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And this is the first time. Okay ready? Hi, we're The Linda Lindas, and
this is The First Time.
The first time
I stood up for myself was when I
wrote the song
Racist, Sexist Boy.
So this boy from school
told me that his dad told him a
story from Chinese people, and I
told him that I was trained and
backed away from me because I was
kind of confused.
I didn't really know how to respond.
Then after talking about it with my
band mates and family, I realized
how messed up it was.
We had the idea to write a song
about it for a while, but we
didn't really do it until
last year when
the presidential election started.
And this is the time
to get that message out when we
actually wrote it. We were in
quarantine, so elusive.
I wrote it and we did it
opposite. We did like five hours in
Eloisa and I wrote a song based on
that experience.
So this is about him and all the
other boys in this
world. It really sucks that
racism is something that's just
there and.
So we live in this type of
society that it's.
Yeah, it's normal and
people are judged based
off of their race really
sucks.
I don't really know,
you know,
20 twenty more.
Yes.
Get back
to playing the library because you
have to be quiet in the library.
That's really cool.
But at the same time, it was also
the first real show that we played
in so long.
So that was just a fun
experience, getting to
practice and load the van
and unload.
I never thought I'd be dreaming,
especially into a microphone
in a library.
When you first got to the opera,
you're in a little bit confused.
What, you want to play a library?
Yeah, but
little did we know.
So it was really it was
confusing. I was like I was
in class and I was like my phone
buzzing like people
are calling me now on my Instagram
and my whole feed is just up.
And I'm like, what's that?
Yeah.
For me, I don't have social media,
so I have no idea until
Mira messaged me
and she was Alawi's viral.
What what does that mean?
I didn't believe it either.
I was like, no, no, I just.
That's weird.
What does that mean.
What does that mean? We're going
viral.
OK, we got like a few more
followers.
But, you know, it was wild
and overwhelming, but in a good way.
I guess we're so happy that we've
got a positive reaction at
the same time. It's like it's so sad
that that amount of
people can relate to what the song's
about.
People know each other for a long
time.
Are your sisters?
Because we were
introduced to a number like five,
very little tiny
little little for me.
They're all older than me.
I feel like we have the idea being
that we did.
Actually, we never did it, though,
because I don't know why we didn't
do it. Actually, we just kind
of know we are waiting for someone
to push us or something.
We needed a push to start
to actually do it and
then ask us
to be in her girl school project, go
to school.
And we did that with a few other
kids to push
that we needed.
And I felt like
that was cool
because, like, we made so many
mistakes on that stage.
But even even though
we did, it was
an amazing experience
to practice, do
a sound check to get our stuff
to get on stage.
I think the idea of having fun
and creating something with
people that you like is really
cool. So ever since I was a baby,
I've always gone to like punk
concerts and the
daytime matinees
and stuff. And then when I got
older, my parents
started putting on functions
for four to raise money for my
school music program.
So I then I grew
up.
Going to shows and
making scenes and making mix
tapes, I've always known
I could be in a band I would see
like Michael Jordan at the
end of every set, you go start your
own band.
Oh, yeah, I can be a fan,
and so when the Olympics
came, I was like, yes, I
to do it yourself
and do what's fun for yourself
and do what feels like
what feels true to yourself
and have fun while doing it
and do a really awesome
people that you like.
That's a really cool thing.
Government first,
and we kind of just
chose to cover songs
that we love and
that we listen to
and that we felt like we could play
each song like we
did. Don't forget to listen
to my.
And now why
fellow shows Mr Cheeseman by The
Pretenders every
day.
Some us, some.
We did get some good results.
We are still.
Without the closure, we
can get a lot of
momentum.
Yeah, go on
now.
I want you to meet on the
road into the practice
that we did before the.
Well, that's song for
a documentary on
Netflix called The
Flooding.
Is from the babysitter books
and nobody knew her from the
one American character.
That's something so cool.
And she's not like the stereotypical
Asian character who's all,
like, smart and good at school
and stuff, but she's really bad
at school and she a bunch of junk
food.
Jason,
Jason really got
the lyric ideas from like a draft
of the documentary and the
ideas from what we read the
books and took ideas from them
and missed some of the outfits
I described in the books, then we
wrote a chord progression
to.
All have different styles of
music. But when we started writing
music, punk was kind of just a given
because we wanted to write
what we were feeling and what we
were feeling kind of came out
in that way.
You know, it wasn't like
we chose
punk.
It wasn't like that.
But it wasn't like we had a hard
time choosing particular
that we did, because
that was a way that we could
write whatever music we were
feeling and write
it off before I
felt to myself.
Give us a way to kind of write
anything we wanted to write.