The Interrogation: An Interview With the Paranoid Style (Part II)

Desecrating legends, squandering boasts

Elizabeth Nelson of the Paranoid Style (Photo by Tad Unreasonable)

Here’s the second half of RIOTRIOT’s interview with Elizabeth Nelson from the Paranoid Style, which also includes her husband Timothy Bracy on guitar, and some of the sharpest, most hyper-referential lyrics you’re bound to find in music that isn’t rap. You can catch up on the first part here. Subjects we touched on include: the crucial niceness of her heroes They Might Be Giants, the arms race to pen the perfect “We Didn’t Start the Fire” answer song, what it’s like to have a minor legend join your band, the unlikely muse of Natasha Lyonne’s Poker Face, and a fun lightning round for the record geeks (you) at the end. Commence firing listening!