Inspired by girl-group The Pipettes, 17 year old German girls Giulia and Jules, have plugged in their Casio keyboard, busted out some super-cute ensembles and got their pop girl on!
Their myspace is a coolio-a-go-go place of total fabulousity.
It’s the place to hear their 60’s-esque tunes that are perfect-o for room dancin’ and hairbrush singin’ and check out their cute-as-a-button dreamy pix of the girls lookin’ well wistful and every inch the popster!
I can’t speak German, but I can deffo speak pop-girl, which made conversing with these two polka-dot clad girls of cuteness a total breeze!
Who are The Minettes?
We´re two girls, Giulia and Jules, about 17 years old from Germany, and we´re in the 11th form at a grammar school.
We thought about forming The Minettes after we discovered The Pipettes. First we just wanted to play their songs for fun, but then it got out of control and
we started to write own songs. So, here we are. We write songs, record them and waste our time on Myspace…
Why are you called The Minettes exactly?
Well…we wanted a band name which ends on -ette-, what would fit in the same concept as The Pipettes. We looked up french vocabularies and finally found “minette”, which means “fashion puppet”. It´s perfect for us, because we´re really into 60s fashion and music, so we connected the music with our passion.
What’s your music style - why will we heart it?
Actually it was our intention to make 60s-Girlie-Pop, but we neither can play that many instruments at the same time, nor do we have a background band (which we´d love to 
), so our keyboard helped us out. Our music is basically a keyboard melody combined with vocals and sometimes the tambourine. We tried to make the songs as catchy as possible.
And why will you heart it? We´re dealing with the usual girl stuff from the 60s. Love is the main thing (which can be a cliché). We think we can say much to that and that appeals to many girls out there! Because, this is what we are: We´re just girls!
What made you wanna be singer girls?
We never really thought about it… it just came up as we started to sing in our first band. Then, after we discovered The Pipettes, we spent many afternoons with singing and dancing to their songs. (Man, that looked stupid 
) But, with the time, singing became a kind of obsession, we can´t get rid of again. And we´re not thinking about breaking up The Minettes!
What was the first record you ever bought?
Jules: The Vines - Highly Evolved
Giulia: Blur - Best Of
You were doing other music before The Minettes, tell us about it!
We´re playing in a band for two years now. Jules guitar and keyboard, Giulia bass guitar and guitar and we both sing. First we played own songs… but well, they were crap and after a very embarrassing gig we thought it would be better to cover songs. We play stuff by the Babyshambles, Mando Diao and Franz Ferdinand. We´re a kind of a cliché band, which sits in a basement making music. We´d like to influence our band with 60s music, but the other band members aren´t really committed to that.
Do you write your own material? Tell us about the process…do you do it together?
We´ve already uploaded own songs (”Meet the Minettes” and “Drive me Home”). We mostly write them in boring school lessons, which is good in one aspect (it isn´t good not to listen to the lessons, remember that kids! ) that we can catch the school feeling and put it into our songs. Usually one of us has got the idea for a new song and then we write the lyrics and the melody together. And suddenly we end up sitting in biology humming a melody. We don´t think that it goes well with encymes 
Do you have day jobs too? Tell us about those and how you juggle it all!
Giulia: I give private English lessons for an 11-year-old girl on my school. I do it every Wednesday and get 20 € for two and a half hours.
Jules: I baby-sit a three-year-old child once a week, usually on Wednesdays. I still don´t know why I am doing this ´cause I´m really not good at dealing with kids (they always begin to cry when I am around!), but it works somehow.
What tunes would be on a Minettes soundtrack?
1. Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me - The Pipettes
2. Julia, We Don´t Live In The 60s - The Indelicates
3. Outtathaway! - The Vines
4 .It Takes Time, It Takes Two - Sugarplum Fairy
5. Lady - Mando Diao
6. Coffee & TV - Blur
7. Twist And Shout - The Beatles
8. Stop! In the Name Of Love - The Supremes
9. Made In Spain - Molotov Jive
10. Mr Tambourine Man - Bob Dylan
What makes you jump-in-the-air-happy?
Jules: ice-cream for free, that “the Weekenders” are on TV again, and when people truly like and are interested in our music (just to say something intelligent)
Giulia: when a good song is on MTV (and this doesn´t happen often), when my hair isn´t a mess.
For us both: Anton of Molotov Jive (a very hot swedish guy) and we always party together when we´re able to shop at H&M (very hot swedish clothes).
To sum up: We´re pretty easy to be made happy
Any advice for would-be singer-girls?
Sing, sing, sing until you´re hoarse and don´t care what other people say as long as you have fun!
What’s The Minettes life motto?
“Too much haha, pretty soon boo-hoo!” and “No money, no honey!”
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May 27th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
schlesi
muhu..
these girls are at my school and i’m reading an interview of them at this site xD