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MAKO Girls on Inspiration, Collaboration, and Shaping Their Narrative · The Scene Projects

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Welcome in to another exciting episode of the scene.
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I'm your host, Bubba Starts, and it is my great pleasure to welcome in the Mako girls.
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Welcome to the show.
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So excited.
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Well, I know we have Mimi, Anai, and Kina here with us today.
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This is a little bit more difficult, but I'm sure you guys are used to this, you know,
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speaking in tandem like this.
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But off the top of the show, I always like to get a little bit of the backstory on the
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groups.
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And I don't know if you want to go kind of individually and give a little bit of your
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individual backgrounds and then coming together or how you wanna do it, but I'm gonna let you
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figure it out.
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Alright.
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That's perfectly fine.
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We're actually sisters, so our start is all pretty much the same.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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We were inspired by the boy group model's behavior in 2012, honestly, to just actually
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because we was entertaining for fun.
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But seeing their process and their documentary inspired us to create it I mean, to do music as
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a career.
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Mhmm.
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So literally after seeing them, after watching their process, we started looking for our
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vocal coach.
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And now I found our vocal coach.
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She found at 10 years old, we really started, taking more dance classes, like, just trying to
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actually put the package together, what Makeover Girls is gonna look like.
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And literally after, I would say, 2014 having our first single, we was getting the ball
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rolling, doing different shows, talent shows, just getting our name out there.
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Incredible.
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Yeah.
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So you've been at this for a little while now, but you've always had this vision for what it
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should be.
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Right?
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It it was never, you know, in question what you wanted to do.
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It was just a matter of how you're going to get there.
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Obviously, you know, having, you know, 2020 hit in the middle of your career, right, as I'm
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sure you're starting to build momentum and that kind of crushing everything as it did for so
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many people in the music business.
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But now you're back.
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You're you're nominated for the Southern Entertainment Awards, best girl group.
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Was that the nomination?
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Yes.
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It was.
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Yeah.
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Incredible.
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Talk about what it means for you.
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I mean, you've been doing this for over a decade.
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Talk about what it means to be nominated for an award like this.
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Oh, I feel like it's like a recognition of our hard work since we've been doing it for, like,
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twelve years.
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It's like twelve years of work finally put into the forefront.
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I think it's actually giving like, typically, when you are, like, doing like, in the music
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industry in general, you never really acknowledge, like, at least how you are, who
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you are, the the type of influence that you do have in the industry.
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And so to be able to just be nominated, like, hey.
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These are, like, one of the best girl groups out here.
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I'm just like, oh, they see what we're doing.
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So we're on the right path, but we just gotta keep moving and keep grinding.
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And so it really feels nice.
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Even if win or don't win, the fact that we're being acknowledged as one of the best is always
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an honor.
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Yeah.
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I I think that's so important that, like you said, even if you don't win the acknowledgment
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and and the separation of you from the rest of the people that are out there and working,
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especially in such a, an amazing music community like Atlanta is, it could be hard to
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separate yourself from the local scene.
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Right?
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Like, I live in South Dakota.
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Right?
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There's just not a lot of people, period.
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So we we kinda stand out wherever we go.
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But having been on this tour, you know, going through a place, you know, a city like Dallas
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or Austin or, you know, Atlanta that it can be super difficult to even separate yourself from
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the rest of those, and part timers don't make that happen.
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I mean, we we see the professionalism, from just looking at your home studio there.
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That is not an AI backdrop there.
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No.
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This this
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is the workspace, the lab, the battle station, whatever you ladies call it.
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But that's where you you're creating this.
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So are you self producing your music as well?
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No.
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I wish we was having all the skills.
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You know?
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We had everything in our bag.
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We'll be set to go.
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But, no, we work with a lot of different, producers.
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Our engineer comes here, spends a lot of nights with us in this studio.
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We could send demos.
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We write with other writers coming in the studio.
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So it's a whole collaborative experience when we're making music, and, like, this is just the
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hub for where it all happens.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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What a major leg up, though, to have the space that people could come into.
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I mean, that's at least one less thing to have to worry about.
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Yeah.
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One less ticket to pay for, honestly.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And I would say that it you know, cheaper to build your own and to have it permanently,
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although the upfront cost is there.
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You can now create for decades to come inside of your space and then only having to hire the
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talent behind the board, and and also having those relationships with people.
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Like you said, your engineer spends a lot of time sitting in that chair staring at those
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screens in that board.
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Yes.
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Oh, yeah.
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All the time.
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And, honestly, when we are having our show, our creative director, her and her team will come
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in.
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We'll just talk about how we wanna do our show set, and they'll come in here.
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We'll just vibe out to the music.
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Our manager and our engineer work together with the sound company, so they bring all they sit
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in here a lot of the times too just to No.
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We have some more speakers.
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Like, you know what
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we need?
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Some more speakers.
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Yeah.
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Did you see our practice room?
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Because it's also in our house as well.
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We used to have speakers lining the walls, like, barely any room to actually practice,
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practice, but we covered our mirrors.
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We was prepared for anything, honestly.
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Well and you have to be in this day and age and with the huge vision that you have for your
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careers and and where it's going is that you need to have all of the things in place.
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It it can be so hard to do it all.
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Does do you find it to be advantageous?
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I know your sisters and you grew up together, but to have such a tight knit team even beyond
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the, you know, the three of you, it sounds like you have a pretty awesome team around you.
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Yeah.
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I think it's the best thing because everybody knows the vision.
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They know us personally.
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Yeah.
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So that way they know how we work.
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They know what we struggle in.
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Honestly, they know
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us enough.
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The things out of us
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that need.
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So they know us enough to actually get the results we're looking for, and we're all on the
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same page.
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Like, I think that's the only way we wanna work is if somebody is on the same page with the
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vision we see for ourselves because there's times when we sometimes feel down.
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So having them around to be like, y'all, I got this idea or, hey.
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This song is perfect.
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Let's do this.
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Like, pushing us like, lifting us back up on the days we feel down is, like, the best to
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have that team.
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Say, like, our team has the best, like, communication.
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Yeah.
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They like, our dynamics, we literally are able to pull from everybody or just draw inspiration
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from everyone that we work with and then even just, oh, like, come meet me saying you for
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feeling down.
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They're like, no.
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I see this for you.
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Like, if you don't stay down there, you get up because we believe in your vision.
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We're push you to make sure you get there.
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Like, it's so they're so supportive.
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Like, we absolutely They
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They get us hype all
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the time.
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Even with the writing process because sometimes we'll we're all sisters.
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So we all kinda link, sync up, and every time when we're writing songs, it's like, we're
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stuck in that same process.
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There'll be some people that are like, okay.
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Let's just try this.
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Let's let's throw something new in there and that helps get the creative juices flowing as
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well.
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Right.
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And because you've grown up creating together that that sometimes, like you said, you can get
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that stuck in that rut altogether as well.
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So you need some outside influence to to bring in and to kinda shake things up and give you a
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little bit different perspective.
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Oh, yes.
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For sure.
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I feel like we all live the same lives and different thoughts.
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So somebody different with other life experiences, hey.
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Bring them on.
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We wanna hear it all.
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Right.
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And and exactly what you just touched on was a big impetus for why I started the scene
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projects.
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Obviously, with so many independent creators out there and in the Midwest, we aren't
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congregated in one small scene.
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Right?
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We're we're not in a small geographical area where we can, oh, I'm just gonna cruise over to
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their place or I'm gonna go to this show or that show.
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It was really spread out across a a wide, geographical area.
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It So became really important to me to build that community online, whether it's, you know,
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through the podcast or Facebook groups or whatever we're doing to kind of be the team,
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right, without being official with a a lot of people that we can loosely be associated with
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one another and can offer that encouragement or advice where it's not always readily available.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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That's true.
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That's a good good concept.
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I like it.
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So flip side of the coin, how do you handle conflict, with one another?
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Because I'm sure there is some.
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Is it, drawing straws, or is it kind of, yeah.
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How how do you handle that being so tight knit?
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I'm sure there's times where everyone's not in exact alignment as well.
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Oh, yeah.
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We get into the fist fight, I'm doing that.
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It'll be over things like, okay.
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Who has okay.
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First off, what we learned growing up from our mom, she preached this heavily to us is that,
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like, your sisters are all that you have in this life, and so, like, you have to treat one
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one another with one respect.
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And then the main thing is to have great communication across the board.
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So, like, when we speak to each other we're never speaking to each other out of, like, mal
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intent.
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Like, we're really just over here, like, hey.
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I'm letting you know this because I care about you.
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This is how I feel about certain situations.
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Like, we
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know when or we're like, hey.
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I'm telling you this because it's wrong.
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I'm not telling you this just to be saying it.
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Like, we're pretty upfront with each other, but we just learn how to communicate and how each
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person likes to be communicated to to actually, like, be more effective and things like that.
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So we're we're sisters at the end of day, so very upfront with each other all the time.
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But I think overall, we have really good communication.
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So if we are into it about anything,
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not just who took the charger.
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That's why I serve.
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Or if there's an
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adding care item, An attitude that day, I'll just talk to you in a couple hours.
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Like, I I don't wanna deal with you
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right now.
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Me just take it real quick.
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Let me process.
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I'll I'll get back to you, like, one to two business days.
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No.
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But yeah.
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So how do you handle the duties of singing?
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That's kind of interesting to me.
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Is there one of you that is kind of the lead or is everyone kinda taking their parts and
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singing backgrounds at different times and harmonies?
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Like, what is the sound?
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How is that affected by being a trio?
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Oh, yeah.
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So cool thing
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about leaders.
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Right.
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The cool
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thing about our group is that we each literally do it.
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And it's also dependent upon the song in all honesty.
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Like, there is no key.
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Like, maybe you're gonna be, like, the lead, and then Kina and I are gonna handle, like,
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backing and stuff like that.
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It's like, okay.
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Whose voice fits this song the best?
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Alright.
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So I can roll low register.
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Are we we're gonna throw either Mimi or Kina on the song?
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Or if it's,
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like, in a higher register, then Anais, this is all you.
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Like, a lot of times we play to each other's strengths, or a lot of times if we hear a song,
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we're like, hey.
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I really love this part.
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Can I call this go ahead and take this one?
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We will do that in a heartbeat if we're
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That's when the fist to cuffs come out.
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Oh, yeah.
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Yeah.
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Start knocking teeth.
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No.
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Yeah.
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We actually just did that first song that we're currently working on.
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There was, like, one part of the, like, rap, and I was like, I actually wanna do this.
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Like, guys, please let me get the chance.
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Give me the opportunity.
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I swear I'll do good.
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Yeah.
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We're we're big on, like, hey.
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If you want a part, say it.
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And then if not, if everybody's just free for all, then we'll just split it up for, like,
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nice day for whoever's voice fits it best.
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Well, and the advantage of having the home studio is that you could all three record the
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same part if you wanted to and kinda pick and choose from that as well instead of kinda being
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under the gun in a studio that's costing several $100 an hour that you don't always have
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that capability even if you might have to sneak in, like, after dark sometime to record it so
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you're not
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The only person who probably could get away would be me because I'm learning how to record
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myself.
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So our engineers send me a template I can learn, and he's teaching me.
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So I'll be in here a lot of the times just like, hey.
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I wanna record these backgrounds and see what they sound like when nobody else listening.
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I'm trying to pull them in because it's so fun when you can actually working on me.
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It's working on Kino.
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But you slowly just come in here and you don't have no pressure because there's no we're not
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really recording a song for real.
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Like, we're just throwing out ideas, so you have the freedom to just do whatever.
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But I personally would be that one in here sneak it to 5AM in the morning.
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If the party is gonna be right.
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I'm going downstairs to get some snacks, and I just see Mimi downstairs in the studio.
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Just like, girl, go to bed.
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My blanket didn't all.
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I get comfortable.
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I have my whole setup.
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Yeah.
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Well, and it can be addicting, especially learning a new process in that as a creative
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person.
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And I admire you for for taking that chance.
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Even though you have the team around you and people to do that, you still want to learn
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knowing that, you know, maybe if it's not helping this band, maybe you can help others in
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the future.
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You have this beautiful space.
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I mean, you could be recording that next generation of of sisters that are coming along
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that want to be big stars as well.
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And maybe your mind's not there, and I'm just kinda planting that seed with you now.
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Be big.
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I like that.
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Yeah.
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Well, I'm I I just I'm a little bit older than you gals.
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Alright?
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I'll be 40 in May, and I'm starting to look at my career and what I do a lot differently that
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everything that I do now is about empowering this next generation.
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While I still have my own musical career and I go out and play some shows occasionally and I
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still write and do that, my dreams of chasing, like, a large scale touring lifestyle, that's
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just about me, I'm just kinda beyond that.
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Right?
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Like, I tried that.
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In 2024, I went out with my band and I had some five, six night runs that were going, and I
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literally got there and was like, I don't want this bad enough.
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Right?
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Playing in bars for 20, and I was just like, yeah.
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I'm not into this anymore.
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I I I'm way beyond my, you know, partying phase, and I unlike Mimi, I'm not up at 2AM,
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ever.
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So, regardless of what there is to do, that is that is definitely when I'm sleeping.
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So, like, going out and performing just wasn't for me anymore.
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And I was very blessed to find not just podcasting, but a little bit of mentorship and
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using the twenty five years of knowledge I have about the music business, albeit never at,
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like, the top level.
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I know what it's like to be in the grind and to be in that and can offer something to people
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who are just starting out.
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Oh, yeah.
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And I think we've had a, a the great opportunity to do that as well.
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We have our annual carnival glow party that we were doing every year, and we would put other
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youth artists on to open up for us.
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Because when we were performing, it wasn't a lot of places for young artists to perform.
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Clubs or, like, the really kiddie
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Kiddie events.
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So we was kinda like that middle ground and people who were just above I think it was,
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like, teenage years.
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As long as they were in their teens, they was able to perform, and we would give them an
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opportunity to showcase their talent.
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And anytime we have an event, if we know any artists, we always are like, hey.
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Let's put you on because we know what it's
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like to like your stuff.
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We know that we can see you going places.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Nothing replaces that stage experience.
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Yes.
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Not a not a thing.
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Incredible.
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We've talked a lot about the advantages of of working together, being family, and being close
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knit.
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Are there any, I I and maybe it might be a question for someone else from the outside, but
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do you feel like there's any disadvantages to being as close as you are?
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Honestly, there there is.
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You would think it's not, but there really is.
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Just because everything is done in house, it's kinda hard to separate, like, work and just
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your time as family and sisters.
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And we struggle with that for years of just like, okay.
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When to cut off the conversation about Mako Girl?
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Let's not immediately start our morning about work.
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Like, that was really the challenge for us is just balancing, when we wanted to, like, put
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our Mako hats on and then taking them off or even just finding the time to we're getting
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older now.
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So a lot of the stuff that we're doing even with us being a family is, like, I'm still
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growing up as well as trying to be a unit with my sister.
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So you're trying to balance the growth rate of yourself and what you wanna do with your life
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on top of how you're going to make it work within the group.
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So I feel
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like have, like, similar lives.
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We also have, like, different social groups and stuff as well.
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Like, we also have, like, a little close knit friend group.
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Mhmm.
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But outside of that, we have, like, friends from like, for me, I have friends out of state.
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I go to cons and stuff like that.
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Or Mimi will have, like, other friends other places, so she'll hang out with her boyfriend.
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Anai, that's Muay Thai.
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So she'll go out and hang out with her Muay Thai friends and, like, go out and do other
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things.
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So it's kinda like scheduling how we can hang out with our friends, our family, and Dumiko
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girls as well.
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Nobody's fighting Anai for a part.
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No.
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No.
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She likes to practice all her moves on us, and we're like, that's enough.
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Okay?
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You whatever you want, you got it.
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Because All you hear
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is like, hey.
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Come here real quick.
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I wanna learn.
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So I don't I
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wanna try this move
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out real quick.
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I'm like so you earn respect in the group.
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Now I and not that I'm trying to, like, break up the band or anything, but have any of you
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ever gone out and done anything solo projects even if it's just, like, collaborating with
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with someone else as, like, a feature on something, or is it always Mako girls as a
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unit?
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And I left us for Netflix.
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Oh my god.
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That's our cosplay thing.
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No.
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Not really, actually.
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Like, no.
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Official ones.
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But even if we do, like, solo projects or just stuff with working with other artists, it
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really just expands who Mako girls are.
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So we're not just limited to, like, all the trio sisters.
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Like, you're able to pull stuff from Mimi because she has different interests from me.
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I have different interests from Kina, and so we're able to just kinda add more to our brand
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when we do go out to do solo work because, hey.
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This is Anai, but then Anai is also part of Mako Girls, so you're tapping into both realms
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in a way.
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Yeah.
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So we haven't done it musically, but I know, like, Anai and Kina have a really strong fan
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base and community in, like, anime and gaming and cosplay.
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So a lot of those people who love them for what they do online literally come and see us
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perform, or they're always like, oh my god.
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I can't believe it's y'all, and we go to different events as well.
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So that type of branching off we would do.
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And then, like you said, all the interest kinda helps add to Mako girls and who we can actually
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reach when we're creating.
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Right.
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But it's always, all roads lead back to Mako girls.
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Yeah.
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Pretty much.
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Exciting stuff.
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So talk about the music a little bit and what you got coming up.
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Obviously, the nomination is is huge, but what have you got?
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Any any new music that's coming out soon or that recently came out?
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Oh, yeah.
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We definitely had our we had our first official CD signing at DBS Sounds for our single chasing
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a dream.
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Basically, the song is literally talking about our passion and how much we sacrificed and the
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work we put in and how dedicated we are to our dream.
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We put so many years in.
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We're still going hard for the vision that we see
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for ourselves.
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We also have a docuseries coming out for the, release as well.
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It's gonna be released on YouTube.
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It's a three part episode, so stay tuned for that as well.
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Able to see the process of how literally we grew up from, like, when we were 10, 12, and
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14.
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10 to old.
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Right.
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Right.
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All the all the crazy stuff.
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The improvement of, like, where we are now, where we're looking to go, you'll be seeing all
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of that in our YouTube docuseries.
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Our channel is official Mako girls, and we have a lot more music that's gonna be dropping this
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year.
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We're really gonna be in our people's faces this year to let them know that this is gonna
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be a Mako takeover.
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So, y'all, wherever y'all see us at, like, go ahead hop on.
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Join our Mako Maniacs because we're be going crazy with you guys.
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Yes.
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And we're dropping so much merch.
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We're so excited because we have visions for what we wanna see.
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Our Mako Maniacs wear, like, our style, we wanna make sure we can make that for you guys.
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So we're gonna be doing merch.
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We have we're dropping singles, like, every month, so we're really getting excited and
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ready.
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Summertime is honestly when we outside, so we got to be outside with our merch, with our
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performance.
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Just really, like, a nice and take it over.
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Yeah.
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And you have all this momentum, and the the nomination seems like it's a small part now of
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the year that you were going to have anyway.
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Right?
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So much of this was happening regardless, but you're able to tap into, you know, a nomination
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and hopefully a big win at the SEA and kinda put that feather in your cap as you go along.
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There's really nothing that can stop you girls.
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A friend once told me if, most people, if they put their mind to something, are going to
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accomplish that.
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It's a matter of time.
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Right?
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Well, when you add a second person to that, you probably cut your time in half.
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When you add a third person into that, it it substantially, exponentially decreases the
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amount of time that it takes because you're increasing the amount of energy that you have
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to give to it.
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And I've seen that in our own, I've been able to accomplish so much more in 2025, in the back
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half of '25, into '26 because of the team that are now coming out to support that.
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And I think it's really cool that you're you're you're multimedia.
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Right?
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You're gaming, your videos, and the movie, and the docuseries.
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You're really far ahead of and doing it.
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I think a lot of artists out there and people that I've spoken to, like, they want to do
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that, but either they don't know how or aren't learning how to do it, and it's stuck in that.
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And I feel like, especially with you, that action is a key component of Mako girls, that
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it's not just talk about doing it.
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It's get out there and accomplish the goals.
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Oh, yes.
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You're absolutely right.
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Hit the nail on the head, honestly, because with our docuseries, we literally shot the
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confessionals ourselves.
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We got some mics from our TikTok shop and literally was like, let's do this because
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down all the questions.
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Down all the questions, got the script,
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got mood board and everything.
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Everything.
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Literally, that's how we run a lot of our stuff.
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So if anything we wanted to accomplish when it comes to releases or projects, if we wanna do
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it nine times out of 10, we're back behind the scenes making sure every little case is there
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and learning through the process so people can see it come to life.
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Yeah.
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Incredible.
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I mean, that's why I talked a little bit off camera about the tour that we just came off of,
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but for the same reason where I was like, look.
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This is what we wanna do.
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It's getting tiresome, like, telling people what we want to do.
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I'm just gonna go out and do it.
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I'm gonna roll tape the entire time, and then I'll make my own docuseries or whatever off of
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that to be able to, like, here.
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You wanna know what we do?
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Here it is.
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Right?
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Go watch this fifteen minute video, and you'll have a much better idea of what the scene
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projects are and and who Bubba starts is after that.
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And and for me, it was imperative to just get that done.
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I get tired of talking.
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Right?
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I talk all the damn time.
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Alright.
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Great.
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I wanna be able to just send you a link and be like, yeah.
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If you wanna work with us, get back to me.
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I just don't have the time.
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Oh, I feel that.
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I feel that.
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Yeah.
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For us, it was just people know us, but they don't know our story, or they don't know how
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many how much we'd actually put in behind the scenes to get to where we are.
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So we are like
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Oh, sorry.
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Oh.
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We just go ahead.
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Yeah.
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But I was saying it
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seems like they don't wanna get to know the story because there'll be certain people
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that'll be like, okay.
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Like, I see it, but we wanna change it up.
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We wanna make out do this or look like this or sound like this.
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And it's like, well, that's not what we're going for.
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Yeah.
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I feel like for us, we just was prepared to tell our story though and had having control of
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how we wanted to tell it instead of, like, just waiting for somebody to come find out that they
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wanna tell our story.
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Now when they wanna come and, like, make it grand, like, we can do that, but we kinda have
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the vision of what we're looking for and what we want people to see and know about, like, the
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process that we go through behind the scenes to do what they see every time we, like, step
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outside.
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Yeah.
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I think that's an incredible lesson for any artist out there that don't look for somebody
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to do things for you.
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You wanna control your narrative as much as you can and to control the process as well.
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And now that you've done it one time to not, you know, go back and recreate, you don't need
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a new, you know, behind the music.
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Yeah.
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But you can take what you've learned now and apply that to future releases in every single,
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and maybe it doesn't get a three parter, but you're able to put something together now for
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each because it's it's so important now.
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You have to be engaging with people besides just the music, you know, people thinking that
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they're gonna come out and record a song, and and that song's gonna become a hit, they're
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gonna get signed to a label.
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And, like, that is it's not even a dream anymore.
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Right?
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Like, it doesn't exist.
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It's not reality.
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Not at all.
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Not at all.
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It's literally trial and error,
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trial and error.
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20,000,000 trials, and then something just sparks, yeah, after after all the work that
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goes in behind it.
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Sometimes some people do get like, end up getting lucky and just like, oh, hey.
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This actually blew up.
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But for a majority, it really is just a dedication of the.
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Like, you had to just keep doing it over and over and over again, and then eventually, it
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will take off.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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Great great advice here.
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I I love to see, young people like yourselves that are just out there doing it, especially
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young women.
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I think it's so empowering for other, you know, girls that are growing up now.
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My daughter's nine.
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She wants to be as famous as Taylor Swift.
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I was like, okay, honey.
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Well, that daddy might have to do a lot of work before I can do that for you.
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But teaching them the work, I think and the work ethic is almost something that you can't
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teach.
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Where does that come from, from you girls?
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You you mentioned your mom being very on, I would say, like, the emotional intelligence
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part of teaching you early on to respect one another at the at the very least.
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But where does your work ethic come from, and what keeps you going?
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Right.
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That means they are fucked.
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Yeah.
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Our our Caribbean faults.
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That is where that work ethic come in.
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Okay.
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Caribbean people, we work at two, three jobs, but they, like, stay on it.
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Like They're on top of everything.
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Our dad, he always would instill in us.
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Like, there's just certain things, like, hard work.
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Like, he always told us, especially me when growing up before we was even in Mako girls
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Yeah.
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He would tell me, like, oh, like, don't quit.
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Like, don't give up on something.
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Like, always see, like, see it through to the in a way.
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Like, he never let me quit.
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Yeah.
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And then and then we decided to do makeup girls.
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Like, they truly invest so much into us, like, day in and day out.
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Like, they're always working on just coming up with new things or strategies to apply for us,
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promoting our stuff even while they're at work.
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Like, they've always just shown that kind of hustle mentality in a way because even with him
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growing up, he had to do that.
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And so he went to instill in us to be able to have that extra grind or that hustle to be
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like, okay.
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I wanna put myself out there.
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I want to get to this next level or this anywhere in the world or in the industry, and
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so we have to constantly work for that.
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Like, it's not just gonna be handed to us.
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You have to get out there actively and promote yourself.
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You know?
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Just show the people who you are and just constantly just push yourself, yeah,
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all the time.
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No pudding.
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Yeah.
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No.
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Ironically, like, that's the, like, that's the best part to us is that, like, work.
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Because, like, even when we're going to, like, rehearsals Yeah.
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Where that's the most exciting part for us to work on new things, to come up with new ideas,
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to, like, see the whole process go throughout.
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And come to life.
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Yeah.
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I feel like a lot of people we work with when we're doing any type of choreography, any type
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of boot camp, they're like, y'all work ethic is unmatched.
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Like, y'all are not shying away from anything y'all never done before.
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Y'all are like, let's do it.
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Y'all gonna keep trying until we do have to switch something up.
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Like, I think that's our best, like, attribute.
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Like, when we're going to different places or working with different people, they're just
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like, y'all just don't stop.
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And I feel like, again, it's from our parents because they both run they both ran multiple,
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like, like, their own businesses.
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So we've seen them just grind and build their own clientele doing different things, and I
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feel like watching them and even in this day and age, seeing all these different people
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starting their own companies and doing their own thing, it kinda makes you know, like, you
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can do it too.
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Like, just whatever you wanna do, everything gonna take hard work.
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You might as well do it for something you love doing.
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So I feel like we put that into my play every time we're hitting the stage or rehearsing or
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anything like that.
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Yeah.
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You earned the Mako name.
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That's for sure.
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Yes.
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Definitely did.
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I love it.
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Well, I think that's a great point to kinda cut this off.
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I would love to invite you girls back for an episode of one of our other shows we call Love
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Noise, which, we livestream on Wednesday nights.
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And, we'd love to have you bring in a couple of your songs so we can listen to them live and
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chat even more with you if you would bless us with some more of your time.
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But, anything you need to plug, here's your opportunity.
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Go ahead.
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Oh, yeah.
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Well, first off, everyone can follow us on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok
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at Mako Girls.
29:22
You guys can subscribe to us on YouTube at official Mako Girls.
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Or you can check out all of our information and get our merch on our website at
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www.makogirls.com.
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Mako Girls is spelled m a k o g I r l s.
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Notice that's a k, not a c.
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Our single chasing the dream is available right now on all music platforms.
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So go ahead and stream it and get ready to check out our YouTube channel for the official
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docu docuseries.
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Couldn't have said it better myself, ladies.
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Yeah.
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Thank you so much for taking some time for me today, letting me see the inside of that
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studio.
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Hopefully, one day, I'll have the opportunity to come in person and hang out and listen to
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some unreleased new tracks that you're creating.
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Thank you so much.
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I'm really appreciative of the opportunity to chat with you today, and thank you for being
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part of the scene.
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No problem.
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For having us.