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Of course, she did all of that come show time, dressed partly as an emerald green dragon in purple leggings, with flames burning up her Cons. I remember that O appeared more bashful than the starstruck kids – not what I was expecting after three years of watching her screech across stages in wrecked Chuck Taylors and tattered mini skirts, pumping sweat and posturing with a devilish grin of smeared lipstick, her glittery eye shadow smudged and on the move across her face. I was arranging a photo shoot with Yeah Yeah Yeahs and three teenage fans who’d won a competition to introduce the band on the main stage that evening. I briefly met O in the summer of ’06, as a wide-eye intern at Reading Festival. Or, in Karen O’s conveniently symmetrical case, when they “live how you’re supposed to live.”įor O (born Karen Lee Orzolek to a Korean mother and Polish father), this golden year fell between 20, and it was then that she wrote and recorded ‘Crush Songs’, a collection of home demos that would become her debut solo album some eight years later, released September 2014 via Julian Casablancas’ Cult Records. Twenty-seven, in case you haven’t heard, is an important year for rock stars.