Gigi Perez Shuffles Her Music Library: My Chemical Romance, Yves Tumor, Sorry & More | Song Shuffle - video Dailymotion

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Gigi Perez hangs out with Rolling Stone at the All Things Go festival in Queens, New York to shuffle her music library, talk about playing Coachella, and explain how her dog having a dog is saving her autumn.

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00:00This is Rolling Stone, and we are here with Gigi Perez.

00:03Gigi, can you shuffle your playlist for us?

00:06Absolutely.

00:06Gigi's Gems.

00:07I'm just like, if people see the fingerprints on my phone,

00:09I'm going to freak out because I know they're there.

00:11Eve's Tumor, Heaven Surrounds Us Like a Hood.

00:18Tell me about the first time you heard this song.

00:20I think I was still living in Bushwick.

00:24I played it for an entire fall.

00:26It was like every single day.

00:28I couldn't get enough of it.

00:29We would just play it on the speakers in the house and try to analyze the song

00:32because, you know, from the songwriting to the production to the arrangement of it,

00:36it feels like something I hadn't heard before.

00:38It felt like it turned in ways that I'm still trying to understand.

00:43So we are in New York, for all things go,

00:45and you just mentioned that you were living in Bushwick for a while.

00:47Do you have any spots in Bushwick that feel like home to you still?

00:50I think it was called Heartbreakers Cafe, but I feel like it's shut down.

00:53I never liked oat milk, but I had to get into it because it was the only coffee nearby.

00:57The laundromat across the street.

00:59I became good friends with the woman that owned the place.

01:01Carmelo's is right by my house, but...

01:03Classic spot.

01:04I don't know, but I just, like, I never could get into it, so...

01:07That's probably for the best.

01:08Ooh.

01:09Key to the City by Sorry.

01:11You are the key to my city, to my city, to my city, to my city.

01:17I found Key to the City, same time.

01:20And then when the new music came out, I was like, oh, what is this?

01:22Because it felt like it went a little deeper, a little grungier,

01:25a little even more electronic and experimental.

01:27I was listening to a lot when I was going to the gym.

01:31It's, like, sexy, but it's, like, fuck you kind of song.

01:34That's the best kind of gym vibe.

01:35I think you have to think of someone that's...

01:37There's, like, a sense of, like, angst and pining.

01:40And that'll get you going.

01:41Sorry just does that.

01:42Helena, My Chemical Romance.

01:48Huge My Chemical Romance phase when I was a kid.

01:51I kind of associate MCR with being 10 years old.

01:56And one of my neighbors was really into rock and emo and punk.

02:02Kind of associated with that kind of, like, being on YouTube, hanging out with my friends.

02:06Were you a super online young kid?

02:10To a very unfortunate degree.

02:12I think the thing for me was, like, because the internet was so new,

02:15there was just so much unfiltered access.

02:17Therefore, there were just a lot of things that I saw as a child.

02:20That children sit and see.

02:22But I'm not alone in that.

02:23So, honestly, I feel like the more people have talked about it,

02:26the more I take comfort.

02:27I'm like, oh, that happened to you, too?

02:28Cool.

02:29Okay.

02:30Shallow by Sia Gray.

02:35I found Sia in 2020.

02:38I had never heard anything like that before.

02:41I associate it with, like, a strange time.

02:44It's a very, like, unique melody, that song.

02:47I also remember hearing that and being like, what is that?

02:49And just, like, the way that the higher register of the voice is played with and how dry it gets.

02:55And the new album is incredible.

02:56Oh, it's amazing.

02:57I love the new album.

02:58Okay, so I want to ask you what song you think people should be putting on their playlists.

03:03I think people should be putting Please Be Rude by me on their playlists.

03:10The music itself is not emo, but I associate it in an emo way.

03:18And in a Sims 2 lesbian, emo YouTube video way.

03:24And you just announced that you'll be playing Coachella next year.

03:27Yes.

03:28I grew up watching festivals and, you know, wanting to go to festivals very badly as a teenager.

03:34And so it's kind of like a teenage dream for me to be able to play at the festivals.

03:37It was just unbelievable.

03:39I'm still over the moon.

03:41I've dreamed about it since I started writing songs.

03:44I was very much a kid on the internet with the, you know, wanting to wear the flower crowns.

03:51And it's going to happen.

03:52Will you wear a flower crown on stage?

03:54You know, it's been a joke, but, like, I've joked about it too much that I feel like it's actually going to come true.

03:58Fall is coming up.

04:00I'm curious if you have any cozy maxing tips.

04:04Cozy maxing?

04:05I just thought of that.

04:07No, I like it.

04:08Comfy socks.

04:09Yes.

04:10Comfy blankets.

04:11My dog just had a dog.

04:13She just had a baby.

04:14Your dog?

04:15Yeah, my dog just had a dog.

04:16I love that way of putting it.

04:17My Lola.

04:18She's a Chihuahua mixed with a Jack Russell.

04:20She just had a baby.

04:22Yes, literally.

04:23We don't know how this happened because we're on tour.

04:25My entire family comes on tour with me.

04:26Something happened between one of my tias and the others.

04:29It got out somehow.

04:30My dog.

04:31She went out and had some fun.

04:33Got knocked up.

04:34And now we have a baby.

04:36And so for me, like, I'm going to just cradle that baby.

04:40And that's how I'm going to stay warm.

04:42It's a great cozy maxing tip.

04:44Yeah.

04:45Just get a little puppy.

04:46Get a puppy.

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