Petite Meller, already a fashion icon, recently nominated for an MTV video music award, graced both covers of Verity Journal’s Riot Issue, but not everyone has heard her music just yet…

What came first for you, as a child, fashion/Costumes and dressing up, music? Or something else?

I was first writing songs in my tape recorder, I had them coming into my head, but later on I got a sony video camera and shot lots of lil’ music situations with my friends.

If you weren’t a musician what would you be? I just finished my philosophy masters and I’m planning on a PHD. I think today you can have more then one field and philosophy was always the main inspiration for my song writing.

Where did your signature rosey cheeks come from?

It started when i got badly bruised by the sun, and it stayed with me as a mark of trauma I wear everyday, i can’t actually recognise myself without my blush.

What women do you admire and why?

I admire women who aren’t afraid to dance and sing to themselves on a daily basis to cheer themselves up. A woman who doesn’t care about the rules or the norms, who creates her own reality. Like Fellini’s Anita Ackerberg who goes into a fountain with a cat on her head or the sharp Hitchcock girls. I love women who are fast thinkers and innovative.

How did you meet the director of all your music videos, and what were your aesthetic references?

Tennessee Mann sent me a brilliant script that made me laugh, my aesthetic always come from classic Cinema like Godard and Tarkovsky.

What piece of art changed how you see the world?

I think it was a painting i had in my house, my mom loves Egon Schiele. « Friendship » was hanging till today above my head; It always looked to me like a couple are always a kind of backpack to each other. It later on effected my first video Nyc Time. Also I have huge hands like in his paintings.

You have lived and travelled all over the world. Tel Aviv, London. Etc Where is home to you?

Los Angeles, where I live now.

What is your relationship to France? What is your favorite French word?

My family (on my mother’s side) are from there. « Comme ci Comme ca.»

What is the biggest challenge we face as humans? The biggest challenge in life is performing our potential. No matter what. To let it out of our fingers and be able To «Give Love to the Haters», to give to the wing choppers and fly, which is also a new song from my album.

Do you think capitalist society will end soon? What will replace it?

The bitcoin game is gonna make capitalism evolve but politics is only one reality out of so many, I’m interested in many other more interesting realities.

What is the definition of love for you? Has it evolved through the years?

Love is different things for each of us, some love comes from pain, some love in a spiritual way, some love from used socks.

What is your relationship with Outer Space?

It fascinates me, Stephen Hawking and now Elon Musk’s Space X , I have a new song about it which was written by the brilliant writer Diane Warren. It was the rst time someone wrote me a song and I’ve always felt like a girl from outer space. But as Alejandro Jodorowsky said : «What is the universe? It’s pure love».