*Exclusive* Electrik Red: “Not Corny Like the Spice Girls”

Bossip recently caught up with new girl group Electrik Red to discuss their new album and why the Dream thinks that “these b*tches are crazy!”

Bossip: If any one of you were to get caught up in some crazy story (that would surely end up on Bossip), which one of you would it be?
Electrik Red: Every single

one of these crazy b*tches would be one of those girls. I pray to God that everyone keeps their sh*t together. You might catch Binkie getting kicked off of an airplane. You’ll probably catch Naomi leaving the club with Nicole Richie, Jamie Foxx…a couple of the homies. You’ll probably catch Lesley in Jamaica tanning topless on public beach, and you’ll probably catch me (Sarah) eating a burger with my mouth open.
Binkie: I don’t really care what people do as long as you’re on time for the show. Just everybody show up to the goddamn show and play your position.

Bossip: The name of your album is How to Be a Lady Volume 1, but what’s the real meaning?
Electrik Red: It’s basically tongue in cheek. It’s our 2009 version of what we feel the modern day woman should be like. We’re all very strong individuals and we don’t take crap from anybody. We’re quite the opposite (of a traditional lady) because we definitely have potty mouths, and we definitely don’t shy away from getting our point across in whatever manner. We’re more aggressive than the traditional definition of a lady which is quiet and dainty. But of course, we do have table manners and we know how to conduct ourselves in any given situation. We just have an edge to us and we’re not afraid to show it.

Electrik Red: We won’t have our cheeks out in Dubai, though!

Bossip: This edgy persona that you display…is it who you girls really are, or was it made up for the group?
Electrik Red: It’s definitely us. That inspired The Dream when he wrote the album. It was kind of like a weight lifted off his shoulders. He works with all kinds of artists like Mariah Carey and he might want to say certain things but she wouldn’t necessarily curse or be open to certain things. When he met us was like, ‘Wow, these b*tches are crazy!’ He felt like he could say whatever he wanted and so we did just that on the album.

Bossip: You girls are not the typical waifs that we see in girl groups. You’re thick and muscular and look like you might enjoy a cheeseburger every once and a while.
Electrik Red: We are brown women and we do appreciate a good turkey burger with cheese on it. However, we are going for high school skinny, but let me clarify that. I don’t mean no @ss, no tits, no nothing. That’s not it. We understand that we are four brown women and we embrace our bodies, but we want it all toned and intact.

Bossip: What’s your goal with Electrik Red?
Binkie: We’re trying to accomplish world domination. The most amazing thing about Electrik Red is that we’re actually friends. We like each other’s company. We’ve all had really amazing careers. We’re all trained in different aspects of the arts. There’s a common blood amongst us. I’m going to go on the record and say that little to nothing will break us off of this path. We applaud each other for our different journeys and things that we all want to do in our lives, but right now the main goal is to knock n*ggas in the head with this Electrik Red sh*t.

Bossip: You guys have done a pretty good job of fusing together different genres of music. What’s your sound?
Lesley: I would say we’re a mixture of the sexiness of Vanity 6 with the urban touch of Total, and a dash of Gwen Stefani Hollaback Girl. We’re all about girl power, but without the corniness of a Spice Girl.
Sarah: But, definitely Spice Girl money!

Bossip: A lot of your songs are racy and sexual. Are these songs coming from personal experience by chance?
(pause…then laughter erupts)
Binkie: Everything in the music is relative. I will say that “WFY” (We F*ck You) is dear to my heart. I’m a big supporter of “Kill Bill” although I can’t say that it’s a personal experience. If it goes down, you’ll hear about it.

Bossip: Who did you work with on the album?
Electrik Red: Dream executive produced the album with Uncle Tricky (Tricky Stewart). They are geniuses. They really honed in and figured it out for us. It was amazing.

Bossip: Which one of you guys were the back-up dancers for Usher?
Electrik Red: Lesley, Sarah and Binkie. Because we worked for such amazing artists like Usher and Ciara, they gave us little jewels of wisdom because their professionalism is top notch. We saw how they handled their careers and we were able to take note.

Bossip: Electrik Red is a crazy name. Who came up with that?
Binkie: I was chillin’ with Lesley one day and we were riding around in our hometown, the old stomping grounds, and we kind of just blurted the name out. We wanted something that was really, really amazing, and would match the magnitude of the music that we were making. We built the idea of Electrik Red, and then we named it.

Posted: Thursday, May 28th, 2009
Written by Bossip Staff

Source:
http://bossip.com/116213/exclusive-electrik-red-not-corny-like-the-spice-girls/


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