She recorded her early music from her bedroom before becoming an indie pop star … and started a viral queer awareness campaign.
We spoke to Girl in Red.
We spoke to Girl in Red.
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00:00I was like, fuck that. I don't want to make a big-ass video that sucks ass.
00:03Let's just do some low-production shit.
00:06Hi, it's Girl in a Red Fort Brute.
00:08I don't want to be your friend, I want to kiss your lips.
00:13I want to kiss you until I lose my mind.
00:19So you think I'm a lesbian!
00:23I just thought it was really fun. And like, at first I didn't really know it was a trend.
00:26And then I realized it was a trend, and I was like, damn, this shit is poppin'.
00:32No, I don't. But if you're asking me if I'm a big, fat, raging queer, the answer is yes.
00:37So, do you listen to Girl in Red?
00:39Uh, what the fuck are you talking about?
00:41Translation.
00:42Do you want to adopt a cat and make out tonight?
00:44We put some posters up all around the world to kind of make it into a real-life thing.
00:49We put it up in like, Moscow, Brazil, and like, Poland.
00:53Places that they kind of have LGBTQ plus laws that are like, moving the wrong direction.
00:58So like, they're getting less rights, and it's becoming harder to be a queer person.
01:03Online trends are, you know, they often just exist in like, echo chambers and shit.
01:07But it's kind of cool to see something like, actually be in real life.
01:12Hey, do you listen to Girl in Red?
01:16Do you feel like your music feels or sounds like bedroom pop?
01:21I don't feel like my music feels or sounds like bedroom pop.
01:25I made a lot of it in my room, but I also never felt like bedroom pop was made in a room.
01:30Because I feel like bedroom pop is more like a feeling and a sound.
01:33I feel like my music is like a full-on pop music, but it's with a tiny bit of a twist.
01:38Got the rock and roll, got the vulnerable indie track.
01:43Some piano stuff, maybe even some electronic stuff, you know.
01:47I don't ever want to just convey one thing, I just want a bunch of vibes.
01:56I made a music video and we spent 50,000 pounds on it.
01:59And it sucked. It was the worst video ever.
02:02So I was like, I know we just spent a whole lot of money on this music video.
02:06But I will never ever be able to look at myself again if we put this video out.
02:11So I was like, we're trashing this video.
02:13I was like, fuck that. I don't want to make a big-ass video that sucks ass.
02:17Let's just do some low-production shit.
02:19So then I took my iPhone and said, let's just order a bunch of weird shit and let's just have a good day.
02:24I just paid my friends with pizza and non-alcoholic beer.
02:37I hate the fact that I want to check my phone.
02:39I hate the fact that I care about certain people's opinions online.
02:45And I hate, you know, feeling like I can't be myself sometimes.
02:51If I have low self-esteem, I feel like I can't post anything because then I feel like a small person.
02:55And then sometimes I feel good and then I love posting and I love sharing.
02:58And I love being online and interacting with people.
03:01And I just like, I honestly don't even know.
03:04A lot of good things come out of social media.
03:06A lot of awareness comes out of social media.
03:08But also a lot of counterproductive, like cancel culture, which is like the most pointless shit ever.
03:14Because it's not, doesn't reflect how reality works at all.
03:18I think we, we should probably have like more social media training in school, honestly.
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03:33Social media training in school, honestly.
03:34Critical thinking.
03:51I guess I'm just a product of my generation, but I don't have an issue talking about it.
03:55It feels really normal and casual for me to talk about it.
03:58Watch out.
04:00You might meet a pedestrian. You wouldn't want to do that in the times of social anxiety
04:05When I was a kid, and I was having a bunch of weird thoughts and my mom was just like you're a weird kid
04:11Like why are you scared of all these things when in reality?
04:14I just had a bunch of anxiety, but that was like now if someone had a kid now
04:19They'd be like oh
04:20I should get my kid to see someone my mom really regrets that by the way so poor poor lady
04:25we all have a mental health and
04:27Some of us have a bad one some of us have a good one and probably throughout our entire life
04:31We will have both so it's like we got to talk about it