Speaker 1: This is the flavor podcast network Island Roots Auckland Ways.
Speaker 2: This one's for the Brown brothers and sisters who want
Speaker 2: to be one with themselves, their culture, their identity, their roots.
Speaker 2: This is Island Roots Auckland Ways.
Speaker 3: Oh hi everyone, welcome to Island Roots Auckland.
Speaker 2: Wye oy.
Speaker 3: Am I up to J Chillen, J Chillen. I have
Speaker 3: a headache. And the thing is, when you need pennant
Speaker 3: all the most, you don't have any.
Speaker 2: I've got some.
Speaker 1: When dot you ask, hey, yeah.
Speaker 3: Would you like some crisis averted?
Speaker 2: Crisis averted?
Speaker 3: I won't turn into the kraken.
Speaker 2: Where's the kraken?
Speaker 3: A dragon? What?
Speaker 2: Anyway?
Speaker 1: Okay, Today we have the beautiful Elena on the podcast.
Speaker 1: Not only is she so talented and so stunning, she's
Speaker 1: also so young. So fact that we're able to chat
Speaker 1: with her today was so exciting because it's just an icon. Really,
Speaker 1: she's icon and she's really an adult.
Speaker 3: Listen to it all right now, hey.
Speaker 1: Everyone, welcome back to another episode of Island Roots boot Conways.
Speaker 1: Please welcome to the show, the beautiful talented c A
Speaker 1: Princess Elina.
Speaker 2: What of c A?
Speaker 1: But what part of c am from roschol. I'm sure
Speaker 1: she's from ros School. Everyone we know who's from Roschool.
Speaker 2: Very hatty.
Speaker 3: I like that. I like that it gives it gives
Speaker 3: a little bit of self energy.
Speaker 1: It does a little bit. Yeah, did you so you've
Speaker 1: grown up in ros School your whole life?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Pretty much? Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 3: Wow, what's from school?
Speaker 2: Like, I'm like uptown, so it was kind of kind
Speaker 2: of quiet. People racing up and down the street. Mm hmm,
Speaker 2: people of their sirens. We hear you.
Speaker 3: Very much where we are from, thank you. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 3: speaking about home every episode, so spe share what we
Speaker 3: love about home. So whether that as Rascal, we currently live,
Speaker 3: where you were born, where you feel most grounded, whatever
Speaker 3: feels like home, what do you love about it? We'll
Speaker 3: start off first, and what I love about home this
Speaker 3: week is, Okay, did you guys like have these kind
Speaker 3: of things that you thought gave rich growing up? Like
Speaker 3: if you drove past a two story house, you're very that. Well.
Speaker 3: I now have a TV in my room, which for
Speaker 3: like five year old me was impossible, Like the only
Speaker 3: TV we had was on the sitting room, and now
Speaker 3: I have a TV in my room, and that's what
Speaker 3: I love about her.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 3: It's just like a little marker of success. Okay, I
Speaker 3: made it, I'm gonna TV. I get blast by Spotify. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and things like that, just stuff to watch thos because
Speaker 3: also the thing was growing up in a poly household
Speaker 3: and sometimes when the six scenes come on, that's one
Speaker 3: of the most Orc's situations ever, Like you can't even
Speaker 3: sit down and watch Shortland Street because the drama is
Speaker 3: just too much, and then it's going to be turned
Speaker 3: to the news. So to be able to watch what
Speaker 3: I want and the comfort of my own room, it's
Speaker 3: just a little sign that, hey, you know, you might
Speaker 3: have had a bad day, but you've got a TV
Speaker 3: in your room, so be grateful. Very there a little
Speaker 3: Netflix and chill, even though there's no one to netflix.
Speaker 2: It's just Netflix.
Speaker 3: Very that very Ginny and George.
Speaker 1: I love that as someone who also has a TV
Speaker 1: in their room. Used to be the family TV announce
Speaker 1: my TV. It's the best thing ever.
Speaker 3: Love it.
Speaker 1: But what I love about home this week, this past weekend,
Speaker 1: I have this is the difference between Me's and I.
Speaker 1: MEZ like stay inside.
Speaker 2: I like to be outside. I like to be out.
Speaker 1: I'll post it up in different places I'm outside, and
Speaker 1: one of my favorite things about being outside is live music,
Speaker 1: like being able to experience just a live band somewhere.
Speaker 1: I have a little boogy little dance every time I
Speaker 1: go to a gig. I'm like, this is why life
Speaker 1: is worth living. That's great live music.
Speaker 2: Yeah, surviving. So that's what I love about home. Right now,
Speaker 2: I'm getting my wardrobe redone.
Speaker 3: E Standard.
Speaker 2: It's giving walk in wardrobe, a lot of room works. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I should be finished in like a few weeks.
Speaker 3: I'm gay.
Speaker 2: I don't have a TV, but I have a walking
Speaker 2: wardrobe and.
Speaker 3: You know what, Yeah, must be geeking out because Alsa
Speaker 3: loves class I love, I.
Speaker 2: Love Yeah, it's nice. Yeah, it's so cool.
Speaker 3: Sometimes when I watch these TikTokers and I see them
Speaker 3: do their little walking wardrobe tours, and I'm like to
Speaker 3: be that person, to have that life.
Speaker 1: And that now. That was one of the things for
Speaker 1: me when I was younger. I was like, have you
Speaker 1: ever walking wardrobe? Rich money right there?
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 1: Well, We're so excited to have such talent like you
Speaker 1: in the studio with us today. Can you please tell
Speaker 1: us a little bit about your journey into music and
Speaker 1: how Elena has come to be well.
Speaker 2: I grew up in a church household, Christian household. Oh
Speaker 2: my gosh, my phone is.
Speaker 1: Singing girl girl, she's busy people trying to get a
Speaker 1: hold of that.
Speaker 2: But yeah, church household. I did coupas Coupka in primary school,
Speaker 2: talking representation, went to poly Fast. Yeah, it was cool experience,
Speaker 2: like in the school when I was at school, and
Speaker 2: then I went to EXCEL.
Speaker 3: Yes, Excel School of Performing Arts.
Speaker 2: Yes, where's my phone?
Speaker 3: Let me.
Speaker 1: At?
Speaker 3: Must be Beyonce. Beyonce is like Elena, it's my manager.
Speaker 2: Guys, it's any.
Speaker 3: If you don't stop right now, because if anyone knows
Speaker 3: that you're in an innsview right now, it should be
Speaker 3: the manager. Thanks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think. Yeah, anyway, I went to EXAU and
Speaker 2: then yeah, I left school when I was fifteen, and
Speaker 2: then winter when I was sixteen. Graduated just last year
Speaker 2: with my music diploma. No n c A or anything
Speaker 2: but the plomba. Life is great right now. But yeah,
Speaker 2: my parents sing, you know, It's just always been a
Speaker 2: part of me, the whole music thing.
Speaker 3: Yes, when you made that decision to leave school, how
Speaker 3: did your parents take it?
Speaker 2: They were fine? And that's what I really love about
Speaker 2: it that they support me no matter what. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: would do a lot of like mental health in school,
Speaker 2: which is one of the reasons why I left. You're
Speaker 2: just found like no one really believed in me for school,
Speaker 2: you know, everyone had their opinions about me and everything,
Speaker 2: like you're not gonna make it, you can't sing all
Speaker 2: of that. And then yeah, I was like, you know, mom, dad,
Speaker 2: I want to go. I don't want to be here.
Speaker 2: Like as long as you're happy, then we're happy.
Speaker 3: And I was like that is beautiful, so beautiful.
Speaker 2: Healthy parents. And I was so grateful for them, Like
Speaker 2: they've just always been there for me. Giving me money
Speaker 2: is to go buy my outfits for you know, performances,
Speaker 2: and I get to bring them along with me. Like
Speaker 2: for homelands, I brought my mom and she's writing her things.
Speaker 2: She's walking around like get some food, get into it.
Speaker 2: And like I went to her wreck the other day
Speaker 2: and I saw she came to the pemade as well.
Speaker 2: I brought my whole family. Yeah, so they I was
Speaker 2: to her wreck and I saw her little vip land
Speaker 2: yards next to her desk, and.
Speaker 1: I was like, I feel like it's little moments like
Speaker 1: that when you realize you're kind of maybe not financially,
Speaker 1: but like emotionally or like spiritually giving back to your
Speaker 1: appearance in somewhere being like the investment was worth it,
Speaker 1: I promised, like I am making something of this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I will give back to him. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we were talking off mic about this, like you
Speaker 3: just have a passion for music like money aside, Like
Speaker 3: you're just be keen to rock up to gigs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like even like open mics, Like I just I'm
Speaker 2: keen to jam anywhere, you know, like one for exposure
Speaker 2: to like you know, let the people know they're like
Speaker 2: I do I have some good music out there, you know, Okay,
Speaker 2: like support your local artists, believe in us because you know,
Speaker 2: like without them, like we wouldn't make it. Yeah. Like
Speaker 2: so we need our like our supporters and stuff, and
Speaker 2: it's it's the one thing to have them, but then
Speaker 2: it's another thing to like really get to know them
Speaker 2: and like interact with them, like meet them. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So like your cool in real life and as an
Speaker 2: artist as well. That's so cool.
Speaker 3: This is about it. So you were very because you
Speaker 3: are eighteen years older, Lena, Ye, can I take this, Chris,
Speaker 3: I just don't believe that. When we were eighteen we
Speaker 3: had the drive that you have.
Speaker 1: Like like you just you were able to leave school
Speaker 1: and then you had a plan and now he were
Speaker 1: executing the plan like there was There was no plan
Speaker 1: when we were eighteen, girl, it was just go to Uni,
Speaker 1: got to sensational chicken and.
Speaker 3: As a sensational and raw school. Do you know about.
Speaker 2: Or even chickens. I have tried chicken.
Speaker 3: I love chicken with the rice and the coastal Yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: let's move this away.
Speaker 1: As well as like your parents and then the people
Speaker 1: that will show up to your shows, who are some
Speaker 1: people in the music industry you feel like have really
Speaker 1: supported you so far because to me, Mas and I,
Speaker 1: from the outside, it seems like a really at least
Speaker 1: for a lot of Pacific musicians, like quite a tight
Speaker 1: post community.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think there's a lot of people who support me,
Speaker 2: like a lot more than I know, but definitely like
Speaker 2: my my whole team, like Eddie, sam Hale, sam v
Speaker 2: is really really been supportive and I'm so grateful for
Speaker 2: that because I've learned a lot a lot from them,
Speaker 2: Like Astro, Yeah, that's my main team, Like, yeah, Astro, Eddie,
Speaker 2: Salm and Hills and then my partner, yeah, my session guitarists. Yes,
Speaker 2: so it's nice to have a partner who does music
Speaker 2: as well, because he's introduced me to like a lot
Speaker 2: of people in the industry as well. Yeah, so it's
Speaker 2: it's really nice to you know, have that little team
Speaker 2: and yeah, that support that's so cool.
Speaker 1: We hear so many I mean, we love Sam just
Speaker 1: as a friend, but hearing all these incredible ways that
Speaker 1: he supports young artists, it's so special, Like, yeah, it
Speaker 1: really is like a kind of like a giving back.
Speaker 2: I don't know, it feels.
Speaker 1: Really much older than us, but yeah, yeah, he can
Speaker 1: show you. He opens doors for a lot of people,
Speaker 1: and that'slutely special.
Speaker 3: I think Sam's a fum believer of everyone can eat.
Speaker 3: Because I hate to say it, but quite often in
Speaker 3: Pacific spaces there's those gatekeepers who forge their own way,
Speaker 3: pave their own path. But then I don't want to
Speaker 3: put words in their mouth, but it's almost like it
Speaker 3: stops of them, and so anyone who comes after them,
Speaker 3: it's kind of like, oh, well either that first.
Speaker 1: So yeah, well I went through the struggle, so you
Speaker 1: have to struggle to h not too much so.
Speaker 3: I love people like Sam who encourage up and coming
Speaker 3: talent and give them the tools to actually realize for
Speaker 3: themselves their full potentially love love love love.
Speaker 1: Well, you are only eighteen, so so young. We can't
Speaker 1: get over how young you are. But you're creating such
Speaker 1: amazing music. What has anyone ever given you, like some
Speaker 1: crazy good advice that you're like, oh, yes, this has
Speaker 1: helped me, helped me so much on my music journey.
Speaker 2: I do not know they have, but I cannot remember.
Speaker 2: We're the same girl. I can say.
Speaker 3: It's one thing to perform live and you do your
Speaker 3: covers girl, and you know, get them flowers that way.
Speaker 3: But to write, produce your own music whole game. So
Speaker 3: take us through that. What is it like being in
Speaker 3: the studio doing your own thing?
Speaker 2: Right? Well, I'm in the studio. Salmon Hills write for me. Yeah,
Speaker 2: with them, I would write. But I'm very like, that's
Speaker 2: that's great. Yeah, it's just that they write for me.
Speaker 2: But I think I need to believe in myself a
Speaker 2: bit more when it comes to writing. I do want
Speaker 2: to write my own stuff. Belief is there also.
Speaker 1: We're writers as well, and sometimes when we're looking at
Speaker 1: our obviously it's not songs.
Speaker 2: If only we could read songwriters.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I read my own stuff back and I'm like
Speaker 1: they're disgusted or like you read it back a week
Speaker 1: later and be like what the hell?
Speaker 2: Thing? Like that is so basic? Yeah, what's it?
Speaker 3: Buzzy? When you step foot inside a studio for the
Speaker 3: first time, just taking it back to when you had
Speaker 3: decided to leave school at fifteen, and then fast forward
Speaker 3: to the point you walk inside a studio, it feels
Speaker 3: like your dreams are becoming a reality.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The first time I was in a studio, it
Speaker 2: was very nerve wracking because I was really young. I
Speaker 2: was young, and I was like, I can sing, but.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're listening to yourself.
Speaker 2: People in the room, and I'm like, damn they can
Speaker 2: hear me raw, Like can I hear the orts blind?
Speaker 2: But I I recorded a song with if you guys
Speaker 2: know Xander Pierre, Yes, I know her. Yeah, I have
Speaker 2: a song with him, And that was like my kind
Speaker 2: of my first like real studio time. And yeah, like
Speaker 2: even like even from back then, they always believe like
Speaker 2: you know, like she's shy, like but she'll come out. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and now that like my own music and stuff like
Speaker 2: they hit me up. One of the producers. He was like,
Speaker 2: it's just like this is what like we needed. I
Speaker 2: was like, I just need a time, girl, give me
Speaker 2: some time and I'll show you.
Speaker 3: Yes exactly. Their energy is there the Piers Store making music. Wow.
Speaker 3: Oh we gotta know when was that?
Speaker 2: This was like twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, they are so buzzy. Yeah, you're so cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're so cool. That song was really like that
Speaker 2: song here song slept. I'm kind of said that. We
Speaker 2: didn't release anything, but I think he used his verse
Speaker 2: for another song that he already released, which is fine.
Speaker 3: Yea, yeah, I first believe little Cook.
Speaker 1: Do you have any other songs of yours where you're like,
Speaker 1: I really, I mean every song you're probably like yeah,
Speaker 1: I really ate with that one, but they're like especially
Speaker 1: one where you're like, this is so mey, this is
Speaker 1: so late.
Speaker 2: Now. I think my first song your vibe. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: love my first song I ever released. Yeah, that's so cool.
Speaker 2: It's just always special. Please.
Speaker 1: Is that one of your favorites to perform live as well?
Speaker 2: There's so many bbs No yeah, yeah yeah, I'm going
Speaker 2: to be performing at my shot Yeah yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 2: think when it comes to live music, like the band
Speaker 2: like they can switch it up and make it more
Speaker 2: like like wow, like there's there's the extra song and
Speaker 2: there's like the live version. Yeah, we love some live
Speaker 2: live music, yes we do.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean this will be released after the show,
Speaker 1: but please tell us about how this lineup came to be.
Speaker 2: How I'm just so excited for you girl, looks I'm
Speaker 2: so excited line up.
Speaker 3: She is the.
Speaker 2: The winner of the oh stand up stand out period
Speaker 2: not I'm not caught up with that. But then we
Speaker 2: have Spider Town baby. Yeah, she's so cool. And we
Speaker 2: have Kitty Ducks yes, and yeah he's a hustler, he
Speaker 2: really is.
Speaker 3: And he's called Kitty Docks because he's kitty.
Speaker 2: Amazing.
Speaker 3: Yeah you don't hear about that everything, you.
Speaker 2: Girl, And it was cool like meeting him and stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think he's he's going to go far. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: he really like you know, he's got it.
Speaker 3: He has the X factor. Do you don't you have
Speaker 3: the expector? Katy Dogs. If you're listening, shout out to you, bro.
Speaker 3: So yeah, let's go. Are you excited for it?
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm so excited.
Speaker 1: Yeah, is this like the first headline. Yeah, Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: that's so excited.
Speaker 2: Headline show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you're dropping a new song during the show,
Speaker 1: please tell us about.
Speaker 2: It's called show Me Me and Hailes on the song
Speaker 2: my eyes watering? What what's going on? But yeah, we
Speaker 2: we wrote the song like, oh, I can't even remember.
Speaker 2: It was like a while ago.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, but what's it about?
Speaker 2: Show me? It's like you say that you love me, well,
Speaker 2: then show me.
Speaker 3: Oh a lot of people what the lyrics? You're really like?
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh.
Speaker 3: Okay, So so that's the show. Also, what happened recently
Speaker 3: was the pm AS, the Pacific Music Awards. Let's break
Speaker 3: that down. So PMAs, how did it feel to be
Speaker 3: recognized and then amongst all these talented musicians at the PMAs, Oh,
Speaker 3: it's buzzy.
Speaker 2: Absolutely yep, no big words, but it's buzzy. I think
Speaker 2: just being so young, like you know, like seeing like
Speaker 2: Shane Walker, he's thirty seven, just turned thirty seven, period,
Speaker 2: and you know he got his award.
Speaker 3: I'm so happy he got his flowers. Yeah, because Shane's
Speaker 3: been working, Yeah exactly, And like.
Speaker 2: That's what I mean, like, you know people, Oh, I'm
Speaker 2: not calling anyone old, but you know, like it takes
Speaker 2: time to get those awards very beas and like for
Speaker 2: me being eighteen, like just to be nominated and stuff,
Speaker 2: it's like that's such a big thing for me that
Speaker 2: I don't even realized it's a big thing, but it's
Speaker 2: a big thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's just like not everything comes just like that,
Speaker 2: Like it takes time. Yeah, so who knows when I'll
Speaker 2: get an award, but hopefully next year.
Speaker 3: But you know, yeah, I like that mindset. I think
Speaker 3: if you have have put out your intentions and they
Speaker 3: are out there, and you just continue to apply yourself
Speaker 3: towards your goals, then eventually you'll get to that point.
Speaker 2: So it's more worth it in the end.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, And I think you'll look back in
Speaker 3: a few years and you'll be like, man, I was
Speaker 3: really eighteen. A few years ago I was nominated for
Speaker 3: a pm A. That's wild. That's an achievement and itself.
Speaker 2: Truly, and it's like it's not impossible for my Youngion's
Speaker 2: out there to another message, Yeah, like you don't need
Speaker 2: to be all that, you just need to be yourself.
Speaker 3: I love that you don't need to finish school, you
Speaker 3: don't need to take this conventional path that is prescribed
Speaker 3: for you. You can do your own thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think it's just there's so many standards,
Speaker 2: and especially when it comes to like families, the strict,
Speaker 2: so not all of us are like you know, I
Speaker 2: can't just get it that easy with your parents. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think a lot of parents are starting to
Speaker 3: open their eyes to different career paths. So hopefully we
Speaker 3: move more in that direction.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and just hopefully they stay consistent and you know,
Speaker 2: like get somewhere.
Speaker 3: How was pm a's night for you? You said you
Speaker 3: bought your whole family, which are so cool. I love
Speaker 3: that they got to celebrate with you.
Speaker 2: That strings to get my sister on the table, We had.
Speaker 3: Some strings to get a lesson there and then give
Speaker 3: me home that night, enjoying the night though, Yeah it's
Speaker 3: a long night. The pms are renowned for their links speech.
Speaker 2: We love the speeches.
Speaker 3: Your parents are there, that's so cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were like they've never been to anything like that.
Speaker 2: My parents are very like old school. But yeah, to
Speaker 2: bring them along like even to like homelands, like to
Speaker 2: my shows and stuff, I'm like, are you guys are right?
Speaker 2: Like it's all right.
Speaker 3: To go.
Speaker 2: Headphones. They're just like, to me, they're not getting old,
Speaker 2: but you know they won't be here forever. So I'm like,
Speaker 2: I really want to, you know, give back to them
Speaker 2: and just make them have fun, you know, like my life.
Speaker 2: It was probably once in your lives too.
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 2: They really enjoyed it.
Speaker 3: It was long, but it was a very good night.
Speaker 2: Chelly.
Speaker 1: For me, it was buying me a lot of drinks
Speaker 1: out side, and then there was a whole bottle of
Speaker 1: wine that somehow disappeared from the table inside. So I
Speaker 1: don't really know how long the night was.
Speaker 2: But she got home and I got home thanks to Marina.
Speaker 3: I did I did that? Can I just say I
Speaker 3: got her.
Speaker 2: I was like, why are we leaving? Marna was like,
Speaker 2: it's one thirty, girlless girl.
Speaker 3: I took her from the menu to the after party,
Speaker 3: and I was like, you have to come. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: I did not want to go to the after party
Speaker 3: because by that point I was like twelve thirty, yeah,
Speaker 3: and I wanted. I wanted to do a gym class
Speaker 3: that morning, but I'm like, I need to hold my
Speaker 3: soss down because I just don't know these all sorts. Yeah,
Speaker 3: at a music industry under the influence. So I was like, okay,
Speaker 3: let's just make sure, oh girl it's okay.
Speaker 2: Maybe leave her with someone there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but then I wasn't giving that, so I was like,
Speaker 3: let's go. But we at the after party, I'm away.
Speaker 3: There was food, they brought out food.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we left before that, okay because we got there early,
Speaker 2: so early on arrival, p and.
Speaker 3: And I want to love a Reagan.
Speaker 2: What are you doing.
Speaker 3: Talking to the d j oh, I really want to
Speaker 3: go to the p M as next. We're going to
Speaker 3: find our way there.
Speaker 2: We'll find out way there, we know. Yeah, sure, you guys,
Speaker 2: just do you know who we are?
Speaker 3: And everyone's like, no, we're not. We'll just be like
Speaker 3: we're Elena's body. Are you guys doing We're ready to
Speaker 3: protect that little security? Actually security? Get out with the new.
Speaker 2: Yeah you're done?
Speaker 3: What else next for Elena? So you've got the show
Speaker 3: coming up this week as a time of recording. We
Speaker 3: are team at the moment. So what are you wanting
Speaker 3: to knock out before we hit Christmas? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Literally, I guess I'll just see what happens. I mean,
Speaker 2: planning to do EP maybe my r and B lover
Speaker 2: say yeah, yes, yes, yes, I really want to do
Speaker 2: a project where I get like the underground artists, like
Speaker 2: on a EP or something, you know, yeah, like like
Speaker 2: shed some light on them. But yeah, that's pretty much
Speaker 2: about it. Maybe maybe an album I will start writing.
Speaker 2: You've had an idea for, like a testimonial album kind
Speaker 2: of give, like to give like you guys and so
Speaker 2: on what I've been through, like you know, kind of
Speaker 2: get to know me kind of thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Music, Yeah, since I can't like meet all you guys
Speaker 2: and just tell you my whole life story but in
Speaker 2: the DMC meaningful conversations with everyone, but yeah, try and
Speaker 2: do that for music.
Speaker 3: And so stunning. Have you been held up for any fistival? Okay,
Speaker 3: so this is an open per for Elena. We are
Speaker 3: her agents, yes, id come La, don't kill me please
Speaker 3: job oh me. And as we said, you are still
Speaker 3: so young, like I cannot wait to see what you
Speaker 3: achieved in the year. It's going to be a ride
Speaker 3: before we move on to our rapid fire game. Who
Speaker 3: are your influencers when it comes to R and B
Speaker 3: any faiths? And do you like old school R and
Speaker 3: B or new school R and B? Or Mexic. Both
Speaker 3: both love.
Speaker 2: Old school R and B because I feel like you
Speaker 2: like as much as you want to bring it back,
Speaker 2: like you can't.
Speaker 3: No, I cannot be replicated unfortunately.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's always going to be old school R
Speaker 2: and B.
Speaker 3: Any people in particular.
Speaker 2: Oh, I think old school.
Speaker 3: I like Erica.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, I like her tiny desk as well.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, speaking of.
Speaker 2: Tiny disks like Jasmine Sullivan. Yeah, ba I love the
Speaker 2: tiny desk. Yes, yes, even usher kind of slight.
Speaker 3: The tiny disks have eating so good.
Speaker 1: S w vaka can Nellie for Tato.
Speaker 3: Nellie forty babyface. Yeah, they've been in Elena's nicks.
Speaker 2: That's like my goal. One day I'm gonna be on
Speaker 2: that tiny desk.
Speaker 3: I'd love to see like a poly version of tiny discs. Yeah,
Speaker 3: like somewhere for especially our up and comers to come through.
Speaker 3: I feel like we just need to give some space
Speaker 3: to your generations. Yeah, take that idea. Okay, let's move
Speaker 3: on to our rapid fire. Now this is called Guess
Speaker 3: Who's Trill? So we're gonna play you a little trill trill,
Speaker 3: a little run run, and you just need a guess
Speaker 3: who is behind it?
Speaker 2: You will need your headphones.
Speaker 3: You'll need your headphone? Yes, yes, yes, okay, So for
Speaker 3: our second song, I forgot to put in the audio.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna play it straight off.
Speaker 2: Okay, cool?
Speaker 3: Uh are you ready? Okay, let's see if she's got
Speaker 3: the good.
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 3: Who was that? You want to listen to it again? Yes?
Speaker 2: Please?
Speaker 3: Okay? Man?
Speaker 1: Oh, I am not an iron bea girly, so I
Speaker 1: wouldn't know either. So I am fortunately cannot help.
Speaker 3: You any guesses. Yeah, let's play it one more time. Man,
Speaker 3: m hm, can your partner hear it?
Speaker 2: Do you want to try?
Speaker 3: I guess. Come, we're gonna bring a leader's partner onto
Speaker 3: the This is like phone of friends, Welcome to who
Speaker 3: wants to be a millionaire? Okay, I can't play this round.
Speaker 3: Just tell me who is a man? I don't know?
Speaker 3: And that was missus Tony Brexton was behind that trek.
Speaker 3: That was he wasn't man enough. That's okay, girl, So
Speaker 3: you may get this one. I think you will. I
Speaker 3: think you will.
Speaker 2: Immediately. Yes, I loved to concerts.
Speaker 3: Really, I really don't like maybe because you do enough
Speaker 3: life performing yourself.
Speaker 2: You don't want you know, I feel like I want
Speaker 2: to I just wouldn't spend like heaps of money. That's
Speaker 2: so fair. Also, the tickets for that were crazy.
Speaker 3: I was lucky. I got mine in the pre sale.
Speaker 3: I think it was to eighty but when they did
Speaker 3: the full release was four hundred bucks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I reckon. I would only pay that much if
Speaker 2: I were going to meet them.
Speaker 3: True.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I mean you can like watch watch them
Speaker 2: for free on your phone outside and yeah, but that's
Speaker 2: just my that's just me.
Speaker 3: Okay, one more song, Elena. Let's see if you get this.
Speaker 3: You should.
Speaker 2: Beyonce?
Speaker 3: Beyonce, do you know the song that she's singing. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna play it to you again just so you can
Speaker 3: get a little ro should hang?
Speaker 1: I don't know?
Speaker 3: Wait? Oh listen, wait, do you know what's crazy?
Speaker 2: I've never heard that song before, but I know it's Beyonce.
Speaker 2: Have you actually know? Like I would only know the
Speaker 2: chorus a song like that. I don't really listen to Beyonce,
Speaker 2: you know what? Okay?
Speaker 1: This is I I listened to Beyonce for some reason.
Speaker 1: She's always in mes's top five. MES does not listen
Speaker 1: to me.
Speaker 2: She's got a killer voice, one of the best, like
Speaker 2: like up with Mariah carey and all that.
Speaker 1: Very we wouldn't like sit down and listen and that
Speaker 1: is so fair like some.
Speaker 2: Of her songs. Yeah yeah, yeah, she's not really like
Speaker 2: a go to like yeah, I only listen to her
Speaker 2: when it comes to like the riff challenges. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: challenge like plastic off the sofa, Yeah challenge. So you
Speaker 2: guys can check out my little challenges.
Speaker 3: Okay, speaking of socials, where can we find you?
Speaker 2: A later? You can find you Instagram. I'm pretty much
Speaker 2: more active on this a girl. When it comes to
Speaker 2: posting and stuff. I go live on TikTok Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: so I actually like do my makeup, so like for
Speaker 2: the girls who want to watch me do my makeup
Speaker 2: and the like you live and I'll like come talk
Speaker 2: to you guys nice, or me and my partner will
Speaker 2: like jam some songs and you guys can request the
Speaker 2: song and we'll you know it for you.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's what I mean.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, we'll put all your up on our socials
Speaker 3: at Island Roots Aukland Way, so you can go find
Speaker 3: our sister and Elena thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 3: What a dope young woman you have a Yeah, Elena
Speaker 3: has such a refreshing energy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and she's like one of the girls. Our slag
Speaker 2: was her slag truly I felt. Yeah, I was like, Okay.
Speaker 3: At the start of the podcast, we were talking about
Speaker 3: the kraken scary, it's not a.
Speaker 1: Dragon, that's an octopus. Where is the kraken from? I
Speaker 1: have no idea any cracking monster right now?
Speaker 3: Cracking monster?
Speaker 1: Uh, Norway girls, it's like the North Sea, is it?
Speaker 3: Do you know what I do? Yes, even that sounds scary, scary,
Speaker 3: I'm scared enough about the.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Elena's not scary. She's stunning. She's gorgeous, she's
Speaker 1: so talented. Find her on the socials. I think it's
Speaker 1: like listen to the number two Elena, and you also
Speaker 1: find us on the socials at Island Roots, Walk and ways.
Speaker 3: All right, until next week, We'll catch you later.
Speaker 2: Hy