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Bethany Cosentino Biography

Bethany Cosentino

Best Coast is an American rock duo formed in Los Angeles, California in 2009. The band consists of songwriter, guitarist and vocalist Bethany Cosentino and guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Bobb Bruno. Cosentino, a former child actress, began writing music as a teenager and was formerly a member of the experimentalist drone group Pocahaunted. After a brief tenure at college in New York City, Cosentino returned to the West Coast and began recording lo-fi demos with Bruno, whom she met in the Los Angeles music scene.

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I'd love to have a shoe line, or a sunglasses line, or a purse line. Who am I kidding, I'd like to have an everything line!

Like, Lines, Purse, Shoes, Sunglasses

I don't think lyrics need to be deep - just write whatever comes out of you. You don't need to find intense meaning in everything.

Intense, Meaning, Needs, Thinking, Write, Writing

I like the 50s, party-movie aesthetic of the beach. I'm not really into modern-day beach.

50S, Aesthetic, Beach, Like, Modern, Party

I feel one step closer to Beyoncé now that we both have our own clothing lines.

Closer, Clothing, Clothing Line, Lines, Steps

I was never really that great at sewing, but I had a good idea of what I wanted things to look like.

Ideas, Like, Look, Looks, Things, Wanted

I'm working all the time. When I'm home I try to split my time evenly between resting and preparing for another tour, and writing stuff.

Home, Preparing, Resting, Split, Trying, Writing

I feel like talking to people who don't tour, when you talk about touring - obviously we're super blessed and very lucky to be doing what we do - but there are so many weird things that could never happen anywhere else. When I talk to people who don't tour they look at me like I'm being bratty and complaining about this job that I have. It's not that! It's the fact that when I'm home I can exercise every day, I can cook myself good meals, then when I'm on the road for a long time it's like, "There's a Subway. I guess I'm eating a bowl full of lettuce because I don't eat McDonalds. "

Blessed, Day, Home, Jobs, Mcdonalds, Road

Touring is definitely work. You're spending a lot of time in the car and around the same people and it's not the easiest thing in the world, but it's better than working a 9-to-5 job or something.

Car, People, Same, Touring, Working, World

As artists and creative people it's such an important time to be expressive and be empowering and supportive of people. It is a time where I feel like everyone has to be together and say, "Hey, we're all going to be okay. We just need to work together. "

Artist, Empowering, People, Say, Time

I think it will be fun to not only play new music, but to get to play different instruments on-stage.

Fun, Instruments, Music, Play, Thinking

Advice I would give to anyone trying to find their own personal style: don't copy anybody, just be yourself, and make your own trends.

Advice, Being Yourself, Give, Giving, Make, Trends

I really like New York a lot, but I like it more as a place to visit. It was really difficult for me to live there. As a person from California, I'm still very neurotic and anxious, but in a more laid-back way.

Anxious, Difficult, Neurotic, Person, Place, Way

I went to school for a short period of time to study fashion. I wanted to become a stylist or a designer. I made clothes when I was a teenager that I used to sell online. My label name was "Baby Jesus" - so incredibly stupid, but whatever, I was 17!

Baby, Clothes, Fashion, Jesus, Study, Stupid

I was looking at pictures of cats laying out on the beach and I thought, "Cats hate water, so why would they like the beach?" But then I realized that cats like to just lay around and lounge and be lazy, and what better place to do that than on the beach?

Beach, Cat, Hate, Place, Realized

I am a true believer that a record should not be a bunch of songs that sound exactly the same.

Exactly, Records, Same, Song, Sound

I think what we do is really, at times, a complicated thing. But at the end of the day it's so important that we make art for people that need to escape reality for a second. That's what music has always been for me. It's been a way to tap out of what's going on in my personal life.

Art, Life, Make, Reality, Thinking, Way

It's important to stay creative.

Creative, Important, Stay

I'm really proud to be a woman making music. Nothing makes me happier than when other women approach me at shows and say, "You've inspired me to start writing music," or, "I feel like we could be best friends. " Music is a male-dominated business, so it's nice to see bands with girls in them, and not just a bunch of dudes with beards in flannel shirts.

Beards, Girl, Making, Nice, Proud, Writing

My favorite record of all time is Fleetwood Mac's Tusk. It's made up of a bunch of songs that don't really sound the same, but they all go really well together.

Favorite, Song, Songs, Sound, Together, Tusk

I've always been interested in fashion, and Urban Outfitters presented me with a huge opportunity to pursue that interest.

Fashion, Huge, Interest, Opportunity, Pursue, Urban

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