Esther Povitsky Reveals How Lana Del Rey and Taylor Swift Provided Inspiration For ‘Drugstore June’

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00:00 (upbeat music)

00:03 - I feel like in my everyday life,

00:05 I'm constantly inspired by the women in our culture.

00:08 Like I'm just consuming everything and inspire them.

00:12 Like in particular, a really big inspiration for me

00:16 creatively is Lana Del Rey and her music.

00:19 Like I find her to really have that desperate,

00:24 sad girl, like poetry that I really relate to.

00:30 And you know, I remember when her most recent album

00:32 came out last year, she, as part of the promo,

00:36 she had a billboard, "Only one" up in her ex's hometown.

00:41 And I like sent that to all the producers of our movie.

00:45 I was like, "You guys, like I'm not the only crazy person."

00:49 And so I feel really inspired by Lana.

00:53 I honestly like all my female pop girlies really inspire me.

00:57 Like Taylor Swift, "I Have To Go There."

00:59 The song "Antihero," I listened to that

01:02 probably every single day and night when I drove

01:06 to the set of this movie and then drove home.

01:09 I just, that song really inspired me in my,

01:14 just 'cause like, you've seen the movie.

01:18 It's like, like you said, June is just like,

01:21 I don't know, she's an antihero, she's not a hero.

01:25 And so I really needed that like girly pop inspo

01:29 to like get into it.

01:30 'Cause she's not, she's not the best.

01:34 Like she's not Wonder Woman, you know?