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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