I love summer obviously, and I wish I could be outside with my friends, and I think that's not happening at all. Music is such a great vehicle to take you out of your daily life and create this little bubble you can go into for three and a half minutes and feel like you've just gone to the beach.
KP: The song encapsulates the feeling of. JD: “Malibu” is an early contender for song of the summer, but it doesn't feel like we'll have a real summer this year. You can write with whoever you want to write with. We've been spending hours and hours on Zoom just making music, which is also cool that that's possible and that's now a thing. KP: Some of my friends are songwriters, so I've been having Zoom songwriting sessions. What are some of the other ways you've been using social media creatively? JD: I love that, finding new ways of fucking around with your friends. We've been having a lot of fun just coming up with the most fucked up backdrops. I love doing pictures that I know my friends hate - I'll put them as my backdrop and make them look at it. I don't know, some iconic Simple Life moments we put music videos behind us we put ugly pictures of ourselves behind us. KP: My friends all have very eclectic taste in that. JD: What are your favorite Zoom backgrounds? Everybody's going through the same thing and we all need each other to get through it. But yes, I think the internet has made me feel a lot more connected to the world and less alone. There's always a strong come down after a Zoom party, you're always like: “That was so much fun, and now it's back to just being in an apartment.” So I'm just trying to not crash when I do that. And it definitely makes me feel like I just hung out with a friend. KP: It's always going to not be the same, but I think Zoom parties and that stuff has made it a lot easier and being able to face time. I feel like people are finding ways to hang out with their friends via Zoom and FaceTime. Of course, Paris Hilton, Charlie XCX, Jonathan Van Ness, Slayyyter, the list goes on. JD: You have such an amazing cast of awesome people in there. So I know it made a lot of people really happy. I'm trying to give them as much fun stuff that they can be a part of as possible. I think it gave all my friends something really fun to do, and that made me really excited.
It makes me smile, it makes me really happy to watch it. I decided to make the best of it and ask all my friends to be in it and to make the most fun thing we could possibly do during this. KP: I was about to film the video, and then the whole lockdown happened. On May 11, you released the at-home edition music video for Malibu. The weather is nice, but obviously we're in lockdown, so we can't really do anything. KP: Well, I'm just in my friend's apartment. The following interview has been edited and condensed.
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