Sixties Girl Group/Beat Combo: An Epic The Like Picspam
So, because I now have eleventy billion pictures of them, let's have another Like picspam!
This is The Like as they stand at the moment. Left to right they're Laena Geronimo (bass), Z Berg (vocals, guitar), Reni Lane (keyboards), Tennessee Thomas (drums).
They're pretty darling.
The two newest members are Laena and Reni. I don't know very much about them so far. Reni seems charming and ridiculous.
Laena brings the sassy and the sad eyes.
I'm disposed to like them! Basically, you know that line from Pride and Prejudice? Bingley was ready, Georgiana was eager, and Darcy determined, to be pleased. I'm Georgiana, here.
Reni Lane has a solo career, and apparently she's leaving? She's still plastered all over their MySpace, though.
And whatever, I don't care; Fandom can keep her even if the band doesn't.
"A huge block of my tweets from this week are missing. I feel like I'm the whale being carried by the little birds. AND they dropped me." - Reni ( Source)
Most of my fondness for Reni actually stems directly from this picture, I have to admit. Bandgirls with kittens.
"Laena just shared that she had a plant named Paul McCartney. - Z Source)
I love so much the way Z feels the need to report everything Laena says on twitter. Maybe she's only making up for the fact that Laena never posts with the Like twitter. Maybe she has a tragic crush on the new girl. Who knows.
"Went to 60's soul dance party last night. Laena reprimanded me for my '70's shoes,' saying 'we can't let them know we can time travel!'" - Z ( Source)
But most of the time, my favourites by a lot are Tennessee and Z, seen here playing the contrast game. (In my head their conversation in front of the mirror goes something like: "Is a virginal white dress too much, do you think?" and "Fuck, no, not if I wear a black corset.")
The whole band, though, with their sixties girl bopper sound and retro-yet-clashing fashion senses ... I have so much fondness for them, I can't even say.
... girls are fierce.
"On Reni's planet, this is 'making eyes' at someone." - Z (Source)
Reni Lane and Tennessee Thomas, the squared power of ridiculous faces.
And always, always, take this shit seriously, babe.
Before Laena and Reni, The Like was a trio. The third member was their bassist Charlotte Froom.
When she left, it probably wasn't amicably. She's not mentioned anywhere on their social networking accounts, and there was no announcement that she was going.
The closest thing to word of her is a vicious song Z wrote called 'Narcissus in a Red Dress', which includes the line One minute she's your best friend, then you watch her take your place and the possible pun I guess I taught them all the same, you clever little charlatans.
It's a savage song, but even so, you can hear bits of Charlotte's side in it, with the repeating theme of taking someone's place, impersonating them, and climbing too high.
(Although okay, yes, it's all speculation. I don't know whether the song is truly about Charlotte, and I certainly don't know what happened to break up these girls.)
But the thing is, back when they were a trio? They were amazing.
(Holding hands, you guys!)
They formed when Z and Charlotte were fourteen and Tennessee was fifteen, and none of them had any friends at their own schools, but they had each other.
Baby Z and Charlotte, oh my god.
"I think what makes it work so well is that we love each other and we're all, most importantly, on the same page. We live in the same realm. And the same cannot be said of most other people. It's just the way we're wired and we're all wired the same way." - Z (Source)
Charlotte and Tennessee have known each other even longer - since they were five years old, when Tennessee used to travel regularly between England and America.
I just had that exact thought!
... probably you had to be there.
According to signsonaves' very awesome primer, they used to sleep in the same bed after band practices. And cuddle. Seriously.
Z actually took Charlotte as her date to her high school prom. She bought her a corsage.
Tiniest picture in the world, I know, but so awesome! Blues Sisters, baby.
"Charlotte's funny because she hates people but she loves all animals." - Z (Source)
Apparently Charlotte really wanted to be liked in high school.
This might be my favourite picture of her. Just kick your heels up and smile.
"I was 2 years old and I asked what chicken was made of. When I found out that it was the animal, I said I would never eat meat again. I didn't understand why anyone would kill animals to eat them if you didn't have to." - Charlotte (Source)
Harajuku girls peace out.
The Like! At The Hair Salon. (Oh, what.)
Sometimes I love them So. Goddamn. Much.
Z is the creative centre of the band. She writes the songs and brings them to the others for arrangement.
"I am not a tortured artist. I've always been a pretty happy kid, so it's funny that I became a songwriter - it seems wrong in a way. But I guess it's because the way I deal with things in my life, logically, is to deal with them immediately... but then the long, lingering problems that I don't dwell on logically find their way out of me in my songs. - Z (Source)
Girl knows how to hoola.
What fire hazard?
"Dreamt my dad and I were pirates. Serious pistol fighting and I gutted a man with my hands. AND Keira Knightly was there. Best. Dream. Ever." - Z ( Source)
Girlkissing is in this season.
"The ticking of my clock purse is like some sort of terrible tell-tale heart. Am I guilty or just insane?" - Z ( Source)
This one is all about the Tigger hoodie, obviously.
"Just caught myself bopping my head and making embarrassing "this is a sick groove" face to Ballade no. 1 in G Minor, op 23. What??" - Z ( Source)
ALSO SHE RECYCLES STUFF. She would like you to know.
Tennessee's middle names are Jane and Bunny.
TENNESSEE JANE BUNNY THOMAS.
The first thing you notice about Tennessee is that she is, approximately, the most adorable thing on the planet.
En guarde!
Her little face.
On the planet, guys.
"story: Tennessee and I both felt we were getting sick yesterday. So I stayed home and watched House and took vitamins. Woke up ill as FUCK. Tennessee, meanwhile, went out in New Orleans and got rowdy and walked on cars and moshed and got sloshed. She feels great today. I think a valuable lesson has been learned by us all." - Z (Source 1, 2, 3)
Sunday in the park with drums.
Streetsmart as hell, baby.
"I would love to be able to finish [a song], but Z is so good. It's intimidating." - Tennessee (Source)
"I just generated my #TweetCloud out of a year of my tweets. Top three words: fuck, mean, tennessee. That is AWESOME." - Z ( Source)
Like Medusa. But prettier.
Really, the bath is very comfortable.
Drunken sailor girl! I've mentioned the thing where I find her adorable, yeah?
But the thing is, after the adorable you begin to notice that she's also stupidly, stunningly gorgeous.
... I'll let you stare for a bit, if you like.
(I hope you don't think we're going to move to a new subject any time soon?)
I just. I don't even know what to say.
Except that she should wear blue always. And never cut her hair. And tour in Australia.
Sometimes a tall girl will fold herself away so small.
"Tennessee is like Alice in Wonderland." - Z (Source)
"When you see an @ilovethelike tweet involving the phrase "oh my lord" Tennessee's behind it... Otherwise it's Z. Oh my lord x" - Tennessee ( Source)
"I want a scone with strawberry jam and clotted cream on it NOW! To go with this cup of tea! OH MY LORD!" - Tennessee ( Source)
Pensive girl on the jetty.
Leaves fall around her.
"I read a lot of magazines like Mojo and books like Lipstick Traces. When we decided that the band was going to be the main priority, we all had our reading lists!" - Tennessee (Source)
Dead on arrival.
"The last time we had a day off I went to a show. It's sad, isn't it, that when I have time off I still want to spend it in clubs listening to music?" - Tennessee (Source)
Greta Garbo would eat her heart out.
Another thing to note is that Tennessee believes in Halloween.
She is a tragic creature of the night!
Or, um. Not.
(Cinderella takes her sweet ride home.)
... in which Tennessee is a shambling monster.
Sort of.
Z believes in Halloween too.
And the fifth element is Berg.
And somehow Charlotte manages to be most adorable of all. A raccoon, you guys. In a dumpster. With heels ♥
The Like made their way into bandom through the startling mindtwin-ish flirty-ridiculous BFF-ship of Z Berg and Ryan Ross.
Z is maybe the only person in the world who can match Ryan creepy stare for creepy stare. It's pretty epic.
... and the conversation flows around him. One of the most stupidly darling photos of the year.
It's a very important phone call, okay?
The sweetest smile.
"So there's blood all over the bathroom and first thing I see is 'snuggle death' scrawled on the wall. Death by snuggle that's how I wanna go" - Ryan ( Source)
"oh my god snuggle death, my one and only dream!" - Z ( Source)
Z is not entirely awake. Or dressed.
"When you can't decide what 2 do 4 Halloween, it makes sense 2 fly 2 chicago and break into Jon Walkers house dressed as 60s burglars, right?" - Z ( Source)
They charm the fuck out of me, not gonna lie.
"I did this at home, in Los Angeles. It was inspired by a very old book Z gave me called 'The Heritage of Dress' or something an Edward Gorey child may have dropped on a walk. I draw in bed, before I go to sleep. As a result all of my sheets are decorated with ink stains." By TENNESSEE THOMAS Twenty fourth of November 2009
I'm just going to keep throwing photos at you, if that's okay.
Because look how awesome!
It's all about the legs.
Mostly this picture is adorable, but then there is Z's FACE, and seriously, those eyes. How is she not a cartoon?
"Z writes all the songs. She won't even let us hear them until they are totally finished." - Charlotte (Source)
Baby biker girls!
Such a beautiful picture.
Tennessee making a graffiti-stained back alley her own.
Z making delicate bird shapes in the night.
"I slammed my finger in a window last night... Because I accidentally locked myself in the bathroom so I tried to climb out the window." - Z ( Source
Friends who care share their glasses.
With other friends.
Lots.
For approximately six minutes in their teens, apparently The Like were grunge. (... Z still treated her hair.)
"There's a lot of music passed around between our friends, and someone is always hearing someone new or old and sharing it with the rest of us. Everybody has different tastes, but we're all the same in that we love music more than anything." - Tennessee (Source)
Z is DEEPLY PERTURBED. And has stolen Tennessee's glasses again.
Tennessee has a squirrel.
(Charlotte sees it too.)
Z and the big yellow bus!
I ... have no idea.
"I think I drink coffee in the same way little children spin around in circles." - Z ( Source)
Still the cutest, Tenn.
ALSO, THERE IS ONLY ONE FANDOM (via softlyforgotten)
... and Z is possibly Emma Watson.
Or Jessical Alba.
Hot damn, Z.
Charlotte, lady in red.
"Another reason why I hate babies so much: they look like they have no bones." - Z ( Source)
Girls are so tired.
Charlotte does the goth girl death stare.
Girls are sexy as fuck.
Tennessee is alarmed! Or intrigued! It's hard to tell!
"[O]n our message board we have multiple threads of people making up what they think the lyrics are and I really like that, because then it sort of becomes their song as much as it is mine." - Z (Source)
It's love.
It really is.
*chinhands*
The Like, guys.
This is The Like as they stand at the moment. Left to right they're Laena Geronimo (bass), Z Berg (vocals, guitar), Reni Lane (keyboards), Tennessee Thomas (drums).
They're pretty darling.
The two newest members are Laena and Reni. I don't know very much about them so far. Reni seems charming and ridiculous.
Laena brings the sassy and the sad eyes.
I'm disposed to like them! Basically, you know that line from Pride and Prejudice? Bingley was ready, Georgiana was eager, and Darcy determined, to be pleased. I'm Georgiana, here.
Reni Lane has a solo career, and apparently she's leaving? She's still plastered all over their MySpace, though.
And whatever, I don't care; Fandom can keep her even if the band doesn't.
"A huge block of my tweets from this week are missing. I feel like I'm the whale being carried by the little birds. AND they dropped me." - Reni ( Source)
Most of my fondness for Reni actually stems directly from this picture, I have to admit. Bandgirls with kittens.
"Laena just shared that she had a plant named Paul McCartney. - Z Source)
I love so much the way Z feels the need to report everything Laena says on twitter. Maybe she's only making up for the fact that Laena never posts with the Like twitter. Maybe she has a tragic crush on the new girl. Who knows.
"Went to 60's soul dance party last night. Laena reprimanded me for my '70's shoes,' saying 'we can't let them know we can time travel!'" - Z ( Source)
But most of the time, my favourites by a lot are Tennessee and Z, seen here playing the contrast game. (In my head their conversation in front of the mirror goes something like: "Is a virginal white dress too much, do you think?" and "Fuck, no, not if I wear a black corset.")
The whole band, though, with their sixties girl bopper sound and retro-yet-clashing fashion senses ... I have so much fondness for them, I can't even say.
... girls are fierce.
"On Reni's planet, this is 'making eyes' at someone." - Z (Source)
Reni Lane and Tennessee Thomas, the squared power of ridiculous faces.
And always, always, take this shit seriously, babe.
Before Laena and Reni, The Like was a trio. The third member was their bassist Charlotte Froom.
When she left, it probably wasn't amicably. She's not mentioned anywhere on their social networking accounts, and there was no announcement that she was going.
The closest thing to word of her is a vicious song Z wrote called 'Narcissus in a Red Dress', which includes the line One minute she's your best friend, then you watch her take your place and the possible pun I guess I taught them all the same, you clever little charlatans.
It's a savage song, but even so, you can hear bits of Charlotte's side in it, with the repeating theme of taking someone's place, impersonating them, and climbing too high.
(Although okay, yes, it's all speculation. I don't know whether the song is truly about Charlotte, and I certainly don't know what happened to break up these girls.)
But the thing is, back when they were a trio? They were amazing.
(Holding hands, you guys!)
They formed when Z and Charlotte were fourteen and Tennessee was fifteen, and none of them had any friends at their own schools, but they had each other.
Baby Z and Charlotte, oh my god.
"I think what makes it work so well is that we love each other and we're all, most importantly, on the same page. We live in the same realm. And the same cannot be said of most other people. It's just the way we're wired and we're all wired the same way." - Z (Source)
Charlotte and Tennessee have known each other even longer - since they were five years old, when Tennessee used to travel regularly between England and America.
I just had that exact thought!
... probably you had to be there.
According to signsonaves' very awesome primer, they used to sleep in the same bed after band practices. And cuddle. Seriously.
Z actually took Charlotte as her date to her high school prom. She bought her a corsage.
Tiniest picture in the world, I know, but so awesome! Blues Sisters, baby.
"Charlotte's funny because she hates people but she loves all animals." - Z (Source)
Apparently Charlotte really wanted to be liked in high school.
This might be my favourite picture of her. Just kick your heels up and smile.
"I was 2 years old and I asked what chicken was made of. When I found out that it was the animal, I said I would never eat meat again. I didn't understand why anyone would kill animals to eat them if you didn't have to." - Charlotte (Source)
Harajuku girls peace out.
The Like! At The Hair Salon. (Oh, what.)
Sometimes I love them So. Goddamn. Much.
Z is the creative centre of the band. She writes the songs and brings them to the others for arrangement.
"I am not a tortured artist. I've always been a pretty happy kid, so it's funny that I became a songwriter - it seems wrong in a way. But I guess it's because the way I deal with things in my life, logically, is to deal with them immediately... but then the long, lingering problems that I don't dwell on logically find their way out of me in my songs. - Z (Source)
Girl knows how to hoola.
What fire hazard?
"Dreamt my dad and I were pirates. Serious pistol fighting and I gutted a man with my hands. AND Keira Knightly was there. Best. Dream. Ever." - Z ( Source)
Girlkissing is in this season.
"The ticking of my clock purse is like some sort of terrible tell-tale heart. Am I guilty or just insane?" - Z ( Source)
This one is all about the Tigger hoodie, obviously.
"Just caught myself bopping my head and making embarrassing "this is a sick groove" face to Ballade no. 1 in G Minor, op 23. What??" - Z ( Source)
ALSO SHE RECYCLES STUFF. She would like you to know.
Tennessee's middle names are Jane and Bunny.
TENNESSEE JANE BUNNY THOMAS.
The first thing you notice about Tennessee is that she is, approximately, the most adorable thing on the planet.
En guarde!
Her little face.
On the planet, guys.
"story: Tennessee and I both felt we were getting sick yesterday. So I stayed home and watched House and took vitamins. Woke up ill as FUCK. Tennessee, meanwhile, went out in New Orleans and got rowdy and walked on cars and moshed and got sloshed. She feels great today. I think a valuable lesson has been learned by us all." - Z (Source 1, 2, 3)
Sunday in the park with drums.
Streetsmart as hell, baby.
"I would love to be able to finish [a song], but Z is so good. It's intimidating." - Tennessee (Source)
"I just generated my #TweetCloud out of a year of my tweets. Top three words: fuck, mean, tennessee. That is AWESOME." - Z ( Source)
Like Medusa. But prettier.
Really, the bath is very comfortable.
Drunken sailor girl! I've mentioned the thing where I find her adorable, yeah?
But the thing is, after the adorable you begin to notice that she's also stupidly, stunningly gorgeous.
... I'll let you stare for a bit, if you like.
(I hope you don't think we're going to move to a new subject any time soon?)
I just. I don't even know what to say.
Except that she should wear blue always. And never cut her hair. And tour in Australia.
Sometimes a tall girl will fold herself away so small.
"Tennessee is like Alice in Wonderland." - Z (Source)
"When you see an @ilovethelike tweet involving the phrase "oh my lord" Tennessee's behind it... Otherwise it's Z. Oh my lord x" - Tennessee ( Source)
"I want a scone with strawberry jam and clotted cream on it NOW! To go with this cup of tea! OH MY LORD!" - Tennessee ( Source)
Pensive girl on the jetty.
Leaves fall around her.
"I read a lot of magazines like Mojo and books like Lipstick Traces. When we decided that the band was going to be the main priority, we all had our reading lists!" - Tennessee (Source)
Dead on arrival.
"The last time we had a day off I went to a show. It's sad, isn't it, that when I have time off I still want to spend it in clubs listening to music?" - Tennessee (Source)
Greta Garbo would eat her heart out.
Another thing to note is that Tennessee believes in Halloween.
She is a tragic creature of the night!
Or, um. Not.
(Cinderella takes her sweet ride home.)
... in which Tennessee is a shambling monster.
Sort of.
Z believes in Halloween too.
And the fifth element is Berg.
And somehow Charlotte manages to be most adorable of all. A raccoon, you guys. In a dumpster. With heels ♥
The Like made their way into bandom through the startling mindtwin-ish flirty-ridiculous BFF-ship of Z Berg and Ryan Ross.
Z is maybe the only person in the world who can match Ryan creepy stare for creepy stare. It's pretty epic.
... and the conversation flows around him. One of the most stupidly darling photos of the year.
It's a very important phone call, okay?
The sweetest smile.
"So there's blood all over the bathroom and first thing I see is 'snuggle death' scrawled on the wall. Death by snuggle that's how I wanna go" - Ryan ( Source)
"oh my god snuggle death, my one and only dream!" - Z ( Source)
Z is not entirely awake. Or dressed.
"When you can't decide what 2 do 4 Halloween, it makes sense 2 fly 2 chicago and break into Jon Walkers house dressed as 60s burglars, right?" - Z ( Source)
They charm the fuck out of me, not gonna lie.
"I did this at home, in Los Angeles. It was inspired by a very old book Z gave me called 'The Heritage of Dress' or something an Edward Gorey child may have dropped on a walk. I draw in bed, before I go to sleep. As a result all of my sheets are decorated with ink stains." By TENNESSEE THOMAS Twenty fourth of November 2009
I'm just going to keep throwing photos at you, if that's okay.
Because look how awesome!
It's all about the legs.
Mostly this picture is adorable, but then there is Z's FACE, and seriously, those eyes. How is she not a cartoon?
"Z writes all the songs. She won't even let us hear them until they are totally finished." - Charlotte (Source)
Baby biker girls!
Such a beautiful picture.
Tennessee making a graffiti-stained back alley her own.
Z making delicate bird shapes in the night.
"I slammed my finger in a window last night... Because I accidentally locked myself in the bathroom so I tried to climb out the window." - Z ( Source
Friends who care share their glasses.
With other friends.
Lots.
For approximately six minutes in their teens, apparently The Like were grunge. (... Z still treated her hair.)
"There's a lot of music passed around between our friends, and someone is always hearing someone new or old and sharing it with the rest of us. Everybody has different tastes, but we're all the same in that we love music more than anything." - Tennessee (Source)
Z is DEEPLY PERTURBED. And has stolen Tennessee's glasses again.
Tennessee has a squirrel.
(Charlotte sees it too.)
Z and the big yellow bus!
I ... have no idea.
"I think I drink coffee in the same way little children spin around in circles." - Z ( Source)
Still the cutest, Tenn.
ALSO, THERE IS ONLY ONE FANDOM (via softlyforgotten)
... and Z is possibly Emma Watson.
Or Jessical Alba.
Hot damn, Z.
Charlotte, lady in red.
"Another reason why I hate babies so much: they look like they have no bones." - Z ( Source)
Girls are so tired.
Charlotte does the goth girl death stare.
Girls are sexy as fuck.
Tennessee is alarmed! Or intrigued! It's hard to tell!
"[O]n our message board we have multiple threads of people making up what they think the lyrics are and I really like that, because then it sort of becomes their song as much as it is mine." - Z (Source)
It's love.
It really is.
*chinhands*
The Like, guys.