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Max: "Barlow Girls" is not necessarily an anti-dating song, per se. It's just more when you're 14 years old and you're a girl and you dress a certain way, you get attention and it's like, "Okay, well, I like attention. It feels like love." It's easy to always want to get more and more of that. What we're trying to communicate is that there are guys that pay attention when you dress pure and when you've got more on your mind than, "Do I look good? How many guys can I attract?" There is a whole bunch of guys out there noticing. It is worth it.

You should hear our band because all these guys, we've tried to train ourselves not to look at superficial things. We'll have conversations like, "Do you know how cool Kristen is? She loves God so much!" It's like spiritual locker room talk.

FamilyChristian.com: How do you counsel teens on this topic?

Melissa: I've dated a lot. I've done the whole scene and really, it's never too late to change your life. That's what God tell us. From here on out, if you want to live a different kind of life, you want to be a different kind of girl, do it. It's never too late. Never too late to change, never too late to try and be a different person—I've changed my life. I live for God and that's what I'm focusing on. It's changed me as a person. I think so many people really feel like that they've messed up one too many times [but] that's not what God's all about.

FamilyChristian.com: Another theme to Karaoke Superstar is the idea of being intentional about what you do. How does someone live an intentional life?

Tricia: Some people live just in the moment and that's so easy to do, [especially] in high school. When you're young you just think about right now, what I want, what makes me feel good, what makes me think I'm happy. I'd like to think I'm working on living in light of eternity. I'm not here to make myself happy. I'm not here to find a man. I'm not here to become rich, to become famous, whatever it is. [I'm here to do] whatever it is that God gives me to do each day.

I was reading a book the other day and [the author told a story] about a girl who was in her 20s and didn't date but was trusting that if God wanted her to get married, she would. Her younger brother asked her, "Do you think you're called to be single for the rest of your life?" And she said, "All I know is that today I am." I would say that I try to live that day-by-day, whatever God calls me to do that day is what I'm called to do.

Ultimately I'm going to stand before God someday and He's going to ask me what I [did] with today and tomorrow. When you let your life reflect God, it's really hard to not live that way because you have to think, "What am I living for? Is it me or is it God?"

FamilyChristian.com: There's a little irony in the fact that you caution listeners against being influenced by the media and yet media like MTV and the WB seem to love your songs, like MTV and the WB. What do you make of that?

Max: I don't think the media is inherently bad. [It's] really cool that a lot of people have gotten on board with what we're doing. I think part of what we're expressing is a sentiment of this generation.

I think we're going to see more and more of that as kids are learning that self-expression is available to everyone. And [with] technology being so much cheaper right now, anyone can make a record and [suddenly] you're on the soundtrack for The Real World on MTV. That's exactly what happened to us. We're just out there trying to say, "Hey look, it's possible!"

We're just the beginning of a whole wave of new bands, of kids sitting around in their basements going, "What should we do that we like?" instead of "What's marketable and what's trendy and what's going to happen next year?" We're going to see a whole explosion of creativity. I think the Internet and home recording is going to be to [this decade] what sampling and hip-hop was to the 80s. I'm looking forward to the creative renaissance that's about to happen by a bunch of 14-year-olds that don't know any better.

FamilyChristian.com: Many artists are also avid readers. What have you been reading?

Tricia: I just read The Prayer of Jabez. Pretty much the whole band has read that. I read a book called When God Writes Your Love Story not so long ago. Very, very good. People Pleasers—my sister and I are working on that one. I'm just reading the one by Michael W. Smith, This Is Your Time. My dad just got me that.

Melissa: My dad got me the Jesus Freaks book. It's awesome. It's incredible. As I'm going through it, I [think], "These are the people that I call brothers and sisters and if their lives have reflected this [much of a commitment to Christ], I sure better."

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FamilyChristian.com: What is the most important thing you want our readers to know about Superchick?

Max: The most important thing that we have to say is that God is very real in our lives and God is the answer. All of what we say comes from living out our relationships with Christ. I know in my life that God has changed me. It all flows from that. Growing up as a pastor's kid and missionary kid, it didn't seem real to me for a long time. I'd walk away, do the rebellion thing just to come back and go, "You know what? God is real. And God has changed me."

Sometimes Christianity is misconstrued as a whole bunch of "dont's"—don't drink, don't smoke, don't have sex. It took me a long time to realize that a lot of the things that are don'ts are dream-killers. You have a destiny to be an amazing, incredible person, but if you're getting plastered every weekend, that's every weekend that you're not making progress towards your destiny, towards your greatness.

Jen Abbas, a writer in Grand Rapids, Mich., originally conducted this interview for Family Christian Stores' All Access music catalog.

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