Zitat des Tages von Ben Hopkins:
Creating a safe space at our shows isn't encouraging anything. It's just saying thank you.
I'm in a car so much on tour that I often just ask my friends to DJ and ask them what they like. That's the best way I discover music.
When fringe groups gather, there is power in that.
Ben Hopkins is a very nervous, neurotic kind of person who is afraid of not being liked by people all the time. But, Monster-Me doesn't know who those people even are.
When you're a queer person put in the spotlight, you're supposed to have all the answers.
It's not about the individual notes. It's about the energy.
Drag has always made me feel less scared.
What we do is provide a suggestion. We say, 'We're queer. We're going to do this; we're going to open up the space to queer thought.' People don't have to show up, but they do.
When I started playing music, I was more of a character. Now I'm just me with a cool outfit on. I'm more comfortable being myself.
Is punk dressing up in leather jackets? No. It's having a counter-cultural perspective.
I feel like with PWR BTTM, Liv and I tried to create something that was kind and cared about the people who come.
I know what we're going to do as PWR BTTM. We're going to put a new record out; we're going to go on tour a lot, and we're going to do cool stuff. We're going to try to be kind to our friends and family and loved ones. And we're going to look cute.
All shows need more twinks.
Rather than writing about my experiences with other people, 'Ugly Cherries' is the first song I've ever written about myself. It's a confrontation: an attempt to unpack my own queerness with humor and self care.
We're not writing songs to solve a cultural problem. The goal for us is to express what we're going through, and it's great if people find commonality in that.
As a white queer person of a certain degree of economic privilege, I think that my ability to pass as straight is a privilege that other folk I know don't have. It's important to keep in mind who really is in the most trouble and to direct our attention to assisting those people.
For queer people, the personal is very political, just to talk about it in a public space. It's very political just to come out and take up that space and be like, 'This is my narrative. It's not an outsider narrative, and it's not a fetish narrative; it's just my story, and it's worth being told and listened to.'
