Some friendships feel inevitable. like the universe was going to arrange them one way or another, no matter what. Geography wouldn’t stop them. Time zones couldn’t slow them down. Even growing up, that relentless eraser, would fail to rub them out. These are the friendships with their own private languages, their own running jokes that have outlived entire eras, their own specific gravity. The kind where you look at the other person and think: Where would I be without you?

Farheen Khan and Ginger Scott would find each other in every universe. Two halves of the BFF necklace that is the indie electronic band MGNA Crrrta, they’ve just released their mixtape, Beautiful Disaster, an eight-track foray into their bright, fluorescent, daydreamy world.

“Beautiful Disaster is a diary encapsulation of girlhood and adventure, and keeping a secret, and sharing secrets, and the bond that comes between friends,” Khan tells me. She, Scott, and I have met over Zoom—Khan perches in a soundproof phone booth while Scott sits in hers and Khan’s New York City apartment, a Hunger Games movie poster tacked directly above her, like a speech bubble floating above a video game character’s head.

The two met as 11-year-olds on a Hunger Games themed Minecraft server, and even from across the country, nearly 3,000 miles apart (Khan lived in Seattle and Scott in Southern New Jersey), their friendship prevailed.

“I would always—just constantly—be FaceTiming Farheen,” Scott says, remembering their adolescence spent as internet friends. “And she’d be like, ‘I’m busy, what do you want?’”

Today, the two inhabit the sort of life that once existed only in the imagination of every chronically online teenager who ever made a best friend through a screen: roommates and bandmates in New York City, with a headlining tour already mapped out.

“Imagine, though, if we, like, met up and one of us was this 60-year-old catfish creep,” Scott jokes. 

“Who says that one of us still isn’t?” Khan shoots back.

Beautiful Disaster, in its ode to friendship, 2010s-inspired aesthetics, and giddy beats, feels like a return to the earnest emotional landscape that existed before irony swallowed the internet whole. It’s a coming-of-age story. It’s the opening of the heart chakra. It’s typing a 100-word search query into Reddit and finding some other human being who has experienced the same thing you have. It’s holding hands while skipping through the grassy knolls of the 2014 Windows default wallpaper. It’s a Divergent-themed Minecraft server you make with your best friend because the people on the Hunger Games one turned out to be wack as all hell. It’s the line: “We’re twin sisters for real / In my Sims 4 world,” on lead single “BFF.” It’s the magic of the human experience.

This April, Khan and Scott will kick off their North American headline tour in Atlanta. When we meet, they’re sorting through the logistics of adding extra dates—the first batch sold out within minutes. MGNA Crrrta is clearly on the rise—more listeners, bigger rooms, a widening orbit of fans. For some artists, that kind of momentum goes straight to the head, the id and superego colliding at the realization that their life’s work suddenly matters to strangers—and even better, that it’s profitable. Khan and Scott don’t sweat it.

“Just because the number on Spotify is bigger, it doesn’t really affect our day-to-day life. At the core, from the beginning, it was just us messing around and making random music in each other’s rooms. I feel like that’s what it will always be,” Scott says.

“It would be crazy if we were moving different,” Khan adds, grinning.

As the band’s third long-form project—following 2022’s New Jersey and 2024’s Island Paradise: The Remixes—Beautiful Disaster gathers everything MGNA Crrrta has built so far while pointing toward everything still to come. (“We didn’t just fall out of a coconut tree,” Khan says, borrowing the oft-quoted phrase from former Vice President Kamala Harris.)

“This mixtape is a beginning in many ways for us,” Scott says. “It’s a whole new world opening up in terms of our sound and expression and just everything. We have a really clear vision of everything we want to do, and we’re so excited to just live it all out.”

“It’s not just music for the club,” Khan says. “It’s also music for the morning and music for driving and music for realizing and living.”

This universality is what makes Khan and Scott believe their art is true. Real music, to them, is something alive and elastic, something that can travel through time the same way people do—moving from one listener to another, from one moment in life to the next.

“MGNA Crrrta is for the people,” Scott says.

At the end of the day, it’s MGNA Crrrta against—or rather, with—the world. Music happens to be the medium right now, but the core impulse is simply creation. Khan and Scott are a pair of twin stars orbiting each other, pushing and pulling in a shared gravitational field that has lasted more than a decade and shows no sign of fading.

“I feel like everybody has or deserves to have one person in their life where they can just do anything with and just do stupid stuff with,” Scott says. “I feel like it’s kind of beautiful, because that’s what humanity is like. If we were cavemen, I feel like we would still be writing on the walls together.”

To some, the Magna Carta is just a 13th-century royal charter. But for everyone else, MGNA Crrrta is real. MGNA Crrrta is here. And MGNA Crrrta is forever.

Photographed by Alyssa Soares

Styled by Eloise Moulton

Written by Abby Shewmaker

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Makeup: Julian Stoller

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