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What do you feel you can do in a song that you can’t do in a short story? I mean, obviously you put it to music, but just in the feeling of putting it down on the page.
With songs, you listen to the lyrics and you know that not all the words and not all the details and not all the exposition have been included—you kind of expect to take leaps of faith. One sentence can illustrate an entire experience or concept in a song, which I think is really cool. There’s a song called “Afterlife” on the new Arcade Fire record—I don’t know if you’ve listened to it yet, but you should, it makes me incredibly happy—and it goes, “After all the breath and the dirt and the fires that burn,” and it takes you right through that idea and extends it, then it snaps you right back: “After all this time, and after all the ambulances go.” It manages to make something huge in that first verse without really saying much at all. That was the last thing I listened to the lyrics of and I was like, Fuck, I am so glad I am in this medium. This is what you can do with it, this is the potential. It rejuvenated me.
I love that. Have you seen the video of when they did it at the YouTube Music Video something-or-other Awards?
I have! With Greta Gerwig dancing!
And the little girls!
So good! I’ve been doing a lot of alternative radio festivals and playing with Phoenix every night and with Arcade Fire for a couple of them. It was so cool, because every night I got to experience dream artists live. Arcade Fire are just on another level. If you ever get a chance to see them, you have to go. Just the energy is like…there are no inhibitions, everyone is just having an amazing time onstage and really letting loose, and for a couple of the best jams from this album they set the disco ball going—I’ve noticed that they only do that in certain moments that feel like you could just lose yourself in and do this kind of dancing [Does noodle-y dancing] and just have such a good time because the grooves are so fantastic. It’s great.
I love hearing you fangirl.
I’m such a fangirl, I know! And then Win was like, “When are you going on? I’m gonna watch your set.” And I was like, I’m gonna die right now.
Have you had moments of just like, “Whoa, my life has come full circle”?
Definitely. I don’t want to do the weird name-dropping thing, but like–
Do it.
Meeting David Bowie was like that. To have someone like that tell you that listening to you felt like listening to tomorrow.
OH MY GOD.
I was like…I could creatively die and just be happy forever. I never tell anyone about that experience, because it meant so much to me, and I feel like it would be dulled or something if I always talked about it in magazines or whatever. It’s my special thing.