Backtrack with SOFI TUKKER

Brut America

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.

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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

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