Speaker 1: Carola, She's the queen of talking. He was sown your man.
Speaker 1: She's only in side. She got the scoop on the wall,
Speaker 1: on the ones in side. No one can do with
Speaker 1: Cliel Carola, Carola. No one can do with quiet like
Speaker 1: Carola Tile Caroline. Hey, y'all, welcome to Hyper Caroline Hobby.
Speaker 1: I am your host, Caroline Hobby. I know music, I
Speaker 1: know people, and I know the questions do you want
Speaker 1: to ask? So let's get Hyper heads up. These are
Speaker 1: adults having adult conversations, so there could be adult content.
Speaker 1: And this week is so exciting because I have Jamie
Speaker 1: Lynn Spears on. She is absolutely amazing. She a child
Speaker 1: star on Nickelodeon. She's a sister of Britney Spears. She
Speaker 1: had a teen pregnancy at age sixteen, and now she
Speaker 1: is reinventing herself in country music and she is kicking.
Speaker 1: But she has a special coming out on TLC on
Speaker 1: June called When the Lights Go Out, and she is
Speaker 1: the most authentic, sweet person ever. I cannot wait for
Speaker 1: y'all to hear this interview. So y'all give it up
Speaker 1: for Jamie Lynn Spears. Hey, Jamie Lynd Spears, Hey, how
Speaker 1: are you awesome? We're sitting here in your hotel room.
Speaker 1: It's c M A wait wait no, SEAM T week,
Speaker 1: SEAM two week, CNT Music Awards. It's also c M
Speaker 1: A Festival Week. Yes, CMT Awards are dear and SMA
Speaker 1: Festival Week. So much going on. We got the whole
Speaker 1: squad in here. You got your you got your hair
Speaker 1: and makeup. Peeves, You've got some styling going on. I
Speaker 1: got my baby girl, my mama, your baby girl, and
Speaker 1: your mama, and I have to stay. Shout out to Maddie.
Speaker 1: She's running the camera. She is, how's it looking? How's
Speaker 1: it looking, Maddie? Can we look good? Do we need
Speaker 1: to fix our hair or anything? Everything's going going well? Yes,
Speaker 1: it is okay, great, okay, great recording. I have recorded
Speaker 1: a couple of interviews and it didn't record. Do you
Speaker 1: go back and do them again? It was Cree Harrison's
Speaker 1: and Kelly Picklers. Oh my god, it was like they're
Speaker 1: so sweet, Cree, let me redo it. So that was
Speaker 1: so nice. But yes, now, my my biggest fear now
Speaker 1: is that they don't record. But so we go okay, okay,
Speaker 1: So I want to start with some would you rather okay,
Speaker 1: are you ready for this. Okay if you well, okay,
Speaker 1: this isn't I would do weather. This is a question
Speaker 1: if you could be the pet dog to any celebrity,
Speaker 1: who would it be and why? Maddie, do you have
Speaker 1: an answer to any celebrity? I think it would be
Speaker 1: the President because they have, like you know, they're usually
Speaker 1: like really high bred and well to do dogs, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about. So you're like kind of
Speaker 1: the elite dog and you're like almost sort of royalty
Speaker 1: you are, so they're for I would think it'd have
Speaker 1: to be that. That would good answer. Yeah, Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: with you on that. I feel you. Girl. What about you, Maddie,
Speaker 1: what celebrity would you want to be a dog too?
Speaker 1: Who are the cool like young people we like? Right now? Um?
Speaker 1: She we just went to the Billboard Awards and she
Speaker 1: actually got to meet Demi Lovada and Denny. Demi Lovada
Speaker 1: was like be on nice to her and took time
Speaker 1: to talk to her as a little girl and as
Speaker 1: a person. And so that's number one in her book
Speaker 1: right now because she like, yeah, because she got like
Speaker 1: real she was like really really sweet to Maddie. So
Speaker 1: Maddie really loved that so that's our new favorite right now. Okay,
Speaker 1: I like her and she sings awesome songs too. Yes,
Speaker 1: she sings awesome and she is awesome. She's totally awesome. Okay,
Speaker 1: Demmilda love her? Okay. Would you rather be hairy all
Speaker 1: over completely bald? Completely? I hate I hate hair, and
Speaker 1: I hate wet hair. My gosh, wet hair, Like I
Speaker 1: can't do you shave yours or anything? Oh no, no,
Speaker 1: like me, like my like me, Like personally, I'm probably
Speaker 1: like I'm always being told I need to shave my way,
Speaker 1: but I'm talking about like long wet hair, like in
Speaker 1: the sink and stuff. It's the world. So I would
Speaker 1: think if you have it all over you and it's
Speaker 1: in the tub or something, that I would have a meltdown.
Speaker 1: I agree, And just hairy nous. Yeah, it's like on
Speaker 1: your head and everything else that's all fine, but like
Speaker 1: on your body, I just would prefer nothing. I'm with you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like a clean slate. Okay. If you could go
Speaker 1: through a whole day, would you rather go through a
Speaker 1: whole day with a very visible panty line or lipstick
Speaker 1: on your teeth and not knowing either one? And this
Speaker 1: is like, say, a day of interviews or day of TV.
Speaker 1: I think panty line because most of the time in
Speaker 1: interviews and stuff like that, you're sitting down, so you
Speaker 1: can kind of like hide your panty line or something.
Speaker 1: But if you're on your teeth, you're gonna look like,
Speaker 1: first of all, who do you have around you that's
Speaker 1: not telling you that you have something on the cheese?
Speaker 1: I think pantyline. Okay, I agree with you. Okay, so
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start from the beginning. You're from kent Loot,
Speaker 1: kent Wood, Louisiana. Yes, I'm from kent Wood, but I
Speaker 1: live in Hammond, Louisiana. Now it's okay, half far a
Speaker 1: part of those two, Like, okay, it's not too bad.
Speaker 1: What's it like living in Hammond Hammond Ham And yeah,
Speaker 1: what's life like in Hammond? Um. It's very family oriented
Speaker 1: and it's where my daughter's school is, it's where my husband's,
Speaker 1: my husband's businesses. It's a great mixture of like still
Speaker 1: has the historic downtown love but also you know, we
Speaker 1: have Target and we have all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: So that way, but it's not too big, it's just
Speaker 1: it's just right. It's just like the best mixture and
Speaker 1: the people are nice. Yes, the people are nice. They
Speaker 1: are that's great. It's it's nice when you're your roots too. Exactly.
Speaker 1: That's where my support system is. So that's where your fami,
Speaker 1: grand mom and dad live. Yeah, so I mean my
Speaker 1: dad travels a lot, my mom travels a lot. But
Speaker 1: your home base is Louisiana for us, and that's great.
Speaker 1: So then you can travel a lot, like you're hopping
Speaker 1: into Nashville this week, but you always go back. Exactly.
Speaker 1: It's nice to like have home be separate from work,
Speaker 1: especially when she's in school, because that way I get
Speaker 1: to just come here focus on my work, but then
Speaker 1: go back home and just be a mom and just
Speaker 1: be a part of the community. Look at you being
Speaker 1: all smart figuring out life. Yeah, you know, you gotta
Speaker 1: have you gotta have that separation you do. Yeah, it's important. Okay,
Speaker 1: So you, Tristan also have as helping us with the
Speaker 1: camera too. You were born in to the entertainment industry
Speaker 1: basically because your sister's obviously Brittany and you grew up
Speaker 1: on tour with her. Basically, did you show up like
Speaker 1: I watched your went on your website and like you
Speaker 1: were like getting manicures and petticures like on a flight. Yeah,
Speaker 1: hang it out backstage. Everyone always are like, how is
Speaker 1: it like to grow up like that? And for me
Speaker 1: it was the only thing I knew. So to me
Speaker 1: it was my normal. I think everyone has their definition
Speaker 1: of normal. That was my normal. My sister worked and
Speaker 1: I got to travel and see the world. Did you
Speaker 1: go worldwide with her? Yes? I would go overseas and
Speaker 1: you know we do all that, but I would I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to go for too too long because
Speaker 1: I did have school, so usually it was like summer
Speaker 1: or like i'd get I'd get like, you know, some
Speaker 1: excuses from school to where I'd have to do the work.
Speaker 1: Though still so for me growing up that way, it
Speaker 1: was just kind of a really a big blessing. I
Speaker 1: find That's why now I find hotels and tour buses
Speaker 1: like a second home. It doesn't feel like adjusting to me.
Speaker 1: There's something about it that feels like my childhood. It
Speaker 1: feels comfortable. Yeah, for sure. So where are your favorite
Speaker 1: places that you traveled as a kid and did you
Speaker 1: understand what was happening when you were that young seeing
Speaker 1: all that or was it, like you said, just your normal.
Speaker 1: It was not it was it was really I didn't understand.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, I was really like I was.
Speaker 1: I was so confused that my sister was famous. I
Speaker 1: knew she's saying, but I didn't understand why she was famed,
Speaker 1: Like I didn't like. My version was wait a minute,
Speaker 1: so she's like Mariah Carey. I don't understand, Like I
Speaker 1: didn't get like why she at the same things they're at.
Speaker 1: So that was confusing to me. But my favorite places
Speaker 1: we went was Germany and actually was really beautiful, Mama,
Speaker 1: wasn't it Germany where the animals would like come up
Speaker 1: to you? Yeah, so we would like the animals would
Speaker 1: like come up to you in Germany. It was just gorgeous,
Speaker 1: something I remember vividly, like as a kid remembering that.
Speaker 1: And then also, um, we went to Neva's West Indies
Speaker 1: for a vacation and it was just it was so
Speaker 1: great because we brought the family and everything. So it's
Speaker 1: how old were you when you started traveling like this? Um,
Speaker 1: I just say about my daughter's age seven eight, So
Speaker 1: Mattie's kind of the same way, just growing up seeing
Speaker 1: all this. Yes, and uh, I mean she was born
Speaker 1: with you know, that kind of world around her. So
Speaker 1: she didn't understand for the longest time, while like all
Speaker 1: the entertainers weren't kin to her, she would like see
Speaker 1: them on she'd see them on TV. And so that's
Speaker 1: my auntio, Like what do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Like she didn't get like, it's funny how children don't relate.
Speaker 1: But you know that it's different for other people, Like
Speaker 1: they just think that, oh, everyone sings, everyone does exactly,
Speaker 1: and that's what you see exactly. So when did it
Speaker 1: click for you that, okay, this is like different than
Speaker 1: other people's lives. And when did it click for you
Speaker 1: that you loved it and wanted to do it yourself. Um.
Speaker 1: I think the thing was while Brittany was doing all
Speaker 1: her stuff, I was able to still really be a kid,
Speaker 1: and so it was just fun for me. I didn't
Speaker 1: think about it too much. But then whenever I started working,
Speaker 1: which I was like nine and a half, I started working,
Speaker 1: That's when I understood, Okay, it's not all just fun
Speaker 1: and games. They're sacrifices. There's responsibility. I loved it and
Speaker 1: I enjoyed it, especially as the young girl being able
Speaker 1: to go out there and you know, entertain people. But
Speaker 1: you start to understand the grasp of like, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: you don't just go do this or go do that
Speaker 1: things or you know, this is this is an adult world.
Speaker 1: You're working and even though you're kids. So I think
Speaker 1: for me, that's when I understood, oh, this is like
Speaker 1: a job. This is what she does. It's not just
Speaker 1: something that we're on. And so your first role was
Speaker 1: in Crossroads, you're the younger version of her. Is that
Speaker 1: when you realize that you loved acting because you started
Speaker 1: in acting, I actually loved just playing skits and roles
Speaker 1: and like making up. I made up characters and I
Speaker 1: would make up things just on tour. Actually, so it
Speaker 1: wasn't oh yeah, because you said you were always dreaming
Speaker 1: stuff out and like so creative. Yeah, I would make
Speaker 1: up characters. And then I guess Nickelodeon must have seen
Speaker 1: some footage from one of Britney's documentaries or something, and
Speaker 1: when they saw that, they asked me to come in
Speaker 1: an audition for All That. That's exciting. Yes, I went
Speaker 1: an audition for All That with some characters I've made up,
Speaker 1: some scripts called all That. Yeah, it's called all That,
Speaker 1: And um, that's where I started and they liked it.
Speaker 1: And that was nine years old for you. Yes, and
Speaker 1: one of the characters I made up actually made it
Speaker 1: onto the show. Who it was Louise mcgilla cutty. And
Speaker 1: who's Louise her name on the show. Her her name
Speaker 1: on the show was Filma Stunks. They had to change
Speaker 1: it because I called her Louise mcgilla cutty mcgilla cutty.
Speaker 1: I don't know where I got that name from that
Speaker 1: but apparently apparently that name was already used in something,
Speaker 1: so we had to change the name. Louise mcgilla cutty
Speaker 1: was always already used. Yes, So Nickelodeon, you know they
Speaker 1: look into the legal side of things. As a kid,
Speaker 1: I was just being silly, but um they changed the
Speaker 1: name with Thelma Stump. And who was Elmo? Was she
Speaker 1: like she was an eighty four year old bodyguard? And
Speaker 1: so I would my version, you know, my version of
Speaker 1: it was my granny Lexi, who I loved dearly, and
Speaker 1: then my sister's security guard who was Big Rocks. So
Speaker 1: I would combine the two and act like I was
Speaker 1: the old lady like on tour protecting, and I'd make
Speaker 1: up all these funny things. So what would she act
Speaker 1: like I mean, she just was like had she was
Speaker 1: very sarcastic, very dry, and um didn't care who you were,
Speaker 1: what you did. She just was like you know that way.
Speaker 1: So then when on All That, what they did is
Speaker 1: they had me guarding the entrance to where celebrities would
Speaker 1: be coming in and I wouldn't let him in. So
Speaker 1: that was their version of it, which, oh, that's awesome.
Speaker 1: It was really fun. The nine year old You're like
Speaker 1: vending part of your TV show. I know, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I should have still got a producer rights, right, come on,
Speaker 1: I mean that's what I'm talking about. Yeah, but it
Speaker 1: was fun, It was really if. That was a really
Speaker 1: cool experience being on All That, and that led to
Speaker 1: Zoe one oh one yes, and that was a really
Speaker 1: big show on Nickelodeon. Would you want what best actress
Speaker 1: Nicolodeon actress? Like two words for it was the Kid's
Speaker 1: Choice Award Young Artist Award, Yeah some yeah, but I
Speaker 1: definitely remember winning the Kid's Choice Award because at that
Speaker 1: time in that world, that was like our award, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, we only had one award show
Speaker 1: that was kind of cool, So to me, it was
Speaker 1: really cool to win that Best Actress It was, yeah,
Speaker 1: and it was a fan voted thing, so I think
Speaker 1: it was, like, I'm pretty sure it was a fan
Speaker 1: voted thing, but I don't really know. But I you know,
Speaker 1: I got the whole little blimp and everything. It was
Speaker 1: really cool. So was that fun for you to like
Speaker 1: start your own career because you had obviously grown up
Speaker 1: in it and now you're starting your own. I think
Speaker 1: because I grew up around it, I really didn't. I
Speaker 1: never thought anything different. I knew I was creative. I
Speaker 1: knew I wanted to express myself in a creative way.
Speaker 1: But I think it twelve thirteen. You don't know the
Speaker 1: best way you want to do it. You don't know.
Speaker 1: You just know you're you just know you have it
Speaker 1: any you want to get this energy out of you.
Speaker 1: So as a child, that's how expressed it. But obviously
Speaker 1: is I got older and wanted to figure out how
Speaker 1: I wanted to tell my story and what kind of
Speaker 1: future I want to have. As an adult, you can
Speaker 1: identify what your creative outlet is. As a child, you
Speaker 1: do everything, But for me, as an adult, music was
Speaker 1: the way that my creative outlet made the most sense. Okay,
Speaker 1: so I want to get to your country music. So
Speaker 1: but what's exciting I think it's so cool is you
Speaker 1: have a documentary coming up on TLC which is airing June,
Speaker 1: and oh the trailer is like so good, thank you,
Speaker 1: so excited I am. I worked on this for a
Speaker 1: while in secret, which was hard for me because my
Speaker 1: fans like when is the new music coming? When every
Speaker 1: and I'm like wanted to be like, this is what
Speaker 1: I'm working on. This is what I'm doing. But you know,
Speaker 1: to get content that's real and takes time to show
Speaker 1: your story, honestly, it takes time. You can't just you know,
Speaker 1: put some silly stuff together. So for me, um, it
Speaker 1: was really important. People met me as a child, and
Speaker 1: I think that there has been to disconnect. People want
Speaker 1: to know, Okay, we met her as Zoe, she had
Speaker 1: a child at a young age, she's pretty sister. And
Speaker 1: then seven or eight years go by and then people
Speaker 1: are like, wait, who are who? Who is she? We
Speaker 1: just know where as a kid. So I think it's
Speaker 1: really important for me to bridge the gap, that's to say,
Speaker 1: this is who I am as an adult, and this
Speaker 1: is how I got here, this is my story. I
Speaker 1: know I stayed away for a while, but this is them.
Speaker 1: This is my way of introducing myself is Jamie Lynn
Speaker 1: the grown up And that's kind of that's kind of
Speaker 1: important about the way you want to put it out there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and especially in country music, people want to know your story.
Speaker 1: They want to know why you sing the words you sing.
Speaker 1: And I think it was important for me to finally say, Okay,
Speaker 1: let me let him into who I really am, so
Speaker 1: that way people understand where you know, they understand that
Speaker 1: it's not just Zoe, there's there's a person behind it,
Speaker 1: and this is what's been going on in the past
Speaker 1: few years. That why they get to meet me as
Speaker 1: a person. Had because one of your lions in it
Speaker 1: that I thought was so awesome was you said, I'm
Speaker 1: not just what does it put he said? He said,
Speaker 1: I'm not just a child star, I'm not just somebody's sister.
Speaker 1: I'm not just a team mom. This is the real story.
Speaker 1: Were people hard on you for a while, like and
Speaker 1: and when it all happened when you had Maddie and
Speaker 1: got pregnant. I feel like people were ruthless a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that because of the entertainment industry people see
Speaker 1: us as just these figures and not people, real people,
Speaker 1: and it sounds really cliche. But I was a kid who, um,
Speaker 1: was in a situation that was very scary, already very
Speaker 1: scary for my whole family, and I think, what do
Speaker 1: you mean, just found out I was pregnant, and so
Speaker 1: why was it just because you're so young? You know
Speaker 1: what I mean? So it was like, it's a very
Speaker 1: scary situation in the first place. So I think that
Speaker 1: people had their opinions, and rightfully. So I was a
Speaker 1: child star who became pregnant, so I understand that. But
Speaker 1: I think that, um, you know, I wanted to take
Speaker 1: full responsibility and also I needed to make a decision
Speaker 1: that I had to sleep with every night. So I
Speaker 1: just kind of tucked away and went away from it
Speaker 1: because I knew they were gonna be hard on me,
Speaker 1: so I just didn't want to I didn't want to
Speaker 1: put myself in any more situations to give them any
Speaker 1: more demo. Yeah exactly. Is that why you kind of
Speaker 1: took a breather for a while. Yeah, I wanted to know.
Speaker 1: I wanted to first office back and raise my daughter,
Speaker 1: which she's the cutest, so congratulations and being a great mom,
Speaker 1: great daughter. But that was important. That's really mature of
Speaker 1: you at such a young age to like have the
Speaker 1: wisdom inside to be like, Okay, I'm gonna just like
Speaker 1: take some time out of this industry. Even though your
Speaker 1: career was like on fire, you took did what was
Speaker 1: right for you, which is a big move. Well, I
Speaker 1: think that, Um. I think it was one of those
Speaker 1: situations where I wasn't just thinking about myself anymore, and
Speaker 1: I need to figure out who I was as a
Speaker 1: person because I'd been in the industry for so long
Speaker 1: and you get so caught up and everything. Even at
Speaker 1: that age that it was important for me to step aside,
Speaker 1: figure out who I was as a woman, and also
Speaker 1: figure out what kind of future I was really going
Speaker 1: to make for me and my daughter. So what'd you
Speaker 1: come up with in those year is that's when I
Speaker 1: started writing, But that's when you fell in love a songwriting. Yes,
Speaker 1: when she was three months old, I came to Nashville
Speaker 1: for the first time and I started writing and and
Speaker 1: now she's gonna be eight this June. So basically i'd
Speaker 1: come for the first year of her life. I'd come
Speaker 1: here one week out every month and just right, and
Speaker 1: it just was so it felt so good. You love songwriting? Well,
Speaker 1: I loved the fact that, for the first time, coming
Speaker 1: from a world where I was, you know, supposed to
Speaker 1: be perfect and all these things, it was so nice
Speaker 1: to get in a room where they said, no, you
Speaker 1: could say whatever you want, this is where you tell
Speaker 1: your story. And I felt so freeing to me. So
Speaker 1: was this like the first time you could just express
Speaker 1: and it's through music, so you don't actually have to
Speaker 1: come out and say exactly through a song exactly. And
Speaker 1: it was really freeing to me and really cool that
Speaker 1: I could do that, and it felt really safe at
Speaker 1: the same time. So when my daughter turned about a
Speaker 1: year old, I moved to Nashville and I came here
Speaker 1: and I just really focused on writing and figuring out
Speaker 1: who I was as an artist. Did you always know
Speaker 1: you wanted to do country music. I always knew that
Speaker 1: I wanted to tell my story wors So when I
Speaker 1: came to Nashville and I started writing music, it just
Speaker 1: let itself to country music. Boys has such a like
Speaker 1: a beautiful country undertone to it. I mean, you can
Speaker 1: go up in Louisiana. So I mean I think that
Speaker 1: like that's just a part of who I am, and
Speaker 1: it's just a part of you know. What you grow
Speaker 1: up around is what you are. And so I think
Speaker 1: that it just felt like home. It really did. So
Speaker 1: who are some of the writers that you love? Because
Speaker 1: I know you're working with Corey Crowder and he's producing
Speaker 1: your project. He is Corey Crowder has producing my prod.
Speaker 1: Love him. He's so just so easy to be around,
Speaker 1: which is so nice. There's no pressure. He just really
Speaker 1: cares about what makes you happy and what's gonna build
Speaker 1: you up. But Liz Rose is like my music mom.
Speaker 1: I say it a hundred times over. She is he
Speaker 1: real girl crush, She's everything nothing. She probably hasn't had
Speaker 1: some touch in writing, you know, And I feel like
Speaker 1: to having a woman like that on your side, who
Speaker 1: is just there because they want to support another young
Speaker 1: girl who's doing she does. And I think that that's
Speaker 1: been a big, big help for me, Um, having someone
Speaker 1: like her around me as well. So do you feel
Speaker 1: like Nashville is really where you came into your own? Um? Yes,
Speaker 1: I would say that when I moved to Nashville, it
Speaker 1: was really it was me becoming an adult, figuring out
Speaker 1: my own life. Every single day. It was me becoming
Speaker 1: a working single mom as well. You know, I was
Speaker 1: here with my daughter and I was learning how to
Speaker 1: work and be a mother. Was as you juggle that. Um,
Speaker 1: I had a great support system as well. I had
Speaker 1: I had everything scheduled out really well. But I also
Speaker 1: had um one of my friends who moved here for
Speaker 1: a little bit and was kind of like her nanny,
Speaker 1: So when I'd go to work during the day, she'd
Speaker 1: be with her. And that was another reason I decided
Speaker 1: to move back to Louisiana though, is because I wanted
Speaker 1: my daughter to grow up where I grew up and
Speaker 1: have me mall taken her gymnastics if I'm working or
Speaker 1: you know, something like that. It was that was another
Speaker 1: reason that I moved back home from Nashville. So figuring
Speaker 1: out scheduling, working, being of a mom, and then dating
Speaker 1: comes along too, because you met your man, Like, how
Speaker 1: did that happen and how did you figure out that
Speaker 1: balance out? Um? Well, he actually was a friend of
Speaker 1: when he was best friends with my friends, uh boyfriend
Speaker 1: who they've been together for so I always saw him.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like somebody I didn't know who he was,
Speaker 1: but I never looked in really that way a little.
Speaker 1: Did I know he had been really he had liked
Speaker 1: me for a while. Yeah, and I didn't know that.
Speaker 1: So when I, um, when Maddie was about a year old,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I just they asked us to go
Speaker 1: on a date with all fours together, and right then
Speaker 1: it was just so your best friend, her boyfriend and
Speaker 1: Jamie yes, my husband. Yeah, and it was like we
Speaker 1: all went and looked at Christmas lights in New Orleans
Speaker 1: and it was it was the weirdest thing. It just
Speaker 1: felt right from right then and there and um, you know,
Speaker 1: putting through a little hell for the next two years,
Speaker 1: but like I would break up with him because I
Speaker 1: was like, I just need to focus on being a
Speaker 1: mom and working. And then he just was really consistent
Speaker 1: through it all. You know, he gave me my time
Speaker 1: to grow up. He gave me my time to make
Speaker 1: sure that I wanted to be with him because I
Speaker 1: wanted to save that. So he like he showed you
Speaker 1: he wanted to be there for you. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: he had his fun while I was you know, figuring
Speaker 1: it out inside and toolest thumbs. But yeah, he definitely,
Speaker 1: you know, he allowed me to do that. He knew
Speaker 1: I needed to do that. Um, and I think that, Uh,
Speaker 1: that's the reason it's the way it is now. It's
Speaker 1: just easy. And when it's easy and it's safe, that's
Speaker 1: when you're supposed to be there. And don't you love
Speaker 1: that you kind of have like the same name. We
Speaker 1: have this actual name, Well you got a double name.
Speaker 1: And then my daddy's name is Jamie as well, so
Speaker 1: it's Jamie Big and Louisiana or just was this coincidental? No?
Speaker 1: I just think my parents by the time they had
Speaker 1: me as a third kid, they didn't feel like figuring
Speaker 1: out another name, so they just named me Jamie Lynn,
Speaker 1: which is my parents name combined. I love that Jamie
Speaker 1: and Lynn. How great is that? It's fabulous. I love
Speaker 1: the fault. It's Brittany Bryan and then Jamie Lynn, Lady
Speaker 1: Brian Jamie Lynn. Normally parents keep the like Yeah, a lot,
Speaker 1: a lot of medicine was given to her my birth.
Speaker 1: You just had to make sure your legacy was in
Speaker 1: full force. Okay, Christians turned to wrap us up. It's
Speaker 1: only twenty minutes, you said thirty. Can we have ten
Speaker 1: more minutes? We're doing Tristan is like cracking the whip.
Speaker 1: He is Jamie Lynds tour manager, and he's keeping us
Speaker 1: on a tight schedule. Okay, we're gonna just like you're
Speaker 1: making us, like getting all red and sweaty, Tristan. Okay,
Speaker 1: we have a fitting Okay, Okay, okay, Okay. Sorry, Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm blaming Tristan. Yeah, I'm blaming Where does weather is that?
Speaker 1: Where you came from? The weather delayed my flights? Oh
Speaker 1: from Florida? Yeah, the weather, the plane. It was late
Speaker 1: because it was a tropical storm. Yeah. So my New
Speaker 1: Orleans was fine, but it just was the plane coming
Speaker 1: from wherever? Okay, Okay, So I want to talk to
Speaker 1: you a little bit about just a few more Thanks Triston,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna wrap up. You wrote I Got the
Speaker 1: Boy for Janna Kramer. That has to be an amazing
Speaker 1: feeling as a writer to not just be an artists,
Speaker 1: but now your songs other people are singing and making
Speaker 1: them hits across the country, Like, how did that feel
Speaker 1: for you? It was really unexpected, but one of the
Speaker 1: coolest experiences ever because as a songwriter, you know, that
Speaker 1: song was written probably five or six years ago now,
Speaker 1: and I kept it based on a true story. Yes,
Speaker 1: of course. Oh and so I wrote it probably five
Speaker 1: or six years ago, and with the wonderful co writers
Speaker 1: I wrote it with, and I kept holding onto it.
Speaker 1: I'm sure they were getting frustrated, like what is she
Speaker 1: going to record this? What is she doing? But then
Speaker 1: I finally said, you know what, I'm not in that
Speaker 1: place anymore. This song needs to find the right home.
Speaker 1: And I think the home it needed was Janna. I
Speaker 1: think that, and as a songwriter, such a cool experience
Speaker 1: to hear a song that you know had a little
Speaker 1: piece of your heart go to another artist and really
Speaker 1: that's its home, that's where it should be. And she
Speaker 1: loved it like her own, you know, like and that's why. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's why I worked because the song found the home
Speaker 1: that it needed to be with it was her. It's
Speaker 1: like magic, it is. It really is so cool. And
Speaker 1: you have a single coming out the same day as
Speaker 1: You're special in June. Tell me about the single, Well,
Speaker 1: is it coming out? Uh? Okay, so Sleepover? So when
Speaker 1: is this coming out? June? Yes, I guess June seventeenth
Speaker 1: is when the Sleepover is coming out. And it's I'm
Speaker 1: really excited. I've been working on this obviously for a
Speaker 1: while now along with the documentary, but it's really I
Speaker 1: think that for a while they're being a young mother
Speaker 1: and taking yourself so serious and trying to be perfect,
Speaker 1: that that's the time my music had. I really wanted
Speaker 1: to set the tone and give myself as an artist,
Speaker 1: my story, and I think that that's what the documentary does.
Speaker 1: But I need to also remember I'm twenty five. I
Speaker 1: need to have a little fun. I can be flirty
Speaker 1: and sexy and confident even though I am a wife
Speaker 1: and a mother, and I think that's the tone of
Speaker 1: the new music. Sleepover is very flirty but confident, but
Speaker 1: still the girls in control. So I think that's what
Speaker 1: I think. That's kind of the new tone of my
Speaker 1: new music. I love it. You're just kind of owning
Speaker 1: all parts of yourself exactly. At think it's important for me,
Speaker 1: and it was a side of me I was always
Speaker 1: a little afraid to embrace, and I'm not I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just think for me, I wanted to um just
Speaker 1: be this very like to myself kind of person like
Speaker 1: I almost saw like I almost used to see like
Speaker 1: a softer side of myself as a weakness. But that's
Speaker 1: not true. You know, I get that being young is
Speaker 1: a weakness or something, and that's not true. And you
Speaker 1: wanted to act like you head together and like everything
Speaker 1: you wanted to do. And yeah, and I think that
Speaker 1: being flirty and fun is just as cool as having
Speaker 1: your craft together as well. I totally agree with that,
Speaker 1: because sometimes that's like bad people think that's like a
Speaker 1: bad rap. But that's the side of women exactly. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think that that's what you need to embrace. As
Speaker 1: long as you're in control of the situation, then you
Speaker 1: know what, it's fun to have a little fun and
Speaker 1: to be flirty with your man, and that's all that matters. Yeah. Okay,
Speaker 1: So then you recently did your opera debut and that
Speaker 1: was like a big night for you, super emotional, not
Speaker 1: only because it's your first debut. You're filming it for
Speaker 1: your special and then your brother or a sister surprise
Speaker 1: you introduce you walk me through those feelings of the
Speaker 1: whole experience. I had no clue, Like, there was no clue.
Speaker 1: I did not know whatsoever. I was in Nashville to
Speaker 1: shoot my documentary UM covering this performance at the Opry,
Speaker 1: had my family here, and had no clue that my
Speaker 1: sister was coming. So I'm about to walk on the stage,
Speaker 1: and I noticed that the man he's normally like you know,
Speaker 1: they say, and here's Jamie linspears. He walks off with
Speaker 1: the microphone into the middle of the stage, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: what does he do? Why? What's what's going on? And
Speaker 1: Daddy's like, besides, He's like, don't walk on yet, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, you don't know, you're you don't run this show.
Speaker 1: What do you mean, don't walk on you? And then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden they said, we like to, you know,
Speaker 1: have surprises and break traditions or whatever it is they said.
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, I walks my sister
Speaker 1: and I just melted and I had to go sing
Speaker 1: songs and donn't really remember any of it. Was that
Speaker 1: a big deal for you because you have grown up
Speaker 1: supporting her and now she's supporting you, Like, did that
Speaker 1: feel cool? I think it was a big deal to
Speaker 1: me that my whole family was there. It was It's
Speaker 1: so rare that all of us are all in one place,
Speaker 1: and so them all being there especially for me, and
Speaker 1: I didn't even have to ask or like make it
Speaker 1: a big deal. They just were there, and I think
Speaker 1: that was, like, what was such a big deal to me?
Speaker 1: I love that. So what is your relationship like with
Speaker 1: Brittany because she said when she introduced you that you
Speaker 1: are her heart and soul and she loves you more
Speaker 1: than anything in the world. Well, my brother and sister.
Speaker 1: My brother is fourteen years older than me. My sister's
Speaker 1: ten years older than me. So it's like a second
Speaker 1: set of parents. It wasn't the normal sister like um,
Speaker 1: you know, bickering kind of thing. I was like I
Speaker 1: was her little doll. I was like her little baby,
Speaker 1: and so it was definitely um you know. I feel
Speaker 1: like I was her first child. And I think that's
Speaker 1: why the relationship is is the way it is. So
Speaker 1: what is it like for y'all or y'all just like
Speaker 1: you know, now it's different. Now, It's like I feel
Speaker 1: like now it's like she still wants to treat me
Speaker 1: like that. At the same time, I feel like sometimes
Speaker 1: I'm the more the one who's like cracking the whip
Speaker 1: about like what we need to do and what's going
Speaker 1: to happen. So I feel like now I'm the one
Speaker 1: that's more in control. I'm my whole family. You have
Speaker 1: this a lockdown? Yes, yes, exactly. I love that. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we're wrapping up just in this is it their
Speaker 1: last questions? You want to get in trouble. I don't
Speaker 1: want to get in trouble, Dad, So I have to
Speaker 1: make sure I've covered everything I wanna talk about basically
Speaker 1: have Okay, UM, what are you looking forward to in
Speaker 1: these next five years? Because you you're doing this country music,
Speaker 1: You're committing to a full force. This is like where
Speaker 1: you found your heart and soul. You're doing your documentary
Speaker 1: saying this is who I am. What are you looking
Speaker 1: forward to in these next five years? I think I'm
Speaker 1: really looking forward to being able to truly be my
Speaker 1: real self as an artist, as a person and have
Speaker 1: people see that like it or not, but really being
Speaker 1: honest with myself. How would you describe your real self?
Speaker 1: I think my real self is um, I think I'm
Speaker 1: a lot of things, and I think that embracing all
Speaker 1: of those sides of yourself are important. So I think
Speaker 1: in the next five years, I'm just really excited to
Speaker 1: get on stage, have a good time, write songs, and
Speaker 1: not apologize for just not really apologize for just being
Speaker 1: who I am. You know, within reason, of course, I
Speaker 1: go and act and ask. But but you want to
Speaker 1: show all sides of you exactly. And I think that
Speaker 1: it's gonna be really freeing for me to do this
Speaker 1: documentary and to kind of say the things and talk
Speaker 1: about the things that I kind of would be shy about.
Speaker 1: I think this will be a good way for me
Speaker 1: to say, Okay, it's all out there, let's just let's
Speaker 1: move forward now. So this is like your autobiography, Like
Speaker 1: this is like you just going through it all, putting
Speaker 1: it all out there and saying, like I'm telling you
Speaker 1: how it is, so you don't have to make judgments
Speaker 1: for me. I'm just giving it to you. Yes, I'm
Speaker 1: just you know, people can take and dissect it. But
Speaker 1: at the same time, I think honesty is the biggest thing,
Speaker 1: and for the next five years, I think that, Um
Speaker 1: that's kind of just the main thing is just going
Speaker 1: out there and just being less afraid. I love that. Okay.
Speaker 1: So I like to end every interview with a little
Speaker 1: segment called leave your Light and so basically, how have
Speaker 1: you been inspired or how would you like to inspire
Speaker 1: people who are fans of you? Um, I think that
Speaker 1: the one thing I would want people to know is
Speaker 1: that you can't be so hard on yourself. It's one
Speaker 1: of those things that everyone's going to have an opinion
Speaker 1: about everything, But don't be afraid. Don't be afraid of
Speaker 1: your mistakes because they're really not. It's it's really not
Speaker 1: the end of the world. I think for me, it's
Speaker 1: like what inspires me is seeing people who keep moving forward,
Speaker 1: and that's what I want to do. And um, I
Speaker 1: really just want I want women and young girls to
Speaker 1: just love, just love every part of themselves, all the good,
Speaker 1: the bad, the ugly, all of that. I just think
Speaker 1: that it's important for UM, no one to have to apologize.
Speaker 1: That's awesome though. You just want women, especially to feel
Speaker 1: empowered and love them. We need to stop second guessing ourselves.
Speaker 1: We just need to stop. We just need to let
Speaker 1: it go. Just stop second guessing ourselves, trust ourselves, stop apologizing.
Speaker 1: Um you know, it's really cool to be a lady.
Speaker 1: I love being a Southern lady because I can respect you,
Speaker 1: but at the same time I can stand up there
Speaker 1: with you and you know, I can hold on. I
Speaker 1: think that's what's important. I love that. O. Congrats on
Speaker 1: all of your exciting things, and your Special is coming out.
Speaker 1: This is an air right before your special, so on
Speaker 1: June TLC. Yes, June TLCT Okay, Jamie Lispon by Caral Love.
Speaker 1: She's a queen of talking. She's the no one can
Speaker 1: Caral Love care. Thank you guys so much for tuning in.
Speaker 1: I hope that you loved hearing from Jamie Lynn Spears.
Speaker 1: She is such a doll, so sweet, so authentic, and
Speaker 1: I cannot wait to hear her new singles Sleepover that's
Speaker 1: coming out June the same day her Special airs on
Speaker 1: TLC next week. Is such a treat because I have
Speaker 1: one of the most famous songwriters in country music history.
Speaker 1: He has written over a thousand songs that have been
Speaker 1: cut by pretty much everyone. He's had fifteen number one songs.
Speaker 1: He's had over like ten top ten songs, and some
Speaker 1: of the songs include clear Blue Sky by George Straight,
Speaker 1: one of my freaking favorites, Take Me As I Am
Speaker 1: by Faith Hill, If You Ever Stopped Loving Me by
Speaker 1: Montgomery Gentry, Southern Voice by Tim m O. Grawl. He
Speaker 1: also had that amazing song Cowboys Like Us by George Straight.
Speaker 1: I mean, the list goes on and on and on.
Speaker 1: He also talks about his road to recover bread. He
Speaker 1: struggled with addiction and he talks all about that in
Speaker 1: his marriage to Pam till Us. Bob de Piro is
Speaker 1: our featured guest and you will not want to miss it.
Speaker 1: This guy is probably not only one of the most
Speaker 1: talented people, but also the most endearing and funny people.
Speaker 1: His stories will just make you laugh and they might
Speaker 1: make you cry. So y'all tune in next week and
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