The Divine Nine: Q & A with You're Pretty


You're Pretty's Beautiful Accident is one of the most satisfying indie albums of 2001. Singer Beth Musolff, bassist Chris Stenger, guitarist Steven Kern and drummer Dave Keckeisen chat about past, present and future.

ADAM: How’s life, gang?

YOU'RE PRETTY: Great! Things are moving along very well. We had some time off to write, and are looking forward to upcoming touring dates in the States, and possibly Europe. We're just finishing off the final details to a distribution deal in Europe.

ADAM: I read before the release of Beautiful Accident that you guys had enough material for at least one other album. Are you planning to record and release those tracks or are you moving on to newer material?

YP: We are always revising and writing new material. Our goal is to try to release new material, whether it be a full length or EP, at least once a year. Unfortunately, time does not always allow that, but if it did our new material would probably be a combination of both.

ADAM: The four of you split songwriting credit on each song. Do you each come in with your own material and then flesh it out as a band? And at what point are lyrics added to the mix?

YP: We write as a band. We basically jam in our practice space and then record it and listen, if anything strikes us we work on it together, each adding our 2 cents until we collectively feel that it is finished. The lyrics are the last thing that is added. Beth was still finishing some of the lyrics to songs on Beautiful Accident in the car on the way to the studio.

ADAM: You’ve toured extensively over the past few years, hitting both coasts several times over. What lessons has the road been teaching you?

YP: That our sense of direction sucks; we get lost a lot. Also, never buy a van for 2,500 bucks because it will break down in Santa Rosa, New Mexico and you will have to finish the rest of the tour in the back of a cube van. On a serious note, it has taught us endurance and has made us wiser. It has made us better song writers, better performers and better people. Basically it has taught us the ropes of this industry.

ADAM: I was pleasantly surprised by how you’ve avoided the doom-and-gloom of many of your peers. Do you find that some people expect (or interpret) you to be angrier & darker than you really are?

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