WEBVTT - Episode 35 - Bailey Bryan (2-7-17) 0:00:02.320 --> 0:00:07.120 Alright, Episode thirty five of The Bobby Cast with Bailey 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:09.800 Brian and you can follow her at bailey My Own 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:12.440 and thanks for our sponsors Sherry's Berries and Blue Apron 0:00:13.080 --> 0:00:15.760 and welcome to the house. How's it going? Hi good, 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:18.720 It's going great? You they told me before because we 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:22.000 just played on Facebook a minute ago, relaxed, Are you 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:28.479 drinking tea? And made herself home immediately and grabbed the tea. 0:00:28.560 --> 0:00:30.200 I didn't see him when I walked in, so I 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:32.640 just went straight for the tea. I rated, I rated 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:34.400 the tea drier. I just came up back from the gym, 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:36.800 so I was. I had to take a shower, so 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:40.520 you rated the tea drawer. I'm actually wearing pants. Yeah 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:44.120 I'm not. I'm not getting any weird smells, nothing, nothing. 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:48.760 So we met. I guess I heard your song, I 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:51.000 don't know, three months or so ago, and then I 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:53.840 played it off the internet. Maybe and my life was 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:58.040 changed forever, not yet, but I did not. Maybe it 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:01.200 hasn't changed already. All right. You had come from from 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:03.600 rehearsal today straight over here. Yes, so what are you 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:07.640 rehearsing for? Oh just a little uh a tour with 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:10.880 these little artists called Dan and Shay. They're they're actually 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:16.760 a little You're right, yeah, no, Yeah, I'm gonna go. 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:19.440 I'm gonna go on tour with Dan and Shay this 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:21.960 this February and the first week of March. So when 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:23.720 you go on tour with those guys, Like, how long 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:26.080 is your set before the show? I think my set's 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:28.160 gonna come out to like half an hour. That's a 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:31.800 pretty long set for first, you know, first time out. Yeah, 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:34.039 I'm excited. It's a lot were we went through the 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:36.560 We ran through the whole set once in rehearsal, and 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:39.560 it was it went't good. I like to talk to 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:43.160 I don't know if it's like a nervous thing. I've 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:45.800 noticed that in some of your YouTube clips. I just 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:48.920 kind of go on and see what happens. It it 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:53.040 works out sometimes most of the time. I think you're 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:56.400 a songwriter. Yes, So what about did you right own it? 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:58.240 I didn't, I knew you did. I just want you 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:01.240 to say it. This is to own it from Bailey Bryan. 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:13.920 Here you got good bye? Yeah cool? Giuse? Who did 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:16.120 you write a song? I wrote it when I was sixteen. 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:18.839 Imagine if someone else wrote this song and I heard 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:20.360 it and I was like, oh my god, that's everything 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:26.480 about me. Um, yeah, that does happen though, Yeah, no, true, 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:29.200 because now I get other people say like who listened 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:31.240 to the song and being like how did you know 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:33.840 all these things about me? Like John Mayer sings? And 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:37.840 I'm like, that's me exactly. So I refute your point. 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:40.519 That's true. That wouldn't I guess it wouldn't be that weird. 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:42.600 It would not. It wouldn't be that weird kind of 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:45.160 a dumb thing to say to all Right, well, I'm 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:49.000 full of regret. We're off to a great start. So okay, 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:52.560 so let's just start from the beginning here. So you're eighteen, 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:55.960 now nineteen? I turned nineteen like three days ago. Really, 0:02:56.080 --> 0:03:01.880 so you can vote? Yeah, well I could. You can 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:05.800 buy lottery tickets, yes, Michael. What else can you do 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:09.000 an eighteen? You can buy cigarettes? But I don't smoke. 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:10.840 You shouldn't smoke. I don't want to smoke. I'm not 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:13.720 gonna Probably the worst thing I could do, this disgusting. 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:19.120 What else can you do? Nod? Yeah? Did you know 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:21.639 she wasn't even born? When Tupac and her biggie was alive, 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:28.519 I walked in wearing a tupac. What a poser? Yeah? 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:32.040 Can me two podcast? Can you name a couple? Yeah? 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:35.520 Name one? I'm mad at you. Okay, you went like 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:37.880 deeper cut two on the first one, so you didn't 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:41.480 go like changes No changes is my favorite though, that's fair, 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:43.880 but it was on the radio. Yeah, okay, So let's 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:45.960 just start with you. Your eighteen now nineteen? Now excuse me, 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:49.880 you're nineteen. So musically you picked up a guitar star 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:55.680 plan how old? Uh? Twelve? Why? I always love to sing. 0:03:55.760 --> 0:04:00.240 I would do all my like local talent shows and stuff. Um, 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:02.520 and I would do background tracks, and I got kind 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:06.240 of sick of that, Like you like, we'd go online, 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:09.680 go onto iTunes, find like the karaoke version. Okay, so 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:12.720 you have to buy background tracks and you don't want 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:15.080 to do that anymore? No, And I think my parents 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:17.200 didn't want to do that anymore. We would buy the 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:19.359 background track, burn the c D, give it to the 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:22.200 person running sound at the church talent show or something. 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:24.440 And I was like, you know what, I feel like, 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:26.039 I'm ready to take it to the next level. I 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:28.280 want to be able to play the songs I'm singing, 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:31.800 and um, I always wanted to write songs too, but 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:33.880 it's it's harder to write a song if you can't 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:36.960 have music with it. And so the writing happened the 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:38.760 same time that the guitar playing happens. So you get 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:43.000 a guitar um and you buy it from just a 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:46.760 like a guitar store. I think my dad got online. 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:48.719 He got it from me for Christmas. It was a 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:52.520 jasmine takamini. Do you have it? Yeah, somewhere like in 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:54.960 a closet at my parents house. So you start playing. 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:59.160 How long until you play well enough to write a song? Um? 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:02.840 That came fairly quickly. I mean I UM, I didn't 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:05.719 really take formal lessons until like a year ago because 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:07.280 I got to Nashville and I was like, all right, 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:09.040 well I need to step it up because everyone here 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:12.000 is a good musician. Um. I just I like sat 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:14.839 down with a family friend who played guitar at a 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:17.200 church and I was like, can you show me the 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:19.080 easiest chords that I need to know, like to write 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:21.839 a song. And so he showed me, like ge my nurse, 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:27.280 and um I practiced like for hours every single day. 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:29.919 So I would say it was like a couple of 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:33.520 months and then I wrote my first song. So you're 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:36.880 thirteen or so, when do you go out and play 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:40.719 your first show with your guitar? Um. I'm trying to 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:42.600 think of like the first time I played for a 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:46.159 big group of people. I want to say it was 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:50.919 probably like my middle school talent show I did. Um. Yeah, 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:52.840 I want to see the first Like the first one 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:56.960 I can remember doing when I was was when I 0:05:57.000 --> 0:05:59.680 was in eighth grade, I played a song that I 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:02.440 wrote for my my middle school talent show. And how 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:04.960 did that go? Over? Standing? Ovation? They go crazy? Yeah? 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:11.600 First place? Actually yeah, no, first place was to own it. No, 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:15.039 it wasn't own it. What a good story that, Yeah, 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:17.960 So you play your talent show and is it at 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:20.880 that point? Were you still going to be a singer 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:23.920 in your mind? Yeah? Definitely. You always wanted to be 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:26.320 a singer. I think the first um way that I 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:29.200 articulated what I wanted to do at a really young 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:31.640 age was I want to be a famous singer. That 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:34.640 was the when you're little, that's that's the for me. 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:37.440 That was like the the title that I wanted. And 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:39.800 as I've grown up, it's so I want to be 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:44.000 an artist. Yeah, the word famous? Yeah, that doesn't. That 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:46.080 doesn't matter to me as much now as it did 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:48.960 when I was younger. So you grew up in Washington 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:52.840 State and I love it up there, but it's pretty 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:55.599 secluded a little bit. Yeah I was. I grew up 0:06:55.640 --> 0:07:00.000 in um one of the more secluded areas, UM little 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:04.720 town called Squim, Washington. And that's why I say my 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:11.600 the my first shows were school talent shows, church things. UM. 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:16.200 The way that I uh got people to hear my music, 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:19.040 I guess growing up was just taking my guitar and 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:21.760 playing on the sidewalk because I was in one of 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:23.600 those little towns and it was pretty spread out. We 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:25.840 had like a tiny downtown area, and I would I 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:28.000 would take my guitar and play my songs in front 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:32.600 of Jose's taco stand. Would you make money a little? 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:36.800 Would you make tacos? I sometimes he would give me tacos. 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:38.600 You'd be like, oh, poor girls, she's standing out there 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:43.360 in the rainy person, a real person. He's a family friend. 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:47.480 Oh yeah, okay. So when Jose's say I like it 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:49.080 that you're here, was he kind of annoyed that you 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:53.640 were there? No, Jose was Jose loved it. He Um, 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:57.480 he gave me a sombrero to put on the ground 0:07:57.520 --> 0:07:59.760 for people to put money in. Okay, that's cool. Whenever 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:01.680 never I tell people that, when I say, gave me 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:03.760 some brother, Like did you wear some burrow and play 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:06.120 your songs? That might have been funnier, but I just 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:09.320 I just put it on the ground. So you're playing 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:12.760 out in front of Jose's on the weekends, ye Saturdays, 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:15.600 and so I'm assuming you want to move to Nashville. 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:17.760 Was that always the plan? Like you wanted to move 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:20.640 to Nashville? Yep, I think. Um as soon as uh 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:25.040 like Taylor Swift came out and I learned I was 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:29.080 die hard fan of hers. Um, I so I knew 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:31.680 everything I knew, Like she was discovered. I'm doing air 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:34.520 quotes but no one can see me. Um. She was 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:36.680 discovered at the Bluebird Cafe. And so I was like, 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:38.280 I need to go to Nashville. I need to play 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:41.880 at the Bluebird Cafe. And so that that was kind 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:45.079 of that That was I felt like that was the ticket. 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:47.520 You know, Nashville is the place to go. Tell me 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:50.160 about your first time ever to Nashville. My first time 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:54.240 ever to Nashville. Um, it was like it was magical 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:57.000 it was, Um, I got to play at the Bluebird Cafe. 0:08:57.120 --> 0:08:59.000 I just did it. Oh no, wait, no, that wasn't 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:00.679 my first time. Never, I'm sorry that my second time 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:03.880 just the open mic. I waited in line forever and 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:07.040 then didn't I didn't get to play. I didn't get 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:08.440 my name drawn. And so then I got to play 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:13.360 the next weekend because and then or was that it 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:15.640 was a week too far over the ticket because if 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:17.000 you don't make it, they give you a spot for 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:18.839 the next time. Yeah, no they did, so I got 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:20.680 to play the next time. They gave me a spot. Um. 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:22.640 But that was like my second or third time to Nashville. 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:24.600 Um my first time, I just went. I was like, 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:26.280 we just have to go, Like I just have to 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:29.840 see the Bluebird Cafe. And um, I didn't know that 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:32.480 it was like in a tiny little strip mall. So 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:36.120 that that was that was a surprise for me. But 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:38.559 I you know, I did the Bluebird Cafe, I did 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:41.920 the pancake pantry. But um, my first, my very first 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:44.360 trip was it was a writing trip I got to 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:47.520 and that was when I signed my publishing deal when 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:51.360 I was fifteen. Um, I got to go down and uh, 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:54.040 it was just a family friend that we reconnected with 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:56.480 who's not my publisher. She invited me down to write 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:58.319 for a week, like, see if I could do it, 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:01.400 see if I liked it, um, And she was like, well, 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:03.520 if you if I mean if you do a good job, 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:05.240 if you like it, if it works for you, and 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:08.120 will consider giving you a publishing deal. And I never 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:11.360 co written at this point, Um, but I did. I 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:14.480 wrote in demo nine songs in that one week, and 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:16.200 I just I fell in love with the process of 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:20.280 co writing and Nashville just being surrounded by music. And 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:24.200 at the end of that week, in the pancake pantry, UM, 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:26.960 at a table full of people, I signed my first 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:29.480 publishing deal. And so did that mean you were moving 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:31.080 to town? Are you going to keep coming town? Just 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:34.480 writing that meant uh, we're we're going to travel back 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:37.040 and forth. Um, So I would go every couple of months. 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:42.200 So travel back and forth every couple of months until 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:45.840 I was seventeen, after my junior year. That's when my 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:50.280 whole family moved to Nashville, which is quite the remarkable 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:52.440 story because you did you grow up in the same 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:57.480 house you like your whole life basically moved once your 0:10:57.520 --> 0:11:01.360 parents they moved here too, like everybody pack family. Yeah, 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:03.800 I have take that cut from her. She's been trying 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:07.120 to lay down for like an hour. Didn'where it you 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:11.240 for noticing? I'm really helpless against you can't tell like, 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:14.200 I don't know how do you use my arms? Um? 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:18.440 What was the question? The question was whenever your parents 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:22.480 decided to move down with you, Like that's a big commitment. Yeah, 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:25.160 it was, so it was. I mean, of course, it 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:28.280 was a couple of years, um in the making of 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:31.280 the decision, and it was like we kind of agreed 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:34.200 as a family, like everybody knew. But even before I 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:36.040 saw my deal, like my dream was to move to 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:38.600 Nashville and to write songs and play them for people 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:43.520 and recording the whole thing. Um. And so it kind 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:45.440 of just came to a point when I when I 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:48.640 was seventeen, coming to the end of my junior year. Um, 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:51.920 I it looked like I had some opportunities waiting for 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:55.680 me in Nashville. I had, I had a lot of songs, 0:11:55.840 --> 0:12:00.360 was ready to like start recording and shopping to lay bowls. 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:03.640 And we just kind of had a family meeting and 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:05.800 it was like, Okay, either I can we can all 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:08.760 move now as a family at seventeen, I can finish 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:11.760 my senior year online. My little brother he's fourteen, you 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:14.959 do that your school online. Um, and we're a close family, 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:16.800 so that was one option we could do it. They 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:19.360 could help me get settled, or I could wait until 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:22.600 I was eighteen, win until I graduated, moved by myself 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:28.440 with my limited connections in the city, uh, and kind 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:32.040 of figure it out. And being such a close family 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:35.320 like my my parents wanted they wanted to set me 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:37.960 up the right way and make sure I didn't feel 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:41.880 alone and uh, just just that I was in a 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:44.280 good spot. And so after like a lot of like 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:46.199 thinking and praying, they were like, Okay, here's what we're 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:48.080 gonna do. We haven't told anyone that we're gonna move. 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:51.320 We're not gonna tell anyone that we're going to move, 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:53.760 but we're just gonna like put our house on the market, 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:58.679 see what happens. And so that's what they did, just 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:00.640 this one website, no sign in the RD nothing, and 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:02.760 within twenty four hours we got a full price off 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:07.000 around the house and they sold and they agreed. So 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:09.520 what about your brother, were like, what he moved? And 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:12.960 he was cool? With Yep, he's the coolest kid on 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:16.000 the planet, probably always fifteen. Now his birthday was the 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:21.280 other day, Happy late birthday, Cooper, um. But he's amazing. 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:23.160 I think the reason that he was cool with moving 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:25.840 was because kind of just the way my parents raised us, 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:29.079 Like he knew that if what he was passionate about 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:32.200 and had opportunities in required moving across the country, they 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:34.440 would do it for him too. So it sounds like 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:37.520 your parents were always very what do you want to do? 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:39.800 Do you love what you want to do? And if so, 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:43.679 we love you and we're going to help you completely completely. 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:45.400 That's exactly what it was. I think it's a good 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:51.080 in having having been in Nashville and like seeing and 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:53.199 hearing a little bit about like other other people doing 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:56.720 at my age. Like I feel like the trend with 0:13:56.800 --> 0:14:00.520 parents is either the parent that's like Mama, your data 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:03.280 R type that's like I want my kid to be famous, 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:05.320 like pushing them to it, or the parents that are like, 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:07.679 get a real job, I'm not going to support your 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:11.560 music career. Um. And so I was really lucky in that. 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:14.760 I feel like my parents are some definitely somewhere in 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:17.720 the middle of like they never would have dreamed or 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:21.480 chosen for their kid to venture into the music industry 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:25.120 because they, of course it's scary as a parent um 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:29.080 or a person um, but they they never want to 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:31.600 be the thing that stands in between their kids and 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:33.560 their dream. And they they saw that it was what 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:36.120 I was passionate about. And they're the first people to 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:41.640 believe in me. Um. My little brother is annoyingly good 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:45.360 at everything, so he's still figuring it out. But he's Um, 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:48.320 I'm like the weird musical one in the family. UM. 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:51.040 My parents owned a gym when we lived in squim. 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:55.120 Um little brothers great in school, great at sports, basketball, skiing, 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:59.200 nath um and kind of writing songs. Was like my 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:01.760 one thing. Like he's like he has everything else. I 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:04.400 have this one thing. Um. And about a year ago, 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:08.000 UM like right before we moved to Nashville, Cooper Um, 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:10.720 his name's Cooper. He was just like, you know, I 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:16.000 think I like, I'm interested in production. He's he he 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:18.640 likes music, but differently than I do. He likes the 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:24.200 like idi um, like chill, instrumental, all of that kind 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:29.080 of stuff like European. I think so secretly or maybe 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:32.360 maybe we are. I don't know, um, but yeah, he 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:35.080 likes all of that stuff and like kind of weird. Um. 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:36.720 I think it might be because he grew up around 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:39.640 me hearing me songwriting in the other room, just like 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:41.680 all the lyrics, and he's like, it can't have lyrics. 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:45.240 He's like, I want I just want the track exactly. 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:48.760 He totally picked the polar opposite. It's like like tronic 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:52.640 pop weird all that, but um, I was like, Okay, 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:54.920 that's cool. And like my parents, being the supportive, awesome 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:56.440 people that they are, they got they were like, okay, 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:58.440 what do you need. Like they're like, we'll go in 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:00.160 with you to get you the keyboard and the drum 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:03.000 pad and the software for your computer. And he just 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:04.880 would just spend like months in his room like I 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:08.560 did when I had my guitar, like watching YouTube videos 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:10.640 and just figuring out how to use this stuff and 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:12.680 how to like build tracks and everything, and he wouldn't 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:15.720 let anyone hear it. And then a couple more months 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:17.520 ago behind he's like, all right, barely, I'm ready to 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:19.840 show you my first song and he shows it from 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:22.680 shows it to me and it's already it's up on SoundCloud. 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:25.120 Figured out how to use SoundCloud. I don't know how 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:30.040 to use SoundCloud. Um it's up and he plays it 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:33.880 for me, and I'm like, dang it, this is actually good. 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:37.960 You took my one thing. This was I was like, literally, 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:39.680 Cooper music was all I had and he took my 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:41.480 one thing and you did it in a cooler way. 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:45.120 But I'm proud of it. And now he's like got 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:47.160 a little bit of a following on his SoundCloud and 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:49.720 every single like beat and track he makes it gets better. 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:53.520 So now yep, and I would I would love to 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:56.080 collab with him someday. He just recently started letting me 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:58.640 have input on what he does. When I traveled back 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:02.800 home for Christmas, my family moved back to Washington State. Um, 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:04.920 when I went home for Christmas, he was like, hey, Billy, 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:06.360 can you help me come up with a hook for this? 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:08.439 And so I was like, oh my gosh, I've been 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:13.000 waiting for this moment for the last seven exactly. I 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:14.879 was like, I'm writing a song with my little This 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:17.480 is like the dream for me. And he's like barely 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:19.359 stopped being such a dark I'm going to make you 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:22.280 leave the room like it's just it's just so touching. 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:24.840 I never thought I'd get to create with my sibling, 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:27.760 Like who gets to do this? Um? But yeah, we 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:29.800 started building a track together and I got him a 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:31.919 mic for Christmas so that when I go home, like 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:35.879 we can make like work tapes together and it's fun. 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:38.480 So I mean, he's probably just gonna rule the world. 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:41.920 So they moved back. You say, how long do you 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:45.359 live in town? Um? I think, okay, so I've probably 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:50.919 been here like a year here almost a year and 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:53.480 a half now right now or at the point where 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:57.480 they move now, ok, right now? Yeah? Um, And they 0:17:57.480 --> 0:17:59.240 weren't even here a year. I want to say, I've 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:02.000 been on my own for eight months, so they were 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:06.639 here for maybe like half a year a little bit more. Um, 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:10.159 and they I think it's just like I got, I 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:11.960 got my feet on the ground and kind of got 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:14.960 this really awesome team around me quicker than myself for 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:18.080 anyone thought that I was going to um once the 0:18:18.160 --> 0:18:21.680 like record label process started, Uh, it went, it went. 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:23.600 It all went pretty fast from there as far as 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:26.480 getting my team around me, and I had my routine 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:28.840 and they were still kind of struggling to put roots 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:31.440 down and like figure out like they were they were 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:34.320 my team and they are, but they like they were 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:36.240 taking me to meetings, making sure I was getting here 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:37.800 on time, doing all this, and then kind of once 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:41.280 I got my rhythm and it kind of became clear 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:43.800 like that, they kind of did their part that they 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:47.280 needed to do here and Washington is their home, and 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:51.040 so they went back. 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I, Um so, I got roommates 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:10.160 for the first time, and um, that's been fun. It's 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:12.840 been cool. It's a little taste of like the college 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:16.440 type experience. I guess no. One of them is a 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:20.640 ballerina and the others a yoga instructor. But that's that's cool. 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:22.159 Though you don't really want to live with musicians, you 0:20:22.200 --> 0:20:24.320 think it's so competitive. No, it's been really cool. It's 0:20:24.359 --> 0:20:26.959 like a it's been a very um kind of just 0:20:27.200 --> 0:20:31.600 chill environment to decompress. When I get back from radio tour, 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:34.840 from a ride or a meeting or whatever, to just 0:20:34.880 --> 0:20:38.240 go and like just be with people that aren't concerned 0:20:38.280 --> 0:20:41.120