alexis simpson
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i'll take your money, but i'm not gonna plow your driveway
SAG-AFTRA ✊ she/her sobriety date 5/8/2006
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![“The other far-hipper employees at Tower Records kind of educated me. I remember they played “Sliver” for me, [by Nirvana] and I was immediately in love. It had the aggression that I needed from my upbringing as a metalhead, but paired with strong, major-key chord progressions and catchy, emotional melodies and lyrics that felt so nostalgic and sweet and painful. It just sounded like it was coming from the deepest part inside of me—a part which I hadn’t yet been able to come close to articulating in my own music.” – Rivers Cuomo, American Songwriter, 2024
"It’s like, 'Oh, my God. This is so beautiful to me. And I identify with it so much.' Hearing [Kurt Cobain] sing about Mom and Dad and Grandpa Joe, these personal family issues, in a really heartbreaking kind of innocent, childlike way, over these straightforward chords in a major key." – Rivers Cuomo, GRAMMY, 2024
"When we made the 'Blue' album, I saw myself in a completely different light. I thought we were going to be the next Nirvana, that we were going to be taken very seriously as an angst-filled rock band. And I was completely shocked and surprised and disappointed when we put the record out to find that the press story was: 'This is a band of geeks.'' That story had never occurred to me. But it was universal around the world, that's what everyone said about us. So I guess it must be true. I just don't fit in and I don't even realise it. Put me in the wider society and I stand out as a misfit.” – Rivers Cuomo, Louder Sound, 2024
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