Wet Leg's Rhian Teasdale on Power Stances, Power Ballads, and Her Own Powerful Love Story
Writing this album came alongside you coming into your queerness. I wonder if you feel, in disconnecting from the male gaze, that's also played out in your new image, style, self-presentation.
Totally. And that's been so fun. There's so many men in our comments living in fear of my armpit hair. I think it's hilarious. I never set out to be antagonizing. I'm being more me than ever, and I think discovering my queerness in a natural, gradual way has made me more confident. I'm also more comfortable with having a muscular physique. I always had an athletic build, but as a 30-year-old woman who grew up in the time of pro-anorexia websites…I am angry that I had to go through that. I am happy feeling freer, powerful, and stronger. I've been one thing and now I look like another thing—it's liberating to switch up your look and be who you want to be.
Having the time to write this album together in the remote English seaside town of Southwold, I'm sure, was quite special. Maybe one of the first moments you got to be still together?
That felt like a milestone moment. Touring was our normality. Having the resources to hire a house and jam together to make a new record, and that's the job? It's a pinch-me moment, when your job is just to make music. Touring is great—but it can feel like you go gig to gig and the luck might eventually run out.
It also felt very cathartic for us five writing together. We toured for so long with the first album that Hester and I mostly wrote together. We signed as a duo, but [the five of us] have gone through so much together. Still, there were too many occasions where Henry, Joshua, and Ellis would be perceived as session players, and it's always been more than that. It was nice to draw the second chapter out as a whole, mad, five-person operation. It was very fluid and relaxed, allowing ourselves a lot of space to jam, put things down, and pick things back up.
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