How They Started
The Naked and Famous took their name from English musician Tricky's song "Tricky Kid", which is ambivalent about the notion of celebrity. In the song, Tricky quotes the line "everybody wants to be naked and famous", from The Presidents of the United States of America's song "Naked and Famous". The band formed in 2007 when Thom Powers and Alisa Xayalith were working on what formed two extended plays--This Machine and No Light—that they recorded with engineer Aaron Short, a fellow student at Auckland's MAINZ music college.[8] The EPs were subsequently released on local independent label Round Trip Mars. Powers and Xayalith began performing live with Ben Knapp and Jordan Clark on bass and drums respectively, while Aaron Short became a performing member of the group. Knapp and Clark left the group in 2009 and were subsequently replaced with Jesse Wood and David Beadle. Current band members are Alisa Xayalith, Thom Powers, Aaron Short, David Beadle, and Jesse Wood.
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