{"id":5645,"date":"2021-09-21T21:16:02","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T18:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alyandajrussia.tk\/en\/?p=5645"},"modified":"2021-09-21T21:16:02","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T18:16:02","slug":"aly-aj-for-interview-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alyandajrussia.tk\/en\/aly-aj-for-interview-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Aly & AJ for Interview Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Check Aly & AJ<\/strong>‘s beautiful photoshoot for Interview Magazine<\/strong> and interview<\/a> they gave.<\/p>\n

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\nReinvention is a tough look to pull off\u2014especially in a revolving door industry\u2014 but the Michalka sisters make it look easy. You know them as Aly & AJ, the synth-pop sister act that filled your iPod Mini with chart toppers like \u201cPotential Breakup Song.\u201d After a ten-year hiatus triggered by the trauma and overstimulation of early fame, the duo made a seamless return with Ten Years, an album of hard-hitting pop and dance floor tracks that triggered a phoenix-like revival. In the three years since, they\u2019ve released two further albums\u2014last year\u2019s We Don\u2019t Stop, and this summer\u2019s a touch of the beat gets you up on your feet gets you out and then into the sun\u2014 a prolific outpouring of more meditative music rooted in growth. This month, Aly & AJ released \u201cGet Over Here,\u201d a synth-heavy funk track that the pair describes as \u201ca nostalgic ballad about potent love.\u201d At 32 and 30 respectively Aly and AJ are throwing open a new door in their musical evolution. To mark the release, the pair took a moment to chat\u2014with each other, for us\u2014between the many Fashion Week events they were hurrying to attend. Below, the pair discusses everything from how to turn trauma into music, to their joint crush on St. Vincent.
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\nAJ<\/strong>: This is the first interview we\u2019ve conducted where we actually each other, which I love.
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\nALY<\/strong>: It is.
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\nAJ<\/strong>: Aly, let\u2019s start out with something basic. Is there a song that you\u2019re most excited about in the deluxe release?
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\nALY<\/strong>: I\u2019d say \u201cWay Way Back<\/strong>.\u201d I\u2019m excited about that song because it had such a long rewriting process. We wrote that maybe four years ago, remember? It was a completely different song at first. Now, it\u2019s really about wanting to revisit love that you\u2019ve experienced with someone in the past, whether it\u2019s young love or a heartbreak. We know who it\u2019s kind of about, I think\u2014 especially for you.
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\nAJ<\/strong>: It\u2019s our version of a nostalgic heartbreak song.
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\nALY<\/strong>: Obviously we love The National, we go to all their shows. I have a good question for you\u2026 I don\u2019t know, it\u2019ll be interesting to see how you react to this. So I was thinking about how \u201cDead on the Beach\u201d came about.
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\nAJ<\/strong>: That\u2019s one of the deluxe songs.
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\nALY<\/strong>: I want to word this the right way. You had a near-death experience during the pandemic that was not COVID-related, and \u201cDead on the Beach\u201d came from that. Why do you think that song happened the way it did? I wasn\u2019t actually a part of that song at all, which is very rare that we would not both be a part of song creation.
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\nAJ<\/strong>: Yes, I had a very intense experience in May of 2020. It happened near the beach. It\u2019s something that I really had to work through in terms of trauma. Between therapy and songwriting, I\u2019ve been able to exorcise some of that pain. I wrote it at my dad\u2019s beach house in Laguna while my boyfriend and I were smoking a joint, and Ray LaMontagne was playing in the background. We were listening to his record and I had my acoustic guitar and I just started playing this song. The songwriting happened in one night. Sometimes songwriting ends up like that\u2014 magical. It\u2019s something that you\u2019ve created out of thin air.
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\nALY<\/strong>: And it\u2019s only partially tied to you.
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\nAJ<\/strong>: This was my first experience of writing trauma into a song. It was a healing moment.
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