Yellow Thunder Woman

“I think girls just need to fuck guys a little bit more, and the world would be a lot more peaceful.”

PLAYBOY.COM: How did you get your name, Yellow Thunder Woman?

YELLOW THUNDER WOMAN: My parents named me that. It's on my birth certificate. They weren't allowed to put the Indian translation on it, Wakinyan Zi Win, because the people at the hospital were racist dicks. At first I was embarrassed by it, but after a while, I thought it made me sound like a superhero, so I thought I'd go by Yellow Thunder Woman. But my friends call me Wakinyan.

PLAYBOY.COM: Your bio says you're descended from an Indian chief and you're a princess.

YTW: Yes, he was a chief, so I called myself an Indian princess. I'm very vain and narcissistic. [Laughs]

PLAYBOY.COM: What are the perks of being an Indian princess?

YTW: Actually you just get treated like everyone else. I mean, I should be treated better than most people, but I'm not. There should be red carpets for me everywhere. But no, we get nothing. We get smallpox blankets.

PLAYBOY.COM: Jumping to another odd name -- what's with the Bastard Fairies name?

YTW: I really wanted the name to have something to do with fairies, because I really got into the band the Pixies. I said we should do something with fairies, like, maybe Broken Fairies. And then Robin said, how about bastards? I was like, Yeah!

PLAYBOY.COM: You have a guitar in one video with "I Like Sex" written on it. Did you order that special?

YTW: I just did it with tape. I'm really bad at playing guitar, so I asked Robin to show me three chords and I wrote that song.

PLAYBOY.COM: Well, the tight T-shirt you have on in that video distracts from your bad guitar playing.

YTW: Yeah, I'll just go onstage without a top on.

PLAYBOY.COM: On your song "Whatever," you sing about doing whatever it takes to get a guy into bed. What is your trick to seduce guys?

YTW: I don't really have a trick. It's really easy for a girl to get laid; it's much tougher for guys. They have to put up with all these frigid fuckin' people. I think girls just need to fuck guys a little bit more, and the world would be a lot more peaceful. That would definitely stop lots of wars. We need to get rid of religion and have more sex. I think the world would be a lot better -- for me, at least.

PLAYBOY.COM: You have a song about a girl who sleeps around on her boyfriend. What was the inspiration behind that?

YTW: I think a lot of women are really deprived of sex. It's weird that that song is so unusual, that someone would write that women do sleep around. There are very promiscuous women.

Photos by Robin Davey

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