How important is it to have individuality in a girl group?

Kena: It’s very important. You don’t want to end up trying to be like the other sister.

Mimi: I feel like it’s good because we’re always working together and so it’s good that we have those things that separate us, so you’re not feeling like everything you do is just for them.  Even if we’re into hair and Kena likes to game, A-Ni likes to cosplay all the time, we get to still take those ventures even outside of the music so we can have things that are ourselves and then come back together when we’re ready to work again.

Does being from Atlanta influence your music or personal style?

A-Ni: The second for sure. Within ATL and you’re here, you know it’s from ATL. We got to have that ATL swag with our style.

Mimi: We always think our style is more like LA, very out there. We love getting stuff from Dollskill, Pretty Little Thing — something that’s really off the wall crazy.

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You’ve been doing a lot of virtual concerts and sharing them online. How do they compare to the in-person concerts you’ve done in the past?

A-Ni: It’s a huge difference! When you do in-person, you can say “Make some noise!” When you’re virtual, you’re like “Drop this emoji!” The crowd interaction is different. It’s not the same feeling.

Kena: There’s also the technical part of it because before with live performances, all we had to do was bring some mics and hook them up. But for the live performances that we were doing at home and the virtual ones we had to learn how to use OBS.

Mimi: When we’re recording a live performance, you can’t go outside of a certain area because you know you want to catch everything because we used to jump off the stage a lot. Now we have to stay in this little space. You want to make sure they’re still engaged the entire time, so you have to come up with different ways to keep them intrigued through the entire show.

What would you say is MAKO Girls’ mission? When you think of the group, and what you want to achieve in music, what would you say that goal is?

Mimi: Girl groups and sisters, and Black women, can all be unified and we don’t have to tear each other down and we can uplift each other and really just work hard towards our goals.  There doesn’t have to be any animosity behind it.

A-Ni: Because we’re sisters in real life too, I feel like that is an inspiration, letting girls know you can have a great relationship with your sister, you guys can work together. Just being that next household name because you know that it hasn’t been one in a minute from after TLC. We want to definitely bring those big legendary names back in the house and longevity you still hear it on the radio.

Kena: Also encouraging people to be themselves, encouraging people to be who they are without fear or judgment. We’re doing this for fun, we’re doing this because we love it. We want to make sure that we grow with our audience instead of trying to grow ahead of our audience.