It doesn’t have to be Beyoncé standing on a stage in front of a fucking massive FEMINISM sign. Whenever you really love music, you’re always looking for stuff that gives you strength and makes you feel empowered. Little tiny things like that kick me off. They went to the Discord House in Washington DC, and there’s a very short scene a sign on the door that says “No Girls Allowed.” And was like “I’m not fucking having this, let’s make our own movement, let’s make our punk rock.” The fucking door of the mecca of punk rock of and there’s a fucking sign that says “No Girls Allowed.” And it was probably some stupid boy who wrote it.īut the point is: It was there, and she saw, and it got her fired up, and she created this community. She was watching the documentary Another State of Mind. I was reading this anecdote about how Tobi Vail started Bikini Kill. I get excited about music and all the little details. One thing that is true about Ballet School is that more than anything I am music fan. It’s dream pop, but it’s putting femininity out there unabashedly and saying “this is what it means to be feminine,” which is sort of a punk thing itself. You talked about learning about feminism from Riot Grrl, and there's a Riot Grrl influence in your music. I spoke with Rosie from her family’s home in Ireland about Berlin as a modern-day arts haven, the expression of feminism through aesthetics, and why boys just don't get it. Ballet School seems in love with pop music this album is its love letter, sealed with sterling kisses covered in stick-on earrings. People often think of pop music as a commoditized vehicle for popular sexuality or heartbreak, but rarely as a medium which grants meaning in and of itself.
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On the whole, The Dew Lasts an Hour is dazzling and full of the kinds of pop sensibilities that are more often relegated to songs with Swedish house beats. It's a release that has been bittersweet for Rosie, as it coincided with the passing of her father, but the joy from the album coming out was evident in her voice. The band found a fitting home with Bella Union Records, and The Dew Lasts an Hour came out earlier this week.
She headhunted the other members, Michel Collet (guitar) and Louis McGuire (drums), and Ballet School released its single “Heartbeat Overdrive” last year to almost instant acclaim.
Ballet School came together in Berlin in 2011, after Rosie relocated from Ireland with the goal of pursuing music and taking advantage of the city's relative affordability. Rosie describes the process of forming her own band as something drawn from a Riot Grrl paradigm and a precise vision less commonplace than it might seem: to make pop music backed by a band.
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