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"  Meet Ariana DiLorenzo and her band, the Rose. You may have already, whether at Paris Fashion Week&amp;#039;s after parties, on Sundance stages, or in Paul McCartney&amp;#039;s Queenie Eye music video. The fledgling pop star released her debut EP, Head vs. Heart, last month, and we predict it&amp;#039;s just the beginning of her entree onto the nation&amp;#039;s playlist. She called us from a couch somewhere in Norway while writing her EP into a full-length album to tell us about what her Italian-American family sees as her primary achievements: in this order, an 11-second walk-on part in &amp;quot;The Sopranos&amp;quot; and her band. What does a writing session look like for you? A lot of different things. Generally I&amp;#039;m curled up in a ball on a couch of some sort. I&amp;#039;m always freezing, so notebook in hand, some sort of shawl wrapped around me. Today we started with a beat. I said I really want to do something with a huge drumbeat, and we pulled a bunch of samples. Sometimes you write to track. Sometimes you write to piano chords. I wrote a song the other day that was to an a cappella melody. Where does inspiration tend to strike? I get a lot of ideas in the shower, which poses a serious problem because I&amp;#039;ll leave my cell phone outside, somewhere in my apartment and have to figure out a way to remember this melody. So lots of frantic running around in towels, then? Exactly. But I&amp;#039;m sure I look crazier walking down the street singing voice memos into my phone. You were in Paul McCartney&amp;#039;s Queenie Eye music video, alongside Johnny Depp, Kate Moss, and a whole lot of other random people. How did you get involved in that project? That video is crazy. One of the people who was producing the video, Kate Driver, has been a wonderful mentor of mine in the UK. I was in Paris for Fashion Week when she called me and said, &amp;quot;Do you want to be in the Paul McCartney music video?&amp;quot; I was like, &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s hilarious. That&amp;#039;s mean. Have a wonderful time doing the video. I&amp;#039;ll talk to you when I get back.&amp;quot; She&amp;#039;s like, &amp;quot;No, I&amp;#039;m not kidding. You have to come back early.&amp;quot; And I was like, &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m on the train. I&amp;#039;m back. I&amp;#039;m there.&amp;quot; I genuinely was waiting for them to be like, &amp;quot;Just kidding, we don&amp;#039;t need any more extras. You can go home.&amp;quot; Chris Pine was there and Tom Ford, who I am a huge fan of, and we filmed it in the room in Abbey Road where so many Beatles songs were recorded. You did some acting before moving into music full time, and you had a small role in &amp;quot;The Sopranos,&amp;quot; didn&amp;#039;t you? Yes, I&amp;#039;m in it for maybe 11 seconds. And I remember my mom couldn&amp;#039;t see, so James Gandolfini put her in front of the monitor so she could see me in all my glory. She was the proudest woman in the world. I come from a really Italian family so\u2014to this day\u2013I can sell out an arena, and my family will never care about what I do as much as being on that show. It was like I won the lottery. I brought honor to my family. Ariana is clear. Where does the Rose come from? I knew I wanted it to be Ariana and the\u2026 I knew I wasn&amp;#039;t a one-name sort of artist. My middle name is Rose, my grandmother&amp;#039;s first name is Rose, and all the girls in my family have the middle name Rose. It&amp;#039;s sort of a nod to my family. You have to work hard to win them after &amp;quot;The Sopranos.&amp;quot; Are there any musicians you&amp;#039;d really like to collaborate with? I have the longest list. I would love to write music with Ryan Tedder. He&amp;#039;s written so many unbelievable songs. I&amp;#039;m also a huge Robyn fan. If I could do a duet with her\u2014or just sort of bop next to her while she dances\u2014that would be amazing. She was the first tape I ever had. I had it on a tape. Your music was used on several catwalks last Paris Fashion Week. Did you attend any of those shows? Yeah, I went to so many beautiful shows. There was a remix of one of my songs done by a really amazing artist named Jodie Harsh that was used in Ashley Isham&amp;#039;s show, and there were a couple others. Who are your favorite designers when it comes to personal style? I&amp;#039;m obsessed with vintage, and I mix that with designers like Opening Ceremony, Helmut Lang, and Jeffrey Campbell. What are your go-to vintage spots? Being from New York, I really like Screaming Mimi&amp;#039;s, and there is an amazing store in Los Angeles called Catwalk. I was just there and I bought a beautiful 1960s, bubblegum pink, cinched-waist, little mini-dress with a bow on the front. This is the outfit you&amp;#039;ll be wearing when you head bob next to Robyn, yes? That&amp;#039;s the best idea I&amp;#039;ve heard all day. I&amp;#039;m going to do it. Other than Robyn, what are you listening to now? I&amp;#039;m really into Kacey Musgraves. I love old country music like Dolly Parton and Patsy Cline. Who else? Chvrches, &amp;quot;Somebody Loves You&amp;quot; by Betty Who, and &amp;quot;Say Something&amp;quot; by A Great Big World. It&amp;#039;s synth perfection. I&amp;#039;ll tell all the Norwegians about it. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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