Features on the production you @%"-# !"# 8+/(# ,".(!'+%8# more produced work more with melodies, harmonies, …because we used to practice a lot of percussion on stage we really wanted to add percussion on the second album, I think, maybe its more deeper too, its not as light or 75%# ),# !'(# $*,!# album …it was ."*(#%)++/(#)%&# happy. This one is more deeper, not sad, not sad is the word, but more meaning… maybe. What did you want to be when you were Bonjour! Nice to meet you. Do you enjoy in school before you started recording? being in America? U(00(O# H# -)%!(&# !"# >(# )# ,+%8(*# (/(*# ,+%<(# U(00(O#U(,g#?#X"! I was a little girl. I grew up in a musical How do the concerts you have [in the (%/+*"%.(%!;# .K# 7)!'(*# -),# )# .5,+<+)%fH# US] compare with the ones you have in wanted to be a singer for a long time. I France? had a different project but I was not really Yelle: I think here because people don’t into the music and we began to work with understand the lyrics they are more into Grandmarier I realized this is the music that the music, and more into partying, dancing, I wanted to do. It was really easy for me ')/+%8#75%#K"5#@%"-Zf+%#V*)%<(#>(<)5,(# in this music. to express what I wanted to people can understand they are maybe do. I realize that its another part of me…I more focused on the lyrics and they are <)%# *()00K# ,'+%(# )%&# .)@(# +!# )0+/(;# )%&# >(# more waiting, analyzing… and they need …crazy on stage. more time to be in it and enjoy it and dance You were at New York Fashion Week? and stuff. Maybe the main difference, you U(,f+!# -),# ,"# +%!(%,(;# H# &+&%I!# ')/(# )# @%"-# '(*(# +%# pJ;# (/(%# +7# 6("60(# !*K# !"# chance to see a catwalk you know it was so translate the lyrics, and sometimes they intense and so busy in the day, we had lots know the lyrics they are more into the of promo stuff to do...in france for example &)%<(#."/(9# H#F5,!#&+&#!-"#7),'+"%#,'"-,#cB()%SC')*0(,# Do you think you can tell from the sound &(#C),!(0>)F)<#)%&#B()%SD)50#X(,6)8%)*&d# ("+5'"8.''.-"'3($"7-59"'3."#-/': because it was the perfect timing and Yelle: I think because we grew up of H# 0+@(# !'(.# )# 0"!9# ?00# !'(# !+.(# +!,# *()00K# course, and we really wanted to work more complicated and I’m not really comfortable
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in this world…I always feel like wearing nothing…so I prefer to watch the fashion show on the internet. I’m not really… (/(%# +7# HI.# 7),<+%)!(&# K"5# @%"-;# H# &"%I!# really feel comfortable in this world. For !'(# # B()%SC')*0(,# &(# C),!(0>)F)<# 7),'+"%# ,'"-#H#)**+/(&#+!#-),#"@)K#!'(*(#-(*(#0"!,# "7#6)66)*)]+#)%&#!'(#8+*0#!"0&#.(#K"5#')/(# to sit there and I was like there was a lot of papparazi and I thought they don’t care about me and in fact it was Kanye West, and they told me I had to sit there and actually I was waiting and he was sitting right next to me…It was really weird, you know he was really nice we sat and talked for 5-10 minutes I had really cool shoes so he was like WOW! So it was fun it was a cool moment but at the end I was like okay…I don’t like that, its weird. What do you think is gonna be next for your band? U(00(O#:(#-+00#>(#!"5*+%8#!+00#.+&#A(<(.>(*;# we are really into that at the moment. We -)%!# !"# .)K>(# f-(# ')/(%I!# &(<+&(&# K(!# -(#&"%I!#@%"-#+7#-(I00#')/(#!'(#!+.(#!"#&"# that…but we want to work on the acoustic /(*,+"%# "7# &+77(*(%!# ,"%8,# "7# !'(# $*,!# )%&# second album. It’s a project and we don’t @%"-#+7#-(#<"50&#&"#!')!#>5!#-(#')/(#0"!,# of things at the moment…I think the tour will end next year and It’s cool…I like that You played Coachella,three times right? Do you enjoy festivals or do you like these small venue shows or both? Yelle: I like them both, because its different K"5# @%"-# H# 0+@(# >+8# 7(,!+/)0,# >(<)5,(# K"5# play in front of lots of people and its so <*)]K#(%(*8K;#K"5#@%"-#)%&#(/(%#+7#+!#<)%# be really technically off because you don’t ')/(# !+.(# !"# 60)K# ,"5%&# <'(<@# )%&# ,!577# but its huge you know. But I like to play +%# 0+!!0(# /(%5(,# >(<)5,(# K"5# <)%# 7((0# !'(# crowd and you can spend some time with them after the show, I like that you know (/(*K# %+8'!# H# ,6(%&# `# '"5*# )!# !'(# .(*<'# stand signing posters and taking photos I really like this moment because it’s a real connection with the people meher AHMAD#)%&#0+/+#MAGNANINI