![]() ![]() We would have ended up looking like what we weren’t. 1 song, but they didn’t care what we were really about. Why did you turn away from it?Ī: The record company didn’t care what we did as long as we did another “Whip It.” They wanted another No. Q: It was more than a little bit of pop success. That was the problem of being in a band that stumbled onto a little bit of pop success. Early on with the company, we had clients coming in, expecting me to be wearing the red energy-dome hat. Instead of a band, you head Mutato Musika, a company that is an ensemble of artists that produces everything from films and music to TV commercials.Ī: That’s right, it’s very similar in concept and politics to Devo. We were musical reporters who worked in all areas, from music to film to art. In Devo, we never thought of ourselves as stars. I’m shirtless and I have glistening sweat that I’ve sprinkled glitter onto – but, other than that, I’m not the rock-star type. You seem to be a very un-rock-star rock star.Ī: I’m wearing gold spandex tights and a plumped-up codpiece. Now you are involved in projects where you are behind the scenes. Q: Devo was a band where the players were fairly anonymous. They might add a new law like “Let no diaper go unchanged.” Q: Mark, if the Rugrats were on “The Island of Lost Souls,” what would they eventually say?Ī: They would probably let out that plaintive, universal wail, “Are we not men?” And the “Not walk on all fours” law would still apply to the Rugrats. Like some of the political stuff in “Rocky and Bullwinkle”?Ī: I think the episode “Kill the Pigs, Drop Acid and Kill Your Parents” was the one “Rocky and Bullwinkle” that went too far. Q: Could you go too far with adult references in kids material. ![]() I think “Rugrats” is successful because it treats kids right, and there’s something for both them and their parents. The difference between the shows I liked as a kid and the ones I didn’t depended on how the material treated me. by today’s standards, but they had references that made a kid feel more like a person. It didn’t play down, it always had other levels that it worked on. ![]() I really liked “Pee-wee’s Playhouse.” That show was a demarcation line where the programming began being relevant to kids again.Ī: “Pee-wee” was like the kids programming I remember from when I was a child. Q: Why should we pay attention to the Rugrats?Ī: I’ve been involved with kids programming since “Pee-wee’s Playhouse.” I’ve watched kids programming even longer than that – ever since I was a kid. Mothersbaugh, who still performs with his Devo bandmates and still has a flair for the bizarre, spoke with The Post recently. “Rugrats: A Live Adventure” returns to Radio City Music Hall for a dozen shows, beginning Wednesday.Īs testament to the popularity of the Rugrats live, when the stage show was in New York last April, it played 23 sold-out performances and grossed a whopping $4.2 million. Now he is treating the next generation to his tunes for ‘toons in the current hit “The Rugrats Movie” as well as in the live adaptation of “Rugrats,” the animated Nickelodeon series. M ARK Mothersbaugh once asked (and answered himself), “Are We Not Men? We Are Devo.” Later, he taught us to “Whip It.”
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