VEGYN–What are you wearing right now?
PIGBABY– Fluffy green shoes, pink shorts–
V– I’d say that’s more like a rouge
PB– A tank top.
V– And a big–is that a big– does that say big baby or pig baby? A big, pigbaby chain?
PB– That’s it. I didn’t think, well I didn’t know how to dress.
V–I think that’s pretty on-brand.
V– So what’s real about pigbaby? What’s the realest thing?
PB– The music.
V– And what’s the noise? What’s the fakest thing?
PB– The music.
V–Then why the anonymity. What’s its importance to you?
PB– I think anonymity is important, just for the reason that it’s fun. Because music is insufferable nowadays. I hate seeing fucking GQ videos of like “what’s in this boring musician’s suitcase?”
V– Someone was like: what if product placement was the product?
PB– Yeah and then there’s like “can this artist make a beat in six minutes?”
V– And it’s never good, across the board. It's very rarely good.
PB– I do a lot of stuff publicly with my other art and that’s all focused very much on me and my experiences and my relationship and I just don’t want it to have anything to do with that. I don’t want someone to listen to my music and be like, “oh I know that guy.” I want to just play something fun, and I think costumes are fun. I love people who do stuff in costumes, like, I love Blowfly who always performed in costume. The thing about the mask, and all the playful stuff in the videos, is like, If I was just some guy. It would just be like some dumb, depressing, cringe video, or audio where you’re like ugh they’re crying again.
V– You’re doing that in this, though.
PB– It’s more character–caricature–character, not just like there’s that guy from Oxford crying at a bus stop.
V– It’s true, they do, you know, lap it up. You can be the simp we’ve been waiting for. I simp pigbaby.
PB– Yay!
V–Can you say that, in an interview?
office– Yeah you can say that.
V– We’re stanning now. Let’s all stan pigbaby.
office– Okay, so If someone were to be a pigbaby believer, what kinds of rituals would they practice?
PB– A pigbaby believer?
office– Or whatever you call your fans.
PB– We call them piglets, actually. But, I don’t know, that’s a really hard question. Be nice to your mother and stay in school. Buy my merch.
V– That’s a really good one! He’s sticking to the cue cards.
PB– Yeah, it’s been good so far. A lot of people have been cheering and supporting. I’ve got no complaints for the piggy group.
V– I definitely love how confused everyone’s been. That’s been great.
PB– I’ve been confused, like who would listen to this kind of music anyway? But some people have been like what the fuck is it? And it doesn’t help that, like, the biggest pop star in the world somehow found pigbaby, and his fans are very, you know, people who listen to the radio.
office– Wait. Who found pigbaby?
V– The Kid Laroi. Have you seen who he’s following on Instagram? He’s following pigbaby.
PB– Only pigbaby.
V– Sow-ing the seeds of destruction.
PB– What’s that?
V– A female pig.
PB– But yeah, I would do a song with him. I like a lot of pop. I listened to Justin Bieber a lot when I was a kid, or like, I love Phoebe Bridgers.