Get to Know 'Lizard House' Queer Pop Duo TWINKIDS With These 10 Fun Facts! (Exclusive)
TWINKIDS is one of the rising acts we’re excited about at Just Jared, and we want to give our readers a chance to know them even better!
The pop singer-songwriter duo, made up of Gene Fukui and Matt Young, first met at Oberlin College and the Conservatory of Music. Together, they craft music that unabashedly showcases the “anxieties of being young and queer.”
On Friday (November 22), TWINKIDS dropped their new collection, the Lizard House EP, featuring shimmering, nostalgic synth-pop tracks like “Psycho” and “Eighteen.”
“We recorded the songs in Gene‘s bedroom, in a little house in the outskirts of the city… there are parks in the area and there are lizards everywhere; in the backyard, around the house, and sometimes even in that very bedroom,” they explain of the EP’s origins.
“This EP is about exploring our past relationships, our gay experience, thinking about how people hurt and get hurt, and coming to terms with that.”
Listen to the Lizard House EP and learn 10 Fun Facts about TWINKIDS inside…
- 1. TWINKIDS was formed after seeing a Lorde show in Detroit.
- 2. We both had plans to go to grad school, but on the ride home we decided to give them up and move to LA. Our parents still hate us for it.
- 3. We met in a college a cappella group and at the time genuinely thought that was cool.
- 4. After that, the way we really became friends was that Matt‘s friend Maggie invited Gene on a spring break trip with them to Disney World. It later came out that Matt didn’t want Gene to be there at all. Gene is devastated about it to this day.
- 5. Our first live show consisted of dueling keyboards and a string quartet.
- 6. Gene was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan and lived there until he was 18. Gene’s real Japanese name is Jin but he changed it to Gene because he wanted to be white as a child. White supremacy is real and engrained in all of us!!!
- 7. Matt grew up in Florida. He is half-Belizean and half-white but didn’t realize he wasn’t fully white until he was in high school. Identity is weird.
- 8. Matt trained as a classical pianist for most of his life.
- 9. Gene had pet newts growing up.
- 10. Matt‘s first musical memory is “…Baby One More Time.” But he didn’t realize he was gay until high school…
Click inside to read the rest of the 10 Fun Facts…
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