POLYDRIVE by gabrielle miranda
Did you always feel as though there was something not right with the “DRIVE-IN era”? When we first decided on the name “DRIVE-IN” we hoped to create a name that sounded like our music. I kinda feel like we missed the mark just slightly. When people hear the word “drive-in” they instantly associated us with 50s or 60s retro, and that’s not something we wanted. It was becoming difficult to connect our music and aesthetic with the name. What possessed you to want to change your name from DRIVE-IN to POLYDRIVE?
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Besides wanting a name to match our sound better, we also had to think about search engine optimization. We hated the idea of changing our name just for PR, but at the same time if you searched “DRIVE-IN” on any social media site, I guarantee you we’d be the last thing to show up. It’s hard telling people about our music knowing that they probably won’t find it. What was the process? We’d been contemplating releasing our songs under one album for awhile. We started planning everything sometime during the beginning of the summer, and sort of laid out a sched-
ule of how it would all unfold. We actually had most of the new album done before we were even decided on a new name. It was probably like mid September when we officially decided to go with POLYDRIVE. I remember typing the name out in like fifty different fonts on my laptop, all of us loved it so much. For the first time in a while we really started to envision our whole image coming together. When constructing PRELUDE how did you choose the songs that would be a part of it? It came down to the songs that we personally loved the most. It was definite-
