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So there's another addition to Buda Uncensored. We got a
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special aide with us today from the rock and roll
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heavy metal community out in California, so we're bringing East
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Coast and West Coast together today. You've probably seen her
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on TikTok YouTube all over social media. I know I have.
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Please welcome Alexandra.
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Thank you so much for such a warm welcome.
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Oh absolutely no. Thanks for coming on the.
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Show of course. Of course.
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So we got in touch through mutual friend online and
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you know, just originally tried to book you out here
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and get you on the Speed Demon show, but that
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didn't pan out on the management and which happens. But anyway,
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so tell me about yourself, alex.
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First of all, I want to say thank you for
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if they invite, I would absolutely love to be part
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of the show on March at seventh, right, Yeah, that
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would be actually so cool because March eighth is International
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Female Woman's Day, so that such a cool.
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Celebration, right.
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But I'm hopeful that I'll get there to you guys
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in May. It feels like it's gonna work out better
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when it comes financially.
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I am self funded artists, so.
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You know, like anytime yeah, you know how it is.
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You guys are rocking road on the stage. Oh my god,
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I've seen a few of your videos.
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Insane.
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Thank you.
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Yeah. So I am a Georgian American artist based in
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California and Los Angeles. I lived in San Francisco for
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a while and then I just recently moved to Los
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Angeles and honestly to im, I'm touring all around California,
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so I don't really stay too long at one place.
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Like my friends have keep checking with me. Hey, Alex,
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where are you. Let's grab coffee.
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I was like, oh today I am in South California.
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Yeah, so oh, and that my genre is new metal.
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I spend some time to find which subgenre I want
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to stick to, Like people think rock music, but like
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rock music is so big, like oh yeah, yeah, I
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have so many even within metal core, we have so
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many different metal core and to be honest, like it's
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really hard to fit into one subgenre.
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But like I'd say metal core, new metal core.
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And like then some other elements comes in on the pictures.
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So yeah, right, awesome. So how long have you been
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in the States for now.
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Since twenty twenty.
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Okay, so you're relatively new Okay, fresh potato, happy to
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have you for sure, big so yeah. I mean I
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sat down and listened to some of your more popular
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stuff on Spotify and you know things and viral eclips.
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Very original to the current scene as far as women go.
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I think, uh, you got an original vibe to you
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and the way you mix, like you said, a lot
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of new metal stuff, a little bit of spoken word
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and they're great hooks. By the way, if that crazy
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is stuck in my head all week, so it's definitely
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an earworm for that one, for sure. I know it's
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kind of different for everybody. But who are your biggest
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influences in metal?
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I was always alternative, a new metal person, uh even
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from my early early like.
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Teenage hood.
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So my biggest influences back from then I would be
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System of a down linkin Park Limbs Kid and the
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biggest biggest influence I had from German band called Guana Ybs.
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They are not very widely known in uh uh North America,
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but they are they were super popular and uh uh Europe.
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They are also new metal alternative bands and guanapps. I
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think if you think of a tap, this is a
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tap or in this moment type vibes. Uh, I feel
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a lots of similarity between my vocals and UH main
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singers vocals. It is basically low female vocals like alto,
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alto too, with some rasp in voice and like that's natural.
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But also besides that, some fries screams or like false
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crap cord screams.
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Oh definitely, No, she's all over the place. Well that's great,
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defy by any means.
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And when it comes to modern stuff, I listen modern
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new metal core, I love architects, I love wage war,
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I prevail. I like new falling in reverse, like especially
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heavier things and collaps with Alex Terrible for example, that
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sounds great cool. And you know what, I was always like, no,
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I will not go heavier than new metal. This is
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too much or new metal correct. And I went to
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Lorna Shore's concert and I was like that mental is
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very interesting. So I'm kind of like, I don't know,
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I guess give me a few more years, and.
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Yeah, I'm sure you'll find a way to incorporate it
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to your sound for sure.
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Yeah, good music is good music exactly exactly.
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Yeah, most people don't keep it that simple. But yeah,
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so tell me about you know you immigrated to the US.
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Did you have people that you already had in mind
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for a backing man, or like, how does everything work
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for you on that end?
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So I am a person who was born and raised
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in Russia, but originally I am from country Georgia. So
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I was always an immigrant kid. So I felt like
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homeless little and whenever I would go to my back
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home native country, right, they would also feel like I'm
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to Russian, you know, like I'm not I'm not traditional
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Georgian girl, So I kind of felt like I don't
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have a home. So because of that, Partially because of that,
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I am actually very flexible when it comes to new places,
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and I have my own I moved so much that
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I have my own routines and I'm going to tell
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you about that. But besides that, I have very like
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rock and roll upbringing. I came from very dysfunctional Emily unfortunately,
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and I changed twenty two schools. So yeah, yeah, that
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was not my choice.
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I was just brought by my mom.
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Everywhere she would run she was as she's a convict,
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so she would be on run and all of our kids,
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like we would be like on the run with her
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and new school every few months. So, so I moved
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from Russia to China, from China to America, and I
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didn't felt like, you know, big big, it's big change.
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But also I knew exactly what I'm doing.
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I haven't had anybody here in California as like musician
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band in advance. I just came drop a message on Facebook,
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old school like I'm an artist, reach out, hit me up,
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and the guitarist I auditioned that period.
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I'm still work with him.
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I do not have band band because I'm a solo
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artist and band comes with lots of complications also lots
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of beautiful things. But I no longer want to be
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a part of the band. I've been in bands for
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decades and I'm done. So I work with the musicians,
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my favorite musicians as a session hired musicians, and I
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try to keep same guys all the time if that's possible,
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but if it is different coasts or different sides of California,
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I need to be creative, so I work with similar
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the same people, but it's always like in different areas,
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you know.
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Right right, No, it's great that you can have that flexibility.
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I know it's kind of hard to do that out
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here because there's so many bands and everybody kind of
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sticks together, but there's it's harder to find session musicians
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out here, I think, And of course you could have
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the money to pay them, so of.
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Course, of course out of pocket all the time. Every
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show always me broke.
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Yeah, no, I really there for sure. So as far
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as your most current material, I mean, what are you
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working on right now? Anything new?
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So we just finished my first album recording, and like
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we wrote everything recently and we just finished recording.
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We just had a music video shop for the final song.
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Right now, I'm waiting for masters and stamps from my producer,
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and I'm dropping one more single before album release in
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late January, and then we're gonna have album release with
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music video drop with a show and it's going to
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be badass. I also just finished featured song with a
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death metal artist. I will announce this a little bit later,
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and that featured song comes in right after album drop.
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So let's say album drop is March, and I say
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featured will drop in late April or early May.
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Awesome, No, I can't wait to hear that.
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Thank you.
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Outside of the metal, I know you do a lot
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of other musical genres and whatnot on your spare time.
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What did you grow up into? Like, obviously metal was there,
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but you know what were some of your other musical influences.
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Well, Georgia a country itself is like music is very
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deeply tied in into traditions. So my mom, my aunt,
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my grandmother, all of them have high soprano voices, had
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high soprano voices, and it was always we had grand
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up straight piano at home. And everybody in our family
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plays instruments, but none of them are professionally musicians. All
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of them are doctors or lawyers, you know, like as
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usually mom and dad wants you to be a lawyer
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or yeah, yeah, by the way, I think, if not music,
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I would be a doctor.
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I absolutely love this profession.
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I was really obsessed with medicine when I was a kid,
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but I was more obsessed with music. So yeah, I
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grew up watching my mom singing songs with aunt and
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grandma in harmonies, and all of them are having this beautiful, bright,
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natural sopranos, and I was the kid who had this
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low voice alta two and I would refuse to sing
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some of listen to their music, and I would be
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like my mom said, pisses like music for Satan I Christ.
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I was like, oh my god.
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Yeah, it's amazing how many people fall for that crap.
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Oh my god. My mom was like, this is just noise.
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Yeah. Yeah, my parents were like that a lot too.
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For sure, they're getting used to it, but have been
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at this almost twenty years now, so it's it's crazy
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to think.
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I know, and my mom would take me to lots
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of pop music concerts.
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And I would be sitting there like a prisoner.
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And no Britney Spears for you.
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I love Britney Spears.
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The thing is that Western pop music and Eastern European
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pop music, especially back then or post Soviet Union collapsed,
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it was so different. Like Western pop music was, I
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mean amazing, amazing when I was a kid, Like when
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I was ten, Britney Spears was very popular, like I
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think she was sixteen when I was ten. Backstreet Boys
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who were popular in saying came a little later.
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And Michael Jackson, Oh my god.
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I grew up watching Michael Jackson music videos on tapes
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and I would just like get that as a sneak
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peek because in Russia or Georgia it was not allowed
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to listen to music from abroad, so I was listening
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to pirate music. Anyways, my mom would listen to Eastern
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European pop and it sucked, so I didn't want to
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listen that that was horrible. And yeah, but if my
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mom would take me to Britney s prest Content, I
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would shoot my pants.
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That's funny. No, definitely, I mean you said, you guys
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are on the run a lot with your lather in
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the picture at all.
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Oh, I have fucked parents from the booth.
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So my father is like super misogynistic man, very autistic.
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He and my mom separated when I was nine, and
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I was so happy about that because it was nightmare
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for them together because there were no single night without
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them fighting. So I was so exhausted and I was
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always in the middle of them, begging them both stuff.
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I was like, so fucking tired. I wanted to spend
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at least one night without screams and calling each other
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slot and prostitute and anyways. So it's also hard to
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be around my father because my father was like he
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was obsessed with me, raised to raise me right because
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if all adult women are slots and prostitutes, he wanted
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to make sure that I'm not the one, and he
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was like absolutely overprotective and also like puts lots of
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expectations on me, and for a little girl, that's a lot.
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So I was very happy when he's gone because it
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was hard, and not because I didn't love him.
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So it was just really hard to.
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Be around him, and so my mom and then she
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found another man and it was absolutely horrible. My life
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became a nightmare. So, yeah, my father gone from the picture.
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When I was nine.
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You so, I would assume, like most people coming from
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any kind of rough background, you know, you put a
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lot of that into your music. Is there anything specifically