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[Podcast] The Boo Crew Gets Bloody for Halloween With Ashnikko!
Singer / songwriter and creator Ashnikko‘s R-rated brand of horror tinged rap punk-power pop has exploded via Tik Tok. Her single Stupid inspired over 400 thousand fan vids and soared to 80 million streams plus on Spotify alone, making the track go Gold. Then there was her official video for the song that depicted the singer covered in blood, armed with a mallet, going door to door bludgeoning boys. Her new single Daisy is about a murderous avenger who leaves “daisies on your night stand” as a calling card. She has also been quietly developing a separate cinematic universe of gross-out, bizarro, stream of conscience sketch shows called Ash Wednesdays on YouTube.
Bloody Disgusting’s Boo Crew Podcast hung out with her for Episode 175.
“I just think blood is pretty!, I love how blood looks, I love my human body. I think I love my disgusting human body. S*(&#ing and farting is hilarious to me and so is blood. When I started my period I was like, this is so metal!”
Behind the lens of horror and this collision of cake and gore, she freely admits, is a history of crippling anxiety and night terrors.
“Full night terrors where I’ll see a man standing on the bed just being like…hmm…Hey.” When it comes to using genre viscera in her visuals and lyrics she explains, “I like to be the dominatrix. I like to be the dominant one in the situation. That’s what I do with my own music videos and my own aesthetic. I inflict the horror.”
In addition, for the past three years, she’s made it a tradition of releasing a new song and video on Halloween that quickly become seasonal viral tricks and treats.
“Me and one of my friends Oscar, yeah we’re best pals and we were in the studio and I don’t know how, we just wrote this really dumb Halloween song about eating butt and we just thought it was hilarious. It became Halloweenie. Then everyone was like, please more Halloween songs, so we did Halloweenie II: Pumpkin Spice, which is about f*&^ing a pumpkin and pumpkin spice p*&^y..”.
As for what’s in store for Halloweenie III –
“(I) don’t got any eyes..what else…I bathe in menstrual blood, which is my dream. I’m always covered in blood. It’s a very toned down shoot when I’m not covered in blood.”
For more on the world of Ashnikko, including her upcoming mixtape Demidevil, performing in a 300 year old crypt, her love of Neil Gaiman and more, check out The Boo Crew Podcast Episode 175. Available now on Apple, Spotify and everywhere you get your podcasts!
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Twitter: @ashnikko
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“This is life’s ultimate cruelty. It offers us a taste of youth and vitality, and then it makes us witness our own decay.”
Is there anything more terrifying than the relentless passage of time? It’s a bitter truth that just when we’ve become accustomed to our bodies, the sands of time turn and we’re forced to watch them slowly break down in a cruel march towards inevitable death. But what if there were a way to stop the aging process – a potion that would return us to our peak physical condition and hold us there until the end of time? Would we take it? And would we eventually find that the blessing of perpetual life is actually a curse? No film explores this dilemma quite like Death Becomes Her. Robert Zemeckis’ 1992 horror comedy pits two showstopping divas against each other for a single spotlight while asking what they would do for eternal youth – and what will be the hidden cost?
Madeline (Meryl Streep) and Helen (Goldie Hawn) are old frenemies with a history of vicious competition. Madeline seems to have won the most recent battle and married Helen’s fiance Ernest (Bruce Willis), but decades later, their marriage is on the rocks and Madeline’s once thriving career is now a thing of the past. When Helen returns with a stunning new look, Madeline turns to unorthodox methods to maintain her feminine dominance. She drinks a potion designed to give her eternal youth, but returns home to find her life turned upside down by her downtrodden husband and jealous “friend.” Having both taken the potion, “Mad” and “Hel” engage in a bitter fight to the death over years of petty snipes and the right to claim the title of Most Desirable Woman.
In their latest episode, The Lady Killers dissect these two glamorous killers and the hidden social commentary in Zemeckis’ iconic film. Co-hosts Jenn Adams, Mae Shults, Rocco T. Thompson, and Sammie Kuykendall dish over their own fears of aging, choose their favorite diva, and decide whether they would take the potion should they ever find themselves in Lisle’s (Isabella Rossellini) lavish home. How does the film hit differently when watching as an adult? Could Madeline, Helen, and Ernest ever make a polycule work? Is Lisle a hero or a villain and how does she keep that gorgeous necklace in place? They’ll wrestle with these questions and more in a podcasting shovel battle to the death on this unique horror comedy and one of the most glamorous casts of all time.
Stream below and subscribe now via Apple Podcasts and Spotify for future episodes that drop every Thursday.
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