WEBVTT - Featuring Emily Bear and Abigail Barlow 0:00:03.760 --> 0:00:05.920 Hey guys, It's Sammy Jay and welcome back to the 0:00:06.000 --> 0:00:10.639 Let's Be Real Podcast. You guys, this episode, oh my goodness, 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:13.080 I am so excited for you to hear it. I 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:15.000 think this may be one of my favorite episodes of 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:18.560 all time. This week we have two guests, Abigail Barlow 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:21.520 and Emily Bear. They are partners in crime. They are 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:25.200 Ying and Yang. They are brilliant. Now you've probably have 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:28.160 heard of what they're working on Britain the Musical. They 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:31.639 are creating a musical in real time on TikTok and 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:34.200 I do live and you can see the process before 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:36.760 your very eyes. And I'm telling you what these girls 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:39.479 are doing and the songs they're creating are just different. 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:42.360 They're innovating the space. We talk about what it's like 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:45.199 to be gen z since they are twenty two and nineteen, 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:47.879 and how to be taken seriously in the business. We 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:52.000 also talk about friendships, girls, supporting girls, and so much more. 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:57.720 As always, I look forward to your feedback and enjoy. 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:00.320 I'm so glad you guys are all my pod has 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:05.040 because I have been on TikTok not as much more viewer. 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:08.840 I'm trying to get into the creating. But I've been 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:14.800 following you, Abigail for ever since you created uh Sober. 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:20.360 I remember when I saw, I was I just love 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:24.000 the creativity because I feel like there's it's awesome when 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:26.400 you find that on this kind of platform. And when 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:29.280 I saw you guys were creating bridgrotin the musical, it 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:33.000 made me watch the show first. I love that. First 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:36.199 of all, can you talk about how attractive Simon is? Oh? 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:40.000 That's literally happy for conversation. We both have boyfriends, but 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:43.760 we're like, oh my god, like it pains my soul 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:49.720 how attractive that man is. It's amazing. I can't He's 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:56.840 just perfect. His face, the structure, it's justine muscles with 0:01:56.880 --> 0:01:59.400 the British. I have a theory that if you are 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:03.800 British you automatically get ten more points. It's just and 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:07.960 if you're British and like studyingly handsome, it's over and 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:11.400 you have abs like we're done, it's good. It's doing here, sir, 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:16.720 where you're handing marriage. His arms are like perfectly chiseled. 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:18.519 I was like, that was my first thing. I was like. 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:20.320 After I saw, I was like, okay, I'll watched the show, 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:25.079 like I know me oh my god, me. So how 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:28.200 far into watching the show having Guild, We're like, okay, 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:32.320 this should be a musical. I actually finished binging it, 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:36.080 and there was like one piece of dialogue that stuck 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:38.079 out to me, like beyond the rest. It was what 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:40.400 Henry Grandville says about you have no idea what it's 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:41.920 like to be in a room with someone you can't 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:44.040 live without and yet still feel like their oceans away 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:47.520 from you. And I was like, dude, that is a song. 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:50.560 And it's basically all of the dialogue is so poetic. 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:54.760 The music almost writes itself. It's kind of crazy. It's 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:58.040 like so I yeah, So I just like I went 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:00.560 to my piano and kind of started messing round because 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:03.600 I was just tired of like the structure of pop 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:05.680 music I was writing, and I wanted to like kind 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:08.519 of just expand my horizons and write something that I 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:11.720 never would have written otherwise. And I think Britain gave 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:14.600 me that vehicle to do that. And so after I 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:16.799 finished like binging it, I was like, what if this 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:19.239 move a musical? You know, like it probably could be, 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:23.280 And then I wrote that song. So, what's your favorite musical, 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:27.200 like of all time? Your top three Pip in the 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:35.160 revival Purple. Um. Um, is it so cliche to say 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:39.840 is so good? I mean like there's a there's a 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:43.760 reason it's so popular, you know whatever. I think, Yeah, 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:47.320 it's amazing. My favorites are. I've did a lot of 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:49.640 musical theater as a kid, Like, did so many shows 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:52.120 and next to normal I got to see on Broadway 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:54.280 it was incredible at won the Pulitzer Prize and like 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:58.200 two thousand twelve or something like that. Um, such good music. 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:01.800 Uh shoot, I love Into the Woods. I think a 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:04.400 lot of the stuff, especially for writing this show, it's 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:08.240 very much operatic and feel it's I was I was 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:10.800 thinking about that, like I got into the wood vibes, 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:14.040 like listening to the music. I think the duel song 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:17.720 is definitely some time vibes on it. We tried to 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:21.680 really lean into like the operatic style because I think 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:25.159 it really like it benefited the show to have sort 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:27.840 of that string feel underneath all of the dialogue and 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:29.680 stuff like that, so we wanted to keep that for 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:32.880 what we're creating. But yeah, I think that Into the 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:36.280 Woods I love sometime, I love I love Sweeney Todd 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:38.840 and a lot of people have been saying Sweeney time 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:41.520 because it kind of been influenced for me. Yeah, I mean, 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:44.520 I just love musical theater so much, and I think 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:48.120 that classic sound with like a pop influence on it 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:51.520 is something that not many people have kind of explored yet. 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:54.800 And and we have such different backgrounds that complement each other, 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:56.360 so it kind of just fell into place when we 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:59.680 started writing. Our our skill sets are so complimentary and 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:03.040 you know, it's funny. So we met actually working on 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:07.040 a different musical project that's more of a passion project, 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:10.080 and we were keeping a lot less in the spotlight. 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:14.760 But um, that one, we had a vision of it 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:18.560 being like very pop because there was like a golden 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:21.080 era where musical theater songs crossed over to the pop 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:26.520 charts wars and wanted to do that again exactly. We 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:30.960 wanted to do that again, and so um we figured 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:33.600 out after we're writing together for the first time that 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:37.200 like it just worked, Like we come from like a 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:41.200 pop background, and she has such incredible instincts, it's like scary. 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:44.239 And then I come from like a very different background, 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:46.640 like I was possibly trained, I like toured with like 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:51.360 a jazz trio, So very smart and incredibly gigantic brain inside. 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:54.280 But I also loved writing songs and I've been doing 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:57.760 that for a while and so like us together, it's 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:00.640 just works. It's really great it seeing and Yang. Yeah, 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:03.560 literally it is. It's so you and Yang. So what 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:06.960 is the process of creating a musical? Because just like 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:09.320 the beginning of any project, the hardest part is starting, 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:12.839 That's what I always tell and a musical is very daunting. 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:15.920 So how do you go about structuring this show when 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:20.240 they're you know, eight episodes, eight hours total content, and 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:22.719 you're condensing it into songs? How do you go about 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:24.680 doing that? Yeah, We've been saying, like we need to 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:27.159 take these eight hours of storytelling and you can put 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:29.480 it into Yeah. And it's crazy because this kind of 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:33.040 just started as a passion project. Like when I did 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:35.880 the Hypothetical What It Britain, wasn't musical, Like I really 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:38.040 wasn't expecting it to blow up the way it did 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:41.920 and expect people to want more. You didn't know, like 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:44.160 I've post my original pop music like you said all 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:46.440 the time, so like this was no different. I was 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:49.000 just inspired on a different level by something happening in 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:52.559 pop culture and like the world just kind of nodded 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:54.640 in agreement, So I mean, I can tell you she 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:56.320 texted me that night and it was like, what if 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:59.120 British and wasn't musical? And my initial thought was like, 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:01.839 oh my god, that's a good idea. Let's do this. Yeah, 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:03.920 the rest of the world is like, oh my god, 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:06.240 that's a good idea. So we're having fun right now 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:09.080 writing it. And I think that's why it's not so daunting, 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:12.560 is because we're kind of taking it, like segments of 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:16.080 the storyline as we feel inspired to write them. I mean, 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:18.200 if you want to get more into the details, like 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:22.720 we think that you know, what captured us in the 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:25.360 show is their love story and how beautiful it was, 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:28.000 and you know how they showed the struggling parts too, 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:30.440 But we wanted the show to sort of focus on 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:34.000 Simon and Daphne's relationship, right all the chaos that erupt 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:37.800 from that, So we're trying to like structure it to 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:40.840 be that, you know. I think that's also so interesting 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:44.240 because there are many different plots within the shows, and 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:47.080 I find it it's it's good that you're like choosing 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:49.600 one narrative to go down and kind of touching us 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:52.640 like someone otherwise we'd have like a cast album with 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:57.280 seven exactly. But I feel like that's one of the 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:03.240 really fascinating things. Like the music. It's not just like Broadway. 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:05.400 It feels like music that's on the radio, which I 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:08.120 think what you guys are doing, it's coming across really well. 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:11.840 What is your songwriting process? Because you guys are doing 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:14.720 it differently, like it hasn't been done before. I find 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:18.480 it so refreshing. You guys are live streaming while you're 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:21.120 creating the songs. Is that ever intimidating to know like 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:23.400 people are watching you or do you just kind of 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:26.320 zone them out? I mean a little bit, But also 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:28.880 at the same time, everyone's been so incredible and supportive 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:32.520 and it helps it there, you know. It's what you 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:34.360 were saying before, is like I think TikTok is a 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:38.640 platform that loves authenticity and like we're not hiding the 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:41.680 parts that we're struggling, Like people see when we don't 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:43.719 know what to say next. People are seeing when we 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:47.400 are hitting writer's block, we can't find a rhyme from 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:50.000 like Penny, and like, why can't we find a rhyme 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:52.839 for Penny? But then they also see it when it 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:55.240 just comes out like that, and when we hit a 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:57.960 stride and like how excited we get when we find 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:00.920 something that we love, and it's like it makes it 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:04.000 a lot less daunting, It can't. I mean, it just 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:07.760 depends really on whether we're struggling or whether it's coming 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:09.760 out like that, because you can you can tune them 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:12.760 out sometimes and then sometimes they're actually really helpful and 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:15.920 give us suggestions on what to say. So that's awesome. 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:21.439 That's advice in real time. Yeah, exactly, and exactly with 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:25.240 the people who are going to be ultimately consuming. Yeah, 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:28.079 I mean it's really brilliant because you're having the audience 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:30.200 go through the process with you, so then when they 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:34.520 see the show, it's like, hey, they're parting. Yeah, Honestly, 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:38.360 like I was saying, you know, musicals are usually very 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:43.000 hidden in development, like kind of in secrecy for years, 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:46.160 and these things take years to develop, and so I 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:49.199 don't think anyone's been ever able to see the process 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:52.640 of that. And we didn't really have like an epiphanymore 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:54.360 it was like, oh my god, this is a brilliant 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:57.280 master plan and just I don't know as actually it 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:01.560 just happened and then you're here. That's probably how it happened. 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:05.440 It just were like, yeah, if we knew, what would 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:07.559 have happened, Like, I don't think it would have happened 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:10.160 the same way. No, I I think it really just 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:13.120 hit the zeitgeist in the coolest way and and had 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:15.040 so many people feel like they were along for the 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:17.959 ride for this because who knows where it could go. 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:20.719 There are some really cool opportunities for us now that 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:23.199 you know, we've kind of developed a following around it, 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:26.200 and it's really exciting to have people like on our 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:29.640 team and so supportive of the idea. Lin Man Well, 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:34.079 who's like my dream? Oh my god. We had a 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:38.560 ramos on the podcast because even too uh he started 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:40.040 and I was like, oh my god, just tell me 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:44.880 some wind stories like I need he do wedded one 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:50.560 of the songs and died and sign and say that's amazing. 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:55.360 How did you get into the whole podcast? So I 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:57.760 was in my sophomore year of high school and my 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:02.000 anxiety got really bad because mean girls, and I started 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:05.400 listening to podcasts as like a way to distract, because 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:08.720 if you have anxiety, probably no distraction is your best friend. 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:13.600 And so I was listening to podcast and I couldn't 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:15.920 relate to anything that was coming out, and as distraction 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:18.760 is like, I'm going to create my dream podcast. So 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:21.840 I did like research on the marketplace and I eventually 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:25.120 pitched it just for fun, and they gave me a 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:27.120 pilot and I got Julia Michaels on it, and then 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:29.599 we went to series and now around season two that 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:35.520 girl boss yees. So I had originally met Julia when 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:37.959 I interviewed her on the set of American Idol when 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:41.920 I was on assignment for Radio Disney. That's so exciting. Anyway, 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:46.920 Julia would be amazing in this musical, don't you think. Honestly, 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:52.120 I really cool so our girl Sienna. I know she's 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:54.480 an opera singer and she'll definitely have some influence. But 0:11:55.200 --> 0:12:00.240 for some reason, her and Anthony's relationship always feels like sexy, 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:02.959 sultry pop to us. It gives me pop vibes, and 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:07.160 so everything we write for them is very so Julia, 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:10.600 Julia Relia. It's like, you know, the musical theater voice 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:13.080 is definitely a thing, and I think we should get 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:15.840 a pop girl to sing. I completely agree. I agree. 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:19.680 Or do you know who would be really good? Jazzy Jones, 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:25.280 who from Hamilton's Anthony's wife, and she played Peggy. She 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:30.439 played Reynolds that she'd be good for, you know, your 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:34.800 musical theater, Yes, queen. My family is a music I 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:36.480 live in New York, so I've kind of grown up 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:40.920 with it. Got it right, Broadways, Yeah, Broadways close. I 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:44.360 hope it that opens back soon from the pandemic. Trust me. 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:47.640 I like it's it's like the worst thing to feel 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:49.599 like you're so closed off, but like that's why this 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:51.880 is such a cool thing, because we feel like it's 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:55.240 something that could possibly at the theaters maybe, you know. 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:59.400 I also think that, like you know, COVID is a 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:01.760 dark time for a lot of musicians and a lot 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:05.560 of people who work in the arts. And the fact 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:08.920 that so many people who are in the industry are 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:13.880 like grabbing onto this is one completely surreal Yeah, it's 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:18.599 a very weird. Like we feel like in awe and 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:22.719 grateful that something that we wrote could ever reached so 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.920 many people. I know, Yeah, we've idolized for a year. 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:30.480 I know what is bizarre and so magical of a 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:33.640 of a experience and journey. It's really cool. So who's 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:36.800 the most unexpected person that's reached out to you or 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:39.599 that you know about Bridget that knows about Bridget in 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:42.640 the musical that you were like, holy shit. I mean 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:44.880 there's some people behind the scenes that were sort of 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:49.640 like freaking out internally over um that we I don't 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:52.920 want to say too much, but like really exciting things. Um. 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:58.400 Petina Miller, which was she was in She Needs to 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:00.959 Be Lady Danny. Yeah, she she just DMed me and 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:04.360 was like, finished this musical and I was like, okay, clean, 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:09.600 you got it. Cast members like Luke, the guy who 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:11.800 plays Colin, is like on Our Lives all the time 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:14.599 that comes in just just like on an outed and 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:18.439 Philippa of all like reached out to Abigail and like 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:21.120 we saw the guy who plays what's his name Anthony Um, 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:26.760 but the guy who plays Anthony and Jonathan Um he 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:29.760 was on Entertainment Night like raving about the musical and 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:34.160 we're like, is this it doesn't feel question? Has Simon 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:37.200 Flint in the d M. He hasn't slit in the 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:39.760 d MS, but he did post a video today that 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:42.720 like Netflix had like a little promotional thing and talked 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:45.560 about the musical, So he's aware of it. At least 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:48.800 you know you're on his radarland. That's all. That is all. 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:53.560 You will be the first to know. Great, I'll get 0:14:53.600 --> 0:15:00.160 the damn ye absolutely, So what is your favorite that 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:01.800 you guys have written so far? You know that's hard 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:05.920 because they're all like your babies, But I know if 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:09.160 you had to pay. So I truly think that our 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:12.360 favorite song is whatever we just wrote. And so our 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:14.600 favorite right now is the opening number because we just 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:18.600 finished it. More obsessed with this ending that we just wrote. Um, 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:22.280 I mean, do you want to get wet? Do you 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:27.240 want to play? Yeah? I keep in mind that when 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:29.280 I bounced it, I accidentally caught off the ending. And 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:32.320 also it's very rough. It's gonna sound better than no, 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:38.640 but I'm excited. Work in progress. Okay, So this is 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:42.520 when the doors open and she walks in and she's 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:45.239 being presented to the queen. This is her inner monopope. 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:48.400 I guess she's walking down and then the ensemble starts 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:52.080 chiming in, the brothers chime in, and the very end 0:15:52.160 --> 0:16:03.600 you'll hear it. Okay, I'm ready, don't trip, don't falter, 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:11.160 just make it to the out, don't break, don't crumble, 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:17.440 make certain you're perfectly humble. Show her majesty the queen. 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:21.160 That's your more than work. Don't you let it show 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:26.360 that you're more than most. Finally, Unlaby, the power piece 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:30.600 must be common co connected at the sun. This must 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:42.840 be perfectly perfectly desire, So don't find just make it. 0:16:42.960 --> 0:17:01.720 You're the out must be perfectly perfect, perfect pots flawless, 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:07.720 my dear, Okay, just help them. Okay, so many thoughts. 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:10.800 The composition is insane. It feels like I'm in a 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:14.920 princess movie in the best way possible. We know that 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:19.040 she's very you know, big on the tradition, and she's 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:24.000 delicate but strong and inspired and excited, and I don't 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:25.560 know that was one of the times where it just 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:29.840 like flu that's must be the best feeling. Oh my god, 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:35.120 we were we were so we are truly rarely ever 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:39.240 happy with something that we're right right, Okay, Abigail. The harmony, 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:44.159 I mean, she helped me with them. I couldn't come 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:45.879 up with all of them all. I trying to understand 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:49.240 the writing process, but it is truly a collaboration. Were 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:54.520 she leans obviously a little more lyric melody. Eileen Moore, Well, 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:58.240 it's pretty we both have We're both pretty headstrong in 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:00.880 our ideas too, and then that's good because we both 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:03.480 every yeah, we both do everything, and we're both confident 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:05.600 in our choices and our ideas, so we just bounce 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:08.560 off each other really when we right, it's really I 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:11.720 love working with her, and collaboration can be really difficult 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:14.200 to especially if you guys butt heads, because it's such 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:18.000 a passionate thing when you guys. Right, Yeah, we've we've 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:20.640 talked about, like we both know that collaborations are hard, 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:25.159 partnerships are hard, um, But we've talked you know, we 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:29.160 need always to have open, honest communication and we're gonna argue, 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:31.240 we're going to butt heads, but it's how we deal 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:34.560 with those that's going to be really really important. Yeah, 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:38.080 And I think mostly like we never really bud heads 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:41.639 when we're writing together. Like more like it's more all 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:45.440 the things that like surround this, you know, it's finishing touches, 0:18:45.560 --> 0:18:47.880 ship and all the ins and outs. I have nothing 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:50.760 to do with the music. It's more like you know, 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:53.680 some of the external you know. Yeah, like just like 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:56.240 but but we rarely ever butt heads anyway. We're just 0:18:56.359 --> 0:18:59.280 friends first, you know, which is like the most exciting 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:01.320 thing that like you get to do this with your friend, 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:03.920 and like so that you will each other. We love 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:05.920 each other, you know, I mean, like I said, we 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:14.200 were friends first, so honestly, that introduction, it's so beautiful. Okay, 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:16.080 we have to take a quick break, but when we 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:19.440 come back, let's dive deeper into bridgertain the musical and 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:22.280 how in the world you guys have written about half 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:24.440 the songs for show in a little over two weeks, 0:19:24.560 --> 0:19:27.240 and what it's like to live stream the whole process 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:35.520 in front of the world. We'll be right back and 0:19:35.760 --> 0:19:38.480 we're back. How long does it take you to write 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:40.960 a song? Like, what's the fastest it's been for to 0:19:41.080 --> 0:19:43.520 write one of these songs? Thirty minutes? Thirty minutes we 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:46.800 wrote that Balancing the Scale song, the mother song start 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:51.560 an hour with the recording. That's impressive. It was like, 0:19:51.840 --> 0:19:55.680 truly insert we do. We were both pretty prolific and 0:19:55.840 --> 0:19:58.639 when we write, like we just write a lot constantly, 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:01.439 so we know how to finish the song pretty quickly. 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:05.320 And because we're both fast, like separate or apart, then 0:20:05.359 --> 0:20:07.440 we come together and we're like boom, boom boom. Everything 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:10.240 happened so fast. But then again, we're writing a different 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:12.280 song that we've come back to three times, and I 0:20:12.440 --> 0:20:16.400 think we finally just cracked the code, but it takes 0:20:16.400 --> 0:20:19.320 a little more pulling and struggling. Yeah, And I also 0:20:19.400 --> 0:20:24.280 think it's one of those things where innovating is so important, 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:27.600 especially in this time where you know, Broadway is closed 0:20:27.640 --> 0:20:30.159 and we're we have to figure out different ways to 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:33.159 make things work. It's the time for changing things up 0:20:33.280 --> 0:20:36.680 and especially writing music. A few years ago, not many 0:20:36.720 --> 0:20:38.560 people did it on their computer. They had to go 0:20:38.640 --> 0:20:41.199 into a studio. So now that you guys are writing 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:45.680 a full blow musical at home is pretty awesome and insane. 0:20:45.880 --> 0:20:48.639 It's it's really fun. It's like it's it's like our 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:51.159 safe space and we just it's where we have the 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:55.480 most fun as together writing. Yeah, is there. I know, Emily, 0:20:55.640 --> 0:21:00.520 you have a very classical background. How how has that 0:21:00.720 --> 0:21:03.159 come into you know, I know you really see your 0:21:03.200 --> 0:21:06.840 own music. How has that come into writing a musical 0:21:07.119 --> 0:21:10.879 and you know, still making it modern but also giving 0:21:11.000 --> 0:21:15.000 that classical vibe to it. I'm kind of all over 0:21:15.080 --> 0:21:18.240 the place when it comes to genre, Like she's cross genres. 0:21:18.480 --> 0:21:21.400 I do classical, I do film scoring, I do jazz. 0:21:21.440 --> 0:21:25.920 I love that your your genre list. I love that, um, 0:21:26.280 --> 0:21:29.720 And I think what I love most about that is 0:21:29.760 --> 0:21:32.879 that I can pick and you know, take from all 0:21:32.960 --> 0:21:35.920 my different influences and bring it in more it's appropriate. 0:21:36.040 --> 0:21:38.440 But also at the end of the day, I'm nineteen 0:21:38.520 --> 0:21:41.240 years old. I'm like very well aware of the pop 0:21:41.359 --> 0:21:43.440 culture and I love Mac Miller and I listened to 0:21:43.520 --> 0:21:47.760 everything now, so like I have that view while still 0:21:47.840 --> 0:21:52.960 having like this classical jazz like training blah blah blah. Well, 0:21:53.040 --> 0:21:55.960 I mean, I think that's great. I don't know, I'm eighteen, 0:21:56.440 --> 0:22:00.399 and it's really interesting that I've at least experience I 0:22:00.440 --> 0:22:01.960 don't know if you guys have where it's hard to 0:22:02.000 --> 0:22:07.040 be taken seriously at first because it's truly like, so, 0:22:07.240 --> 0:22:09.760 I my dream is to become a film composer. That's 0:22:09.800 --> 0:22:13.800 why I write music for TV media games. UM, and 0:22:14.160 --> 0:22:19.320 I've been really like fortunate to have, you know, I've 0:22:19.359 --> 0:22:21.040 been doing that for the past couple of years. But 0:22:21.200 --> 0:22:25.320 it is so hard because like my age is like 0:22:25.520 --> 0:22:30.480 my big asset but also like one of my biggest downfalls, 0:22:30.560 --> 0:22:34.760 because especially in an industry where there's so much responsibility 0:22:34.800 --> 0:22:38.360 attached to the writing of the music, like you get 0:22:38.920 --> 0:22:42.000 you know, people who look at you only as a risk, 0:22:42.720 --> 0:22:46.160 not as you know, a risk. But I'm really important 0:22:46.200 --> 0:22:48.920 to really yeah, and no one's really willing to take 0:22:49.040 --> 0:22:51.960 risks in the music industry right now because everything's you know, 0:22:52.440 --> 0:22:57.240 so fragile right now, like the touring community, like nothing's happening, 0:22:57.400 --> 0:22:59.920 so like any risk is just a loss of money, 0:23:00.200 --> 0:23:02.920 like that's what labels look at it as. So it 0:23:03.320 --> 0:23:05.160 is really hard to be taken seriously, and I think 0:23:05.320 --> 0:23:09.120 it will always be as a at a certain degree 0:23:09.400 --> 0:23:12.480 because we are very young women trying to make it 0:23:12.560 --> 0:23:18.320 in this business that's very very heavily men. But I 0:23:18.440 --> 0:23:22.040 think at the same time, we're kind of paving a 0:23:22.200 --> 0:23:24.840