THE INNER-VIEWS OF MUSIC: Cobra Starship

Edited by Hillary Frazier

We had a chance to sit down tonight with Gabe and Ryland of Cobra Starship at the ‘Diesel U:Music’ event at Webster Hall, and they dished exclusively to Fashion Indie about everything you really wanted to know:

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Fashion Indie: First and foremost, how incredibly hot is Leighton Meester?

Cobra Starship: Really hot!  She’s the hottest she’s ever looked in our video.  In Gossip Girl she’s in high school, but in our video she brought it.

Ryland: She’s really shiny.

Gabe: She’s got the blonde hair, like Betty to Veronica. She’s a bad girl. They both agree, she’s a total babe.

FI: Ryland, if you could steal an article from Gabe’s closet, what would it be?

CS: My retro Jordan 2 Low-tops.

Wait, what?….Apparently Gabe stole a pair of Ryland’s Jordan’s, and he keeps them in his “cloffice,” or closet office, which he described as “I keep a stack of sneakers and I have a little desk.”  Just what I want, more space for the clothes and shoes, and a tiny desk to work from. So I guess if Ryland had to choose an article of Gabe’s clothing to steal, it would be one of his own, and Gabe agreed that if he had to steal an article of Ryland’s clothing, it would be the Jordans that he already stole.

FI: If your upcoming album, Hot Mess, were an article of clothing, what would it be?

CS (Both agree): After simply blurting out thong, they rediscuss the question to come up with a dirty long tank top with holes in it and no underwear, after a five day binge, with puke and blood all over it, and one nipple showing.

Side note- The guys told us that the tattoo on the girl’s lip on the cover of the album is actually a real tattoo. Nobody knew it, but it’s totally true.

FI: If you were to do a collaboration product of line with Diesel, what would it be?

CS: A stretch denim unitard, maybe in full cobra print. 90%  Stretch Denim, 10% Lycra

FI: How do you guys dress for the stage?

CS: Gabe- Honestly, we’re posers, we play to the crowd.  If we’re playing for a bunch of fifteen-year-olds that love hoodies, we’ll wear hoodies.

Ryland- And if we’re playing for a bunch of Republicans, we’ll wear blue suits and red ties.

FI: Who is the best dressed in the band?

CS: Gabe- Ryland. He reads The Sartorialist and stuff. I just shop at the mall.

Finally, we saved the best for last:

FI: If you were on ‘Nickelodeon Super Toy Run,’ what toy would you be gunning for?

CS uproar: Gabe doesn’t know what ‘Nickelodeon Super Toy Run’ was because he’s an “immigrant” and didn’t have cable, which turned into him calling us racist because immigrants couldn’t watch Super Toy Run, but Rylan quickly replied “The Voltron full set, the metal one, not the plastic one.”

The guys put on a great show, Corey’s uploading the videos as I type! Check out a gallery of their performance on Cult