’89 domande a Lipstains – Band
How old are you? Demi is 24 and Ana is 23.
What’s your job? We work a lot in fashion as models and we produce music.
What did you study? Demi graduated in music school (conservatorio) as a violist and composer, and Ana studied biomedicine.
What do you think about cloning? Would you get cloned if you had the chance? We are not against it but wouldn’t clone ourselves… maybe our cat yes.
If you were a character of a movie which one would you be? Demi would be Marcello from La Dolce Vita and Ana would be Clementine from Eternal Sunshine Of A Spotless Mind.
Since it is one of the few elements that cannot be contaminated by artificial intelligence, do you think the real life of the artist will return to the center of the stage, becoming itself the true work of art? Yes, absolutely.
Do you think, for example, that killing an ant is the same thing as killing a dolphin? In other words, do you think that the lives of living beings are all on the same level, or do you evaluate them on the basis of their functionality in relation to human beings? Demi thinks that all living beings are on the same level, but Ana hates ants.
In your opinion, is it right that states exist? Or would you prefer a world and humanity united under one “flag”? We think that having States doesn’t make any sense, we live in a world and not in a box.
Is it right in your opinion to place limits on immigration, or should everyone be able to go anywhere? Everyone should be able to go anywhere but only if they can fit the environment.
What’s your best gig in your opinion that we can find on Youtube? We don’t have our gigs on YouTube yet… so we suggest: Michael Jackson – Smooth criminal live 1992 in Bucharest.
What is your top five of your songs? We only released two songs for now, but we’re close to releasing our first EP that contains a lot of surprises.
What is your song that you are most attached to? Why? “Poison” because it’s our first song, basically it’s where it all started and initially we were making it just for fun, not even considering to release it.
Can you tell us an anecdote behind one of your song? We have like 20 different versions of “Vicious” because every time there was something that didn’t convince us, we could literally release an album made with just the many versions of it hahaha.
The best song you wrote? It’s not out yet and we don’t know if we’re ever gonna release it because it’s very personal, it’s called “L’amour”.
The most appreciated one? “Vicious” (at least that’s what we think).
The craziest thing you’ve seen at one of your concert? People making videos instead of listening the music.
The most rock and roll thing? To be able to drink alcohol at 9 in the morning and don’t give a f**k.
Can you tell us something about you that nobody knows or very few people know? We’re against eating pizza for lunch, you should go to jail if you do it… like for real haha.
Do you think Hegel was right to put music as art at an higher level, or do you think the figurative arts, especially at an emotional level, are on the same level? We believe what Wagner said about “Gesamtkunstwerk”, meaning an artistic expression that coincides with music, figurative art and perceptive art. The form that’s closer to that is cinema.
Can you give us a definition of art? It’s like a language that your body obligates you to use when there’s no other way to express itself.
Your favorite style icons? Kate Moss and Pete Doherty.
What’s your best talent? Demi is great at cooking and Ana is great in taking care of plants.
Do you know some Italian band? Yes, we love Verdena and Bluvertigo.
And songs? (Both also from the past) “Nevischio” and “Sovrappensiero“.
If you could speak in world vision for 15 minutes what would you say? Everyone in the world is playing the game. A person cannot refuse to play the game; it does not require consent to play and one can never stop playing. Whenever one thinks about the game, one loses. Losses must be announced. The game ends when the prime minister of the United Kingdom announces on television that “the game is up”.
What is your motto? With willpower you can do everything.
Do you think exist an objective aesthetic value or you think aesthetic value is just subjective? We think it’s subjective.
If you could have a super power what would you choose? Teletrasportation.
When, in your opinion, can you define a person as an artist? When their art makes you feel something, whether it’s positive or negative.
Do you think that the relationship between art and drugs is just a cliché? In a way we would say it’s a cliché but at the same time drugs have the power to alterate your perception so you can show the world from different points of view.
What drugs have you done? We tried some.
If so which one is your favorite? Cola.
And which one do you use more often? Weed (but we’re much into alcohol).
Are you in favor of the liberalization of soft drugs? Yes of course.
And hard drugs? Why not?
Do you use drugs during concerts? Sometimes.
Do you have any political orientation? We don’t believe in left or right politics.
How many people have you slept with in your life? Somewhere between 100 and 200.
What is your favorite position in sex? The cat.
The most handsome guy you know? Our best friend in common.
What about the girl? The same friend as before hihihi.
Who do you think is the best band right now? Too difficult.
Do you think that believing in God and not believing in God start from the same presumption about something that in itself we have no possibility of knowing, thus reducing even atheism to an act of faith toward the unknown? That’s a very nice point of view, we’re into agnosticism.
For how much money would you shoot porn? 500k would do.
And who would you choose as a partner? Ourselves (Demi and Ana).
And for charity would you do it? To exemplify, if you were told let’s build a school in a third world country in exchange for one of your porn videos would you accept? No.
In your opinion is there such a thing as unnatural? In the case in point, if you consider man as part of nature, is everything that emanates from it to be considered natural? If not, why do you not consider man as part of nature? We think everything is natural.
If you were not in your profession what work would you have wanted to do? We would love to have a farm and be able to live from what we produce.
If you could go back in time and kill a person who would it be? No one, because we believe that everything happens for a reason and if things happened differently maybe we wouldn’t even be here.
Do you think man’s life has meaning? It has the meaning that the man gives it.
Can you tell us the most interesting anecdote with respect to your eventual experience with drugs? Smoking a joint inside the train was really cool.
The time you did drugs the most what did you take and in what doses? What do you think people say about you? We think 50% love us and 50% hate us because there must be balance.
Blur or Oasis? We love Blur as Liam Gallagher does (he really does!).
Can you tell us when you think a person is cool and when they are not cool? When they’re confident.
What’s your favorite artist? Demi says Modigliani the painter and Ana says Marina Abramovic.
If you could choose which historical era to live in, which would you choose? 80s.
If you could spend a day with an historical figure who would you choose? Napoleone Bonaparte.
If you could choose a famous person for a night, who would it be? Bob Dylan.
A song you wish you had written? “Imagine” – John Lennon.
Is there anyone you don’t get along with? Not really.
What is the thing you like most about Italy? Food.
And one you don’t like? The government.
Where have you been on vacation when you were young? United States.
Where are you going on vacation now? On January, we are going to Porto.
Do you think it would be correct to create a place where man can live in the state of nature, making him free from a choice of social belonging that is instead taken for granted? Yes, absolutely.
What’s the topic you are most expert in? Demi in music and Ana in plants (or cats).
Have you ever been in love? Yes.
Have you ever had a homosexual experience? Yes both of us.
Where do you live? We live in Turin.
Which neighbourhood? Gran madre.
Where are you from? Demi is from Puglia, Italy and Ana is from Campinas, Brazil.
Other cities where you’ve been living and how long? Demi lived in London for a few months and Ana lived in Milan for three years.
Which languages do you speak? Demi speaks English and Italian, Ana speaks Portuguese, English and Italian.
Which are your favorite places in your city? Porta palazzo’s street market.
Favorite movies? The Man Who Sleeps, 8½ and Submarine.
Favorite directors? Wes Anderson, Luca Guadagnino and Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
Favorite songs? “Like a rolling stone” – Bob Dylan, “Neverland” – The Knife and “Acquiesce” – Oasis.
Favorite bands? The Strokes, Gorillaz, Crystal Castles and Arctic Monkeys.
A famous band you don’t like? Demi says Blink-182.
Favorite books? Malicroix – Henry Bosco, Watt – Samuel Beckhatt and Diario notturno – Ennio Flaiano.
Favorite artworks? Guernica – Picasso.
If you can choose 5 celebrities to have party with who they would be? Justice (band), Lady Gaga, Marilyn Manson, Aurora and Woody Allen.
Do you feel envy for anyone? If so, for whom? No.
The material good you most desire and envy? What’s material doesn’t last.
There are more and more models who do not respond to the “classic” aesthetic canons, do you think that brands really try to change the social dynamics or do you think they are choices dictated by marketing reasons to exploit the politically correct? It depends… some brands are actually trying to change but many of them only do it to sell.
Have you ever been offered something in exchange for sex? If yes, what? Yes, money.
If you had the possibility to remove social networks from the world, would you delete them? No.
And what about globalization? No.
What do you think about influencers? We don’t really care.
What’s your favorite historical character? Alessandro Magno.
Favorite TV series? The Big Bang Theory.
If you were an animal which one would you like to be? Demi a sausage dog, Ana a cat.
Have you ever had sex with more than one person? Yes.
What time do you usually go to sleep? Around midnight.
What time do you usually wake up? Around 11am.
What’s your favorite city in the world? London.
Do you believe in some religions? No.
What’s the first thing you would do if you win the lottery? We’d buy a house outside the city and start a farm.
The richest person you know? John.
Your favorite dish? Demi’s favorite dish is gnocchi alla sorrentina and Ana’s is eggplant parmigiana.
Do you have some phobias? Demi says cockroaches and Ana hates small places.
Favorite fashion brand? We have many favourites.
How important is it for you to be rich from 1 to 10? 9.
And fame? 6.
How important are fame and money to impress a partner? 0.
And what about beauty? Aesthetic beauty 0.
And intelligence? 7.
The smartest person you know? Demi says his mother and Ana says her grandfather.
Do you consider yourself smart? Yes.
What do you usually drink at the bar? Demi says gin tonic and Ana says rum and cola.
An advice you can give to someone that want to do your job? Keep trying.
Best party you’ve been to? A private party in London.
Do you think that if people couldn’t post on Instagram about it, they would take part as well to social movements? Not necessarily, some people just don’t care.
What are the clothes you can’t stand to see on a man and on a woman? None.
What’s the item of clothing you spent the most money on? Dior luster jeans by Hedi Slimane.
Can you tell us a number from 1 to 89? 23 and 7.
Favorite restaurant and bar in the city where you live? Cantine Risso and Vermuttino.
And club? None.
Your ideal holiday? A weekend of spring in Venice.
If you could compose the best band in history, who would be in it? John Frusciante, Kurt Cobain, Jaco Pastorius and Ringo Starr.
If you could choose someone to follow you on Instagram who would you choose? Tim Burton.
Do you think that if there were no hypothetical partners to impress, human beings would pursue success so spasmodically? No.
Do you think that in certain environments, especially those in which we find fame and money, there is a lack of certain values? Yes.
Does the current concept of democracy make sense to you? No.
Do you think politicians and influencers have similar psychological profiles? In some things yes.
Do you think that prison, intended as deprivation of freedom of a subject, is a correct solution for an individual who violates the laws of society, or do you think it presupposes an acceptance of participation in the social contract that some individuals may not want? Yes.
If we consider the death as the end of everything, hypothetically the homicide of a subject that for absurdity doesn’t have, and has never had, social relationships of any kind with anybody, neither economic, neither personal, neither juridical, and if he would be killed without inflicting any suffering and without that he could realize it, such homicide should be punished? Leaving aside the motivations of the agent, as well as the need to protect other subjects of a hypothetical society, in case he would be punished, the murderer would suffer the punishment for an action of which no one suffers any consequence, is it correct for you then to assert that death is something that concerns only the living? Yes, we agree.
What would you answer to the dilemma of the Mandarin of Chateaubriand then taken up by Balzac and countless other philosophers? In this case, if in order to fulfill any of your desires, you had to end the life of a person who is extremely distant from you and about whom you know nothing, without them suffering and without anyone ever knowing, would you do it? No, only if we know it was a bad person.
Is rock and roll still alive? Rock and roll never dies!
What do you think about ChatGPT and artificial intelligence? Very helpful but many times used inappropriately.
Do you think it could be the closest element that points to possible proof of the existence of the divine? No.
If you could choose a person you know to read this interview, who would it be? Our best friend in common.
