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Speaker 1: Hey, it's Amy. Thanks for listening and being subscribed to

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Speaker 1: the Bobby Bone Show podcast. Now this episode I'm about

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Speaker 1: to share with you as an interview that I did

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Speaker 1: on my show Women of iHeart Country. It's a weekly

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Speaker 1: show where we showcase of women in country music, and

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Speaker 1: this week my guest was to Neil Arts. We talked

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Speaker 1: about her new song back Then Right Now, and she

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Speaker 1: performed her number one song, Somebody Like That. We also

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Speaker 1: talked fashion, growing up in Canada, her new album, and

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Speaker 1: what it was like landing her first number one this year.

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Speaker 1: So that's all coming up in this episode. Be sure

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Speaker 1: to listen to Women of Ihart Country every weekend join us.

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Speaker 1: Just check out your local I Heart Country station or

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Speaker 1: you can search Women of iHeart Country on your iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 1: But here you go a special edition of Women of

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Speaker 1: iHeart Country with Tannil Arts. Let's go go give it

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Speaker 1: up for Women of iHeart Country with Amy Brown in

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Speaker 1: studio now with Tanil Art. Tay Tanil. Hey, Okay, so

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Speaker 1: I'm very curious what do you do you first thing

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Speaker 1: drink a glass of water. I don't drink coffee, so

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Speaker 1: that's like been a new thing for me. Too much anxiety.

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Speaker 1: So I cut out coffee. I wake up, drink water, immediately,

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Speaker 1: get in the shower, and start getting ready. I like

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Speaker 1: to get ready. My mom was always like, I gotta

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Speaker 1: You know. Yeah, there is something about that. Sometimes if

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Speaker 1: I realize, like, oh, it's been about five days since

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Speaker 1: I've gotten ready, I wonder why I'm feeling a little

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Speaker 1: out of it. So I can support that with your mom. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so let's talk about your new album, Girl a Girl.

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Speaker 1: It's out now and you co wrote each of the

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Speaker 1: thirteen songs. But you also said that there's two different

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Speaker 1: ways to listen to this album. So can you explain

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Speaker 1: the two ways and what that means. Yeah, So basically,

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Speaker 1: when I was looking at the track listing, which if

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Speaker 1: so basically I realized that a lot of these songs

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Speaker 1: were from way back in my past. You know, they

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Speaker 1: were kind of who I was back then. So that's

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Speaker 1: at the bottom of the playlist and at the top

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Speaker 1: is like where I am right now, So you can

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Speaker 1: listen from where I am now to back then who

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Speaker 1: I used to be, or you can listen from when

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Speaker 1: So I want to support you on that too, because

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Speaker 1: Adele was just talking about this not too long ago,

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Speaker 1: where she had recently put out a new album, thirty,

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Speaker 1: and she was talking about how the order of it

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Speaker 1: so some streaming services were turning off the shuffle option

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Speaker 1: listen to it out of order. So you're on the

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Speaker 1: right track. Now, I'm about to play your song back then,

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Speaker 1: right now, And the lyrics talk about things in the

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Speaker 1: nineties like disposable cameras and burnt CDs. Now, you were

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Speaker 1: born in the nineties. If you could bring one thing

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Speaker 1: Like I don't know, there's something so special about talking

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Speaker 1: to people on a landline. I just love it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I like a chordless landline though. That way maybe I

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Speaker 1: my conversation. And disposable cameras, you know, they're from the nineties,

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Speaker 1: but they're back. They are back, you know. I actually

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Speaker 1: before we ever really put that in this song, at

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Speaker 1: the beginning of the year, before I'd written any of

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Speaker 1: you want to play your song now? I would love to. Okay,

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Speaker 1: well I'm gonna play it back then right now. Buy

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Speaker 1: to Neil Arts on Women of iHeart Country House, A

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Speaker 1: little bit to my rooms, that's true. I really use

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Speaker 1: Now it's to Neil Arts and she's got her guitar

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Speaker 1: with her, and I'm looking at this bedazzled pink guitar.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know. I haven't I haven't had time

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Speaker 1: Somebody Like That on Women A by Her Country. I've

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Speaker 1: Don't matter what if I'm gonna love. I'm gonna love

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Speaker 1: I will never ever say get back. If I'm gonna love,

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Speaker 1: with smile, that's my girl right there. They've had the

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Speaker 1: I heart country, all right, So Taniel, you grew up

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for sharing, Thank you well, thanks

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Speaker 1: for all of you listening, you can follow to Nil

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