Are there artists or bands you guys listen to that inspire your creative process when you’re making music in general?

B: So The Killers are a big one, but the coolest thing about that is, you know we love the band The Killers like ‘Mr. Brightside’ and all those songs… but [the inspiration for] ‘Beyond Flowers’ came from The Killers. The lead singer’s name in the band is Brandon Flowers, and he’s kind of the only one who gets all the glory and the recognition for the[ir] success. But, we decided to name the song ‘Beyond Flowers’ because it’s about The Killers and about them inspiring us to do our music so we decided to name it [that specifically] because there’s more than just Brandon Flowers in the whole band [since] all of them work together. There a lot of… like “Marz” is kind of like a John Mayer vibe, almost. There [are] a lot of different artists we like and listen to [who inspire us].

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In September of last year, y’all dropped [a single called] ‘Jimmy the Chameleon’. When you guys sat down to write it, did you know what you wanted the song to be about or how it was going to sound like? How was the process of making that?

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B: So ‘Jimmy the Chameleon’ was an interesting one. Basically, I started my TikTok and started this songwriting challenge where I’d [write a song based on] what the top comment says. And one day I got a comment, kinda like a joke, just saying ‘write a song about a Chameleon who gets lost in the woods and he’s 6-years-old, and so… I didn’t expect anything from it and I just thought it would be funny to actually write about that and release it. So I sat down for 20 minutes, wrote a song about a chameleon named Jimmy, and we released it and it kinda blew up. [Now it has almost] a million plays on Spotify and so we are very happy about that.

What was y’alls initial reaction to seeing the rapid growth of that song?
 

B: I was really shocked, of course really excited. But honestly, ‘Jimmy the Chameleon’ was a song that we worked the least for, so the music that we were really passionate about and worked really hard [for] didn’t do as well as Jimmy did. So it was funny because it was the one we least expected to blow up. But, when Jimmy came along we noticed that our plays for ‘Alton Bridge’ also went up so all around we were super excited about it.

If you guys were to describe your music as a setting, you know how people curate oddly specific playlists, how would you describe your music if you were to create a playlist like that?

H: I would describe it as Alternative-Indie, [with] the stuff we have out now. But I think that we’re going to be working towards opening it up to a huge variety of music like [into] different categories.

What do you guys have planned for releasing music, do you have any on releasing music later this year?
 

H: I don’t know, are we Diego?

D: I’m the one who’s inviting y’all to a record label place where The Strokes recorded. Y’all just gotta come down.

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B: It’s hard because Diego is in Mexico, and he’s the biggest producer out of all of us like he kinda produced Alton Bridge on the computer but we do have projects planned, and we’re sending each other projects back and forth. There’s no specific song that we have a release date for, but we definitely [are planning] in the next couple of month to release a new single
 

I know you guys are all together and in high school, but do you have any long-term plans compared to short-term?

H: We have a pact. I think it’s kind of different for everyone because we all have stuff going on. But for me personally, music is something that we’d like to pursue. It’s just difficult with everyone being in different places. But maybe later in the future, when we’re a little older maybe we’ll get more serious about it and sit down [and do something].