you may recognize this frat-boy
electro-pop duo as the band that sings
that Helen Keller saw your girl shut
your lips do the helen keller and talk
with your hips hi I’m Rebecca Brayton
and welcome to watching with calm and
today we’re speaking with 303 girl I
gotta know not a show we always like to
start with the origin stories of the
band’s new entry so tell us how 303
originated well we met on match com back
when we were so we actually Sean and I
met at the University of Colorado it
became pretty evident that we had
similar musical tastes I was DJing at
the time and he was emceeing and so we
go and unlike my disgusting dark sweaty
basement and just make music I would
spin records and even freestyle and
stuff then eventually started producing
music and we both start singing and got
some local shows like from our friends
who played in bands and then from there
like pretty quickly went to headlining
on been using in a in Colorado and kind
of kept it at that for a while because
we were both finishing school and when
we finish school we want to make a CD
like I of an official see we got signed
and kind of concurrently with that went
out on the warp tour in 2008 you make me
stop make me stop make me food
ladies ladies so what kind of music did
you grow up listening to we’ve had both
grown out listen to a lot of different
kinds music our parents instilled in us
a lot of like keen on their own whether
it was old rock or blues or bluegrass or
classical music jazz or whatever so and
then on our own we didn’t visually come
to hip-hop and electronic music there
was a big underground hip-hop thing
going on in part like I said with people
coming through and touring and for Sean
and I was like that was hip hop music
that was pretty innovative and was doing
different stuff and so I mean we bonded
a lot over that stuff enjoy dinner y’all
paranoid now I saw the band’s music
described as a Celine Dion week-long
meth binge give any other descriptions
for music that wasn’t that was pretty
good on I guess the same there’s a lot
of humor and not too seriousness about
all the stuff we do it in the same sense
I think we’re very serious about making
music and about making fun music and
about making different sounding songs
you know we’re excited about making you
know catchy sounding pop music oh
hopefully sounds a little bit different
and then within that making a much
different sounding music and most
important just having fun you know
having fun at our shows making sure
people come talk shows that fun and also
have having a lot of fun and and doing a
lot of hopefully new cool things
creatively when we make music
and how do you feel about this new
phenomenon of mixing genres I mean what
kind of opportunities does that open up
for you we do it consciously especially
a lot at first I think we did it
consciously in our music but now I think
it’s we think about it less than then
maybe other people might assume it’s not
like we say like oh let’s make a you
know a garage rock hip-hop song it’s
more just we just start making music and
make what feels right and make what
sounds cool to us and you know obviously
we bring a lot of influences from from a
lot of different jobs and of what we do
but it’s it’s I think it’s less
conscious for us it’s more just use a
lot of the tools that we have and make
music that sounds cool to us first and
foremost and then you know if they are
friends like it and play for hands
electro-pop duo as the band that sings
that Helen Keller saw your girl shut
your lips do the helen keller and talk
with your hips hi I’m Rebecca Brayton
and welcome to watching with calm and
today we’re speaking with 303 girl I
gotta know not a show we always like to
start with the origin stories of the
band’s new entry so tell us how 303
originated well we met on match com back
when we were so we actually Sean and I
met at the University of Colorado it
became pretty evident that we had
similar musical tastes I was DJing at
the time and he was emceeing and so we
go and unlike my disgusting dark sweaty
basement and just make music I would
spin records and even freestyle and
stuff then eventually started producing
music and we both start singing and got
some local shows like from our friends
who played in bands and then from there
like pretty quickly went to headlining
on been using in a in Colorado and kind
of kept it at that for a while because
we were both finishing school and when
we finish school we want to make a CD
like I of an official see we got signed
and kind of concurrently with that went
out on the warp tour in 2008 you make me
stop make me stop make me food
ladies ladies so what kind of music did
you grow up listening to we’ve had both
grown out listen to a lot of different
kinds music our parents instilled in us
a lot of like keen on their own whether
it was old rock or blues or bluegrass or
classical music jazz or whatever so and
then on our own we didn’t visually come
to hip-hop and electronic music there
was a big underground hip-hop thing
going on in part like I said with people
coming through and touring and for Sean
and I was like that was hip hop music
that was pretty innovative and was doing
different stuff and so I mean we bonded
a lot over that stuff enjoy dinner y’all
paranoid now I saw the band’s music
described as a Celine Dion week-long
meth binge give any other descriptions
for music that wasn’t that was pretty
good on I guess the same there’s a lot
of humor and not too seriousness about
all the stuff we do it in the same sense
I think we’re very serious about making
music and about making fun music and
about making different sounding songs
you know we’re excited about making you
know catchy sounding pop music oh
hopefully sounds a little bit different
and then within that making a much
different sounding music and most
important just having fun you know
having fun at our shows making sure
people come talk shows that fun and also
have having a lot of fun and and doing a
lot of hopefully new cool things
creatively when we make music
and how do you feel about this new
phenomenon of mixing genres I mean what
kind of opportunities does that open up
for you we do it consciously especially
a lot at first I think we did it
consciously in our music but now I think
it’s we think about it less than then
maybe other people might assume it’s not
like we say like oh let’s make a you
know a garage rock hip-hop song it’s
more just we just start making music and
make what feels right and make what
sounds cool to us and you know obviously
we bring a lot of influences from from a
lot of different jobs and of what we do
but it’s it’s I think it’s less
conscious for us it’s more just use a
lot of the tools that we have and make
music that sounds cool to us first and
foremost and then you know if they are
friends like it and play for hands
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