Beach House’s Victoria Legrand Gives Advice to Teenage Girls for Rookie’s “Just Wondering”
Rookie has a recurring feature “Just Wondering,” in which adults give advice to teenage girls who send in questions. Beach House’s Victoria Legrand is the latest grownup to participate, giving long answers to two questions. First, a 16-year-old says she has a hard time talking with her parents about her “negative emotions and scary feelings.” Legrand suggests speaking with “music, friends, counselors, yoga, and nature,” as well as her parents, about difficult topics. She reminds the reader that her parents love her and that she will grow apart from them before getting closer again later in life. She adds, “Try making some art, too!!!”
In the second question, a 17-year-old tells Legrand that her best friend finds her annoying, so they are growing apart. She asks how to “proceed or how to talk about it.” Legrand assures, “The number one thing to know at your age, and for the rest of your life, is that almost everything happens for a reason.” Later, she wonders if her friend needs space or if he may even have a crush on her. She ends with the touching message:
You’ll never be perfect—no one is. You will drive someone crazy and be driven crazy as well. You will lose people, and they will lose you. Just know that loving is also letting go, so if your friend needs a break, let him go. He may come back. Just know you did the right thing. BE brave and take a risk. BE free.
Read Victoria Legrand’s full “Just Wondering” column here. Beach House will go back out on tour behind last year’s Depression Cherry and Thank Your Lucky Stars tomorrow. See their dates here.
Watch Beach House play “Beyond Love” at Pitchfork Music Festival Paris 2015:
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