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"    Photo: Getty Images   When Caroline Hjelt and Aino Jawo of Icona Pop took the stage at the Governors Ball Music Festival on Saturday, you couldn&amp;#039;t tell that the majority of the audience&amp;#039;s feet were firmly planted in the post-storm mud\u2014arms were still waving in unison, bodies were shimmying and shaking, and everyone was belting the duo&amp;#039;s catchy &amp;quot;I Love It&amp;quot; lyrics. Perhaps this is a reflection of the Swedish DJ duo&amp;#039;s infectious chemistry (they&amp;#039;re best friends) and can&amp;#039;t-get-it-out-of-your-head melodies. When we caught up with the stylish pair before their set, we quizzed them on how they create that magic energy on stage, where they shop, and what we can expect from their album, out this summer.   Today is National Best Friends Day. How will that affect your performance? Caroline Hjelt: I think we are going to do a couple more high-fives. Aino Jawo: And we are going to feel extra love.  CH: We share something on stage, because even though I&amp;#039;m not looking behind me I always know where she is, and I feel her energy on stage. It&amp;#039;s very cool.  AJ: It&amp;#039;s all about the collaboration with the audience and between us. If you get into the right vibe, it becomes something magical. It&amp;#039;s amazing.  &amp;quot;I Love It&amp;quot; has been everywhere\u2014&amp;#039;Glee,&amp;#039; &amp;#039;Girls,&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;Dancing with the Stars&amp;#039;\u2014it&amp;#039;s one of the top dance tracks of the year. Are you tired of performing it yet? CH: No, no. I&amp;#039;m so excited to do it\u2014even today. AJ: When we sing it together with the audience, people put up their fists in the air and sing it to someone. It&amp;#039;s not just like they are singing like, &amp;quot;Yeah, party, party,&amp;quot; it&amp;#039;s emotions, and you feel that when you sing it. Every time that I sing it, I&amp;#039;m singing to someone, and [that person] knows it. It&amp;#039;s cool.  Do feel pressured to top its success? Especially with your newest single, &amp;quot;Girlfriend?&amp;quot; CH: Pressure is the wrong word. If you care too much and over-think stuff, you can get totally blocked in your creative process. Every time we create something, we just keep it in our little Icona Pop bubble. We make decisions that we are proud of and create the music that we feel like. We would never put out a song that we were not super proud of. Can nerves to succeed get in the way? CH: Of course you can be nervous, but that&amp;#039;s a part of it. We are exposing something that is very, very personal to us. But nervous and excitement are the biggest clash, it&amp;#039;s like a big bang in your body before you release a song. &amp;quot;Girlfriend&amp;quot; just leaked a couple of days before it was supposed to be released. It was nice, because I was really nervous, and I didn&amp;#039;t even know that anyone had heard it.  What about stage nerves? Are you feeling angst about going on today? CH: We just need some time before [we take] the stage to talk through stuff. Every time we take the stage it&amp;#039;s different depending on how we&amp;#039;re feeling. We collect the energy, and then we go up. AJ: And it&amp;#039;s like boom! The second we go on stage, it&amp;#039;s totally gone, and we know all the mistakes we are going to make are going to be beautiful mistakes.  Why did you decide to sample lyrics from Tupac Shakur&amp;#039;s, a.k.a., 2Pac, for &amp;quot;Girlfriend&amp;quot;? CH: I grew up with hip hop and Tupac is one of the best rappers of all time. We actually had to write a letter to his mom, and she heard the song and loved it. AJ: So we asked for her approval CH: And she said yes. We feel so honored. And we don&amp;#039;t sing about guns, like Tupac, it is more like a celebration of our friendship, which is a fun tweak in the song. AJ: And also female empowerment. More girls should stick together, because together we are strong. We are two best friends doing what we love. And we have so many friends who were like, &amp;quot;You always try to do stuff together, you try to bring everyone in [who] you feel inspired [by].&amp;quot; More people should do that and not try to be catty.  Which women in musician inspire you? CH: All of the female bands, so the Spice Girls were a huge influence, but we love PJ Harvey, Patti Smith, Tina Turner, Beyonc\u00E9, Rihanna, and Robyn. There are so many women who we are so proud of. AJ: It&amp;#039;s very cool when you can do collaborations and have fun together instead of seeing each other as a threat. It&amp;#039;s more like, &amp;quot;Let&amp;#039;s get inspired by each other.&amp;quot;  Well you worked with Charli XCX on &amp;quot;I Love It.&amp;quot; CH: She&amp;#039;s a cool girl, a young, British woman. AJ: She&amp;#039;s amazing. We met her before we started working with her in London, and we were actually kind of neighbors. She is just very cool, she is doing her thing... CH: And she is doing it pretty damn well.   What inspires your style? CH: We are like two super heroes when it comes to style. We love the masculine meets feminine and posh meets punk. It&amp;#039;s all about mixing. AJ: Playing around with contrasts. And we love suits.   Which designers are you loving right now? CH: We love working with upcoming designers. We love street fashion. Today I&amp;#039;m wearing a Swedish brand, Ann-Sofie Back Atelje [T-shirt and blazer]. It&amp;#039;s paired with C\u00E9line glasses, Alexander Wang leather shorts, and Phillip Lim shoes. AJ: Fifth Avenue Shoe Repair, another Swedish label, makes my top. I have on Ralph Lauren sunglasses, an Acne leather hacker, Topshop pants, and Opening Ceremony shoes.  Who would be your dream brand to collaborate with?  AJ: Givenchy would be so cool. That would be a dream\u2014or Balenciaga or Paco Rabanne. CH: But also with some upcoming designers. We have a guy who is going to help us with our stage outfits, Naim Josefi. He is a Swedish guy, and he is just amazing. It&amp;#039;s like art. He is building stuff. And Ann Sofie Back.   What can we expect from your new album? CH: We don&amp;#039;t have a name yet. We always decide very last minute when it comes to stuff like that. We have been on this huge journey, going through so much. And we have been writing this album for four years, so you are clearly going to hear that journey. It is not going to be 12 tracks that sound exactly the same. And it&amp;#039;s very personal.  What personal stuff did you draw from? CH: It&amp;#039;s personal in that it&amp;#039;s a lot of self-experienced stuff, what our friends have gone through, and what we have been going through together. People might think that it has been really fast, but we&amp;#039;ve been through some really heavy stuff, and I think you can hear it. It&amp;#039;s not just a journey to heaven. AJ: There have been some rough times. I thank all the breakups and hard times for the lyrics.   Photo: Getty Images "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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