When you’re a kid, there are few holidays that are as exciting as Halloween. You get to dress up, walk the neighborhood as a superhero, princess, zombie, or anything else you can imagine, and collect candy from your neighbors.
With Halloween just a few days away, Myspace caught up with 15 artists we love to ask them about their favorite Halloween costumes.
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Colbie Caillat
What I loved was my mom would always makeshift stuff for us, so we would never go buy costumes. I think what I loved was her creativity. She didn’t see the point in buying these costumes when she had antique stuff, or stuff she used to wear when she was a teenager.
My mom had really cool old cowboy boots, she would cut out pillow cases, I can’t even remember all the things she would do, but we made them at home, and I thought it was really creative, and a fun project to do with your kids.
Logan Lynn
I honestly always wanted to be punk rock for Halloween growing up, which I did on a number of occasions. I was really into day drag as a kid, too, so it's a little hard to tell what was Halloween, and what was just me being a flamboyant gay kid on a non-holiday in old photos.
My parents let me dress like Pee-wee Herman for Halloween one year, though, and I went trick-or-treating with my little brother, Landon, who was dressed like the cat-eating space alien ALF. We lived in a super small rural town in Nebraska at the time, and I remember feeling like we were edgy, which was cute.
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J-Zone
I only did Halloween one year and I was one of the Pac-Man ghosts — Clyde/Pokey because my mom had an orange bed sheet she cut up for the costume. That was 1984.
Kendall Schmidt of Heffron Drive
Because I’ve always done my own makeup, I always liked doing zombies and stuff like that. One time I got a kit to make an ice zombie, like a zombie that’s been frozen in ice. That was a great costume. One time I did a murderer doctor. That was when I was like 13. Maybe I was a little twisted at that age. I just always liked the concept of putting makeup on at Halloween.
My best costume — and I say best because I was on the TV show (Big Time Rush) at the time, and I had the makeup lady, and the wardrobe lady, all helping me — was Ron Burgundy. I swear to God I had a better Ron Burgandy outfit than anybody, because I had a professional hair and makeup team, and a professional wardrobe team. They got, verbatim, his outfit ... and nobody recognized me. I’ve never had a costume that was less recognized than that costume. That blew my mind. I couldn’t believe it. All that work.
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Che'Nelle
I didn't grow up experiencing Halloween until I was 23 in America. My brother and I tried it as kids — we went to people's houses in Perth, Australia, but, yeah, that was not happening. People didn't like that, and would say, "This isn't America," with a door slammed in our face.
My favorite Halloween costume as an adult was definitely last year’s costume. I was the Cheshire Cat ... a pretty sexy one. [laughs]
Anna Rose
I was Kurt Cobain one year as a kid. That was the greatest because I got to wear my usual flannel and ripped jeans and not talk to anyone. Got a lot of candy, didn't have to say a word.
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Che-Val (Kenny & Laura Cash)
Kenny Cash: Zolton!
Laura Cash: My sister and I always used our Halloween costumes as inspiration to venture into the arts. My favorite Halloween costumes were
1. Being an Arabian princess in fourth grade, because I had these awesome finger cymbals that I got to play with all night — and all the next month after, sorry ma — and because my friends and I used the costume to make our own movie called Genie for a Wish.
2. Being Scarlett O'Hara in second grade, because I was obsessed with the movie (Gone with the Wind), and because my sister and I wrote our own musical/play for us and our friends based on my costume.
I still use costumes as inspiration for my musical art, like in our "Gone Mad" music video.
Cosmos & Creature (Molly Moore & Brandyn Burnette)
My favorite costume was Minnie Mouse, because I always loved wearing the dress and ears, and I was able to wear that same costume for years without outgrowing it.
Brandyn's favorite costume was Scream, because he loves classic scary movies. He also managed to wear it three years in a row. [laughs]
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Ann Courtney of Mother Feather
When I was a kid I used to wish very earnestly that I’d grow up to be a fairy princess, so there were at least three years in a row where that’s what I dressed up as for Halloween. My mom made me this very simple bright green dress and a DIY wand, but the centerpiece of the costume was a sparkly, store-bought, multicolored tinsel wig that I thought was the most fabulous thing ever. I remember an older kid at school asking me, “What are you supposed to be, a punk?!” and feeling extremely offended.
In hindsight, I guess I did kind of look like a glammy punk, but at the time it felt like sparkly tinsel hair, a green sack dress, wand, and a lot of blue eyeshadow were the obvious trappings of a magical fairy princess.
(Ann also sports some pretty wild looks on stage, and in the band's videos)
Duke Sims of Shinobi Ninja
My favorite Halloween costume was when I was in public school in Brooklyn. It was a cyclops costume with a cool cyclops mask on a string, and a pull over kid’s bib type thing which had a picture of a big cyclops. Not Cyclops from X-Men, this was just a generic cyclops guy. I liked that one the most because I knew I wasn't really cyclops because there was a picture of cyclops on my cyclops outfit, but I might have been his #1 fan. I would love to rock that costume again.
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Melissa Marie of Millionaires
I remember in middle school I went as a cheerleader, and my mom let me use her high school song leader outfit as my costume. That actually meant a lot to me.
(We also happen to think she makes a pretty great Wonder Woman)
Jessica Forsythe of Sick of Sarah
My mom always shows a picture of me from when I was maybe nine or ten years old dressed up as Belle from Beauty and the Beast. She found me a long yellow dress, and I felt like a princess. This was probably my favorite costume for sure.
Karina
Growing up in Norway, Halloween is not quite as big as it is in the States. For reasons I did not understand when I was younger, I always dressed as a witch. Now I know that it was the only costume/look my mom could do.
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