hi ariel what is Alex talking about in this new interview? bc i never understand him lol :D
im probably not the best at explaining stuff but i did take a moment to just transcribe the entire interview as best as i could so here u go
Interviewer: How did sexy creep into Arctic Monkeys?
Alex: I mean I always thought we were pretty sexy.
Nick: We stopped hiding it. We allowed it to come out, I think. We crept in sexy, I think, rather than it creeping into us.
Alex: Yeah, I thought it was always there, to be honest, but I mean ... but I guess, yeah, y'know, the rhythms ... I guess that makes you maybe wanna move around differently to this record than you did ... It wasn't like we were thinking of a way to make it more slippery.
Interviewer: So you didn't make one for the ladies?
Alex: No, in my mind ... to some extent you've been trying to do that all along. We never tried to make music that was just for boys. But, I mean, I can see why you're asking that because there's certainly a more explosive response from females to this latest ... offering. I mean, I suppose we used to play like we wanted it to be over, and now we don't mind if it sorta goes on for a while. Everything used to be so tightly wound in the beginning and I think that's just because ... it was just sorta that naivety and the fact that we were just kinda playing to the very limits of our ability, and as time's gone on, we've become marginally more accomplished as musicians. Y'know, this space in it that we would've in the past filled in.
Interviewer: Is it also sunny LA creeping into the music instead of rainy Sheffield?
Alex: Being there and spending time in Los Angeles may have ... probably did have some influence on it but I'm not exactly sure what it is. Yeah, I mean, maybe ... We wanted this record to kinda really knock like hip-hop does in the car. And maybe that's 'cause in that town you spend a lot of time sitting in the car.
Nick: And now, y'know, we've been playing for ... however long years, I think we can afford to throw those hips around a little more, which we wouldn't have been able to do when we were, y'know, twenty years old, because we were just so busy concentrating on playing everything really strict.
Interviewer: So you do look good on the dancefloor these days.
Alex: Always did. Yeah. Even when I was dancing around to 'Panic' as a, uh -- the Smiths song, that is -- as a sixteen-year-old.
