The Go-Go's (2020)

Jane Wiedlin: Self - Rhythm Guitar

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• Self - Rhythm Guitar : We hated society and our parents; but, we supported each other. Everyone wanted to welcome outcasts, geeks, gays, straights, people of color, women. It was - inclusive. And that was a great place for me to be; because, I always felt like I didn't fit in.

• Self - Rhythm Guitar : I'm backstage and I see two sets of legs walking up. One has spikey heels, ripped fishnets, a trash bag - that was Belinda. She said, "Hi Charlotte, um, you know, we're starting this all-girl band, do you want to join?" What am I gonna say? No? I was totally intimidated by them; because Jane and Belinda and Margo, they were all like - punks. And they're ask *me*, like the dork of all time, to, like, join their band. So, I felt kind of - special, I guess. And when they asked, "Hey, do you play lead guitar?" I lied. I figured, I played bass, so, you know, yeah, that's a couple more strings, it'll be okay. Hah! We started rehearsing, but, you know, we were pretty crappy in the beginning. We *really* didn't sound that great.

• Self - Rhythm Guitar : It was a cheap music video, actually. "Our Lips Are Sealed" was done on a $6,000 budget and that money came from a Police video that they didn't spend all their money on, so, Miles took the money and let us spend it.

• Self - Lead Singer : We had no idea of how important video was going to be. So, we thought, this is a big waste of time. Why are we doing this? None of us took it seriously. We wanted to get arrested - and have that on tape.

  Self - Rhythm Guitar : We decided if we jumped in the fountain, the Beverly Hills cops would come and arrest us. It would be a really great way to end the video. So, we're sitting there frolicking in the water, frolicking, frolicking, freckling.

  Self - Drummer : We jumped around in that God damn fountain for quite awhile - and nobody even paid any attention to us.

  Self - Lead Singer : You know, no one would arrest us.

  Self - Rhythm Guitar : The next thing you know, MTV, the biggest thing in America, and they're showing the Go-Go's every half hour.

• Self - Rhythm Guitar : There were definitely times when you really had to fake it - to get through it. We had this whole thing that we called "Robo Go-Going" where you would just get out there on stage and no one would fucking know that you had just had a screaming fight backstage. You would just get out there and be like: Robo Go-Go!

• Self - Guitarist : We were in Atlanta and Sting came in the dressing room. He's got champagne. "Congratulations, girls." We're looking at him like: what? He said, "Your record has passed ours."

  Self - Lead Guitar : [embarrassingly]  They were number six and we went to number one.

  Self - Rhythm Guitar : They brought us champagne. We thought it to be very gentlemanly of them to do that - and not kick us off the tour.

  [laughs] 

• Self - Rhythm Guitar : Now, honestly, I really feel like the person I am today would not exist without all the failure I went through and all the success I ever had never taught me one damn thing. Never.