The inviolable hipness of Kim Deal is well documented in music history. There’s the 1997 Dandy Warhols song “Cool as Kim Deal” that testifies to that very fact. Kurt Cobain admitted he was “freaked” to meet her. Only last year did Gen Z superstar Olivia Rodrigo call Deal still the “coolest girl in the world”.
There is a good reason for it, which has as much to do with the generation-shaping songs she wrote and performed in the Nineties with the Pixies and The Breeders as it does with the fact she used to solder her own cables. She’s also shockingly nice for an alternative-rock icon. Within minutes, she is apologising for postponing our interview (“Forgot my passport on the way to the airport!”) and cracking jokes about hospice care and death (“I’m f***ing kidding!”).
