The Transformations of Little Boots

LITTLE BOOTS: Well, I’ve been coming to LA a few times a year for almost a decade to work on music, so I decided it was finally time to make it official and move here permanently. I’ve always had a love affair with the city, so I couldn’t be happier. It's such a perfect environment to be creative and write and play music. But you know I really miss the Queen and tea stuff… 

Pretty great actually. Coming from a pop world, I’ve always been known as a vocalist and songwriter, but I’m actually a real tech nerd and play lots of synthesizers and gadgets, and DJing always felt like part of that for me. But it took a long time to get taken seriously. A lot of people constantly assumed I was somehow cheating or "just pressing go" or something similar, which was really frustrating. I don’t claim to be the world’s greatest DJ technically, but I love it and take it seriously and spend a lot of time selecting my songs, so for the Mixmag set to really take on such a life of its own and get a following was really important for me. I now get people coming to shows who may never have heard any of my songs from the first couple of records, but come up to me saying play this tune from the Mixmag set!

"Power-bitching" is something myself and a lot of my girlfriends working in the music and creative industry call each other. Its a term of endearment and support among us, but I guess if you want to dig deeper, its reclaiming the term "bitch" from something negative into a positive. Instead of being bossy or dominating, it actually just means standing up for yourself and getting the things you want done. So if we say, "She’s a total power bitch," it means she’s crushing it! Usually followed by a nail emoji…