Speaker 1: Alright, Episode thirty five of The Bobby Cast with Bailey
Speaker 1: Brian and you can follow her at bailey My Own
Speaker 1: and thanks for our sponsors Sherry's Berries and Blue Apron
Speaker 1: and welcome to the house. How's it going? Hi good,
Speaker 1: It's going great? You they told me before because we
Speaker 1: just played on Facebook a minute ago, relaxed, Are you
Speaker 1: drinking tea? And made herself home immediately and grabbed the tea.
Speaker 1: I didn't see him when I walked in, so I
Speaker 1: just went straight for the tea. I rated, I rated
Speaker 1: the tea drier. I just came up back from the gym,
Speaker 1: so I was. I had to take a shower, so
Speaker 1: you rated the tea drawer. I'm actually wearing pants. Yeah
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not getting any weird smells, nothing, nothing.
Speaker 1: So we met. I guess I heard your song, I
Speaker 1: don't know, three months or so ago, and then I
Speaker 1: played it off the internet. Maybe and my life was
Speaker 1: changed forever, not yet, but I did not. Maybe it
Speaker 1: hasn't changed already. All right. You had come from from
Speaker 1: rehearsal today straight over here. Yes, so what are you
Speaker 1: rehearsing for? Oh just a little uh a tour with
Speaker 1: these little artists called Dan and Shay. They're they're actually
Speaker 1: a little You're right, yeah, no, Yeah, I'm gonna go.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go on tour with Dan and Shay this
Speaker 1: this February and the first week of March. So when
Speaker 1: you go on tour with those guys, Like, how long
Speaker 1: is your set before the show? I think my set's
Speaker 1: gonna come out to like half an hour. That's a
Speaker 1: pretty long set for first, you know, first time out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm excited. It's a lot were we went through the
Speaker 1: We ran through the whole set once in rehearsal, and
Speaker 1: it was it went't good. I like to talk to
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's like a nervous thing. I've
Speaker 1: noticed that in some of your YouTube clips. I just
Speaker 1: kind of go on and see what happens. It it
Speaker 1: works out sometimes most of the time. I think you're
Speaker 1: a songwriter. Yes, So what about did you right own it?
Speaker 1: I didn't, I knew you did. I just want you
Speaker 1: to say it. This is to own it from Bailey Bryan.
Speaker 1: Here you got good bye? Yeah cool? Giuse? Who did
Speaker 1: you write a song? I wrote it when I was sixteen.
Speaker 1: Imagine if someone else wrote this song and I heard
Speaker 1: it and I was like, oh my god, that's everything
Speaker 1: about me. Um, yeah, that does happen though, Yeah, no, true,
Speaker 1: because now I get other people say like who listened
Speaker 1: to the song and being like how did you know
Speaker 1: all these things about me? Like John Mayer sings? And
Speaker 1: I'm like, that's me exactly. So I refute your point.
Speaker 1: That's true. That wouldn't I guess it wouldn't be that weird.
Speaker 1: It would not. It wouldn't be that weird kind of
Speaker 1: a dumb thing to say to all Right, well, I'm
Speaker 1: full of regret. We're off to a great start. So okay,
Speaker 1: so let's just start from the beginning here. So you're eighteen,
Speaker 1: now nineteen? I turned nineteen like three days ago. Really,
Speaker 1: so you can vote? Yeah, well I could. You can
Speaker 1: buy lottery tickets, yes, Michael. What else can you do
Speaker 1: an eighteen? You can buy cigarettes? But I don't smoke.
Speaker 1: You shouldn't smoke. I don't want to smoke. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna Probably the worst thing I could do, this disgusting.
Speaker 1: What else can you do? Nod? Yeah? Did you know
Speaker 1: she wasn't even born? When Tupac and her biggie was alive,
Speaker 1: I walked in wearing a tupac. What a poser? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Can me two podcast? Can you name a couple? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Name one? I'm mad at you. Okay, you went like
Speaker 1: deeper cut two on the first one, so you didn't
Speaker 1: go like changes No changes is my favorite though, that's fair,
Speaker 1: but it was on the radio. Yeah, okay, So let's
Speaker 1: just start with you. Your eighteen now nineteen? Now excuse me,
Speaker 1: you're nineteen. So musically you picked up a guitar star
Speaker 1: plan how old? Uh? Twelve? Why? I always love to sing.
Speaker 1: I would do all my like local talent shows and stuff. Um,
Speaker 1: and I would do background tracks, and I got kind
Speaker 1: of sick of that, Like you like, we'd go online,
Speaker 1: go onto iTunes, find like the karaoke version. Okay, so
Speaker 1: you have to buy background tracks and you don't want
Speaker 1: to do that anymore? No, And I think my parents
Speaker 1: didn't want to do that anymore. We would buy the
Speaker 1: background track, burn the c D, give it to the
Speaker 1: person running sound at the church talent show or something.
Speaker 1: And I was like, you know what, I feel like,
Speaker 1: I'm ready to take it to the next level. I
Speaker 1: want to be able to play the songs I'm singing,
Speaker 1: and um, I always wanted to write songs too, but
Speaker 1: it's it's harder to write a song if you can't
Speaker 1: have music with it. And so the writing happened the
Speaker 1: same time that the guitar playing happens. So you get
Speaker 1: a guitar um and you buy it from just a
Speaker 1: like a guitar store. I think my dad got online.
Speaker 1: He got it from me for Christmas. It was a
Speaker 1: jasmine takamini. Do you have it? Yeah, somewhere like in
Speaker 1: a closet at my parents house. So you start playing.
Speaker 1: How long until you play well enough to write a song? Um?
Speaker 1: That came fairly quickly. I mean I UM, I didn't
Speaker 1: really take formal lessons until like a year ago because
Speaker 1: I got to Nashville and I was like, all right,
Speaker 1: well I need to step it up because everyone here
Speaker 1: is a good musician. Um. I just I like sat
Speaker 1: down with a family friend who played guitar at a
Speaker 1: church and I was like, can you show me the
Speaker 1: easiest chords that I need to know, like to write
Speaker 1: a song. And so he showed me, like ge my nurse,
Speaker 1: and um I practiced like for hours every single day.
Speaker 1: So I would say it was like a couple of
Speaker 1: months and then I wrote my first song. So you're
Speaker 1: thirteen or so, when do you go out and play
Speaker 1: your first show with your guitar? Um. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: think of like the first time I played for a
Speaker 1: big group of people. I want to say it was
Speaker 1: probably like my middle school talent show I did. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to see the first Like the first one
Speaker 1: I can remember doing when I was was when I
Speaker 1: was in eighth grade, I played a song that I
Speaker 1: wrote for my my middle school talent show. And how
Speaker 1: did that go? Over? Standing? Ovation? They go crazy? Yeah?
Speaker 1: First place? Actually yeah, no, first place was to own it. No,
Speaker 1: it wasn't own it. What a good story that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: So you play your talent show and is it at
Speaker 1: that point? Were you still going to be a singer
Speaker 1: in your mind? Yeah? Definitely. You always wanted to be
Speaker 1: a singer. I think the first um way that I
Speaker 1: articulated what I wanted to do at a really young
Speaker 1: age was I want to be a famous singer. That
Speaker 1: was the when you're little, that's that's the for me.
Speaker 1: That was like the the title that I wanted. And
Speaker 1: as I've grown up, it's so I want to be
Speaker 1: an artist. Yeah, the word famous? Yeah, that doesn't. That
Speaker 1: doesn't matter to me as much now as it did
Speaker 1: when I was younger. So you grew up in Washington
Speaker 1: State and I love it up there, but it's pretty
Speaker 1: secluded a little bit. Yeah I was. I grew up
Speaker 1: in um one of the more secluded areas, UM little
Speaker 1: town called Squim, Washington. And that's why I say my
Speaker 1: the my first shows were school talent shows, church things. UM.
Speaker 1: The way that I uh got people to hear my music,
Speaker 1: I guess growing up was just taking my guitar and
Speaker 1: playing on the sidewalk because I was in one of
Speaker 1: those little towns and it was pretty spread out. We
Speaker 1: had like a tiny downtown area, and I would I
Speaker 1: would take my guitar and play my songs in front
Speaker 1: of Jose's taco stand. Would you make money a little?
Speaker 1: Would you make tacos? I sometimes he would give me tacos.
Speaker 1: You'd be like, oh, poor girls, she's standing out there
Speaker 1: in the rainy person, a real person. He's a family friend.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay. So when Jose's say I like it
Speaker 1: that you're here, was he kind of annoyed that you
Speaker 1: were there? No, Jose was Jose loved it. He Um,
Speaker 1: he gave me a sombrero to put on the ground
Speaker 1: for people to put money in. Okay, that's cool. Whenever
Speaker 1: never I tell people that, when I say, gave me
Speaker 1: some brother, Like did you wear some burrow and play
Speaker 1: your songs? That might have been funnier, but I just
Speaker 1: I just put it on the ground. So you're playing
Speaker 1: out in front of Jose's on the weekends, ye Saturdays,
Speaker 1: and so I'm assuming you want to move to Nashville.
Speaker 1: Was that always the plan? Like you wanted to move
Speaker 1: to Nashville? Yep, I think. Um as soon as uh
Speaker 1: like Taylor Swift came out and I learned I was
Speaker 1: die hard fan of hers. Um, I so I knew
Speaker 1: everything I knew, Like she was discovered. I'm doing air
Speaker 1: quotes but no one can see me. Um. She was
Speaker 1: discovered at the Bluebird Cafe. And so I was like,
Speaker 1: I need to go to Nashville. I need to play
Speaker 1: at the Bluebird Cafe. And so that that was kind
Speaker 1: of that That was I felt like that was the ticket.
Speaker 1: You know, Nashville is the place to go. Tell me
Speaker 1: about your first time ever to Nashville. My first time
Speaker 1: ever to Nashville. Um, it was like it was magical
Speaker 1: it was, Um, I got to play at the Bluebird Cafe.
Speaker 1: I just did it. Oh no, wait, no, that wasn't
Speaker 1: my first time. Never, I'm sorry that my second time
Speaker 1: just the open mic. I waited in line forever and
Speaker 1: then didn't I didn't get to play. I didn't get
Speaker 1: my name drawn. And so then I got to play
Speaker 1: the next weekend because and then or was that it
Speaker 1: was a week too far over the ticket because if
Speaker 1: you don't make it, they give you a spot for
Speaker 1: the next time. Yeah, no they did, so I got
Speaker 1: to play the next time. They gave me a spot. Um.
Speaker 1: But that was like my second or third time to Nashville.
Speaker 1: Um my first time, I just went. I was like,
Speaker 1: we just have to go, Like I just have to
Speaker 1: see the Bluebird Cafe. And um, I didn't know that
Speaker 1: it was like in a tiny little strip mall. So
Speaker 1: that that was that was a surprise for me. But
Speaker 1: I you know, I did the Bluebird Cafe, I did
Speaker 1: the pancake pantry. But um, my first, my very first
Speaker 1: trip was it was a writing trip I got to
Speaker 1: and that was when I signed my publishing deal when
Speaker 1: I was fifteen. Um, I got to go down and uh,
Speaker 1: it was just a family friend that we reconnected with
Speaker 1: who's not my publisher. She invited me down to write
Speaker 1: for a week, like, see if I could do it,
Speaker 1: see if I liked it, um, And she was like, well,
Speaker 1: if you if I mean if you do a good job,
Speaker 1: if you like it, if it works for you, and
Speaker 1: will consider giving you a publishing deal. And I never
Speaker 1: co written at this point, Um, but I did. I
Speaker 1: wrote in demo nine songs in that one week, and
Speaker 1: I just I fell in love with the process of
Speaker 1: co writing and Nashville just being surrounded by music. And
Speaker 1: at the end of that week, in the pancake pantry, UM,
Speaker 1: at a table full of people, I signed my first
Speaker 1: publishing deal. And so did that mean you were moving
Speaker 1: to town? Are you going to keep coming town? Just
Speaker 1: writing that meant uh, we're we're going to travel back
Speaker 1: and forth. Um, So I would go every couple of months.
Speaker 1: So travel back and forth every couple of months until
Speaker 1: I was seventeen, after my junior year. That's when my
Speaker 1: whole family moved to Nashville, which is quite the remarkable
Speaker 1: story because you did you grow up in the same
Speaker 1: house you like your whole life basically moved once your
Speaker 1: parents they moved here too, like everybody pack family. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have take that cut from her. She's been trying
Speaker 1: to lay down for like an hour. Didn'where it you
Speaker 1: for noticing? I'm really helpless against you can't tell like,
Speaker 1: I don't know how do you use my arms? Um?
Speaker 1: What was the question? The question was whenever your parents
Speaker 1: decided to move down with you, Like that's a big commitment. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was, so it was. I mean, of course, it
Speaker 1: was a couple of years, um in the making of
Speaker 1: the decision, and it was like we kind of agreed
Speaker 1: as a family, like everybody knew. But even before I
Speaker 1: saw my deal, like my dream was to move to
Speaker 1: Nashville and to write songs and play them for people
Speaker 1: and recording the whole thing. Um. And so it kind
Speaker 1: of just came to a point when I when I
Speaker 1: was seventeen, coming to the end of my junior year. Um,
Speaker 1: I it looked like I had some opportunities waiting for
Speaker 1: me in Nashville. I had, I had a lot of songs,
Speaker 1: was ready to like start recording and shopping to lay bowls.
Speaker 1: And we just kind of had a family meeting and
Speaker 1: it was like, Okay, either I can we can all
Speaker 1: move now as a family at seventeen, I can finish
Speaker 1: my senior year online. My little brother he's fourteen, you
Speaker 1: do that your school online. Um, and we're a close family,
Speaker 1: so that was one option we could do it. They
Speaker 1: could help me get settled, or I could wait until
Speaker 1: I was eighteen, win until I graduated, moved by myself
Speaker 1: with my limited connections in the city, uh, and kind
Speaker 1: of figure it out. And being such a close family
Speaker 1: like my my parents wanted they wanted to set me
Speaker 1: up the right way and make sure I didn't feel
Speaker 1: alone and uh, just just that I was in a
Speaker 1: good spot. And so after like a lot of like
Speaker 1: thinking and praying, they were like, Okay, here's what we're
Speaker 1: gonna do. We haven't told anyone that we're gonna move.
Speaker 1: We're not gonna tell anyone that we're going to move,
Speaker 1: but we're just gonna like put our house on the market,
Speaker 1: see what happens. And so that's what they did, just
Speaker 1: this one website, no sign in the RD nothing, and
Speaker 1: within twenty four hours we got a full price off
Speaker 1: around the house and they sold and they agreed. So
Speaker 1: what about your brother, were like, what he moved? And
Speaker 1: he was cool? With Yep, he's the coolest kid on
Speaker 1: the planet, probably always fifteen. Now his birthday was the
Speaker 1: other day, Happy late birthday, Cooper, um. But he's amazing.
Speaker 1: I think the reason that he was cool with moving
Speaker 1: was because kind of just the way my parents raised us,
Speaker 1: Like he knew that if what he was passionate about
Speaker 1: and had opportunities in required moving across the country, they
Speaker 1: would do it for him too. So it sounds like
Speaker 1: your parents were always very what do you want to do?
Speaker 1: Do you love what you want to do? And if so,
Speaker 1: we love you and we're going to help you completely completely.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what it was. I think it's a good
Speaker 1: in having having been in Nashville and like seeing and
Speaker 1: hearing a little bit about like other other people doing
Speaker 1: at my age. Like I feel like the trend with
Speaker 1: parents is either the parent that's like Mama, your data
Speaker 1: R type that's like I want my kid to be famous,
Speaker 1: like pushing them to it, or the parents that are like,
Speaker 1: get a real job, I'm not going to support your
Speaker 1: music career. Um. And so I was really lucky in that.
Speaker 1: I feel like my parents are some definitely somewhere in
Speaker 1: the middle of like they never would have dreamed or
Speaker 1: chosen for their kid to venture into the music industry
Speaker 1: because they, of course it's scary as a parent um
Speaker 1: or a person um, but they they never want to
Speaker 1: be the thing that stands in between their kids and
Speaker 1: their dream. And they they saw that it was what
Speaker 1: I was passionate about. And they're the first people to
Speaker 1: believe in me. Um. My little brother is annoyingly good
Speaker 1: at everything, so he's still figuring it out. But he's Um,
Speaker 1: I'm like the weird musical one in the family. UM.
Speaker 1: My parents owned a gym when we lived in squim.
Speaker 1: Um little brothers great in school, great at sports, basketball, skiing,
Speaker 1: nath um and kind of writing songs. Was like my
Speaker 1: one thing. Like he's like he has everything else. I
Speaker 1: have this one thing. Um. And about a year ago,
Speaker 1: UM like right before we moved to Nashville, Cooper Um,
Speaker 1: his name's Cooper. He was just like, you know, I
Speaker 1: think I like, I'm interested in production. He's he he
Speaker 1: likes music, but differently than I do. He likes the
Speaker 1: like idi um, like chill, instrumental, all of that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff like European. I think so secretly or maybe
Speaker 1: maybe we are. I don't know, um, but yeah, he
Speaker 1: likes all of that stuff and like kind of weird. Um.
Speaker 1: I think it might be because he grew up around
Speaker 1: me hearing me songwriting in the other room, just like
Speaker 1: all the lyrics, and he's like, it can't have lyrics.
Speaker 1: He's like, I want I just want the track exactly.
Speaker 1: He totally picked the polar opposite. It's like like tronic
Speaker 1: pop weird all that, but um, I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's cool. And like my parents, being the supportive, awesome
Speaker 1: people that they are, they got they were like, okay,
Speaker 1: what do you need. Like they're like, we'll go in
Speaker 1: with you to get you the keyboard and the drum
Speaker 1: pad and the software for your computer. And he just
Speaker 1: would just spend like months in his room like I
Speaker 1: did when I had my guitar, like watching YouTube videos
Speaker 1: and just figuring out how to use this stuff and
Speaker 1: how to like build tracks and everything, and he wouldn't
Speaker 1: let anyone hear it. And then a couple more months
Speaker 1: ago behind he's like, all right, barely, I'm ready to
Speaker 1: show you my first song and he shows it from
Speaker 1: shows it to me and it's already it's up on SoundCloud.
Speaker 1: Figured out how to use SoundCloud. I don't know how
Speaker 1: to use SoundCloud. Um it's up and he plays it
Speaker 1: for me, and I'm like, dang it, this is actually good.
Speaker 1: You took my one thing. This was I was like, literally,
Speaker 1: Cooper music was all I had and he took my
Speaker 1: one thing and you did it in a cooler way.
Speaker 1: But I'm proud of it. And now he's like got
Speaker 1: a little bit of a following on his SoundCloud and
Speaker 1: every single like beat and track he makes it gets better.
Speaker 1: So now yep, and I would I would love to
Speaker 1: collab with him someday. He just recently started letting me
Speaker 1: have input on what he does. When I traveled back
Speaker 1: home for Christmas, my family moved back to Washington State. Um,
Speaker 1: when I went home for Christmas, he was like, hey, Billy,
Speaker 1: can you help me come up with a hook for this?
Speaker 1: And so I was like, oh my gosh, I've been
Speaker 1: waiting for this moment for the last seven exactly. I
Speaker 1: was like, I'm writing a song with my little This
Speaker 1: is like the dream for me. And he's like barely
Speaker 1: stopped being such a dark I'm going to make you
Speaker 1: leave the room like it's just it's just so touching.
Speaker 1: I never thought I'd get to create with my sibling,
Speaker 1: Like who gets to do this? Um? But yeah, we
Speaker 1: started building a track together and I got him a
Speaker 1: mic for Christmas so that when I go home, like
Speaker 1: we can make like work tapes together and it's fun.
Speaker 1: So I mean, he's probably just gonna rule the world.
Speaker 1: So they moved back. You say, how long do you
Speaker 1: live in town? Um? I think, okay, so I've probably
Speaker 1: been here like a year here almost a year and
Speaker 1: a half now right now or at the point where
Speaker 1: they move now, ok, right now? Yeah? Um, And they
Speaker 1: weren't even here a year. I want to say, I've
Speaker 1: been on my own for eight months, so they were
Speaker 1: here for maybe like half a year a little bit more. Um,
Speaker 1: and they I think it's just like I got, I
Speaker 1: got my feet on the ground and kind of got
Speaker 1: this really awesome team around me quicker than myself for
Speaker 1: anyone thought that I was going to um once the
Speaker 1: like record label process started, Uh, it went, it went.
Speaker 1: It all went pretty fast from there as far as
Speaker 1: getting my team around me, and I had my routine
Speaker 1: and they were still kind of struggling to put roots
Speaker 1: down and like figure out like they were they were
Speaker 1: my team and they are, but they like they were
Speaker 1: taking me to meetings, making sure I was getting here
Speaker 1: on time, doing all this, and then kind of once
Speaker 1: I got my rhythm and it kind of became clear
Speaker 1: like that, they kind of did their part that they
Speaker 1: needed to do here and Washington is their home, and
Speaker 1: so they went back. So let what were talking about here,
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Speaker 1: your parents they go back away. Do you move into
Speaker 1: a small department? Yeah? I, Um so, I got roommates
Speaker 1: for the first time, and um, that's been fun. It's
Speaker 1: been cool. It's a little taste of like the college
Speaker 1: type experience. I guess no. One of them is a
Speaker 1: ballerina and the others a yoga instructor. But that's that's cool.
Speaker 1: Though you don't really want to live with musicians, you
Speaker 1: think it's so competitive. No, it's been really cool. It's
Speaker 1: like a it's been a very um kind of just
Speaker 1: chill environment to decompress. When I get back from radio tour,
Speaker 1: from a ride or a meeting or whatever, to just
Speaker 1: go and like just be with people that aren't concerned
Speaker 1: with the same things that I have to be concerned
Speaker 1: with during the day and like it's also fun because
Speaker 1: like you meet other musicians, are other people who are
Speaker 1: working in the industry, and like everyone's kind of used
Speaker 1: to it to some degree. Like I think it's all
Speaker 1: it's all really exciting for me, but everyone's kind of like,
Speaker 1: well yeah, but people know I'm just kidding. Everyone's really
Speaker 1: excited about you, um anyone anything else though, Um it's
Speaker 1: so it's cool for me to like go like go
Speaker 1: home and like tell my roommates like I'm going on
Speaker 1: tour with Dan and Shay, I'm on the Bobby Bone Show.
Speaker 1: I just wrote a song, and they're like, no way
Speaker 1: where I feel like everyone else, like even when things
Speaker 1: are exciting, like the people other people who are like
Speaker 1: musicians or whatever, like it's almost natural just want to
Speaker 1: play play down your excitement almost and just be like
Speaker 1: oh yeah, well, like I'm probably gonna do that at
Speaker 1: some point too. So it's fine for a couple of reasons.
Speaker 1: One because you don't want to seem like you're cooler
Speaker 1: than they are in your mind, and too there they
Speaker 1: don't want you to be cooler than they are, like
Speaker 1: the competitive place it is it is, and it I
Speaker 1: feel like, um for me, like in the last like
Speaker 1: a year and a half that I've been in Nashville,
Speaker 1: I found that, like my musicianship especially has improved more
Speaker 1: than it ever has before, just because it is still competitive,
Speaker 1: and I think it's it's one of the one of
Speaker 1: the few places in the world where, like, at least
Speaker 1: being me, you can walk into any room and know
Speaker 1: that they're probably a better musician than you are in there.
Speaker 1: And so I think that can either kind of squash
Speaker 1: someone or you can use it as motivation to just
Speaker 1: get better and rise to the occasion. Do you And
Speaker 1: you may not, and it may take a bit, but
Speaker 1: do you realize how uncommon your story is? Um? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it. It occurs to me more and more as
Speaker 1: I go on just getting a deal, like you're on,
Speaker 1: You're on, You're on a real life, really well run label,
Speaker 1: And I wonder how that process happens. So how did
Speaker 1: you You're on Warner Brothers? Yes, and so how did
Speaker 1: that happen? Um? Well, so my deal is it's a
Speaker 1: it's a joint venture between Warner Brothers and Three Records
Speaker 1: in New York. And um, I said, Warners handling most
Speaker 1: of it right now. But they're they're doing a partnership.
Speaker 1: And uh, I say that because it started with my
Speaker 1: publishers took a trip to New York and they it
Speaker 1: wasn't about me, it was that they were they are
Speaker 1: my team since I was fifteen. They they developed me, uh,
Speaker 1: set up, set up on my co writs and like
Speaker 1: they were kind of all I had at that point.
Speaker 1: But they weren't traveling to New York about me. They
Speaker 1: were going to like pitch songs to labels that were
Speaker 1: looking for songs for their artists. Um. And they went
Speaker 1: into three hundred Records and they um, they like played
Speaker 1: the song, didn't really connect, but like they were getting
Speaker 1: along with the person they were meeting with, and they
Speaker 1: they they were like, well, like what are you excited
Speaker 1: about right now? Like what else are you working on?
Speaker 1: And they played them on it, which was one of
Speaker 1: the few songs I had produced at that point, and
Speaker 1: they loved it and a couple a couple of days later,
Speaker 1: the A and rc I flew down and met with me,
Speaker 1: offered me a deal and then uh then uh, interest
Speaker 1: from labels in Nashville followed, and I um, I felt
Speaker 1: really at home in New York with three hundred I
Speaker 1: got to fly down and meet all of them. But
Speaker 1: I wanted to have a home in Nashville, and I
Speaker 1: got that same feeling when I met with Warner. And
Speaker 1: then the rest is history. The rest happen. The rest
Speaker 1: is happening. Yeah, I know that's true. You talk about
Speaker 1: radio tour and so, I mean you're still a super
Speaker 1: new artist. Um, So what you do when you're a
Speaker 1: new artist is it. It's called radio tour where you
Speaker 1: just go and every radio station in the planet and
Speaker 1: you have to be in a great mood and you
Speaker 1: have to take your guitar and singing conference rooms and
Speaker 1: you know, any sort of Hey, I'm really cool, and
Speaker 1: Nashville goes away when you have to go to Iowa
Speaker 1: for seven sales people completely, Yeah, And so it takes
Speaker 1: you back down and that's good for a lot of people,
Speaker 1: but it's it's exhausting. It's a it's a lot of travels.
Speaker 1: Talk about radio to Yeah, I mean for me, Um,
Speaker 1: like I was visiting like three or four radio stations
Speaker 1: a day, which is which, as I've been told, is
Speaker 1: not even as bad as Radio Toork can get. As
Speaker 1: far as like full schedule. I was like dying in
Speaker 1: the car the other day I just finished up my
Speaker 1: eighth week, my last week. Um, I was dying in
Speaker 1: the car, just like yawning, falling asleep, trying to stay away,
Speaker 1: could like hide myself up for the next station. And
Speaker 1: um my regional who I was she was like, man, like,
Speaker 1: you don't even have the worst of it. Like I
Speaker 1: was out with so and so last week and we
Speaker 1: were hitting like five six stations a day and then
Speaker 1: a dinner and then a show at night, and I
Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, like, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: think I think for me it's been it's been good
Speaker 1: in the way that I didn't even really get a
Speaker 1: chance to build up a ton of credit Nashville before
Speaker 1: going on radio tour. So it's like, Hi, I'm not
Speaker 1: very cool in Nashville. I'm not very cool here, but
Speaker 1: maybe you'll listen to my music. Um, And it's the
Speaker 1: downside has been I went from making YouTube covers and
Speaker 1: playing on the sidewalk to five radio stations a day
Speaker 1: and a conference room and a meet and greet and this,
Speaker 1: and it's I think I think that's what made it
Speaker 1: extra tiring for me, just because it's even if I
Speaker 1: it's not the worst schedule, it was like, this is
Speaker 1: this is a whole different, really world experience. It's it's
Speaker 1: just so different than anything I'd ever been a part
Speaker 1: of involving my music. But um, it's it's like you're
Speaker 1: running for office completely. You have a song and you
Speaker 1: would like people to listen to the song. You must
Speaker 1: run for office to every station manager, every town that
Speaker 1: you go to. And if you do one and they
Speaker 1: have two stations, you got to go to both of them. Yeah. Ye,
Speaker 1: So take me through a day. Take me through a
Speaker 1: Tuesday on a radio tour. Tuesday on a radio tour,
Speaker 1: probably like a nine am lobby call if I'm averaging out,
Speaker 1: like when I have to be in the hotel lobby
Speaker 1: to leave. It. Would play many morning shows on radio tour.
Speaker 1: I didn't do too many, not yet. One day not
Speaker 1: big enough for the morning show. I did one little
Speaker 1: one my first week, and I I learned from my mistake,
Speaker 1: you need to warm up double because, like I know,
Speaker 1: your voice is scratching in the morning. I warmed up
Speaker 1: and I was like fighting a cold voice tracked in
Speaker 1: the middle of the first song. So I don't know
Speaker 1: if maybe the fact that I didn't do any morning
Speaker 1: shows after that has to do with that. But it's
Speaker 1: gonna um if anyone, if anyone who wants to have
Speaker 1: me on the morning shows listening to this, I learned
Speaker 1: my lesson. I sound great now when you did our show,
Speaker 1: we taped it at night because I'm such a giver.
Speaker 1: You are so generous, like I will come up. I
Speaker 1: want you to sound great. We're gonna do in the evening.
Speaker 1: Really appreciate that it was very mediocre. I was really
Speaker 1: happy with yea perfectly it was. It was yeah, really
Speaker 1: find what I was going for. That's really what I
Speaker 1: was trying. I don't I don't want to impress anyone
Speaker 1: too much. Not trying to intimidate any right now, you
Speaker 1: get so intimidated eighteen year old girls, I'm like, dangn
Speaker 1: So you go. Okay, So Tuesday, nine o'clock, the lobby call,
Speaker 1: You're down in the lobby. Yeah, down to the lobby. UM,
Speaker 1: go to the first station you walk in. It's it's
Speaker 1: anywhere from I feel like there's there's typically two scenarios,
Speaker 1: and it's either like you and like two people like
Speaker 1: the p D and someone else and sitting in the
Speaker 1: office or conference room and you're playing for them, or
Speaker 1: and it's more of like I like to make those
Speaker 1: situations like it's just a conversation because another part of
Speaker 1: going from the sidewalk to radio tour, I don't know
Speaker 1: how to really stage something or like it's it's just
Speaker 1: more like quote, we're gonna talk and I'm gonna play
Speaker 1: my songs for you, um or it's um they have
Speaker 1: the performance room and I'm playing for like some want
Speaker 1: some listeners. That which that was. That was a trippy
Speaker 1: part for me because I was like, wait, they knew
Speaker 1: who they were entering to come see, Like they knew
Speaker 1: it was gonna be me, whether or not they like
Speaker 1: knew about me before they knew what they were getting into,
Speaker 1: and they like chose to show up to hear me.
Speaker 1: He felt like it was weird that people came to
Speaker 1: see you. I felt yes, like I wanted to ask them.
Speaker 1: I was like, so, really, why are you here? Like
Speaker 1: really who put you? Like? How did you hear the room?
Speaker 1: What was the did they did they pay you? Am
Speaker 1: I paying you? And I don't know about it? Like
Speaker 1: things like that. But that was always fun because I
Speaker 1: got to I got to meet people and connect with
Speaker 1: the just like the actual audience and that was so
Speaker 1: I it was exhausting, but like this like my honest
Speaker 1: answer whenever anyone asked me, like because because the radio
Speaker 1: people will be like, so, like you're probably exhausted, right,
Speaker 1: like you hate this, And I was like, I sleep
Speaker 1: in the car, um, but I feel like if I
Speaker 1: have to be exhausted doing anything, like this is what
Speaker 1: I want to be exhausted doing. I mean, I get
Speaker 1: to go in and play my songs and talk about them.
Speaker 1: So you may say nine o'clock you go to radio station.
Speaker 1: How long are you there for the first station? Um,
Speaker 1: usually anywhere from like m M. I want to say,
Speaker 1: forty five minutes to an hour and a half. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's not eleven o'clock. What do you do now? Maybe
Speaker 1: go get lunch if there's time. I stopped at Starbucks
Speaker 1: like literally four times a day because that Starbucks is
Speaker 1: the only place that's like everywhere, and I'm just like
Speaker 1: addicted to it. Probably stop at Starbucks next day, spend
Speaker 1: forty five minutes to an hour there, and you gotta
Speaker 1: be up again, like it's the first time. You gotta
Speaker 1: be like exactly, yeah, exactly, like the first season of
Speaker 1: the day. I usually warm up in the car and
Speaker 1: like I try and like talk to my regional about like, so,
Speaker 1: how do you think that went? Like what can I
Speaker 1: do better next time? Um? And then do it again.
Speaker 1: Then go to Starbucks again. Psych yourself up. I was
Speaker 1: really I was. I was really caffeinated. I'm not gonna lie. Um,
Speaker 1: but they're like, oh man, this Bailey chick has a
Speaker 1: lot of energy, not normally. I just was on my
Speaker 1: fourth cup of coffee. But yeah, then do it again.
Speaker 1: It's I mean, it's it's definitely repetitive. My if my
Speaker 1: voice wasn't too tired, my last stasue and the day
Speaker 1: was usually my best, just because like I'm finally getting
Speaker 1: comfortable with the with the whole thing. Could you feel
Speaker 1: some that liked it and some that faked like they
Speaker 1: were liking it? Could you tell the difference? Um? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I had a few. I Um, okay, this this is
Speaker 1: either going to sound like I'm really unaware or as
Speaker 1: long as you're honest, it doesn't matter how you sound. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think. Um more so, I got I
Speaker 1: feel like I got people like trying to pretend they
Speaker 1: didn't like it, Like whether you know you meet people
Speaker 1: in days in the format you're not supposed to like
Speaker 1: a song that might sound a little bit poppy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that might. That might have been that That
Speaker 1: was probably part of it. And then just just sometimes
Speaker 1: you meet people that want to want to seem like,
Speaker 1: want to show that they know more than you. And
Speaker 1: I'm very like everybody. That's everybody, Yeah, that's every everybody
Speaker 1: in an industry like this thinks they know more than you.
Speaker 1: So my uh, the way that I try and deal
Speaker 1: with that is just make it very known when I
Speaker 1: walk into a room, I don't know anything. I know
Speaker 1: I know how to play music, and I know I
Speaker 1: want people to hear my songs, and I'm very very
Speaker 1: I'll let you know the things and I'll play the songs.
Speaker 1: Did that stations we're threatened because you have a newer
Speaker 1: sound and maybe these people are have an older sound
Speaker 1: and they feel like the newer sound might actually push
Speaker 1: them out. Um like the radio at the people at
Speaker 1: the radio stations. I'll give you all reference to give references.
Speaker 1: When I came in, there was nobody like me, and
Speaker 1: it was terrible, really terrible, and it was miserable for
Speaker 1: months and year a year and months. And because I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people felt like if I worked,
Speaker 1: that means in this moment what they did didn't work,
Speaker 1: and that wasn't the case at all, because there's room
Speaker 1: for everything. Because they thought, well, here's this guy. Doesn't
Speaker 1: wear a cowboy hat or a belt buckle. Okay, so Arkansas,
Speaker 1: but he loves hip hop. He's done pop radio for
Speaker 1: twelve thirteen years. He was a grunge kid. I mean
Speaker 1: I was, I was all of that, but I still
Speaker 1: love country music, like that's how I grew up. And
Speaker 1: they felt like, well, if this is how that it's turning,
Speaker 1: then that's not me and that means I'm out, which
Speaker 1: is not the case. I mean, everybody's realizing that now.
Speaker 1: And I wonder if at all you felt like some
Speaker 1: people felt like that toward you. Yeah, I got that.
Speaker 1: I definitely got that vibe. I feel like I feel like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I've gotten like nobody's I mean, I haven't gotten anyone
Speaker 1: being really mean to me or grilling me about it
Speaker 1: because like, I'm so cute and nice, I'm dude, probably
Speaker 1: yeah right, look at all the pictures on the plow.
Speaker 1: Thanks no, But like it's it's like then you hear back,
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, I thought like you you think someone's
Speaker 1: gonna play your song, and then the feedback is like, well,
Speaker 1: it's to your face, They're like, I love it, We're
Speaker 1: gonna play a week later. It's like, you know what,
Speaker 1: I don't do well with that. It's kind of it's
Speaker 1: kind of playing into mine and everyone's biggest insecurity that
Speaker 1: like everyone secretly doesn't like you. Um, but I think,
Speaker 1: I think, I really, I really firmly believe that there
Speaker 1: just is room for everyone. I think that if everybody's
Speaker 1: music sounded like me, which I'm not trying to hide
Speaker 1: the fact that it it is. It is slightly pop.
Speaker 1: I lean different directions, but I think if everybody sounded
Speaker 1: like me, then country music it wouldn't it wouldn't be
Speaker 1: what it is. But if everyone sounded like Garth Brooks
Speaker 1: and it would like the audience wouldn't be as diverse.
Speaker 1: And it's so it's I I have faith that it'll
Speaker 1: work because you and I both know that that I'm
Speaker 1: delightful and no one can be mean to me. There's
Speaker 1: a story for you, and I completely agree with you
Speaker 1: because again I went through it to where it was
Speaker 1: like he's not one of us, and I kind of
Speaker 1: had to just weighed it out and prove because I
Speaker 1: was awful when I got here. I was like a
Speaker 1: bull in the china shop. I was like, screw everything,
Speaker 1: I'm just doing my way. I wish I wouldn't have
Speaker 1: been so that way. I wish I had have been
Speaker 1: more like you, perfect, perfect, delightful, but I wasn't. And
Speaker 1: I came and I was like, I'm doing it my way.
Speaker 1: It only my way. But the format, I'll talk about
Speaker 1: that first. In general, the format is beginning to look
Speaker 1: like this. There are it's the countries beginning to be
Speaker 1: taught forty in the way of They're like four different
Speaker 1: kinds of country music. There's the really traditionals. There's the
Speaker 1: Justin Moore's and the William Michael Morrigan's. There's that, and
Speaker 1: that has to exist, that absolutely has to exist. Then
Speaker 1: there's the more down the middle stuff with the Keith
Speaker 1: Urbans and the and then you can go to the
Speaker 1: left with the Sam's, and then you can go to
Speaker 1: the Kelsey's. And they're all these different little niches inside
Speaker 1: of a bigger format, and the best of all of
Speaker 1: them will rise to the top. The worst thing you
Speaker 1: can say to me and I GE's Mike. What I
Speaker 1: hate when people say I'm just like, you're out of
Speaker 1: your mind, because there is no that's in each country
Speaker 1: and every time. And and my favorite reference, I was
Speaker 1: talking to Garth Brooks about this name dropped because I'm awesome,
Speaker 1: and so I was like, hey, they said, tell you
Speaker 1: you're not country names like BUTO told me I wasn't country,
Speaker 1: he said, he said, I moved to town and they
Speaker 1: thought I was a joke because I wasn't country. But
Speaker 1: like he is, like now, not just in the way
Speaker 1: of like he sounds country, like he is, he is
Speaker 1: like the thing he's by the way, he's the highest
Speaker 1: selling artist in American history period, not country all together
Speaker 1: like Garth Brooks's country. And so but even my groundwalk
Speaker 1: because I grew up in Arkansas and Johnny Cash is
Speaker 1: from Arkansas, and so she was really into Johnny Cash
Speaker 1: because when you're from a small town or from a
Speaker 1: state that doesn't have a lot of famous people from it,
Speaker 1: you really gravitate to those famous people. And she was like,
Speaker 1: I remember when people would come and pick it and
Speaker 1: say this is rock and roll, this isn't country, and
Speaker 1: it was Johnny Cash. But my point is you see
Speaker 1: it every generation. It's so cyclical, and you know what's
Speaker 1: going to happen in fifteen years, Bailey, They're gonna look
Speaker 1: at you and go, Bailey, Then that's country. Whatever is
Speaker 1: this whatever this Cooper E. D M. Crap is that
Speaker 1: they're trying to make country. Yeah, like what is this country?
Speaker 1: And it's it's always going to be a thing. And
Speaker 1: if the format stayed exactly the same, this is what
Speaker 1: would happen. It would die off because the people that
Speaker 1: liked it would continue liking it, but nobody knew would
Speaker 1: come along. Nobody knew in the form. I would die
Speaker 1: And the worst thing that could ever happen is that
Speaker 1: it stayed the same. And people don't like that, Like
Speaker 1: I want to say that, but it's but it's the
Speaker 1: It's redefinition is what growth is and what keeps things well.
Speaker 1: And I say it because I'm a genius and I'm
Speaker 1: genius like me, just like me, you should say that.
Speaker 1: This is why we're friends. So you come to town,
Speaker 1: you have a deal, you have was this going to
Speaker 1: be your single? Like forever? Was like yeah, like we
Speaker 1: want to put the song out. Yeah, it kind of
Speaker 1: what we we threw some other things around, But I
Speaker 1: actually like, did you were you ever going to put
Speaker 1: borrow it? Is your song with your other single, borrow It.
Speaker 1: Borrow Oh yeah, there was rented, there was borrow it,
Speaker 1: but you didn't even like those you want those? Those
Speaker 1: seemed a bit wishy, washy rent. I'm trying to I'm
Speaker 1: trying to show everyone just my commitment to everything that
Speaker 1: I do. Sure you're nervous. Are you nervous about this?
Speaker 1: I mean because now I own it. Just now it's
Speaker 1: like time, like you've had years. Now it's time. Like
Speaker 1: does it work? Is it? I mean, yeah, I think
Speaker 1: I am, especially now like the ad. The ad date
Speaker 1: was last Monday, and I think I'm definitely experiencing nerves
Speaker 1: that I haven't experienced before. A date means for people
Speaker 1: listening to the podcast here UM radio stations all over
Speaker 1: the country add songs every week to the playlist, and
Speaker 1: when they add them first, they played the norl of
Speaker 1: the night and you have to slowly get climbed this
Speaker 1: terrible ladder and listen. I've been the biggest critic of
Speaker 1: radio from radio, which is a weird place to be UM.
Speaker 1: But so I have no idea how you did with
Speaker 1: your idea, I would expect that you did. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't expect it. Again, I don't know how he did.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna go from what I think I would expect.
Speaker 1: There are so many people to go. You know, I
Speaker 1: don't know about this. Yeah, it's probably Kelsey syndrome, where
Speaker 1: when Kelsey came out and everyone was like, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. Yeah, I think that's
Speaker 1: what it's what it's been. I think it was. It
Speaker 1: was a good start, is the response that I've tried
Speaker 1: to gauge. Nobody. Nobody really wants to tell you how
Speaker 1: you actually did when it comes to things like that,
Speaker 1: because like do you know your number? They didn't know
Speaker 1: how many age you guys. I think they did. I
Speaker 1: don't retain numbers very well, retain words like good, all right,
Speaker 1: but slightly above average and so again, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I should have looked it up, but I would imagine
Speaker 1: it would have done all right, pretty good, That's what
Speaker 1: I would have imagine, um and but with a lot
Speaker 1: of potential to grow. Because it's one of those songs
Speaker 1: everybody's like, it's it's not Traditionals are basically going to
Speaker 1: be like, we have to get this on the air.
Speaker 1: But you know what make songs get on the air,
Speaker 1: people buying them, people being exposed to them, the internet.
Speaker 1: Your music video, which I don't even see on TV.
Speaker 1: It's a video I just hit a piece of online content.
Speaker 1: But your your music video. It was cool because it
Speaker 1: was you can watch it on the cell on your phone,
Speaker 1: and it looked like it was like all the apps
Speaker 1: and stuff flying through shot vertically. Yeah, so then it's
Speaker 1: like it takes over your phone. My favorite thing is
Speaker 1: watching people watch it on their phone because there's always
Speaker 1: a moment of confusion. They're like, wait, you sent men? Wait,
Speaker 1: why am I getting Who's wait? Oh it's you? Oh
Speaker 1: and really my secret goal is just to confuse as
Speaker 1: many people as possible. It's the only thing vertically I've
Speaker 1: ever watched that I was happy it was vertical. Usually,
Speaker 1: I like, why don't people turn their freaking phones to
Speaker 1: the sun. How many years have we been doing this
Speaker 1: that we're still shooting things like videos straight up and down?
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Speaker 1: Bobby cast Alright, so you have your song, you have
Speaker 1: your tour coming up. You're in the class of which
Speaker 1: was I picked five artists, and I think, like man
Speaker 1: and like, I really see something there, um and that
Speaker 1: has to be the highlight of your life, like more
Speaker 1: than having a big brother, like more than moving about
Speaker 1: a big deal. Completely because they paid me to put
Speaker 1: you on the list, well I'll take it. Thanks for
Speaker 1: telling everyone. They actually didn't. Here's here's the true story.
Speaker 1: I have a friend. I was like, you need to
Speaker 1: hear this Bailey girl. And I was like, oh, let
Speaker 1: me hear song. And so I don't listen to song
Speaker 1: as ever, but this is a really close friend of mine,
Speaker 1: and so I was like, oh and I heard. I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, she's she's good. A said, I'm doing
Speaker 1: this thing where I'm just bringing in brand new people
Speaker 1: there to be signed. It's just people that I think
Speaker 1: are pretty good. And so I invited you have We
Speaker 1: had not met until then that day, Right, I wasn't
Speaker 1: planning on putting it on the list, but you came
Speaker 1: in and I'm gonna tell you what I really like
Speaker 1: about you in a second because it's only one thing,
Speaker 1: because the rest kind of annoying if it all sucks
Speaker 1: one quality. And so you came in and you played,
Speaker 1: and I was like, Wow, she's really good. And so
Speaker 1: I was going through and I had like thirteen or
Speaker 1: fourteen because I was like, man, they can really pop.
Speaker 1: They can really pop. And I picked Luke Combs and
Speaker 1: in the past last year was like, I've had Marin
Speaker 1: and Kelsey and all Dominion like before they had their
Speaker 1: big hit. So I have to like do pretty good
Speaker 1: at this, So don't let me down. Yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: I have to live up to the list. Um, here's
Speaker 1: what I liked about you most of all. First of all,
Speaker 1: you really can sing, and you can play what you
Speaker 1: have to in this town. That's the weird things you
Speaker 1: have to. When I was doing pop radio or sports
Speaker 1: radio or rock radio or polka, I talked done at all.
Speaker 1: You didn't have to, you didn't have to play. You
Speaker 1: could just fake it. And but here you have to
Speaker 1: play and you have to be good. And you came
Speaker 1: in and you played and you were good, and then
Speaker 1: you played I Believe a Drake song. And what I
Speaker 1: liked about that was that you just didn't care like
Speaker 1: you just played a Drake song because that was who
Speaker 1: you were, and the best way to win and the
Speaker 1: most honest way to win is to be you, and
Speaker 1: you're gonna lose a lot being you, But when you
Speaker 1: finally do freaking win, it's because it was you who one,
Speaker 1: not because somebody was making you were told you or
Speaker 1: and the truth was too I was like, hey, tell
Speaker 1: Bailey to come in, but he have something else just
Speaker 1: in case. Like, but but you came in. I was like,
Speaker 1: play the drag song because it was just who you were.
Speaker 1: You were wearing a chance hat, and I was like,
Speaker 1: you know what, I don't want to hold her back
Speaker 1: for me and who she is. I love the fact
Speaker 1: that she is who she is. Someone didn't say you're
Speaker 1: going into a country show, you need to play a part.
Speaker 1: If I could say, I think you owned it. I
Speaker 1: owned it. I did not rent it. Oh well, thank you.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. I that was a big deal to me,
Speaker 1: and there was such a big deal that I was like,
Speaker 1: I gotta put it in the class because she's good
Speaker 1: and I love the fact that she was just her.
Speaker 1: Oh thank you. I'm so glad it wasn't someone else,
Speaker 1: because if you would have come in and you would
Speaker 1: have acted like I have been like, Hi, y'all, what's up.
Speaker 1: I'm bailey. People do that? You think you're making a
Speaker 1: joke all the time. Do you know how many people
Speaker 1: come in and you can see through it immediately. A
Speaker 1: lot of artists come in, they put on a little accent,
Speaker 1: they put on a little show, and you didn't. You
Speaker 1: didn't do that. But there's some really terrible ones. I can't.
Speaker 1: I think. I think I'm I'm happy that I got um,
Speaker 1: I mean, um, this is, this is. I never want
Speaker 1: to sound like I think that I have a lot
Speaker 1: of experience in anything, because on the whole, I am UM.
Speaker 1: But but I had I mean, I had the three
Speaker 1: years just traveling to Nashville and writing, and I think
Speaker 1: I'm happy that I had that time to uh just
Speaker 1: figure out who I was. I guess without without really
Speaker 1: anybody's eyes on me, I was, I was my I
Speaker 1: was lucky to have my publishers uh developed me in
Speaker 1: a way that they were just like just just go
Speaker 1: in and like write what's on your heart, just like
Speaker 1: figure it out. And you you still walk into some
Speaker 1: rooms like in a co write and feel the pressure
Speaker 1: to act a certain way. I'm like, okay, have I
Speaker 1: have to like, I don't have it. I don't have
Speaker 1: enough ballads right now, so I need to write a ballad.
Speaker 1: We need option for that, or I need to write
Speaker 1: an uptember where I can't write another love song or
Speaker 1: breakup song or whatever. Um And so you know, you
Speaker 1: know I did that. I had those days when I
Speaker 1: would walk into a co write and like try and
Speaker 1: fit into a box in it. I experienced in that
Speaker 1: that that never ever works for me. It's always a
Speaker 1: crappy song if you do that. And I think I
Speaker 1: found that a lot of that type of situation. Um,
Speaker 1: it applies to things other than writing songs. Life life.
Speaker 1: It's like I'm talking to soccer teas right now, Mike drop,
Speaker 1: Except for the mics on a stands, it would be
Speaker 1: more like a mic, don't don't. I don't drop that one.
Speaker 1: Here's Bailey doing Drake on my show. I don't know
Speaker 1: how to talk to you. I don't know how to
Speaker 1: excuse your Okay, my friends always feel the need to
Speaker 1: tell me things. It seems like they're just happier than
Speaker 1: us these days. These days, I don't know how to
Speaker 1: talk to you. I don't know how to be there
Speaker 1: when you need me. It feels that the only time
Speaker 1: you see me, it's good and you love it, and
Speaker 1: you should always play with you love people, and people
Speaker 1: are gonna tell you, and people are gonna tell you
Speaker 1: the other otherwise, Like you need to do this and
Speaker 1: do that, and if you just just stay true even
Speaker 1: though it sucks sometimes at least you can fail being you.
Speaker 1: And then one year we're gonna talk. We'll talk before
Speaker 1: one year, but in a year we'll do this again.
Speaker 1: And I imagine we're gonna talk a lot next year anyway,
Speaker 1: but we'll do it again. You're gonna feel like you're
Speaker 1: a completely different person. Yeah, I believe that completely. And
Speaker 1: then in another year, you're gonna fel like the same
Speaker 1: thing with Kelsey, Like you know, I had new Kelsey
Speaker 1: before she signed a deal. She's a whole, she's a
Speaker 1: completely different human. I mean, I'm a different human. So
Speaker 1: it's gonna be fun to watch you kind of grow
Speaker 1: because you're good. You are good. Thank you, You're actually
Speaker 1: you're really good. And I like it that you're nineteen
Speaker 1: now and just you're not letting people tell you who
Speaker 1: you need to be as a nineteen year old, and
Speaker 1: that's hard for a nineteen year old. Thank you, Thank
Speaker 1: you you lived a couple of lives beforehand and learned
Speaker 1: a little bit. I think. Yeah, I'm mean, the change
Speaker 1: happens so quickly. It's cool. I mean, everybody just goes
Speaker 1: through growth in their life, like I mean, especially if
Speaker 1: you're nineteen and stuff. It's it's cool being a songwriter
Speaker 1: and experiencing growth because I haven't. I have it documented
Speaker 1: and the things that I've written and the the YouTube
Speaker 1: videos and the whatever. So it's it makes it makes
Speaker 1: it feel like even more time is passed almost because
Speaker 1: like since I've moved so like just so many things
Speaker 1: have changed and I've I've learned better how to own it. Yep.
Speaker 1: I went, okay, well all right, can we say something else, Bobby,
Speaker 1: I'm starting to quote my song it happens. Who do
Speaker 1: you like right now? Who's who? What? What music? Do you?
Speaker 1: Let's do two different ways? Um, you can mention zero
Speaker 1: country artists? What do you like right now? Um? Well,
Speaker 1: I just no secret. I love chance to rapper Um
Speaker 1: Coloring Book. I could rap maybe most of that whole album.
Speaker 1: But let me one, just another day to pick up
Speaker 1: on me, like, I don't hear any rabbits. Oh I
Speaker 1: didn't know if I supposed to yet when the fell
Speaker 1: Lily just another dad to pick up a mail shann
Speaker 1: all right and through the suits they'd be like, they go,
Speaker 1: what's you? But I don't know the worst of this party.
Speaker 1: You can't understand it. You are legitimate, you know, Oh
Speaker 1: this is my favorite. Do the same johns? No mind,
Speaker 1: you don't do the We don't do the same, do
Speaker 1: the same? Jack, don't more? She don't have the same way,
Speaker 1: No more, you don't do we don't do the same
Speaker 1: john the same jack? No one. I think Chance wins
Speaker 1: the Grammy for Best New Artists. And I had Marina
Speaker 1: Kelsey and told them both after their face because they're
Speaker 1: gonna cut each other out. Yeah yeah, I get I
Speaker 1: can yet and what do I know? But it's gonna
Speaker 1: be tough. Nothing I think he had Mathematically, I think
Speaker 1: he has the best shot to win. And where the
Speaker 1: Grammys on Sunday so you can hear this after I
Speaker 1: could be a big idiot. Um I would go in
Speaker 1: order Chance, Maron chain Smokers, Kelsey and who's the other
Speaker 1: and Anderson oh, he's not not hit time yet. Not
Speaker 1: he's not just I just heard of him. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: he's insane. He's insane, but he's he's not there yet.
Speaker 1: He will he will be so Okay, Well, I mean listen,
Speaker 1: I hope you do good, do good for me. I
Speaker 1: got a lot righting on you. Thank you, all right.
Speaker 1: I won't let you down already. I stole your teeth,
Speaker 1: so I kind of owe you. That's why everybody listening
Speaker 1: you can download, own it, bring it back, bring it
Speaker 1: back while, bring your back. Wait, what don't forget the
Speaker 1: happy thoughts? All you need is happy thoughts? The tens
Speaker 1: tense passed that time? Wait back then, when everything we
Speaker 1: read was real and everything we said right? Why did
Speaker 1: eye kids being kids? Why did you stop? What did
Speaker 1: you do to your head? Why did you go up
Speaker 1: right back here? When did you start to forget? Flag?
Speaker 1: That's good. You're funny. You're funny. You're funny like at
Speaker 1: one point, I guess, man, it's been eight or nine
Speaker 1: years ago. I signed a hip hop record deal. You
Speaker 1: did like as a rapper? No? I signed as a drummer. Yes,
Speaker 1: a rapper. I can see how that was not a
Speaker 1: good question. No, story. You tell her my name captain
Speaker 1: captain Caucasian? Are you serious? Did you have a nickname
Speaker 1: that was that was my nickname? I mean like but
Speaker 1: like that's kind of a long name. No, it's not
Speaker 1: not whenever changed in Caucasian. Yeah, the captains here. Well,
Speaker 1: will you spit something? All right? I moved away. I'm
Speaker 1: country now, I'm country, weird country. This is Bailey and
Speaker 1: Bobby a weird country. Yeah I did. I did a
Speaker 1: whole whole deal. I still bust out some stuff a
Speaker 1: little bit. I would love to hear it something. This
Speaker 1: a little song I wrote called No Problem. That is
Speaker 1: my favorite. I know you wrote it makes sense, makes sense,
Speaker 1: that's that's you. You know this? Yeah? I know him
Speaker 1: and him and Drake. I don't know. All right, Uh,
Speaker 1: well here's the Slayers own it. Hope everybody out there
Speaker 1: downloads it. What they say, I never listened away? Good? Yeah? Cool?
Speaker 1: Let you. That's a good first song for you because
Speaker 1: it's really it's just you. It is you, Thank you,
Speaker 1: Thank you. Should be out with Dan and Set. You
Speaker 1: can be hear this in six months and this whole
Speaker 1: tour could be over and Bailey could be back and
Speaker 1: watch it. I don't know what's good, but like be
Speaker 1: here it soon she'll be out with Dan and Ship. Definitely.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bring you out to do some shows with
Speaker 1: us too. With regging it. I would love to just
Speaker 1: wait for it. Those are real crowd, these guys, they
Speaker 1: go past all right, Bailey, my own on Twitter and
Speaker 1: Instagram and obviously I'm a fan. Just remember me when
Speaker 1: you blow up and get famous. I'll try. I just
Speaker 1: remember Billy Jones, the guy, Billy Jones, the guy Captain Caucasian,
Speaker 1: don't think Caucasian. Yeah, alright, we're gonna go now, all right,
Speaker 1: thank you might have another one or no, I'm not good.
Speaker 1: I'm good, alright, Bailey Brian Episode thirty five of The
Speaker 1: Bobby Cast. Thanks to our sponsors Sherry's, Berry's and Blue Apron.
Speaker 1: Download own it and your population with six thousand, six
Speaker 1: d and six Oh you know that where I grew up.
Speaker 1: Oh that's more than I thought spread out. Maybe I
Speaker 1: need to start saying I'm from a medium town. No,
Speaker 1: that's still a small tom My population though, because I
Speaker 1: keep my roads A picture of my roads on where
Speaker 1: I grew up my living room. See, all right, well
Speaker 1: you win. I just want to go out and on
Speaker 1: top just pile it on, all right, Thank you all,
Speaker 1: to see you next time. Goodbye five