Q: Hi Karly, I love how your lyrics depict the southern grotesque - how did you come to accept letting your southern roots and own grotesqueness bleed into your work (especially growing up in the alternative scene)? Or was it always a non issue?
P.s. I work at a used record/bookstore in the middle of nowhere in Texas & I play records while people shop - I played Rat Saw God whenever it first came out on vinyl, and 4 people complained and walked out during Bull believer… it was awesome
Thanks for making music for weird southern girls like me <3 take care

I always kinda embraced my southern-ness, ever since I went to summer camp with kids from all over the US and realized how much I identified proudly with the other kids who were from near where I was from.

The more I travel away from the south the more I appreciate it and miss it when I leave.

Also much of my favorite (and the best imo) music and books are written by Southern ppl: Harry Crews, Flannery O’Connor, Drive-By Truckers, Vic Chesnutt, OutKast… of course many country singers and song writers.

I have always found the south easy to love in spite of its many many flaws. It has so much character and the landscape is so deeply inspiring to me, always has been.