Get Out! GAY Magazine – Issue 367 – May 16, 2018

I think another way to answer that question
is that we want to continue having the most
fun and feeling the most nourished and
uplifted by not only our shows, and the way
that it catches people, but also we want to
create and discover who we are, and express
ourselves. We just want to keep doing this
forever and enjoy it.
If you could have your ultimate stage
fantasy what would have to happen?
Tucker: I think we’d have to grow an entire
jungle on stage. Like a jungle with an
intertwined playground. Like an overgrown
playground in a rainforest jungle. Then we can
like slide around and run around. I think that
would work.
You’re in the midst of doing a massive U.S.
tour currently.
Tucker: We are as close as we can get to that
right now. We have a bit of a jungle on stage.
We’ve had a lot more success in other parts
of the world, before the U.S. We’ve been all
around the world as Sofi Tukker a couple of
times. We are excited to keep doing it.
You guys are based
in New York,
correct?
Tucker: Technically
we were. We don’t
even have apartments
anymore, because we
are on tour every day
of the year now. So
we don’t actually live
in New York anymore.
We spent most of our
time in Europe and
South America. It’s a
lot of international.
We just got off of a
European tour about
a month ago, we did a
South American tour and now we’re doing this
North American tour. Then we are going back
to Europe and Asia, and then back to Europe,
then Russia, then Hawaii. We are pretty all
over the place.
So aside from touring relentlessly, do
you have any future projects that you’re
thinking about working on?
Sophie: Oh, we’re working on it, hell yeah!
Tucker: We are finished with the next album
already.
You’ve got it going. If you could tell your
fans and followers anything, what would
you want them to know?
Tucker: That we are grateful that they are fans
and followers. Thank you for being a fan and
follower. But also, if you want to escape and
have a magical dance party night, then come
find us when we are around.
What influences the writing of your music?
Sofie: Honestly, everything. We write while
we’re on the road and while we are in the thick
of life, so everything in life really. The people
that we are meeting, the places that we’re
going, the sounds that we hear while on the
way, personal experiences—it’s just pretty
much everything.
Do you think that music has the power to
change the world?
Tucker: I think it can help.
Sophie: Yeah, I definitely think so. I think
that good shift of energy every night—we
get to experience really positive faces and
joyful communities every night. I just feel like,
“Wow, you know what, music can make this
happen.” It may be a small thing, depending
on how many people
are in the room, but
it’s momentous when
it happens. It feels like
this is the world that I
want to live in.
That was a really
great answer. Is there
anything else that
you’d like to talk
about that we haven’t
discussed?
Tucker: We are on this
North American tour,
and then we are going
to be all over Europe
and Asia for a while. We
are just basically touring
nonstop. Right now our schedules are all the
way through 2019, and it will likely be through
2020 soon. We just want people to come see
us.
What’s the most fun for you about playing
live and touring?
Tucker: I think it’s the rush in connecting with
all the people. The venues have now gotten
bigger. It used to be smaller rooms with a
few hundred people, and now it’s a couple
of thousand people. It’s keeping it feeling
intimate even in these bigger rooms that is
really important to us I think. So it’s fun to just
connect with the audience.
PHOTOS BY SHERVIN LAINEZ