WEBVTT - EP 43 - Elena 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:05.080 This is the flavor podcast network Island Roots Auckland Ways. 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:08.080 This one's for the Brown brothers and sisters who want 0:00:08.080 --> 0:00:12.760 to be one with themselves, their culture, their identity, their roots. 0:00:13.160 --> 0:00:15.400 This is Island Roots Auckland Ways. 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:22.240 Oh hi everyone, welcome to Island Roots Auckland. 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:25.799 Wye oy. 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:29.880 Am I up to J Chillen, J Chillen. I have 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:34.760 a headache. And the thing is, when you need pennant 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:36.080 all the most, you don't have any. 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:36.640 I've got some. 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:40.400 When dot you ask, hey, yeah. 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:42.240 Would you like some crisis averted? 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:43.120 Crisis averted? 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:44.839 I won't turn into the kraken. 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:46.560 Where's the kraken? 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:48.800 A dragon? What? 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:50.040 Anyway? 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:53.600 Okay, Today we have the beautiful Elena on the podcast. 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:58.560 Not only is she so talented and so stunning, she's 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:01.000 also so young. So fact that we're able to chat 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:06.000 with her today was so exciting because it's just an icon. Really, 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:08.679 she's icon and she's really an adult. 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:14.199 Listen to it all right now, hey. 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:17.039 Everyone, welcome back to another episode of Island Roots boot Conways. 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:19.840 Please welcome to the show, the beautiful talented c A 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:21.080 Princess Elina. 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:26.800 What of c A? 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:32.399 But what part of c am from roschol. I'm sure 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:34.360 she's from ros School. Everyone we know who's from Roschool. 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:35.000 Very hatty. 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:38.959 I like that. I like that it gives it gives 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:40.759 a little bit of self energy. 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:43.399 It does a little bit. Yeah, did you so you've 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:44.880 grown up in ros School your whole life? 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:46.479 Yeah? Pretty much? Yeah, I love that. 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:48.240 Wow, what's from school? 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:56.280 Like, I'm like uptown, so it was kind of kind 0:01:56.280 --> 0:02:01.160 of quiet. People racing up and down the street. Mm hmm, 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:05.400 people of their sirens. We hear you. 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:15.079 Very much where we are from, thank you. Yeah. Well, 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:17.960 speaking about home every episode, so spe share what we 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:21.119 love about home. So whether that as Rascal, we currently live, 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:23.320 where you were born, where you feel most grounded, whatever 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:25.600 feels like home, what do you love about it? We'll 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:28.560 start off first, and what I love about home this 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:38.440 week is, Okay, did you guys like have these kind 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:42.160 of things that you thought gave rich growing up? Like 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:48.560 if you drove past a two story house, you're very that. Well. 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:50.959 I now have a TV in my room, which for 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:55.200 like five year old me was impossible, Like the only 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:58.320 TV we had was on the sitting room, and now 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:01.240 I have a TV in my room, and that's what 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:02.000 I love about her. 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:02.680 I love that. 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:06.440 It's just like a little marker of success. Okay, I 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:12.760 made it, I'm gonna TV. I get blast by Spotify. Yeah, 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:15.560 and things like that, just stuff to watch thos because 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:19.880 also the thing was growing up in a poly household 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:23.919 and sometimes when the six scenes come on, that's one 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:28.399 of the most Orc's situations ever, Like you can't even 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:30.560 sit down and watch Shortland Street because the drama is 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:32.720 just too much, and then it's going to be turned 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:35.640 to the news. So to be able to watch what 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:38.720 I want and the comfort of my own room, it's 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:41.760 just a little sign that, hey, you know, you might 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:43.760 have had a bad day, but you've got a TV 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:51.000 in your room, so be grateful. Very there a little 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:54.480 Netflix and chill, even though there's no one to netflix. 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:55.800 It's just Netflix. 0:03:57.320 --> 0:04:00.000 Very that very Ginny and George. 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:05.080 I love that as someone who also has a TV 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:08.760 in their room. Used to be the family TV announce 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:10.920 my TV. It's the best thing ever. 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:11.800 Love it. 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:15.560 But what I love about home this week, this past weekend, 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:18.400 I have this is the difference between Me's and I. 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:19.560 MEZ like stay inside. 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:21.480 I like to be outside. I like to be out. 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:26.279 I'll post it up in different places I'm outside, and 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:29.159 one of my favorite things about being outside is live music, 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:33.400 like being able to experience just a live band somewhere. 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:36.039 I have a little boogy little dance every time I 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:38.920 go to a gig. I'm like, this is why life 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:42.159 is worth living. That's great live music. 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:49.040 Yeah, surviving. So that's what I love about home. Right now, 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:53.200 I'm getting my wardrobe redone. 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:55.040 E Standard. 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:03.240 It's giving walk in wardrobe, a lot of room works. Yeah, 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:05.960 I should be finished in like a few weeks. 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:06.840 I'm gay. 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:09.600 I don't have a TV, but I have a walking 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:10.280 wardrobe and. 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:17.600 You know what, Yeah, must be geeking out because Alsa 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:19.760 loves class I love, I. 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:24.120 Love Yeah, it's nice. Yeah, it's so cool. 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:27.159 Sometimes when I watch these TikTokers and I see them 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:30.120 do their little walking wardrobe tours, and I'm like to 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:33.320 be that person, to have that life. 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:43.479 And that now. That was one of the things for 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:45.359 me when I was younger. I was like, have you 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:48.479 ever walking wardrobe? Rich money right there? 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:51.880 I love that. 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:55.039 Well, We're so excited to have such talent like you 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:57.440 in the studio with us today. Can you please tell 0:05:57.480 --> 0:05:59.279 us a little bit about your journey into music and 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:02.560 how Elena has come to be well. 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:06.840 I grew up in a church household, Christian household. Oh 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:07.800 my gosh, my phone is. 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:12.280 Singing girl girl, she's busy people trying to get a 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:12.640 hold of that. 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:19.919 But yeah, church household. I did coupas Coupka in primary school, 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:28.960 talking representation, went to poly Fast. Yeah, it was cool experience, 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:33.040 like in the school when I was at school, and 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:34.239 then I went to EXCEL. 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:36.960 Yes, Excel School of Performing Arts. 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:39.440 Yes, where's my phone? 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:39.760 Let me. 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:41.440 At? 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:45.920 Must be Beyonce. Beyonce is like Elena, it's my manager. 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:46.960 Guys, it's any. 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:54.120 If you don't stop right now, because if anyone knows 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:55.680 that you're in an innsview right now, it should be 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:58.480 the manager. Thanks. 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:12.120 Yeah, I think. Yeah, anyway, I went to EXAU and 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:17.760 then yeah, I left school when I was fifteen, and 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:21.840 then winter when I was sixteen. Graduated just last year 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:26.760 with my music diploma. No n c A or anything 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:38.720 but the plomba. Life is great right now. But yeah, 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:41.920 my parents sing, you know, It's just always been a 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:43.680 part of me, the whole music thing. 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:46.880 Yes, when you made that decision to leave school, how 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:47.920 did your parents take it? 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:50.600 They were fine? And that's what I really love about 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:54.200 it that they support me no matter what. Yeah, I 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:56.200 would do a lot of like mental health in school, 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:59.480 which is one of the reasons why I left. You're 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:02.880 just found like no one really believed in me for school, 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:06.320 you know, everyone had their opinions about me and everything, 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:09.600 like you're not gonna make it, you can't sing all 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:13.640 of that. And then yeah, I was like, you know, mom, dad, 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:14.920 I want to go. I don't want to be here. 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:18.239 Like as long as you're happy, then we're happy. 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:22.720 And I was like that is beautiful, so beautiful. 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:27.160 Healthy parents. And I was so grateful for them, Like 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:30.560 they've just always been there for me. Giving me money 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:34.360 is to go buy my outfits for you know, performances, 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:38.000 and I get to bring them along with me. Like 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:41.880 for homelands, I brought my mom and she's writing her things. 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:47.080 She's walking around like get some food, get into it. 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:49.480 And like I went to her wreck the other day 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:51.959 and I saw she came to the pemade as well. 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:55.800 I brought my whole family. Yeah, so they I was 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:57.640 to her wreck and I saw her little vip land 0:08:57.679 --> 0:08:58.880 yards next to her desk, and. 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:02.120 I was like, I feel like it's little moments like 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:04.800 that when you realize you're kind of maybe not financially, 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:07.600 but like emotionally or like spiritually giving back to your 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:10.480 appearance in somewhere being like the investment was worth it, 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:12.800 I promised, like I am making something of this. 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:16.040 Yeah, and I will give back to him. Yeah. 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:21.079 Yeah, we were talking off mic about this, like you 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:24.559 just have a passion for music like money aside, Like 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:26.640 you're just be keen to rock up to gigs. 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:29.960 Yeah, like even like open mics, Like I just I'm 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:33.439 keen to jam anywhere, you know, like one for exposure 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:35.920 to like you know, let the people know they're like 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:39.199 I do I have some good music out there, you know, Okay, 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:42.840 like support your local artists, believe in us because you know, 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:46.880 like without them, like we wouldn't make it. Yeah. Like 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:49.960 so we need our like our supporters and stuff, and 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:51.839 it's it's the one thing to have them, but then 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:54.440 it's another thing to like really get to know them 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:58.200 and like interact with them, like meet them. Yeah. Yeah, 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:00.400 So like your cool in real life and as an 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:02.880 artist as well. That's so cool. 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:08.560 This is about it. So you were very because you 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:12.319 are eighteen years older, Lena, Ye, can I take this, Chris, 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:15.560 I just don't believe that. When we were eighteen we 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:17.840 had the drive that you have. 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:22.000 Like like you just you were able to leave school 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:23.760 and then you had a plan and now he were 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:26.920 executing the plan like there was There was no plan 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:29.240 when we were eighteen, girl, it was just go to Uni, 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:30.559 got to sensational chicken and. 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:40.720 As a sensational and raw school. Do you know about. 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:46.480 Or even chickens. I have tried chicken. 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:51.920 I love chicken with the rice and the coastal Yeah, okay, 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:53.959 let's move this away. 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:57.360 As well as like your parents and then the people 0:10:57.400 --> 0:10:58.880 that will show up to your shows, who are some 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:01.120 people in the music industry you feel like have really 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:03.560 supported you so far because to me, Mas and I, 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:05.680 from the outside, it seems like a really at least 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:07.640 for a lot of Pacific musicians, like quite a tight 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:09.000 post community. 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:12.400 Yeah. I think there's a lot of people who support me, 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:16.760 like a lot more than I know, but definitely like 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:20.959 my my whole team, like Eddie, sam Hale, sam v 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:26.040 is really really been supportive and I'm so grateful for 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:29.880 that because I've learned a lot a lot from them, 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:34.400 Like Astro, Yeah, that's my main team, Like, yeah, Astro, Eddie, 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:44.720 Salm and Hills and then my partner, yeah, my session guitarists. Yes, 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:47.360 so it's nice to have a partner who does music 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:50.960 as well, because he's introduced me to like a lot 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:53.840 of people in the industry as well. Yeah, so it's 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:56.439 it's really nice to you know, have that little team 0:11:56.520 --> 0:11:59.240 and yeah, that support that's so cool. 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:01.560 We hear so many I mean, we love Sam just 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:05.000 as a friend, but hearing all these incredible ways that 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:08.200 he supports young artists, it's so special, Like, yeah, it 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:10.800 really is like a kind of like a giving back. 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:12.040 I don't know, it feels. 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:15.040 Really much older than us, but yeah, yeah, he can 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:17.320 show you. He opens doors for a lot of people, 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:18.640 and that'slutely special. 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:21.640 I think Sam's a fum believer of everyone can eat. 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:25.040 Because I hate to say it, but quite often in 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:29.360 Pacific spaces there's those gatekeepers who forge their own way, 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:33.320 pave their own path. But then I don't want to 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:35.120 put words in their mouth, but it's almost like it 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:38.120 stops of them, and so anyone who comes after them, 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:41.400 it's kind of like, oh, well either that first. 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:43.400 So yeah, well I went through the struggle, so you 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:45.560 have to struggle to h not too much so. 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:48.080 I love people like Sam who encourage up and coming 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:51.240 talent and give them the tools to actually realize for 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:54.880 themselves their full potentially love love love love. 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:57.960 Well, you are only eighteen, so so young. We can't 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:01.160 get over how young you are. But you're creating such 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:04.840 amazing music. What has anyone ever given you, like some 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:08.040 crazy good advice that you're like, oh, yes, this has 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:09.960 helped me, helped me so much on my music journey. 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:16.280 I do not know they have, but I cannot remember. 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:29.440 We're the same girl. I can say. 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:30.560 It's one thing to perform live and you do your 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:33.840 covers girl, and you know, get them flowers that way. 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:39.360 But to write, produce your own music whole game. So 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:41.760 take us through that. What is it like being in 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:43.560 the studio doing your own thing? 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:49.520 Right? Well, I'm in the studio. Salmon Hills write for me. Yeah, 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:56.320 with them, I would write. But I'm very like, that's 0:13:56.320 --> 0:14:04.280 that's great. Yeah, it's just that they write for me. 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:05.640 But I think I need to believe in myself a 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:07.600 bit more when it comes to writing. I do want 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:14.760 to write my own stuff. Belief is there also. 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:17.520 We're writers as well, and sometimes when we're looking at 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:19.080 our obviously it's not songs. 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:20.800 If only we could read songwriters. 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:22.880 Sometimes I read my own stuff back and I'm like 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:28.240 they're disgusted or like you read it back a week 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:32.960 later and be like what the hell? 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:40.880 Thing? Like that is so basic? Yeah, what's it? 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:43.440 Buzzy? When you step foot inside a studio for the 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:45.480 first time, just taking it back to when you had 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:48.800 decided to leave school at fifteen, and then fast forward 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:52.280 to the point you walk inside a studio, it feels 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:53.920 like your dreams are becoming a reality. 0:14:54.320 --> 0:15:01.320 Yeah. The first time I was in a studio, it 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:03.560 was very nerve wracking because I was really young. I 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:06.000 was young, and I was like, I can sing, but. 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:12.640 Yeah, you're listening to yourself. 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:14.840 People in the room, and I'm like, damn they can 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:22.920 hear me raw, Like can I hear the orts blind? 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:31.160 But I I recorded a song with if you guys 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:35.600 know Xander Pierre, Yes, I know her. Yeah, I have 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:37.760 a song with him, And that was like my kind 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:42.440 of my first like real studio time. And yeah, like 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:46.480 even like even from back then, they always believe like 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:50.080 you know, like she's shy, like but she'll come out. Yeah, 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:53.400 and now that like my own music and stuff like 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:56.480 they hit me up. One of the producers. He was like, 0:15:56.560 --> 0:16:00.200 it's just like this is what like we needed. I 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:03.320 was like, I just need a time, girl, give me 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:04.880 some time and I'll show you. 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:11.600 Yes exactly. Their energy is there the Piers Store making music. Wow. 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:14.360 Oh we gotta know when was that? 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:17.640 This was like twenty twenty. 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:25.080 Oh wow, they are so buzzy. Yeah, you're so cool. 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:29.120 Yeah, you're so cool. That song was really like that 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:31.880 song here song slept. I'm kind of said that. We 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:33.880 didn't release anything, but I think he used his verse 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:36.480 for another song that he already released, which is fine. 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:43.720 Yea, yeah, I first believe little Cook. 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:47.920 Do you have any other songs of yours where you're like, 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:51.000 I really, I mean every song you're probably like yeah, 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:53.080 I really ate with that one, but they're like especially 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:54.880 one where you're like, this is so mey, this is 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:55.360 so late. 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:59.640 Now. I think my first song your vibe. Yeah, I 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:04.760 love my first song I ever released. Yeah, that's so cool. 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:06.800 It's just always special. Please. 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:10.760 Is that one of your favorites to perform live as well? 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:21.399 There's so many bbs No yeah, yeah yeah, I'm going 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:26.399 to be performing at my shot Yeah yeah, yeah, I 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:28.600 think when it comes to live music, like the band 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:31.119 like they can switch it up and make it more 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:35.320 like like wow, like there's there's the extra song and 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:38.720 there's like the live version. Yeah, we love some live 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:40.040 live music, yes we do. 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:43.200 Well, I mean this will be released after the show, 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:46.399 but please tell us about how this lineup came to be. 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:50.040 How I'm just so excited for you girl, looks I'm 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:52.320 so excited line up. 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:55.040 She is the. 0:17:56.600 --> 0:18:02.240 The winner of the oh stand up stand out period 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:06.960 not I'm not caught up with that. But then we 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:15.359 have Spider Town baby. Yeah, she's so cool. And we 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:24.720 have Kitty Ducks yes, and yeah he's a hustler, he 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:25.280 really is. 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:28.600 And he's called Kitty Docks because he's kitty. 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:31.360 Amazing. 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:34.760 Yeah you don't hear about that everything, you. 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:39.480 Girl, And it was cool like meeting him and stuff. Yeah, 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:41.760 I think he's he's going to go far. Yeah, yeah, 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:44.800 he really like you know, he's got it. 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:49.399 He has the X factor. Do you don't you have 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:55.960 the expector? Katy Dogs. If you're listening, shout out to you, bro. 0:18:59.000 --> 0:19:01.119 So yeah, let's go. Are you excited for it? 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:02.520 Yes, I'm so excited. 0:19:02.680 --> 0:19:07.520 Yeah, is this like the first headline. Yeah, Oh my gosh, 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:08.840 that's so excited. 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:12.040 Headline show. 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:16.760 Yeah, and you're dropping a new song during the show, 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:17.840 please tell us about. 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:22.680 It's called show Me Me and Hailes on the song 0:19:23.359 --> 0:19:28.960 my eyes watering? What what's going on? But yeah, we 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:31.879 we wrote the song like, oh, I can't even remember. 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:33.000 It was like a while ago. 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:36.000 Okay, yeah, but what's it about? 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:41.359 Show me? It's like you say that you love me, well, 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:41.879 then show me. 0:19:42.920 --> 0:19:51.560 Oh a lot of people what the lyrics? You're really like? 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:55.000 Yeah, oh. 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:02.879 Okay, So so that's the show. Also, what happened recently 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:06.040 was the pm AS, the Pacific Music Awards. Let's break 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:09.840 that down. So PMAs, how did it feel to be 0:20:10.000 --> 0:20:16.240 recognized and then amongst all these talented musicians at the PMAs, Oh, 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:18.200 it's buzzy. 0:20:19.359 --> 0:20:25.760 Absolutely yep, no big words, but it's buzzy. I think 0:20:25.880 --> 0:20:28.879 just being so young, like you know, like seeing like 0:20:29.000 --> 0:20:32.000 Shane Walker, he's thirty seven, just turned thirty seven, period, 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:34.199 and you know he got his award. 0:20:34.600 --> 0:20:37.119 I'm so happy he got his flowers. Yeah, because Shane's 0:20:37.119 --> 0:20:38.800 been working, Yeah exactly, And like. 0:20:38.880 --> 0:20:42.080 That's what I mean, like, you know people, Oh, I'm 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:46.200 not calling anyone old, but you know, like it takes 0:20:46.240 --> 0:20:49.680 time to get those awards very beas and like for 0:20:49.800 --> 0:20:52.359 me being eighteen, like just to be nominated and stuff, 0:20:52.400 --> 0:20:55.040 it's like that's such a big thing for me that 0:20:55.400 --> 0:20:57.760 I don't even realized it's a big thing, but it's 0:20:57.760 --> 0:20:58.360 a big thing. 0:20:58.680 --> 0:20:58.920 Yeah. 0:21:00.680 --> 0:21:04.720 But yeah, it's just like not everything comes just like that, 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:07.680 Like it takes time. Yeah, so who knows when I'll 0:21:07.680 --> 0:21:09.120 get an award, but hopefully next year. 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:13.720 But you know, yeah, I like that mindset. I think 0:21:13.880 --> 0:21:17.800 if you have have put out your intentions and they 0:21:17.840 --> 0:21:20.240 are out there, and you just continue to apply yourself 0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:23.320 towards your goals, then eventually you'll get to that point. 0:21:23.480 --> 0:21:25.159 So it's more worth it in the end. 0:21:25.359 --> 0:21:27.920 Yeah, you know, And I think you'll look back in 0:21:27.960 --> 0:21:29.560 a few years and you'll be like, man, I was 0:21:29.640 --> 0:21:32.560 really eighteen. A few years ago I was nominated for 0:21:32.640 --> 0:21:36.080 a pm A. That's wild. That's an achievement and itself. 0:21:35.840 --> 0:21:39.600 Truly, and it's like it's not impossible for my Youngion's 0:21:39.640 --> 0:21:44.719 out there to another message, Yeah, like you don't need 0:21:44.760 --> 0:21:46.400 to be all that, you just need to be yourself. 0:21:47.320 --> 0:21:50.280 I love that you don't need to finish school, you 0:21:50.320 --> 0:21:54.040 don't need to take this conventional path that is prescribed 0:21:54.080 --> 0:21:55.960 for you. You can do your own thing. 0:21:56.160 --> 0:21:58.480 Yeah, yeah, I think it's just there's so many standards, 0:21:58.680 --> 0:22:02.080 and especially when it comes to like families, the strict, 0:22:02.840 --> 0:22:05.200 so not all of us are like you know, I 0:22:05.280 --> 0:22:08.760 can't just get it that easy with your parents. Yeah. 0:22:09.400 --> 0:22:12.440 Yeah, I think a lot of parents are starting to 0:22:12.680 --> 0:22:16.119 open their eyes to different career paths. So hopefully we 0:22:16.280 --> 0:22:17.320 move more in that direction. 0:22:17.800 --> 0:22:20.960 Yeah, and just hopefully they stay consistent and you know, 0:22:21.200 --> 0:22:22.080 like get somewhere. 0:22:23.640 --> 0:22:25.680 How was pm a's night for you? You said you 0:22:25.720 --> 0:22:28.080 bought your whole family, which are so cool. I love 0:22:28.200 --> 0:22:29.560 that they got to celebrate with you. 0:22:29.720 --> 0:22:34.200 That strings to get my sister on the table, We had. 0:22:34.400 --> 0:22:37.600 Some strings to get a lesson there and then give 0:22:37.640 --> 0:22:47.720 me home that night, enjoying the night though, Yeah it's 0:22:47.760 --> 0:22:52.760 a long night. The pms are renowned for their links speech. 0:22:55.680 --> 0:22:56.560 We love the speeches. 0:22:57.560 --> 0:23:00.399 Your parents are there, that's so cool. 0:23:00.840 --> 0:23:05.320 Yeah, they were like they've never been to anything like that. 0:23:05.720 --> 0:23:10.960 My parents are very like old school. But yeah, to 0:23:11.040 --> 0:23:13.280 bring them along like even to like homelands, like to 0:23:13.400 --> 0:23:15.520 my shows and stuff, I'm like, are you guys are right? 0:23:15.560 --> 0:23:16.520 Like it's all right. 0:23:18.560 --> 0:23:18.679 To go. 0:23:20.200 --> 0:23:25.040 Headphones. They're just like, to me, they're not getting old, 0:23:25.119 --> 0:23:27.280 but you know they won't be here forever. So I'm like, 0:23:27.359 --> 0:23:30.160 I really want to, you know, give back to them 0:23:30.200 --> 0:23:34.880 and just make them have fun, you know, like my life. 0:23:36.200 --> 0:23:37.680 It was probably once in your lives too. 0:23:46.480 --> 0:23:46.919 I love that. 0:23:49.160 --> 0:23:50.840