The moment happened and we missed it fully.
I had a viral moment.
You literally stomped on it.
So it just goes to show how much nobody knows anything.
Im literally married to a male.
BIG!also marks a crossroads in Bettys career.
With age, shes slowly tempered her ambitions of megastardom.
Either sounds sick, she says.
Childhood me wanted to be the biggest pop star on the planet, and I still want that.
But I have other stuff that I also want to do, and I think thats really freeing.
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What is something really cheesy that you love unironically?
Im literally obsessed with it.
I cant pick betweenStefan and Damon.
I love them both.
I want to have sex with them at the same time, so I refuse to choose one.
Whats your go-to karaoke song?
The Real Slim Shady[by Eminem].
Nobody wants to hear a singer actually sing, you know what I mean?
I sing on stage all the time.
You know what I mean?
You have to get everybody going.
What song do you want played when you have a wedding ceremony?
I have a wedding playlist.
Its a song calledThirteenby Big Star, and it makes me cry and I love it.
Conversely, whats one song you want played at your funeral?
Some people are like, I want everybody to have a party.
No, I want everybody to talk about how much they loved me and cry all day.
I never want you to get over it.
I never want you to move on.
MaybeTears in Heaven[by Eric Clapton] is too on the nose.
Because You Loved Me by Celine Dion.
I also wantKesha at my funeral ghost-huntingme.
What was the first CD that you ever bought, or vinyl, or tape?
It was a tape.
A-side was…Baby One More Time.B-side wasSometimes.
What was the first song you slow-danced to or made out to in middle school or high school?
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Who is your current musical idol?
I think when youre in the music business, your fan brain turns off.
You play it overtly cool about some stuff.
Im not there to scream and sweat and feel your sweat and be in the presence of an idol.
Whats an instrument that you wish you played?
I love [mandolinist] Chris Thile, and my dad got me a mandolin for Christmas.
So I would love to be really fluent on the mandolin.
I think thatd be sick.
Whats one song that you’ve got the option to never listen to again and why?
Number One Fan by MUNA.
I blew it out.
Its just because I listened to it so f*cking much.
Its often songs that I loved so much that I actually killed them.
Thinking that pop music isnt the most important genre of all time.
When anybody turns their nose up atKaty Perry, Im like, Literally shut your f*cking mouth.
You try writingCalifornia Gurls,you f*cking idiot.
It deserves so much more respect and people disrespect pop artists all the time.
Its always about their looks, their weight, their boobs.
Its not about the music and the music unites generations.
When I played an event for the DNC and I got to meet Obama.
My parents have their picture with Obama framed in their house.
I cant believe that I got to do that.
And that was because you got to do that and you brought me along.
I really felt very much like I transcended something in that moment.
Whats the weirdest thing youve written a song about?
And every time a boy is mean to them, Im like, I will literally fight them.
I want to date you.
If we could all run off in a commune together and be sister wives, we probably would.
My husband is very aware of this and I tell him often.
Whats the lyric you love the most in life?
I know they see the same in me, and it makes us both feel strange.
No matter how you tell yourself, its what we all go through.
Those lines get pretty hard to face when theyre staring back at you.
Whats a song youve written that youre really proud of?
Its not really even about me.
This interview has been edited or condensed.
This article was originally published onOct.
source: www.bustle.com
