Jessie Malakouti of Jessie and the Toy Boys was the special guest on the premiere episode of ‘Kitchen Conversations’ with Hannah Hart of the popular web series, ‘My Drunk Kitchen’. Jessie and Hannah attempted to make red velvet cupcakes out of a box while joking their way through the process. Jessie talked about her fans being called “fannequins”, being a fan of hydration and what she does to start a concert. Check out the episode now on Youtube.
Jessie and the Toy Boys singer Jessie Malakouti spoke with ARTISTdirect in a Q&A, where the pop star talked about her new single ‘Let’s Get Naughty’, how it fits with her upcoming debut album, and her favorite part of the song’s music video.
“I wrote ‘Let’s Get Naughty’ over a year ago and just kind of forgot about it for a while…. Then I was going through all my material to decide what songs I was going to play for The Femme Fatale Tour, and I came across it in my demos folder on my computer,” Jessie said, referring to her participation as an opening act on Britney Spears’ U.S. tour. “I played it for my choreographer Bobby Newberry, and he and the dancers freaked out! It was instantly their favorite song of mine because the beat is so hard and the lyrics are so swag.”
Jessie and The Toy Boys are out with the music video to their new single ‘Let’s Get Naughty’, which was shot at Hollywood’s scandalous club Voyeur and features Jessie Malakouti getting naughty with her toy boys on the dance floor. ‘Let’s Get Naughty’ is featured on Jessie and The Toy Boys’ EP ‘Show Me Your Tan Lines’, out now on iTunes and Amazon. Watch it via YouTube below.
Jessie and The Toy Boys put on an energetic show for their Fannequins at Atlanta’s Pride Fest earlier this month. Check out the brand new webisode to see Jessie performing at Pride and talking about what it meant to her to perform for her gay fans.
“It’s been a couple weeks since we’ve played a show, and I’m so excited to play a show,” Jessie Malakouti said on the way to the venue. Afterwards, she told the media, “It’s great to be back in Atlanta and especially to be performing for Pride. My favorite part was the crowd.” Watch the webisode below.
Earlier this summer, Jessie and the Toy Boys took a detour from the Femme Fatale tour to play a show at San Francisco Gay Pride, which was documented in their latest tour webisode. Jessie Malakouti is seen looking tired and complaining about only getting two hours sleep before excitement erupts after she sees her name on a bus promoting the Femme Fatale tour and then sees “Jessie St.” while being driven in San Francisco. “I’m on the name of a street, I’m on the back of a bus, I’m taking over Frisco,” Jessie says.
Catch Jessie and The Toy Boys performing at Atlanta’s 41st Pride Festival this Sunday, October 9th at Piedmont Park.
Jessie and The Toy Boys will be joining fans for a live chat on Livestream later today, 7pm PST to be exact. Fans are invited to talk with Jessie Malakouti about her forthcoming album ‘This Is How Rumors Start’ and what it was like touring with Britney Spears, Nicki Minaj, Kaskade, Steve Aoki, and others. Jessie and The Toy Boys’ EP ‘Show Me Your Tan Lines’ is out now on iTunes and Amazon.
Are Jessie and The Toy Boys real life ninjas? Jessie Malakouti checked in while getting her make-up done backstage at the Philadelphia show on the Femme Fatale tour with her makeup and hair woman Carole Soueidan. The former Shut Up Stella member shared her ninja adventures as well as her pre-show ritual.
“She came up to me and said, ‘Let’s get stupid today!’,” Jessie explained. “I was like what? She’s like, ‘Today we have lights, I can actually do your makeup, let’s show off.’ So that’s what she’s doing. We’re showing off.”
Watch the webisode below and stream or download the latest remixes of Jessie and The Toy Boys’ single ‘Push It’ from the likes of DJ Skeet Skeet, Dig It, Kevin Graves, and others at SoundCloud.
Jessie and the Toy Boys invaded Walmart for some late night shopping in their latest webisode during the stint opening for Britney Spears on the Femme Fatale Tour. Jessie Malakouti was adorned in a “rock star Teletubby” outfit, walking in the store and spotting an item she liked inside and declaring, “I think we totally need a Justin Bieber poster for the bus.” She then looked for a “Good Karma Notebook” for songwriting. Watch it below.
Jessie and The Toy Boys have contributed a track to the EP by Los Angeles based rogue-pop producer, Doctor Rosen Rosen, entitled ‘Girls: Volume I’, which was released this week. “‘Five O’Clock’ is the first song Jessie and The Toy Boys and I made together,” Doctor Rosen Rosen said. “Around that time, I was listening to a lot of the 80s girls groups that were produced by Prince (Vanity 6, Sheila E, Appolonia), which inspired the punchy Linndrum-sample-heavy beat of the song. A day before our session, I started the track and came up with the pre-chorus ‘Hello Hello Hello’. I was nervous to show her the idea because she was one of the first artists I worked with in Los Angeles, but she was in to it and we quickly wrote the rest of the song together. One of the things I love about working with Jessie, is that her lyrics are always engaging and paint a vivid story… in this case ‘you’ve got till five o’clock to get your sh** out.’” Listen to the track below and download the EP at doctorrosenrosen.com.
Jessie and The Toy Boys give fans another behind-the-scenes look while on the road with the Femme Fatale tour. In the latest tour webisode, Jessie hailed a ride in Nashville’s infamous karaoke cab for a memorable ride around the Music City. Jessie Malakouti was also seen after having just gotten off stage, talking about how her Toy Boys “killed it”, and for a rare instance they broke character and behaved like humans. Watch it below.