TILA NGUYEN
TILA NGUYEN
HUSTLER HOLLYWOOD STORE
Sunset Strip, CA.
GAO- It's Friday night, we're at HUSTLER HOLLYWOOD, and we have....
Tila.
TILA- How are you doing?
GAO- Good, what's going on with you?
TILA- I'm just chillin, waiting for you guys to get here. You were late, HA HA.
GAO- Yes, I apologize. We were caught in traffic on La Cienega. Friday night LA traffic.
Thanks for talking to us.
TILA- Its okay.
GAO- You're a legend in the IMPORT CAR modeling scene. Yet, you left that scene?
TILA- I started when I was 19. I moved along and progressed from that.
It was fun, but now I have to focus on other things.
GAO- You set the standard with IMPORT CAR MODELING, do you look at models now and
think they took your style?
TILA- HA HA, I think its really cool. When I started the scene wasn't as big.
Now, I talk to younger models.
They write me and tell me I'm their idol. They look up to me
and I think that's cool.
GAO- Now, you're on myspace, you're known as TILA TEQUILA and you have a band.
What's up your band?
TILA- I've been working on music for a while. This year, I'm getting ready to put it
out there. I going to setup a tour. But it does take a while. I want to make sure its
right. I don't want to rush. I want to put out good material, that everybody will
love. Its material I love.
GAO- I noticed the song WASTE MY TIME. I was surprised, it sounds GOOD.
What's the vibe of your music?
TILA- The songs on myspace are for the world to sample. But I have so many songs
behind the scenes. They are REALLY good, but I can't put it out there yet.
I'm excited about the new music, but I can't release it. There's a time and place
for it. The songs on myspace are fun songs, I wrote them. I 'm glad the people
enjoy it. I'm getting very good responses from that music.
GAO- Speaking of myspace... I looked at your page, and I noticed millions.
TILA- I've got like 25 million views and almost 800,000 friends. I think that's really
cool. Its like a city, its so active and live. I see comments
constantly coming in from people and I love talking to people.
Getting their responses is great.
GAO- So its REALLY you on myspace. Not a manager?
TILA- Its REALLY me. A manager can't capture one's character. I handle my
account. Its ALL me, yes.
GAO- How do you do it? DO you have all-nighters responding?
TILA- I do actually. I just wokeup from a nap. Sometimes I stay up
until 6am. The funny thing is... if you ask some of my friends in myspace, they
know that. I'm always on there posting bulletins saying " I can't sleep".
So, its cool to know them personally.
GAO- That's impressive. I also hear you have a clothing line.
TILA- Yes, TILA FASHION www.tilafashion.com. I started it about a year ago.
I just put it out there for fun and the response
was so amazing. I wasn't prepared for all the feedback. So I stopped everything
for a while. I had to get a big company together to put it out there and do it right.
The fans were loving it and I'm excited about that. They send me pictures
wearing my stuff. It feels good to see that and say "I designed that".
GAO- What's the correct pronunciation of your last name?
TILA- Everybody is like Tila N'GAI, Tila N'GWEN, Tila WEEN. But the G is silent,
so its pronounced, Tila Nu-WHEN.
The thing is, alot of Vietnamese people have that same
last name, but I'm not related to them. And we don't all look alike.
GAO- Thank you, I can relate to that.
GAO- I noticed your clothing line has an 80's style.
TILA- When I started it, I had alot of "the Scene" friends. I made it to fit the
"the scene kids". I built it around that style to make it affordable. They are
kind of alternative clothes, but I'm looking on and branching out.
GAO- SO will you have things to fit...
TILA- The brothers? HA HA.
GAO- Yeah, those models were some small athletic dudes.
TILA- Definately .
GAO- What goes on with your personally life, do you have a man?
TILA- I actually don't have a boyfriend. I tell everybody that I'm married to my job.
Unless its somebody who can relate to my lifestyle. Sometimes, I'll be in the studio
until 5 am working with producers. And if I have a boyfriend who doesn't understand,
He'll be like "Why are you in the studio, Why do you gotta be there until 5 am?"
"No", I've gotta fuckin work. I've gotta hustle. So its hard having a boyfriend.
But I definately wish I had someone, sometimes. I wish could be a girly normal girl,
but it comes with the territory.
GAO- I read that you had a high school sweetheart. There's gotta be somebody?
TILA- Like a booty call?
GAO- YES.
TILA- Everybody has booty calls.
Listen to my song "PLAYGIRL CENTRAL", I say, "I call them all baby, because I
forget their names". In that song I told on myself, it got in trouble.
But, I'm from Texas and I'm a southern girl at heart.
This is L.A., and you can't mix an L.A., Hollywood guy with a Southern Belle,
so I put up a mean front.
GAO- So you're really a nice girl?
TILA- Ofcourse.
GAO- What type of guy do you like?
TILA- I don't have any style, I just like a guy who can understand my lifestyle and
let me spoil them.
GAO- Really?
TILA- Yes, I love to spoil them. That's why I don't have a boyfriend because, not
everybody deserves that. I'm very picky for that. But I do like to spoil them.
GAO- Do you ever date brothers?
TILA - I did when I first moved here, but it wasn't "boyfriend and girlfriend",
I take all colors of the rainbow.
GAO- What about the name TILA TEQUILA? Do you drink Tequila?
TILA- Actually, I'm allergic to alcohol. That's how I got that name. When I was in
8th grade, my friends asked me to drink. So I had a Tequila shot, and I almost died.
My face swelled up like a fish and I had rashes all over my body. So I can't drink.
Just give me a fake shot.
GAO- I also heard that you were in a bar room brawl in Sweden. Is that true?
And how does a beautiful young lady get into a brawl like that?
TILA- Well, I grew up in Houston, TX. H-Town. In my neighborhood alot of shit went on.
I respect everybody, as long as they respect my space. That's still a part of me.
I may have moved away, but if someone makes me snap, its still inside. I try to stay
away from those situations.
GAO- You still didn't answer the question about the fight in Sweden.
TILA- About how I beat that ass?
GAO- YEAH.
TILA- Well, she was disrespecting me and my friends.
She was in my face and giving me attitude.
She was being so rude to me and my friends.
I just snapped and threw a punch and...
GAO- You knocked her ass out?
TILA- I knocked her ass out.
GAO- I like that, also I heard you're going to New York to be in STUFF magazine?
TILA- Yes, I'm going to New York City, to take over the world.
I'm doing a feature with STUFF magazine, and I have mobile downloads and lots of
goodies coming out.
GAO- You're also on a videogame?
TILA- It's for Play-Station 2, X-Box, NINTENDO. The game is STREET RACING SYNDICATE,
I'm a character. But I'm very hard to get, as I am in real life.
GAO- Are you a password character?
TILA- No, you go on different levels when you win races. I'm one of the
harder levels, you win me and I'll be your girlfriend. In the game I'll do favors for you.
GAO- YEAH?
TILA- In the game, you drop me off in a garage and I dance, talk and motivate you
to win some BLING and make money for me.
GAO- Is that REALLY you in the game and how was that?
TILA- They shot me behind a green screen, I had to dance and it was
animated.
GAO- So people should look out for the game, STREET RACING SYNDICATE.
The myspace page, the Clothing line, the music and STUFF MAGAZINE.
Thanks for being on GOING ALL OUT.
TILA- Thank you for having me here.
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by J.M. Thomas