WEBVTT - WORLD EXCLUSIVE - Dinah Jane 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:03.320 It's the flavor podcast network. 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:05.680 Island Roots Auckland Ways. 0:00:06.120 --> 0:00:08.719 This one's for the Brown brothers and sisters who want 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:13.360 to be one with themselves, their culture, their identity, their roots. 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:16.000 This is Island Roots Auckland Ways. 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:22.680 Boom boom shake, shake the room. Boom boom shake, shake 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:26.400 the room. Boom boom, shake shake the room. Tick tick 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:30.320 tick tick boom, Island Roots Auckland Ways. This is probably 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:32.320 our biggest episode ever. 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:34.920 This is our oh are you kidding me? 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:37.680 Like, but also not just like in terms of like 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:40.199 the guest, just in terms of what she means to 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:41.480 us and our friendship. 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:44.520 Yes, this is next level. 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:47.440 This is the creme de la creme, Honey, Dinah Jane. 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:52.559 So we don't want to hold you up here as 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:55.360 the podcast right now and joylessly. 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:01.400 Welcome back everyone to another episode of Island Roots Auckland Ways. 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:01.960 Today. 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:07.200 It is an absolute honor to welcome an absolute princess, 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:10.760 Queen Queen, the dream guest of all dream guests. 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:13.840 When we tell you, no, no. 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:16.360 No, it's Dinah Jane. 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:23.600 Oh my gosh, I love you, guys. 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:26.320 We love you. We have no idea, well, I mean 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:28.360 you do have an idea because off the mic we 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:30.600 were talking about how obsessed we are with you and 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:34.440 how great we think you are and how talented we 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:36.880 think you are, and also how you are like the 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:40.520 third best friend in this friendship. So it's so exciting 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:41.640 that you could make the time. 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:42.319 To be here with us. 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:46.600 We are just we're like so jazzed right now, on 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:47.320 top of the world. 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:50.360 We are over the moon. Dinah, how are you going, sister. 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:54.080 I'm feeling amazing, so good. I'm doing thisus. Thank you 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:56.480 so much for having me. I wish we were in 0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:59.480 person for this because it's like do for me to 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:02.440 be a new zeale and fine now, but again, thank 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:04.480 you so much for having me. It's such an honor 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:06.640 to be on here with you guys and discuss some 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:07.520 fun topics. 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:11.040 He yo for the culture, for the coature. Cissy and 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:14.400 you are over do a trip on New Zealand. And 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:16.880 when you come here, girl, let's take you out. Let's 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:20.720 get an airbnb, let's get busy. 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:23.880 One's a good time to come to New Zealand, Like 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:26.480 one's a good season, like time of the month. 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:29.799 Summer for sure, which is like winter your time. So 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:31.000 I feel like that's nice. 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:34.240 Around Christmas, New Year's this was probably a really good 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:36.600 time to come not noted. 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:38.800 I will keep that in my notes for the end 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:39.320 of this year. 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:43.960 Yes, okay, okay, Oh my gosh, you're I am fan 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:46.080 girling right now when I tell you my palms are 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:49.200 sweaty like I'm imm and there right now. Don't play 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:57.000 with me son for so long. Oh, alyssa' is having 0:02:57.040 --> 0:03:00.520 a heart attach any Every episode we sre what we 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:02.920 love about home, So where you currently live, where you 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:05.840 were born, where you feel most grounded, What is home 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:08.079 to you? And what do you love about it? Dinah, 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:10.360 Alissa and I will start off first, and Alyssa, what 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:11.960 do you love about home this week? Girl? 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:14.160 Well, I am not tonguan, but what I love about 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:16.240 home this week is red, white and brass. There was 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:20.480 recently a it was a theater production remake of The 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:24.519 Incredible Movie with our friend JP for Yaki rises role. 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:26.880 And it was just so good and like that straight 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:31.400 my funa, that tongue in energy, it's just different and 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:33.600 it just I don't know, I was like fire out, 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:35.119 I like you, wish I was tongue right now? 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:40.400 Oh you sure where she were tongue? And huh oh 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:49.560 sure you're friends with JP and Dinah your friends with 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:51.800 JP for Yaki, aren't you girl? 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:54.880 Yeah, She's such a sweetheart and I'm so so proud 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:57.760 of him and everything that he's accomplished and putting our 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:00.960 tongue of people on such a map in honor platform 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:05.560 with what he's pushing. So congratulations to him. New Zealand's 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:08.240 Finest JP teaser. 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:12.680 Tees Gay Tuesday six seven six Baby, Okay, listen, thank 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:14.600 you so much for sharing what you love about home 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:19.000 this week. I love wearing asay and my hair. Okay, girl, 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:21.560 I love a cute flower in the hair. Sometimes it 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:25.120 just brings about that island flair. And whenever you're going whereever, 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:27.760 you're going well for me, whenever I'm going to a 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:31.400 predominantly by Langy event, and I just want to create 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:34.039 a little subtlety that reminds every one of where I 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:36.080 come from and who I represent. Check us a in 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:39.400 the air and then you're done, and then you're done. 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:42.520 Ski's girl with anything, you know what I mean? 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:45.080 That's so true. 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:49.320 Actually, I've been collecting a lot of says recently. I 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:50.680 love that you said that. I just came back from 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:53.520 Hawaii not too long ago, and I wore say like 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:55.880 almost everywhere I went, and I was just like, Wow, 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:58.240 this just feels like you don't have to say much. 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:00.880 It's just people already know like an island girls. 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:04.240 So that little signature we got to us is something 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:05.479 really special. 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:07.840 Hey Dinah that one. What do you love about Home 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:08.400 this week? 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:11.400 What I love about Home this week? 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:14.960 Well, like I said, I've been traveling a lot lately, 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:18.640 and what home is to me is Island music. Like 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:22.440 no wherever I no matter where I travel to throwing 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:25.080 on a little bit of Fiji and Jaybug Common Kings 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:25.720 here and there. 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:27.560 It feels like I'm carrying a piece. 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:30.120 Of Home with me everywhere I go, and that it 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:32.479 keeps me grounded and humble. The type of music I 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:36.200 listen to wherever, whatever room I'm stepping into too as well, 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:38.960 no matter who's in the room, I feel like that 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:44.800 little reminder that music helps me remember who who I 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:46.200 represent and where I come from. 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:48.839 I love that so much. 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:52.360 I am a fellow Island music girly, so I've got 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:55.679 it going whenever possible, And I agree, there's just something 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:57.760 about it that's just like so grounding. 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:01.840 Yeah, and you could go far and wide with it, 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:09.839 like Spawn, Breezy, Sammy j Redna Edies Girl Literit. Oh 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:12.600 you mentioned Fiji. There, he is the king, I disputed 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:14.520 king of Polynesian music, don't you think? 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:15.680 Amen? 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:19.440 Yes, Yeah, I feel like he's the reason why we 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:22.240 kind of branched out and have started this movement to 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:25.719 begin with. So props for the king himself, for Fiji. 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:28.480 Thank you Fiji for everything that you do and everything 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:32.760 that you represent. Yeah, I love Fiji. You can never 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:36.000 go wrong with a little bit of anything you want. 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:37.080 Why you. 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:39.520 Warrior of Love? 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:47.080 Hey girl, Hey girl? Yeah, Goveolwauki, Oh my god. 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:52.120 But honestly, Dinah, I feel the same way about your music, 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:55.320 especially Ocean Song, And I would love if we could 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:57.560 talk a little bit about Ocean Song, because I know 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:00.440 you've described it as like a call to your ancis 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:03.800 and there's something about it to me that is so grounding, 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:07.120 this like sense of like pacificness and like strength and 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:09.279 our identity that I can't really describe, but I feel 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:10.800 like you'll get it, and like you can see it 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:12.960 in the visuals girl, in the music video, it's just 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:16.560 so us. What has been what has it been like 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:19.520 for you to see it? Resonate with so many Pacifica 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:21.480 girls and women out there, because I feel like all 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:24.960 over TikTok, I'm seeing the girls jamming ocean song and 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:28.000 there's something about it I don't know, that's like my 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:30.320 funner to me, like, oh my gosh. Yeah, it just 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:33.200 fills me with so much pride every time I listen 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:33.480 to it. 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:33.840 What's it? 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:35.120 What's it been like to see it? Reasoning? 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:39.880 This song has taken such a journey, like I created 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:42.720 a song first of all, like four years ago in Bali, 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:47.640 and it started off as a love song, and then 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:50.560 you know, throughout the years, losing loved ones and then 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:53.440 still being attached to this song, I felt like I 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:57.080 was fighting for something that had some type of representation 0:07:57.200 --> 0:07:59.680 through my music. I've done all the fun stuff I've done, 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:02.800 like Bob, I've ben't heard it all before talking about 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:04.800 all my lovey dove songs, but I just felt like 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:08.320 something was missing, and to kick off this journey with 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:13.840 new music and new era, I think transforming this love 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:16.880 song into an ancestral prayer was so important to me. 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:20.480 Losing my loved ones, my grandparents that are in the 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:23.200 music video, which is my grandpa Almoni and my Grandma. 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:27.000 Jane, my Grandma Sanie. They have been my prayer warriors. 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:29.480 So to dedicate something to them, I felt like I 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:32.680 could create a prayer for many other Pacific Island girls 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:35.600 who feel who could feel some type of connection to 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:38.319 it of losing a loved one and knowing how hard, 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:41.120 how hard of a prayer war they can be for us, 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:43.480 that we can be one back to them in a sense. 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:46.720 So visually this also took such a toll. I was 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:48.880 like I was fighting for it, and I was like, please, 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:49.880 I need my thoughts. 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:52.320 I need a tho Lula in the beginning, I need 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:56.080 like the evolution of a little girl, tonguing girl going 0:08:56.120 --> 0:09:00.559 into a womanhood and then representing all these women all 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:03.240 in white was so important to me also as well, 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:07.959 to symbolize the purity of our women, our Polynesian women, 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:11.480 and how in our culture we value the women in 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:14.240 our culture, especially being tongue in. I know the type 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:17.400 of I know the type of responsibility I have as 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:20.680 being the oldest daughter and then also holding the title 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:25.520 of a future bahu. So that and then having tying 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:29.320 in my family into it was so heartwarming and touching 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:32.440 to me that my creative director of the music video 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:33.440 wanted to go that direction. 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:35.560 A part of me didn't want to. I was like, 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:36.160 oh no. 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:38.840 These kids, like they're a little too much, and I 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:42.560 we want you to like show your family, show where 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:44.880 you really come from, how they act, and I didn't 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:48.640 want them to see the true like sister slash Auntie, 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:51.920 I am with my cousins and my little siblings. 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:52.960 But then I was like, you know what. 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:54.720 This is the era of where you just have to 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:59.000 be authentically yourself and not be ashamed or afraid. 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:02.360 To show how you carry yourself at it within your home. 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:06.200 So thank you to my team for pushing me to 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:08.760 open up a little bit more, stripping back each layer 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:10.959 of just opening up of where. 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:12.200 I come from and how I was raised. 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:14.800 I was born and raised here in Orange County, California, 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:17.680 and there's a big Polynesian community down here. And thank 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:22.240 you to Fiana Lufau, who is the woman that you 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:26.720 call to help creatively with movies such as Maana. So 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:29.000 thank you to her for being a part of the production, 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:33.240 being a part of the choreography, helping me just open 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:35.920 up more and be like you said, Mafana with the 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:38.320 creative process. And I was like I really felt like 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:40.880 I was able to share a piece of home with 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:43.680 the world. And the fact that it resonates with so 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:48.600 many people and so many women and little girls really 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:50.720 made me cry a few times because I've seen some 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:55.880 reaction videos and being in Hawaii and traveling lately, I've 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:58.520 been getting so many compliments and that's the first song 0:10:58.520 --> 0:10:58.920 they tell me. 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:01.040 Usually girls come up to me, your people tell. 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:03.400 Me, oh, I lover song, bought it up, but lately 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:08.480 it's been it's been Ocean Song. So for them to 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:10.480 say that really touched my heart, and I was like, 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:12.000 you know what, this is the point. This is the 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:14.560 reason why we do this. And for me, it's not 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:17.760 about you know, the numbers, It's not about you know, 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:20.080 people are telling me, we're pulling me to other directions, 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:22.160 like you need to go for things that are popular 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:25.679 right now, and you can use so much to your 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:27.640 voice and you could do so many other things. 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:28.800 Why are you going this direction? 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:32.680 There's a movement here, and why not use my platform 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:36.120 for the younger the next generation, And this is my 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:37.960 gift to them and to let them know like you 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:40.600 can dream big and keep dreaming, but stay humble and 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:43.280 keep your feet grounded no matter where you go, because 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:46.280 you can go further with your village. If you have 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:51.559 that grounded mentality and that home mafauna energy, you can 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:54.760 you can do so much more with that. So this 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:57.360 is again my gift to everyone, and thank you to 0:11:57.400 --> 0:11:59.520 everyone for vibing out to my song, Ocean Song. It 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:01.520 means every thing to me, and I'm glad you guys 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:03.680 are loving the visuals. It was a lost fight for it. 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:07.800 It's your gift for us, like truly, and you're so right, 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:11.680 like no point, like Ocean Song has become this whole 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:14.160 thing of its own, and at no point have you 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:17.280 felt like you've had to sacrifice your tongue in this, 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:21.280 you know, like there, it's so tongue in, it's so pacific, 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:23.000 it's so entrenched, and like. 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:24.880 I'm so glad to hear that you say that. 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:27.880 I think I've also heard like an identity crisis without 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:30.040 within my career, a lot of people have been telling 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:32.480 me like, oh, why don't you go this route and 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:36.559 this route? You look, you look African America, you look Mexican. 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:39.000 Why don't you just go there? I just felt like 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:40.880 that's not true to who I am, and why not 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:45.160 stay authentically to myself. So saying it out loud and 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:47.480 bringing it to the forefront of being an island girl, 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:49.520 I want them to know, like, without even saying it, 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:53.520 this is why I'm I'm tongue in island girl and 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:56.719 I represent all of the South Pacific. So it's such 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:59.800 a treat for myself to even do this, you know. 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:03.680 So for me to finally claim it out loud was 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:07.720 like something I've been crying for, yeah, when I'm alone. 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:11.400 So yeah, finally I can just be myself. Is what 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:12.440 this era feels like? 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:16.120 Oh that's so special. Hey, Dinah, how long has this 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:18.760 era been coming? Have you been sitting on this for 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:22.840 a while, these feelings of wanting to embrace your identity 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:26.560 as a tongue and as a proud Basufka woman, Because yeah, 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:30.199 I assume that people would have from your many many 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:32.920 years in the music industry would have assumed that Dinah 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:35.000 Jane would have gone through this path and she was 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:37.280 singing with these singers, so she's going to sing this 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:39.440 type of music for the rest of her career. We 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:42.840 can see now that you've kind of established yourself as 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:48.360 a proud Basyfica singer, singing like how ancestors did. Was 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:50.920 this a hard decision to make to embark on this 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:53.600 new heiressis it was? 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:56.560 I've been itching to like go this for out and 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:59.120 it's just only because it was just for myself, Like 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:01.320 I just felt like the little girl and me like 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:04.920 wanting to wanting that type of representation. I didn't really 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:09.120 have much besides Aradna the queen herself and so being 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:11.079 a brown skin queen an Island girl. 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:12.520 I was like, what else can I do? 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:15.080 There's so much more I know I can do without 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:18.920 just being your typical like you know, American pop star. 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:23.440 And for me to be in this in this. 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:27.200 Type of space now, I'm grateful for my team for 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:30.560 amplifying this idea into my mind of like just being 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:33.760 authentically yourself and so going this direction with the music, 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:35.520 It's there's so many music. 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:37.040 There's so much songs. 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:38.600 In my catalog that I have not yet to share, 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:41.560 but they have been resurfacing and it's just a whole 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:44.600 representation myself and I just want the music to just 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:46.720 tell you what it is and show you make you 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:49.600 feel exactly what type of direction I'm going and who 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:50.360 I've always been. 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:53.080 So I love it. 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:56.600 Yeah, you mentioned a bottle up before and I bottled 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:59.240 apps sorry, And I like when I was coming up 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:01.080 with what we could talk about in this episode, I 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:03.160 was thinking back to the start of your solo career 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:06.640 and songs like Bottled Up. It seems so, I mean, 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:09.360 it's not drastically different, but it does seem quite different 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:11.800 to the new music that you're making now, like Ocean Song, 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:14.160 falling in Love with Ja King, and then Road Least Traveled, 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:15.320 which is about to be released. 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:18.120 What does become becoming Up? 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:20.600 It will be coming out for you guys a day 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:23.240 early then over here, So I hope you guys like 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:25.800 that one of my babies. 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:29.800 Yeah, what does this No, No, you're fine, You're fine. 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:31.760 What does this new era of music? 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:33.600 You've kind of touched on it before, but what does 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:34.920 it really represent to you? 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:40.600 I think it's just representing everything that I've listened to, 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:46.360 like everything that I've endured. 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:49.560 I'm a lover girl, and I feel like I'm just 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:52.680 writing out I'm writing out music that comes from like 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:56.320 my journal. So this song really speaks about a time 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:58.880 where I really was in love and it's at this 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:01.320 certain time a point my life, not right now, but 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:04.640 at the time I was such so in love that 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:06.880 I was willing to go the road that's traveled with 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:12.560 this guy who lived overseas and whatnot. And so yeah, 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:14.800 I just feel like with this new era of music, 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:18.880 I'm just peeling a layer as I go with each 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:22.080 song that I'm releasing. Doing a song with Jay King 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:24.280 with Falling in Love was so special for me as well. 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:26.480 For him to even reach out and be like, hey, sis, 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:27.800 I want to do a song with me. I have 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:30.000 a song coming out was really special to me. And 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:31.920 then Falling in Love kind of also like kicked it 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:34.040 up even more for me, which, by the way, we 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:34.320 have a. 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:36.200 Record coming out as well, another one. 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:42.480 Part two one. But yeah, everything is just me storytelling. 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:45.280 All these songs mean something very special to me and 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:48.480 I can't wait to like unfold it more as we go. 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:50.600 And and EP is on the way. 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:55.080 So so you are giving us all the equal D 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:55.880 right now. 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:01.240 And I was literally going to say road leys traveled 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:04.399 from the snippets I've heard, it's just such a fun 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:07.360 summer love a girl box. So the fact that we're 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:09.960 all love girls on this core right now feels feels 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:13.200 feels right. But can you take us to like I love, 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:18.200 I love, I love love, and they love. 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:20.080 And when they're out loud with their love their lover. 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:22.359 But you know, sometimes to be tricky too because you 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:24.760 don't want to be posting them and then they like fumble, 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:26.479 god dang it. 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:28.359 But you know what, that's part of the journey, that's 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:29.080 part of the story. 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:31.560 Like whatever l' do you take or whatever real love 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:34.479 you're you're embracing, like at least live in it and 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:35.800 thriving it type of thing. 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:37.720 Why do I sound like a therapist? 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:42.160 No, I just. 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:45.040 Got out of a situation with a tongue in man 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:49.560 and he's broken my heart essentially, so I'm currently on the. 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:52.000 I'm so sorry. 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:55.560 There's no way he's related to girl. You uh you uh? 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:57.680 Tem This man was a one. I don't know why. 0:17:58.200 --> 0:17:59.480 Red flag? What was the red flag? 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:02.360 What was Oh my god, there was so many. There 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:04.760 was so many that I just you know, when you're 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:07.120 just in the haze. I was like, we can work 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:09.480 on that later, don't worry about it. And then now 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:12.040 I'm like, wow, I really shouldn't have ignored those things 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:14.119 because I wouldn't be sitting here upset it. 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:16.800 You know better, you know exactly? 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:19.160 I feel like sometimes certain people come into your life 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:21.560 to give you that type of They give you a 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:24.520 lesson and then you've learned it, because if you haven't 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:26.760 learned it, the universe is gonna hit you back and 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:29.080 be like, oh well, here's another lesson. Yeah, and they're 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:30.879 gonna place another man in your lap and be like, 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:33.119 oh no, you know so. I think as long as 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:36.880 you acknowledge those things, you'll be able to move forward 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:39.120 and notice those traits and be like, this is meant 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:40.480 for me, this is what not meant for me, and 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:41.440 that's what I'm entertaining. 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:44.679 This is not what I'm entertaining. 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:47.880 Bank Sister Love advice from the Queen right now. 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:53.399 Oh my gosh, I think Diana j needs to host 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:59.040 Love Island Maya Jama. You need to maybe vacate the 0:18:59.040 --> 0:19:02.200 premises real quick. Let out girl, Dina come in some 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:05.560 sort of Wow you don't want to get the rose. 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:11.400 Oh no, someone needs to sign Dina girl. 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:17.400 We need we need a pacifica quisachel please that would 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:17.920 be Icona. 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:22.399 I would be too shy, Okay, I'll do yeah the topic. 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:26.679 Maybe she can go on the Bachelorette after Roadless Travel 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:28.680 is released. So make sure you keep your eye on 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:29.760 that love that. 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:32.560 New Zealand host one. I would love to be on it. 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:34.160