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Laurence Lafond-Beaulne and Camille Poliquin never set out to make music for other people to listen to. They wanted to make music for themselves. It just so happens that the music they created to cope with hard breakups and and other tough stories was also incredibly relatable to outsiders.

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00:02I feel like we never created music for people to listen to. We created music for
00:07us to feel better about what it was that we were going through at that moment.
00:12And it's very touching to know that people can relate to it. But the purpose
00:19of it in the beginning was just to cope.
00:33We're from Montreal both. We're from Montreal. It gets really cold. I write a lot during
00:39the winter because you're kind of stuck in your house and there's not much light and
00:43you kind of get depressed because you need light and you need warmth. We talk a lot about
00:48love stories that ended really bad or love stories that never happened. So for that, Montreal
00:55is great. It's very inspiring in the winter.
01:07That one works. Where to go? 13 left to go.
01:11Usually we start from a simple idea. Like let's say sometimes there's just like a feeling that
01:17we want to work with. We just write down a bunch of words that we want to use or that
01:23we want to build a whole universe around the song and like make it something that exists.
01:27The more we do it, the more we don't even have to talk anymore to plan how we're going
01:34to do it. It just happens. We're two friends making music together and obviously it's going
01:55to have a female point of view because that's the point of view that we have. So I think it's
01:59easy to relate to for other girls and women.
02:02You'll never stay. You'll like me. I'll never be your friend.
02:14You'll never be your friends.
02:22You'll never stay.
02:22It's off to the end of the fortitude.
02:24It's easy to follow.
02:25We'll see you next time some time.
02:25Hey friends, here's Will. I've just been coming to Toronto.
02:27I'm going to just go in a very good journey. We'll join us directly to the hall.
02:30I think we'll have a whole show tonight. Bye Bye!
02:32Bye Bye!
02:35I'm going to turn off the stage.
02:41That's how we leave the stage.
02:42That's how we leave the stage.
02:43I think that's how we leave the stage.
02:44When I listened to the first demos, I really felt that the bass of the songs were really strong, really
02:50deep,
02:51and you could see the mark of the girls in their music.
02:54And when the new elements of the songs were added, I could see really the atmosphere and the vibe the
03:00girls were going to put on it.
03:02It was really impressive for us.
03:04And on the human standpoint, it was so fun to be around, and I feel like we have a small
03:09family working together.
03:26It's a weird thing to think you write a song because you feel something, but then everybody hears it.
03:34And then you sing it live in front of many people, and it's so personal.
03:39We never thought the band would work that well, so mostly we're very, very grateful of where we are right
03:46now.
03:47It feels so good to be able to not only say it out loud, but say it out loud to
03:55people who don't know us,
03:56and to say it out loud to, like, broad audiences.
03:59If people don't connect to it, it was still important for us to write that song.
04:03The creative process is also a way to deal with what's going on.
04:07So that's where every song comes from, I think.

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