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...whose seldom-used last name is Orzolek, digs Germans; Chase has never won anything; and Coco Beware, while a real cat, has yet to inspire a song, let alone a whole album. "It's interesting that people are prepared to believe such odd things about us," says guitarist Nick Zinner. "Either we haven't really defined ourselves yet, or our fans are a little crazy...
...Yeah Yeah Yeahs have spent the past two years arguing over not just how to reach more people but also who their collective self really is. Chase, 28, and O, 27, became friends while enrolled at Oberlin College. O and Zinner, 33, met in New York City, forged an instant bond and became platonic roommates. All three have cared for one another just long enough to be pained by the fact that they no longer agree on everything. When it came to their next musical step, Zinner wanted the group to stay true to its grimy roots. O argued that...
...subject to countless gape-mouthed stares.) In the nurturing United Nations dynamic the band aspires to, O is the U.S., and when she moved to Los Angeles in 2004 and pushed to hire producer Sam (Squeak E. Clean) Spiegel, the brother of her then boyfriend, director Spike Jonze, Zinner and Chase reluctantly went along. The trio recalls the writing process--which did not go well--with uncomfortable courtesy, as if they're afraid to say anything that might be misconstrued as an insult and regurgitated later. "There were a lot of crackheads near Sam's recording studio," says Zinner. That...
...lyrics are intentionally vague--"Lyrics age poorly, especially if they're specific," she says--but she sings like an actress, with elastic trills and meaningful pauses, so there's a story in a line as small as, "My dear you've been used/ I'm breaking the news." Musically, Zinner darts through and around melody unpredictably, creating an impression of a tune rather than a tune itself. He's not always clean, but he's always compelling, particularly on Cheated Hearts, a sizzling breakup song that turns into a musical competition when O sings, "Sometimes I think that...
...night. And, as one is wont to do in a desert at night, they start a massive bonfire with their instruments while dust swirls around them in slow motion. Black-clad drummer Brian Chase somehow lights the fire by pounding on his snare drum, and waif-thin Nick Zinner strums, in a change of pace for the YYYs, an acoustic guitar before smashing it and adding dozens of ill-fated instruments to the bonfire. This cuts back and forth with sexy singer Karen O, draped in a gold dress, fire in her eyes and dirt on her face, contorting, howling...