Everyone, Nikki Novak here for Young Hollywood at the Hollywood cemetery. We're here to interview Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips. I've been told or I've heard you say that your shows are like a communal freak out. Do you feel at one with the audience? You don't want us to feel like it's like, "Hey guys, thanks for coming out. Thanks for bringing your ticket."

Well, I would think any everybody would want that. I mean, music has this thing, um, where, you know, music can mean one thing to me and even though it's the same piece of music, it can mean something completely personal and different to you. And yet we're both sitting there together going, "Oh, isn't this great?" Yet they can it can be for, you know, a lot of different reasons. And so, when you play to a big audience and they're having this emotional reaction to your music, it it it's and we know this, it's contagious. To you how the most beautiful face. But yeah, so we want every night, you know, if we can, to have this this powerful moment. I mean, music has that about it. And our audience is is great like that. Our audience is open and they're they're energetic and they give love and you know, it would be it would be just a missed opportunity if we just got up there and said, "Here's our songs and see you later." I mean, we want. And I and I want that. I mean, I don't want to just get up there and play music every night. I want to go up there and have it feel like the greatest thing happening. In the past couple years, we started to see a lot of people we would be like at an airport and we'd notice, "Wow, there are like 20 people here that all have an iPhone." And not even like a different version of iPhones. I mean, there's other phones as well, but we would notice how the iPhone has become the thing. And so we started to think, you know, they have these little speakers on them and they download real quick and, you know, more and more people are listening to music just on their iPhones. We do these things where we have multiple tracks on different players and you download them and you get you trigger the play button at the same time and it plays this sort of, you know, wobbly piece of music.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah. And you released it on Valentine's Day. And it was a very romantic song.

I mean, it was meant as kind of to be absurd. Yeah, yeah. We, you know, that was that was the beginning of these releases where we're doing we were trying to release something every month. And we're not just releasing online, you know, we we're making these elaborate 12-inch records and, you know, the covers and and we're making the the colored vinyl and then we're doing these things where we're releasing like the gummy skull and I mean, how often do you get to have a bubblegum flavored fetus with music in it?

Yeah. I mean, Yeah, yeah. You're the king of firsts. Thank you, Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips. I had a lot of fun here. It was. Most fun I've ever had in a cemetery.