Their 2013 debut album, Get Wet-which mixed hardstyle, electro, and dubstep with stadium rock, and featured guests like Blink-182's Travis Barker and Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump-reached #1 on Billboard's US Dance charts. It perfectly sums up their visual brand: dirty, playful, sexy, unstoppable.Īfter winning an International Dance Music Award in 2012 for "Best Breakthrough Artist," the trio headlined major festivals like Ultra, Electric Daisy Carnival, and Stereosonic. The video for one of their early hits, " Alive,"-which currently has 53 million views on YouTube-follows a group of hot teens hooking up amidst an apocalyptic demolition derby. Together, they developed a trademark sound that hijacks every nerve in your body and blasts you into a confetti cannon of mindless euphoria: sweet and synthetic pop hooks floating over chainsaw basslines that sound like Transformers kicking each other in the testicles. The Yousafs acted as the group's vocalists and songwriters, while Trindl produced the beats. (Trindl and Jahan also dated from 2006 to 2011.)īack in 2012, Jahan, Yasmine and Kris were the new faces of the burgeoning EDM movement-charismatic poster kids for rolling face to nasty dubstep drops, thrashing your wet hair against thousands of sweaty strangers, and giving in to every impulse. Learning to laugh at themselves hasn't always been easy for Jahan and Yasmine, who for the last two years have been subject to intense online scrutiny due to a highly publicized-and very ugly-legal battle with former bandmate Kris "Rainman" Trindl, who left the group in 2014. Without a hint of self-consciousness, she starts singing sweetly, "Oh babe, meet me in Tompkins Square Park…" Jahan, whose angular cheekbones stands in contrast to Yasmine's baby-faced features, joins in with a sardonic grin: "I wanna hold you in the dark…" Clutching each other's elbows, the sisters double forward in contagious laughter. "Tompkins Square Park! It's like the Mumford and Sons song!" she says, pointing at a metal placard with a hand covered in snaking tattoos, her brown eyes wide with childlike glee.
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