speaker 8: Craigslist hunter. Now but not now people know what they have.
Speaker 8: They can like hear how much things are.
Speaker 6: But my dad like a really rate early sixties Ludwig set,
Speaker 6: and because the church.
Speaker 4: Was selling all of them in Barstow, my dad drove.
Speaker 8: And cleaned out this lovely church that was selling all
Speaker 8: of their instrument gear.
Speaker 6: I ended up getting a great d W set that
Speaker 6: he still plays. That's really cool. But yeah, oh so
Speaker 6: he still plays.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, he just played me just went to jazz best.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I saw your mom on stage with you guys.
Speaker 4: Y was our dad on the drum. Oh I didn't
Speaker 4: realize that. That's so cool.
Speaker 8: Rockenheim Before high there was Rockenheim and that was with
Speaker 8: my parents.
Speaker 4: That's so great.
Speaker 3: When you were kids and you were in the band,
Speaker 3: were you aware that your family was sort of different
Speaker 3: than like your friend's families and that I remember the.
Speaker 4: Moment that it happened.
Speaker 1: I mean, at least from I remember the moment I
Speaker 1: realized that we're we weren't normal.
Speaker 4: When I grew up thinking that every family.
Speaker 1: Had a family band, because why would I think anything different?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 1: And then I remember a friend of mine was like,
Speaker 1: s you do you want to go to the Fashion
Speaker 1: Square this weekend? And I was like, well, I have rehearsal,
Speaker 1: Like don't you have rehearsal on Saturday?
Speaker 4: And my friends were like rehearsal for what? And I
Speaker 4: was like with.
Speaker 1: Your band and they were like no, what. And then
Speaker 1: I just remember coming home and crying to my parents.
Speaker 4: Like we're weird and we're so weird. We are so weird,
Speaker 4: like mom and dad.
Speaker 8: The thing that was like amazing about rockehem so like
Speaker 8: my parents growing up.
Speaker 4: I mean again, we're from Los Angeles.
Speaker 8: So all we do is listen to the radio and
Speaker 8: in the car, in the car when you're driving, and
Speaker 8: there's this one specific station called KRS one oh one
Speaker 8: that would play. At that point, it was fifties, sixties
Speaker 8: and then only seventies.
Speaker 4: I disc go Saturday night. Yeah, Saturday, I was slurday,
Speaker 4: beach Saturday and do the dishes together.
Speaker 8: But the thing that was so cool is that, like
Speaker 8: my parents, what we would do is we would go home,
Speaker 8: we would put on KTH one on one, we would
Speaker 8: record songs to tape, and then my mom, like our
Speaker 8: earliest moments of like learning music, is my mom.
Speaker 4: Would figure out the Clark oh.
Speaker 8: We would teach us how to play it, and then
Speaker 8: we would listen to listen to it. I mean like
Speaker 8: I want to say, like seventy five thousand times, and
Speaker 8: we would write the lyrics down, so there were wrong
Speaker 8: lyrics wrong, like terrible, like it's lyrics all over the place.
Speaker 8: Because also this is again this is before we had internet. Yeah,
Speaker 8: and that's how we would learn songs. So like in
Speaker 8: learning in that we would like realize that a lot
Speaker 8: of these songs are like one four five, so like
Speaker 8: very easy, you know.
Speaker 4: Just open chords.
Speaker 8: That it was, you know, that's how we actually learned
Speaker 8: how to songwrite, is like from our childhood of listening
Speaker 8: to things.
Speaker 4: And learning things by ear. Oh yeah, but.
Speaker 8: Just that process of like hearing a song on the
Speaker 8: radio and then being able to play it myself was
Speaker 8: such an empowering feeling. It was so cool, so like
Speaker 8: even though yes, we thought we were weird, in the
Speaker 8: long run was extremely beautiful.
Speaker 5: And what was the aspiration for the family band?
Speaker 4: There was no outfit. It was zero asperts. Was it serious?
Speaker 4: Like it was it like they were serious in practicing.
Speaker 8: My parents were very They would always tell us like,
Speaker 8: if you want to do this, you have to practice.
Speaker 4: There is no bands.
Speaker 6: But also they were very you know, the whole point
Speaker 6: was to play for charity, charity, so we would probably
Speaker 6: book you know, I think it was four gigs a year, yeah,
Speaker 6: for different charities, and then we would go and perform.
Speaker 4: But it was very much like, all right, we're going
Speaker 4: to book these, but if.
Speaker 10: We're going to book them, we're going to practice, yeah,
Speaker 10: and then I mean families go camping.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we play music. We play music, but again, like
Speaker 8: I don't my parents always like hey when I say this,
Speaker 8: like early days high and when I was like very young,
Speaker 8: like we.
Speaker 4: We were not great. Like it's not like we were
Speaker 4: like killing it. We were so like.
Speaker 8: Yeah, just as like a wide And also thank you
Speaker 8: to anyone that ever saw us play like it was
Speaker 8: you know, it was not we thought that it was cute.
Speaker 4: It was probably adorable. It was so cute.
Speaker 6: And it's also funny, like my parents never have written
Speaker 6: they're not song writers. They don't they've never written the
Speaker 6: song before, but they were once we kind of were
Speaker 6: like maybe we should write on there.
Speaker 4: Very supportive, but it's not like they even knew. No,
Speaker 4: they don't. We played straight covers, you know, and being
Speaker 4: a cover band, I mean.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it was fun. It was so fun. But yeah, no,
Speaker 8: there was no like let's write a song together. My
Speaker 8: parents had no you know, they didn't know.
Speaker 1: They were like, we're going to college. They're like, good grades,
Speaker 1: you're going to college.
Speaker 8: Me and the other like you're getting a job because
Speaker 8: me and Danielle couldn't get into college, so as he's
Speaker 8: a smart one.
Speaker 4: I got I got out and I graduate. I did
Speaker 4: you did? That's so great? Yeah, older sister doing it.
Speaker 3: How how does your birth position, like I don't know
Speaker 3: if you've guys seen like studies on like the oldest
Speaker 3: child usually has these traits or does these things?
Speaker 4: Middle child for the fish child.
Speaker 8: Yeah, by the birth I'm it's hilarious that you've brought
Speaker 8: this up because I recently have just been so obsessed
Speaker 8: with birth order.
Speaker 4: But I bought this book called the birth Order Book.
Speaker 4: Wait tell me, I don't know.
Speaker 9: Well, the funniest thing, I mean, it's like the same
Speaker 9: trips like the oldest, like the parents focused mostly on
Speaker 9: it because you're the first trial. Oh, they're like the hyperachiever,
Speaker 9: like hiperachiever, which honestly checks out, went to college.
Speaker 4: They're going and the leader for.
Speaker 8: The youngest, it's like they're the comedian, Like they're the
Speaker 8: ones that are like trying.
Speaker 4: They're like the most rambunctious.
Speaker 8: The thing that's the funniest about the middle times scary, No,
Speaker 8: but you're very No, you shouldn't be.
Speaker 4: Scared because it's honestly hilarious.
Speaker 8: But like there's two things that I thought were so funny,
Speaker 8: Like when I got to the chapter for middle child,
Speaker 8: they were like, there's not like to their stereotype. There's
Speaker 8: not much about the middle child that we know someone
Speaker 8: has really wanted to study a middle child. But the
Speaker 8: thing that I thought found so interesting that Danielle really,
Speaker 8: I mean, it changed our lives that she did this.
Speaker 8: But they said that the middle child, the first thing
Speaker 8: they want to do is leave. They want to leave,
Speaker 8: they want to find their people out in the world.
Speaker 8: Like I feel like oldest and youngest they stay and
Speaker 8: notoriously middle children leave. And that's very true to Danielle.
Speaker 8: Like when she was nineteen, immediately went on tour, started
Speaker 8: becoming a touring with for other bands, and it was
Speaker 8: kind of like this thing where she came home and
Speaker 8: had all this no I'm speaking for you, I'm sorry,
Speaker 8: but she came home and had all this knowledge of
Speaker 8: just touring. Like we thought that touring was out of
Speaker 8: our reach, like we, I mean, we always wanted to
Speaker 8: be touring musicians, but like it's like, how do you
Speaker 8: do that?
Speaker 4: We didn't know, And Danielle kind of fell into this
Speaker 4: group that was touring and it was really lucky. She
Speaker 4: really lucky and would come home be like this is
Speaker 4: what this is?
Speaker 8: And like there's this there's something called an agent, an agent,
Speaker 8: like this is what and she just came back and
Speaker 8: it was without her being the middle child and leaving,
Speaker 8: we would not be here today the explorer.
Speaker 4: That's so cool.
Speaker 3: So did what kind of questions did you ask her
Speaker 3: when she came home? Like did you feel like she
Speaker 3: had changed at all?
Speaker 4: I mean, if anything, it was just she saw the world.
Speaker 4: I mean, Didn'telle went he went to London. I went
Speaker 4: to Japan. I went to Japan. I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 4: what is Japan?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 8: It was so exciting, Like she went to London for
Speaker 8: the flight time.
Speaker 6: London was huge because you know we were also such
Speaker 6: you know, we were in high school from basically two thousand.
Speaker 6: Well I started high school in two two thousand and
Speaker 6: then Alana graduated in twenty ten.
Speaker 4: So basically that era of music.
Speaker 6: For us was such a soundtrack, our soundtrack, and a
Speaker 6: lot of it came out of the UK.
Speaker 10: Or if it wasn't from being made by UK us,
Speaker 10: it was and artists that were embraced first in the UK,
Speaker 10: and then you know American artists that were embraced first
Speaker 10: in the UK like the White Stripes, which I can't
Speaker 10: believe it, but that ended up being ar trajectory, which
Speaker 10: like honestly, and when it was happening, we were just
Speaker 10: so in disbelief because we knew that that was like
Speaker 10: a trend, you know, Kings of Leon too, I think,
Speaker 10: like a trend that the UK kind of is so
Speaker 10: you know, forward thinking and yeah, so many American rock fans.
Speaker 6: So yeah, when I went with Julian Cosablancas to like
Speaker 6: London for the first time, and I had read up
Speaker 6: all about like you know, they signed a rough trade,
Speaker 6: like there was just so much war about the UK
Speaker 6: and the music scene, an Enemy magazine, you know, like
Speaker 6: all these like you know, going there for the first
Speaker 6: time I think it was in two thousand and nine
Speaker 6: with him, I like did.
Speaker 4: All the things.
Speaker 6: I also like went to Top Top I got them.
Speaker 11: From you know, I was like up with me on
Speaker 11: like clothes, you know, we were just just thee and
Speaker 11: I was like, yeah, like nineteen twenty and I was
Speaker 11: just like so so happy and could not believe my
Speaker 11: luck that I was doing what I always dreamed of doing.
Speaker 4: Like just like that when I would come home and
Speaker 4: I'd be.
Speaker 6: Like, oh my god, You'll never guess it was like
Speaker 6: backstage at like a festival, like yeah, Bostonbury, Yeah, who
Speaker 6: was I meeting? It was like a lot of like
Speaker 6: I think the Kings of Leon were backstage at some
Speaker 6: of our shows.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 6: I would just say like hi, and then I would
Speaker 6: but like so starstruck and yeah.
Speaker 8: Y'all going to Glastonbury for like before, I mean way
Speaker 8: before we had even gone as high and was like
Speaker 8: the biggest ye crazy, were like what is it like
Speaker 8: like it was very much like water World. It's like
Speaker 8: I felt, yeah, how then really it's there And she
Speaker 8: would come home and I think that was like a
Speaker 8: huge starting point for us as a band, because Danielle
Speaker 8: came back and she was like, I think we can
Speaker 8: do this, and that was like the first and actually
Speaker 8: we always wanted him to be a serious thing obviously,
Speaker 8: but we needed her to come home.
Speaker 4: I just learned so much with her and also just
Speaker 4: and I also toured.
Speaker 6: With Jenny Lewis before the Julian Cosablancas band, and I
Speaker 6: just learned just so much about artistry and focusing on
Speaker 6: every aspect and just like truly, you know, Julian was
Speaker 6: so hyper focused on his vision and I just didn't
Speaker 6: know that that's what it took to be an artist.
Speaker 6: And I learned so much from him, like he was
Speaker 6: very very focused on certain things.
Speaker 4: And also Jenna let up the Strokes were so seems
Speaker 4: so effortless, like it.
Speaker 6: Seemed like they really Yeah, it seemed like it was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 6: they just like waltz into the studio like drunk at
Speaker 6: three am.
Speaker 4: And record it is this it?
Speaker 6: And then you know, started to understand how it took
Speaker 6: them years to perfect their sound. By talking to Julian,
Speaker 6: I was like, oh, that's why we can't get our
Speaker 6: ship right in the studio, like we have no fucking idea.
Speaker 6: But yeah, it was we would not be sitting here
Speaker 6: without those experiences.
Speaker 4: And I'm boring to Jenny and to Julian.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Tory, yeah, I love that you talk about the
Speaker 3: hard work, because it does. It seems effortless with you
Speaker 3: guys too. And you also you always seem like you're
Speaker 3: having so much fun and you may seem real.
Speaker 4: I mean that is true.
Speaker 3: We are good time, yeah, but it seems easy too
Speaker 3: at the same time, but I know there's so much
Speaker 3: hard work behind the scenes and so much vision and
Speaker 3: you've been doing it for so long.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I know it. Just having our ten year anniversary
Speaker 8: for Days Are Gone was very wild experience because it
Speaker 8: still feels like that album happened yesterday.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I think we feel like there's so much more to
Speaker 6: come to and we're, you know, we are very ready
Speaker 6: to keep working hard and to.
Speaker 8: Keep Yeah, this still feels like even on our fourth album,
Speaker 8: it still feels like the beginning.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're like the opener mentality.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, Yeah, cannot get rid of it, cannot shake it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll be back with more from him and Leah Rose.
Speaker 2: After the break, when.
Speaker 3: You were talking about your parents and back when you
Speaker 3: were in the family band, just thinking about the album
Speaker 3: and all the talk about relationships and being single or
Speaker 3: experiences in relationships, I was curious how the mythology of
Speaker 3: your parents' relationship, like how that has affected you all individually,
Speaker 3: Like maybe, I mean it.
Speaker 4: Is a lot of honestly, it's a lot of pressure.
Speaker 8: I mean you also have to like think about the
Speaker 8: time that my parents got together.
Speaker 4: My parents are still together. They love each other so much.
Speaker 8: Like it's honestly the sweetest thing like even when we're
Speaker 8: on tour and like my mom stays home to work
Speaker 8: and my dad sometimes visits us on tour.
Speaker 4: He'll be like, I need to call my wife. I'm
Speaker 4: like that goodest thing that was in my life. That's
Speaker 4: really right? Grow is that for you?
Speaker 8: Like?
Speaker 4: Is that either mew at.
Speaker 8: The thirty three year old trying to find my perfect
Speaker 8: human like like my because my parents.
Speaker 4: Look they're not they're perfect for each other.
Speaker 8: That's so beautiful about it, is like, look, we're all flawed,
Speaker 8: we're all human. But like they had found their missing
Speaker 8: puzzle piece and they found it and in crazy circumstances,
Speaker 8: I mean, they were put together by friends.
Speaker 4: It ended up.
Speaker 8: Being you know, it's like the dream scenario, like I
Speaker 8: have a guy for you. The amount of times a
Speaker 8: friend is said, I have a guy for you. Let
Speaker 8: me tell you no, not find my missing puzzle piece
Speaker 8: here and.
Speaker 3: Your hopes get up every time, it's like, oh, like
Speaker 3: a little I mean, and.
Speaker 8: It goes back to a lyric in relationships where it's, uh,
Speaker 8: is it just the ship our parents did? Like the
Speaker 8: thing like my parents again, it's like you grow up
Speaker 8: being this these puzzle pieces fall in love.
Speaker 4: And then you.
Speaker 8: You you are now in the age of Okay, now
Speaker 8: it's time for me to find my miss missing puzzle piece.
Speaker 4: And it's not easy.
Speaker 6: But it's also like beautiful that like they work their
Speaker 6: at like their butts off when we were kids to
Speaker 6: provide for us too, and so it's also just like yeah, it's.
Speaker 8: Really they have just as much fun at him concerts
Speaker 8: as you do. I mean, the thing is is like
Speaker 8: I'm so extremely grateful that we had parents that were supportive,
Speaker 8: but it is finding finding your missing puzzle piece in
Speaker 8: this life is hard. We learned that we thought it
Speaker 8: was easy. We're like, oh, we grew up like you
Speaker 8: find your person, no hard and it takes a lot
Speaker 8: of work, which we also realize as well. But I
Speaker 8: think in relationship, when that's.
Speaker 1: Happened to your point, I think some day sometimes you
Speaker 1: wonder like why do I do this? Like why I
Speaker 1: know it worked for mom and dad, but like at
Speaker 1: the same time, why do we put ourselves through the ship.
Speaker 1: And I think that's also kind of you know, the
Speaker 1: sentiment and how we were feeling when we were making
Speaker 1: relationships was like, yes, it can be a magical, beautiful thing,
Speaker 1: but also like this fucking sucks, not easy, but yeah,
Speaker 1: we it's a lot to live up to with with
Speaker 1: our mom and dad because they really well they just
Speaker 1: ride each other, you know, they really ride for each
Speaker 1: other and that's you know, it's really a beautiful thing
Speaker 1: to see and God willing.
Speaker 5: They listen to your inner like all your everything.
Speaker 8: Really they find every I don't know how what Like,
Speaker 8: I'm like, I didn't even know they know they knew
Speaker 8: how to use a computer.
Speaker 4: I literally like it's news.
Speaker 5: But well, I think are just hi, Mom and John,
Speaker 5: I'm so supportive.
Speaker 1: I just think that No, I think that they're honestly
Speaker 1: just really stoked that like all three of us.
Speaker 4: Are doing something together. Yeah.
Speaker 8: I think there was a time when Danyell went on
Speaker 8: tour and they were like, uh oh, you're like, what's
Speaker 8: gonna happen to Like what's coming back? She's not coming down?
Speaker 8: What has seen for us?
Speaker 4: And what are they gonna do? They need her?
Speaker 8: So I think there it's nice they think. I think
Speaker 8: they also always know where we are.
Speaker 1: At any point, and then we're gonna take care of
Speaker 1: each other and then we look for each other.
Speaker 4: So sweet, that is so so sweet.
Speaker 3: When you guys put out a new album, or when
Speaker 3: you record a new album, how deep do they get
Speaker 3: into listening to it? Like are they Yeah, it's so funny,
Speaker 3: Like they saw our show the other week and we
Speaker 3: were playing like new songs and like that that I've
Speaker 3: never heard of.
Speaker 4: We don't show.
Speaker 8: No, we should send them the album, though they they
Speaker 8: in the day that they don't need to hear it.
Speaker 4: I also just what I need. I needed. I don't
Speaker 4: want to explain some of the songs to them because yeah,
Speaker 4: it's kind of.
Speaker 3: Ye the song take Me Back, So on that song,
Speaker 3: you're reminiscing about old friends, past lovers, past experiences in life.
Speaker 3: I'm curious for each of you, what's the time in
Speaker 3: your life that you reminisce about most high school?
Speaker 4: I think it is high school.
Speaker 6: And that was something that really was happening during COVID,
Speaker 6: at least for me, I was like really like reflective
Speaker 6: about my high school experience.
Speaker 8: Well, also, I think it's because it's the first time
Speaker 8: that I think we were one becoming adults. And when
Speaker 8: Stie was a senior, Danielle was a freshman, and when
Speaker 8: senior I was a freshman, and we all went to
Speaker 8: school together at one point, and it was like the
Speaker 8: f when s he was a senior in Dnill was
Speaker 8: a freshman. That was right when you know, we were
Speaker 8: introduced to the east side, the echo, the smell, like
Speaker 8: all these uh venues and venues. And luckily my parents,
Speaker 8: I mean, it's a terrible rule. They should have never
Speaker 8: let us do this. But if we were together, we
Speaker 8: didn't have a curfew. But if we were, we had
Speaker 8: a curve.
Speaker 4: Feel well, they also knew that I would keep you
Speaker 4: in line.
Speaker 8: He was also like an incredible like sister, like older sister.
Speaker 8: Wo honestly would never let it was almost annoying, would
Speaker 8: never let us trouble.
Speaker 4: I was.
Speaker 8: I mean, again the littlest child. All I want to
Speaker 8: do is get into trouble. As he didn't let me
Speaker 8: do anything.
Speaker 4: It was right.
Speaker 6: It was like a couple like those Those years were
Speaker 6: super formative.
Speaker 8: For us, as you got got her first car for
Speaker 8: ninety five Honda Passport.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and we went to a public all arts high school,
Speaker 6: oh nice called Lochsa La County High School for the Arts,
Speaker 6: and it was just such an amazing place to learn
Speaker 6: and and.
Speaker 1: And then but then upon reflection, I think when we
Speaker 1: were writing the song, we were like wait.
Speaker 4: Did that happen? Yeah? We were like, there weren't a
Speaker 4: lot of rules.
Speaker 6: This at our high school was on a college campus
Speaker 6: and kids from all over LA.
Speaker 4: If you got in, you know, you got free art education. Yeah.
Speaker 6: So it was really incredible and met our best friends there,
Speaker 6: but also simultaneously, like a lot of crazy fit in
Speaker 6: Sue not yeah are kids without Rules?
Speaker 4: A lot of the names in that song are changed
Speaker 4: all up.
Speaker 8: I was curious, not Molly, there is that did actually happen?
Speaker 8: I was going to ask you that, Yeah, may Molly
Speaker 8: in quotations ticket ship in the back of a check
Speaker 8: that actually have Yeah, there was a an at our
Speaker 8: schools ticket ship in the back of the check.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what what what are you gonna do?
Speaker 8: But it was that day in the studio specifically, I
Speaker 8: think was so funny because it was us at Rossiam
Speaker 8: studio and our friend Tobias just so Junior was also
Speaker 8: in the studio. He comes in sometimes just like, you know,
Speaker 8: see what's going on, And since he grew up in Canada,
Speaker 8: I think we were both reminiscing, like what was going.
Speaker 4: On in Canada? And he's like, well, what was going
Speaker 4: on in La And we were.
Speaker 8: Just spewing these crazy stories and we were like, how
Speaker 8: do we fit this into a song, And I think
Speaker 8: we achieved it.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's one of.
Speaker 8: My favorite album and it really that song in particular,
Speaker 8: it was really like a healing, an inner child's moment,
Speaker 8: I think for us, and especially the end of that
Speaker 8: song is very special. Just naming all the streets that
Speaker 8: we used to drive down, smoking smoking cigarettes in SC's
Speaker 8: car and trying to make sure that our parents can't
Speaker 8: smell it were not easy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, loves a beenie and a lot of secret spread
Speaker 1: body like for sure our parents knew they were.
Speaker 4: We like all walked in smelling like bed bath and
Speaker 4: beyond or whatever. Yeah yeah yeah, or goat and bodyworks,
Speaker 4: body works, right, but yeah, send a sallad time.
Speaker 8: But it was honestly the time where I think all
Speaker 8: three of us as sisters, like finally we're in that
Speaker 8: sweet spot zone where like we went from being like
Speaker 8: children to like, oh now we're like we can hang
Speaker 8: out and like.
Speaker 4: It's like, is Alana going to be cool? Yeah? We
Speaker 4: bring you around people. Were you guys cool? Were you
Speaker 4: guys cool? Were you guys? Probably race? This got me
Speaker 4: my first bake ID.
Speaker 8: But The problem was I had braces, so like sorry,
Speaker 8: and I also now looking.
Speaker 4: Back, looked like a baby. Like io my idea.
Speaker 8: They had found this idea on the floor and it
Speaker 8: said that I was like twenty eight when I was
Speaker 8: like fourteen, Like there was I.
Speaker 5: Remember trying to like memorize the name in the app dress.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, and I see it would be like shut
Speaker 8: your mouth, don't open your mouth, you break your good
Speaker 8: in and I mean it worked. There were some very
Speaker 8: nice bouncers that let me in and we worked the
Speaker 8: second night.
Speaker 4: I turned twenty one. Like the amountains like nineteenth birthday
Speaker 4: at a bar.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and honestly, the like the only people that showed
Speaker 8: up were my siblings. I don't know what I was
Speaker 8: thinking because not fake ideas. So it was a little
Speaker 8: bit like my nineteenth birthday was at a bar.
Speaker 4: So cool it was. It was very cool, but high
Speaker 4: to reminisce about those times.
Speaker 3: Yes, okay, I have to ask you before we have
Speaker 3: to go, I have to ask you about two more.
Speaker 3: I want to ask about farm. I love farm so much.
Speaker 3: How did that come about? That was all so real?
Speaker 4: Is it real?
Speaker 5: Is it a true story?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 8: But that song specifically on the album was the song
Speaker 8: that was happening in real time. We wrote it as
Speaker 8: things were happening. Actually in real time. Danielle had moved
Speaker 8: in with me, and I think you can kind of
Speaker 8: feel how current it was while we were writing it,
Speaker 8: like it was very much like a song that was
Speaker 8: for that moment. And I think that song is a
Speaker 8: very important part of the album just in the sense of, like, yes,
Speaker 8: like our whole ethos of this album is we were
Speaker 8: all single making the album. We were all having a
Speaker 8: good time individually and also together, and it was this
Speaker 8: fun like going out meeting people. And I think the
Speaker 8: Farm is that moment of the album where you're human
Speaker 8: and reflect it and you are reflecting on things and
Speaker 8: you're alone in the house and you're realizing, you know,
Speaker 8: that moment of all these emotions rushing over you and
Speaker 8: I feel like, I'm thank you for bringing up the Farm.
Speaker 8: It was all that one was a very emotional song
Speaker 8: just in general to record.
Speaker 4: I love it so good. Where are you all at now?
Speaker 3: Do you feel like you've moved on and you're in
Speaker 3: a different place or is everyone still in the same
Speaker 3: place where you're like fuck everything, I quit? You know, like,
Speaker 3: are you that same energy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I quit as a like ing your power energy.
Speaker 8: Okay, so we are not looking at I quit as
Speaker 8: like a negative thing. I think honestly maybe this album
Speaker 8: with Super that's why I.
Speaker 4: Have a big smile on my face and yeah, I'm
Speaker 4: happy about it.
Speaker 8: No, it was like this realization that quitting is actually
Speaker 8: not a negative thing. You're betting on yourself and it
Speaker 8: is fitting that you're starting. So I quit is for
Speaker 8: all everyone that's trying to, you know, get their power
Speaker 8: and having an uninhibited summer and going out and raging.
Speaker 4: But yeah, it's that. It's really funny.
Speaker 8: The other day, I like picked up Women in Music
Speaker 8: Part three, and this is how I know that, Like
Speaker 8: I've moved into a new chapters that like I was like,
Speaker 8: oh I pitched them, and I was like, this isn't
Speaker 8: where I am anymore. I quit is like we're in
Speaker 8: this I quit era. And I mean I love all
Speaker 8: of our albums. There is not one album that's another
Speaker 8: thing that I will say that is very comforting just
Speaker 8: for me just to like put a blanket of like
Speaker 8: how controlling me and my siblings are.
Speaker 4: Like there is not one song on any of our
Speaker 4: albums that we.
Speaker 8: Didn't love and it's so nice to pick up your
Speaker 8: albums and feel like they're completely you and no one
Speaker 8: had any sort of like you should do this song
Speaker 8: or this song or you should put this album.
Speaker 4: Like we were extremely very much.
Speaker 8: Everything had to feel right, and it's it's nice cause
Speaker 8: I'm sure there are probably some moments for other people
Speaker 8: where they're like, I wish I didn't put that song
Speaker 8: on this album, Like that is not a sentiment that
Speaker 8: we have album.
Speaker 4: So it's very exciting.
Speaker 8: This new album, this new era feels exactly where I
Speaker 8: want to be, which is really nice. Like now we
Speaker 8: can kind of put our album reins to rest, and
Speaker 8: our touring brains have now woken up and dealing with
Speaker 8: you know, what is our stage gonna look like? What's
Speaker 8: yeah road? Like that's the fun fun. Him is now
Speaker 8: coming back is nice. Horning him gets a little crazy,
Speaker 8: you know, we get touring him, we're out, We're doing it.
Speaker 4: It's happening, So we're really excited. Well, thank you ladies
Speaker 4: so much. I appreciate you.
Speaker 3: Thanks for taking YEA So deep to the al munch Bye.
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