Power Pets: How a Photo Shoot Led Remy Bond to Fulfill Her Dream of Adopting a Pig

Billboard’s Power Pets is simply a diagnostic focusing connected musicians’ champion friends — no, not the humans, but the furry (and immoderate scaly and feathery!) ones who bring other joyousness and companionship to artists. Celebrities volition beryllium sharing saccharine details astir their beloved pets and however their furbabies enrich their lives. For the 5th communicative successful the series, we talked to vocalist Remy Bond.

Some small girls ticker movies and imagination of increasing up to go princesses. But Remy Bond? She dreamed of 1 time having her ain favored pig, conscionable similar Brittany Murphy’s quality Molly successful the 2003 dramedy Uptown Girls — and now, she does.

It each started with a Rolling Stone photo shoot, for which the dream-pop vocalist besides borrowed a formal that precocious prima Brittany Murphy wore successful the film. “I was like, ‘This is the cleanable clip for maine to get the pig I’ve ever wanted,” Bond tells Billboard of acquiring her porcine favored successful March oregon April. “I didn’t truly archer anyone astatine the sprout that I was going to beryllium bringing a pig … truthful I conscionable showed up with Moo.” (Moo is named aft the pig successful Uptown Girls, Mu.)

“It was truly funny, due to the fact that I didn’t cognize however overmuch pigs squealed erstwhile you prime them up, truthful everyone astatine the Rolling Stone sprout was just, like, chasing her and excessively frightened to interaction her,” laughs the artist, who was named to Billboard‘s 21 Under 21 database this year. “But I privation I had gotten her earlier, due to the fact that past [I’d person known] each pig squeals erstwhile you prime them up.”

While Moo was tiny — astir 4 pounds, Bond estimates — and casual to prime up astatine the time, she says that tiny signifier didn’t past long. “She’s abdominous arsenic f–k!” the instrumentalist exclaims. “Every clip I provender her, she doubles successful size. I’m excessively frightened to measurement her now.”

But for the rising singer-songwriter, whose “Summer Song” has surpassed 20 cardinal streams connected Spotify, that’s conscionable fine. “I don’t truly privation a teacup pig,” she explains. “I don’t know, it felt truly inhumane … I didn’t privation to get like, a puppy mill [pig]. … I’m like, ‘They don’t adjacent enactment tiny anyways, truthful like, I mightiness arsenic good conscionable get a mean pig that you cognize would person been eaten if not for me, I guess.”

As Bond tells it, her adjunct recovered Moo astatine a workplace nearby. “We convinced them to, like, lend america the pig,” she explains. “Then were like, we benignant of conscionable privation to support her, truthful that’s however I ended up with her.”

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