ML = Madison Lee

PM = Princess Mouse

RN = RecNarukami

 

    How did you come up with the name?

ML: *screams*

PM: I’m not gonna say WHO it was about, but we were writing a fanfiction last summer, and we got really into it one night and said "Wow. we're the luckiest girls in the world" and ever since then we were like, "Damn. we're insane..."

ML: "....we're Lucky Girls.”

 

    How would you describe your sound?

PM: I would say its very....

RN: Futuristic?

PM: Yeah, like "futuristic girly pop"

RN: With the sound of Lucky Girl, I personally have been trying to lean more into the futurism aspect of it. I just want it to sound different, out there, and experimental.

 

    How was the band formed? How/when did the members decide to start a band?

ML: We've been planning to start music since... 2020! We started a group where I was on bass, two other people were on guitar, and Princess Mouse would sing. But it ended up being too long distance so it didn't work out, then I ended up moving to Texas and we started a different group. How would you describe that sound?

PM: HEAVY METAL

ML: *screams*

PM: Heavy metal, goofy, electronic music.

ML: *laughter* Then that didn't really work out either, and then we were like "Let's just start making girly pop type music!"

PM: Then I shot Rec a DM because I remember I would always see them pop up on my Instagram and their bio said "producer", so I DMed them saying "Hey! Do you sell beats?" and that was the start of something beautiful!

RN: With me, I think quite literally a month before Princess Mouse DMed me, I was talking to one of my other friends about how I wanted to start a girl group, and be able to direct and produce for one, so when they inboxed me it was really a "Wow, perfect!" moment.

 

    How do you deal with creative block as a band? how do you continue to come up with new sounds/ideas as a group?

RN: So we started recording together around July and had sessions all throughout the summer, we ended up taking a brief pause in October for school and work obligations. During that break I resumed work on my own album and I ended up having a moment when HEAT by (G)I-DLE came out. I ran out to buy a copy of it after a shift at work. How that correlates to the question is that ever since I bought that CD I've resorted back to using an iPod full time and staying away from streaming, thus leading me to ingest music differently and helping me realize that really you can do anything you want with your art and the only thing that can hold you back is you.

PM: With creative blockage, it makes me feel like I'm going literally insane. I have a little moment where I hate everyone, I hate everything, I hate my life!

*laughter* And then from there I'll have a week of just, depression and hatred, before getting motivated AF.

ML: I'm kind of the same, but it's not really hatred as much as it's a weird depression where I'm just sad and mopey. I'll try and go back through old stuff like lyrics, photos, or I'll listen to old music and go on a nostalgia trip and that almost always jolts me back into it after a week or so

PM: Another thing for me personally, and this also ties into creative block in a sense, is I care so much about what other people think, and I really want to work on that.

 

    Which song of yours was the most fun to write & make?

ML: I really liked doing Supersonic.

PM: Supersonic was fun because I felt in love with that song.

ML: Me too, it just feels so "Oh my God, this is it".

PM: I felt such good energy from Supersonic, I was like, it's good, it got stuck in my head, it got stuck in my ROOMMATES head.

RN: I was literally playing it on my way back from an event with the windows down and someone at a stoplight pulled up to the side of me and asked what song it was and that BARELY ever happens to me so I think Supersonic has to be mine too.

PM: Go check it out when it's out if it's not already out by the time this interview is released!

 

    If you could open for any band, musician, or performer who would it be?

PM: For me it would be a dream come true to open for Lady Gaga, that's personal.

ML: Probably for me, it would have to be PinkPantheress, that's been my recent obsession ever since we started making music with this sound. Either her or Coco & Clair Clair, that would be so cute.

RN: For me, I'd love to open for SG5, they're the Sailor Moon j-pop group produced by BloodPop. They did a pop up basement party in LA and I'd love to join them if they did another.

 

    What helps bond you as a band?

RN: I think, literally just being friends.

PM: Yeah like, when I think of recording, I don't think of it as like, going to work, I feel like it's more just a hangout session.

ML: And it's just fun everytime!

PM: Yeah, and that on its own is very motivating.

ML: I also think us sharing the same interests, sharing our creative influences, and bonding over how we see art and stuff like that, I think that's very motivating.

 

    What is your creative process like? Is it more organized & session based or more sporadic and fleeting?

PM: I'd say its more sporadic

RN: Sporadic and fleeting for sure, I mean we have times to record and stuff, like every weekend or so.

ML: I'd say with all three of us it's very organized because we all come together at our scheduled times. But for me personally, like whenever I write stuff, it's very sporadic and very random. I'm very inspired by visual stuff too, so whenever I see a music video or a movie that matches how I'm feeling, I'll start to feel very creative.

 

    What is the current big goal? What does the future hold/what are you working towards right now?

PM: TO BLOW UP AND ACT LIKE I DON'T KNOW NOBODY

*laughter*

PM: But seriously, my main goal is to be able to make a living off of performing! Even if I'm not Lady Gaga superstar level famous, just enough to live.

ML: That is also the main goal. Another goal of mine is to be able to do a festival, tours will always be fun and stuff, that's obvious, but to do a FESTIVAL I think would be so much fun.

RN: I want Lucky Girl to win an Album of the Year Grammy.

 

    You’re recording a documentary! What has that process been like? - How do you feel a video element adds/changes the creative process & final product?

PM: I feel like it motivates me more, because growing up I would watch videos like this of Lady Gaga and Michael Jackson, so seeing that we're doing that is a reminder that everyone starts somewhere.

RN: For me in the early footage you can see I'm a lot more self conscious when I'm showing the girls new music, it wasn't really until I showed them the instrumental to CKNGMMS when I realized that they see things in my music that I can't really see on my own, and I think a documentary helps visualize small moments like that

ML: It's motivating because when we are bigger and we have more stuff out it's gonna be so cool to look back on. It's gonna be a humbling experience and it's gonna be nice and refreshing to see where we started from and how much we've grown as a group and everything like that.

    What is your goal for the documentary? What do you want the outcome to look like? (reach, message, overall feeling, etc.)

RN: There's a documentary on YouTube that's like, sixteen hours of just raw unedited footage of the making of Justified by Justin Timberlake from beginning to end, there's an edited version that exists but it's obviously meant to be watched in an unedited form. That's kind of an energy I wanted to tap into for the edit, but also I want it to mirror something like the Gorillaz "Bananaz” documentary that documents the beginning of the sessions for their self titled album all the way to the end of the Demon Days tour. I've always said I have no clue when i'm gonna stop recording, because I don't know what's gonna happen.

ML: Like, who knows, maybe after our first album we can blow up out of nowhere and that moment could be caught on camera.

RN: Right!

PM: It's also a reminder that, you know, I've always wanted to be a star since I was a little girl, and the thought that this is all gonna be on YouTube or somewhere else, other little girls are gonna find it and be like, the same way, so this is a reminder to them that they can really do anything they want in the world.