Stream 22

EVERYTHING IS EMBARRASSING

w/ leva & zoe

inspired by sky ferreira’s seminal 2014 genre-defining and tumblr-bedroom-indie-pop classic, everything is embarrassing, roommates/ best friends/djs leva amoui and zoe babbit are spending their last semester at american university (and their seventh semester with wvau!) doing what they know best: ruminating, reminiscing, and record-spinning every thursday evening @ 7 until graduation <3

EVERYTHING ON LEVA & ZOE

honorable mentions:

e: homestuck

leva: (specifically the person who dyed their skin grey with sharpies for a homestuck cosplay)

leva: these guys

zoe: lady gaga

zoe:

INTERVIEW: Nectarine Gir

WVAU: Thanks for being here! Where does the name “Nectarine Girl” come from?

NECTARINE GIRL: It’s kind of a long story. In the summer of 2018, for a two week period of my life, I became obsessed, like hyper-fixated on nectarines. I actually, for two weeks straight, did not eat anything else. Breakfast lunch and dinner, I had nectarines. I was 16 or 17, and I was like, “I’m gonna change my Instagram handle to Nectarine Girl because I’m obsessed with nectarines.” I had released a bunch of music at that point and was doing musician stuff, but in 2020 I wanted to wipe everything I had done and start over. I already had this name from Instagram, and I was looking to inject a bit more meaning into it. So I looked into the genetic history and farming of nectarines and found out that nectarines are actually peaches, but they have a recessive trait that makes them not have the fuzz Not having that fuzz actually makes them a lot more susceptible to disease, changes in weather, lack or surplus of sunlight, but it also makes them a lot sweeter So they don’t have that fuzz that protects them from the elements, but in that defect they are also a lot juicier, a lot sweeter, a lot more pleasant to eat. Nectarine Girl kind of became this metaphor for sweet, sensitive girl.