T hey may not have been the hardest partying band of Noughties new rave , but CSS proved the hardest to party with. Paris Hilton had tried to lure the Brazilian electropop crew away to an exclusive post-Coachella A-list bash in 2007 – after all, their set had included kraut-rave track “Meeting Paris Hilton” – but they didn’t show. Another time, Lindsay Lohan got an equally cold shoulder.
And as for Courtney Love , the Hole frontwoman wasn’t able to persuade exuberant singer Lovefoxxx to go up west with her to load up on the best Egyptian gear known to man. “She invited us to go with her to Liberty to buy bedsheets,” says Lovefoxxx – aka Luisa Matsushita, the visual whirlwind famed for sashaying through sauce-tronic tracks like “Let’s Make Love and Listen to Death from Above” in rainbow sequin bodysuits. These days, you’re more likely to find Lovefoxxx, now 40, in a painter’s smock.
“I was so intimidated that I would drink a lot just to be able to respond to the email. I was like, ‘Oh my God, if I go to Liberty [with Love], I’m gonna die.’ I chickened out.
” When the six-piece CSS (short for Cansei de Ser Sexy or “tired of being sexy”) landed from Sao Paulo like a glitter bomb dropped into the middle of Britain’s thriving alt-rock maelstrom in 2006, Lovefoxxx was immediately adopted as the queen of the new rave microgenre, one half of the scene’s definitive power couple alongside “super cool sweetheart” Simon Taylor-Davis. Yet, .