Marie Ulven, known by her stage name girl in red, sits down with
Teen Vogue over Zoom â the camera off, just as sheâs done in other interviews â from her home country of Norway. Sheâs just finished recording a performance for an award show, and thereâs some rustling around in the background. Sheâs putting on a jacket. Sheâs a little breathless. âThis is going to be a bit of a girl on the move type of interview,â she warns, âbut that s alright.â
A few minutes later, more rustling. âSorry. My friend is trying to put a pizza box in the car and I was like, âThat s not going to work out,ââ she says flatly. But anyway, back to the topic at hand: concrete.
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Haley Margo, a 19-year-old musician who lives in Michigan, âcame outâ to her parents last summer â but not in a way that they could recognize.
She had been coming to terms with her sexuality for years when she sat down to write a song she describes as âthe first real push into accepting myself,â she tells
them. On the track, entitled âDo You Listen to Girl in Red,â she sings about having sweet, flirtatious phone conversations with another girl long into the night. At the end of their exchange, Margo has one question about her crush: âDoes she listen to girl in red?,â she sighs to the light strum of her ukulele.