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Audio interview · July 2009 · Calgary

Cobra Starship

Musician Gabe Saporta from the band Cobra Starship (Good Girls Go Bad, You Make Me Feel) chats with Matt Schichter in Calgary.

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Episode #147 · Cobra StarshipJuly 2009 · 00:05:27

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0:00Hey, what's up, man? I'm doing well yourself. Not too bad. Where are you? I am in Sunday, Florida. Sunday, Florida. Are you living there? You on tour? No, we're on tour. Nice, and it's going well. They're off in Tampa. I'm shining. I'm gonna do this interview then when I go to the beach. Then I won't make you take too much of your time, though. I'll get it, man. It's a pleasure. Well, you know, we could have set this up the way we did professionally, but I could have just called you, it seems, because you got your number on the MySpace page. And number. So we have this thing that's crazy. Like if I'll call it, I can press go live, and then my phone turns into that number. Oh, that's kind of cool. Exactly to my phone. How long are you getting calls in that number?

0:46I try to turn it on once a week, you know, so then I talk to kids like once a week, but, you know, it's been crazy on tour. I like how you're calling them kids. You have a kid, man. No one older than 20 gives you a call. It's all kids. They're two, you know. Now, I wanted a lot of controversy, and I saw, you know, quote from you talking about your vocals. I guess something happened on, I was going to call it Leno, but I guess it's Conan. Nothing happened. Conan, what happened is, I've been posting a video of it going on a press open site called Haters, and all the comages are just haters. So there's just like, oh, he can't sing, Bob, Ryan. I'm just like, you got your idiots, man. It's like, you know, my performance is imperfection.

1:33The reason why all you guys on a press open site are you like, you can do it live, and I'm going to make your mouse clock, you know what I'm saying? Where was late in that night? How come a stall was there, which was pretty cool? You're late in it? That's her main priority. They own her, you know? So it's like, unfortunately, she can't make it, but I think we're going to try, we still haven't done it live together yet, but hopefully for the VMAs, we will be doing it live together. I can't guarantee it, but don't quote me on that. I won't, I won't. But I was going to say, yeah, I wanted to have work shows. In my dream, I want to do it live with her. I haven't done it yet, you know?

2:19That'd be cool. So who's doing it live with you when you're on the road? Like tomorrow? We have a girl in the picture. And she does it live, and she holds it down hard. I mean, we want to trust something different, you know? Like for us, like, I remember that. There's all huge fans of hers who love the American boy track, you know? And it's cool, man. Can I watch that thing? And I'm just like, you know, it's like, wow, it's like we do it with nostalgia. It's just kind of like makes us put some a different level, you know, especially coming from like a punk rock background, like to be able to do it with like an urban artist. It's dope, you know? It's a big summer for you guys.

3:05Yeah, it's a big summer, man. It's the summer of Cobra. Yeah, not too weird, man. We feel it's happening so fast that we don't even realize it yet. You know, we're not exactly sure what's going on. So it's like our record came out last week, you know? We just got the numbers. And I mean, I don't know exactly what it did in Canada, but in the US, it was top five record. And we're like, wow, it's like, you know, George Strait, Neil Diamond, Black IPs, covers almost like having a birthday, you know? But it's like not a special birthday. It's like now you're 21st. When are you coming up here? Sure, man. We're doing a worth of like girls, but I think the dates, I didn't even know the dates. They just came out. I'm always the last one to find out about.

3:52They didn't know their album was in the top five. You know, I've heard a question on Twitter about it. I'm just like, why am I the last to know everything? You know? But it's good. I like to stay in the dark about that kind of stuff. That's it. I don't know, man. We've been to Calgary a couple of times with Wobtour, so hopefully we'll come back soon. Yeah, that'd be nice. That's a good bill too with boys like girls. I was going to say that I think that'll work really well for you. Yeah, I hope so, man. So I ask everybody five questions, one more answers. One would answer? Yeah. All right, now let's do it. It's got to be on my sheet. Roder Studio. Rode. Leninger McCartney. Most important thing in the song, lyrics, melody, or cadence? Lyrics. Song you've written your most proud of.

4:41No, I don't know. That's a good one. That's a good one. Leninger. One day, robots will cry. And one word, cobra starship. I like it. Yeah. Well, thanks, man. I appreciate it. I got this one word, right? Yeah, if it's hyphenated, it is. Yeah, exactly. So give us a lowdown. What's the next single? What's the next massive cobra starship tune? Trucks from the record, man. We didn't know what it was going to be, but now that the record came out, that song alone sold 50,000 copies this week, which was just like, what is going on? You know? So everyone thinks too really like that song. I like it too. Me too. Like, you know, when you make the record, you're so deep into it, like it's hard to look out, but honestly, that's the next single.

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