You are Gorgeous. Congratulations! What was that process like? Do the two of you find it difficult to create and produce independently? Are you liking or even wanting major record representation? Rick: We were incredibly blessed to have had such a successful Kickstarter and we worked our asses off on it. Every day. Changing tactics. Getting new people involved. Creating material to keep the conversation going the whole time, and convincing each other the whole time that it was gonna work when we had moments of indecision and doubt. We love doing our thing and the freedom being independent gives to you, but we are also TOTALLY interested in increasing our team and reach. More money and more people would mean more music, more visuals, bigger shows, more ways to make things and more time. So, basically, BRING IT ON. Jen: BRANG. Fop: I first heard your music in one of Drew Droege’s Chloe Sevigny videos (who is actually featured in this issue). How did this come about? Rick: We are obsessed with his videos! I mean Drew is one of those people with whom you sit with a ridiculous smile plastered to your face when you are around him because everything he says makes you pee in your pants. The man is a comic creative genius plain and simple. We both knew him before the videos started and had seen him perform as Chloe live (LA can be a tiny place, and we all have friends in common). And the genius Jim Hansen, who directs Drew is also a friend and incredible collaborator. We have also been blessed to work with him. He made our You Tuk My Luk video. They both asked us if they could use our music when they started collaborating on the Chloe videos, and we were both like, “Take whatever you want!” It was a high compliment to be asked by such great artists, and we have been so thankful that they have been so successful and included us in it. Jen: Bar-be-quah. We recently had dinner with him and one of our Kickstarter contributors, and we all just sat there wanting to throw money into the Drew meter so that he’d just tell us funny stories all night. He’s a sweetheart and we feel really honored to get to work with him and Jim. Fop: How are you two finding your fan base? Is it through videos like Drew’s and being featured on Perez Hilton? Rick: Drew and Perez were huge introductions of our music to people worldwide. It has also been huge for us to have RuPaul contract Amazing for all the promos of this last season of Drag Race. We were also blessed to have Darren Stein, the director of G.B.F. become such a fan that he included four songs in that film including one in the soundtrack. But generally, I think it is the massive gay and music blog world that has promoted it the most. And then, the incredible gift of the internet that allows
people to post videos and send music to friends to that has really been our way into people's lives. In this day and age, it is individual people that connect to us everyday and hook their friends on us that makes most of the magic happen, and we are thankful for every one of them. Jen: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Soundcloud, Instagram — these outlets are getting our music around way more than we could do on our own. And, any chance we get to have a personal chat with someone on social media, we jump on it. Message us. Seriously, we wanna know what you’re listening to, where you go out in your city, what issues are important to you, and your vegetarian recipes. Fop: What can we look forward to from Hi Fashion? The dynamic duo is working on new music and videos and exploring ways to make the show bigger and take it everywhere. “We played seven shows in London and it was incredible,” says Rick. Europe and the Far East are on their wish list. And, keep an eye out for a coffee table book of Hi Fashion costumes later this year.