“Everybody’s influenced by [David Lynch]. Or I mean most people. I had to write this really long paper in college about avant garde and kitsch, what separates high art from low art. And I think he doesn’t see those boundaries. The same with Roy Orbison, that’s why he’s drawn to that music. Because at the same time something could be cliché and kitschy, it can be totally revolutionary and have a new feeling and be amazing.”
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Just finished a ‘drinks with’ Cults. Great chat about Roy Orbison, David Lynch et al. Will publish soon on American Songwriter.
In the band’s ongoing interview series “Drinks With”, their chat with the XX just posted on American Songwriter:
“I don’t see what me and Romy do as singing to one another, so it doesn’t matter if my input doesn’t completely fit lyrically to what she’s saying, because we’re not singing to one another. We’re kind of seeing what we’re doing as side by side, and crossing paths. So I think that allows us to be a lot more genuine. I don’t have to put myself in her shoes, she doesn’t have to do the same. And yeah, I think that when we meet up, what we do is a case of collaging really.”
