![krewella get wet itunesplus krewella get wet itunesplus](https://images.discovery-prod.axs.com/2020/01/krewella-tickets_05-01-20_17_5e31c38d72a5f.jpg)
That was one of my favorite moments at a show in Texas. Jahan: My favorite thing is seeing people in wheelchairs crowd surfing because that shows that no matter what physical condition you’re in, dance music can make you rise above your condition. SLUG: Do you have any crazy stories from shows you’ve done in the past? You openly party and I’ve seen too many pictures of you crowd surfing to count, so you must have some fun experiences. It’s so crazy to look back on that two years later and see thousands of people singing along to the song at a show. We weren’t booked for a show and we were just drinking cheap champagne. Jahan: It’s amazing because if you look back to the night “Alive” hit the radio, it was New Year’s Eve 2011 and we were lost in Chicago. What did achieving that level of success mean to you at the time? SLUG: Your song “Alive” that you released just last summer has had such a huge response and was recently remixed by Hardwell. Sometimes there will be a passionate argument in the studio, but we always end up going with our gut. Yasmine and I almost always agree on everything and we usually just disagree with Kris. Sometimes we work in the studio with Kris, it’s a very collaborative process and our hands are on everything. Sometimes Kris will come in and change some of our melodies or lyrics. SLUG: I know Kris works on the production side of the music while you and your sister write the lyrics, but do the three of you ever produce together? If so, how does that process differ from working separately? Do your tastes mesh easily? We have that number tattooed on our neck because you can never turn back once you tattoo your neck. Between the three things, we decided to pick the one thing we were most passionate about, which for all three of us was Krewella, so on June 8, 2010, we decided to quit our jobs and drop out of school and dedicate ourselves to Krewella. Jahan: We were juggling school and paying jobs at the same time we were doing Krewella. SLUG: How were you able to move forward from making music as a hobby to making music as a profession? Was it ever frustrating? It took months to finally come together just because he’s traveling all the time, but we were finally in LA at the same time and got to go into his studio to work on the beat more. He sent us an instrumental demo and asked us to write over it. Jahan: That is “Like Thunder,” which is a bonus track, and he actually reached out to us after he heard our EP Play Hard, and he wanted to do a collaboration. SLUG: You collaborated with Gareth Emery on a track on Get Wet, how did that collaboration come to be and what was that creative process like since his musical style is different from yours?
![krewella get wet itunesplus krewella get wet itunesplus](https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/krewella/images/0/02/Yasmine-Yousaf-Profile-1.png)
![krewella get wet itunesplus krewella get wet itunesplus](https://i.axs.com/2020/01/krewella-tickets_05-29-20_17_5e2f39d325a9f.jpg)
Jahan: Normally it’s been dance charts that we’ve had a lot of luck with as far as charting goes, so it’s so cool to be up there with Kings of Leon and Drake, who is Number One right now, and Cher, who is a legend. SLUG: Were you surprised that the album went straight to the top album charts and not just the top dance charts? It’s an amazing feeling to see something that we’ve been working on for two years reach so many people. Jahan: In a very small community I would call it blowing up, it’s really all because of our fans. SLUG: Get Wet has already reached Number 3 on the iTunes top new album charts, how does it feel to have literally blown up overnight? 24, the day their debut album, Get Wet, was released. I had the chance to sit down and chat with Jahan Yousaf, the older of the two feisty sisters who provide lyrics and energy to Krewella, on Sept. For those of you who may not be familiar with their music, you may have heard their hit single “Alive” on the radio in the last few months. Since releasing their first EP, Play Hard, they’ve shot to the top of the dance charts and have played festivals such as Miami’s famous Ultra Music Festival and the Electric Daisy Carnival around America. In the last year and a half Chicago–based trio, Krewella (Jahan and Yasmine Yousaf and Kris “Rain Man” Trindl), have gone from up-and-coming DJs to the next biggest thing in dance music.