Horsegirls, a poet, artist, and visionary, shares her journey rooted in a nature-filled farm upbringing, where animals and humans coexisted in a vibrant, free-spirited environment. Her music, especially the album *Nature is Healing*, is deeply inspired by natural rhythms and cycles, reflecting a return to authenticity and emotional honesty. She emphasizes that nature is not dying but can heal if we choose to care for it, and that human experiences—like pain and joy—are intrinsically linked, much like a tree’s growth through winter and spring. Drawing on themes of imperfection, flow, and emotional depth, she connects electronic music to natural phenomena, such as rivers that bend and flow without a final drop. Her performances prioritize communal connection, anonymity, and freedom from social media pressure, allowing fans to be themselves. Humor and satire serve as tools to break down barriers, making the experience accessible and joyful. She contrasts U.S. club culture—often centered on status and drops—with Germany’s more inclusive, collective dancing. Ultimately, her work is a celebration of nature, vulnerability, and human connection, offering a message of hope, resilience, and the beauty of simply being present in a world that often demands constant performance.
today, we are sitting down with a true poet, a scholar, and an artist that transcends the laws of physics and human genetics. Please welcome Horsegirls and Nikki and I. I am so excited to be speaking with you. Thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited. The honor is all mine. I mean, like your artistry is just so impressive to me. The way you have, like to me so much of what defines a great artist is like their commitment to something and how they build a world around that ideal. And I think there is no one who is like more committed to what they are doing than you are. Oh, thank you. That's very sweet. I mean, I don't, I don't know how others do it obviously, but I think I'm just out here doing my horsey thing, you know. That's right. I'm very happy that people are so accepting. Yeah, exactly. And I want to go all the way back to the beginning. So you, did you grow up on a farm? What was that like? Yes, yes. I grew up on a farm called Sunshine Farms. It's not really a very agricultural farm. It's where of a rescue, like hippie farm. We were a lot of different animals and different humans. And it was beautiful. Honestly, I had a really nice childhood. Wow. Did you, were you all like having raves in the barn? We had, um, yeah, we had some festivals like some barn fasts and little harvest celebrations. For the raves, I would say I would actually go a lot more into the forest. Wow. Yeah. Wow, wow, wow. There's like fairies and other wildlife that we're getting involved. You know what I mean? We're expanding. I love that. I love that. Um, did you feel like how did different animals on the farm react in a rave? Um, I think there's the ones that are quite sensitive to sound. So any like dog and wolf and fox kind of animal were always, um, they like to stay a little bit on the outside pyramids of the rave, because it would just be a bit too much for their like sensitive ears. But, um, or they would join in and like bark to the beat or like, I love that. Like the, I envision like the pigs are in the pit. They're in the, they're rolling in the mud, the pit, all of it like, bring in the vibe, bring in the vibe. Yes, I love that. The squirrels also go hard. They love to like go up and down and everywhere and like just, yeah. That's amazing. I would love to invite me to the next one, please. Yes, I will. Um, something that like was so interesting to me about this project when I think about you in general is like, it's so inspired by nature. And when you think about like electronic music and where it's mostly like consumed, it's like a warehouse and industrial and how does, how does nature inspire you to make electronic music? Um, I do think that the archaic sense of a rave, like maybe the very early idea of a drum beat that just continues and draws you in is actually something that predates the industrial times. Yeah. Like I could totally see the early, early humans totally around a fire at night, you know, and that was the first rave. Yeah. So I think for me, it doesn't even feel like these complete separate worlds. Um, and I think in terms of getting inspiration from nature, I feel like it's very much just this deep fascination for everything around me. Like I think there's just so much beauty and so much, I know this sounds so cliche, but the way everything is designed and such an intricate way, you know, like it's just incredible. And it gives me, I feel like when I make, all right, I try to not chase a robotic sense of perfection, you know, but rather something that feels organic and, um, and flows. Yeah. I, I, I was thinking the exact same thing, like what's so interesting is that there is no idea of perfection in nature, right? Like it just is in a very beautiful way, right? Like this flower is not more perfect than that flower. Like they just are both beautiful in their own right. Exactly. And I think that that's like a very beautiful way to approach making music. Yeah. And, and not trying to focus on that. Like it just is. The song just is. And there's so many amazing sounds in nature as well. Like I think from the sound of waves to rain to other animals to wind how it wind interacts with trees or like grass and all of this. Like it's such a rich soundscape. Totally. One of my favorite songs off the album was Rivers Run Free. Oh. And I feel like that was one that's exactly what you're talking about. Like it is very, it starts with water. Yeah. It's a very aquatic, very like watery sound. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And you made that song with A.G. Cook. Yeah. So we started the track, um, in London actually with A.G. and with Nico, no Mac. Yeah. And then it just like, I remember with that session, it was very much. It was a very floaty, very flowing session. Like everything kind of fell into place within the first half an hour. We had like the chord progressions for everything as well as the main. I had this idea for for the chorus to be like this almost coral, Rivers Run Free chant that feels very soft. Yeah. Like kind of like the river that goes right, right, right around a little corner and bends and goes up and down. And the kind of trip up and more break B90s feeling felt really fitting for this track because I think there's a real nostalgia in it. Like it could also be an early 2000s or late 90s track. Yeah. That's so cool. I also like, I love the analogy you gave of the river and like how the song feels. And that is something that is like very interesting to me. Again, talking about these similarities between like nature and nature and dance music is like the river is like something that flows until it reaches this like mass point, right? Like the waterfall or the pool or whatever at the end of it. And I very much feel like dance music is like that. It's like on this ramp until there's like this big collective like drop or payoff or like you know what I mean to everyone in the room like it experiences at the same time. Yeah. Like the I sometimes I don't know it depends on the kind of electronic music because I think there's also if you go like to a really classic tool or minimal techno set, there's never that relief of a drop. You're right. I find actually in the US a lot of the club music, like the very popular club music is very drop based. And I also normally play that way. Like I like, I like getting the release. But I do also think yeah, can there is something really interesting about like a long stretch of just flowing and never fully getting there. It's like the music is edging you on the whole night. Totally. Totally. I don't know. It's like taking you on a journey. Yeah. Which I think is like the again, that's the interesting thing like music is like the ultimate medicine to our emotion. Like we like almost like prescribe ourselves a song based on like how we want to feel in that given moment. But do you listen to do you put on a sad song when you're sad or do you put on a happy song when you're sad? Depends on what I'm sad about. Okay. You're being honest. But like I I think I want the song to reflect the experience. So like a heartbreak song if I'm feeling heartbroken. Do you get what I mean? But that's not necessarily there are very like uptempo heartbreak songs as well. Yeah. So I don't really know. But I think often about how my music taste changes based on time of day. Yeah. Like in the morning, I am very I'm playing horse girl. I wanted that I want to like be brought up. Whereas like once. Yeah. Oh my god. I put you on in the morning when I want my way to work or when I'm in the gym. I love that exactly. Yeah and it's like because you got like these like beats and like the bass of it all and and I can't even like the nature motif. I think the sun is rising and I'm like getting beautiful. Like I'm in the shower. Yeah. But then in the afternoon, it's like Billy. It's Frank. It's Lana. I'm like we got a we can't do horse girl after I got to go to bed soon. That would be crazy if you would listen to like Apple the day going to bed. Like nighttime routine 170 BPM. I would be like. But the doctor has to be kept away somehow. So you know if it's if you haven't listened to it at least once a day, you got to clock in and get it up there. Unless you love you know being sick and seeing the doctor. Yeah. Do you feel like there's like a big difference in what we were talking about earlier with electronic music scenes because you're from Germany right? Do you feel like that like from from Germany to US that there's like
big shift and taste? I think so. I think the whole hardcore and also Euro dance. All of that didn't really happen here in the time when it happened in Central Europe. So I feel like in the early 2000s we already have a very huge momentum when it came to hard, a faster, hard style kind of music and I think that's why maybe to an audience here this feels super super new. Yeah. Whoa, what are these kicks? Like this is so fun and yeah I think that's one difference. I also think the club culture here in the past 20 years maybe was a bit more based on clubs with tables like a bit more like a status thing, you know, you get a bottle, you're like seen. You know, like it's more about this. Right. I don't even know if we have that many bottle service clubs in Germany. Interestingly, there are some but if you go out to a club, it normally doesn't imply having to get a table. It's very much like one dance floor. Yeah. I like that though. Again, and that's like the collectivist experience of dance is this like release that we're talking about and the beauty of like 500 strangers who don't know each other and have maybe never see each other again, but are feeling the exact same thing in this moment. Yeah. Is a beautiful part of humanity. Yeah, it's truly I do think raving and dancing together doesn't have to be at a rave can also just be, I don't know, going to dance somewhere together. Yeah, like it doesn't it's not about one specific genre. It's more about getting together to experience music and to let your guard down and to let go of your ego and stop thinking about how you're being perceived and stop also looking at others from like a judgmental sense and just yeah, reconnecting to others, I think is yeah, and this is in many ways. I don't know if I've had this debate with people like in many ways, I feel like the phone ruined that a bit. Do you know what I mean? Like living in this world where like you can be perceived at all times. Yeah, even if you aren't, it's a possibility. It's like so interesting to me and in the way that I think it shifted club culture. 100% and I really I do want to make the distinction that it's not the phone necessarily. It is social media specifically how we how we interface with the internet nowadays. This constant like pressure to to capture everything. Yeah, not to share it. Exactly. Is so it's so wild like yeah, I mean, I it's a bit of an abivalent feeling because I know that also a huge part of my career has been because people shared see me and it's out of love too like it is out of a genuine desire to appreciate and and remember, you know, like I really get that I think though there is a difference between okay, going to see an artist you really love snapping one little picture for memory or like waiting for your favorite favorite song, getting like a tiny little clip and being on your phone the whole entire time. Right, right. This is I very much empathized with this experience, especially as like doing this for my job now because I used to be very like phone off in the moment but now I have these times where like some so and so label or publicist is bringing me there to do that. So then I have I get caught in this thing where I'm like, I don't want to seem like insulting for like I was given this concert ticket for free and like I want to be able to you know what I mean? Like do something kind for the person or something. So like there is the exactly what you're talking about this very interesting like give and take to it all. And I think there's also I mean maybe I'm just brainstorming now how how one if I was in your position as well like how can one show what the vibe was be part of the experience and not like only film or whatever and I think there's it's also when I hire people for my shows it's always this really difficult balance that I want to keep because I don't want my fans also to feel like oh my god there's all these people filming as well like that's so annoying also like behind the DJ when there's like 10 people with literally your boom mic totally it's really it's really tricky and essentially I think the best party photography is actually the one that is so candid that that yeah it's super kind of feels really like in the mosh bed like it's not even super out of focus it's very and it's also such a great feeling when you didn't notice the picture was being captured but like your friend texts it to the next day because they went through the album or whatever you're like this is beautiful like that it's nature it's literally nature like it is you in the wild honestly and a very beautiful David and wait what's his name David at bro no that's I always say his name wrong like the safari man you know the one that's like yeah it's always with the animal right um you need a super long that's me and in the pit at horse and that's and something I think that's like even cooler or something I has really impressed me recently is the idea of like how the performance can change around it like I saw like an artist Audrey Hobart like plays her biggest song twice and I thought that's the coolest thing ever she opens with it so everybody films it and then at the end of the show she's like you gotta put your phone down and I'll do the song again and I'm like that like what an interesting like way to to the idea of like changing your own performance and show and capability based off of when you want people to film I think it's like I don't know it's an idea I've never seen anybody experiment yeah it's so I do I I saw I think Phoebe Bridgers just announced her tour is gonna be completely free yeah yeah yeah I love that you know me too I was like there's an LA show of um um cocktail twins from the early 90s that I love and they they just had one camera um kind of front of house level right and so you kind of you see the tiny little people of the band like unstead and you see like the lights changing but because no one has phones the actual crowd is completely dark and I every time I watch that whole performance I'm like oh I wish I could experience that again as well as like being in the audience right if it's just you're just this big palk of anonymity and it's got you know I love that and maybe like you put a light around yeah yeah yeah no totally I love that um and anonymity is something I was wanting to ask you about like I'm very interested in your relationship with fame as somebody who is in something like such a publicly large industry yeah um I find and I think I said that even before in another interview I do I do find fame quite scary like I think growing up in the 2000s and 2010s I feel like fame always had this really dark side to it for all the artists that I liked it always felt like a bit of a double-edged sword a double-edged sword for sure because you know losing your privacy losing the chance to just live a normal life for the rest of your life sometimes yeah yeah yeah yeah really once once you cross a certain threshold of fame yeah I think that is very very very scary but at the same time of course like a lot of amazing things also come with being known like people listen more to you or your music you know just yeah has a larger audience you can do more creatively yeah um but yeah it's a it's a tricky one you know I like a very private life yeah I can imagine growing up on a farm you would think that like and I like to keep it that way yeah no totally um I very much agree to I think it's like an interesting thing that like our generation really experience of like growing up with this sort of like Brittany and and Miley and Amanda Bines and then also into the invention of social media yeah like I think like people our age are relatively the the last they're ever going to remember life before and after you know what I mean like just so insane it's insane I saw this meme the other day where it was like people born in like 2026 like you missed the whole plot like whatever you missed it all you missed it all it's crazy I have baby cousins who are in kindergarten right now and they don't remember the pandemic and it's so crazy to me because they were alive foring it all but like there's no long-term memory it's I mean good honestly honestly honestly honestly but it is it is so insane um but I'm so in like I I just am enamored with this sort of like world that you have built around you and like your project like you being a horse has become this like symbol of the fandom you know what I mean like people go to your shows dressed up I dress up as a cowboy today you know like and I love it I love to see I think it's very creative, my fan base.
is very, very creative. I don't know if I bring that out in them or if it's just the fact that they already are super creative people and they just love any outlet they can get, you know, to be like, oh my god, this is accepted here. Yeah. I think you set the tone in a beautiful way. Right? Like if you are showing up as this, they can show up in whatever way they want. Yeah. And I think that is such a beautiful way to feel connected to you. Like there is no, there's no such thing as too ridiculous on a whole school show. You know, like it's, it's impossible. No. It is impossible. It is the, and like I think that is so beautiful to talking about again, like this collectiveness spirit of music. It's very liberating. I think our generation, um, because we all are so hyper aware of being perceived on social media, I think there's these studies even that show that young people, like teenagers basically, um, are more afraid to start new things because they are afraid that they're not going to be, because they're not going to be amazing at it straight away, that they're going to be cringe, you know, and then they'll be labeled as cringe and bad and it's going to be embarrassing and everyone on the internet will laugh at them and all of these kind of things. And I, I think, yeah, like this is precisely why I want to make sure that it's a space whenever I play a show where people feel like they don't have to worry about that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You can just be whatever. And there's this element of like intentional satire. Like you're in on it on this thing that everybody, it loves, you know what I mean? Like, and, and finds funny and, and I'm using, but also like moving at the same time. I think you know what I mean? You know, it can be both, you know, like totally. So, and also humor is such a strong vehicle for us to to deal with how hard life can be all the time and how scary this work can be, you know, I think meme culture says it all. Yeah. And, and something that I feel very like a throughline to is this sort of like, escapism feeling of dancing is like, like, I love the feeling of going out and dancing with my friends on a Friday because it's like, there was so much going on in the world, but it's like, wow, for this five hours, four hours, we're going to experience euphoria and like bliss and friendship, you know, and. And maybe be reminded again that there is still hope. Yeah. You know, that, that, that's also what the human experience can be like, you know, yeah. And the horse experience. And every, every being's experience. Right. Right. The whole, the whole farm. But I mean, like this whole like, I'm so fascinated with the way you've used humor as a tool to market yourself as an artist. It is genius. Like you are so in on it. Yeah. You know, I think, I don't know, I think I like to, I don't like to take myself too serious, but I do also take humor serious. Right. Right. Because it's also like a, the emotion that creates in people is serious. Yes. And it can trans pull so many things like good humor. You have to kind of have enough intelligence to dissect something serious and turn it into a joke or make it funny. Make light of it. Yeah. And it requires wit and timing and articulation and all things that you're freaking incredible at. I was about to say, I don't think I'm that amazing at that because I don't want to be like a comedian. I'm not a comedian. I agree to disagree. I agree to disagree. I think it's such like an integral part of your charm. And why people feel drawn to you. Yeah. That's very sweet. You're welcome. I would love to talk about, you know, like specifically getting into like the visuals of this album and talking about, you know, like the, the album title itself, let's talk about nature is healing. Where does that come from? Nature is healing is really in a way a return to my core and to my roots. I think I started working on this album when I was really, really, really exhausted from touring and I released an EP last year called VIP very important party, which very much taps into that whole city life material fried of being a global traveling DJ pop star, yeah, girlie. And that was very fun for a long time, but then I, I felt like, okay, I need to say things that I genuinely care about instead of just, um, maybe trying to fit in also with a lot of the contemporary topic in music, which is like oftentimes, yeah, I'm, I'm heart, I'm rich, I'm, you know, all these things. And that's also fine. But yeah, I, I really felt like I, I want to talk about mother, I want to talk about mother nature. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And, um, I always feel like when I'm in nature, I am healing, you know, so nature is healing to me. Um, and I also want to challenge this belief that nature is dying right now because of course, like humans aren't treating nature the right way, but I think to already think a lot of popular culture has almost just accepted the status quo that it's all going to go downhill from here. And, yeah, it's very like nihilistic view. Very fatalist and very like, yeah, it turns you, um, it makes you very complacent. And I, I think nature is healing if we want her to. Yeah, nature nature is healing to us. And also, we have the power to heal nature. Mm-hmm. And, and the other way around. And, um, I think that there's also this very, like, at least for me, this beautiful, like, when you're in nature, almost everything, I feel insignificant in a very beautiful way. Yeah. When you see a mountain that's like thousands of feet taller than you or an ocean that you can't see the end of. And how it's just like, nothing, nothing, nothing I do is going to change this or like impacts and like, and life is too experienced as we're talking about earlier. Like, I don't know, I think that there's this very grounding element to nature. And everything we do now is, you know, it's always in the short lifespan of mammals life, you know? So that's like for humans, what, 80 years, 70 years, um, on average. And I feel like that helps so much to realize, okay, nature has been here before me. And she will also be here when I'm not here anymore. And society's full and start again. And all of the things that we think are so important might actually be quite irrelevant. Most of them are quite irrelevant. But again, that's a beautiful thing. It's a beautiful thing to realize, like, wow, all my problems are irrelevant. Yeah. Like, and I think like a part of the human condition of like, we will so fixate on the most insignificant detail of our own life that you stop caring about a week from now. Literally. But sometimes I think that's the beautiful thing. With this album, I really wanted to just stop and, and be in awe almost like, you know, when you first come to this world as a little little child and little foal, you're just like, look at everything. That's right. And you're like enamored. And yeah, the world is full of wonder. And I think that was really what I wanted to express in my album. I, that's a perfect segue. I was literally going to ask my next question was, what do you want people to feel while listening to this album? I want them to have a good time. Of course, I want them to feel hopeful. And I want them to remember that there's so much to love about the world and about themselves as well, you know, like all of this constant pressure to be perfect, to look a certain way, to be hyper productive and all of these kind of things. There is a very beautiful quote that I'm going to butcher, but it's take from famous German poet, and he's pretty well known also in English, especially his book Letters to a Young poet. And he talks about how in nature, even a tree, you know, like a tree is patient and a tree knows that spring can't be always, you know, there's like other phases that you go through and there's the winter time when you don't have any leaves and you don't. You're just like that it's just cold and it's winter and then but the tree knows spring comes again. And I think, yeah, it's good to remind ourselves that we all just nature. We go through phases, you know, we can't be a machine. We're not machines. Right, right. And I think it's also important to remember that there is this direct correlation between pain and pleasure. Like one one cannot exist without the other, right? The reason something can be beautiful and satisfying and important to you is because you had to go through immense pain and difficulty to achieve it, you know what I mean? But like that's why it is meaningful. And it's a
important thing. It's a hard thing to think about that in the middle of the the pain part. Yeah, but they're they're eternally linked to one another. And I think that one cannot exist without the other. Like even like the metaphor you're talking about with with the tree in spring and summertime is like it's not summertime if it's if it was always summertime. Part of what makes the summer beautiful is that there was winter before. Which is one thing where I could not probably live in Los Angeles. Interesting. I like a place with four seasons, you know. So I came from a place with four seasons and I was ready to get out girl. You know, maybe I'm saying this because I get to travel so much. You're right. And I'm like when it's winter winter, I'm like, oh yeah, this is cute for two weeks. And then right or just like, I don't know. I couldn't get into the whole like, you got to you're it's it's 8 a.m. and you're like, I got to shovel my car out of a driveway. Okay. Well, that's yeah. It's just I'm not. Yeah. Why? No. That like heavy heavy snow is intense. Yeah. It's beautiful. It is beautiful. It is beautiful. I'm glad I like grew up with it. Like I had my, did my stint live? I'm gonna keep 70 oh here a little bit. I have a bit I'm just rapid fire questions that I would love to ask you. First and foremost, I want you to describe this picture in five words. Camp punk. Saturated. Iconic. I have one more word, right? Yeah, you get one more. And somehow it's giving me a bit on tea. On tea. I was gonna say you're in your like Billy Eilish era, you know, with the green hair. Yeah, but something about like the hair cut itself. I don't know like somehow it's giving on to you a little bit. It's giving on to you. On to horse. What do you call it? An on horse. On horse. Like is there a, because like a, we're talking about like a foul would be a baby. Yeah, but I think it's still the same relation though. You're right. Your mom is your mom and I think you're right. I'm not the extra here. I call my aunt. I call my aunt on when I call her. Oh, yeah. Wow. Yeah. Is that how you flirt also? Well, I don't flirt with my aunt first of all, but you're so right. You're so right. Setting the record straight. Yeah, let's clarify that. How would you approach another horse that you saw on the bar? Depends on the, depends on the horse, but I would probably, uh, we're big on just like your movement and, you know, yeah, staring is kind of rude. Like I wouldn't just stare at another horse. I'd just be like being getting a little bit closer to them. Yeah. How they like interact with my. Maybe he like runs really fast and that impresses you. In a, yes. Depends where. Depends where. Sometimes the running doesn't work if we meet in a bar. For example, we can't be starting to run around. Well, you never know. It spends all big the bars. That's true. And maybe that's why it's impressive. Yeah. Did you date a lot of other horses while you were on the farm? I wouldn't say a lot. Like I had a horse boyfriend. I had like one or two cute little lures. Any human boyfriends? Do we dip, do we dip our in both pools? Yes. I had a seahorse girlfriend, which we are now kind of friends, but that was very cute. I think it just was hard, you know, because it was a long distance relationship. We couldn't really meet anywhere else besides the beach. And she had difficulty staying above water. And, like, it was just the whole thing. Size difference too. She was quite tall though. Oh, okay. Big seahorse. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. She was like normally large actually now that I think about it. You know, hey, the heart wants what it wants. We don't get to pick who we want, you know. Exactly. But hey, you can take a horse to water. You can't force it to fall off of the seahorse. No, you can't. Well, it was easy to fall in love with her. Yeah. Well, maybe she's watching. Maybe. Who knows? Okay, I have an interesting F-Marie kill for you. Oh, love. Let's go. Bojack Horseman, donkey from Shrek, spirit the stallion, Mary spirit, black Bojack, and don't say it. I'm sorry, donkey, I'm sorry. The personality is a 10 though. The personal. Actually, actually, also, I guess he lays it down because the dragon is his wifey. So yeah, he's got it. He's doing damage somehow. Like he's figuring out. Yeah. He's figuring it. And also, he's got little hybrid babies also. Exactly. So you're right. So, and he's funny. He's funny. When they do the little, uh, when the fairy godmother turns, puts them on the little curse, he's very beautiful. No, you're right. He could be a fixer upper for you. You know, don't date potential. Yeah. You're right, actually. Yeah. No, that's a tough one. Yeah. That's okay. Again, the heart, we did the heart doesn't choose what it wants. Another interesting question I have about your origin. So your half human half horse. Is that like a one parent full horse, one parent human situation? Is this like a two parents? So on my father's side, I think there is some zebra. Wow. His ancestry. Wow. Yeah. So, but we're not quite 100% sure, because it only keep records like that. Yeah. They don't do. They don't do 23 in memes for you. Exactly. Kind of rude. Yeah. I mean, we could probably figure that out. But so my mom is like full horse, but my dad is like, yeah, he's like a quarter zebra basically or something. Yeah. So you're just, you're diverse. I'm very diverse. You're diverse. Wow. Any seahorse in there too? Or just, I wish. I mean, I wouldn't need to go back in the records. You know, that's right. Because I'm going to go on to the ocean. So it could be, you know, you're so right. You're so right. What's your sign? Well, the internet has been guessing this for a while. I will say there's a little clue. If you go to the very first music video I've ever released, I'm celebrating my birthday. And also it is literally, it is literally in my handle. So this is a crazy thing for 20. That's my birthday. Really? Yes. I just like spoiled the whole surprise, but basically I never knew what it means in human world for 20. Oh, y'all don't celebrate out there in the farm. Well, it's like something. I thought, oh, it's like about grass. And I love grass. It is about grass. Yeah, but I didn't know it was about that kind of grass. And I was like, oh my god, it's my birthday. And it's like, I love grass. Yeah. But that must have been very disappointing. When you showed up to the function and they're like, we have grass and then you got there and it was just dry. It was dry. Yeah, that's so annoying. You know, it's it's nice. And you're hungry after like you were told me there was going to be food. Like that's what I was thinking. I was like, oh my god, this is fun. Like we're going to eat lots of grass. Yeah. Fresh from the best. For 20 fresh grass. Yeah. I'm really sorry. You had that experience. If you come to mine, grass, apples, carrots. Yes. You're a pick of the litter. Some oats. Okay. My last question for you. I heard that you speak nay. Yes. Could you say something to the audience in nay? Well, what would you like me to say? Nicky Rardon is so hot and charming and beautiful. And everyone should subscribe to his YouTube channel. Okay. Easy. Wow. Yep. Thank you. I'm clipping that. Simple. Well, thank you so much for your time. It was an honor and a privilege and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Well, it doesn't have to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Are you flirting with me now? You want a second date? Next time I'm coming to the farm. Yes. Next time we're doing this in a barn. Oh my god. Yes. Doing it outside is so nice. I would love to. Yeah. Consider it. Stay tuned. Stay tuned. [LAUGHTER]
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
The artist grew up on a nature-rich, diverse farm where animals and humans coexisted, fostering a deep connection to natural cycles and wildness.
Electronic music is inspired by natural rhythms—like flowing rivers and seasonal changes—emphasizing organic, impermanent, and emotionally resonant sound design.
The album *Nature is Healing* reflects a return to roots, offering a hopeful message that nature and humanity can heal through awareness, patience, and shared vulnerability.
The artist values authenticity and emotional honesty in music, rejecting artificial perfection and embracing imperfection as part of a natural, human experience.
Dance and music serve as a form of collective liberation, allowing people to disconnect from social media scrutiny and reconnect with genuine joy, community, and presence.
Humor and satire are central to the artist’s identity, creating accessible, joyful, and inclusive spaces where fans feel free to express themselves without fear of judgment.
There is a cultural shift in club culture between Germany and the U.S., with Germany emphasizing collective, anonymous dancing and the U.S. often prioritizing performance and status.
The artist believes in redefining fame as a space of privacy, authenticity, and emotional grounding, where music becomes a form of healing and communal bonding.
Summary:
Horsegirls, a poet, artist, and visionary, shares her journey rooted in a nature-filled farm upbringing, where animals and humans coexisted in a vibrant, free-spirited environment. Her music, especially the album *Nature is Healing*, is deeply inspired by natural rhythms and cycles, reflecting a return to authenticity and emotional honesty. She emphasizes that nature is not dying but can heal if we choose to care for it, and that human experiences—like pain and joy—are intrinsically linked, much like a tree’s growth through winter and spring.
Drawing on themes of imperfection, flow, and emotional depth, she connects electronic music to natural phenomena, such as rivers that bend and flow without a final drop. Her performances prioritize communal connection, anonymity, and freedom from social media pressure, allowing fans to be themselves. Humor and satire serve as tools to break down barriers, making the experience accessible and joyful.
S. club culture—often centered on status and drops—with Germany’s more inclusive, collective dancing. Ultimately, her work is a celebration of nature, vulnerability, and human connection, offering a message of hope, resilience, and the beauty of simply being present in a world that often demands constant performance.
FAQs
Nature inspires my music through its organic flow and lack of perfection. I draw from natural sounds like waves, wind, and animal movements, and I see the rhythm of a rave as similar to a river flowing until it reaches a drop or pool, creating a journey-like experience.
The title reflects a return to my roots and a belief in nature's resilience. After years of touring, I felt the need to express genuine care for the environment and remind people that nature can heal if we choose to protect and respect it.
Yes, animals react differently. Sensitive animals like dogs, wolves, and foxes stay on the outskirts, while others like pigs roll in the mud and squirrels run around energetically, adding to the lively atmosphere.
My music avoids robotic perfection and instead flows like natural systems—organic, evolving, and rooted in the rhythms and beauty of the natural world, much like a river or a forest's soundscape.
Humor is a serious tool that helps break down barriers, create connection, and offer relief from the pressures of fame and performance. It allows fans and audiences to feel free and creative without fear of judgment.
Growing up on a farm taught me a deep appreciation for simplicity, nature, and community. This influences my music’s themes of connection, healing, and the beauty found in everyday, natural experiences.
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