We started the band when we were in high school 6 years ago. At the beginning we did it for fun, we just wanted to play and make the people dance. We loved playing gigs and it was a good way to have nice party with our friends in some randoms bars in rennes.
The idea at the beginning is to do it seriously but without thinking you gonna be a rockstar so you keep doing stuff that you like and have pleasure doing it! But for the beginners our tips is also to work hard and try to rehearse a lot, at least twice a week with the entire band. If you start working on your computer and never rehearse you gonna be a dj, or a producer which can be cool, but you never gonna be rock band!
2-Which are your biggest influences?
We all have very different influences. We were not best friends when we started the band, and we didn't want to do a revival of AC/DC or something like that. So we all try to bring our own stuff into the band. For Example I listen to some Hip Hop, and on the album there's gonna be a song a bit hip hop mixed with a Poppy chorus. But there is two bands that we all really like it's Foals and Whitest Boy Alive.
3-How your creative process work ?
It's always changing, it depends who's inspired and when. But mostly Victor and I work together on songs, we come with some ideas sometimes it's just some chords and a vocal line, and sometime it's an entire finished song. Then we work alot we the band trying to play it together, we add stuff and we see if it works with only the four of us and our instruments.
4-In the last decade we saw a boom of awesome french new acts.What do you think about it? And How do you think the place you live in have influenced in your music ?
It's really cool and we hope it will continue. The live has always been the main thing. We did the band for it and we love doing gigs. That's also why it took us so long to record our first album. We needed time to find the right sound. For us it's really different being in studio. a We try do do something different thant in live. We don't wanna be playing our album with tones of samples and protools shit in live. We try to arrange the songs if needed so it can be different, but it works with the Live.
5-Now the cliche question, why The Popopopops?
Because NTM. It's a famous french Rap Band, and there's a song called "seine saint denis style" where they say "à base de Popopopop et pour le Hip Hop je développe". We thought it was cool to be a Rock band with an Hip-Hop name kind of.
6-Why do you compose songs in english? Have you ever tried to make a song in French?
It's natural for us because all our influences are english and american, and the language fits with the music that we do. I write the lyrics and its nice to do it in english because you can write crazy stuff that an english speaker won't never say. Even if it's wrong sometimes it can be really interesting. We tried some stuff in french but it's much harder. But someday we'll do something somehow..
7-What do you think about music future ?
We'are trying not to think about it!
8--What are your dreams ? Your motivation ?
If we could keep playing music and keep earning our life by doing gigs for a really long time it would be a dream! Oh, and if Beyonce or Jay-z could use one of our song to sing along it could be really motivating!
9-Which are your favorite places to play ? And your favorites to have fun ?And when we'll have a Popopopops show here in Brazil?
Our favorite places to play is those where we have fun. We love bars as well as huge venues. we'll be coming in Brazil if we have the opportunity. Maybe you could help us find some gigs? Please.
10-What were the weirdest and the funniest thing that ever happened on a gig?
The coolest thing is when people start singing along our songs during gigs. It'salways a wonderful feeling. The weirdest is maybe when drunk guys start singing Seven nation army between two songs because it's sounds a bit like our name: "po, pololpopopo po". So once we strated playing the original along it was quite fun.
11-What do you use to make your tracks? What do you take with you on the stage?
Voices, keys, guitars, drum. For the studio we add some stuff like trumpets, organs, ambient sounds or drum machines and percussions. Bit for the live we try to keep it simple. We don't have enough hands to play everything we wish we could play.
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