Who is Carola?

Oh, thats a funny question! Sometimes I also don´t know me! (laughs) Generally, I am a very bullheaded but hearty person! I grew up in a deeply Christian village with only 1200 inhabitants. I love nature, animals and lovely silent territories. But I also love big cities like Stuttgart! Now I´m 22 and my life sometimes seems like a chaotic battlefield but it´s never boring. Everyday I can find a new side of me but generally I am a dilly example of a family guy. Altogether, you can say I´m a full-grown personality with full-grown insanity.

How does this full grown insanity show, and if there was a cure for it, would you take it or are you too attatched to it?

No never, my insanity is my personality! Everything which feeds it was a lesson for life! Every fucking hate and tear that brought me to who I am was one more lore for me. So now I can do it better, what other guys do, and hurt people with that!

Can you introduce Prospective for us?

Of course, Prospective is a prospective music-project without any example in the past. We want to give the dark category a chance to grow up in a bigger public to show society that “goth” is not another word for Satanic. Rather, they’re people who think a lot about senses and tolerance in our such so dear world.

What are the strong points in your music that also makes you able to captivate an audience of listeners?

I think it´s the assortment of lovely soft vocals and hard beats with dilly instruments and holding strings and pads.

What can we expect from a Prospective album? How would you describe your music?

A lot, I think ;)! Indescribable, we don´t have any guidelines or examples for us! We only give a little dire mood with lyrics considered to based off hope.

To what music did you listen when you were younger and was this of influence for you?

Till I was eleven I had not really thought about what I heard, but then, it started with Type O Negative and Deine Lakaien! So I can say I started very early with the “dark music”. But I also heard some romantic popular things and a lot of rock music!

Just life! I write about things which release senses in me!

You wrote the song “Guardian Light” for your mother who is ill. Was it hard to write lyrics for a subject that is so close to you?

Yes, it was one of the hardest things I ever did. My mommy is the greatest person. She always worked hard to give us a little more, she sacrificed for us! I love her so much and when I was singing this song, each time I have to cry. Even now, at the moment, tears are also running over my face. It´s hard to know that mommys time is this less.

How do you deal with something that is this hard for you?

I can’t deal with it! I try to live life as good as it works but sometimes my thoughts spin around and tears will get me. I just try to enjoy every second we have, that’s all I can do.

The track “Bloody Blade” is about borderline syndrome, what is your connection with that?

My life was not the simplest. I have always had a very full life, but I also was much barred! I had to compensate my feelings, and borderline was my way to compensate my pain for a long, long time! But I conquered it, and now I try to live without any bloody blades!

Lots of times, people who cut themselves do it because they need to feel physical pain in order to compensate for all their emotional pains. Was it the same for you?

Yes, my life was full for a long long time with dying friends and lonely moments! I thought nobody would help me and life would treat me hard forever. I couldn’t talk about it with everyone, so I had to bundle my pain inside and tried to let it flow away with every single drop of blood. But now I can say, it does not work! J

No, I always was good in English, so I can write it in English directly. It´s spontaneous, but since it’s not my first language, I also have to sit down and think about it J

How does the ultimate “Carola day” look like?

Sleep in, wake up without a backache, eat some pizza as breakfast, go for a walk with my dogs, take a shower, go to my walk-in closet, don´t know what I have to wear, search in thousands of shoes for the right one, go to bathroom to hide the dark circles around my eyes, run to the tourbus, and stand on my stage to give a concert for many, many people! And then, there’s the afterparty with a lot of my lovely guys!

What is it like to have a band with your partner?

Oh, I don’t know how it is to have a band with other guys only. Marco and Carola is really the perfect team, we love us, we love music and we love our lives!

What does music in general mean for you, and what role does it play in your life?

Together with my family and my friends, it is the most important. It´s the only - and the greatest - way to describe my feelings.

How would you deal with your feelings, do you think, if you couldn’t do that in music?

Oh that´s difficult! I think I would drink much more than now and do drugs and all that shit. I´m not suitable for a “normal” life.

Prospective was a three person band (now cut back to just you and Marco). Why did this happen?

We don´t know. Mark told us that he has put on answerphone and he don´t want to talk about it! He didn’t tell us what the problem was, but I can´t talk about it otherwise I might say some very bitchy things ;)

You are very socially aware, how does the ideal world looks like for you? What can people do to achieve it?

It is very simple! Humanity has to understand that nature will give payback, and we are not the ones who are allowed to dictate about any creature, plant or property. Nature will retract everything anytime he/she/it wants!

Everybody has an addiction. What’s yours?

There are a lot! I smoke, I drink, and I always will be a little greedy pig! But shit happens, I am what I am! God bless corsages!

What does “Gothic” mean to you, and what attracts you to it?

For me it means tolerance and good music, with considered thoughts and lovely people without any prejudices.

Any last words for the readers?

Oh yes! I hope to see you all soon and have a lot of parties with you! I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Have fun, and never be down in the mouth! I love you!

Your sincerely, Carola (and also lovely greetings from Marco)

http://www.prospective-music.net

Prospective has signed to Firezone records