Speaker 1: Hey fam, Hello Sunshine. Today on the bright Side, we're
Speaker 1: going country singer, songwriter and the princess of Outlaw Country,
Speaker 1: Raina Roberts joins us to talk about her career and
Speaker 1: two features on Beyonce's new album, Cowboy Carter.
Speaker 2: And Later, We're gonna keep the Cowboy Carter vibes going
Speaker 2: with a game of Beyonce themed this or that. It's Thursday,
Speaker 2: April fourth, I'm Simone Boye, I'm.
Speaker 1: Danielle Robey and this is the bright side from Hello Sunshine.
Speaker 1: Here's what's popping on our feeds today. Taylor Swift is
Speaker 1: officially a billionaire Forres just released its annual list of
Speaker 1: the world's richest people, and she joins musicians like Jay
Speaker 1: Z and Rihanna. But here's the difference. She's the first
Speaker 1: musician to become a billionaire solely based on her songs
Speaker 1: and her performances like just artistry.
Speaker 2: You go, Taylor, You go girl. Okay, Danielle listen, listen.
Speaker 2: It's an exciting time to be alive. Taylor Swift is
Speaker 2: a billionaire, and we might be able to offload our
Speaker 2: birth control burdens soon.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: This is big news, Okay, according to The Atlantic, BC
Speaker 2: for men could actually be available on the market in
Speaker 2: the next few years. And we have options, all right,
Speaker 2: So we're talking a pill, maybe even a gel that
Speaker 2: men would apply to their shoulders daily. We can't even
Speaker 2: get them to apply sunscreen, so we'll see.
Speaker 3: How that goes.
Speaker 2: But the deal with this birth control is that it
Speaker 2: would just cause temporary infertility and supposedly it would have
Speaker 2: zero effect on mood or libido.
Speaker 3: Wow, what a concept. Birth control that has zero effect
Speaker 3: on mood or libido.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have to talk about this more at a
Speaker 1: later date because men have trouble following routines anything that
Speaker 1: has to do with their penises. They're not interested in.
Speaker 3: You'd like, you know what I mean, any penis.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm moving on, okay, because I'm still stuck on
Speaker 1: that college basketball player Flage passionately defending her teammate Angel
Speaker 1: Reese at their press conference. That is shine theory and
Speaker 1: sisterhood at its best. I cannot get that video out
Speaker 1: of my mind.
Speaker 2: I know it was really impactful. I love the way
Speaker 2: that she was talking about how Angel makes her a
Speaker 2: better player, I mean, true leadership, sisterhood in real time.
Speaker 1: She was just like sticking up for her teammate.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's nice.
Speaker 1: What's that phrase, like the trumpet blows or sounds louder
Speaker 1: when someone else rings it or blows it. What's that?
Speaker 3: I don't know, but that sounds great. It's true somewhat.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you need your neighbor, your sister, your friend to
Speaker 1: say something for you. It just is like received differently.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna blow my trumpet for you, Danielle.
Speaker 1: Daily, I'm gonna blow my trumpet for you too. Simon.
Speaker 3: That's not a thing. It's definitely not a thing.
Speaker 1: We're gonna make it a thing.
Speaker 2: Okay, I have a topic that might be a little
Speaker 2: bit debatable for us.
Speaker 3: Okay, I like that. Okay, I'm gonna get into it.
Speaker 2: So Shakira has a pretty hot take on the Barbie movie.
Speaker 2: She told Allure magazine that her two sons quote absolutely
Speaker 2: hated the Barbie movie and that she kind of agrees
Speaker 2: with them. She said her boys, who were nine and
Speaker 2: eleven years old, felt like it was emasculating and that
Speaker 2: she wants her sons to quote feel powerful too while
Speaker 2: still respecting women.
Speaker 1: Okay, this is a hot take.
Speaker 3: It is a hot take.
Speaker 1: I kind of agree with her. Woo. I know, Oh,
Speaker 1: I liked the Barbie movie. I thought it was like
Speaker 1: really well done, cool cultural commentary, but as women, we
Speaker 1: didn't like when femininity or womanhood was thought of as
Speaker 1: like this surface, pink, glittery thing. I think the way
Speaker 1: men were portrayed in the Barbie movie was really monolithic,
Speaker 1: like it was. It made them look a little stupid, basic, unintelligent,
Speaker 1: not curious. And I think like the whole point of
Speaker 1: feminism is that both sexes can live their fullest potential,
Speaker 1: both sexes can have the same opportunities and responsibilities. And
Speaker 1: so while it was funny, and because women have been
Speaker 1: the minority for so long, I think everybody was able
Speaker 1: to laugh at it, I did think it kind of
Speaker 1: diminished men a little bit.
Speaker 2: So I think that men don't often feel comfortable talking
Speaker 2: about this in today's society because I think that they
Speaker 2: feel like they will be shunned or shamed for this.
Speaker 2: But I have heard men say for a long time
Speaker 2: that they're tired of the like dumb dad trope and commercials,
Speaker 2: or like the dufust husband you know who can't get
Speaker 2: anything right. And I do get that. I am sympathetic
Speaker 2: to that I'm a boy mom, so yeah, you have
Speaker 2: two boys. I have two boys, so a lot of
Speaker 2: testosterone around me all the time. And I'm sympathetic to
Speaker 2: how men feel. However, I think it's okay to just
Speaker 2: have a movie that brings us entertainment value and laughter.
Speaker 2: And I don't know, I don't know that we have
Speaker 2: to take it so seriously, Like I don't think that
Speaker 2: Barbie is going to cause a spike in hate crimes
Speaker 2: against men totally, you know what I mean? Well said,
Speaker 2: so like, let's just not take it so seriously. And also,
Speaker 2: can we just have one. We had to sit through
Speaker 2: all these movies that didn't pass the Bechdel test, and
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, like, can we just get this one, y'all.
Speaker 1: I agree with you, But I think about what an
Speaker 1: impact those movies, those like Disney princess movies or even
Speaker 1: the rom coms had more of an impact on me
Speaker 1: growing up. All these women, how they acted like so
Speaker 1: silly on dates or like we're always waiting for the
Speaker 1: man to call, like those definitely impacted how I perceived
Speaker 1: womanhood and what it meant to be a girlfriend or
Speaker 1: what it meant to be sexy and I'm like, kids
Speaker 1: really take movies seriously, and so I almost think that
Speaker 1: Barbie movie was more for adults. Like, if that's what
Speaker 1: kids are watching, that's not really how I want masculinity represented.
Speaker 3: Listen, Barbie is not a kid.
Speaker 2: When I saw people taking their kids, their little girls
Speaker 2: and I don't know, maybe little boys too, to the movie,
Speaker 2: I was like, I don't think this is appropriate for kids.
Speaker 2: Maybe there are a lot of jokes that will go
Speaker 2: over their head, but I just I feel like this
Speaker 2: is one movie, and how many other movies are there
Speaker 2: like Barbie where this sort of messaging that you feel
Speaker 2: and Shakira feels is.
Speaker 1: Okay, not lotteryny and with Shakira, please.
Speaker 3: I am I'm lumping you in.
Speaker 2: No, but how many other movies are there that have
Speaker 2: this portrayal of men in it? Is it a lot?
Speaker 2: Then maybe if it's a lot, we need to talk
Speaker 2: about that. But I don't know that there are a
Speaker 2: lot of movies that are that have this portrayal of
Speaker 2: mene where they're you know, more subservient or maybe not
Speaker 2: as intelligent.
Speaker 1: That's actually a good point, like the Cultural conversation doesn't
Speaker 1: double down on that, so it's okay to have one film.
Speaker 3: We can have one. Yeah, let's have one. Okay.
Speaker 1: I think you convinced me.
Speaker 3: Well that was easy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe not as debatable as we thought.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna blow my trumpet for you, Danielle.
Speaker 1: Okay, Simon, there's this trend on TikTok that has taken over.
Speaker 1: It's called the hear me out trend. Okay. So it's
Speaker 1: like an unconventional crush. So when you share it with someone,
Speaker 1: you share it and you're just like, oh wait, hear
Speaker 1: me out okay, because you gotta kind of explain it
Speaker 1: a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's not like a Lenny Kravitz or a Channing Tatum
Speaker 1: where we can all agree they're hot, right, It's just
Speaker 1: like a little bit more obscure.
Speaker 3: Do you have any of these First of all.
Speaker 2: That Lenny Kravitz moment on stage where like didn't his
Speaker 2: pants come off or something?
Speaker 3: That's my Roman Empire.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's the hottest short king in all of
Speaker 1: the land.
Speaker 3: He will forever be hot forever.
Speaker 1: I turn that way about Idris Elba, Like this is
Speaker 1: not a hear me out crush, Okay, hear me out
Speaker 1: is like I gotta explain a few things.
Speaker 3: I want to hear yours first before I say mine.
Speaker 3: You have to go.
Speaker 1: Here's that hear me out? I don't know, Okay, I
Speaker 1: have a few. First of all, is Drake considered to
Speaker 1: hear me out? Crush?
Speaker 2: Oh my god? He's that man is so corny. I
Speaker 2: think I like a little corny. I'm starting to learn
Speaker 2: that about myself, Danielle.
Speaker 3: Are you serious? This is your hear me out? Crush?
Speaker 3: Have you seen his?
Speaker 1: Horribly?
Speaker 3: I've lost so much respect for you, Jim.
Speaker 1: He's literally, I think, sort of like my dream man.
Speaker 1: He asks a lot of questions, Danielle. He's black and Jewish.
Speaker 1: He's literally he's.
Speaker 3: For me, Danielle.
Speaker 1: Simone's backing away from the microphone.
Speaker 3: I gotta go, I gotta go.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, okay, you gotta match me.
Speaker 3: What's your hear me out?
Speaker 1: Crush?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 1: Do I need to explain a little more?
Speaker 3: Need to hear me out?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: No, no, Yours is way worse than mine.
Speaker 1: Simon won't even hear me out.
Speaker 3: I won't hear you out. I can't, wow. Mine is
Speaker 3: hear me out?
Speaker 1: Okay, Adam driver, that's okay.
Speaker 2: I'm getting I'm getting thumbs up from our producers.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's hearing me out? What makes
Speaker 1: him unconventional?
Speaker 3: He's hot? You think, so he's a little weird.
Speaker 2: I think, okay, So I think it's it's also the
Speaker 2: people who the characters that he's played, I feel like,
Speaker 2: shape the public's perception of him. So maybe that's why
Speaker 2: I feel like it's like a little bit of a
Speaker 2: hear me out. But yeah, I think listen, I think
Speaker 2: he is objectively hot.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. One thing I have learned about you
Speaker 1: is you love talent like you love somebody who is
Speaker 1: really good and passionate.
Speaker 3: At what day Dale psychoanalyzing me right now?
Speaker 1: It's true. I think that's part of the reason you
Speaker 1: love your husband. You really respect how he is as
Speaker 1: a writer and director.
Speaker 3: I'm a sabio sexual.
Speaker 1: There you go, and I think you look at Adham
Speaker 1: Driver and you're like, he's a really good actor. He
Speaker 1: chooses interesting roles. So hear me out. I have one
Speaker 1: more here, Okay, what is it? Jeff Goldbloom? Oh oh yes, yes,
Speaker 1: this A man's charisma is off the charts. He was
Speaker 1: in more Super Bowl commercials this year than any other
Speaker 1: person I've ever seen, and it's because he's the most
Speaker 1: likable human.
Speaker 2: I think my favorite video or image of him from
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl time was actually just one of those
Speaker 2: cameras at the game when he was like in his
Speaker 2: box and he was just like vibing with the camera
Speaker 2: like the JumboTron was on him.
Speaker 3: He's everything I love Jeff Goldbloom.
Speaker 1: All right, I think we have to move on.
Speaker 2: I think it's over. It's it's times up. You said
Speaker 2: Drake is your dream man. Wow, folks a lot We're
Speaker 2: gonna have to unpack that, honestly.
Speaker 1: Bright Siders, can you please, like please support me in this.
Speaker 1: I need like somebody to write in either DM me
Speaker 1: or write in email. I need some support here because
Speaker 1: simone is really not seeing what I see.
Speaker 3: You know what, Danielle, that's a great idea.
Speaker 2: I can't wait to see what our bright Side audience says.
Speaker 1: Hello at the bright Side podcast dot com.
Speaker 3: Please support me and be honest.
Speaker 2: After the break, we're joined by rising country star Raina Roberts.
Speaker 2: If you've listened to Cowboy Carter, you have definitely heard
Speaker 2: her beautiful voice on Beyonce's cover of Blackbird. She's gotten
Speaker 2: a ton of attention in recent weeks, which we love
Speaker 2: for her and she is truly a one to watch.
Speaker 3: So stay with us.
Speaker 2: We're back, y'all, and we've got royalty on the line today.
Speaker 1: That's right. Today's guest, Raina Roberts, is known as the
Speaker 1: Princess of Outlaw Country. She's now also known as a
Speaker 1: featured artist on the tracks Tyrant and Blackbird, both off
Speaker 1: of Beyonce's new album Cowboy Carter.
Speaker 2: But Raina's been crafting her own authentic sound and style
Speaker 2: since she was a kid. Growing up, she moved across
Speaker 2: the country from Alaska to Alabama, to California, and eventually
Speaker 2: to Nashville, where she lived today and where she is
Speaker 2: joining us from right now.
Speaker 1: Raina, We're so excited to talk with you. We're trying
Speaker 1: to bite your whole country vibe. We want to know
Speaker 1: where you get your boots, your hats, your hot red hair.
Speaker 1: But first, this is your first feature and it's with
Speaker 1: Beyonce of all people, and we know you're not able
Speaker 1: to say that much, but we really just want to
Speaker 1: know anything. What can you tell us about the experience
Speaker 1: of working with her and just getting that phone call.
Speaker 5: I can't tell you anything at all, but but what
Speaker 5: I can say is that she has shaped my entire
Speaker 5: like artistry, my voice, my career, and she's always been
Speaker 5: my biggest inspiration, my favorite artist.
Speaker 4: So to be on her project and for her to
Speaker 4: believe in me enough to include me a part of
Speaker 4: her story and what she's doing and is still unbelievable
Speaker 4: to me. And I'm incredibly grateful and I'm so excited
Speaker 4: that she she's let me be a part of her world.
Speaker 1: Well, we're excited for you. And I have to tell you,
Speaker 1: one of the things that I was really a scout
Speaker 1: was the camaraderie between all the amazing female country artists
Speaker 1: on your tracks, Tanna Adel, Tierra Kennedy, Brittany Spencer. What
Speaker 1: does that camaraderie look like behind the scenes.
Speaker 4: Oh, we're all getting tattoos together tomorrow.
Speaker 6: What is it that I think we're all gonna get
Speaker 6: little blackbirds and just just representing, like how, just like
Speaker 6: you're saying, our camaraderie, we lift each other up and
Speaker 6: we always try to give each other opportunities, and I
Speaker 6: think it's just a blessing, Like how we can literally
Speaker 6: go and hang out and just be friends and share
Speaker 6: our experiences together.
Speaker 2: Okay, so I know that you said that Beyonce has
Speaker 2: inspired you. Something that Beyonce has said that has always
Speaker 2: stuck with me is this idea of design over default,
Speaker 2: meaning specificity wins the day as an artist and creative.
Speaker 2: And I know you have that mindset too, You've talked
Speaker 2: about it. But what's one thing that you learned from
Speaker 2: working with Beyonce that you will take with you in
Speaker 2: your career.
Speaker 7: I will say that if she has a vision, she's
Speaker 7: not gonna let anybody get in the way of that vision.
Speaker 7: And I've always kept that with me throughout my career
Speaker 7: just watching her, like literally my whole life been watching
Speaker 7: her performances in her artistry. Is that when you're being
Speaker 7: specific or you have a specific vision and you have
Speaker 7: this idea in your head, not to let anybody talk
Speaker 7: you out of what that vision and idea is.
Speaker 4: And nothing is impossible.
Speaker 7: If you want it to happen, it can happen, and
Speaker 7: nobody can get in the way of that.
Speaker 4: I'm like, if she can do it, I can do it.
Speaker 7: And actually even if somebody hasn't done it, I can
Speaker 7: still do it.
Speaker 4: Like That's what I've learned from her.
Speaker 1: That's the lesson exactly. You know, so much of the
Speaker 1: language and the conversation around this whole album has been
Speaker 1: breaking barriers and opening doors for a new generation. And
Speaker 1: I think in theory we all know what that means,
Speaker 1: but what does that mean in practice? Like what does
Speaker 1: that look like in Nashville in country music?
Speaker 7: It's looking like six of us are charting right now
Speaker 7: on Spotify if I'm not mistaken, and we are making
Speaker 7: history together because of the doors that she is opening.
Speaker 7: I mean, there's already legacy, but we're we're expanding on
Speaker 7: that legacy that's already there, and the foundation that's already
Speaker 7: been laid, we're building on top of that, and we're
Speaker 7: making sure that other people feel comfortable in this space
Speaker 7: if they love country music and they want to be
Speaker 7: a part of it, not to feel discouraged because they
Speaker 7: feel like they won't be welcomed here.
Speaker 1: What do you think is misunderstood about country music or
Speaker 1: the industry right now?
Speaker 7: I think that a lot of people assume that country
Speaker 7: music is just one thing because you only really see
Speaker 7: one representation of it for the most part. And I
Speaker 7: think that most people think country music is about living
Speaker 7: in the South or wearing boots and short shorts and
Speaker 7: shotgun and beers and things like that.
Speaker 4: When to me specifically, I.
Speaker 8: See country music as like storytelling. I love the instrumentation behind.
Speaker 7: It, but I believe great music is great music regardless
Speaker 7: of the genre. There's a lot of stereotypes when it
Speaker 7: comes to country music, and people think that it's just
Speaker 7: this one thing when.
Speaker 4: There's so many different things to it that has layers.
Speaker 2: I want to talk about this because you've mentioned how
Speaker 2: often you have to speak about being a black artist
Speaker 2: in country music, and I know that must get exhausting.
Speaker 2: So how do you view this moment in country music
Speaker 2: right now? As someone who's been in this space for
Speaker 2: a minute.
Speaker 4: I think it's phenomenal. I'm so grateful and I'm so excited.
Speaker 7: Like I would say, within the past month, I think
Speaker 7: I've gained probably over five hundred thousand bands.
Speaker 8: Across all social media and people listening to my music.
Speaker 4: Also, I think it's such a blessing, like this.
Speaker 7: Is something I've been praying for, something that I've been
Speaker 7: wanting to happen, getting more people and more eyes on
Speaker 7: us than having the opportunity for my voice to be
Speaker 7: heard in a big way.
Speaker 4: And that's what's happening now, and I think it's fantastic.
Speaker 3: Do you feel like your voice wasn't heard before.
Speaker 7: I feel like I didn't have the resources or the
Speaker 7: reach that I do now, So I don't think that
Speaker 7: it necessarily wasn't being heard before, but I think I
Speaker 7: didn't have a platform big enough for people.
Speaker 4: Around the world hear me globally.
Speaker 7: And my intention has always been not to be like
Speaker 7: a country star, but to be a superstar that does.
Speaker 4: Some country music.
Speaker 7: By her giving me this opportunity, it's give me the
Speaker 7: platform for people around the world to hear my voice
Speaker 7: as opposed to just in country music or limited spaces.
Speaker 1: I feel like you're bringing a whole new swag to
Speaker 1: country music and the industry. I'm staring at you. You
Speaker 1: have your red hair. Simone and I were like, love it.
Speaker 1: We were going through your Instagram and we were obsessed
Speaker 1: with all your fits.
Speaker 2: The superstar thing is already happening, by the way, like
Speaker 2: we're looking out at superstar right now.
Speaker 1: Where did the red hair come from?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 7: Man, you know what, I've had red hair for probably
Speaker 7: at least five years, six years or something like that.
Speaker 7: It's kind of a crazy story, honestly. It came from wrestling.
Speaker 7: So I used to wrestle in high school. And there's
Speaker 7: a tradition to where like blonde tracks in your hair
Speaker 7: or to dye your hair blonde, but I wore blonde tracts.
Speaker 4: I was like, I'm not going to sit out my
Speaker 4: hair blonde.
Speaker 7: And then from that blonde, I started trying different colors.
Speaker 7: I try blue, red, and.
Speaker 4: Then the whole just became red, and I was like,
Speaker 4: this is me.
Speaker 7: This makes me feel like a lot more confident and
Speaker 7: powerful and a lot more like a badass. I'm an introvert,
Speaker 7: and so it gives me kind of that extra boost
Speaker 7: and that confidence to be who I need to be
Speaker 7: as Raina as the artist Rena.
Speaker 1: I love your song Raised Right. It's about how your
Speaker 1: parents played such a huge part in your story, and
Speaker 1: I was reading about how even when your family went
Speaker 1: through a period of homelessness when you were a kid,
Speaker 1: they still made such a huge effort to have music
Speaker 1: be a part of your life. What do you remember
Speaker 1: about that time.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so there's a certain time. I can't remember how
Speaker 7: old I was exactly, probably around like.
Speaker 4: Eight or nine if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 7: When we lost her home and we were homeless, which
Speaker 7: I never even kind of realized, to be honest, because
Speaker 7: my parents are so great that I never felt like
Speaker 7: I was out of a home because I had my
Speaker 7: family with me. They sold I think basically everything except
Speaker 7: my piano. They kept my piano in a storage unit
Speaker 7: and they would take me there whenever they could to
Speaker 7: go and practice.
Speaker 4: And to keep my dreams always in the warfront.
Speaker 8: I think that's the moral of the story too, like
Speaker 8: the sacrifices that.
Speaker 7: My family and my parents have made has always been
Speaker 7: to keep my dreams in the forefront because they.
Speaker 4: Knew what my destiny is.
Speaker 7: They knew that I was going to be a superstar,
Speaker 7: and they wanted to make sure that they could help
Speaker 7: me in.
Speaker 4: Any way that they could and still do.
Speaker 1: How involved is your mom and your career at this moment?
Speaker 7: All three of them are my mom, my dad, and
Speaker 7: my bonus said, we make all the decisions together, so
Speaker 7: I definitely have my team, but before my team has
Speaker 7: always been me and my parents, and so any decisions
Speaker 7: that I am contemplating, any even down to the outfits
Speaker 7: I wear, I'm like, hey, like what or do we
Speaker 7: like this outfit?
Speaker 4: Is it too much?
Speaker 7: So all three of My parents are a part of
Speaker 7: like everything that I do, and I think that's really
Speaker 7: important because they know me more than anybody else does.
Speaker 2: Is there a little bit of a Tina Knowles thing
Speaker 2: happening here? Like is your mom designing your clothes at
Speaker 2: all or anything?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 7: Well, they actually did come up with the rain of
Speaker 7: red and she does do my hair, so yeah, yes, literally,
Speaker 7: my parents will be in the kitchen die my hair,
Speaker 7: all three of them.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 7: There.
Speaker 1: I think you have to put that out on Instagram.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we got to see the behind the scenes process.
Speaker 4: That's actually really cute. I should do that.
Speaker 2: Your debut album, Bad Girl Bible, Volume one came out
Speaker 2: just a few months ago, and I love how you
Speaker 2: bring this sense of radical self expression to everything you do.
Speaker 2: When you look back on your journey of discovering yourself
Speaker 2: as an artist, what are the defining moments that come
Speaker 2: to mind?
Speaker 7: I feel like I've been doing like my own music
Speaker 7: videos and my own creative expression, like as long as
Speaker 7: I can remember, and I'm proud of that artist and
Speaker 7: who I am now and what's taken to get me here.
Speaker 7: But like the music videos that I've done, and just
Speaker 7: like the storytelling and the album itself. I'm proud of
Speaker 7: what I accomplished there because I wanted to have like
Speaker 7: visuals for every single song, have a story for every
Speaker 7: single song, and everything means something to me, and I
Speaker 7: feel like I was able to actually.
Speaker 4: Make that dream become reality. When I went through and
Speaker 4: listened to the album from the to end and sall
Speaker 4: the visuals, I was really proud of that work.
Speaker 7: But those are some of the defining moments that I
Speaker 7: was really proud of myself and my artistry. Definitely with
Speaker 7: Bad Girl Bible Volume one, and then yeah, some of
Speaker 7: the other visuals and other things that I've done.
Speaker 2: You strike me as someone who is always confident. I
Speaker 2: don't know if that's right, but I feel like I
Speaker 2: can learn a lot from you about confidence. What do
Speaker 2: you do on the days when you don't feel confident?
Speaker 7: I listened to Beyonce, I listened to Rihanna, I listen
Speaker 7: to sermons, and I pray about it, especially because the
Speaker 7: majority of my life I've not been confident, and I
Speaker 7: feel like it's only been really within the past probably
Speaker 7: half a year, that I really feel confident in myself,
Speaker 7: my vision, who I am as a person.
Speaker 4: I feel like I didn't really have that in its
Speaker 4: entirety before.
Speaker 7: I've always been very like shy and nervous and kept
Speaker 7: to myself, even though people see me on stage as
Speaker 7: like a big personality. I had to learn to be confident.
Speaker 7: I had to learn to talk to people. I had
Speaker 7: to learn to be personable.
Speaker 2: I bet you got a confidence boof when you got
Speaker 2: the call from Riba to open up for her.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I was.
Speaker 7: And I'll say it this way, like, I've always been
Speaker 7: confident in my career and my aspirations in life. I've
Speaker 7: always known that I would work with my favorite artists
Speaker 7: like Beyonce and In et cetera. I've always known that
Speaker 7: in my heart and in my spirit. It's really the
Speaker 7: things outside of music that I had to kind of
Speaker 7: be more confident about. Like the way that I view
Speaker 7: myself outside of music is really where I had to
Speaker 7: learn and grow and trust in my vision for myself
Speaker 7: and my own voice. And I feel like that's how
Speaker 7: I learned how to grow in terms of confidence.
Speaker 4: When Reva called me, I was like, I'm ready for this.
Speaker 7: I've been waiting for y'all to call me, like in
Speaker 7: a positive way, in a positive way, not not a
Speaker 7: confet way, but like I've been practicing my whole life,
Speaker 7: like I'm ready.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you had that Grammy speech. Ready, That's what I'm hearing.
Speaker 4: That's kind of exactly.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 2: You've gone from over one hundred thousand monthly streams to
Speaker 2: five million plus on Spotify. Just in the last few
Speaker 2: days you talked about gaining hundreds of thousands of news.
Speaker 3: This has been a really good year for you, girl.
Speaker 4: It's been a fantastic.
Speaker 3: What is it like to be Rayna Roberts right now?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 7: This is a part of everything that I've always envisioned
Speaker 7: for myself, and I'm really just still blessed. Like I
Speaker 7: really prayed about it. I was like, God, can you
Speaker 7: please put me on a song with Beyonce? Can you
Speaker 7: please put me in front of a lot of people?
Speaker 7: Can you please help my vision and the desires of
Speaker 7: my heart have so much joy because it's not just
Speaker 7: about me winning, or it's not just about me and
Speaker 7: what I'm doing, but it's everything that my parents have done,
Speaker 7: it's everything my team's done, and it's everything that all
Speaker 7: of us have done collectively together. So I'm celebrating this
Speaker 7: moment because it's not just about me. But it's everything
Speaker 7: that we've done together as a unit that I'm really
Speaker 7: proud about.
Speaker 1: Raina. I heard you say in a past interview that
Speaker 1: you moved to Nashville to make history as an artist.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like you're doing that?
Speaker 4: Oh, it's done. Now I'm on a song with Beyonce
Speaker 4: and some of my friends that shit. Yes, I've done it.
Speaker 4: I've been did it. It's been happened.
Speaker 7: I definitely feel like that's happened, and I'm so excited
Speaker 7: about it and so grateful because I would tell people,
Speaker 7: I mean, anybody that I meet and I have conversations
Speaker 7: with that want to know about me and my aspirations.
Speaker 4: That's like one of the first things I say. I'm
Speaker 4: here to make history.
Speaker 7: And to create music that outlivets me, and that's what's
Speaker 7: happening now.
Speaker 1: You mentioned the Blackbird tattoos. Paul McCartney has been clear
Speaker 1: about what that song, Blackbird meant to him. Originally, it
Speaker 1: was inspired by the Civil rights movement. Is there a
Speaker 1: tie between that and the tattoos?
Speaker 7: I will say, for me, this represents all the history
Speaker 7: that the song is and all that it is about
Speaker 7: to be as well.
Speaker 4: So for me, it's both things. It's everything that.
Speaker 7: He created the song for, and also what's happening right
Speaker 7: now with us me, Beyonce, Brittany Tanner and Tiara making
Speaker 7: history and what our legacy is.
Speaker 4: So it's all those things.
Speaker 7: Wrapped up in one and I can't wait to get it.
Speaker 4: I'm also a little nervous, but I'm also really excited
Speaker 4: about it.
Speaker 3: Wait, why are you nervous?
Speaker 7: I'm nervous because I want to get it in the
Speaker 7: back of my neck and I'm like, how's that gonna feel?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, probably till a little tingley, just.
Speaker 4: Like a little bit.
Speaker 7: But it's more excitement, and I love the fact that
Speaker 7: we're all about to do this together, Like we're just.
Speaker 4: Really about to go and get tattoos right here. You're like,
Speaker 4: I love it for us.
Speaker 2: I can't think of a better occasion. It's God's favorite, y'all.
Speaker 7: All.
Speaker 2: Right, after the break, we're gonna play a Beyonce themed
Speaker 2: game of this or that.
Speaker 3: We'll be right back. We're back with Raina Roberts.
Speaker 2: We love a good game on this show, so that's
Speaker 2: why we're gonna play a Beyonce themed round of this
Speaker 2: or that, and we're using her songs as inspiration Reina
Speaker 2: you ready?
Speaker 3: Yes, hot sauce in my bag? Swag? Are you a
Speaker 3: Tabasco girl or Frank's red hot? All the way?
Speaker 4: Crazy because I don't have either. I don't eat hot sauce.
Speaker 3: No hot sauce, no hot sauce.
Speaker 4: I don't got hot sauce and.
Speaker 6: Bed.
Speaker 3: It's okay, We'll forgive it because you got swag for days.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you have enough swag to cover up. Don't worry, okay.
Speaker 1: Beyonce says, to release your anger, release your mind. Are
Speaker 1: you going with a meditation practice or a massage.
Speaker 4: Meditation?
Speaker 1: I feel like we have to add a third. I
Speaker 1: feel like you're a prayer girl.
Speaker 7: I was gonna say honestly, when you said meditation, I
Speaker 7: was like, I'm just gonna.
Speaker 3: Pray about it.
Speaker 2: I love how she's rewriting the rules of this game
Speaker 2: as you should. No, no, do it?
Speaker 3: Do it? Okay?
Speaker 2: Telephone or video phone? Do we like phone calls or facetimes?
Speaker 4: Face times?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 6: All the way.
Speaker 1: It's officially April. We're heading into spring and summer. So
Speaker 1: are we single ladies or on a cuffet mentality?
Speaker 3: Aka?
Speaker 1: Are you single or taken?
Speaker 4: Single?
Speaker 7: Ladies?
Speaker 1: Thanks to do yeah, that's why your dms are flooded.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say.
Speaker 2: This one's a little bit self explanatory. But naughty girl
Speaker 2: or church girl?
Speaker 4: Oh well wait, wait wait, oh man, I'm reforming.
Speaker 1: I don't know you're a naughty church girl.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's okay.
Speaker 4: Exist, I like that. I'm reforming this game.
Speaker 1: We're both.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we need to take up space. Yeah, that naughty
Speaker 2: church girl representation.
Speaker 1: Okay. On Cowboy Carter, Queen Bee has two songs, Texas
Speaker 1: hold Them and O Louisiana. Which state are you booking
Speaker 1: flights to first?
Speaker 4: Oh? I'm actually going to Texas this weekend. So Texas.
Speaker 7: Oh, but my songs called Louisiana and if I oh,
Speaker 7: we don't say Louisiana Louisiana.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you didn't disappoint me. I thought you were
Speaker 1: gonna say that.
Speaker 4: I almost messed up. I'm so close.
Speaker 2: Okay, six inch heels or Levi Jean's six inchles.
Speaker 3: I see, I can't. I can't go with you on
Speaker 3: that one.
Speaker 2: That's what's a journey. You're gonna have to go alone.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna Levi's Jez Girl too.
Speaker 1: That's the only one we we differ on.
Speaker 4: I do not like to wear jeans whatsoever. Any time
Speaker 4: I'm like, no people trying to put me in due salt.
Speaker 1: Tom, that's because you're dancing on stage. I think that's fair.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Okay, here's another one from Cowboy Carter. Are you going
Speaker 1: off like a tyrant? Or do you need someone to
Speaker 1: hold you back like a protector?
Speaker 4: Tyrant? No, tyrant? I love that song. I listened to
Speaker 4: that daily.
Speaker 2: If you had to describe yourself, are you a me myself,
Speaker 2: an I person or a party person?
Speaker 3: Basically? Are you an introvert or an extrovert?
Speaker 4: Introvert? Me myself and I. I'm in my old little
Speaker 4: imagination and in my ol little world.
Speaker 1: Okay, this is the last one, Reina. I'm sad that
Speaker 1: we have to let you go. Okay, As we inch
Speaker 1: closer to the weekend, energy or plastic on the sofa?
Speaker 1: Are you staying in or are you going out?
Speaker 4: I'm going out this weekend. I gotta celebrate.
Speaker 1: What does that look like for you?
Speaker 4: Funny enough, I'm going to do karaoke.
Speaker 3: I love Karry not there.
Speaker 1: Professional singers are not allowed to do karaoke. True, I
Speaker 1: can do songs that I'm not good at whatever doesn't exist.
Speaker 3: What's your go to karaoke song?
Speaker 4: Lady Marmalade?
Speaker 1: Oh wow, wait, tell that story.
Speaker 7: Honestly, I've been seening him a whole life. So the
Speaker 7: first time I ever sang in front of like a
Speaker 7: whole bunch of people, I was three years old. My
Speaker 7: mom said me to a bar in Alaska and she
Speaker 7: had me singing Lady Marmalade. But I just I love
Speaker 7: that song. I've always loved that song. So anytime it's
Speaker 7: karaoke time, that's my song.
Speaker 1: You know, I heard you say that Christina was one
Speaker 1: of your inspirations, and so I hear that girl and
Speaker 1: your voice. I love that.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, it's so interesting too.
Speaker 7: Like when people will be like, oh, you remind me,
Speaker 7: like your voice reminds me of these artists, I'll be like,
Speaker 7: it's so interesting because they're a completely different artists.
Speaker 1: But I'm like, I love that we're rooting for you, Reina.
Speaker 1: You have two fans over here.
Speaker 4: Thank you guys for having me. I appreciate you so much.
Speaker 1: Check out Raina Roberts' debut album, Bad Girl Bible Volume one,
Speaker 1: streaming wherever you get your music.
Speaker 3: I am such a huge fan of hers. I can
Speaker 3: hardly put it into words, can tell. I just love her.
Speaker 2: I love anyone who has that freedom to be different,
Speaker 2: to be a maverick in their field.
Speaker 3: She just she's different, you know.
Speaker 1: I loved her belief in herself. It's so it's contagious
Speaker 1: to be around. Right Like, I think there are a
Speaker 1: lot of gems in the conversation. But if there's one
Speaker 1: idea that you and I keep talking about, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: that confidence. And confidence isn't about being perfect. It's about
Speaker 1: having confidence because of all those imperfections and they're part
Speaker 1: of what makes you you.
Speaker 3: Naughty church girls, stand up.
Speaker 1: We will be back tomorrow and we'll get up to
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Speaker 1: is a historic moment for women athletes.
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