- What's going on it's Kevan Kenney backstage
at Billboard's Hot 100 Festival with Bella Thorne, Com3t.
- What's up.
- Yeah.
- We got the pooch with us.
- Yeah, tampon, my man you want to say hi?
You want to say hi?
- She's fascinated by the water.
Oh look at that.
- She's coming out to play now.
Oh, pretty big girl.
- [Kevan] Now where does Tampon stay when you perform?
- Well she walks around with a few different people
but mostly in the green room.
- You ever bring her on stage?
- Um...
- I was gonna say, right?
Like you need earmuffs or something.
- Dog ear muffs?
Is that a thing?
- Well, speaking of stage, you guys performed
on the main stage, the Hot 100 stage, how was that?
- Crazy.
- Yeah.
- It was huge.
I was so nervous.
- Yeah I mean the energy of the people,
and the big stereo system just booming all that bass
and those beats and really getting to hear
a lot of her songs that are unreleased live
for the first time, it was an incredible experience.
It's very exciting.
- I talked to a lot of bands, and it takes years
for a band to get that sort of like rock and roll ESP
where all they have to do is give each other a look,
they know what lick they want to hit,
they know what song they're gonna play next.
You guys are sisters, do you think you naturally have that?
Where you kind of already know
what you're thinking on stage?
- I mean yeah, I feel like a lot of the time,
just in life in general as well.
We say a lot of the same things or I'll say something
and she'll be like you stole that out of my head.
(laughs)
- Yeah I say that a lot.
She always gets em out faster than me!
(laughs)
- Speaking of you two together,
do you guys collab on Filthy Fangs?
I didn't know you had your own label.
- Yeah, we have our own label, yeah Filthy Fangs.
We are the two fangs, so yeah.
- I like that.
Is that important to you guys, like to be entrepreneurial
in that sense and have your own label and put music
out under that umbrella?
- Yeah.
To definitely to be independent, and also to give
artists their independence back in a way with
creative freedom and we really have a really
eclectic mix for all the people signed to the label
currently and it's so fun bringing all these
different genres together and the energy
that that creates.
- And I think that sentiment of pushing boundaries
and putting out groundbreaking content
I think I would say it goes beyond the label
because with the new single Pussy is Mine,
or Pussy Mine, excuse me, a lot of people
are gonna react to a a lot of things about that song,
you know the video is very revealing of course
it's kind of a headline making title of a song,
but I think when you really dig into the song
there's a lot going on there in terms of
groundbreaking music, essentially lyrically,
you're echoing a lot of traditionally male sentiments
I guess is the nicest way to put it.
Can you talk about the process of writing that song
and how that song came to be?
- Well it was pretty interesting, actually.
You know it's kind of one of those things that
look, I always say that I'm very tomboy,
you know I talk like a guy, I say my dick all the time,
can I say that?
Am I allowed to say my dick?
My dick my dick my dick, all day my dick.
(laughs)
- (singing) My dick.
- So I'm always kind of talking like that,
most people will be like look at me sideways,
or think that I'm you know that I have armpit hair
and I don't shave my legs and like,
oh my goodness she's so manly and this and that,
it's kind of taking it and spinning it around
and turning it back on to the audience as well.
Which is doing that, bringing that manly side of me
into my music, bringing my sex life into,
you know it's definitely another piece of me,
which I like.
I wanted to almost release Pussy Mine
first just to be a bitch.
- We spoke last summer, I guess, when the Prince Fox
single came out, and you came by Billboard,
and we had all these fan questions coming in.
Most of the fan questions at that point in time
you know, mid 2017 were about your acting career.
And they wanted to know what was latest with the show
and whatnot, and now I feel like all I hear about
Bella Thorne is the music stuff.
So how would you personally break it down
in terms of your commitments right now in 2018.
Are you full go with the music,
or are you kind of half and half now with the acting?
- I would say 2018 is half and half.
I would say 2019 is definitely going to be the big
year of music for the both of us.
You know we kind of, we are new you could say
in the music game, and we're so luckily humbled
to have gotten to where we are,
you know Dani performing at EDC
in one of her first years of being a DJ.
- [Kevan] Congratulations.
- Performing in a row, us performing at this stage
when I was just here last year just walking around.
- [Kevan] I remember that.
- Yeah and it's just so fucking crazy,
and I guess that that feeling is just gonna keep
getting bigger over 2019.
Because I finished the year off with a couple movies,
we have couple show dates and Dani goes on tour.
But next year I think we might do a big
summertime Filthy Fangs tour with everyone
on the label, cause it really is like a gang.
You know, we all just, in the sense of like
we're grouping up all day long.
We're always with each other, Chapo's in the studio
with Dani, Dani's in and out with Mod,
I'm chilling there writing some shit,
Tana comes in and it's just like this atmosphere
of constant connection with others
and so when you see us all on stage together
it's gonna be -
- Litty McTitty
- (laughs)