Rainbow Kitten Surprise are in their adopted hometown of Nashville, Zooming in from three different locations. Drummer Jess Haney is missing, but guitarist Ethan Goodpaster is present and serious, his comments measured. Guitarist Darrick “Bozzy” Keller is quiet, only speaking when directly asked a question. Ela Melo, their figurehead, chain-smokes cigarettes, leaving red lipstick marks on the filters and no doubt getting some smoke into her platinum wig.
Melo, Goodpaster, and Keller are awesome in their generosity, sharing their difficult experiences with SPIN, their warm Southern accents making the intensity of their statements that much easier to hear.ELA MELO: Every album process has been different in how we create and how we perform what’s been created. Things were a little bit different from a sobriety standpoint and from a diagnosis standpoint. I was not, at that point, diagnosed bipolar, which I have come to be. That took 31 years. There’s a lot that comes with that that’s complicated. It was obviously impacting my life, and it definitely impacted things around me. We’re a pretty chill group of people, all other things considered.
Once you got over the most difficult parts, was the creativity just flowing, or was it not as simple as that?The creativity was flowing even before things really hit rock-bottom, which was confusing because it felt validating to the self-medication aspect. It was like, “Oh, we just need more of this, and we’re good. That was the problem this whole time.” But no, it wasn’t. I find, to a certain degree, it’s the timing of everything.
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