July 3, 2026 • 28 mins
ALYXX is just coming off her first West Coast tour, including a string of headline dates. She will be preparing for her 2 festival dates to take place in July at Upheaval and Inkcarceration.
The new Unknown single is out and it is mazing. Pipeman watched the video and compared the singing of Alyxx to the likes of Courtney LaPlante of Spiritbox and Tatiana Shmayluk of Jinger. Connect with Alyxx on socials and see all the cool things coming for the rest of 2026. Subscribe to The Adventures of Pipeman for PERKS, BONUS Content & FREE GIVEWAYS!
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The new Unknown single is out and it is mazing. Pipeman watched the video and compared the singing of Alyxx to the likes of Courtney LaPlante of Spiritbox and Tatiana Shmayluk of Jinger. Connect with Alyxx on socials and see all the cool things coming for the rest of 2026. Subscribe to The Adventures of Pipeman for PERKS, BONUS Content & FREE GIVEWAYS!
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Pipeman in the Pit features all kinds of music and interviews with bands & music artists especially in the genres of Heavy Metal, Rock, Hard Rock, Classic Rock, Punk Rock, Goth, Industrial, Alternative, Thrash Metal & Indie Music. Pipeman in the Pit also features press coverage of events, concerts, & music festivals. Pipeman Productions is an artist management company that sponsors the show introducing new local & national talent showcasing new artists & indie artists.
Then there is The Pipeman Radio Tour where Pipeman travels the country and world doing press coverage for Major Business Events, Conferences, Conventions, Music Festivals, Concerts, Award Shows, and Red Carpets. One of the top publicists in music has named Pipeman the “King of All Festivals.” So join the Pipeman as he brings “The Pipeman Radio Tour” to life right before your ears and eyes.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hi, you live on too?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Ss sure, I'm w for see wow for you your.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe
Man W four c Y Radio. And I'm very excited
because I'm home from festivals and I'm leaving for another festival.
And so is this guest I have and we talked
last year and we hung out at festivals. So I'm
glad she's gonna be at INK. I'm not glad I
(00:41):
won't be at Upheaval, but let's welcome to the show. Alex.
How are you? Hi?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I'm great? How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I'm doing great? Yeah? So what a weekend you're gonna
have Upheaval and incarceration.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Yeah, it's gonna be a lot, but I'm really excited
and Alast are kind of close to each other too,
so it's only a four hour difference. It's not terrible.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Yeah, no, that's not bad at all. And so have
you ever played Upheople before?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
No, so this is a brand new stage. Remaining very
very excited.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
To go nice. Yeah, if it wasn't the same way
weekend as INK, I'd be at Upheaval too, because like
it looks like a really cool festival. I do INK
every year. And I hate when I have to make choices.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I wish they'd picked a different weekend. I don't know
if I'm a conversation prior to that, but it's okay.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah, you know, it is pretty funny that, like nowadays,
it seems there's a lot of conflicts with festivals. I'm
thinking it might be smarter to like separate them so
everybody goes to both.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yeah, and then I feel like it's like a low
key competition. It's like which one are you going to
go to? But I know a lot of the bands
from Upheaval are going to Ink too, so it's kind
of like it makes sense for the band, I guess.
But also I mean there are a lot of people
that now have to choose which one they want to
go to.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Well, that is that is a good point, because that
is normally what happens. It's better for the bands because
they can do both in one weekend and there's no
waste of time and they can appeal to two big crowds.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah, and it's safe time too, because, like you know,
up People is about eleven and a half hours from me,
so and then just on the way home, I actually
am passing incarcerations, so that it works out very well.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
See there you go nice. So what are you most
excited about for both of those festivals up? People?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
You know, I've played in Grand Rapids I think two
years ago now, so I haven't been there in a
long time, so being back there is going to be
really cool. Also, you know, seeing Gojia and like Ginger
live is going to be insane, So really excited for that.
And the Campground is just like a cool I played
it a couple of years ago, and it's like everyone's
(03:03):
coming back from like the main festival, so everyone's like
so hyped up and like they don't want the party
to stop, so everyone's just like super energized and just
like wants to keep going. So that energy is really
cool too.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
That's what I like about it too, especially since I
don't have to work usually at that point in time,
so I can just enjoy it. So and then you
had this new single, the New Unknown, which is pretty
cool and I I love speaking of Ginger, I put
you there in a in a realm with Ginger and
(03:37):
Courtney with that going from the very great melodic voice
to the insane badass gral screen voice.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Thank you that is a huge compliment.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Okay, well it does take a lot, right, you know,
like I think people don't realize a how much technique
you have to have to do the grals and screams.
I realized because I sang thrash metal before anybody knew
there was a technique for doing that crap, and I
(04:11):
blew out my voice because I didn't know what I
was doing. And then that ability to just switch gears
from like amazing melodic voice to insane badass voice, Like,
to me, that's impressive that somebody can switch gears like that.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Thank you. Yeah, it's definitely something I've had to work
on because you know, when you're in the studio, it's like, okay,
like I'm screaming, I'm in this mode. But you know,
when you're singing the whole song cohesively, it's like, okay,
well you have to be in this mindset to sing
and then just switch it. And for me, I've been
singing since I was like six years old, so it
is second nature, so I don't have to think about it.
(04:51):
Yeah I have to think about turning it off mode.
So you know, it's just a learning curve and just practicing.
But they're two completely different worlds.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
So yeah, one hundred. So since you've been singing since
such a young age, and you know, obviously singing beautifully
playing piano, what do your parents think of the growl
and the screaming.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
My dad thinks it's awesome.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I mean, my dad actually is the one who introduced
me to Ginger actually years and years ago. He was like, yo,
check this out. And I forgot what song it was,
but it was some live version in the studio and
she was singing beautifully and all suden she started screaming
and I looked at him and he was like yeah,
and I was like, this is awesome. So, uh yeah,
he thinks it's really cool. My mom, she loves me.
(05:44):
Screaming is not her thing, but Jemmy, I could do
anything and she'll still love me and support me.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
And see that's what's important. I think that's what's good
about today's world with music, because you know, before and
especially this kind of music, like before it used to be,
your parents would be like, get a real job. They'd
be a total downer on you. I remember, you know,
(06:12):
when I was playing guitar and I was like experimenting,
my dad would yell from the other room, you should
give that up. You suck, And I probably did. I
probably did suck. But still, you know, but I find
so many parents nowadays are so supportive and even helpful
(06:34):
with it. Like we even had here at the radio station,
like these teen shows several years back, and they were
all artists, but they were teen artists and their parents
were like so supportive. Now, of course some of them
were like mamagers too, but but that's still better than
(06:56):
you know, get get a real job and stop dreaming,
because I don't think you should ever stop dreaming.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
No, And I think social media has a lot to
do with that. You know. It's people like take off
on social media and become so famous and they get
all this money and stuff. So it's it is a
very and it's not easy, obviously, but it's seems a
lot more weirdly practical to do something like that. And
I think, you know, if a parent sees that their
kid is talented, then they're like, oh, this is my
(07:23):
ticket in. All we got to do is just post content,
just keep going. So I feel like there's a lot
more incentive for parents to be but to be completely honest.
But yeah, I am forever grateful. I spent my whole
life performing and doing it. Did theater first before like
stuck on my own project. And I mean my parents
came to every show, drove me to every rehearsal, every
(07:44):
show that I ever did, so they just knew that
I physically cannot. I mean, I'm a makeup artist too,
so I do that. But like in terms of being
on stage, like that is it's just where I'm like
meant to be. As cheesy as that sounds, like, I
can't go through my life.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Not performing, and I don't even think that's cheesy. What
I do want to clarify with the audience is even
with that feeling too, like people think, oh, you have
to be this like extreme extrovert to do that, And
most of the artists I know are introverts, and when
they get up on stage, they're just in zone. You know,
(08:21):
it's not like you're not even really present. Sometimes it's
like an out of body experience.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
That is the best way to describe it, because it is.
I mean, even like when I was on stage for Ink,
you know, I got up on stage, this is crazy crowd,
and I was just like having the time of my life.
And I got off stage and I was like, wait,
what happened? Like I just believed.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
It it was over, and then I'll know about you.
But I know a lot of artists too, and even
myself as a radio person and as a professional speaker,
that every time before I get out on stage, even
Bell after all these years, like I'm super nervous until
that mic goes on and then like I'm in a
(08:59):
different there's a switch in my head that just changes.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I don't get nervous.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
See that's great.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
It's funny. I was talking to someone about this, like
talking about being nervous. It's like, you know, this is
my own music, like I wrote this, Like I am
very comfortable with it. I could understand like people getting nervous,
like being in front of people, But I've done theater
my whole life, and like getting on stage in front
of hundreds of people where they know the show, they
have a preconceived notion of what this certain part is
(09:28):
supposed to sound like, and you know there's just more
eyes on you and that there's a lot more pressure
in that sense. And I learned from a very young
age how to like get rid of that. But when
I hear like my intro before I go on stage,
I like get so like excited and I just like
jump up it down, like this is so cool, Like
this is you know, seeing something that I didn't think
(09:48):
was even possible to do, and I love it that
I've somehow managed to get here. I just I get
amped up right before I go on.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Well, I'm going to fill in the blanket of somehow.
It's your your attitude and your love for it and
being a true artist. I think that's how you got here,
because I think the people that set out to be
rich and famous rock stars, they're the ones that fizzle
out and don't really make it there because they don't
have a dedication to the music. They have a dedication
(10:20):
to where they want to be in the music. And
I think that's a big difference.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Yeah, No, I definitely agree on that. I mean, there's
people that just want to be famous, and there's people
that don't want to be artists and you know, be
I guess inspiring and you know, have a little bit
more depth than just I look cool on a rock star,
you know, right, And that attitude does not fly.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
I'm just like, no, it sure doesn't, and I have
to I will also point out that you brought up
about the theater, and I totally agree with that. That's
why I wanted to focus on because like I went
to New York Academy of Dramatic Arts, and like there
is a and I also lived in LA there's a
very different i don't know, call it professionalism to doing
(11:09):
live theater and even like acting in Hollywood, you know,
And like, my hat's off to anybody at those theater
because I think of all the performing hearts, I think
that's the one where you're held up to the highest
standard and you better be good.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Oh yeah, I mean I started performing professionally in New
York when I was eleven, and like I I mean
it was you know, I was a child, but still
you know, you have to come in with your lines memorized.
You have to make sure everything is perfect every show.
You get notes after the show, and if it's not right,
they have a conversation with you. And I always used
to get in trouble because I didn't project enough, like right,
(11:49):
Like I was like, just make the miclouder. But and
even if like you didn't have like good energy on stage,
you'd be like, how is there? How are you like
you know what not. But there are definitely like kids
that are gotten fired because they didn't have enough energy
on stage or like you know, they forgot a couple
of lines here and there. So it was like a
stressful but fun environment. Like I never realized, you know,
(12:11):
the professionalism at a young age, but now I'm like
I just felt like that was a normal thing. So
like when I would come into rehearsals later on in life,
even like I did my community college shows, I came in,
I was like, I have my memorized, my lines summrized,
everything is like done and ready, And some people were
just kind of more just chilling. They're like eh, and
I'm like, what's going on? Like no one, you got
(12:32):
to have everything preferred like perfect by the time you
get there. So there's just a very different mindset I have.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Well, and see that's why you're going places, because it's
just it's in you. It's not even something you try
to do.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Yeah, such a nature at this point exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
And you're a fan too, Like that's an rd thing.
Like I found out hanging out with you is like
you're a fan and and I think that's so important,
Like the best artists out there are fan first, artist second.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
No, I love it. Yeah. I remember we were just
on a round and we were seeing I think I was
falling at a verse, just like the last headline for
My Day, and we're just like vibing out and that
was so cool.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
No doubt. So I really hope, because I have had
the experience, I hope you get side stage for Ginger
because I'm hopefully do that. Oh my god. Like what
was cool when I was side stage for Ginger is
not only just seeing her in action up close, but
seeing the crowd and the you know, just how how
(13:39):
it looked from that perspective. For a Ginger.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Show, I'm definitely gonna have to run because it's from
four to four thirty and they go on at four
forty five.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
You know it's fine, I have enough time. But I
was thinking now and I was like, I need to
see a layout of the map to be like okay,
so I can get my shit back where it needs
to go and then I can just run to where
I need to be. So regardless, you.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Should have somebody that's with you, like film that that
would be a great like Instagram or TikTok you running
from your set to Ginger's set.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Thanks so much fun run.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
See it would be so fun. So what else do
you have going on after that?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
So in the process of working on a couple of
shows for the fall, writing new music and yeah, just
keep going. You know, it's kind of you know, music shows,
tour music shows to our kind of the whole cycle.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
But and what would you say is your favorite part
of doing the music?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
I mean, being on stage like that is definitely my
favorite part. Writing is fun, Recording is fun. I like producing,
so I do produce music as well. So sitting there
and like watching my vision kind of come to life.
And you know, I'm very fortunate that I have the
most talented musicians that I work with and they just
really like bring everything to the next level. So it's
(15:10):
just a really fun process to see that. But of
course it's tedious, Like I track my own vocals and
I will edit and comt my own vocals, and hearing
myself for like six seven hours, I want to, you know,
bash my head against the wall because I a point
where I'm like, I breathed weird or I breathed weird
in this section. I have to redo it and it's like,
oh my god, no one cares. Plus I'm going to
(15:32):
cut that part out anyways.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
But I know exactly what you're I know exactly what
you're saying, because that's why I don't edit my own interviews. Okay,
because I have and I'm very good at it. But
you know, being that same type of person, it'll take
me like three days to addit a fifteen manion interview
(15:54):
because I'll be like every little thing, and like you said,
nobody really cares. So it's like, okay, I'll let somebody
else do it because it'll drive me nuts. Like I'll
pick out every and we're our own worst critic anyway,
you know, so like you're picking out things that people
would never even notice.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Oh yeah, No, I get to a point where after
like I don't know our eight I just go fuck it,
I don't care anymore. Leave it. It's fine. Like I start
to get to a point where I just like accept
it and tap out. But right, yeah, even like like
listenings like mixes and things like that, I definitely have
to step away for like a week at least just
(16:35):
to like clear my head. Come back in with fresh ears,
you know.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
There you go. Yeah, and I do want to say
too that I because it's something I'm all about too.
But I love how you're so consistent with the brand
of your look, even your background for this interview, like
you just it just all goes together. And you know,
I add blue hair for years and everything had to
(17:02):
match like that, say there you go. I love it.
I love it, like and I was the same way.
I would have a blue one of these, and my
sunglasses always had to be blue. When I changed my
hair to red, I changed my sunglasses.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Like.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
I was always like that. It was like everything had
to perfectly match. And I'm still like that, but my
hair is not blue anymore or red yet.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
I was like, you should do it again.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
You know what I was thinking of doing though, Actually
I was. I've been thinking about for a long time.
Remember when Billie Eilish had the black with the green
up here.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Yeah, it was like the green roots and then the black.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Yeah. Yeah. I was like, that's pretty badass. I think
I've been saying it for years. I think I'm going
to do that, and I haven't. Yeah, maybe that's a
good idea. I think, you know what, I just might
do that nice. I love it because that's it's actually
(18:06):
that is sometimes how I get my ideas because I
used to, like you used to have the mohawk faux
hawk with you know, blue on top. And then one
day I was at one of the festivals and then
in watching five Finger Death Punch, I'm like, you know,
maybe I should put the blue down below, you know,
(18:30):
because he had the red down below and the dark.
I'm like, that looks pretty cool that and that ended
up becoming my trademark. Actually it's on my logo and everything,
the blue below and the dark up top. Oh cool, yeah, right.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
My hair was an accident. I was just bored one
day and then I kind of liked it, and then
I stuck with it, and then everyone's like, that's really cool,
like for your brand, and I was like.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
What it is totally you Like, I couldn't you know,
it's funny because I couldn't imagine you not like that.
And that's kind of why I've been experiencing lately. Like
I go to festivals and all the bands are like,
why happy your blue hair? You know, and like people
get used to it after a while, and it's all
I have to command you. I don't think people know
(19:15):
unless you live that life. There's a lot of fricking work,
you know, I mean, I know, and I and like
you got bringing. I always brought a pillowcase with me
and a towel with me, so I unscrewed anybody else's
crap up. And and then you have the half head.
I'm always impressed with that. I don't know if you
(19:35):
do it yourself, because if you do that, see, that's
even more badass because like so, my daughters used to
have me do their hair because I was very good
at it, because I am that perfectionist. So my daughter
was a half head and she's had me do it
because I could do it well. I wouldn't be able
to do it on myself. But and that's what I'm saying.
(19:56):
I'm like, I mean, because I am like very sim metrical.
So the fact that your half head is like perfect
blows my mind because I'm like, I wouldn't be able
to do that.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
So I have my friend she bleaches my roots for me,
and then she'll part my hair every now and then
I have to part it myself. And I dread that
with like a burning passion because it's really obviously I
can't see the back of my head exactly part it
and she always tells me this is the worst part
of her week. She'd be like, it's moving and then yeah,
(20:31):
I mean I mix a bunch of colors to get
the right shades that I want. Like this, I use
a yellow and an orange, yellow and blue and that's
the trick, by the way, if you want green to
never fade to yellow. I haven't died this in like
five weeks. So this is just really yeah, really that
is just accepted. It's this is its color. Now.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
That's wild because it does matter which color you use.
I found that out like early on, because I use
like pretty much every brand out there, and like I
used to use the Provano and it was really really
good till it wasn't They changed the formula.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Is that you know, because yeah, okay, yeah, they.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Changed the formula and so it started fading out really quick.
That's why I stopped using it, because like, it really
sucks when it only lasts like a couple of weeks.
So the fact that years lasts and still looks that
bright at five weeks, that's incredible because most of them
are not like that, you know, and I know that,
(21:28):
and you know that, but I don't think the rest
of the world knows that.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
You know, it's trial and erre trying to find the
right combination in the right die. So I use Arctic Fox.
I've been using that for five years.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
That's what I switched to after after Privana changed their thing.
I used Arctic Fox and that did last me. And
it used to fade great, like the blue. After like
a month, people were like, did you get your hair
done again? And so then I knew it was great
because it's like it didn't look like faded crap like
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some of them would fade to green. But it wasn't
a nice green at all. Blue.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
I think I was pravana actually, and it faded to
like a weird ass greenish blue like a sea moss color. Yeah,
is a vibe, but that's not what I wanted.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
I had one. I forget what it was that it
was blue and literally and I don't even touch water
to it for like four or five days. Literally in
two days, it was lavender. What from blue? Like I know,
I don't, I don't know. It's wild, but you know,
it's also funny talking about the matching thing. Uh So
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when I first got my hair blue, I also had
to get a new car. So two days later I
was shopping for a new car and I went to
the Lexus Steeler and I saw this car that was
the same color blue as my hair, and I bought
it just because of that. Really, yeah, I gotta get that.
So now, oh, I have a line green Jeep, and
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so that's why the you know what I'm talking about
would match the Jeep. I haven't matched my vehicle in
a while.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
That'd be cool if I had. Because I have a Bronco.
That'd be cool if I had like the green with
like maybe like the stripes on it. You know they
have like the vintage ones for the new Broncos. There's
different likes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, limited series where they have
like a racy striper on the side. That'd be cool.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Well, you should do like which I like. Yeah, so
I was going to say, you really should get it
painted and make it half and half like your hair.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I should do that. Actually, wait, I really lie. It's
not ten. It's like a sand gray that makes any sense.
So it like looks like very militaristic vehicle, which I love.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Yeah, So there you go. Well that's cool. Is there
anything we want to talk about that we haven't touched
on yet that the listeners need to know besides tell
them how to reach out to you, get your merch,
get your songs, find out all your tour dates and
all that.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Yeah, so everything is going to be at official Alexa
l I xx dot com. I do have a Patreon
where I've been just posting a lot of like cool,
fun behind the scenes stuff for my tour. I have
like little teasers for new music and you guys will
find out everything first for shows and that kind of stuff.
I just started a subscription on Instagram actually, where it's
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like a less professional version of like the Patreon, because
that like I'll put together like you know, videos and
funny like compilations and things. That's gonna be more so
like just like some fun everyday things like me dyeing
my hair, things that don't really have to do with music,
so to speak, some me more personally. So that's a
new thing that I just did.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Nice And do you have a TikTok that is your
most embarrassing TikTok?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Anything from like twenty twenty to twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
And what made it embarrassing during that period?
Speaker 2 (25:06):
I was like trying to be a TikToker, and I
get notified on TikTok that it's like on this day,
like two years ago, and I was just like trying
to like keep up with the trends and do this stuff,
and it was just so cringey, and I don't have
the heart to go through and delete all of them,
just because if you delete something on TikTok, you'd have
to scroll all the way back down again, and that
is so time consuming.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Oh my god, you're speaking my language, because I'm dealing
with that with Instagram now.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Instagram got weird for some reason. If I like try
to scroll on my page, it's like it scrolls for
a second, then go back to the top.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
So that's what happens to me, Like I'm going through
my whole thing deleting old posts that I really don't
want on there representing me anymore. And is so frustrating
because like I've had Instagram since it first came out,
So it's like I'm scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, and then I
do one and then it's back to top again. It's
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like it takes ten fifteen minutes just to get back
to where I was that.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
I've been doing, which is weird. I have an artist
page for my makeup because I make up artist and
I like freelance and whatnot. So I will go on
that account, go to my band page. Like the photos
or videos I want to delete, so I go on
the other one. I just click it and it's right there,
delete it, and then go back to notifications because I
was doing that way you were doing it, and I
was losing my mind.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Oh that's brilliant, or yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Somebody else's phone just to like all of the ones
that you want to get rid of. So there's no
scrolling because I.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
I'm telling you like, I was doing it for like
hours and then I'm like, okay, I'm done.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Yeah, it took me about like a half hour. I'd
be like fuck this, as I.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Exactly. Well, it's been pleasure talking to you again. And
I'm so pumped you'll be at incarceration. I'm totally that
I won't be at upheaval for you there, but it
is going to be a blast, and I do want
last thing I want to say too, the fact that
you're a makeup artist. I can tell you like, you're
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badass at that too. Now, my mother was one of
those people that was very, very into glamour and makeup
and stuff, and she put that as more important than anything.
And she was also the most critical. If she looked
at another woman and she was like, uh, what are
they doing, she would look at you and she'd be like,
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she wouldn't even say anything. You'd have to change anything.
She'd be like, you should be my daughter. Oh.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
So you keep rocking your badass artists self because you
are an artist in every sense of the word. And
hopefully we'll get to hang out at ink.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Oh definitely, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
This is so much fun, my pleasure. Thank you for
listening to the adventures of Patmin onwfur CUI Radio
Hi, you live on too?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
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Speaker 1 (00:19):
This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe
Man W four c Y Radio. And I'm very excited
because I'm home from festivals and I'm leaving for another festival.
And so is this guest I have and we talked
last year and we hung out at festivals. So I'm
glad she's gonna be at INK. I'm not glad I
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won't be at Upheaval, but let's welcome to the show. Alex.
How are you? Hi?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I'm great? How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I'm doing great? Yeah? So what a weekend you're gonna
have Upheaval and incarceration.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Yeah, it's gonna be a lot, but I'm really excited
and Alast are kind of close to each other too,
so it's only a four hour difference. It's not terrible.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Yeah, no, that's not bad at all. And so have
you ever played Upheople before?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
No, so this is a brand new stage. Remaining very
very excited.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
To go nice. Yeah, if it wasn't the same way
weekend as INK, I'd be at Upheaval too, because like
it looks like a really cool festival. I do INK
every year. And I hate when I have to make choices.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I wish they'd picked a different weekend. I don't know
if I'm a conversation prior to that, but it's okay.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah, you know, it is pretty funny that, like nowadays,
it seems there's a lot of conflicts with festivals. I'm
thinking it might be smarter to like separate them so
everybody goes to both.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yeah, and then I feel like it's like a low
key competition. It's like which one are you going to
go to? But I know a lot of the bands
from Upheaval are going to Ink too, so it's kind
of like it makes sense for the band, I guess.
But also I mean there are a lot of people
that now have to choose which one they want to
go to.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Well, that is that is a good point, because that
is normally what happens. It's better for the bands because
they can do both in one weekend and there's no
waste of time and they can appeal to two big crowds.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah, and it's safe time too, because, like you know,
up People is about eleven and a half hours from me,
so and then just on the way home, I actually
am passing incarcerations, so that it works out very well.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
See there you go nice. So what are you most
excited about for both of those festivals up? People?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
You know, I've played in Grand Rapids I think two
years ago now, so I haven't been there in a
long time, so being back there is going to be
really cool. Also, you know, seeing Gojia and like Ginger
live is going to be insane, So really excited for that.
And the Campground is just like a cool I played
it a couple of years ago, and it's like everyone's
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coming back from like the main festival, so everyone's like
so hyped up and like they don't want the party
to stop, so everyone's just like super energized and just
like wants to keep going. So that energy is really
cool too.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
That's what I like about it too, especially since I
don't have to work usually at that point in time,
so I can just enjoy it. So and then you
had this new single, the New Unknown, which is pretty
cool and I I love speaking of Ginger, I put
you there in a in a realm with Ginger and
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Courtney with that going from the very great melodic voice
to the insane badass gral screen voice.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Thank you that is a huge compliment.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Okay, well it does take a lot, right, you know,
like I think people don't realize a how much technique
you have to have to do the grals and screams.
I realized because I sang thrash metal before anybody knew
there was a technique for doing that crap, and I
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blew out my voice because I didn't know what I
was doing. And then that ability to just switch gears
from like amazing melodic voice to insane badass voice, Like,
to me, that's impressive that somebody can switch gears like that.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Thank you. Yeah, it's definitely something I've had to work
on because you know, when you're in the studio, it's like, okay,
like I'm screaming, I'm in this mode. But you know,
when you're singing the whole song cohesively, it's like, okay,
well you have to be in this mindset to sing
and then just switch it. And for me, I've been
singing since I was like six years old, so it
is second nature, so I don't have to think about it.
(04:51):
Yeah I have to think about turning it off mode.
So you know, it's just a learning curve and just practicing.
But they're two completely different worlds.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
So yeah, one hundred. So since you've been singing since
such a young age, and you know, obviously singing beautifully
playing piano, what do your parents think of the growl
and the screaming.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
My dad thinks it's awesome.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I mean, my dad actually is the one who introduced
me to Ginger actually years and years ago. He was like, yo,
check this out. And I forgot what song it was,
but it was some live version in the studio and
she was singing beautifully and all suden she started screaming
and I looked at him and he was like yeah,
and I was like, this is awesome. So, uh yeah,
he thinks it's really cool. My mom, she loves me.
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Screaming is not her thing, but Jemmy, I could do
anything and she'll still love me and support me.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
And see that's what's important. I think that's what's good
about today's world with music, because you know, before and
especially this kind of music, like before it used to be,
your parents would be like, get a real job. They'd
be a total downer on you. I remember, you know,
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when I was playing guitar and I was like experimenting,
my dad would yell from the other room, you should
give that up. You suck, And I probably did. I
probably did suck. But still, you know, but I find
so many parents nowadays are so supportive and even helpful
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with it. Like we even had here at the radio station,
like these teen shows several years back, and they were
all artists, but they were teen artists and their parents
were like so supportive. Now, of course some of them
were like mamagers too, but but that's still better than
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you know, get get a real job and stop dreaming,
because I don't think you should ever stop dreaming.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
No, And I think social media has a lot to
do with that. You know. It's people like take off
on social media and become so famous and they get
all this money and stuff. So it's it is a
very and it's not easy, obviously, but it's seems a
lot more weirdly practical to do something like that. And
I think, you know, if a parent sees that their
kid is talented, then they're like, oh, this is my
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ticket in. All we got to do is just post content,
just keep going. So I feel like there's a lot
more incentive for parents to be but to be completely honest.
But yeah, I am forever grateful. I spent my whole
life performing and doing it. Did theater first before like
stuck on my own project. And I mean my parents
came to every show, drove me to every rehearsal, every
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show that I ever did, so they just knew that
I physically cannot. I mean, I'm a makeup artist too,
so I do that. But like in terms of being
on stage, like that is it's just where I'm like
meant to be. As cheesy as that sounds, like, I
can't go through my life.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Not performing, and I don't even think that's cheesy. What
I do want to clarify with the audience is even
with that feeling too, like people think, oh, you have
to be this like extreme extrovert to do that, And
most of the artists I know are introverts, and when
they get up on stage, they're just in zone. You know,
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it's not like you're not even really present. Sometimes it's
like an out of body experience.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
That is the best way to describe it, because it is.
I mean, even like when I was on stage for Ink,
you know, I got up on stage, this is crazy crowd,
and I was just like having the time of my life.
And I got off stage and I was like, wait,
what happened? Like I just believed.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
It it was over, and then I'll know about you.
But I know a lot of artists too, and even
myself as a radio person and as a professional speaker,
that every time before I get out on stage, even
Bell after all these years, like I'm super nervous until
that mic goes on and then like I'm in a
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different there's a switch in my head that just changes.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I don't get nervous.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
See that's great.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
It's funny. I was talking to someone about this, like
talking about being nervous. It's like, you know, this is
my own music, like I wrote this, Like I am
very comfortable with it. I could understand like people getting nervous,
like being in front of people, But I've done theater
my whole life, and like getting on stage in front
of hundreds of people where they know the show, they
have a preconceived notion of what this certain part is
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supposed to sound like, and you know there's just more
eyes on you and that there's a lot more pressure
in that sense. And I learned from a very young
age how to like get rid of that. But when
I hear like my intro before I go on stage,
I like get so like excited and I just like
jump up it down, like this is so cool, Like
this is you know, seeing something that I didn't think
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was even possible to do, and I love it that
I've somehow managed to get here. I just I get
amped up right before I go on.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Well, I'm going to fill in the blanket of somehow.
It's your your attitude and your love for it and
being a true artist. I think that's how you got here,
because I think the people that set out to be
rich and famous rock stars, they're the ones that fizzle
out and don't really make it there because they don't
have a dedication to the music. They have a dedication
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to where they want to be in the music. And
I think that's a big difference.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Yeah, No, I definitely agree on that. I mean, there's
people that just want to be famous, and there's people
that don't want to be artists and you know, be
I guess inspiring and you know, have a little bit
more depth than just I look cool on a rock star,
you know, right, And that attitude does not fly.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
I'm just like, no, it sure doesn't, and I have
to I will also point out that you brought up
about the theater, and I totally agree with that. That's
why I wanted to focus on because like I went
to New York Academy of Dramatic Arts, and like there
is a and I also lived in LA there's a
very different i don't know, call it professionalism to doing
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live theater and even like acting in Hollywood, you know,
And like, my hat's off to anybody at those theater
because I think of all the performing hearts, I think
that's the one where you're held up to the highest
standard and you better be good.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Oh yeah, I mean I started performing professionally in New
York when I was eleven, and like I I mean
it was you know, I was a child, but still
you know, you have to come in with your lines memorized.
You have to make sure everything is perfect every show.
You get notes after the show, and if it's not right,
they have a conversation with you. And I always used
to get in trouble because I didn't project enough, like right,
(11:49):
Like I was like, just make the miclouder. But and
even if like you didn't have like good energy on stage,
you'd be like, how is there? How are you like
you know what not. But there are definitely like kids
that are gotten fired because they didn't have enough energy
on stage or like you know, they forgot a couple
of lines here and there. So it was like a
stressful but fun environment. Like I never realized, you know,
(12:11):
the professionalism at a young age, but now I'm like
I just felt like that was a normal thing. So
like when I would come into rehearsals later on in life,
even like I did my community college shows, I came in,
I was like, I have my memorized, my lines summrized,
everything is like done and ready, And some people were
just kind of more just chilling. They're like eh, and
I'm like, what's going on? Like no one, you got
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to have everything preferred like perfect by the time you
get there. So there's just a very different mindset I have.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Well, and see that's why you're going places, because it's
just it's in you. It's not even something you try
to do.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Yeah, such a nature at this point exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
And you're a fan too, Like that's an rd thing.
Like I found out hanging out with you is like
you're a fan and and I think that's so important,
Like the best artists out there are fan first, artist second.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
No, I love it. Yeah. I remember we were just
on a round and we were seeing I think I was
falling at a verse, just like the last headline for
My Day, and we're just like vibing out and that
was so cool.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
No doubt. So I really hope, because I have had
the experience, I hope you get side stage for Ginger
because I'm hopefully do that. Oh my god. Like what
was cool when I was side stage for Ginger is
not only just seeing her in action up close, but
seeing the crowd and the you know, just how how
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it looked from that perspective. For a Ginger.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Show, I'm definitely gonna have to run because it's from
four to four thirty and they go on at four
forty five.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
You know it's fine, I have enough time. But I
was thinking now and I was like, I need to
see a layout of the map to be like okay,
so I can get my shit back where it needs
to go and then I can just run to where
I need to be. So regardless, you.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Should have somebody that's with you, like film that that
would be a great like Instagram or TikTok you running
from your set to Ginger's set.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Thanks so much fun run.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
See it would be so fun. So what else do
you have going on after that?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
So in the process of working on a couple of
shows for the fall, writing new music and yeah, just
keep going. You know, it's kind of you know, music shows,
tour music shows to our kind of the whole cycle.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
But and what would you say is your favorite part
of doing the music?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
I mean, being on stage like that is definitely my
favorite part. Writing is fun, Recording is fun. I like producing,
so I do produce music as well. So sitting there
and like watching my vision kind of come to life.
And you know, I'm very fortunate that I have the
most talented musicians that I work with and they just
really like bring everything to the next level. So it's
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just a really fun process to see that. But of
course it's tedious, Like I track my own vocals and
I will edit and comt my own vocals, and hearing
myself for like six seven hours, I want to, you know,
bash my head against the wall because I a point
where I'm like, I breathed weird or I breathed weird
in this section. I have to redo it and it's like,
oh my god, no one cares. Plus I'm going to
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cut that part out anyways.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
But I know exactly what you're I know exactly what
you're saying, because that's why I don't edit my own interviews. Okay,
because I have and I'm very good at it. But
you know, being that same type of person, it'll take
me like three days to addit a fifteen manion interview
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because I'll be like every little thing, and like you said,
nobody really cares. So it's like, okay, I'll let somebody
else do it because it'll drive me nuts. Like I'll
pick out every and we're our own worst critic anyway,
you know, so like you're picking out things that people
would never even notice.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Oh yeah, No, I get to a point where after
like I don't know our eight I just go fuck it,
I don't care anymore. Leave it. It's fine. Like I start
to get to a point where I just like accept
it and tap out. But right, yeah, even like like
listenings like mixes and things like that, I definitely have
to step away for like a week at least just
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to like clear my head. Come back in with fresh ears,
you know.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
There you go. Yeah, and I do want to say
too that I because it's something I'm all about too.
But I love how you're so consistent with the brand
of your look, even your background for this interview, like
you just it just all goes together. And you know,
I add blue hair for years and everything had to
(17:02):
match like that, say there you go. I love it.
I love it, like and I was the same way.
I would have a blue one of these, and my
sunglasses always had to be blue. When I changed my
hair to red, I changed my sunglasses.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Like.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
I was always like that. It was like everything had
to perfectly match. And I'm still like that, but my
hair is not blue anymore or red yet.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
I was like, you should do it again.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
You know what I was thinking of doing though, Actually
I was. I've been thinking about for a long time.
Remember when Billie Eilish had the black with the green
up here.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Yeah, it was like the green roots and then the black.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Yeah. Yeah. I was like, that's pretty badass. I think
I've been saying it for years. I think I'm going
to do that, and I haven't. Yeah, maybe that's a
good idea. I think, you know what, I just might
do that nice. I love it because that's it's actually
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that is sometimes how I get my ideas because I
used to, like you used to have the mohawk faux
hawk with you know, blue on top. And then one
day I was at one of the festivals and then
in watching five Finger Death Punch, I'm like, you know,
maybe I should put the blue down below, you know,
(18:30):
because he had the red down below and the dark.
I'm like, that looks pretty cool that and that ended
up becoming my trademark. Actually it's on my logo and everything,
the blue below and the dark up top. Oh cool, yeah, right.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
My hair was an accident. I was just bored one
day and then I kind of liked it, and then
I stuck with it, and then everyone's like, that's really cool,
like for your brand, and I was like.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
What it is totally you Like, I couldn't you know,
it's funny because I couldn't imagine you not like that.
And that's kind of why I've been experiencing lately. Like
I go to festivals and all the bands are like,
why happy your blue hair? You know, and like people
get used to it after a while, and it's all
I have to command you. I don't think people know
(19:15):
unless you live that life. There's a lot of fricking work,
you know, I mean, I know, and I and like
you got bringing. I always brought a pillowcase with me
and a towel with me, so I unscrewed anybody else's
crap up. And and then you have the half head.
I'm always impressed with that. I don't know if you
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do it yourself, because if you do that, see, that's
even more badass because like so, my daughters used to
have me do their hair because I was very good
at it, because I am that perfectionist. So my daughter
was a half head and she's had me do it
because I could do it well. I wouldn't be able
to do it on myself. But and that's what I'm saying.
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I'm like, I mean, because I am like very sim metrical.
So the fact that your half head is like perfect
blows my mind because I'm like, I wouldn't be able
to do that.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
So I have my friend she bleaches my roots for me,
and then she'll part my hair every now and then
I have to part it myself. And I dread that
with like a burning passion because it's really obviously I
can't see the back of my head exactly part it
and she always tells me this is the worst part
of her week. She'd be like, it's moving and then yeah,
(20:31):
I mean I mix a bunch of colors to get
the right shades that I want. Like this, I use
a yellow and an orange, yellow and blue and that's
the trick, by the way, if you want green to
never fade to yellow. I haven't died this in like
five weeks. So this is just really yeah, really that
is just accepted. It's this is its color. Now.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
That's wild because it does matter which color you use.
I found that out like early on, because I use
like pretty much every brand out there, and like I
used to use the Provano and it was really really
good till it wasn't They changed the formula.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Is that you know, because yeah, okay, yeah, they.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Changed the formula and so it started fading out really quick.
That's why I stopped using it, because like, it really
sucks when it only lasts like a couple of weeks.
So the fact that years lasts and still looks that
bright at five weeks, that's incredible because most of them
are not like that, you know, and I know that,
(21:28):
and you know that, but I don't think the rest
of the world knows that.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
You know, it's trial and erre trying to find the
right combination in the right die. So I use Arctic Fox.
I've been using that for five years.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
That's what I switched to after after Privana changed their thing.
I used Arctic Fox and that did last me. And
it used to fade great, like the blue. After like
a month, people were like, did you get your hair
done again? And so then I knew it was great
because it's like it didn't look like faded crap like
(22:00):
some of them would fade to green. But it wasn't
a nice green at all. Blue.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
I think I was pravana actually, and it faded to
like a weird ass greenish blue like a sea moss color. Yeah,
is a vibe, but that's not what I wanted.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
I had one. I forget what it was that it
was blue and literally and I don't even touch water
to it for like four or five days. Literally in
two days, it was lavender. What from blue? Like I know,
I don't, I don't know. It's wild, but you know,
it's also funny talking about the matching thing. Uh So
(22:42):
when I first got my hair blue, I also had
to get a new car. So two days later I
was shopping for a new car and I went to
the Lexus Steeler and I saw this car that was
the same color blue as my hair, and I bought
it just because of that. Really, yeah, I gotta get that.
So now, oh, I have a line green Jeep, and
(23:03):
so that's why the you know what I'm talking about
would match the Jeep. I haven't matched my vehicle in
a while.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
That'd be cool if I had. Because I have a Bronco.
That'd be cool if I had like the green with
like maybe like the stripes on it. You know they
have like the vintage ones for the new Broncos. There's
different likes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, limited series where they have
like a racy striper on the side. That'd be cool.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Well, you should do like which I like. Yeah, so
I was going to say, you really should get it
painted and make it half and half like your hair.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I should do that. Actually, wait, I really lie. It's
not ten. It's like a sand gray that makes any sense.
So it like looks like very militaristic vehicle, which I love.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Yeah, So there you go. Well that's cool. Is there
anything we want to talk about that we haven't touched
on yet that the listeners need to know besides tell
them how to reach out to you, get your merch,
get your songs, find out all your tour dates and
all that.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Yeah, so everything is going to be at official Alexa
l I xx dot com. I do have a Patreon
where I've been just posting a lot of like cool,
fun behind the scenes stuff for my tour. I have
like little teasers for new music and you guys will
find out everything first for shows and that kind of stuff.
I just started a subscription on Instagram actually, where it's
(24:28):
like a less professional version of like the Patreon, because
that like I'll put together like you know, videos and
funny like compilations and things. That's gonna be more so
like just like some fun everyday things like me dyeing
my hair, things that don't really have to do with music,
so to speak, some me more personally. So that's a
new thing that I just did.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Nice And do you have a TikTok that is your
most embarrassing TikTok?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Anything from like twenty twenty to twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
And what made it embarrassing during that period?
Speaker 2 (25:06):
I was like trying to be a TikToker, and I
get notified on TikTok that it's like on this day,
like two years ago, and I was just like trying
to like keep up with the trends and do this stuff,
and it was just so cringey, and I don't have
the heart to go through and delete all of them,
just because if you delete something on TikTok, you'd have
to scroll all the way back down again, and that
is so time consuming.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Oh my god, you're speaking my language, because I'm dealing
with that with Instagram now.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Instagram got weird for some reason. If I like try
to scroll on my page, it's like it scrolls for
a second, then go back to the top.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
So that's what happens to me, Like I'm going through
my whole thing deleting old posts that I really don't
want on there representing me anymore. And is so frustrating
because like I've had Instagram since it first came out,
So it's like I'm scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, and then I
do one and then it's back to top again. It's
(26:03):
like it takes ten fifteen minutes just to get back
to where I was that.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
I've been doing, which is weird. I have an artist
page for my makeup because I make up artist and
I like freelance and whatnot. So I will go on
that account, go to my band page. Like the photos
or videos I want to delete, so I go on
the other one. I just click it and it's right there,
delete it, and then go back to notifications because I
was doing that way you were doing it, and I
was losing my mind.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Oh that's brilliant, or yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Somebody else's phone just to like all of the ones
that you want to get rid of. So there's no
scrolling because I.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
I'm telling you like, I was doing it for like
hours and then I'm like, okay, I'm done.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Yeah, it took me about like a half hour. I'd
be like fuck this, as I.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Exactly. Well, it's been pleasure talking to you again. And
I'm so pumped you'll be at incarceration. I'm totally that
I won't be at upheaval for you there, but it
is going to be a blast, and I do want
last thing I want to say too, the fact that
you're a makeup artist. I can tell you like, you're
(27:13):
badass at that too. Now, my mother was one of
those people that was very, very into glamour and makeup
and stuff, and she put that as more important than anything.
And she was also the most critical. If she looked
at another woman and she was like, uh, what are
they doing, she would look at you and she'd be like,
(27:36):
she wouldn't even say anything. You'd have to change anything.
She'd be like, you should be my daughter. Oh.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
So you keep rocking your badass artists self because you
are an artist in every sense of the word. And
hopefully we'll get to hang out at ink.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Oh definitely, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
This is so much fun, my pleasure. Thank you for
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