"Sure, we want to be famous," Coldfeet's chanteuse, Lori Fine, says a little defensively in the faux tavern environs of Shibuya's TGIFridays, stabbing at a half-eaten pizza quesadilla. Fine is a former model and has the effortless poise and posture of one -- minus the myopic egotism.
Fiery, slinky and seductive onstage and on record, her offstage persona is disarmingly simple and humble. She takes a sip of her favorite beverage: lukewarm water.
"But we really want to mix things up, jazz and pop, house and hip hop, East and West, male and female. We're not willing to be authorial about marketing. Even if sometimes," she admits, flashing wide, Audrey Hepburn eyes, "there's a conflict."