Bishop Briggs Teaches Us Her "Bunny Dance”

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Backstage with the indie rock artist at the KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas concert in L.A.
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Young Hollywood, what up? We're here at K-Rock Almost Acoustic Christmas. We're in the holiday season. I'm wearing an ugly sweater. We're gonna go hang out with some rock stars backstage. Follow us. Happy Holidays, everybody. We're here with Bishop Briggs at K-Rock's Almost Acoustic Christmas. Hi. How are you?
Pretty good.
You excited for the holidays?
Yes. I mean, I'm really excited for the show.
Excited for the show? Holidays, you never know what's gonna happen.
Yeah.
Tell Tell me about the show.
The show, hopefully, is gonna be great. A lot of
at the Forum here in Los Angeles, just in case. Yes. You the people in Ohio don't know.
A lot of jumping around, sweating. I mean, you've been to the show before. And yeah.
Yeah. Let's just stop there, stop there. Hold on, hold on. Let's rewind. You were jumping around.
A lot of jumping around. Yes. Always.
Let's just get right to it. That's exactly. So, Bishop has the bunny dance move. Wait, is that what you call it?
I call it the Bishop Bunny. I thought it was like being I don't know, aggressive.
Aggressive? I mean, bunny is so sweet. Cause you did it. You you put it on your Instagram. You did the you did you dancing, then you put like a little bunny or a little tiny emoji.
I did. Okay, yes. You're right. I encouraged that.
Right. You're right. You're right. I have every one of your Instagrams memorized. Can we Can you teach me the uh the Bishop Bunny dance move?
Oh my gosh. Of course. Here we go, guys.
I'll watch you. I'm already feeling regret.
Um okay. So, it's all about, you just had to go side to side. You had to be light on your feet. Work your toes.
Very heavy feet.
Be up on it. Be up on it. And then, yeah. And then, side to side. This is where you're starting to get into it. This is already the beginning. Good? You got it. This is it. Like a river.
Yes. Yes. Yes. I'll like a river. This is the holiday spirit. I want to play some Christmas games. It's uh two truths and a lie. Okay. Christmas style.
Okay.
Three gifts that you have received presents. And two of them have been have to be true, and the other one has to be a lie, then I have to choose which one's the lie.
Can I actually think about it?
Think about it. Yeah.
Okay. Give me a moment. There's a lot of pressure.
Here's the jeopardy the jeopardy theme music right now. Okay. Two truths and a lie.
Okay. A puppy.
A puppy?
A fish.
A fish?
And a cat.
And a cat? All animals. You're big on the animals. Do you have a lot of pets? Which one is the lie? Do you have a lot of pets? Answer, which one is the lie?
I think the fish is the lie.
The fish? You received a fish for a present? How was it gifted? What's the lie?
They're all lies.
That's awful. That's awful. She cheated. I think all of your songs are hits. But right now, there's uh wild horses. It's run faster. Run faster. Run faster. Tell me about Wild Horses. Why did you write it? Where did you write it?
I mean, I wrote it during a really depressing time in my life when I wasn't sure if it was better to be free or to be happy. And could you have both? And that's what the song's about. I am the wild horse.
So, but you live and you live in Los Angeles. Yes. When was the last time you've heard like one of your songs on K-Rock?
Well, it was awesome. Um it was before I left for tour, so it was about a week and a half ago.
Okay.
And uh I was with someone in the car, which is even cooler, to be with someone.
Right. In the car. So like a kind of like, okay.
Well, no. Not to brag, just to share in the moment together. And
What was your friend's reaction?
Uh they freaked out.
They freaked out? Yes. Okay. Um a lot of Snapchat was involved. It was promoting for this show. So, I just kinda had this moment of
That that's what I did. I just went. Did you have a choker on?
Always.
She always has a choker. Always. Always. Read her Instagram bio. Choker. She's on that choker game. Oh. You You've been all over the world. What is like one of your favorite places to go for the holidays?
My parents still live in Hong Kong.
Wow.
So, uh every Christmas, I try and visit them. It's not happening this year because of music stuff. Got it. But um that is always really special because
Happy Hanukkah, Bishop Briggs' family.
Okay, yes. Or Merry Christmas. Yes. Merry Christmas as well.
It's like all on the same day, I heard. It Yeah. This December.
Um yes, but I get to see the cats.
Okay.
Stanley and Shelley.
Okay. Not the goldfish.
Not the goldfish. Not the goldfish. The imaginary goldfish. Okay. Um you know, when I think about it, I actually have been given that as a gift by the way. I've been given a goldfish. So.
You you have an X in a lot of your logos. How did you come up with the the X?
Oh, that's a great question.
Yeah. Really cool. What is X the X mean?
A deeper meaning of, you know, this faceless emotionless thing.
It's gangster.
Thank you.
Yeah, I like it.
Yay.
It's like with the teddy bears, it's you, that's supposed to be a picture like a little.
That's supposed to be me.
Okay, cool. Yes. You should make that an emoji. Yeah. Okay, we're gonna we're gonna wrap it up here. They're telling us They're telling us. Okay, guys, we get it. We get it. They've had enough. Well, Merry Christmas, everybody out there in the K-Rock world and the Young Hollywood world. Merry Christmas. Say bye, Bishop.
Bye. Thank you so much.
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- Stanley
One of Bishop Briggs' cats
- Shelley
One of Bishop Briggs' cats
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