Brut America
  • 2 years ago
They never thought anyone would hear their debut song "Drinkee." The song "Best Friend" wasn't really written about their friendship.

Musical duo SOFI TUKKER backtrack through some of their biggest songs for Brut.
Transcript
00:00we're always pushing it and it's important to us to always keep pushing it and like what is
00:04sophie tucker will always be evolving and changing just like who we are but it's some good
00:13that's all i'll say
00:20hey i'm tucker and i'm sophie and we're sophie tucker
00:23we're gonna be backtracking through some of our songs over the years
00:30so
00:39drinky was the first song that we ever wrote we wrote it while we were still in college
00:44and it was the basically reason that we decided to form a band because we made it and we were
00:49like wait this is really interesting we really like this yeah the vision was kind of like
00:56let's take a raw guitar riff and put it into dance music and then
01:04sophie was like i'm studying portuguese right now i'm working with this poet he was visiting brown
01:11at the time when we were there shout out chacal shout out chacal and we just kind of put all
01:17these ideas together in one to make this sort of weird what we thought was like an artsy
01:23song that we didn't think many people would ever hear but we really liked it
01:35we made best friend in tucker's parents garage and it was one of those ones that we made and
01:42didn't like think that much about tucker had a bass line and a beat going and i walked in the
01:48garage and i was like i love my best friend so much i just got off the phone with her her name's
01:54mary and it's not about our friendship which is a side note although it's kind of become about
02:00everything yeah it is at the time were we even best friends i don't know now we are
02:06maybe i wasn't your best friend but you were probably my best friend
02:19so the inspiration for purple hat was it's a very literal song we were on tour i think with odessa
02:26actually we had an after party of our own at audio club in san francisco and the party was
02:34so crazy it was called an animal talk party we used to have them a lot and people would
02:37wear these masks and it was just like animal animal masks animal masks it got so crazy
02:43there was literally like people on top of people it was so slammed i was wearing a purple hat and
02:49a cheetah print shirt and the next morning we were sitting on the tour bus and we were like
02:56what just happened that was so crazy we felt so inspired we were like we have to write about that
03:02party and we literally wrote the song about that party
03:13so that was right after the pandemic or like right after our long period of quarantine and
03:21just being in our house for a long time and that song really came from having grace with ourselves
03:28for you know maybe not being our our best selves while stuck in a house for over a year
03:35and just knowing that like sometimes you know you hurt the people that you love the most when you're
03:40hurting and we were seeing it happen you know with people that we love all around the world
03:45where people were just struggling during that time so it's sort of like a song to be like you're
03:51it's okay like of course there's something wrong with you like there's something wrong with the
03:54world like there's something wrong with everyone one of us and let's just have a little have a
03:59little grace
04:10but it also can mean women who like women but it's said in a negative way and so we wanted to flip
04:16that on its head and make it into a celebratory song and yeah we were in brazil earlier this year
04:23and we filmed a music video in rio which is my favorite city ever
04:28i guess i just said that about new york but rio and new york are just both the best cities ever
04:32for different reasons um and no one's gonna believe you no one's gonna believe me because
04:38i have two favorite cities yeah you're just everyone in rio is gonna say bull everyone
04:43in new york is a bull unless you've been to both those cities and then you're like wait
04:47i get it there's a certain energy so different yeah but also especially in the summer like the
04:52kind of like openness and you're just like walking around and you can like happen upon something and
04:57then like there's a party on the street here and then you're like one wow i'll pick one all right
05:03go for it new york what's up so sweaty in rio i was just sweating for like three weeks straight
05:11i feel like and like it's we were also there during the hottest time in carnival when you're
05:17like not sleeping and you're just partying the whole time it's great but then it's kind of like
05:22icky all right hot take rio very hot take yeah because rio has the city energy that new york has
05:33in the sense that you could like stumble upon something and you're just like walking around
05:37and there's just like a plethora of things to do but rio also has a beach rio also has some of the
05:44most spectacular nature you've ever seen and i also get to speak portuguese when i'm there
05:52you