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00:00Courtney LaPlante from Spiritbox, and I'm so excited about Tsunami Seed coming out because
00:09the three songs you have out right now, I love all three of them.
00:14So the new single, No Loss, No Love, that song, I've never chopped wood in my life,
00:18but it makes me want to chop wood.
00:23I feel like my radio listeners, I tell them, hey, listen on the app, you could be my cardio
00:27buddy.
00:28Spiritbox, go on the treadmill, listen to No Loss, No Love, it's like Spiritbox is greater
00:34than Ozempic.
00:35Like, well, that would solve a lot of my problems if that was true, but I just literally like
00:43I just ran off stage at our rehearsal from doing that song, and it's so fun.
00:50We have a first show, we have a Europe tour right now before the U.S. headlining tour,
00:55so all our songs are out, but that one just came out, and it's going to be the first
01:00time getting to play it, and I'm already just rehearsing and playing in front of our crew.
01:05I'm really excited.
01:06It's super fun.
01:08It's such a great song.
01:09It's so heavy.
01:10Like I said, it makes me crazy.
01:13I eat like a slob, right?
01:15So I'll take a week where I basically starve myself, or I'll eat In-N-Out burgers wrapped
01:21in lettuce or something, something stupid like that, and then I'll lose 10 pounds.
01:26But if I just listen to No Loss, No Love, it makes me like crazy.
01:29So like if I could just do that every day, I'll probably lose a lot of weight.
01:33Let's do it as an experiment.
01:34We'll both, we'll hold each other accountable.
01:38Yeah.
01:39Let me ask you this too.
01:41In the video, you're wearing that lipstick.
01:43Have you thought about selling that lipstick on your merch stand, because I feel like you'd
01:46make a lot of money off that, trying to make you so much money here.
01:50You know what's cool?
01:51It's like, it's black lipstick.
01:53My makeup artist, Christina, is so creative.
01:58And she, you know, we had this idea of having like these black diamond, you know, crystals
02:03all over my lips.
02:06And we had done it at another photo shoot, and it just took so long.
02:09And we knew for this music video, I really wouldn't have like a long time to get ready.
02:13You know, we had to be done, it was one, it's a one day shoot.
02:16So all we did was put black lipstick on me and then put like something, you know, like
02:22lip gloss on or whatever.
02:24And she just, I had a plate full of like actual, like loose, actual little crystals.
02:30Oh, those are crystals.
02:31I thought that was like part of the lipstick.
02:33Yeah.
02:34And I just put my face, I kissed the plate.
02:36And the whole time that we were, luckily that scene wasn't very long, it was just me standing
02:41there looking creepy.
02:42But like, I consumed so many crystals, I was like, this is really, really bad for me.
02:52Because I swallowed when I was talking, they were not like, you know, but it was a quick
02:57like little innovative thing.
02:59I'm glad you think it looks cool because it looked awesome on film.
03:02Yeah, I thought it was awesome.
03:03I like the outfit you wore too at Sick New World.
03:06It looks like the Cobra Kai skeleton outfit, kind of, you know, I'm talking about that
03:10jumpsuit thing.
03:11Yeah, that, that, I had had that outfit for a while, I never got to bust it out.
03:16I like that one.
03:17That one, I was like, I look good in this today.
03:19Sometimes I go, I'm like, I don't know about this one, that one I like, I was like, excellent.
03:24But I keep giving you anecdotes that that outfit almost never was ever worn because
03:32I went to go put it on and we had stayed in the hotel, like the fountain booths are really
03:36close to the grounds, like you could walk there if you wanted.
03:41And I like I opened the bag, and there was a miscommunication and I thought that someone
03:46had taken it there for me.
03:48And I hadn't, like, I thought they put it in the bag.
03:52And my manager, Jason, he had to actually like sprint back to the hotel and had to sprint
03:59back.
04:00And I got that thing like, three minutes before I had to go on stage.
04:03And I've never seen, I've never seen Jason more in distress and sweaty in my entire life.
04:11It was, I felt so bad for him, he was just trying to have a nice day like and have a
04:15beer and watch us play and I had to make him go on like a cross country exploration.
04:21That's a badass outfit.
04:22That's another thing you should sell at your merch stand.
04:24Just keep, we're just getting more money each, each idea.
04:28Yeah, it will maximize the return on investment.
04:33I, that's something that like in my dream of dreams, I had, like, I love fashion and
04:39clothing.
04:41And I, that would be so cool, but, you know, the more I learned about how hard and crazy
04:46that world is to like get stuff made, the more I'm like, I'm just a enthusiast, a fashion
04:52enthusiast.
04:54So you just did a whole, you did your whole set, you just ran through everything?
04:57Yeah, it was the whole thing from start to finish.
05:01And then we walked up, like, they have to go over a lot of notes.
05:06And we walked, we walked off stage.
05:09And I was like, I thought you were telling them that we were going to be a few minutes
05:13late.
05:14And Michael was like, I thought you did.
05:17And I just ran away.
05:19And I ran to our little green room.
05:20I was like, everyone, leave me alone.
05:22I'll be right back.
05:23And so unfortunately, Michael has to stay to go, you know, say all my notes because I'm
05:30like, let's be honest.
05:33You want to talk, you know, it's okay, he can sit this one.
05:40Now that you're so you're warmed up, like, how good I'm not asking you to scream.
05:44But how is like one of the greatest screamers ever?
05:47Can you teach us us novices?
05:50Just what?
05:51How can we will never be able to scream like you?
05:53But what's something we can do to warm up to try to do it?
05:58You really just need to warm up, like you would with singing.
06:03You can't do you know, it's the same for you, like talking on the radio all day, you when
06:07you feel like all this tension, like if you're, let's say you're not talking properly, you're
06:12getting you got excited, and you talked a little loud or a little quick.
06:16And you just have all this tension.
06:20People think that you should have a lot of tension when you're screaming, because, you
06:23know, a lot of us like we're really into it.
06:25And we're making like, this really scrunchy face and everything looks all tight.
06:29You know, like you look really like, like you're going there, like lifting weights.
06:33But in actuality, that's kind of the performance aspect of it.
06:37And then really inside, it's all about being relaxed, like, if you, you know, like when
06:43you know, when you watch the sprinters in the Olympics, and they're going so fast when
06:48they do when they put them in slow motion, you can see like their whole face is like
06:52jiggling up and down.
06:54Because every other muscle that you're clenching up is for no reason is taking away from your
07:01job.
07:02So that's the biggest thing is to relax.
07:03And then, you know, there's a big difference between just like going in your car and screaming
07:09along to a song and then like really actually hearing yourself in a professional setting.
07:15You know, realize you're like you, there's someone there like, mixing your voice and
07:20you and, you know, quieting the frequencies you don't like, and bringing up the frequencies
07:26you do.
07:27It's compression on your voice.
07:29So you can do that on your computer in a, you know, whatever you use for your DAW.
07:36And it was just like, I think that that is what the missing thing is for people is just
07:40having the confidence when they can, when they actually fear themselves, not just like
07:46doing it on your own.
07:47It's always going to sound a little more weak on your own.
07:52And you know, just don't push yourself.
07:53It's not supposed to hurt.
07:54It's your voice.
07:55It's okay.
07:56If your muscles get a little sore, but if it hurts, you got to stop.
08:00But how do you do it?
08:01And now isn't the whole thing pushing yours?
08:02Like, I don't understand.
08:03Well, of course I'm not a singer.
08:05It's your stomach.
08:06It's the same.
08:07Like if you were deadlifting or squatting or something, like imagine if you clenched
08:10your whole like upper body and then didn't clench your, your core.
08:15It's just like a core thing.
08:16It's very different.
08:17Singing is more like an accordion going out in and out with your lower belly.
08:23Like you're just breathing air.
08:24And then screaming is more like, like a belly dancer kind of, yeah, like a little, you don't
08:30know what's going on under there, a bunch of wiggling around.
08:34And screaming is more like, you know, if you were needing to do something that had to do
08:40with your core, if you're like throwing a punch or you're doing a squat or something
08:44like that.
08:45For me, um, the way I do it is really loud and doing it loud is, is not as like safe
08:55for your, for your voice.
08:56You know, you see the, you see guys that have a really quiet scream.
08:59If they take the mic away, they're actually like, that's more healthy in the longterm.
09:05I just do it how I do it.
09:06I've always done it that way.
09:07And, and I like how it sounds.
09:09And one day you just realized I'm good at screaming.
09:11Like how did someone like you, it's like, maybe you love metal and you just started
09:14doing it or no, it took me, it took, it took me, I, I just like a couple of years ago was
09:23like, Oh, that sounded really good.
09:27You know, it's like some people, I think it just comes naturally, just like singing comes
09:32naturally to me.
09:34And a lot of people, I think some people just like, um, probably felt confident, like trying
09:41a little earlier on in life.
09:43And I didn't, I didn't even do it once until I was like 18.
09:49And um, you know, it's like, it's, it's, it's a little bit of a workout and you got to train
09:52yourself to be able to do it right.
09:54I'm still figuring that out myself.
09:56But you said when you just sing, it's actually from your stomach.
09:59Cause I'm, I'm, I always ask great singers how they sing because there's karaoke singers
10:04and there's good singers.
10:05And it's like, it comes from your stomach.
10:07Like, uh, uh, Jacoby from Papa Roach told me he sings from his taint.
10:12So he, yeah, it's like, it's why it's, it's why like the most insane thing are people
10:20that are singers and they dance.
10:23Cause those are like basically opposite things, dancing, you need your core singing, you need
10:28to relax it.
10:29So that's, that's why that's like, you know, a huge, you know, people that can do that
10:34really well or like superstars cause it's very hard.
10:38And so, yeah, I think that Jacoby, I mean, Jacoby is right about everything.
10:43So that's going to be my, I'm taking that, I'm taking that on from him.
10:48You guys were nominated again for another Grammy best metal performance.
10:52Last time you lost to Metallica, this time you lost to GoHero, which I think was one
10:57of the, that, that performance at the Olympics was so awesome.
11:00That was hard for anyone to beat that because it was such a, it was just, it was such an
11:04awesome performance.
11:06In my opinion, that was the most, you know, the biggest like mainstream moment in the
11:14history of metal.
11:17Most metal bands don't hit mainstream in any capacity like that until they make more mainstream
11:25music like, and I don't mean that in a bad way.
11:28I don't know.
11:29I feel like a lot of male people, they equate mainstream with, oh, sorry.
11:34There's a, like the hand dryer thing in there.
11:37It's like, it's haunted in here and just goes off every once in a while, but you know, like,
11:44I don't mean mainstream in a bad way.
11:46I just mean like more accessible to lots of people, but GoHero, that's why it was so shocking
11:51to me.
11:52And I think to like the world who's kind of like scared of that performance is that like
11:57they didn't, they didn't like do anything.
12:02I don't think they compromised anything like, oh, it was so unexpected to no one thought
12:06that would happen.
12:07And it was so cool.
12:08Yeah.
12:09I think it might've been the most metal thing to ever happen on TV ever, ever because a
12:15billion people watched it.
12:17So they, it was funny cause they're very humble people and they're really nice and really
12:21supportive of us.
12:23And so we were all like in the lineup to go like do the Getty images together.
12:28And then they were like, whenever I talk with them, I always put a cigarette, a cigarette
12:34in my hands.
12:35I was like, no, you're going to win.
12:37And we were like, guys, you opened the Olympics, you're winning.
12:42And you were so funny.
12:43They were so, I really think they thought they weren't going to win because they sat
12:47like so far in the back, they almost didn't get to do their speech.
12:51I'm like, guys, get up to the, at least come to the 10th row, like you gotta have, you
12:56know?
12:58So I'm really happy for them.
12:59Of course I'd love to win a Grammy.
13:01That sounds awesome.
13:02But when you're, when there's only one medal award, all the other people in there are awesome.
13:10And I don't think anyone is sad to lose to those other people because there's only, there's
13:18only five bands that get to be picked to be nominated for that every year.
13:21That's the only award for a medal.
13:24And two years in a row for you.
13:25And then the girl called you Poppy, which was hilarious.
13:28And you're like, you're like, yes, my name is Poppy.
13:30And then they interviewed you as Poppy.
13:33Yeah.
13:34I thought to myself, I was like, oh, and then I was like, I always like a funny opportunity.
13:40And so I thought about how funny that is.
13:43And I feel, you know, people are like, how dare that lady not know?
13:46I'm like, guys, that lady does not know who the F I am.
13:52She is reading off a card and someone should have handed her the card that said Courtney
13:57and they accidentally handed her the card that said Poppy, I think.
14:02And so I was like, you know, I don't take offense to that.
14:05Like, I'm not a person that feels comfortable in a gown on a red carpet.
14:12That's not, that's not my vibe.
14:15You know, like, that's very new to me.
14:17That was the first time I ever did that.
14:19So I was just, I thought that was really funny and I knew that Poppy would find it
14:25really, really funny.
14:27And so that, you know, I left and the guys were like, how was your interview?
14:30And I was like, I interviewed, they called me Poppy and I just went with it.
14:35That was hilarious.
14:36It was so funny.
14:37So your husband who's in the band, Mike, was supposed to be on this interview.
14:40He's, you said he's doing the thing with the, the, what's it called?
14:46Oh God, what is he not doing?
14:49I was going to ask you, because I actually want to ask both of you, do you ever get sick
14:53of doing everything together?
14:55It's like, you guys are always together doing everything, interviews, playing together,
14:59living together, traveling together.
15:01Like, do you ever get sick of just being around each other every second?
15:05No.
15:06Oh, that's good then.
15:09Then that's a great relationship.
15:11Yeah.
15:12Awesome.
15:13It's like, I'm, I'm so thankful because like, I can't, sometimes it's hard for me to relate
15:20to all my friends and my, my crew, like we have a dog now and, and I'm just torn to pieces
15:27leaving my dog.
15:28I can't imagine all of my friends that are leaving like their wives and their husbands
15:33and their kids.
15:34It's really hard.
15:35I think everyone like during the pandemic, I think when everyone got to like, they weren't
15:40able to tour and they were home more, I think that made people, a lot of people reflect
15:44on like how rough that is.
15:47So, you know, I'm really grateful that I don't have to do that because that's like one of
15:52the biggest obstacles of being on the road.
15:55And that obstacle is like removed from me and Michael, you know?
15:59So it's, I'm very, very happy that, you know, I'd be, I'd be so proud of him no matter what
16:04he did.
16:05And so that the, the fact that he like understands what I'm trying to do with my life because
16:10he's doing the same thing.
16:12It's really cool.
16:13Yeah.
16:14No, it's great that you have that attitude because a lot of people would have the opposite
16:16attitude and like you said, it's, it's way better to be with him all the time than never
16:20seeing it.
16:21It's like, it's just how we've always been.
16:23We always, always even worked at like the same job because I think we've just always
16:28had this goal of making, you know, making music together is the fun part and running
16:34a business together is like the other rewarding part.
16:38And we've always just been plotting our world domination together.
16:43That's just like, you know, it used to be like a fantasy and now it's our job since
16:48it's awesome.
16:49We've just always been that way.
16:51And you guys live on Vancouver Island, which is kind of like, right?
16:55Isn't that like, don't you need to, you have to take a boat to get there?
16:57Like it's not easy, right?
16:59Yeah.
17:00We actually moved to Los Angeles last year because we were just basically living there
17:05anyway.
17:06Cause we, every, you know, we do our rehearsals here, quarter music here.
17:11And you know, being on the Island is just, it's one of those things where it's really
17:16big.
17:17There's, there's like a million people that live on it and you know, it'll take you a
17:19whole day to drive up the whole Island.
17:23It's really big, but you know, you're, you realize you're on it when you try to leave
17:28it and you try to get back to it.
17:31Like I know you're from Alabama, but he's from there, right?
17:33So like, I just, I just imagine him like trying to like see live music when he was
17:38a kid and like, you know, it must've been really hard because I can't imagine a lot
17:41of bands go to the Island.
17:44Not at all.
17:45And, and you know, I, when I started touring like that, just like open my eyes to so much
17:55incredible music because, you know, there, a small band couldn't afford to come to the
18:02Island, expensive to bring all your stuff there, you have to stay there like two extra
18:07days pretty much.
18:08Cause the, you know, the ferry stops running at nine at night and it's horrible.
18:14Yeah.
18:15And, um, and you know, and then, or in a really big band, like there's only one big arena
18:21to play on the Island, so they wouldn't go there.
18:23So, you know, unless you have like a lot of disposable income, you couldn't go over
18:28to Vancouver, pay for the ferry and pay for a hotel and take two days off work.
18:33Um, I never really got to do that much.
18:35So I've, you know, I didn't really get to see a lot of live music, honestly, until I
18:39started playing in bands and in a band from the U S and that really blew my mind getting
18:44to see all that.
18:46Do you guys ever consider doing for, for, for your people there on the Island, do you
18:50ever consider doing a yearly residency so they could see you guys like five days in
18:53a row?
18:54Like every year?
18:56I really don't know how many fans we have on our Island because we didn't ever have
19:01a chance to do shows there.
19:03Really.
19:04I mean, I've done, I've done two shows there.
19:05Oh wow.
19:06Really?
19:07Well, our band, our band started in like 2017, but we didn't even have a full band until
19:13like 2018 and then 2019.
19:18And then, um, you know, we played our one, we made our own little show right before we
19:24went on our very first little tour in Europe opening for other bands.
19:28And that was in February, 2020.
19:31So, um, we were all separated from each other for like a year and a half almost.
19:38So it was a long time before we really had done a lot of shows.
19:42So I have not gotten a chance to play Victoria in a long time, but right now it's that same
19:47problem that other bands always had why I didn't see them.
19:51Like the places that I can play, they're, they're either too small or it's too big.
19:56It's like, um, Goldilocks.
19:59Let's get it.
20:00So you're playing the bigger arenas.
20:01I mean, you're getting close.
20:02You're playing much bigger places now.
20:03Well, I'm, you know what I mean?
20:05Like I feel like people from there are like, Oh, you're in a band now, you know, but I'd
20:11be curious.
20:12I think I, I think I would be nervous to put that something like that on sale, but it's
20:16like my dream would be, it's a really small place and there's not a lot of, there's not
20:21a lot of like all ages venues for people to play.
20:25If I like, if I won the lottery, that's like one of the things I do is like make a venue
20:30for people to come through and play and have like one that had like how they do it in Europe.
20:35Like there was like a place to sleep and a kitchen to make them food.
20:40You don't know, but knowing what those kids are put through living there, right?
20:45Wouldn't it be cool for you guys just to play a park every year?
20:48Like, could you just do a free show?
20:49I bet you'd get a massive crowd.
20:51Yeah, I would do that right now is just, I have to choose between doing a fun thing and
20:56doing a practice thing.
21:00And right now there, there has not been a single day in the last like four months that
21:05I could get all of my crew to come to the Island, but it's definitely something it's
21:13definitely something I really would love to do.
21:14And I think it would be even more fun if it was like a surprise thing.
21:17Yeah.
21:18That'd be awesome.
21:19That'd be really cool.
21:23That's what Jack White does.
21:24He, he basically goes to smaller venues and he announces the tickets are on sale that
21:28day.
21:29Yeah.
21:30That's so cool.
21:31I have a video in time where he did that and then he like pressed the vinyl that was being
21:36recorded.
21:37Yeah.
21:38Like by the end of the show, all those people got the vinyl.
21:41Yeah.
21:42That's something that they just saw happen.
21:45So you're, you're in London right now and you just played Brazil.
21:49What's the best audience?
21:50Because those, those Brazilian crowds look crazy.
21:53What's the best crowd you've played in front of that?
21:56And that wasn't even, that wasn't even our show.
21:58That was bringing me the horizon show.
22:01Like we were an opening band and those people are like professional music fans.
22:06Yeah.
22:07Like they clock into work and they get to, they, if there's time they, they're at work.
22:14Like I'm just, I don't know what it is.
22:18I don't, I, I just, I didn't, I didn't know that it would actually be like what everyone
22:23tells us.
22:24It's like, and everyone was so, it's like intimidating if you've never seen that, like
22:29been around that before, but you know, the fans, they're very, very serious and they
22:33wait for you.
22:34We tried to, we got in at 5am.
22:36So we figured then there wouldn't be a lot of people.
22:38And there was all these people waiting, just all these people waiting outside the hotel.
22:44And it was, it's so nice.
22:46There's the ghost again.
22:47Sorry.
22:48It was so nice.
22:49Cause it's like really, really supportive, grateful people, but not like entitled.
22:54Like they were, they're very polite and respectful.
22:59And I would, it was like, it was like a drug, like, like, you know what I mean?
23:05Like the, I can't explain it if you'd never done like entertainment, whether that's like
23:12sports or music or whatever, like it's the biggest rush.
23:19And that was, you know, I've never, I've been opening for bands for a couple of years.
23:23We've only done, we've only had one headline tour.
23:26This is only our second one.
23:28We've always, we've had a lot of cool opportunities to get to open for all these awesome bands.
23:31Of course, we're going to say, yes, we've got a lot to learn and we got a lot of new
23:35fans to make, but that made us feel like, like rock stars was so cool.
23:43I hope I'm like, I hope I can, I hope I can do that again.
23:47Like I would love to go down there, but just even like the feeling of like people singing
23:52along with you and stuff, they don't even speak English and they're singing every word
23:58and they light off flares in the crowd.
24:01I didn't know.
24:02Yeah.
24:03There was a guy that was dressed as Jesus and he, everyone held him up and he, he held
24:09up the flare during one of our songs and then he got picked out and then he went outside
24:16and bought like a bootleg shirt and then came back in a new shirt and got back in there
24:23and lit a flare again.
24:24The second, if you will.
24:27I'm so excited.
24:28Tsunami Sea is out today.
24:30Go get it.
24:31The video's out.
24:32I always try to like to not think about it very much until this is, you know, when it's
24:37like the month before I get like an alert on my calendar one month and then, you know,
24:44I get a little bit stressed out because this has been my own private thing for so long
24:51and only people that like I very much care, like trust and I'm like cool to be vulnerable
24:57around have heard it.
24:59And then I'm just, I'm so excited to put it out because I want to play these songs and
25:03I want to share with our fans.
25:06And I also just, I'm so curious to what people think.
25:10That's like the one cool thing about the internet.
25:12It can make you feel bad, but I think it's fascinating because you get to hear people
25:16like actually think of your music and they're not worried about you, you know, standing
25:20over them being like, do you like it?
25:24So I'm really excited.
25:25Like it's been a long time coming and I love these songs so much.
25:29So it's like just another, I now get to play these songs live that I've been dreaming of
25:37playing live for a while now.
25:39Well, the first three are so awesome.
25:41So I can't wait to hear the rest of the album and Tsunami Sea comes out today, March 7th.
25:47And Courtney, thank you so much.
25:49This was awesome.
25:50I love your band.
25:51You guys are great.
25:52And thank you.
25:53Thank you so much.
25:54All right.
25:55See you later.
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