MGNA Crrrta Is Doing It for Katniss Everdeen

When I hopped on a Zoom with the members of MGNA Crrrta last week, they were still snuggled in bed, rubbing the sleep out of their eyes. This was the first night they’d had sleeping under their own covers five weeks into their Beautiful Disaster Tour, and that rockstar life is just now catching up with them. The New York-based duo, made up of Ginger Scott and Farheen Kahn, first met as kids on a Hunger Games Minecraft server. And it seems like that youthful whimsy found in YA fantasy novels combined with the fierce “do whatever it takes” mentality of their favorite dystopian characters bled into their artistry, music, and tour. After dropping their mixtape Beautiful Disaster,  and now as they gear up to release their upcoming single “Summer Love,” they’ve cemented themselves as one of the most promising names in electropop.  So, naturally, people were aching to see how they move IRL. But what really goes down on a MGNA Crrrta tour: something beautiful or something disastrous? Maybe it’s all one in the same. Before they head back out on the road, I bantered with Scott and Kahn about Texas, Taylor Swift, and the girlhood that transpires in the dressing room.

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MONDAY, 11 AM, MAY 11, 2026 NYC

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ARY RUSSELL: Hi, how are you?

GINGER SCOTT: Oh my gosh, good. We literally just woke up. [Laughs] We just got back to New York yesterday so it’s the first night in my own bed. I feel like a million dollars.

RUSSELL: Is it everything that you ever dreamed?

SCOTT: It’s everything and more.

RUSSELL: How do you feel, Farheen?

FARHEEN KHAN: I feel happy to be back, and I’m sick.

SCOTT: It’s been a full hero’s journey. It feels so Narnia.

RUSSELL: Your shows are so high energy and you have to give it 100% each night. How are you guys decompressing after each show?

SCOTT: After every performance, we always hang out at the merch booth. Interacting with everyone who came is such a crucial part of our show ritual,  hearing about their lives, and their taste in music, and their style is really fulfilling.

KHAN: And then we pack up and get food.

RUSSELL: What’s been the best meal that you guys have had so far?

KHAN: We’re pretty experimental eaters, we’ll eat anything. It’s not like we’re trying to keep it light before a show.

SCOTT: I was thinking of Dallas when we got real Texas barbecue and it was so good.

RUSSELL: How are the portions in Texas?

SCOTT: Huge. Everything’s bigger in Texas.

RUSSELL: Sometimes certain artists bring a really eclectic audience, have you guys had any crazy fan interactions?

SCOTT: Every night. There’s always a group of boys that are in just the craziest outfit that I’ve ever seen in my life. We always will take a picture of them, of what boys wear to a MGNA Crrrta show, it’s part of our ritual. It started with this one guy who came to one of our shows in this full Temu pattern suit and it was genius.

KHAN: I have a lot of pictures of girls doing their makeup to fit our vibe, and then pulling up with pink and teal hair.

SCOTT: I feel very proud that it’s the girls with the blue and pink hair coming to our show.

KHAN: Because we don’t even have blue and pink hair, so it’s like they get it independently.

RUSSELL: How are you guys mentally, physically, and emotionally preparing for your set?

SCOTT: We’re doing our makeup and hair together. And we have this big bag of all these clothes that our best friend Eloise gave us. She does all of our outfits and has styled us since the very beginning. It’s literally just playing dress up with all these sparkly, shiny clothes and ribbons. Then we’ll check with each other and be like, “Oh, do you like this?” Sometimes it’s funny because we’ll put on something that is accidentally a little matchy-matchy and we’re like, “Oh my god.”

RUSSELL: Your tour is called The Beautiful Disaster Tour. What’s been the biggest disaster that’s happened that you were able to recover from? Besides getting sick and needing the IV drip. [Laughs]

SCOTT: That was a very beautiful disaster. But our New York show was a rooftop show, and the energy was one of the best shows on the tour. During “Girl Party,” it just starts downpouring so hard. But then, instead of running underneath a covering, everyone was just dancing so hard in the rain.

KHAN: It literally started downpouring the second the beat dropped.

RUSSELL: Super cinematic vibes. Before you began music, how did you envision a tour going? And how does it actually compare to what you’re experiencing?

KHAN: We never even imagined that we would go on tour. We made the first song as a joke. It wasn’t like, “We’re going to be this big thing.”

SCOTT: The touring came after we just had been doing music for two years. We first started doing real touring in 2024. This is our first proper headline tour of North America and it’s our first time envisioning and experiencing all of it.

RUSSELL: What was the concert experience that inspired you on how you want to do your own tour?

SCOTT: Oh my gosh, so many electronic girls. When we were creating and conceptualizing this tour, we were looking back at Icona Pop, Grimes, Uffie, Kesha, just all the girls that did it before us and are still doing it now. Also, Crystal Castles and even more indie electronic bands too.

KHAN: Yeah, like Phantogram.

SCOTT: We reviewed all of it and then we were just thinking, “Okay, what can we do that feels unique to us?” With electronic music, there’s such a wide range of performances. It goes from just someone behind the DJ booth playing the tracks and dancing to a full, stripped-back moment with somebody doing live vocals, live MIDI, live everything all at once. We wanted to create something that felt like you were in the “beautiful disaster.”

RUSSELL: Exactly.

SCOTT: But also, visually, we have these strobes that are aligned with our set design that we programmed ourselves just to our set and it feels like you’re watching a story unfold.

RUSSELL: You previously mentioned being inspired by Kesha. I saw in the photos that were sent, you guys were on stage with her. For us as Gen Z, she was a big part of our growing up, so what was that like to share the stage with her?

KHAN: It was so fun and so last minute. We’re so like Kesha’s little DJ fairies that she has when she DJs.

SCOTT: Her team reached out and were like, “Oh, I know this would be hard, but would they want to do it? We’d love to have them.” And we were like, “Of course.”

RUSSELL: Drop everything.

SCOTT: Kesha could ask us to do anything and I would be there. Kesha could be like, “You need to go to Antarctica right now. I need your help,” and not say anything else, and I would be in Antarctica. It is so surreal and full circle to be doing stuff with her now.

RUSSELL: Younger you would’ve never even imagined, huh?

SCOTT: I still would’ve never even imagined now. And it’s so much fun because the two times where we’ve DJed with her, we literally will just meet up at the decks talking as we’re DJing. With any duo DJing, you’re just talking back and forth with the person and being like, “Oh, what should we play next? I don’t know if the crowd will like this one. Maybe we should go in this direction.” But then Kesha is part of that conversation too.

KHAN: She asked me, “How do we wake them up?” And I was like, “We need a hit.”

SCOTT: It feels so college group project.

RUSSELL: But no one’s slacking. Who’s someone that you haven’t been able to share this stage with but is next on the bucket list?

KHAN: We accept opportunities as they come from our girls, but we’re not on this mission to join anyone. Well, obviously, I want to. But it’s not like we’re campaigning for it.

RUSSELL: You’re not clout chasing, I get it.

SCOTT: Obviously, Kesha is more of an icon to us. But typically with our collaborations, it’s literally just our best friends. We just had a remix come out with After, and we have been such good friends with them for so long that the remix came so naturally. With Nina [Ninajirachi] too, we’ve been touring with her since 2024 and we became best friends and eventually that led to us having our collab song, and then this tour that we’re now doing in the fall with her that we’re so excited about.

RUSSELL: What’s been your favorite show to play?

SCOTT: Off the top of my head, Boston, Austin, San Francisco and, of course, New York.

KHAN: Toronto was good.

SCOTT: This whole run this week of New York, DC, Toronto, and Montreal was insane. Most times, our favorites really get determined by our own experience of, “Oh, this stage setup is easy to navigate” or “We had good food that day.”

RUSSELL: What are your tour essentials?

SCOTT: iPhone, computer, camera.

KHAN: Makeup.

SCOTT: Fake hair. I need to get new extensions. My extensions got fried two weeks into this tour, and then I literally have just been trying to stretch them out for the rest.

RUSSELL: Where do you get your hair? I’m a wig wearer, so any conversation about hair I love.

SCOTT: I’ve gotten hair from the hair shop, but honestly, the hair shop wasn’t really good quality. Also, just so much sparkly and shiny raw material. It’s always a big must for a MGNA Crrrta tour because it’s so much of what you wear.

KHAN: Literally becoming MGNA Crrrta.

RUSSELL: Living or dead, what icon would you want to attend a MGNA Crrrta show?

KHAN: Taylor Swift.

SCOTT: Oh, that is selfish. Farheen is the biggest Swiftie ever.

RUSSELL: What do you think Taylor Swift would say?

KHAN: I think she would have fun. It’s like her Bleachella moment.

RUSSELL: Where everyone was wanting to stone her to death for having a good time.

KHAN: After our London show a couple years ago, I messaged her because it was when she was doing Eras in London. And I was like, “Hey, if you see this, you should come after your show.”

RUSSELL: Hey, closed mouths don’t get fed. You have to take the chance because it can be the one time where she actually sees it.

KHAN: Literally.

RUSSELL: What about you, Ginger?

SCOTT: I’d want characters from dystopian novels. So literally, it’s Katniss, the kids from Narnia. There’s a perspective of them seeing the show that exists.

RUSSELL: Well, there’s a fantastical element to your whole presentation. They would feel pretty at home, in a way.

SCOTT: We grew up so intensely obsessed and fixated with all these dystopian, fantastical worlds and that definitely shaped not only MGNA Crrrta, but also this tour specifically.

RUSSELL: I’m sure you would just die if the people from The Hunger Games were like, “Hey, we want you to do a song for the new movie.”

SCOTT: Oh my god, stop.

KHAN: That’s what we’re campaigning for.

RUSSELL: I’ll let you guys get back to sleep.