Pop-rock singer-songwriter The Defective HER, aka Monique Staffile, lately unveiled her most modern single/tune video, “Dare Me.”
On “Dare Me,” The Defective HER entices a proposition from a capability lover. In so doing, she turns the solicitation spherical: she’s courageous her target to dare her. She must listen to one thing unsuitable, salacious, eyebrow-elevating, pulse-racing, and imagination-broadening.
In a manner, each and each tune she and her band make is a roughly dare. She’s persistently reimagining her sound, stepping boldly across sort boundaries, shaking up the inclined and the silent love an audacious bartender mixing up a recent cocktail. Her audacity has been her guide, and he or she’s been rewarded for her braveness with an viewers of ethical believers who request of to be vastly stunned.
“Dare Me” suits a monster groove and a pure pop verse with a refrain that inspires the mischievous class of 1960s film soundtracks. As persistently, the writing is impeccable: dapper, keen, fun, and silly.
A tune as sultry as “Dare Me” needs a video to match – one thing incandescent, magnetic, and extraordinarily suggestive. That is the kind of clip that feels love pictures of a occasion that’s about to gain too wild to film.
Guitar Girl Magazine caught up with The Defective HER to communicate about the foundation for “Dare Me” and her tone.
What three issues can’t you live with out?
My canine, my guitar, my Chapstick.
What impressed your silent single/tune video, “Dare Me?”
I by no manner kiss and picture, so it’s kinda a secret. Nonetheless, let’s unbiased whisper I took a dare and kinda cherished it.
With “Dare Me” what used to be your predominant focal level? What did you essentially are attempting to cast off a concentrate on at and enact with this tune?
I needed to jot down a fun, flirty, intriguing tune to exit of your consolation zone and evaluate out silent issues.
Who directed the video and the put used to be it shot?
David Dutton directed it. Now we have worked on a bunch of my videos together. We shot your total video at my dwelling.
How did you gain started in tune?
I’ve been playing tune my total existence, had my first gig at CBGB in NYC after I used to be 13.
Which singers/musicians influenced your sound?
That’s a noteworthy seek recordsdata from nonetheless rising up in NYC I used to be influenced by Blondie, Beastie Boys, Madonna, and Velvet Underground. Hundreds NYC roots.
What roughly guitar keep you play?
My silent well-liked and most modern guitar is my orange Gretsch Bigsby. Nonetheless all my guitars, from Fender Teles to Gibsons, have diversified songs in them.
What is your definition of tone? And is your tone evolving?
I’m persistently a sucker for a filthy tone. I’ve by no manner waived on that. My first pedal used to be an Electro Harmonix classic Tall Muff and it’s silent my all-time well-liked!
Which keep you revel in essentially the most: writing, recording, training, or playing dwell?
I finally love writing and performing. Taking a tune from noodling to a stage is the put it’s at. Recording isn’t my well-liked, trigger it’s laborious to steal the rawness of a tune while you’re attempting to gain the “ultimate cast off.’
In accordance with your possess experiences and classes realized, what guiding rules or words of recordsdata would you half with aspiring artists taking a concentrate on to slash out their possess path in tune?
Attain YOU! Carry out your possess sound and your possess path, and by no manner hear to what others affirm, trigger nobody knows you greater than your self. Don’t be disturbed to cast off potentialities.
What’s next for you?
To rule the world!
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