British - Director | 1969 -
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.
Ben Hopkins
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I'm a freewheeling flower-child falling down the stairs constantly.
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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.
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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.
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You can't deny who you are, so you might as well be yourself in the most authentic way.
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There is power in organization. There is power in a community. People have always wanted to destroy communities.
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I think that our work and our music stands on its own without this knowledge about our identity around it. But I also think that we very consciously decided not to hold back that part of ourselves, but to be very vocal about who we are, kind of what experiences we've had in life, and how we identify.
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I'd say, at the end of the day, you know, from a songwriting practice standpoint, you write songs to make yourself feel something true and validating, and cathartic, maybe, and then whoever responds to it is, like, out of your control.
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I think the earnestness of what we're saying and what other bands like us are totally saying - or other queer bands - is 'We exist.'
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When you're a queer person put in the spotlight, you're supposed to have all the answers.
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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.
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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.
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