anonymous asked: what's your favourite figure 9 video / your fav krishna look?
honestly i love them all!! but if i HAD to pick a video i think i'd go with king? because come on:
and if i had to pick a krishna look... maybe when his hair was this lion's mane:
I WANT TO PUT MY HANDS THROUGH IT.
and if i had to pick a krishna look... maybe when his hair was this lion's mane:
I WANT TO PUT MY HANDS THROUGH IT.
anonymous asked: krishna is such an attention whore. he goes around talking about his relationships and how hard it is being gay (which isn't even that true anymore, it's fucking 2015) all to distract from the fact that he has a shitty voice and that the band sucks. they're so generic. the only reason they're getting any attention at all is because krishna is poledancing the shit out of the album by being a slutty twink and then crying about how guys don't take him seriously. maybe if he had some class he could hold down a relationship.
why 💃 the FUCK you lyin? 💃 why you always lying? 💃 mmmMMO 💃 HMYGAWD 💃 stoHp 💃 fuckinG 💃 ly i ng! 💃
did you always want to be a musician?
i didn't, actually. like, i sang justin timberlake songs really loudly and obnoxiously in the car with my sister and like, learned the choreography to destiny's child videos and stuff, but i never thought i'd wind up doing something like this. i thought i'd do medicine, which is hilarious now. [to mikey] hey, shut up. [to camera] he thinks i'm a bimbo who flunked out of school. [mikey, off camera: i see no evidence to prove otherwise.]
what's the story behind the band name?
[emre's answer was about how they were throwing around nautical terms and landed on figure-of-nine (a kind of knot) which they shortened to figure 9.] they'd already named the band by the time i joined, so you can thank these two for it. i didn't like it at first. band names are such a thing, they're so hard to do right. but i think we've grown into it. it's not like we can change now, can we. [mikey takes the ipad and starts swiping to the next question.]not but really, can we change it?
what fictional character do you have the biggest crush on?
bojack horseman. what a stud.
what did you write "king" about?
it's about a couple exes. i wrote it at, like, different times, so it wasn't a one shot thing. it turned out being this mixture of things, so... like, all of these exes mashed together into one huge, terrible ex that i wanted to kill.
how does your family handle your public persona?
my parents weren't crazy in the 70s. they didn't do drugs or anything. they both come from these very traditional hindu families, and therefore so did i, so like... they don't exactly adore the ripped jeans and tank tops and tattoos. my mom keeps getting on my case about the tattoos in particular, like all, "you know the ink is seeping into your bloodstream! you're going to get cancer and die!" surprisingly she wasn't that bothered by the nose ring, though.
if you could go back five years and give yourself advice, what would it be?
like... don't be embarrassed about anything. i don't have any shame anymore. i spent a lot of time, like i'm sure most of us do, being wrapped up in what people thought and like, caring way too much about how people saw me. it's exhausting and not worth it, which we all know but is so hard to follow through with. but, uh. yeah, i fully believe you can choose to be embarrassed about something or not. choose not to be embarrassed, guys. you're welcome. [he gave this finger gun-wink combo that is SO ADORABLE, check it out around 2:46.]
do a door to door pitch for the band.
hello! do you enjoy dancing? do you enjoy crying? why not do both at the same time by ordering the new bbc-approved figure 9 album, communion!
if you could collaborate with any three artists alive or dead, who would they be?
ooh, this is a tough one. beyoncé, joni mitchell, and... little dragon? and justin timberlake.
what's something fans don't know about you?
i have no idea if people know this or not, but... hm. something i'd be very weirded out about if just like, random people knew it is that i was made a deputy school captain back in the day? [he interrupts mikey's answer:] oh! uh, my hair grows faster than it has any right to, so if i don't take care of it i suddenly have this like, rapunzel thing going on. it gets very irritating. [emre: kind of like your constant interruptions.] [to emre] shut up, you guys barely let me get anything out most of the time.
what's the key to happiness in life?
a good sex life and a lot of crying. just let it all out.
*** BONUS Q: rate one of your bandmates like you're doing a yelp review.
[about emre] one star, wouldn't come again.
I've found that if you laugh at yourself first, people don't feel like laughing at you so much. At least, not meanly.
