![]() ![]() It’s really nice to have that background in learning instruments when we were little, and breaking those rules a bit in the studio is really fun.” JIF: “Miranda will come up with a sick bass riff, or Lauren will make these beautiful dreamy synth lines, and I do stuff sometimes. In Blusher, all instruments and vocal duties are shared – how does that work? ![]() There’s a really specific Kesha song that I’m not gonna say the title of because it’s offensive, but in one of our first sessions, Jade and I were just like, ‘oh my god, you know that song?’” LC: “In our circle in Melbourne, we found each other because we were the only people talking about that. ![]() “We know how it feels to be the only woman in the room, on the tour, in the studio” – Lauren Coutts I hadn’t found anyone that likes that really, really high-energy, down-the-line pop. MW: “We just have a lot of very niche references. When you say the pop you love isn’t happening in Australia, what are you referring to? LC: “We know how it feels to be the only woman in the room, on the tour, in the studio – it is even still a kind of new and different thing to be surrounded by women in music.” There’s not that many people doing the pop that we all really love in Australia, so it’s really nice that we combined forces.” Even as a female artist in the industry, there is this air of needing to compete for your space and because we were all making the same kind of music, it would have been quite easy to have some sort of rivalry. Growing up, I tried really hard to be ‘one of the boys’ so it’s nice to see such a shift towards female solidarity these days. MW: “It’s very surprising now when one of us tells a new story – like, ‘we haven’t heard that one before’!” ![]() Jade Ingvarson-Favretto: “We were sharing our journal entries.” MW: “It’s based around the conversations that you have with your female friends, and the girls that you meet in the club bathroom and you start giving each other life advice and become immediate best friends. The EP’s songs are quite personal – how did you go about writing that together? Friendship is just as important as creative compatibility – we just have our own language.” You have to basically have therapy sessions in the studio. It’s pretty rare to find people who have very similar tastes and who you click with so much personally, which makes a really big difference. Miranda Ward: “We wanted to make it super collaborative. ![]()
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