Charlie Cooper: What's up chat? We are here with
Charlie Cooper: King Princess and now we're doing a
Charlie Cooper: "Google Me, Baby." It's a segment
Charlie Cooper: where -- Ah don't make that
Charlie Cooper: face! -- Where
Charlie Cooper: we talk about the search terms that
Charlie Cooper: pop up after Googling
Charlie Cooper: your name. Listen, these are the
Charlie Cooper: things that your fans want to know.
Charlie Cooper: Right. So it's.
Charlie Cooper: It's perfect.
Charlie Cooper: Yeah. I love that you're already
Charlie Cooper: loving all that.
Charlie Cooper: We're going to keep it.
Charlie Cooper: Just be yourself.
Charlie Cooper: Be yourself. It's all.
King Princess: Good. I have nothing else to be.
Charlie Cooper: Right, exactly.
Charlie Cooper: Exactly.
Charlie Cooper: So the very first thing when you
Charlie Cooper: Google your name that pops up is
Charlie Cooper: King Princess album.
Charlie Cooper: And I want to know a little bit
Charlie Cooper: about the evolution and the growth.
King Princess: We're like, this "has this person
King Princess: made an album?? Question mark?
Charlie Cooper: Hey, they're they're curious.
Charlie Cooper: They're excited about "Hold On, Baby."
King Princess: Maybe maybe that's it.
King Princess: I mean. Oh, yeah, I didn't interpret
King Princess: it the way, you know, maybe they're
King Princess: I thought it just like they were
King Princess: asking, like, do does this person
King Princess: make music? A person do?
King Princess: Yeah. What is this?
King Princess: What does this creature know?
King Princess: But yeah, I assume that they're
King Princess: looking, they're trying to figure
King Princess: out a release date because I haven't
King Princess: given anybody one yet.
Charlie Cooper: Are you going to give us an exclusive
Charlie Cooper: to that right now?
King Princess: Definitely not.
Charlie Cooper: I'm like, no pressure.
King Princess: Think that I would get in a lot of
King Princess: trouble for that from my
King Princess: team.
King Princess: No, I think that in the past
King Princess: I've over promised release dates
King Princess: and and then also simultaneously
King Princess: under-promise them.
King Princess: So I think that I'm a little messy
King Princess: when it comes to I tweeted this
King Princess: the other day. I was like, I like
King Princess: I'm really bad and messy
King Princess: and I love to keep everybody
King Princess: starving. So.
King Princess: So it's going to come
King Princess: in. Yeah, I'm just not.
King Princess: I've never been good with
King Princess: the deadline.
Charlie Cooper: Me neither.
King Princess: Yeah, but the album is done.
King Princess: Don't worry, it's done.
Charlie Cooper: Talk to me a little bit about the
Charlie Cooper: evolution, though, from "Cheap
Charlie Cooper: Queen" to "Hold On, Baby," that you
Charlie Cooper: felt as a songwriter.
Charlie Cooper: As an artist.
King Princess: I feel like there's a huge evolution
King Princess: with Cheap Queen and I feel like
King Princess: there was all this armor and
King Princess: it was an album about,
King Princess: you know, kind of 1950
King Princess: blowing up and kind of getting
King Princess: thrown into something I wasn't
King Princess: comfortable with or familiar with
King Princess: being,
King Princess: you know, in love, falling out
King Princess: of love.
King Princess: And this is a different
King Princess: type of album.
King Princess: This is much more
King Princess: contemplative.
King Princess: It's much more about.
King Princess: Like trying to like yourself.
King Princess: And
King Princess: investigating those feelings
King Princess: and really analyzing
King Princess: myself and my own depression
King Princess: and anxiety.
King Princess: There's still love
King Princess: songs. And,
King Princess: you know, I'm not going to I'm not
King Princess: going to deprive you of my gay love
King Princess: songs, don't worry.
King Princess: But definitely it's more through the
King Princess: lens of, like, trying
King Princess: to figure out how to like yourself.
Charlie Cooper: Yeah. Yeah, I know
Charlie Cooper: you dropped 'For My Friends,'
Charlie Cooper: which is an ode to your day ones
Charlie Cooper: essentially.
King Princess: Yes, one's in the other room.
Charlie Cooper: Why did you feel that inclination
Charlie Cooper: to do that, to give them that extra
Charlie Cooper: special shout out?
King Princess: Well, because I wrote the song
King Princess: and it came the felt
King Princess: very natural to write about that,
King Princess: those relationships with those two
King Princess: girls. And
King Princess: it's more so like a song for anyone.
King Princess: I mean, we all have these kind of
King Princess: like moments in our
King Princess: lives of like growing up where
King Princess: you're like meeting
King Princess: new people.
King Princess: You start to develop new parts
King Princess: of yourself, and then you
King Princess: have to find things that ground you.
King Princess: And for me, the things
King Princess: that ground me
King Princess: are all centered around New York,
King Princess: including those two girls,
King Princess: because you really, like, need
King Princess: friends who tell you like you.
King Princess: You aren't shit.
King Princess: Shut the fuck up.
King Princess: Not interested in this bullshit,
King Princess: this like fake industry
King Princess: that you've joined, but we love
King Princess: you and we support you.
King Princess: And that energy is really
King Princess: comforting to me.
Charlie Cooper: What do you think has been the glue
Charlie Cooper: there?
King Princess: Oh, we've I mean, because we've had,
King Princess: like, a bajillion renaissances
King Princess: in our friendship. We've had
King Princess: falling, you know what I mean?
King Princess: Like, we've, like any good friend.
King Princess: There's been a couple falling out.
King Princess: Of course, you know, and I think
King Princess: that once you like, if that person
King Princess: if you keep coming back to that
King Princess: person and that person keeps coming
King Princess: back to you, then you know that it's
King Princess: real.
Charlie Cooper: That's good.
Charlie Cooper: That's good. That's very toxic.
King Princess: That's what. Well, that's like.
King Princess: Could be either of these ones aren't
King Princess: toxic. But yes, I agree.
King Princess: As a as a rule of thumb.
Charlie Cooper: I love it. Okay.
Charlie Cooper: Let's see the next thing people
Charlie Cooper: looked up, "King Princess tour."
Charlie Cooper: Prep for
Charlie Cooper: that - what's that look like for
Charlie Cooper: you?
King Princess: Oh, yeah.
King Princess: Well, this summer
King Princess: I'm going on a
King Princess: no. I have a show with the
King Princess: Red Hot Chili Peppers, which is
King Princess: fucking crazy.
King Princess: The Strokes and the Red Hot Chili
King Princess: Peppers. It's the first time I'm
King Princess: playing like a football stadium
King Princess: where the boys run.
King Princess: Where the boys throw the ball.
King Princess: The
King Princess: men in the balls.
King Princess: But yeah, so that's going to be
King Princess: insane. And then after that, I'm
King Princess: going on tour, I'm opening for
King Princess: Florence, who I love
King Princess: and is a good friend, and
King Princess: I'm really excited for that because
King Princess: she puts on the most incredible
King Princess: show like I've seen
King Princess: her, I've seen her play
King Princess: and it's just like insane.
King Princess: So I'm looking forward to watching
King Princess: her show and opening and getting her
King Princess: crowd warmed up for her.
King Princess: And then I'm going to go in the Hold
King Princess: On Baby tour, just coming
King Princess: to a city near you and is
King Princess: on sale on my website.
Charlie Cooper: Shameless plug.
Charlie Cooper: I love it.
King Princess: I have to sell these tickets. I have to tell the girls where the tickets
King Princess: are.
Charlie Cooper: I'm out at a set
Charlie Cooper: list. How are you compiling it?
Charlie Cooper: How are you deciding what's what
Charlie Cooper: you're playing?
King Princess: I'm really into the idea of playing
King Princess: the whole album.
King Princess: It's not that long.
King Princess: It's only like.
King Princess: I don't know, 11
King Princess: or 12 songs. It's like I feel like
King Princess: I could do the whole album and then
King Princess: do like some of the ones
King Princess: like favorites from other
King Princess: works. But I would love
King Princess: to be able to play the whole thing
King Princess: because it feels like a journey and
King Princess: like, you know, I love
King Princess: when artists do that. Like, I love
King Princess: going to see a show of an album
King Princess: that you really like that's new and
King Princess: they give you the whole album.
King Princess: Like, that is so generous,
King Princess: I think,
King Princess: because it allows you to really
King Princess: experience the music and
King Princess: live and maybe the songs
King Princess: that you wouldn't necessarily stream
King Princess: as much. Now you've seen them live
King Princess: and you really have a connection to
King Princess: it and found something in it.
King Princess: I want people to find what they want
King Princess: in the record. I'm not going to
King Princess: force music down people's throat
King Princess: and only play certain songs like I
King Princess: want everyone to find what they love
King Princess: and have that be theirs.
Charlie Cooper: How do you
Charlie Cooper: plan on documenting the tour as it
Charlie Cooper: goes on?
King Princess: Yeah totally we are, me and my bass
King Princess: player, Logan started, well, he
King Princess: started bringing
King Princess: a camera on like a little digital
King Princess: camera on tour.
King Princess: And it was he started with a film
King Princess: camera for photos, and then he
King Princess: brought this digital camera.
King Princess: And he's always the one to, like,
King Princess: bring something that ends up being
King Princess: like the fan favorite of our group.
King Princess: And so he brought the camera and we
King Princess: ended up filming like so much
King Princess: funny shit, like just dumb,
King Princess: really cute moments
King Princess: backstage and behind the scenes.
King Princess: And to me it's like that is the most
King Princess: like tour is way more
King Princess: mundane and like
King Princess: boring than you think it is.
King Princess: But when you have like a camera,
King Princess: sometimes those boring, mundane
King Princess: moments ends up being so
King Princess: cute and memorable.
King Princess: And I want that.
King Princess: If I want to put anything out with a
King Princess: tour, I want it to be like that,
King Princess: you know.
Charlie Cooper: I love that. Okay. Next up,
Charlie Cooper: "King Princess pronouns." And
Charlie Cooper: I know you've talked in the past
Charlie Cooper: about being somebody who falls kind
Charlie Cooper: of like in the center.
Charlie Cooper: So can you kind of talk about that
Charlie Cooper: and just representing for queer
Charlie Cooper: artists?
King Princess: Yeah. I mean,
King Princess: as far as, you know, I like I knew
King Princess: I was gay, but I think before
King Princess: I knew I was gay, I just knew that I
King Princess: wasn't necessarily
King Princess: I didn't like fit into the
King Princess: body I was assigned.
King Princess: And I started to, you
King Princess: know, dread like puberty
King Princess: and becoming like
King Princess: having woman features.
King Princess: And I think, you know,
King Princess: now that there's like language to
King Princess: describe that it obviously took me
King Princess: longer to like get those words
King Princess: than it did to say, well, I'm gay
King Princess: because I liked girls.
King Princess: And that was, you know, that was
King Princess: that. But the gender
King Princess: stuff is a whole other it's a whole
King Princess: other thing. You know, it's it has
King Princess: much more to do with your internal,
King Princess: not relationships, but you're like
King Princess: body and your internal self and your
King Princess: spirit for
King Princess: me. And so I think I,
King Princess: you know, realized that
King Princess: that had always been there.
King Princess: And I'm very proud
King Princess: to be, you know,
King Princess: a non-binary person.
King Princess: Like proof for, you know,
King Princess: the people in this country that
King Princess: can't seem to, like, wrap their mind
King Princess: around someone being
King Princess: not just one thing, that
King Princess: it is very real and it's very,
King Princess: um, and
King Princess: that non-binary people have been
King Princess: integral, integral to, uh,
King Princess: art and culture for forever.
King Princess: So yeah.
King Princess: And as far as pronouns, I decided,
King Princess: you know, uh, I don't care.
King Princess: I mean, it's to me, it's
King Princess: to me the pronouns, the pronouns
King Princess: situation in my life is never.
King Princess: I've never felt.
King Princess: Offended. He.
King Princess: She. It.
King Princess: They.
King Princess: Xenu.
Charlie Cooper: It's the flexibility.
King Princess: I just.
King Princess: I don't mind because it's for
King Princess: me, it's just like I know who I am,
King Princess: at least at this point in time.
King Princess: And this may change and everyone has
King Princess: the right for it to change.
King Princess: And, you know, over time and
King Princess: but now for right now,
King Princess: I'm just kind of like, I don't care.
King Princess: Don't refer to me at all.
Charlie Cooper: Leave me the fuck alone..
King Princess: Don't refer to I don't want to be
King Princess: referred to.
King Princess: I don't want to be referred to at
King Princess: all.
Charlie Cooper: Okay. So people were also curious
Charlie Cooper: about "King Princess
Charlie Cooper: parents." And I know you talk about
Charlie Cooper: your parents being rock stars.
Charlie Cooper: Do you have a story or a moment
Charlie Cooper: from childhood where you
Charlie Cooper: absolutely like it solidified for
Charlie Cooper: you? Like, Yo, I really want to do
Charlie Cooper: this?
King Princess: Well, I think, you know, growing up
King Princess: in the studio, it was like, you
King Princess: know, I think
King Princess: it's sometimes people think
King Princess: that that it
King Princess: means that I was a lot more plugged
King Princess: into the industry than I was.
King Princess: I really had nothing to do with the
King Princess: industry. It had everything to do
King Princess: with the fact that I'm around sound
King Princess: equipment.
King Princess: Like, that was the part,
King Princess: you know, any functioning recording
King Princess: studio that's of substance has a
King Princess: console, has racks of gear,
King Princess: has synths, has guitars.
King Princess: I'm lucky enough to have grown up in
King Princess: a place that has all of those and
King Princess: really nice ones at that.
King Princess: And so I
King Princess: for me, more so than like me,
King Princess: I don't really meeting people,
King Princess: whatever it was like.
King Princess: I would obviously be in here and
King Princess: hang out with the bands and and
King Princess: stuff. But like more than anything,
King Princess: being in this room with
King Princess: this equipment just made me
King Princess: want to do this.
King Princess: Like this is where I feel at home.
King Princess: It's where I feel safe
King Princess: in the studio.
King Princess: So, you know,
King Princess: obviously watching my dad
King Princess: record was fucking
King Princess: sick and made me want to record
King Princess: stuff, you know.
Charlie Cooper: It just made sense.
Charlie Cooper: It sounds.
King Princess: Like totally. And there was always
King Princess: there was always instruments in both
King Princess: my houses like that that was
King Princess: always just, you know,
King Princess: it was always there as an option,
King Princess: which I think is really cool because
King Princess: like, when shit's just around, you
King Princess: pick it up.
Charlie Cooper: Right. Right.
Charlie Cooper: I love that you were allowed to do
Charlie Cooper: so, though, because this is some
Charlie Cooper: expensive shit, but you were allowed
Charlie Cooper: to, like, touch it and play with it
Charlie Cooper: and.
King Princess: Oh, yeah, like my toys were like,
King Princess: you know, as a little, little kid
King Princess: was like, my dad would give me like
King Princess: a microphone in a box,
King Princess: you know, and not even figure it out
King Princess: would just be like, you know, like,
King Princess: oh, what do you want? There's lights
King Princess: on it. You want something? Something with lights??
King Princess: I guess that it's true.
King Princess: It's like that is this is very
King Princess: sensory for a kid.
King Princess: Like lights, knobs, sounds
King Princess: I
King Princess: think it was. I mean, like, I'm so
King Princess: grateful for that experience,
King Princess: brother.
Charlie Cooper: Yeah. Okay, so
Charlie Cooper: very last one.
Charlie Cooper: People were curious about Quinn,
Charlie Cooper: and I know that you.
King Princess: Quinn!
Charlie Cooper: I know it went down in the DMs,
Charlie Cooper: but talk to me a little bit about
Charlie Cooper: because in your song you talk about
Charlie Cooper: loving you, taking patience.
Charlie Cooper: Is there something that you
Charlie Cooper: absolutely know that Quinn is
Charlie Cooper: patient with you on?.
King Princess: [to Quinn] I want to hear me answer this
King Princess: question.
King Princess: I knew you'd come running.
Quinn: Yeah, I did, I heard you screaming.
Charlie Cooper: You know,
Charlie Cooper: is there something like when is
Charlie Cooper: patient with you in your
Charlie Cooper: relationship? Whether it be you
Charlie Cooper: leave the door open while you shit,
Charlie Cooper: or it might be who knows what it
Charlie Cooper: is?
King Princess: Well, there's like there's this one
King Princess: song on my record where I it
King Princess: it's about Quinn and
King Princess: I like, kind of talk about some of
King Princess: the shit that you like, you know,
King Princess: when you're like in a relationship
King Princess: and you live together and,
King Princess: you know, like, for instance, I
King Princess: walk very heavy.
King Princess: Like, I shake
King Princess: she says, I shake the house.
King Princess: She's like, she's like "you see these cracks on the walls? They're from
King Princess: your fucking feet!"
King Princess: Like. And so
King Princess: I'm definitely patient about
King Princess: that. But in the song, there's a
King Princess: line that's about me
King Princess: walking heavy footed around the
King Princess: house, and I thought that was very
King Princess: sweet, like to
King Princess: bring that in into the
King Princess: song and you know, something like,
King Princess: you know, when you live together,
King Princess: there's like shit that gets and,
King Princess: you know, starts to become
King Princess: frustrating. I'm sure I'm a very
King Princess: frustrating person. I'm sorry, baby!
Charlie Cooper: Maybe. So I would say if you
Charlie Cooper: had a dating profile, but if you had
Charlie Cooper: a life partner profile, what would
Charlie Cooper: be like your the one liner
Charlie Cooper: and what photo from like your
Charlie Cooper: Instagram.
King Princess: Oh, for like for what I would say
King Princess: about myself.
Charlie Cooper: Exactly.
King Princess: Monster Diva seeks
King Princess: validation from gorgeous
King Princess: woman.
King Princess: That's what I would say.
Charlie Cooper: What would be the photo that you
Charlie Cooper: pair with that from your Instagram?
King Princess: Probably like one of my face tunes.
King Princess: You see my face tonight?
King Princess: Yeah, like one of my face tonight,
King Princess: maybe.
King Princess: I don't know. I really did not get
King Princess: the experience of having a
King Princess: dating profile.
King Princess: Really? Like, very briefly,
King Princess: was I on the apps?
Charlie Cooper: Because
Charlie Cooper: you're not missing anything.
King Princess: Well, it's because, you know,
King Princess: most of the world doesn't know who I
King Princess: am, but, you know who does. The
King Princess: lesbians.
King Princess: So I was like, I can't
King Princess: be on here.
Charlie Cooper: So
Charlie Cooper: not too bad.
Charlie Cooper: It's true. Well, you know what,
Charlie Cooper: then? Good thinking is for Quinn
Charlie Cooper: for just three years.
Charlie Cooper: You know, you don't have to deal
Charlie Cooper: with that bull, though.
King Princess: Yeah, that's my baby girl.
Charlie Cooper: I love it. I love it.
Charlie Cooper: Well, KP, thank you for just being a
Charlie Cooper: transparent this entire
Charlie Cooper: time and giving us the laughs on
Charlie Cooper: this. Google me, baby.
King Princess: Yes, of course.
King Princess: Have fun on the on the Twitch.
Charlie Cooper: She's "like, whatever the fuck is."
King Princess: Have fun.
King Princess: Play that. Some games.