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But below the surface there is much that’s different, including Jess’s impulsiveness and Lisa’s indecisiveness. These traits have impacted their tattoos (Jess got her first, “Love,” on her wrist, at 19, while Lisa waited three additional years to get “Fate” in the same place) and have led to some in-studio battles—though nothing as bad as Oasis’s Gallagher brothers, yet. Jess explains, “We say we’re somewhere between the Jonas Brothers and the Gallagher brothers. If the five of them had sex together, we would be their children.”
Originally known as the Origliasso Sisters, the duo renamed themselves The Veronicas, after Winona Ryder’s character in Heathers and Betty’s rival from the Archie comics. And they’ve come a long way from their first onstage performance at the tender age of 5. “We were singing ‘Do-Re-Mi,’ and it was hysterical,” Jess recalls. “We were wearing these tutu things. I pick my nose through most of it and Lisa forgets the dance move, which is pretty much just skipping around halfway through the song.”
he electro-pop duo captivated Australia with their debut record, The Secret Life of…, and these days they are breaking out in the U.S. with their most recent release, Hook Me Up, an album loaded with catchy pop songs built with a tinge of a rebel edge. On their next album, they plan to push that even further with a dirty-pop feel inspired by Hole, Babes in Toyland, and Fiona Apple.
And while Jess attributes her interest in tattoos to her infatuation with the lead singer of Aussie rock legends Rose Tattoo, rocker ladies have always been a part of her life. One of her most recent tattoos is a Richard Tate image of a girl with a guitar that represents her alter ego. It’s a piece within a larger body of work that includes a cupcake and a poison bottle, and it incorporates one of her earliest tattoos, a heart that now has the lettering blacked out. Unlike the homeward-bound swallows on her hips that she shares with her mother, or the sexy pinup girl on the back of her calf that turned out to be a lot larger than she had anticipated (causing her sister not to speak to her for days), she won’t fess up to the story behind the heart or what her “secret” tattoos are all about. After all, a little mystery is always sexy.
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