WEBVTT - Jamie Lynn Spears 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:14.920 Carola, She's the queen of talking. He was sown your man. 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:18.480 She's only in side. She got the scoop on the wall, 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:21.439 on the ones in side. No one can do with 0:00:21.720 --> 0:00:31.440 Cliel Carola, Carola. No one can do with quiet like 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:37.960 Carola Tile Caroline. Hey, y'all, welcome to Hyper Caroline Hobby. 0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:41.239 I am your host, Caroline Hobby. I know music, I 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:43.519 know people, and I know the questions do you want 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:47.360 to ask? So let's get Hyper heads up. These are 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:50.479 adults having adult conversations, so there could be adult content. 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:55.280 And this week is so exciting because I have Jamie 0:00:55.360 --> 0:01:00.520 Lynn Spears on. She is absolutely amazing. She a child 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:03.640 star on Nickelodeon. She's a sister of Britney Spears. She 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:06.480 had a teen pregnancy at age sixteen, and now she 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:09.360 is reinventing herself in country music and she is kicking. 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:12.600 But she has a special coming out on TLC on 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:16.360 June called When the Lights Go Out, and she is 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:19.080 the most authentic, sweet person ever. I cannot wait for 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:21.040 y'all to hear this interview. So y'all give it up 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:26.200 for Jamie Lynn Spears. Hey, Jamie Lynd Spears, Hey, how 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:29.880 are you awesome? We're sitting here in your hotel room. 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:32.360 It's c M A wait wait no, SEAM T week, 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:36.440 SEAM two week, CNT Music Awards. It's also c M 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:39.839 A Festival Week. Yes, CMT Awards are dear and SMA 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:42.560 Festival Week. So much going on. We got the whole 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:44.440 squad in here. You got your you got your hair 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:47.440 and makeup. Peeves, You've got some styling going on. I 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:50.120 got my baby girl, my mama, your baby girl, and 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:52.440 your mama, and I have to stay. Shout out to Maddie. 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:55.440 She's running the camera. She is, how's it looking? How's 0:01:55.440 --> 0:01:59.280 it looking, Maddie? Can we look good? Do we need 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:03.000 to fix our hair or anything? Everything's going going well? Yes, 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:06.720 it is okay, great, okay, great recording. I have recorded 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:09.640 a couple of interviews and it didn't record. Do you 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:11.400 go back and do them again? It was Cree Harrison's 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:13.720 and Kelly Picklers. Oh my god, it was like they're 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:15.440 so sweet, Cree, let me redo it. So that was 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:18.919 so nice. But yes, now, my my biggest fear now 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:23.320 is that they don't record. But so we go okay, okay, 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:26.400 So I want to start with some would you rather okay, 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:30.519 are you ready for this. Okay if you well, okay, 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:32.400 this isn't I would do weather. This is a question 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:36.000 if you could be the pet dog to any celebrity, 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:41.480 who would it be and why? Maddie, do you have 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:47.360 an answer to any celebrity? I think it would be 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:51.000 the President because they have, like you know, they're usually 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:53.440 like really high bred and well to do dogs, you 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:55.400 know what I'm talking about. So you're like kind of 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:59.079 the elite dog and you're like almost sort of royalty 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:00.840 you are, so they're for I would think it'd have 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:04.959 to be that. That would good answer. Yeah, Okay, I'm 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:07.960 with you on that. I feel you. Girl. What about you, Maddie, 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:09.640 what celebrity would you want to be a dog too? 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:19.760 Who are the cool like young people we like? Right now? Um? 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:21.640 She we just went to the Billboard Awards and she 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:25.600 actually got to meet Demi Lovada and Denny. Demi Lovada 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:27.840 was like be on nice to her and took time 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:30.280 to talk to her as a little girl and as 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:32.679 a person. And so that's number one in her book 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:34.680 right now because she like, yeah, because she got like 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:37.400 real she was like really really sweet to Maddie. So 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:40.400 Maddie really loved that so that's our new favorite right now. Okay, 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:42.720 I like her and she sings awesome songs too. Yes, 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:45.560 she sings awesome and she is awesome. She's totally awesome. Okay, 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:49.120 Demmilda love her? Okay. Would you rather be hairy all 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:55.840 over completely bald? Completely? I hate I hate hair, and 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:58.440 I hate wet hair. My gosh, wet hair, Like I 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:01.000 can't do you shave yours or anything? Oh no, no, 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:04.200 like me, like my like me, Like personally, I'm probably 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:07.600 like I'm always being told I need to shave my way, 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:09.880 but I'm talking about like long wet hair, like in 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:11.920 the sink and stuff. It's the world. So I would 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:13.360 think if you have it all over you and it's 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:15.480 in the tub or something, that I would have a meltdown. 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:18.680 I agree, And just hairy nous. Yeah, it's like on 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:20.680 your head and everything else that's all fine, but like 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:24.440 on your body, I just would prefer nothing. I'm with you. Yeah, 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:31.000 I like a clean slate. Okay. If you could go 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:33.480 through a whole day, would you rather go through a 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:36.839 whole day with a very visible panty line or lipstick 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:39.520 on your teeth and not knowing either one? And this 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:41.559 is like, say, a day of interviews or day of TV. 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:43.680 I think panty line because most of the time in 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:46.800 interviews and stuff like that, you're sitting down, so you 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:49.360 can kind of like hide your panty line or something. 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:51.440 But if you're on your teeth, you're gonna look like, 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:53.960 first of all, who do you have around you that's 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:56.159 not telling you that you have something on the cheese? 0:04:56.160 --> 0:05:00.360 I think pantyline. Okay, I agree with you. Okay, so 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:02.960 I'm gonna start from the beginning. You're from kent Loot, 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:05.680 kent Wood, Louisiana. Yes, I'm from kent Wood, but I 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:07.719 live in Hammond, Louisiana. Now it's okay, half far a 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:11.560 part of those two, Like, okay, it's not too bad. 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:15.360 What's it like living in Hammond Hammond Ham And yeah, 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:20.240 what's life like in Hammond? Um. It's very family oriented 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:24.200 and it's where my daughter's school is, it's where my husband's, 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:28.200 my husband's businesses. It's a great mixture of like still 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:31.919 has the historic downtown love but also you know, we 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:33.440 have Target and we have all that kind of stuff. 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:36.120 So that way, but it's not too big, it's just 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:39.600 it's just right. It's just like the best mixture and 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:42.160 the people are nice. Yes, the people are nice. They 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:45.360 are that's great. It's it's nice when you're your roots too. Exactly. 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:47.680 That's where my support system is. So that's where your fami, 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:50.000 grand mom and dad live. Yeah, so I mean my 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:51.960 dad travels a lot, my mom travels a lot. But 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:54.159 your home base is Louisiana for us, and that's great. 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:55.960 So then you can travel a lot, like you're hopping 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:58.279 into Nashville this week, but you always go back. Exactly. 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:00.640 It's nice to like have home be separate from work, 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:02.719 especially when she's in school, because that way I get 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:04.760 to just come here focus on my work, but then 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:06.760 go back home and just be a mom and just 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:08.840 be a part of the community. Look at you being 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:11.360 all smart figuring out life. Yeah, you know, you gotta 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:15.640 have you gotta have that separation you do. Yeah, it's important. Okay, 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:19.120 So you, Tristan also have as helping us with the 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:23.839 camera too. You were born in to the entertainment industry 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:27.520 basically because your sister's obviously Brittany and you grew up 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:30.320 on tour with her. Basically, did you show up like 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:33.160 I watched your went on your website and like you 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:36.680 were like getting manicures and petticures like on a flight. Yeah, 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:39.200 hang it out backstage. Everyone always are like, how is 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:41.280 it like to grow up like that? And for me 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:43.960 it was the only thing I knew. So to me 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:46.080 it was my normal. I think everyone has their definition 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:48.359 of normal. That was my normal. My sister worked and 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:51.560 I got to travel and see the world. Did you 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:54.240 go worldwide with her? Yes? I would go overseas and 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:56.120 you know we do all that, but I would I 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:57.800 wouldn't be able to go for too too long because 0:06:57.800 --> 0:06:59.800 I did have school, so usually it was like summer 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:02.400 or like i'd get I'd get like, you know, some 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:05.040 excuses from school to where I'd have to do the work. 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:07.320 Though still so for me growing up that way, it 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:09.360 was just kind of a really a big blessing. I 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:13.040 find That's why now I find hotels and tour buses 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:16.440 like a second home. It doesn't feel like adjusting to me. 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:20.040 There's something about it that feels like my childhood. It 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:23.000 feels comfortable. Yeah, for sure. So where are your favorite 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:24.920 places that you traveled as a kid and did you 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:27.480 understand what was happening when you were that young seeing 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:29.440 all that or was it, like you said, just your normal. 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:33.320 It was not it was it was really I didn't understand. 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:36.760 But at the same time, I was really like I was. 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:39.800 I was so confused that my sister was famous. I 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:42.520 knew she's saying, but I didn't understand why she was famed, 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:45.320 Like I didn't like. My version was wait a minute, 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:47.480 so she's like Mariah Carey. I don't understand, Like I 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:49.920 didn't get like why she at the same things they're at. 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:53.040 So that was confusing to me. But my favorite places 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:56.440 we went was Germany and actually was really beautiful, Mama, 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:58.360 wasn't it Germany where the animals would like come up 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:03.520 to you? Yeah, so we would like the animals would 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:05.320 like come up to you in Germany. It was just gorgeous, 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:08.480 something I remember vividly, like as a kid remembering that. 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:11.840 And then also, um, we went to Neva's West Indies 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:14.440 for a vacation and it was just it was so 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:16.520 great because we brought the family and everything. So it's 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:20.080 how old were you when you started traveling like this? Um, 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:22.880 I just say about my daughter's age seven eight, So 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:25.360 Mattie's kind of the same way, just growing up seeing 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:28.000 all this. Yes, and uh, I mean she was born 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:31.320 with you know, that kind of world around her. So 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:35.400 she didn't understand for the longest time, while like all 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:38.200 the entertainers weren't kin to her, she would like see 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:40.560 them on she'd see them on TV. And so that's 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:42.439 my auntio, Like what do you know what I mean? 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:46.600 Like she didn't get like, it's funny how children don't relate. 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:49.600 But you know that it's different for other people, Like 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:52.480 they just think that, oh, everyone sings, everyone does exactly, 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:55.120 and that's what you see exactly. So when did it 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:57.439 click for you that, okay, this is like different than 0:08:57.840 --> 0:08:59.880 other people's lives. And when did it click for you 0:08:59.880 --> 0:09:03.160 that you loved it and wanted to do it yourself. Um. 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:06.240 I think the thing was while Brittany was doing all 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:08.320 her stuff, I was able to still really be a kid, 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:11.280 and so it was just fun for me. I didn't 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:15.440 think about it too much. But then whenever I started working, 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:18.319 which I was like nine and a half, I started working, 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:22.480 That's when I understood, Okay, it's not all just fun 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:26.040 and games. They're sacrifices. There's responsibility. I loved it and 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:28.319 I enjoyed it, especially as the young girl being able 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:31.640 to go out there and you know, entertain people. But 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:35.480 you start to understand the grasp of like, okay, yeah, 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:37.320 you don't just go do this or go do that 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:39.960 things or you know, this is this is an adult world. 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:41.760 You're working and even though you're kids. So I think 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:44.120 for me, that's when I understood, oh, this is like 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:46.480 a job. This is what she does. It's not just 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:51.040 something that we're on. And so your first role was 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:53.760 in Crossroads, you're the younger version of her. Is that 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:57.120 when you realize that you loved acting because you started 0:09:57.160 --> 0:10:01.839 in acting, I actually loved just playing skits and roles 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:04.199 and like making up. I made up characters and I 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:07.679 would make up things just on tour. Actually, so it 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:09.839 wasn't oh yeah, because you said you were always dreaming 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:12.280 stuff out and like so creative. Yeah, I would make 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:15.640 up characters. And then I guess Nickelodeon must have seen 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:18.200 some footage from one of Britney's documentaries or something, and 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:19.959 when they saw that, they asked me to come in 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:22.360 an audition for All That. That's exciting. Yes, I went 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:24.600 an audition for All That with some characters I've made up, 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:27.000 some scripts called all That. Yeah, it's called all That, 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:29.280 And um, that's where I started and they liked it. 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:31.640 And that was nine years old for you. Yes, and 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:33.480 one of the characters I made up actually made it 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:36.760 onto the show. Who it was Louise mcgilla cutty. And 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:40.400 who's Louise her name on the show. Her her name 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:42.280 on the show was Filma Stunks. They had to change 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:46.000 it because I called her Louise mcgilla cutty mcgilla cutty. 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:47.760 I don't know where I got that name from that 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:51.440 but apparently apparently that name was already used in something, 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:54.640 so we had to change the name. Louise mcgilla cutty 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:57.240 was always already used. Yes, So Nickelodeon, you know they 0:10:57.280 --> 0:10:58.920 look into the legal side of things. As a kid, 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:01.920 I was just being silly, but um they changed the 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:04.080 name with Thelma Stump. And who was Elmo? Was she 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:09.600 like she was an eighty four year old bodyguard? And 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:13.960 so I would my version, you know, my version of 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:17.960 it was my granny Lexi, who I loved dearly, and 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:21.640 then my sister's security guard who was Big Rocks. So 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:23.240 I would combine the two and act like I was 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:25.440 the old lady like on tour protecting, and I'd make 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:27.440 up all these funny things. So what would she act 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:31.839 like I mean, she just was like had she was 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:35.839 very sarcastic, very dry, and um didn't care who you were, 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:38.439 what you did. She just was like you know that way. 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:40.719 So then when on All That, what they did is 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:43.080 they had me guarding the entrance to where celebrities would 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:45.000 be coming in and I wouldn't let him in. So 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:47.760 that was their version of it, which, oh, that's awesome. 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:49.880 It was really fun. The nine year old You're like 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:52.360 vending part of your TV show. I know, I don't know, 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:55.800 I should have still got a producer rights, right, come on, 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:58.120 I mean that's what I'm talking about. Yeah, but it 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:00.360 was fun, It was really if. That was a really 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:03.240 cool experience being on All That, and that led to 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:05.920 Zoe one oh one yes, and that was a really 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:08.680 big show on Nickelodeon. Would you want what best actress 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:11.839 Nicolodeon actress? Like two words for it was the Kid's 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:15.960 Choice Award Young Artist Award, Yeah some yeah, but I 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:18.800 definitely remember winning the Kid's Choice Award because at that 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:21.760 time in that world, that was like our award, you 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:24.200 know what I mean, we only had one award show 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:26.040 that was kind of cool, So to me, it was 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:29.000 really cool to win that Best Actress It was, yeah, 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:30.720 and it was a fan voted thing, so I think 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:32.360 it was, like, I'm pretty sure it was a fan 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:34.439 voted thing, but I don't really know. But I you know, 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:35.960 I got the whole little blimp and everything. It was 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:38.600 really cool. So was that fun for you to like 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:41.360 start your own career because you had obviously grown up 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:43.680 in it and now you're starting your own. I think 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:46.520 because I grew up around it, I really didn't. I 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:49.120 never thought anything different. I knew I was creative. I 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:52.000 knew I wanted to express myself in a creative way. 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:55.840 But I think it twelve thirteen. You don't know the 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:57.400 best way you want to do it. You don't know. 0:12:58.080 --> 0:12:59.679 You just know you're you just know you have it 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:01.640 any you want to get this energy out of you. 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:04.200 So as a child, that's how expressed it. But obviously 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:06.760 is I got older and wanted to figure out how 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:08.120 I wanted to tell my story and what kind of 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:10.240 future I want to have. As an adult, you can 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:13.960 identify what your creative outlet is. As a child, you 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:16.800 do everything, But for me, as an adult, music was 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:20.199 the way that my creative outlet made the most sense. Okay, 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:21.920 so I want to get to your country music. So 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:24.320 but what's exciting I think it's so cool is you 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:27.240 have a documentary coming up on TLC which is airing June, 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:33.280 and oh the trailer is like so good, thank you, 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:36.440 so excited I am. I worked on this for a 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:38.880 while in secret, which was hard for me because my 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:40.840 fans like when is the new music coming? When every 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:42.600 and I'm like wanted to be like, this is what 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:44.360 I'm working on. This is what I'm doing. But you know, 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:47.840 to get content that's real and takes time to show 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:51.200 your story, honestly, it takes time. You can't just you know, 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:56.080 put some silly stuff together. So for me, um, it 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:59.040 was really important. People met me as a child, and 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:01.319 I think that there has been to disconnect. People want 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:04.200 to know, Okay, we met her as Zoe, she had 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:06.960 a child at a young age, she's pretty sister. And 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:09.400 then seven or eight years go by and then people 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:12.480 are like, wait, who are who? Who is she? We 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:13.800 just know where as a kid. So I think it's 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:16.679 really important for me to bridge the gap, that's to say, 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:18.760 this is who I am as an adult, and this 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:20.440 is how I got here, this is my story. I 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:23.800 know I stayed away for a while, but this is them. 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:26.560 This is my way of introducing myself is Jamie Lynn 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:29.680 the grown up And that's kind of that's kind of 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:32.120 important about the way you want to put it out there. Yeah, 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:34.280 and especially in country music, people want to know your story. 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:36.000 They want to know why you sing the words you sing. 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:38.640 And I think it was important for me to finally say, Okay, 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:40.920 let me let him into who I really am, so 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:46.040 that way people understand where you know, they understand that 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:49.040 it's not just Zoe, there's there's a person behind it, 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:50.440 and this is what's been going on in the past 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:52.800 few years. That why they get to meet me as 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:55.280 a person. Had because one of your lions in it 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:59.560 that I thought was so awesome was you said, I'm 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:01.800 not just what does it put he said? He said, 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:04.000 I'm not just a child star, I'm not just somebody's sister. 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:06.520 I'm not just a team mom. This is the real story. 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:09.000 Were people hard on you for a while, like and 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:11.440 and when it all happened when you had Maddie and 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:14.680 got pregnant. I feel like people were ruthless a little bit. Yeah, 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:19.680 I think that because of the entertainment industry people see 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:24.360 us as just these figures and not people, real people, 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:29.360 and it sounds really cliche. But I was a kid who, um, 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:32.760 was in a situation that was very scary, already very 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:35.080 scary for my whole family, and I think, what do 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:38.200 you mean, just found out I was pregnant, and so 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:41.280 why was it just because you're so young? You know 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:42.760 what I mean? So it was like, it's a very 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:45.080 scary situation in the first place. So I think that 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:47.840 people had their opinions, and rightfully. So I was a 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:50.600 child star who became pregnant, so I understand that. But 0:15:50.680 --> 0:15:53.120 I think that, um, you know, I wanted to take 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:56.600 full responsibility and also I needed to make a decision 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:59.040 that I had to sleep with every night. So I 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:01.080 just kind of tucked away and went away from it 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:02.880 because I knew they were gonna be hard on me, 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:04.920 so I just didn't want to I didn't want to 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:07.760 put myself in any more situations to give them any 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:10.520 more demo. Yeah exactly. Is that why you kind of 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:12.680 took a breather for a while. Yeah, I wanted to know. 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:15.000 I wanted to first office back and raise my daughter, 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:19.280 which she's the cutest, so congratulations and being a great mom, 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:23.800 great daughter. But that was important. That's really mature of 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:26.240 you at such a young age to like have the 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:28.320 wisdom inside to be like, Okay, I'm gonna just like 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:30.520 take some time out of this industry. Even though your 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:33.600 career was like on fire, you took did what was 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:36.280 right for you, which is a big move. Well, I 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:39.520 think that, Um. I think it was one of those 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:42.960 situations where I wasn't just thinking about myself anymore, and 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:45.280 I need to figure out who I was as a 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:47.920 person because I'd been in the industry for so long 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:49.840 and you get so caught up and everything. Even at 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:52.000 that age that it was important for me to step aside, 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:54.160 figure out who I was as a woman, and also 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:56.560 figure out what kind of future I was really going 0:16:56.600 --> 0:16:59.160 to make for me and my daughter. So what'd you 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:01.280 come up with in those year is that's when I 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:04.119 started writing, But that's when you fell in love a songwriting. Yes, 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:07.640 when she was three months old, I came to Nashville 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:10.879 for the first time and I started writing and and 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:14.760 now she's gonna be eight this June. So basically i'd 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:16.919 come for the first year of her life. I'd come 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:19.040 here one week out every month and just right, and 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:22.239 it just was so it felt so good. You love songwriting? Well, 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:24.960 I loved the fact that, for the first time, coming 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:28.480 from a world where I was, you know, supposed to 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:30.240 be perfect and all these things, it was so nice 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:31.840 to get in a room where they said, no, you 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:33.640 could say whatever you want, this is where you tell 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:36.399 your story. And I felt so freeing to me. So 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:39.000 was this like the first time you could just express 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:40.760 and it's through music, so you don't actually have to 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:43.480 come out and say exactly through a song exactly. And 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:45.320 it was really freeing to me and really cool that 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:47.119 I could do that, and it felt really safe at 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:49.600 the same time. So when my daughter turned about a 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:51.719 year old, I moved to Nashville and I came here 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:53.800 and I just really focused on writing and figuring out 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:55.800 who I was as an artist. Did you always know 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:58.959 you wanted to do country music. I always knew that 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:00.600 I wanted to tell my story wors So when I 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:03.000 came to Nashville and I started writing music, it just 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:06.040 let itself to country music. Boys has such a like 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:08.880 a beautiful country undertone to it. I mean, you can 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:11.200 go up in Louisiana. So I mean I think that 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:13.679 like that's just a part of who I am, and 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:15.360 it's just a part of you know. What you grow 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:17.640 up around is what you are. And so I think 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:21.240 that it just felt like home. It really did. So 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:23.000 who are some of the writers that you love? Because 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:25.360 I know you're working with Corey Crowder and he's producing 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:27.840 your project. He is Corey Crowder has producing my prod. 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:33.280 Love him. He's so just so easy to be around, 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:35.880 which is so nice. There's no pressure. He just really 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:38.480 cares about what makes you happy and what's gonna build 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:40.800 you up. But Liz Rose is like my music mom. 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:44.080 I say it a hundred times over. She is he 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:49.360 real girl crush, She's everything nothing. She probably hasn't had 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:52.080 some touch in writing, you know, And I feel like 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:55.040 to having a woman like that on your side, who 0:18:55.520 --> 0:18:59.240 is just there because they want to support another young 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:01.600 girl who's doing she does. And I think that that's 0:19:01.640 --> 0:19:05.359 been a big, big help for me, Um, having someone 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:08.040 like her around me as well. So do you feel 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:12.440 like Nashville is really where you came into your own? Um? Yes, 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:15.280 I would say that when I moved to Nashville, it 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:20.440 was really it was me becoming an adult, figuring out 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:23.720 my own life. Every single day. It was me becoming 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:26.560 a working single mom as well. You know, I was 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:28.119 here with my daughter and I was learning how to 0:19:28.119 --> 0:19:30.840