PJ Harvey being interviewed by Lewis Largent on 120 Minutes in MTV, 1993. I saw another video with part of this interview but didn’t notice one with the whole thing so here it is.
Yes indeed. She's such a contradiction. A diminutive, soft-spoken farm girl off stage, but she's a giant fire-breathing vixen in front of the crowd. Very demure and classy, but irresistibly beautiful. She proves a lady doesn't have to look and act trashy to be sexy.
So cute how hard this guy is crushing on her during the interview! "You have nice hair" geeezus lol. How wise is PJ and what a brilliant gate keeper for real sound even at a young age - a true artist.
I think what strikes me the most about her is her humility; there's no pretense at all. She's got tons and tons of integrity as well. I feel that the word "icon" can be applied to her...and she's been doing it for years!
Lewis Largent is the interviewer. I adored him growing up. He had a HUGE influence on my musical tastes when he was associated with KROQ in Los Angeles and Request Video on KDOC in Orange County. Love him so ❤️
I like how she says she decided to use her name for the band because she was the lead songwriter and she wasn’t sure if her band mates were in on this as much as she was. Certainly a wise decision! Many of us never knew “PJ Harvey” started off as the name of the band.
This comment raised my eyebrow as the interviewer calls Albini controversial for the whole Nirvana stuff, which I thought was Kurt’s dissatisfaction with the finished In Utero, so I took to Wikipedia and found an Albini quote from early 93, where he “dismissed Nirvana as "R.E.M. with a fuzzbox" and "an unremarkable version of the Seattle sound".” Funny!
As for your claim, just as I thought, Albini’s sound had come to his attention with Pixies and Breeders, although before recording Nirvana’s album Albini gave him a tape of Rid of Me so he could have an idea of what In Utero could sound like.
No Kurt was impressed by Albini work with surfer Rosa of Pixies and Pod of The Breeders, same for PJ who was impressed with Surfer Rosa. As the other user said, Albini sent to Kurt the Rid of Me album by PJ Harvey to give him an idea of the way he records
I love PJ Harvey and this is the first time I've seen this interview. She is a powerful force in the industry and I love how assertive she is and how she does what is best for her music, I can relate to her in that aspect, creating music authentically comes before popularity.
Shout out to Lauren Mayberry of Chvrches. She often references PJ Harvey as a major influence. If you've never seen "Down by the Water," pause this video, go and watch and then return. Then remind yourself that it was made only 2/1/2 years after this interview.
I have to say that she is the most feminine woman I have ever seen. People I think tend to equate feminine with frailty or weakness, rather like a man's sidekick. Polly Jean shows what it is - no girly weakness, she's a totally mature woman, powerful feminine shining out, embracing herself as totally normal, in a more natural way than society's constraints - and its like seeing a rare bird.
Her clothing style is masculine not feminine. Wearing dresses does not equal weakness or being a side kick. Perhaps you meant to say feminist instead of feminine.
I really appreciate her intelligent and articulate approach to making music, especially the way she responds to this interviewers stupidly framed question about Steve Albini.
Polly is so much like a young Kate Bush was in her early interviews. For me those two are by far the best female singer songwriters the UK has ever produced
PJ Harvey cuts thru the BS of the interviewer when she speaks to her choice of Steve Albini as producer: like, he's the only producer she knows that records a band to sound like your standing in the same room as the band. Cut and dry.
talk about cliche, the dude doing interview looks like a total try hard every 90's cliche in one. pj could walk into any room today dressed as she is here & still look stylish
Imagine this guy interviewing her, talking to another dude like this. The patronization isn't subtle. Understandably, the comfort and relative safety that femme energy provides is real -and it's a gift to be respected- and we see him here nervously soften himself to approximate her, but the result is that he speaks with and of her as he would with a child. We can prepare men for better than this by learning and listening constantly, by their sides, to femmes in all areas of art and thought -as the true leaders and geniuses that they are.
Talk about reading into something way too much😂😂 The interviewer is clearly a big PJ Harvey fan and he was just a bit nervous and could not hide the fact he was crushing on her.
