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Alexandra Alexis: ‘May Cause Shortness of Breath.’ High Tea at Lady Mendl’s.

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SCV: For instance?

AA: No holding hands in public. Never drinking…

SCV: Not even a cocktail?

AA: Yes, cause the next thing you know someone’s going to write you are now an alcoholic, or having an affair or whatever. So why give them the ammunition? You have to be careful about your image.

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SCV: So what sells at the end of the day? Talent or image?

AA: Take Beyonce, extremely talented. Now that she’s gotten her air play she’s very careful to mould her public image. Madonna, I think has done a wonderful job of creating a history of marketing campaigns. I think her capacity to continuously reinvent herself has been tremendous. You have to remember she came to NYC with forty dollars.

SCV: And Rihanna?

AA: It’s strange, but nobody wants to touch her because she got back together with her boyfriend– Chris Brown, when the public was telling her she should break up.

SCV: So there is a definite pressure to conform to public expectations?

AA: Well it exists, people have a preconceived concept of how someone in the public eye is suppose to behave. Ultimately though you have to commit to the work, the studio, the tours. 

SCV: What’s your upcoming album called?

AA: ‘May cause shortness of breath.’

SCV: I should think so. Do you have anything for me to listen to?

(Within a minute I am wearing headphones and taping my tea soon against my tea cup, a definite no no at Lady Mendls.)

It’s great. Very pop, dance orientated. Very, if I’m allowed to say this – gay pride. 

AA: Really? I’m so glad. I just love gay culture. They are so embracing, it’s like if they like you then it’s like giving the rest of society the seal of approval.

SCV: Strange how that works?

AA: You see it in all aspects of the arts, fashion, literature, design. 

SCV: You going to tour?

AA: I think as a warm up act, get involved with some MTV club concert acts. And we’ll definitely play a lot of the gay venues. 

SCV: I’m curious by your friendship with Adrien Field. Are you guys co joined at the hips?

AA: Oh, I just love Adrien. I really admire for as young as he is he is going for his ambitions, living it out. There are a lot of people who talk about writing books or whatever, it’s the thing you do in NYC, but in the end he’s one of the very few who actually do it.

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8 COMMENTS

  1. Hello???! This person is a total unknown in Finland. She has once had her picture published in a gossip rag for having been at some F-list party witn some F-list “celebrity” who became “famous” from some F-list reality show called “Popstars”, called Kana (in English: “Hen”!).

    Nobody knows about this Alexandra person. She’s never published music in Finland. The way she is trying to come off as an already established superstar in Finland and some future nternational mega celebrity is such a tragic, though hilarious, joke. This is obviously a person who has totally lost touch with reality. Although, I seriously doubt even she, herself, is that illusioned about what she is. Just trying to put on a show, most likely.

    She could very well be this nice, positive, exciting person in real life (what do I know. I don’t know her personally), but please, Alexandra, stop making a complete idiot of yourself. Get real.

  2. You know,I think she’s just being honest,I don’t know alexandra that well..but she comes off as a smart,together gal who knows where she’s going in life,what’s so wrong about that?I think its great that someone has a passion that drives them,I’m still trying to find myself..
    Kels

  3. Alexandra frequents many of our events,she is always polite,always pulled together and a wonderful example of what a young budding star should be!

  4. hi !

    As a ” big sister ” of Alexandra for many years in Finland ( she was my flatmate and used to co-ordinate fashion showsfor me in discos at the age of 16 ) I want to share that she is one of the most inspiring , positive , contagiously happy and spiritual people I know .

    Go , Alsie !!!!!

    Nisa

  5. It’s so odd, she sounds like she thinks she’s already famous. I’ve never heard of her before reading this linked from gawker. Honey, live your life — have a drink, hold hands. At this point NOBODY CARES!

  6. “i know Alexandra personally”. Ha, fucking loser you are. I’m glad you know her “personally”, you are SO lucky.

  7. I think the idea of high society being more closely related to low society is instinctively true, carnally true. When polarities like this are distinguished it makes for good writing, in the immediate ways. I think your paper understands itself, and resides in itself for that reason. Without acknowleding “morals” (I remember often telling ppl I did’nt believe in such a thing when I was in the city as a student: it allows people to be as they are, in their own skin, and reveal themselves to you. More importantly, your free to go about your own conversations with the outside world.), I can’t tell whether you’re eqauting most everyone, and or mocking them, and if humility is the confronting nature of it, where humor is the passifyer. Either way: it allows the writing, and issues, and the personal nature of it, a kind of mobility; one that is still fully assured of itself. It rides the fence, and so takes allowances with itself. It’s pillow talk, accesible, marketable, in the way it’s interesting bc of this? It’s also in continual states of provoking the world around it.

  8. I know Alexandria personally, she’s an amazing woman. Very sweet, nice, and a great role model. Good luck with the music and great article. Nice vagabond found someone worthy to write about.

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