November 03, 2020 |
Melody Kush on 'Sex Tales' Podcast, Chaturbate & Her Camiversary |
LOS ANGELESâMelody Kush felt a wave of emotion as she was logging off Chaturbate last month after her camiversary broadcast. She reflected on the past eight years, reliving some of the memories she made and thinking about all the friendships she forged. What came to mind was overwhelming gratitude. âIn the very beginning, itâs hard to project that far ahead, especially in an industry that can be so volatile at times,â Kush tells AVN. âThis year more than any of the others, I feel so humbled and so grateful. "Every year that gets added onto my experiences and the relationships Iâve built over the last eight years, everything is getting stronger over time. âSo I had a little cry on cam just out of gratefulnessâa single tear at the very end. ⦠We celebrated on Friday [October 23] but my camiversary was actually a week prior. âIt means the world to me that I made it this far. And now that Iâve made it this far there really is no end in sight.â Thatâs great news for the live-cam community, not to mention Kushâs legions of fans whom she lovingly refers to as the âKushoholics.â The Canadian cam star notes that her camiversary marks when she decided to start her solo camming career; she dabbled on other cam sites two years prior to that, doing duo shows with other girls. She remembers how Chaturbate was âa baby" at the time that she decided to venture off on her own. âSo I kind of considered that as well,â Kush adds. âI saw that as an opportunity to grow with the platform and I tried my first solo show there. Then I found my home.â Now she is representing her home as the co-host of âSex Tales,â the new Camming Life podcast sponsored by Chaturbate alongside her fellow broadcaster, Lana Del Bae. Melody and Lana chat with porn stars, cam models and other industry insiders about working in adult entertainment on âSex Tales,â which unveils new episodes every Tuesday on the Camming Life YouTube channel and wherever you listen to podcasts. Today Melody and Lana welcome special guest Sophie Deeâone of the top social media influencers in adult entertainmentâto the fourth episode. Melody and Lana landed the co-hosting assignment after emerging from a five-week audition process when they each conducted a two test interviews a week with other broadcasters. Kush received an invitation to try out for the job from Chaturbate Chief Operating Officer Shirley Lara. âI was so thrilled that Shirley approached me,â Kush says. âI was really thrilled to even have the opportunity. â⦠Eventually I got matched up with Lana and it was magic. Lana is amazing. I absolutely love her.â Coincidentally, about two weeks before Kush was approached by Chaturbate, she was offered her own podcast by another company. âI was considering it and then Shirley presented me with this opportunity,â Melody explains. âI have a loyalty to Chaturbate. Itâs thanks to them that Iâm still here today.â Melody says Sophie Dee, the Welsh superstar who has 9.4 million followers on Instagram, was âsuper bubblyâ during their sexy banter. âShe was a trooper, too,â Melody adds. âWe had a little technical difficulty before the show started and she kept a positive attitude all through it and kept her energy up.â In the 47-minute episode, Sophie talks about her longevity in porn, her boobs and some of her new business ventures that include ShoutoutExpress. In addition, Dee, the owner of MySexyAuctions, also gives viewers an inside look at her notorious topless movie reviews and her adventures at industry conventions. âShe just was really impressive,â Kush says. âKudos to her for all her success.â Melody and Lana kicked off âSex Talesâ by interviewing AVN Hall of Fame performer/producer Tera Patrick; they followed that with the entrepreneurial Dani Daniels and then last week welcomed Chaturbate sweetheart Mary Moody. âTheir guest selection has been fantastic,â Melody says. âTera Patrickâtalk about a legend. That was our very first one and naturally I was a little bit nervous in the beginning. We kept in touch afterwards on social media. Sheâs such a positive person and so fun to talk to. âThen Dani Danielsâthis girl is so funny; she has such a great sense of humor and sheâs so accomplished. We couldâve talked all day because she had so many things to talk about I wasnât sure how we were going to squeeze it all in. âAnd Iâve always loved Mary Moody. Weâve kind of come from the same background. We were both part of the earlier days of Chaturbate. Sheâs so approachable and sheâs always giving off that vibe that sheâs out there willing to help. With Mary it was just three cam models shooting the shit.â Kush appreciates the chemistry she already has developed with Del Bae. âLana is absolutely hilarious,â Kush says. âWe enjoy working together. We have these pow wows before every podcast, where we each do our own research and come up with these questions and delegate them in a way that will flow. âSometimes there are questions that I want to ask and sometimes there are questions that she has her heart set on asking. It helps that Lana has such a positive outlook on life in general.â Kush worked in medical esthetics, assisting doctors with Botox and other skin procedures for a few years before entering adult. She started writing an erotic blog in 2010, two years before launching her solo camming career. Her blog name was a play on an Audrey Hepburn movieâand the fans noticed. âSocial media back then was still a bit of a baby,â Kush says. âI think just based on my blog following I managed to gain about 5000 followers on Twitter.â The 2017 winner of Outstanding Cam Model of the Year at the Live Cam Awards in Barcelona originally hails from Vancouver, but spent her teenage years in Ottawa, where she graduated from high school. When she was 18, she moved to Montreal, where she already was coming every couple weeks to party. A skilled poker and cribbage player, Kush also plays backgammon, billiards and dartsâshe likes bowling, too. âIâm a bar games person,â Kush jokes. âPoker is probably my specialty.â She learned how to play cards from her father. âHe loved cards as well and used to have friends over every Saturday to play cards,â Kush says. âThey would bet money and I was the daughter who would get tipped to request songs on the radio. ⦠Then eventually he brought me in and taught me how to play cribbage and 5-card. âThe second weekend I played cribbage I was one point away from the best hand you could make. My father couldnât believe I did that. It sparked my interest.â After her legendary cribbage hand, she was gifted a crib board. âIt was such a special moment for me,â Kush says. âI love cards; Iâm competitive by nature, so cards are my happy place.â An admitted Ottawa Senators fan living in Montreal Canadiens territory, Kush reveals her favorite kind of music is classic rock. âI am obsessed,â she says. âI love The Stones, Zeppelin, Supertramp⦠It goes back to my younger gambling days. Itâs all connected to just who I am. My close second is techno. Thatâs also part of who I am. Iâm a sexual girl and I love to dance. âI will listen to everything though. Thereâs a time for blues, thereâs a time for countryâ¦â Sheâs also been known to bake nakedâone time she concocted a âbukkake cakeâ with âpenis-shaped gummies facing inward and a big trail of icing in the middle.â Her booty is called the âKush Kush,â courtesy of her members. âThey named my booty many years ago,â Melody cracks. Meanwhile, sheâs in the process of phasing out her current official website to make way for a brand new one that sheâs building from the ground up. âIâm actively working on it. Thatâs going to replace my current subscription site. Iâm transitioning more into selling my content on OnlyFans,â explains Melody, who cams at least once a week on Friday afternoons EST. She says her specialty is âriding shows.â âIf youâre into ridingâbooty bouncing on top of a suction cup dildoâthen youâd like my room,â Melody teases. Kush has become known for her signature âmirror ride.â âThe first time I did a mirror show, the mirror wasnât the right size and right as I was having an orgasm I was hanging onto the mirror and I swiped my finger and cut it on the edge of the mirror. So it was pain and pleasure all at the same time,â she says with a laugh. A natural conversationalist, Melody tells AVN some of her members have been with her since the beginning. âI talk to everybody and welcome everyone in my chatroom,â Melody says. âIâve never muted âbasicâ accounts, or grays. Everybody has always had a fair chance in my room. Iâve treated Twitter the same way. I always saw a real importance with making that connection.â Photography by Melody Kush (1 & 5) and Vixen Vu (7 & 8)Â
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