Morningwood
Consider this fair warning. While you may or may not know Morningwood, I am willing to bet that by this time next week you will never, ever forget them. With a debut album arriving on Capitol Records on January 10th and the red-hot single Nth Degree already in rotation, I have a prediction for this year and Im making no bones about it. 2006 isnt the year of the dog-its the year of the wood!
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Auren Suicide: Hi! Its Lauren from SuicideGirls. Do you know the website?
Morningwood frontwoman Chantal Claret: Of course!
AS:
Yay!
CC:
I really wanna get a subscription.
AS:
Well, you know you get one for doing the interview.
CC:
Awesome! Im so excited. Oh my God my BAND is gonna be so excited!
AS:
Youre never gonna get them offline.
CC:
[Laughing] Ill be like cmon guys! Weve got a show to do! Oh my gosh, Im so excited.
AS:
You know we can have you shoot a SuicideGirl set if you want.
CC:
I would love to. Actually one of my hobbies is shooting naked people.
AS:
Well there ya go.
CC:
I have quite a collection of boys that Ive photographed naked. Its for arts sake.
AS:
Thats what ALL the ladies say.
CC:
Its like well youre gonna be naked anyway, we might as well take a photo.
AS:
Oh my God, genius [laughing]. So where are you?
CC:
Right now Im in Maine, for the first time ever.
AS:
How is it?
CC:
Im really excited to eat lobster. [Laughing] So far Im looking forward to eating lobsters. I like eating and taking photos of naked boys.
AS:
Best slogan ever!
CC:
Well, I like to eat and I like boys!
AS:
So were you guys just in LA? Was there a party at the Beauty Bar or something?
CC:
There was! We just played Jimmy Kimmel as our first television thingee ever, so we went there afterwards. I love Beauty Bars all over the states! Such good fun.
CC:
Where are you? Are you in LA?
AS:
Yeah, were in LA.
CC:
I love LA, I have so much fun out there. We were staying at the Hyatt on Sunset. We went to Disneyland.
AS:
I was wondering if you liked LA.
CC:
I really do! This was sort of like a test because it was my first time going out there without being really busy. So I was there for a couple of days and it was really relaxing and fun, I love the weather. I really think Im gonna end up moving out there at some point.
AS:
Really?!
CC:
Yeah, I mean Ive lived in New York my whole life, I need some sun and swimming in my life. Hell yeah!
AS:
I love that song though, New York Girls.
CC:
Oh, thank you!
AS:
Its so fun that part where all the different girls are going Im from Sweden or whatever and then you come in with the Im from NEW YORK CITY!
CC:
Those are all real girls, we found them on the street. We just went around asking 'em where they were from.
AS:
I was trying to figure out if that was real.
CC:
Some of them are people that we know but then a lot of them were just random girls that we found. I want people in ten years to be like 'thats my voice! I was on the Morningwood record!
AS:
Im sure theyre already like yeah! Im awesome! Oh yeah, I read that you were in film school
CC:
I was, that I was.
AS:
Where were you?
CC:
At School of Visual Arts in New York.
AS:
Oh wow.
CC:
Yeah, I was there for like a year and a half and then I dropped out for this band.
AS:
Is it more fun to be in a band?
CC:
Definitely! But at some point I still want to direct. I love making videos. It's one of my favorite things. I really want to make a soft-core porn, but with really good looking people, really good music. But I also want to do it so its dubbed in English. So it will be English dubbed over English [laughing].
AS:
That would be amazing actually [laughing].
CC:
Did I just give away my best idea? And of course I would like to direct music videos and stuff.
AS:
Did you have a hand in the Morningwood video [for Nth Degree] at all?
CC:
The first treatment I did, but then we just sort of took it and ran with it. Im so excited! There are just so many lame videos that are like band rocking and then band on couch.
AS:
So, Body 21 is also really cool. I love where its like body is 21 / mind is ageless. Sorry if Im totally misquoting you here.
CC:
No, its okay!
AS:
I dont know, I just thought that whole song was so powerful.
CC:
Thank you so much! I always try and write a song for every year, since each one deserves a song about it, with the age in the title. Although I guess I didnt do a 22 one, and I guess I gotta get working on that 23 one soon! 21 was the last one that we wrote and I just wanted to do a song for all the years that arent that special. At 19 I was so mad, no one ever writes a song about 19 year olds!
AS:
Thats sooo true though.
CC:
Yeah, everyone talks about 16 year olds all the time, but like, hey man, wheres 19? So I'm like 'whatever, Im writing a song for every year!'
AS:
I just read this thing online, I can't remember what it was from, but it was a girl walking down the street and she sees her reflection in a window and it was like, 'I know that this beauty doesnt belong to me, this beauty belongs to 19.' That was the first thing I thought about when I heard that song.
CC:
Yeah, thats it. Totally.
AS:
There is something so special with ages.
CC:
For sure. Its a moment of time. When I was 21 I never felt 21. You never feel like a certain age, the age that you are. Its nothing. Its a number.
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