- Hi, guys!
I am here with Alaska & Jeremy.
- Hi!
- Hello, there.
- Hello!
I'm told that you have a music project in the works.
- Yeah.
- What's up? - We do.
We're unleashing new music
- [Jeremy] Into the universe
♪ If the aliens came down today ♪
♪ What would they think? ♪
♪ What would they say? ♪
♪ Would they like what we've done-- ♪
- I'm really excited because
we've been making music together for--
- Years - How many years?
- Yeah, pretty much a decade.
- Oh, wow.
- And so we sort of just wanted
to put pen to paper and go in a studio
and properly record some music together.
So it ended up being--
We went out into the woods.
- Yes, we went to northern California,
amongst the redwoods. (laughing)
- Yeah, and we just put out the intention
we wanted to write music.
- That's awesome.
- And so we wrote an album.
- So how did you two meet?
- Oh my gosh.
I had recently transferred to the University of Pittsburgh,
where the baby Alaska was a freshmen.
We were in a psychology class, and I hit her up,
but I wasn't old enough for her, so we became best friends.
(laughing)
Hey, things change, and then we hung out,
we watched Golden Girls, we--
And--
- We studied about the hippocampus.
- Yes.
And we also took a queer theater course together.
- Yes, we did.
- Wow. - Yeah.
- Hippocampus would be a great drag name.
- I know, right?
(laughing)
- So the music that you've released as a solo artist
is a very comedy, and funny.
- Is it?
I think it's really serious.
- Okay, it's very serious, but so is this album.
What made you wanna change it up?
It's also--
I'd say the sound is different, too.
- Yeah.
Yeah, I mean--
- Is that kind of my influence?
A bit, I mean. - Yeah, I think.
- I think a healthy thing
to do is have a palate cleanser, right?
There's always an album.
Like with Lady Gaga was Artpop, it's like,
oh, she has some things that are really on her mind,
and whether it's weird or not, it's just like,
cool, maybe that's on my mind, too.
So these are things that we love talking about.
We stay up late at night, and it's like,
what do we do?
There's so many things that we wanna sing about
and talk about and share.
So we went to the woods to put those ideas
and distill them into music.
- Yeah.
Yeah, I think it's just--
It's really personal.
- [Jeremy] Yes.
- Some of it.
Some of it's very--
Energetically, we wanted to put it out into the world
to help balance the scales of
how crazy everything is right now, so it's sort of like--
I don't know, it's very crystals,
crystals, la, la, la, woo, woo, woo, woo.
- Going out into nature, yeah. - That's where the name
of the album came from,
- Yeah.
- Ama--
- [Jeremy And Alaska] Amethyst Journey.
- Okay, yeah.
- Yeah.
And look, this is amethyst-colored.
- Amethyst! - Just for you.
- And you're having a crystal journey.
- Oh, yeah!
- And I wrapped this lapis myself.
I'm learning things.
(chuckling)
- Were there any musical influences going
into when you started recording this.
- Yes.
- Yes!
Inspirations, really.
I love to think of is as like,
we wanna tap in and say, "We love this tradition,
"and we hope that if you're interested
"in how the music sounds, ask us, and we'll tell you."
What are yours?
- Well, we once got the cops called on us
for singing Dolly Parton really loud.
(laughing) Do you remember?
In our first apartment together, in LA.
And so we love Dolly, we love Whitney Houston,
we love Stevie Nicks.
- Stevie Nicks,
Joan Baez, Jewel.
- Yeah.
So they're all banging around in our heads at all times,
so they're definitely--
Their spirit's in there with us.
- Yeah, folk music, weird obscure prog rock.
- Kate Bush, you love her. - Oh, Kate Bush is everything!
(laughing)
Kate Bush is everything!
Tori Amos.
- Oh, yeah.
- Adash.
- Awesome.
And are you done with comedy music, then,
or is this just like a fun side project?
What's up?
- I hope not. - Yeah.
- You better not stop comedy.
- Yeah, I don't.
- We're very funny.
You should hear us talking.
So there's this, you're like--
- That's what we're doing.
- Yes, you'll hear us talking, we'll be so silly,
and they're like, how are they so serious?
But very funny people often have very serious things
that they have to say, and we do it either through comedy,
or again, you take a moment, and it's like,
we've been laughing, so let's open our hearts a little bit
about what we're laughing about.
- All right.
- Or crying about.
- Hallalou.
- Yeah.
- And so when is the album out?
Do you know yet?
- It comes out for presale on August 10th.
- And then the complete album
will be out Friday, August 17th.
- Yeah.
And when you get it for presale,
you get the first two tracks.
- And which ones are those?
- [Jeremy And Alaska] Aliens
- And Truth in the Light.
♪ If the aliens came down tonight ♪
♪ Would they wanna be friends? ♪
♪ Would they wanna fight? ♪
♪ Would they cut us apart ♪
♪ And take a look inside ♪
- Well, I look forward to hearing the record,
and I'm excited for you.
- Me too. - Yes.
- Cool little journey.
- Yes. - It's a journey!
- It's an Amethyst Journey, ba, ba, ba, ba, bow.
- Awesome.
Well, thank you so much.
- [Jeremy And Alaska] Thank you.