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Speaker 2: Hello guy, Happy Tuesday. Welcome to Just for Girls.

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Speaker 1: So on this week's episode, we have a very special guest.

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Speaker 1: We have Bella Mackenzie. We actually met her through our

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Speaker 1: management Christmas party.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, she performed. She's a singer.

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Speaker 1: She's incredible, incredible.

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Speaker 2: Everyone was in awe at our One day Dream Christmas

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Speaker 2: party when she performed, and we wanted to come on

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Speaker 2: the Voice. A little overview on Bella before she comes

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Speaker 2: on the podcast. She's an Australian country music superstar in

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Speaker 2: the making.

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Speaker 1: She grew up in a very small town in central Queensland,

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Speaker 1: saying in her parents' pub and now she's made it

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Speaker 1: all the way the big stage the Voice, She's got

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so hope you guys love the episode as we

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Speaker 2: loved recording with Bella, and we'll see you guys did enjoy.

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Speaker 1: Hello Bella, Welcome on to It Just for a Girl.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 2: You said this was your first podcast.

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Speaker 3: How are you feeling, I'm a bit nervous.

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Speaker 1: No, that's fair enough. I feel like we try and

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Speaker 1: make it as easy and chilling casual as we possibly can.

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Speaker 4: So it's so different to do it because I do

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Speaker 3: But it's so different different.

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Speaker 4: I feel like it's just more like conversational like they

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Speaker 1: We very well could be just hitting those questions again.

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Speaker 4: No, No, I feel like it's different.

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Speaker 1: we have a couple get to know you questions to start.

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Speaker 1: What is your hall pass?

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 2: Who is your whole a chair?

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Speaker 3: I love chers time.

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Speaker 4: I think it's Nick Jonas. It's like a music thing. Oh,

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Speaker 4: I'm a kiss rock girl.

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Speaker 1: Used to love Nick Jonas back when he had that

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Speaker 3: Something like that when he went solo.

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Speaker 3: Does he have a brother.

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Speaker 1: He does Joe Jonas, the Jonas Brothers. The Brothers.

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Speaker 3: Brothers have a brother.

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Speaker 1: Maybe she's nineteen? Oh my god, awesome. So I was

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Speaker 4: So I think I do like creative, like really career driven.

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Speaker 2: I think I'm I come out with my own music.

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Speaker 3: Like that stuff.

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Speaker 4: And when they're doing the intro and they're like this,

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Speaker 4: No, So they do one full week of that stuff

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Speaker 3: So I did mine.

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Speaker 4: On the Tuesday, and then the next Tuesday I was

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Speaker 1: Like you're like not fucking now.

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Speaker 4: Everyone was like out socializing with everyone and like whatever,

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Speaker 4: And mine was always Guy who I ended up with.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, they're just asking you a million times and

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Speaker 1: Were all of the who were they all.

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Speaker 3: So jud my season?

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Speaker 4: It was Jason Derulo, which was like Jesson kind of funny.

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Speaker 1: I was n doing it and then I went the room.

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Speaker 3: Away from them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I just cared.

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Speaker 4: It was Jason, and then Rita Aura, so she was cool,

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Speaker 1: I would have gone, yeah, guy or just my boy.

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Speaker 4: For me, Like I like love guy and he's also aussy,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I have to think about all that. I didn't

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Speaker 4: He's also I think like from what I've been told,

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Speaker 1: So, yeah, it wasn't Ariana Grande once or was that

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Speaker 3: I think that was America.

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Speaker 1: That I was going to say, surely that would be

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Speaker 1: bang Ariana.

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Speaker 2: Grun I know, yeah, she would have had her team

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, literally, no, I think it was America. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: it was kind of funny they didn't get Jason Derulo back.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, so you walked out and you auditioned, is

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Speaker 1: Scary?

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Speaker 4: No, well, this is I feel like it's a bit

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Speaker 3: Lots of people, but with my band.

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Speaker 4: But then you walk out there and you obviously like

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Speaker 3: So I wasn't nervous about.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because we're sitting there waiting forever. Yeah, they've come

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Speaker 3: Like eight hour taping every day.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, like I was, I was definitely nervous.

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Speaker 3: It's like, oh she didn't get in, like oh so sad.

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Speaker 1: So don't air.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but you literally wouldn't know until like they air it,

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Speaker 1: Like turn first.

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Speaker 3: I think it was like Jess and then it was Honestly,

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Speaker 1: They all turned.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I got four?

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Speaker 2: But yeah, did you ever did it ever cross your mind?

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Speaker 2: You go, maybe I should pick chests because she turned

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Speaker 1: A thank you. That's what I would have done.

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Speaker 2: I feel like I owe it to.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, well.

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Speaker 4: Like it's not like, yes, it's about singing, Yes, it's

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Speaker 1: Like because I feel bad.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And I was like, she's going to get a

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Speaker 1: So we'll just wind it back a bit to your audition.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so pretty much in the like initial stages I

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Speaker 4: And so I was like, oh, well, surely they're going

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so and I was like sure, she's like the

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Speaker 4: And then they were like, oh, how do you feel

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Speaker 4: I was like we've been over this, Like I'm country

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, everyone knew.

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Speaker 4: we like changed bits around, like different orders, like change notes.

449
00:17:58,040 --> 00:17:59,800
Speaker 1: You're singing a new fucking song pretty much.

450
00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:01,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I didn't even really know the song to

451
00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:03,560
Speaker 4: start with, so I was like, oh, here we go,

452
00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:05,320
Speaker 4: so I had to learn this song. And I was

453
00:18:05,320 --> 00:18:08,080
Speaker 4: also like really really sick with this like infection, so

454
00:18:08,119 --> 00:18:10,240
Speaker 4: I was just yeah, it was a bit of a struggle,

455
00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:12,400
Speaker 4: but I'm happy I like sung it now.

456
00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:13,920
Speaker 3: But yeah, we didn't get to choose.

457
00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:16,200
Speaker 4: I think some people did get to choose, but I'm

458
00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:18,080
Speaker 4: sure it was just a matter of like they picked

459
00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:18,560
Speaker 4: their song.

460
00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:19,840
Speaker 3: And then they go, oh, yeah that works with that

461
00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:21,960
Speaker 3: we were going to pick. But with me, they were like,

462
00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:23,800
Speaker 3: you're going to sing this song.

463
00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:27,960
Speaker 1: I was like okay, wow. So once you had the

464
00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:31,280
Speaker 1: chairs turn, once you chose Guy, what's the rest of

465
00:18:31,320 --> 00:18:33,520
Speaker 1: the how does the rest of the show kind of go?

466
00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:36,760
Speaker 1: What was Guy like? Were you happy you chose him?

467
00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:37,960
Speaker 3: Yeah? He was.

468
00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:40,800
Speaker 4: I'm like super happy that I went with Guy because,

469
00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:43,199
Speaker 4: like I said before, he kind of knows everyone on

470
00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:47,320
Speaker 4: the set. And also, like being Aussie is a huge plus.

471
00:18:47,359 --> 00:18:49,719
Speaker 4: I think like being with an Aussie because like Jason

472
00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:53,240
Speaker 4: and Rita, there was so many times where like we

473
00:18:53,320 --> 00:18:55,560
Speaker 4: would be in the hair and makeup room or something

474
00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:57,160
Speaker 4: and he would have to walk past, and they would

475
00:18:57,160 --> 00:18:59,800
Speaker 4: hold up black tarps.

476
00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:01,920
Speaker 1: So we could see him see Jason.

477
00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:04,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, we weren't allowed to see him because like and

478
00:19:04,359 --> 00:19:06,760
Speaker 4: they didn't want us talking to him or anything like that.

479
00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:10,240
Speaker 2: Why just I don't know, because he's so famous.

480
00:19:10,480 --> 00:19:12,040
Speaker 4: And I think it must have been in his contract.

481
00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:14,520
Speaker 4: He didn't want anyone to see him, so they'd hold

482
00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:15,680
Speaker 4: up black tart.

483
00:19:15,760 --> 00:19:19,440
Speaker 2: Humble yourself, king sorry, and so we're all in.

484
00:19:19,560 --> 00:19:22,159
Speaker 4: They're just like cool, like we can see here his

485
00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:24,399
Speaker 4: footsteps and I'm just like, yeah, okay, we can't whatever.

486
00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:27,040
Speaker 3: So that was interesting. And then but the guy I

487
00:19:27,080 --> 00:19:28,440
Speaker 3: would come around and be like, how are you guys

488
00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:29,760
Speaker 3: feeling like what he's up to.

489
00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:31,600
Speaker 1: You probably just made you a lot more comfortable.

490
00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:35,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, literally, you built more of a personal connection. Yeah,

491
00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:36,880
Speaker 2: people who probably had Jason.

492
00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:39,000
Speaker 4: And you only really saw them like maybe once or

493
00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:41,600
Speaker 4: twice a week, and we were filming all week and

494
00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:43,520
Speaker 4: most of the time it was on camera. I think

495
00:19:43,560 --> 00:19:45,240
Speaker 4: we saw them maybe once or twice during the whole

496
00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:46,000
Speaker 4: show off camera.

497
00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:49,800
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's definitely not as much of this person's

498
00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:53,280
Speaker 1: mentoring you was like, it's they portray it on them.

499
00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:56,119
Speaker 2: Yeah, because it kind of feels like from a viewer's

500
00:19:56,160 --> 00:19:58,760
Speaker 2: perspective that you get really close with your mentor Yeah.

501
00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:02,080
Speaker 1: No, every time they walk in the room, you're like,

502
00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:02,800
Speaker 1: oh my god.

503
00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:05,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like I definitely felt supported, Yeah, and I definitely

504
00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:08,760
Speaker 4: felt like he Like there was one time where I

505
00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:11,399
Speaker 4: got like, because we have like this amazing wardrobe team

506
00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:14,800
Speaker 4: and they custom made my outfit for the semi finals,

507
00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:17,439
Speaker 4: and it was originally like this full one piece like

508
00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:21,359
Speaker 4: leotard thing with these thigh high boots and everything. And

509
00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:24,080
Speaker 4: I went out to do this off camera session with

510
00:20:24,119 --> 00:20:26,160
Speaker 4: guy in the like outfit for like a dress rehearsal,

511
00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:28,360
Speaker 4: and he was like this just doesn't suit the song,

512
00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:30,280
Speaker 4: like are you comfortable? And I was like, oh, like

513
00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:32,520
Speaker 4: I saw it of bam, Like it's nice, it's cool,

514
00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:34,800
Speaker 4: I love it, but I don't think it suits the song.

515
00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:37,639
Speaker 4: And so he literally went up and talked to the

516
00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:40,360
Speaker 4: wardrobe ladies and was like, look, she's not like that comfortable,

517
00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:41,639
Speaker 4: Like can we put a skirt over it?

518
00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:43,760
Speaker 3: Or can we do something to make her more comfortable?

519
00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:45,840
Speaker 4: And then I was really sick that same week, and

520
00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:48,520
Speaker 4: he called up the artist team and was like, can

521
00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:50,359
Speaker 4: someone go to the chemist for this girl? Like she

522
00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:51,520
Speaker 4: needs this, she needs this and this.

523
00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:52,520
Speaker 3: So that was good.

524
00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:55,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, so he was really good, And yeah, kind of

525
00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:58,399
Speaker 4: like I feel like our team specifically because it's not

526
00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:01,000
Speaker 4: only like the coaches, you get so close with everybody

527
00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:03,280
Speaker 4: because you're literally living in the same hotel as everyone.

528
00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:05,520
Speaker 4: You're filming for like twelve hours a day with everyone

529
00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:08,720
Speaker 4: waiting around, So like our team specifically, we got so

530
00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:10,840
Speaker 4: close with each other, so it felt like a little

531
00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:13,560
Speaker 4: bit of a like community in a group with us.

532
00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:15,880
Speaker 3: Yeah. I'm sure the other teams were like that as well,

533
00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:16,879
Speaker 3: but ours was better.

534
00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:18,040
Speaker 1: Yeah.

535
00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:20,480
Speaker 2: Not time to be by, yes, but yeah with the

536
00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:23,080
Speaker 2: team that was in. Guy, did you have any girls

537
00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:25,000
Speaker 2: or boys your age that you got close with? All?

538
00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:27,640
Speaker 2: They're kind of like an array of age group. Yeah.

539
00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:30,119
Speaker 3: I feel like I can't remember exactly.

540
00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:33,720
Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure I was the youngest on my team,

541
00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:36,080
Speaker 4: but I got like really close with a couple of

542
00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:38,119
Speaker 4: people that are like twenty five twenty six, which like

543
00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:40,320
Speaker 4: I'm I'm I feel like I'm a bit older for

544
00:21:40,359 --> 00:21:42,120
Speaker 4: my age, so I was like, oh, this is cool,

545
00:21:42,119 --> 00:21:43,879
Speaker 4: but I feel like, yeah, I got really close with

546
00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:47,720
Speaker 4: people from my team and Team Team Jason, which is random,

547
00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:49,280
Speaker 4: but yeah, I feel like they were just kind of

548
00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:50,520
Speaker 4: all like minded all around.

549
00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:52,120
Speaker 3: So you sort of get along with a lot of people.

550
00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:53,200
Speaker 3: Obviously there was a few I.

551
00:21:53,119 --> 00:21:56,040
Speaker 4: Didn't get along with because I'm very like what you

552
00:21:56,080 --> 00:21:58,320
Speaker 4: see is what you get, So I was kind of.

553
00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:02,760
Speaker 1: Like, were the people you like didn't like? And You're like, well, it's.

554
00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:05,000
Speaker 4: A singing show and it's like a reality TV show,

555
00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:06,840
Speaker 4: So there's always going to be people that are like

556
00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:09,840
Speaker 4: a bit like full on and a bit like different.

557
00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:12,200
Speaker 2: I'm surprised with Yeah, I'm surprised that you got close

558
00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:14,120
Speaker 2: to them because you're also competing against each other.

559
00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:16,840
Speaker 1: I'm surprised it's not more obvious that there are dislikes,

560
00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:18,600
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, because you don't really see that.

561
00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:20,720
Speaker 4: One Well, it sort of doesn't feel like that either,

562
00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:23,320
Speaker 4: Like it's like I'm super competitive, but it didn't feel

563
00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:25,359
Speaker 4: like that at all because you kind of have to

564
00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:27,600
Speaker 4: go I have no control over this, Like I can

565
00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:29,320
Speaker 4: sing my best, I can do my best, but it's

566
00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:31,960
Speaker 4: probably planned out who's going to get through, like the

567
00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:34,879
Speaker 4: TV purposes, So you're kind of just like, let's support everyone.

568
00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:36,159
Speaker 4: Let's like do the best we cand, and you know

569
00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:37,840
Speaker 4: they're gonna pick who they're gonna pick anyway.

570
00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:38,840
Speaker 1: It's a good way to look at it.

571
00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:41,439
Speaker 2: And I guess kind of everybody has a different niche that,

572
00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:43,360
Speaker 2: Like you could be really close with a girl who

573
00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:45,320
Speaker 2: sings pop. It's like, if they want country, I'm getting

574
00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:45,959
Speaker 2: through exactly.

575
00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:46,680
Speaker 3: They're getting through.

576
00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:48,560
Speaker 4: And it's even down to if they want to girl

577
00:22:48,560 --> 00:22:50,800
Speaker 4: with brown hair, if they want like because they've got

578
00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:53,119
Speaker 4: another girl another team with blonde hair, like or if

579
00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:55,160
Speaker 4: they want an eighteen year old girl, or if because

580
00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:56,439
Speaker 4: I was eighteen on the show, if they want an

581
00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:58,359
Speaker 4: eighteen year old girl, or if they want a thirty

582
00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:00,520
Speaker 4: year old Like it's just down to that, you know.

583
00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:03,080
Speaker 4: So Yeah, it wasn't really it didn't feel too competitive.

584
00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:04,960
Speaker 4: But yeah, I definitely got close with heaps of people,

585
00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:08,040
Speaker 4: and like people I would never really like get close with,

586
00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:11,560
Speaker 4: like one of my best friends, Jaden, He's like thirty,

587
00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:14,520
Speaker 4: and I'm like, I would never like be like.

588
00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:16,879
Speaker 1: Make see you on the street and think yeah, or

589
00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:17,480
Speaker 1: like you'd just.

590
00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:19,119
Speaker 4: Be somewhere and be like, oh, I'm gonna go like

591
00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:21,520
Speaker 4: eighteen year old thirty year old best friends, Like I

592
00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:21,879
Speaker 4: don't know.

593
00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:24,000
Speaker 3: So it was like, but we're all super like minded,

594
00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:24,720
Speaker 3: as I said.

595
00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:26,760
Speaker 1: So you still stay in touch with them regularly?

596
00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:28,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, you on the show with Yeah, And it's hard

597
00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:31,760
Speaker 4: because I live in Mackay, which is like two flights

598
00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:33,919
Speaker 4: away from even like Sydney, and a lot of them

599
00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:35,960
Speaker 4: live in Sydney or Melbourne, so it's kind of all

600
00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,520
Speaker 4: like Brisbane or something. So I like we stay in

601
00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:40,440
Speaker 4: contact and I catch up when I can but yeah.

602
00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:40,720
Speaker 1: It's hard.

603
00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:43,320
Speaker 2: So obviously you made it all the way to the

604
00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:46,680
Speaker 2: semi finals when you got eliminated and everything. How did

605
00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:48,639
Speaker 2: that whole process work? Were you kind of happy with

606
00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:50,080
Speaker 2: how you finished the show?

607
00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:51,080
Speaker 1: You see it coming?

608
00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:55,960
Speaker 4: Well, we were filming for like over a month in Sydney,

609
00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:58,560
Speaker 4: and We're in like these hotel rooms and I'm very

610
00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:01,480
Speaker 4: I'm not a city girl, Like I don't I can

611
00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:03,440
Speaker 4: handle it, and I can handle myself in a city,

612
00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:06,800
Speaker 4: but if I had the choice, I'm like cave be out.

613
00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:09,640
Speaker 4: But so I kind of by the time I ended

614
00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:11,800
Speaker 4: up getting like let go of the show, I was

615
00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:14,120
Speaker 4: kind of like you sort of expected to because by

616
00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:15,800
Speaker 4: that time you've kind of got caught to the pattern

617
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:19,040
Speaker 4: of who they're like girl boy like because in the

618
00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:22,080
Speaker 4: in the semis it was four girls, four boys, and

619
00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:24,119
Speaker 4: then in the finals there was two girls, two boys,

620
00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:26,960
Speaker 4: so once you kind of see who gets through, Like,

621
00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:28,720
Speaker 4: we were the last team to be announced because it

622
00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:30,840
Speaker 4: was top two in each team.

623
00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:32,840
Speaker 3: So it was me and my friend Charlie, and.

624
00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:36,080
Speaker 4: They were like there'd been two girls that already got through,

625
00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:38,000
Speaker 4: one guy had got through, and I was like, oh,

626
00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:42,359
Speaker 4: I'm gone, and like yeah, and also like I feel

627
00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:44,760
Speaker 4: like every single round you prep yourself to be let

628
00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:46,919
Speaker 4: go anyway because it's kind of like you don't know

629
00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:50,439
Speaker 4: what they're thinking. So I wasn't shocked. I was like

630
00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:52,760
Speaker 4: excited to go home because I'd been away for like

631
00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:56,920
Speaker 4: over a month. So yeah, I wasn't like sad, sad, no, No,

632
00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:00,760
Speaker 4: And I wasn't because like, when you get to the

633
00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:03,040
Speaker 4: Grand Final, this is like a super logistics the way

634
00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:04,640
Speaker 4: of thinking about when you get to the Grand.

635
00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:08,040
Speaker 3: Final, there's if you win, there's a specific contract that

636
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:09,000
Speaker 3: you get locked into.

637
00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:11,560
Speaker 4: And so I was kind of like, you didn't want

638
00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:15,040
Speaker 4: to no, because I wanted like a label to sign

639
00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:17,200
Speaker 4: me because they were interested in what I'm doing and

640
00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:19,119
Speaker 4: they're excited about me, not just because they had to

641
00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:22,600
Speaker 4: because like I want one. Yeah, so I was, and

642
00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:24,159
Speaker 4: I did get signed after it.

643
00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:28,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I was like, well, it's a good black.

644
00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:31,280
Speaker 4: It was good that I kind of know that they

645
00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:33,000
Speaker 4: wanted to work with me and they're excited.

646
00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:34,560
Speaker 3: So yeah, I was, and I didn't.

647
00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:36,320
Speaker 4: I like literally said from the start, if I get

648
00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:38,280
Speaker 4: kicked off at Battles, I'll be so happy because like

649
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:40,240
Speaker 4: I would have like gained more fans. I would have

650
00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:42,880
Speaker 4: like met new people and got the experience and I'll

651
00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:43,320
Speaker 4: be happy.

652
00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:45,040
Speaker 1: But it's kind of like you got the best of

653
00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:46,920
Speaker 1: both world, so you've got to have all the publicity.

654
00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:48,879
Speaker 1: But then you're like, I'm not locked into this. I

655
00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:50,760
Speaker 1: yet to like go with people that actually want me.

656
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:51,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a really.

657
00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:52,760
Speaker 2: Good way to think about it.

658
00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:56,280
Speaker 1: Actually, So everyone trying and get eliminated at battles you

659
00:25:56,320 --> 00:25:56,960
Speaker 1: don't want to win.

660
00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:03,880
Speaker 2: The boys don't come fastly. So how long from when

661
00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:07,080
Speaker 2: you were filming it then did it go live on television?

662
00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:08,120
Speaker 3: So I'm pretty sure they.

663
00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:10,720
Speaker 4: Finished filming it around like mid to end of June

664
00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:12,520
Speaker 4: and it went live like mid August.

665
00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:13,520
Speaker 1: Okay, so pretty cool.

666
00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:15,159
Speaker 2: So yeah, how long I was about to say that

667
00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:16,840
Speaker 2: from there? How long did it take for you to

668
00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:19,480
Speaker 2: kind of get picked up and like gain traction from

669
00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:21,360
Speaker 2: the media. Did you have a bit of a following

670
00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:24,159
Speaker 2: and people doing that before you got the show or

671
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:25,680
Speaker 2: did it mostly come from the show.

672
00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:29,240
Speaker 4: Well, I've been playing like gigs and little festivals since

673
00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:32,159
Speaker 4: I was like thirteen, so I kind of had built

674
00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:34,480
Speaker 4: like like I like pretty much say I've been running

675
00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:35,639
Speaker 4: my business since I was twelve.

676
00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:39,280
Speaker 3: Yes, like I yeah, I did a gig every single weekend.

677
00:26:39,359 --> 00:26:41,400
Speaker 4: If not a gig, it was like a big festival

678
00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:43,320
Speaker 4: or a show or I did some of the most

679
00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:46,000
Speaker 4: random shows like ever leading up to it, so I

680
00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:48,119
Speaker 4: gained like a little bit of a fan base, but

681
00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:50,840
Speaker 4: nothing as big as what the Voice gave me. So yeah,

682
00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:52,520
Speaker 4: I'm super lucky that I got to go on there.

683
00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:55,440
Speaker 4: And it's like always hard being country on a show

684
00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:57,480
Speaker 4: like that because people are kind of like they have

685
00:26:57,520 --> 00:27:00,679
Speaker 4: their opinions, Like I got the most like funny hate comments,

686
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:02,919
Speaker 4: like everyone got them, like the generic hate comments, and

687
00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:04,920
Speaker 4: I just got the most funny like take that thing

688
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,280
Speaker 4: hat off and just stuff like that, and.

689
00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 2: I was all, like, I'm playing a character.

690
00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:12,240
Speaker 3: I wish I could find the comment.

691
00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:14,400
Speaker 4: But there was one that was like she looks like

692
00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 4: an angel, but she sounds like a man and like

693
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:19,399
Speaker 4: all that, but then she looks like a farmer. And

694
00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:21,679
Speaker 4: I was just like, honestly, like pick one, like it

695
00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:22,800
Speaker 4: was this whole list.

696
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:26,320
Speaker 1: Of poor puppy syndrome in Australia. Honestly, I just want

697
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:27,200
Speaker 1: to bring you down.

698
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:29,760
Speaker 4: Literally, but yeah, no, it was. It was like I

699
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:32,359
Speaker 4: didn't mind stirring it. It stirring the pot a little bit.

700
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:35,600
Speaker 3: And being country. But yeah, people just have their opinions.

701
00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:40,560
Speaker 2: So obviously you said that the show went live mid August.

702
00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:43,600
Speaker 2: Obviously you have a small town. You're from a small town.

703
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:46,040
Speaker 2: Everyone kind of knows who you are up there from

704
00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:49,120
Speaker 2: where we are over recorded. Now, how did everyone go

705
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:52,000
Speaker 2: like seeing you on TV? Were you watching every night?

706
00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:53,520
Speaker 2: Did you know when it was going? And then how

707
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:55,960
Speaker 2: did them to keep it a secret? Yeah, a lot

708
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:58,400
Speaker 2: of people And how did the public like react to it?

709
00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:01,720
Speaker 4: So yeah, like pretty much from the moment you find

710
00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 4: out that you got on it was around like maybe

711
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:05,120
Speaker 4: April that.

712
00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:08,040
Speaker 3: Year to August when it aired, it was fully a secret.

713
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:11,600
Speaker 4: You couldn't tell anyone except like immediate family and yeah,

714
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:14,440
Speaker 4: so only really my like I think, I yeah, I

715
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:16,040
Speaker 4: didn't even tell any of my friends, not even my

716
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:17,360
Speaker 4: best friends, Like none of them knew.

717
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:18,000
Speaker 3: It was just my phone.

718
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:18,560
Speaker 1: I've been so.

719
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:22,679
Speaker 3: They literally were but like it's like you tell me

720
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:23,360
Speaker 3: that the contract.

721
00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:26,240
Speaker 1: I'm so excited for them to like see you when

722
00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:26,720
Speaker 1: it came out.

723
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:29,119
Speaker 4: Yeah, and especially like for me, I was like it

724
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:30,919
Speaker 4: was a big career thing as well. So I was

725
00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:33,119
Speaker 4: like excited for everyone that's been following me for ages

726
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:35,639
Speaker 4: to see it and everything, but yeah, it was fully

727
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:38,440
Speaker 4: a secret. And then yeah, pretty much the entire town

728
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:40,560
Speaker 4: Like when because you post something that says like, hey,

729
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:43,040
Speaker 4: I auditioned, like before it like they send you a

730
00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:45,760
Speaker 4: little tile, and so I posted that and then everyone

731
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:47,600
Speaker 4: was pretty much just like what the heck, Like what

732
00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:49,680
Speaker 4: it's like we didn't know that, and they were kind

733
00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:51,360
Speaker 4: of like, oh, that's why she's been away for like

734
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:51,920
Speaker 4: two months.

735
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:52,480
Speaker 3: Yeah.

736
00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:53,880
Speaker 4: I think I was just telling people that I was

737
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:57,240
Speaker 4: just recording new music, which like doesn't take that long. Yeah,

738
00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:00,520
Speaker 4: so they're all so confused, but they were like super excited.

739
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:04,200
Speaker 4: And I was with my whole family at my nun's

740
00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:05,200
Speaker 4: place when we watched it.

741
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,360
Speaker 3: Because they tell you the episode.

742
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:08,640
Speaker 4: That you're gonna be on, but not the order or anything,

743
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:10,560
Speaker 4: and I was like, first, so we just turned the

744
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:13,160
Speaker 4: TV on and then like I was right there and

745
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:15,640
Speaker 4: we and I hadn't seen that black episode or anything

746
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:15,880
Speaker 4: like that.

747
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:16,959
Speaker 3: We don't get to see any of it.

748
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:18,160
Speaker 4: So I was like, oh my god, I hope I

749
00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:20,960
Speaker 4: didn't like say anything weird or yeah, but.

750
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't know how they're going to edit you

751
00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:24,880
Speaker 2: on TV.

752
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:26,560
Speaker 3: I was so nervous.

753
00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:29,680
Speaker 4: I literally like was having the worst anxiety that day

754
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:32,000
Speaker 4: because I just you have no idea, like they made

755
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:32,800
Speaker 4: me look so rude.

756
00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:34,880
Speaker 3: They could have made me look dumb, like that was

757
00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:36,640
Speaker 3: my biggest thing. I just didn't want them to make

758
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:37,800
Speaker 3: me look like a dunce.

759
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:40,800
Speaker 4: Yeah, like, and I was like, I'm not like, I

760
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:43,240
Speaker 4: can like talk and I'm whatever.

761
00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:44,760
Speaker 3: So I was a bit nervous about that.

762
00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:47,240
Speaker 4: But apart from that, like everyone was super supportive except

763
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:48,120
Speaker 4: for the people that weren't.

764
00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:51,720
Speaker 3: Like, there was obviously people that had their opinions, especially

765
00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:54,000
Speaker 3: being country. They were like, yeah, why does she sound

766
00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:54,400
Speaker 3: like that?

767
00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:57,920
Speaker 4: Like, and I have a really like North Queensland accent

768
00:29:58,000 --> 00:29:59,880
Speaker 4: as well. So I had so many people being like,

769
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:04,880
Speaker 4: she's putting it on. She's but it's like people that

770
00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:06,360
Speaker 4: have never heard me speak.

771
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,920
Speaker 2: I was like, if you hear this is and you

772
00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:13,280
Speaker 2: get up on stage baby news in country yeah.

773
00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:15,160
Speaker 3: So and they were like oh, like like just there

774
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:18,200
Speaker 3: was obviously people, like heaps of supported people and people

775
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:18,600
Speaker 3: that loved it.

776
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:21,400
Speaker 4: But I thought that the most hate would come from

777
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:23,840
Speaker 4: like TikTok because it gets out to such.

778
00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:26,800
Speaker 3: A different audience. But it was on Facebook.

779
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:29,760
Speaker 1: Facebook is all the bloody millennium, Yes, and that's what

780
00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:30,200
Speaker 1: it was.

781
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:33,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I was so like shocked by that. And

782
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:37,200
Speaker 4: I was on Facebook and especially on the voices page,

783
00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:40,320
Speaker 4: like just so much hate and like it was everyone

784
00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:43,160
Speaker 4: getting it wasn't just me. But the first edition audition

785
00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:45,680
Speaker 4: it was like not too bad. But once you start

786
00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:47,400
Speaker 4: beating people and different people get.

787
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:50,040
Speaker 1: Kicked off, they're knocking out You're knocking out their favorites

788
00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:51,479
Speaker 1: like country.

789
00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:54,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like I had this one person commenting and I

790
00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:55,880
Speaker 4: don't I didn't take much note of it, but I

791
00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:57,920
Speaker 4: had this one person commenting on my audition like love

792
00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:00,520
Speaker 4: this girl. She's so good, we love her. She amazing

793
00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:04,239
Speaker 4: country music, like and then I beat someone in like

794
00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 4: around and they were like, no, don't like her anymore.

795
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:09,719
Speaker 3: She's found to go a full like what is she wearing?

796
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:11,600
Speaker 4: And like why are they dressing her like that? She

797
00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:14,720
Speaker 4: looks like she's going to like farm chickens like, and I.

798
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:17,280
Speaker 1: Was just like, were you happy with your edit? How

799
00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:19,480
Speaker 1: they protray? Like how? Yeah?

800
00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:21,320
Speaker 4: I think I was super lucky, Like I feel like

801
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:23,960
Speaker 4: it was super true to me, like how I am normally.

802
00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:26,560
Speaker 4: But I think that's just because some people go in

803
00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:28,920
Speaker 4: there and they let the producers push them around and.

804
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:31,160
Speaker 1: They're like, oh, whatever you want me to be up

805
00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 1: pretty much and like thinking it's going to get them

806
00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:36,040
Speaker 1: far because they're like complaint.

807
00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:38,160
Speaker 4: And literally and they ask you questions to prompt you

808
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:40,080
Speaker 4: and to get drama, and you just sometimes you just

809
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 4: have to say, look, I'm not going to talk about that,

810
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:45,440
Speaker 4: like like like just trauma and like family passings and

811
00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:47,640
Speaker 4: just like little things that they know about you that

812
00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:48,640
Speaker 4: you don't even know.

813
00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:50,920
Speaker 1: That they really do pick up the trauma on shows

814
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:52,240
Speaker 1: like that, to be honest.

815
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:53,440
Speaker 2: To get a sympathy ground.

816
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 1: A lot of people would have very very tragic stories,

817
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:58,920
Speaker 1: but you seem to hear only that on all of

818
00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:01,640
Speaker 1: those shows. Yeah, like it is actually sad that that's

819
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:02,720
Speaker 1: kind of what they ask about.

820
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:05,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, And like I had a few friends that actually

821
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:08,200
Speaker 4: like had really sad stories and I just played on

822
00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:09,920
Speaker 4: it so much and I was like I felt so

823
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,000
Speaker 4: bad because a lot of them were super fresh as well,

824
00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:13,280
Speaker 4: and I was like, oh my god, this is like

825
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:15,600
Speaker 4: is this the therapy session or reality?

826
00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 2: Yeah?

827
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 4: But with me, I was super lucky because my whole

828
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:19,880
Speaker 4: story was that I was country and I was like cool,

829
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,560
Speaker 4: like sweet, like this is no trauma, Like I'm fine

830
00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 4: with this, So that was kind of my whole thing,

831
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:26,479
Speaker 4: and like that, I grew up in the pub and

832
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:28,280
Speaker 4: it was super true to me. So and they didn't

833
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:30,760
Speaker 4: edit me to look like anything I was worried about,

834
00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:33,560
Speaker 4: like dumb or like anything like that.

835
00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:34,880
Speaker 1: So that was good vibe.

836
00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:38,160
Speaker 2: So obviously the show ed you then got kicked off

837
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:41,440
Speaker 2: at the semi finals. How did post show you got

838
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 2: kicked off? No, you got eliminated, that's probably a better word.

839
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,480
Speaker 2: How did it go from then? You got signed with

840
00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:50,320
Speaker 2: your label?

841
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:50,800
Speaker 3: Label?

842
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:52,760
Speaker 2: Got signed with your label? And then how did it

843
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:54,560
Speaker 2: kind of go from there and snowball to what you're

844
00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:55,040
Speaker 2: doing now?

845
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:59,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, so pretty much like it when I got kicked off,

846
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:01,920
Speaker 4: like to the public was like late August or whatever,

847
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:05,440
Speaker 4: and then from there pretty much like the last episode,

848
00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:08,360
Speaker 4: Universal like has pretty much first.

849
00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:10,320
Speaker 3: Pick because they're label associated with the Voice.

850
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:12,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, so they pretty much had first pick and they

851
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:16,000
Speaker 4: were like they like I heard that they don't usually

852
00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 4: sign other people other than the winner or like people

853
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:21,160
Speaker 4: in the finals, and they actually signed me and my

854
00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:24,160
Speaker 4: like one of my best friends Charlie, who was in

855
00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:24,920
Speaker 4: Team Like.

856
00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:26,440
Speaker 3: We were both from Team Guy. We're the top two

857
00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:29,720
Speaker 3: in Team Guy as well. As the winner. So that

858
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 3: was like one of the first years that they've signed.

859
00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:34,520
Speaker 2: Like, wow, congrats, that's amazing things.

860
00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 3: And yeah, it's like a super great team.

861
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 4: They're they're awesome, and I was a little bit nervous

862
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:40,640
Speaker 4: like getting signed off the show because there's certain things

863
00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:42,800
Speaker 4: that we don't really have pull on that was already

864
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:45,840
Speaker 4: kind of in place with the show. But they've been

865
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:48,520
Speaker 4: awesome and yeah, I'm super lucky to have them.

866
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:51,479
Speaker 1: And what are you doing now with your music? Like

867
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 1: what are the next steps?

868
00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:56,440
Speaker 3: So I just released a song last Wednesday.

869
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:59,240
Speaker 1: When I don't know when this called yourself called Cowboy

870
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:01,680
Speaker 1: Cowboy Run Get Down Bell McKenzie.

871
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:05,320
Speaker 4: So that's the first single of like a whole album

872
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:06,040
Speaker 4: that's coming.

873
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 1: That's exciting.

874
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:10,000
Speaker 4: So there's like seven more songs to be or like

875
00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:12,280
Speaker 4: six more songs to be released, and then I literally

876
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:14,480
Speaker 4: I leave Melbourne tomorrow and I go to Sydney to

877
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:16,239
Speaker 4: like near Sydney to.

878
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:19,200
Speaker 3: Start the next album. So that'll probably be like seven

879
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:21,800
Speaker 3: or eight songs as well. So there's heaps of music coming.

880
00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:24,719
Speaker 4: And I just announced today as well that I got

881
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:28,120
Speaker 4: on a festival that's here in Melbourne. And then there's

882
00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:30,320
Speaker 4: a show in Sydney as well, called Bright and Hearts

883
00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:32,920
Speaker 4: and it's in November, so it's like a new festival.

884
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:35,120
Speaker 4: There was one last year and I went just like

885
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:37,040
Speaker 4: as a fan and I was like, oh, this is cool,

886
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:38,960
Speaker 4: Like they just invited me to like take some content

887
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:40,840
Speaker 4: and stuff and I was like, oh cool, okay, and

888
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:42,400
Speaker 4: then yeah, they got me to play.

889
00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:43,719
Speaker 1: This year's cool.

890
00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like a pretty like huge lineup. If you're

891
00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:49,800
Speaker 4: like into country music, it's like a pretty good lineup.

892
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:51,719
Speaker 3: So yeah, that's exciting.

893
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:55,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay. So obviously, as you just expressed, you're on

894
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:57,680
Speaker 2: the road of the time, you're traveling all the time,

895
00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:00,160
Speaker 2: you're not are you in your country town much where

896
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:01,600
Speaker 2: you're originally from.

897
00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:04,640
Speaker 4: Not really, Like honestly, most of my time I'm in

898
00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:07,879
Speaker 4: the studio or like lately anyway, or in Sydney where

899
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:10,479
Speaker 4: the label is, or here or so I'm not usually home.

900
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:12,480
Speaker 4: There was a part there for like six months where

901
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:14,680
Speaker 4: the longest I was home for was like four days,

902
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:16,520
Speaker 4: and then I'd go again. And I have like a

903
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:18,960
Speaker 4: little puppy, like he's not really puppy anymore, but he's a.

904
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:20,480
Speaker 3: Little sausage dog at home.

905
00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:22,480
Speaker 4: Name their So I like get so sad when I

906
00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:24,560
Speaker 4: have to leave him, But this time I'm only away

907
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:25,839
Speaker 4: for like two weeks.

908
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:26,600
Speaker 3: So it's not too bad.

909
00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:29,279
Speaker 2: But yeah, And how do you juggle like social life?

910
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:32,520
Speaker 2: Obviously because you're nineteen, you're still young, You're have Do

911
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:33,480
Speaker 2: you have lots of friends.

912
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:34,200
Speaker 1: If that's good?

913
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:37,720
Speaker 2: Or like your love life? Do you have a love life?

914
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:39,359
Speaker 2: Back up in what's it called?

915
00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:40,120
Speaker 3: Makay?

916
00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:42,000
Speaker 1: Do you have a love life around here?

917
00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 3: Around here?

918
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:44,000
Speaker 2: Like? What's what's that?

919
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:44,239
Speaker 4: Like?

920
00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:46,280
Speaker 1: He tells everything.

921
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:48,320
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know. It's it's kind of hard.

922
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:51,279
Speaker 4: Like I feel like in my hometown, like it's one

923
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:53,680
Speaker 4: of those towns where no one leaves, like instead of

924
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:55,839
Speaker 4: everyone wants to grow up there, everyone wants to have

925
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:57,680
Speaker 4: their kids there and work there and whatever.

926
00:35:57,719 --> 00:35:59,719
Speaker 3: But I've always been like, get me out, like going.

927
00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:01,000
Speaker 3: So I feel like that's.

928
00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:02,960
Speaker 4: Kind of why I wanted to do this career as well,

929
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:04,399
Speaker 4: because I get to travel all the time, I meet

930
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:06,359
Speaker 4: new people. So a lot of my friends have gone

931
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:08,000
Speaker 4: off to UNI, so like a lot of them don't

932
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:10,680
Speaker 4: even live there anymore, So it's sort of tricky. Like

933
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:12,919
Speaker 4: I feel like a lot of my friends are from

934
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:15,520
Speaker 4: music as well, so it's kind of one of.

935
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:17,520
Speaker 3: Those things where it's like, oh, like I have so

936
00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:19,680
Speaker 3: many friends, but ones in Sydney, ones in Melbourne.

937
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:22,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, so it's kind of tricky to see them a

938
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:24,080
Speaker 4: lot of the time, and the ones that are back

939
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:26,360
Speaker 4: home are all gone like for you. Yeah, so I

940
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:28,520
Speaker 4: have my care little best friends, but I'm also like

941
00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:32,560
Speaker 4: a very like I choose like my friends super like wisely,

942
00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:35,000
Speaker 4: and I have like very few people like really really close,

943
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:35,840
Speaker 4: but because that's.

944
00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:38,960
Speaker 3: Just how I am, Like I think it's an Aquarius thing.

945
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:41,719
Speaker 2: Like I don't know, quality over quantity, yeah, pretty much.

946
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:44,480
Speaker 4: So, and like my producer he's like one of my

947
00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:47,360
Speaker 4: best best friends and we've like been best friends for ages,

948
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:49,480
Speaker 4: and he tours in my band as well, so as

949
00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:52,680
Speaker 4: my guitarist. So and he's like my MD, which is

950
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:53,880
Speaker 4: like musical.

951
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:57,319
Speaker 3: Director for my live shows. So we're super close.

952
00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:00,239
Speaker 4: So it's nice to kind of have the friends like

953
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:02,279
Speaker 4: within my business.

954
00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:05,200
Speaker 3: And help you traveling, yeah, which is.

955
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:07,880
Speaker 4: Nice and like it's kind of like comforting to know

956
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:10,280
Speaker 4: the people really well that you're traveling with because sometimes

957
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:12,880
Speaker 4: you get put in, like like especially me because I

958
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:14,560
Speaker 4: travel a lot by myself for work.

959
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:16,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like nice to be put.

960
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,160
Speaker 4: In situations where you like know the people totally, like

961
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:19,680
Speaker 4: are comfortable and feel safe.

962
00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:22,719
Speaker 1: So yeah, what's like a day to day in your

963
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:24,080
Speaker 1: life like these days?

964
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:26,920
Speaker 4: Well, it's it's hard because it's so different every day.

965
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:30,279
Speaker 4: But like today, I guess I came here film this,

966
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:33,279
Speaker 4: but before that, flew to Melbourne by myself, which is

967
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:36,720
Speaker 4: like two flights for me. You go here Brisbane, Brisbane,

968
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:41,839
Speaker 4: Melbourne and then oh Brisbane, Brisbane, Melbourne and then come

969
00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:43,719
Speaker 4: here and then I'm going to go to lunch with

970
00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:48,319
Speaker 4: talent manager Lola, and then after that tomorrow I have

971
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:50,479
Speaker 4: a meeting with my label at Universal. So they're actually

972
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:52,760
Speaker 4: based in Sydney, but one of the girls is in Melbourne,

973
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:54,879
Speaker 4: so she was like, let's catch up. So we're gonna

974
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 4: talk like pretty much everything media that I have to

975
00:37:57,080 --> 00:38:00,080
Speaker 4: do for my upcoming songs and everything, and then I'll

976
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:03,080
Speaker 4: get to the airport, fly straight from the airport right

977
00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:05,439
Speaker 4: no tomorrow, so I'll meet with her in the morning,

978
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:07,319
Speaker 4: go straight to the airport after that and then fly

979
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:10,040
Speaker 4: to Sydney, catch change to Central Coast and then that's

980
00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:12,400
Speaker 4: where I am for a week, just recording music and

981
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:14,680
Speaker 4: pretty much when we're in the studio where we wake

982
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:16,920
Speaker 4: up like eat, you know, work out whatever, and then

983
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 4: we go straight into the studio. And sometimes, like when

984
00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:21,440
Speaker 4: we're recording this last album, we were in the studio

985
00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:24,600
Speaker 4: for like sixteen hours every day, crazy and I would

986
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:26,839
Speaker 4: fall asleep, he'd keep working. I'd wake up and like

987
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:29,279
Speaker 4: half the song's done, and then like just I don't know,

988
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:32,360
Speaker 4: just it's kind of just something you get used to,

989
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:34,480
Speaker 4: but yeah, it's pretty crazy. Like we'll go out and

990
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:35,880
Speaker 4: have lunch and then we'll come back and be like,

991
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:37,799
Speaker 4: we haven't eaten in like eight hours because we've just

992
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:38,360
Speaker 4: been working.

993
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:41,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah, how do you come up with lyrics?

994
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:43,440
Speaker 1: Like do you think about that all the time?

995
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:45,560
Speaker 2: Like you're saying, so we're going into Central Coation, We're

996
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 2: going to record music for a week. Have you already

997
00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:48,839
Speaker 2: come up with the songs or do you come up

998
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:49,680
Speaker 2: with the tune?

999
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:53,400
Speaker 4: Birth Well, for this album coming up, we have like

1000
00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:56,160
Speaker 4: nothing written yet the album that's fully recorded.

1001
00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:57,759
Speaker 3: Obviously it's done, and a lot of the.

1002
00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:01,440
Speaker 4: Songs I wrote with other people. I think actually I

1003
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:02,920
Speaker 4: think all of them are co writes, and a lot

1004
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:05,200
Speaker 4: of them I wrote with my producer Jackie because we

1005
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:07,080
Speaker 4: just like I think, because we're such good friends.

1006
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:09,120
Speaker 3: We just can I can go up. That's a terrible idea.

1007
00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 1: I don't know what if you're like a really really

1008
00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:13,080
Speaker 1: good singer, but you're just like don't have a creative

1009
00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:14,719
Speaker 1: one in your body and like you just can't write.

1010
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:15,560
Speaker 3: Some people are like that.

1011
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:18,600
Speaker 2: Ed Sheeran like sells he writes music and he sells

1012
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:20,839
Speaker 2: it off to other artists because some people can't.

1013
00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:25,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like there's a full thing at my label and

1014
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:28,520
Speaker 4: pretty much at every label called like a publishing sector,

1015
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:31,759
Speaker 4: and pretty much there's song like especially in Nashville, like

1016
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:32,720
Speaker 4: in America.

1017
00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:33,960
Speaker 3: There's songwriters. It's their job.

1018
00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:36,760
Speaker 4: They'll write for three hours, have lunch, write for three hours,

1019
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:38,640
Speaker 4: and then those songs get like given to everyone.

1020
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:40,440
Speaker 3: So half the people, like if you look at their

1021
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:43,680
Speaker 3: credits on Spotify, they don't write their own songs. Because

1022
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:46,080
Speaker 3: there's people that fully just write for that.

1023
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:48,439
Speaker 1: Can be done.

1024
00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:50,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I haven't done it yet. I'm so like,

1025
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:52,520
Speaker 3: I'm so open to it if anyone's got.

1026
00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:57,759
Speaker 4: But like this one, I think I'll probably write all

1027
00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:00,640
Speaker 4: of them, Like, I'll probably co writ a lot of them.

1028
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:03,960
Speaker 4: But yeah, I haven't dove into the looking at other

1029
00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:06,120
Speaker 4: people's I've been pitched some Really, I get the funniest

1030
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:09,439
Speaker 4: emails because people like some people are a bit weird,

1031
00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 4: and they'll they'll email you and they're like, I've got

1032
00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:14,640
Speaker 4: this really great song and I won't say names or anything,

1033
00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:16,640
Speaker 4: but I got this one email the other day and

1034
00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:18,799
Speaker 4: I actually got sent to Loola like at one day

1035
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:19,200
Speaker 4: dream and.

1036
00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:21,560
Speaker 3: She was like, this might be one for your label.

1037
00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:22,960
Speaker 4: And I looked at the words and it was like,

1038
00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:27,120
Speaker 4: I'm going to party, party, party, and I saw my

1039
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:31,239
Speaker 4: music and I literally like was with my producer and

1040
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:32,879
Speaker 4: I was like, this is so funny. He's like, let's

1041
00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:34,840
Speaker 4: just read the words first without hearing the music, and

1042
00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:37,320
Speaker 4: it was like, I'll take it to the party, party, Party,

1043
00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:40,040
Speaker 4: party five and I was like, this is really nice.

1044
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:42,520
Speaker 3: I was like, and he's like it could be really country.

1045
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:48,080
Speaker 4: I was like like, p Like, so there's sometimes I

1046
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:51,200
Speaker 4: get emails like that pitching the songs, but I'm like, okay, yeah, no,

1047
00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:52,560
Speaker 4: I'm just going to write something better.

1048
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:55,480
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Where do you get your inspiration from?

1049
00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:56,840
Speaker 3: I feel like everywhere.

1050
00:40:56,880 --> 00:40:59,479
Speaker 4: I feel like a lot of the time I looked

1051
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:02,160
Speaker 4: like the American acts and see what's current, because Australia

1052
00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:04,680
Speaker 4: is always like at least three to five years behind

1053
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:08,160
Speaker 4: country music anyway, so I'll look over there see what's happening.

1054
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:11,080
Speaker 4: But it's kind of just like with like my producer

1055
00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:12,480
Speaker 4: and I how we write. It's sort of just like

1056
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:15,040
Speaker 4: I've got this cool idea and like it could be

1057
00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:16,480
Speaker 4: the most random thing. Like We've got a song on

1058
00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:19,320
Speaker 4: the album that's literally based off the Netflix series Ginny

1059
00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:22,279
Speaker 4: and Georgia, and it's like it's pretty much, she's this

1060
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:24,440
Speaker 4: lady and she's like trying to predict her kids and

1061
00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:26,839
Speaker 4: she's got in these like toxic relationships and she's killed

1062
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:27,279
Speaker 4: off all her.

1063
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:30,280
Speaker 3: Husbands and it's based on that and it's called Georgia.

1064
00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:32,840
Speaker 3: So just like the most that's really cool. So you

1065
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:34,720
Speaker 3: can literally just do literally anything.

1066
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:36,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's crazy because you usually think of it has

1067
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:39,360
Speaker 1: like somewhat like you think of the mo relative to

1068
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:41,359
Speaker 1: people's lives. But you can really sing whatever the fuck

1069
00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:42,799
Speaker 1: you want. Yeah, pretty much.

1070
00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:45,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you could have one dream or like one

1071
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:48,200
Speaker 2: like kind of I made a moment anything like that,

1072
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:49,160
Speaker 2: what would it be.

1073
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:53,440
Speaker 3: I think there's a festival in the States called Stage Coach.

1074
00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:55,879
Speaker 2: Yes, it's after Pitch It Out.

1075
00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:59,040
Speaker 4: I would love to play that one day like and

1076
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:02,359
Speaker 4: headline it like big dream But I feel like that's

1077
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:05,520
Speaker 4: just like it's such a young demographic, it's so fun

1078
00:42:05,560 --> 00:42:05,719
Speaker 4: for you.

1079
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:07,920
Speaker 3: Again, I haven't even been before, but I would.

1080
00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:10,040
Speaker 2: Like it's after Coachella, It's like the weekend after Coach.

1081
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:13,040
Speaker 3: Similar vibes but country. Yeah, So I feel like it'd

1082
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:13,359
Speaker 3: be fun.

1083
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:16,000
Speaker 1: And who would be your dream person to collaborate with

1084
00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 1: on a song?

1085
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:22,080
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't even know dream big Yeah, like nothing's

1086
00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:22,520
Speaker 2: too big.

1087
00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:23,600
Speaker 3: I don't know.

1088
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:27,920
Speaker 4: I feel like it'd probably be you guys probably wouldn't

1089
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:29,760
Speaker 4: even know, but that's because it's country.

1090
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:34,200
Speaker 3: But his name is Chris Stapleton, so he's like this.

1091
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:35,680
Speaker 3: It's so random because.

1092
00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:37,360
Speaker 4: He's this like old guy, but he's just got the

1093
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:40,279
Speaker 4: coolest voice and he's such a good songwriter that or

1094
00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:43,279
Speaker 4: like Kelsey Ballerini, She's another one that's kind of like

1095
00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:45,759
Speaker 4: popped off at the moment in country and she's just

1096
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:48,240
Speaker 4: like like boss bitch like vibes.

1097
00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:50,319
Speaker 3: So I'd love to do a collab with either of them.

1098
00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:52,399
Speaker 2: Well, matterfest, you might get it, and then we'll.

1099
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:54,160
Speaker 3: See you on the big stage one day.

1100
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:55,680
Speaker 2: We'll fire over to support you.

1101
00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:57,880
Speaker 1: Podcasts you have to say when you get on the

1102
00:42:57,880 --> 00:42:59,920
Speaker 1: Stagecoast Stage. Oh my first podcast was.

1103
00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:02,640
Speaker 2: Man Manifested This on Just for Girls.

1104
00:43:02,719 --> 00:43:06,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, shout out for the girls. Thank you Bella so

1105
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:10,120
Speaker 1: so much for coming on. That was so so interesting. Yeah.

1106
00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:12,040
Speaker 2: I loved learning about all the behind the scenes.

1107
00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:15,080
Speaker 1: I love the behind the scenes TV stuff.

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Speaker 2: Because it's just never what you really see. It's so

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Speaker 2: crazy how it all works. And they would have such

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Speaker 2: a big team behind that as well, like so many

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Speaker 2: people behind that. But yeah, thank you for coming on

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Speaker 2: Just for Girls.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 2: Where can we find you all?

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Speaker 4: My socials are at Bella Mackenzie Official. Yeah, so everything's

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Speaker 4: on there.

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Speaker 2: Cowboy Yeah yeah, bye guys,