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"   Photo: Tr\u00E8s Awesome/Emma Arnold  Over the past three years, opera-trained industrial electronic artist Zola Jesus (real name Nika Roza Danilova) has been getting music aficionados&amp;#039; attention\u2014Pitchfork listed her EP, Stridulum, as one of the top 50 albums of 2010; British magazine NME called it a &amp;quot;dark masterpiece&amp;quot;\u2014and every critic has their own take on her sound. Her moody, atmospheric electro style and throaty-but-powerful voice have been called &amp;quot;lo-fi grime,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;gloom-pop,&amp;quot; and she&amp;#039;s even been pegged as a lyrical &amp;quot;goth self-help guru.&amp;quot; At this weekend&amp;#039;s Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago, we caught up with Danilova and tried to set the record straight...before we got distracted by her outfit. ELLE: Everyone is clamoring to define your sound\u2014is it goth, grunge, electro-pop? How would you describe it? Zola Jesus: I don&amp;#039;t know anymore! Everyone thinks they have an idea what it is, and I don&amp;#039;t even know what it is. ELLE: Let&amp;#039;s try this: What descriptions have you read that you just don&amp;#039;t get? ZJ: When people call it things like &amp;quot;dirgeful goth&amp;quot; music. I just don&amp;#039;t really identify with it as goth music, or really dark music. ELLE: One thing&amp;#039;s for sure: you&amp;#039;ve got great style. What are you wearing now? ZJ: The dress is BB Dakota. The necklace I got in Montana at a Native American souvenir shop. It&amp;#039;s a bear claw. And the shoes are by this Brazilian label called Melissa that collaborates a lot with other artists and designers\u2014these were a collaboration with Italian architect Gaetano Pesce. ELLE: Who&amp;#039;s your designer go-to? ZJ: I love Complex Geometries. And\u2014if I could only afford him!\u2014Rick Owens. So I like to look at Rick Owens clothing and dream about it.   Photo: Tr\u00E8s Awesome/Emma Arnold  ELLE: How do you pick clothes for a festival? ZJ: I&amp;#039;m usually just trying to stay cool! I try to find something flowing that&amp;#039;s still a little geometric. And I normally wear a lot of black, but in the summer that&amp;#039;s not going to happen, so I&amp;#039;m trying to work my way into colors and whites. I&amp;#039;ve been wearing a lot of white lately... ELLE: But you&amp;#039;re known for being an all-jet-black kind of gal. ZJ: Yeah, it&amp;#039;s easy, it always matches. But obviously people have their own stereotypes about people who wear all black. ELLE: Maybe that&amp;#039;s partly where the goth thing comes from. ZJ: Yeah! But Karl Lagerfeld wears all black all the time. Nobody calls him goth. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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