My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commercial world. He looked down on pop culture. I definitely got the impression that pop was evil and that Britney Spears was evil.

When I was teenager, Britney Spears was it - that was the pop world that was happening, and I knew I wasn't in it.

It's a very studied look that they have and it's definitely a few notches up from Britney Spears. The look is very carefully set out to reflect the trends ... what you'd see (on runways).

How can you not like Britney Spears?

Britney Spears is a big influence. Huge. I think people thought I was joking about that for a long time. But when I was a teenager, there was a genuine connection with this sweet girl who also had this very sexual side that people didn't really want to accept.

The Britney Spears fans aren't going to dig us.