Speaker 1: And we're back. We are here with part two of
Speaker 1: Maddie and te Oh my gosh, how great was part one?
Speaker 1: Did you not freak out hearing about their souls, their hearts,
Speaker 1: how they've navigated this industry being a woman, how they
Speaker 1: deal with stress. They are so real, so authentic, and
Speaker 1: their music that they just created is the best, most heartfelt,
Speaker 1: soulful music they've ever made. So get excited. Here is
Speaker 1: part two of Maddie and It's Maddie and I talked
Speaker 1: about this movie all the time, but inside out, Yes,
Speaker 1: you know your kids movie. You have to. So it's
Speaker 1: a movie and it's basically about this girl and all
Speaker 1: of the emotions that live inside your head. Sounds so crazy.
Speaker 1: I don't have a different So it's like all it's
Speaker 1: like animated and it's all the little like emotions in
Speaker 1: your head, so anger, um, happy, sad, hungry, like whatever.
Speaker 1: And for me, it's easy for me to kind of
Speaker 1: go inside because I can't if someone says something to
Speaker 1: me and I need to respond in a very mature
Speaker 1: kind smart way, like I can't do it right away.
Speaker 1: I have to think about it. I have to think
Speaker 1: of the best route, like I analyze every situation, I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I could say this, but then it might lead to this.
Speaker 1: I could do this, but then it might lead to that.
Speaker 1: So I literally, in my mind, I have to go
Speaker 1: down every road and what it would look like long
Speaker 1: term before I react to anything. I wish I did
Speaker 1: that just kidding things, I'll just say it with a
Speaker 1: smile though. But in the fault and that is it
Speaker 1: can make people think that I'm disinterested or that I'm
Speaker 1: not hurting because a lot of the times you probably
Speaker 1: thought that I'd like, I don't feel the same way
Speaker 1: as you know. I knew, but I was just like waiting.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so a lot of the times it can
Speaker 1: make people think that I'm just like really upset or
Speaker 1: really angry or I don't care but really has exploded.
Speaker 1: In reality, I've exploded, and once I figure out which
Speaker 1: lane I'm going to take, then I will react. That's awesome, though,
Speaker 1: really I do that I have to. I don't think
Speaker 1: about like I'm so quick to just like like say
Speaker 1: what ever I feel like I need to say. I
Speaker 1: have learned from my path though that I'm trying to
Speaker 1: be more like that where I know that if I
Speaker 1: feel resistance or anger. I cannot respond because I always
Speaker 1: respond so much more harsh than I think I am
Speaker 1: when I respond, and then I'm like, then I have
Speaker 1: to like undo it. And then when I was trying
Speaker 1: to tell them anyway is void because now I'm on
Speaker 1: the only thing I'm trying to do now is apologized.
Speaker 1: You see, I've had to find like filters in people
Speaker 1: like our manager. I will like filter things through her.
Speaker 1: I'll filter things through her sometimes and just be like
Speaker 1: or even like my boyfriend, I'll just be like, Okay,
Speaker 1: how should I word this to where I get my
Speaker 1: point across? But I don't upset and accustomed to everybody,
Speaker 1: which is so good because I have learned. My sister's
Speaker 1: sister in law says it. She says, you're right, you're rude,
Speaker 1: you're wrong. Like if you're right but you're rude, then
Speaker 1: you're wrong totally, and so like that is what I
Speaker 1: learned that recently. It's kind of you learned that. I
Speaker 1: just learned that, like like in in my household, and
Speaker 1: let me tell you, like, I had a great childhood
Speaker 1: and my parents are amazing. We love that, but we
Speaker 1: all have stuff. Even if you're the best your parents
Speaker 1: are doing the best thing can but they're still gonna
Speaker 1: and kids, and I'm going to object that it's just
Speaker 1: the way. It's just that's how it all goes. But
Speaker 1: like my the household that I grew up, and it
Speaker 1: was like, um, if you felt some kind of way,
Speaker 1: you just said it like it was like I mean,
Speaker 1: it was either like you were really really quiet and
Speaker 1: you just like let someone just have like someone was
Speaker 1: just telling you like it was and you just kind
Speaker 1: of sat there and took it, or you were the
Speaker 1: person where you're just saying so like I that like
Speaker 1: I don't know, just seeing learning kind of like filter
Speaker 1: it in a way where we're getting as lightly. But
Speaker 1: even as a family, my little sister and I, my
Speaker 1: mom and my dad, we've all learned how to filter
Speaker 1: things to where because me and my dad are very
Speaker 1: like I don't know what the actual like what's the
Speaker 1: phrase where it's just like both alphas or something kind
Speaker 1: of like hardhead or like you both just like say
Speaker 1: it how we just say it how it is and
Speaker 1: it's comes from a place of love. But yeah, very
Speaker 1: very blunt, like not careful with what we say at all.
Speaker 1: And I think are okay with that. No Okay, no,
Speaker 1: but I absolutely not. No. I learned that, like when
Speaker 1: I moved to Nashville, was on my own, I was like,
Speaker 1: I can't just sometimes, and that's like another thing where
Speaker 1: it's like your soul where it's like sometimes, um, you know,
Speaker 1: she's upset about something and it's like making me angry,
Speaker 1: Like what she's going through is making me angry. Sometimes
Speaker 1: I have to be like, Okay, don't react with anger,
Speaker 1: like just be encouraging and keep your own personal things
Speaker 1: about this situation. Like you know, if she's having something
Speaker 1: with someone it's hard about to get but to her,
Speaker 1: I can't be like I'm gonna go creaking cam hard
Speaker 1: because that's putting negative energy. It's just feeling the negativity.
Speaker 1: So I have to like take a minute because like
Speaker 1: me and my dad were just so just like ready
Speaker 1: to freaking roll whenever, like if someone is going to
Speaker 1: mess with someone that we love your family, we're on yeah,
Speaker 1: And so I have to be like, Okay, it's like
Speaker 1: it's all good, you know, but it's so hard to
Speaker 1: do that. So I just so funny. Guys, speaking of this,
Speaker 1: how do you all maintain your friendship? Because to me,
Speaker 1: you'll seem like you're the best of most best of friends,
Speaker 1: amazing friends. How do you make that work? Because so
Speaker 1: many groups duos are together and then they go through
Speaker 1: all these things, they have, all the success, they have,
Speaker 1: all these in the entertainment industry, it's just a crazy ride.
Speaker 1: So how do you, guys maintain your best friendship? I
Speaker 1: think a lot of it has to do with everything
Speaker 1: we've been through because we share struggles with someone, like
Speaker 1: actually everyday struggles going through the exact same thing. It
Speaker 1: just brings you closer. But also I think when we
Speaker 1: met when we were fifteen and sixteen, our initial connection
Speaker 1: was like, let's be best friends. Let's go to lake,
Speaker 1: let's hang out, let's make custom phone cases. Like yeah.
Speaker 1: Every summer until we moved to Nashville, we would just
Speaker 1: like go to let's go get chick FLI and so
Speaker 1: you get into the movies like did that or chick
Speaker 1: fil A meals into a movie theater. We lived life
Speaker 1: as best friends before we it was actually professional all
Speaker 1: the time. We're a duo and we were making music together.
Speaker 1: We were creating music together, but we were all we
Speaker 1: were still friends, like we did friend things. It was
Speaker 1: never we weren't like here you'd be with her and
Speaker 1: y'all sing together. It was like yeah, and there was
Speaker 1: never like who's the bigger star? And to do it
Speaker 1: because people type A type just worked like it just
Speaker 1: was like it just makes sense, like yes, But also
Speaker 1: I think like respect is so important. Like I feel
Speaker 1: like sometimes if you feel like someone's not understanding you
Speaker 1: or disagree, if you don't disagree, it's not more healthy.
Speaker 1: You have to disagree and you have to not see
Speaker 1: eye to eye on everything. But when that happens, you
Speaker 1: have to figure out okay, Like and with me being
Speaker 1: so like just ready to rock and roll, I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: how is she feeling about this? Like is this something
Speaker 1: that I can do? You have to intentionally think of
Speaker 1: totally or like if it's something that she like, and
Speaker 1: we have kind of a golden rule where it's like
Speaker 1: if it's something that we're each really passionate about, and
Speaker 1: if it's like passionate negatively or positively, will communicate like, hey,
Speaker 1: I really am not feeling this, and I'll be like okay,
Speaker 1: you know, like maybe it was something that I, you know,
Speaker 1: was interested in, but not that interested in. Not to
Speaker 1: upset her, it's not worth it, but if you were
Speaker 1: strongly yes, and you'd be like okay, exactly, and you
Speaker 1: don't cry wolf. You don't like say you're really passionate
Speaker 1: about something if you're not, because so you make it count.
Speaker 1: So you're not gonna say this means the world to
Speaker 1: me if you Totally totally, because there's been times where
Speaker 1: like a sponsorship made like I I related to it,
Speaker 1: remember that, yeah, And I was like, I really want
Speaker 1: to do this. I feel so passionate, and he was
Speaker 1: like I do not have the connection and I can't
Speaker 1: go to these events and pretend like I have a connection.
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, I really want to do this.
Speaker 1: But I was like, you know what, She's right, Like
Speaker 1: we're a united team, and like we have to treat everything,
Speaker 1: every every song we put out, every event that we
Speaker 1: go to, any podcasts that we choose, like everything needs
Speaker 1: to be like cohesive and it's not like she's dragging
Speaker 1: me or I'm dragging her fully invested. Yeah, totally. That's
Speaker 1: another thing I've been learning in this Influencer series is
Speaker 1: being an authentic brand, which you guys you're great thing
Speaker 1: about that too, Yeah, being authentic. Talk to me about
Speaker 1: how you guys show up every day authentically and how
Speaker 1: that means sometimes turning things down. Yeah, I'm saying no,
Speaker 1: it's a really big part of it. I think actually
Speaker 1: when there's money attached, Like what if there's money attached,
Speaker 1: how you've turned down a big amount of money a
Speaker 1: lot of times because it just wasn't right because it's
Speaker 1: true to our brand? Yeah, I tell me why that's
Speaker 1: important to you guys. For us, I feel like from
Speaker 1: day one, especially even with our music, writing our music,
Speaker 1: it was like, are we really going to be the
Speaker 1: girls that's stand up on stage and sing songs that
Speaker 1: we don't feel a personal connection to because that's potentially
Speaker 1: going to ruin our lives? Like so many people do
Speaker 1: that right now. It's so sad. It makes you not
Speaker 1: like music an exactly, and it just seems to us
Speaker 1: like a miserable way to live. Like if we're going
Speaker 1: to be artists, why not be artists and Maddie and
Speaker 1: Tay individually, like bring our actual soul's hearts into it
Speaker 1: rather than just viewing it as a career, Like it's
Speaker 1: our lives, it's everything, you know what I mean? Like
Speaker 1: because with you too, like you are your brand, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Like you are selling yourself. Like
Speaker 1: like you know, a person at I don't know, a
Speaker 1: jewelry store is selling their jewelry and so when they
Speaker 1: go home, if they didn't sell a piece of jewelry,
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, you know someone. But if people aren't
Speaker 1: investing in you, you're actually it's like a personal hit
Speaker 1: where you're just like like essentially preach to an audience
Speaker 1: about something that we don't which do so much sense.
Speaker 1: And that is the thing is like you guys are
Speaker 1: a brand but also your humans, and you are sharing
Speaker 1: your heart and soul at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: that is what people are buying into because regular people
Speaker 1: don't know that there's a huge machine running this and
Speaker 1: pupping stuff out money. But really so that it's up
Speaker 1: to you guys to make sure that that's like consistent,
Speaker 1: consistent in your your truth because otherwise people could force
Speaker 1: that on you. Well. And this is the thing. So
Speaker 1: like with any influence and we've heard this too, because
Speaker 1: like we just got into like the influencer world and
Speaker 1: everything it's wild. But I will say like the minute
Speaker 1: that you just take one thing that doesn't make sense,
Speaker 1: you're going to start taking more things that don't make sense,
Speaker 1: and then the brand that you've worked so hard for
Speaker 1: is not going to be what you So it's just
Speaker 1: like get watered down and people are not gonna listen
Speaker 1: to what you have to say because they're like, I'm
Speaker 1: just doing this because it's yeah, it's like, are you
Speaker 1: gonna like do fifteen punches? Are you gonna pack a
Speaker 1: giant punch and just go for it a couple of times?
Speaker 1: Make it, make it and just don't get sloppy, like,
Speaker 1: because there's so many times where both of us are like, man,
Speaker 1: we could use the money, can use that, Yeah, we
Speaker 1: could use that cash, and then we're just like, it
Speaker 1: depends on what you want. If you are just trying
Speaker 1: to capitalize on what you're doing right now, do everything.
Speaker 1: But if you're trying to build a longer you know,
Speaker 1: if you're trying to have that longevity, like know your
Speaker 1: worth and know like sometimes there's not a price that
Speaker 1: can make something makes Just because you say no to
Speaker 1: an opportunity now that may seem like it could launch
Speaker 1: your career but it doesn't feel right, doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: the opportunity in a different way is going to come
Speaker 1: later that makes more sense. So you kind of have
Speaker 1: to trust in the process and that God's going to
Speaker 1: make the opportunity and trust your Have you figured out
Speaker 1: that your gut is more on that you think it is. Yes,
Speaker 1: And I want to talk to about that because you
Speaker 1: said if you feel like it isn't wrong wrong either.
Speaker 1: It feels like a huge opportunity, but your gut is
Speaker 1: saying like, don't do it and trust us the right
Speaker 1: one's going to tell how do you But how do
Speaker 1: you know how to trust your gut? Because I feel
Speaker 1: like and I wanted to since we're hopefully talking to
Speaker 1: women and the everyday woman who's trying to find herself especially,
Speaker 1: how do you know how to listen to your gut
Speaker 1: and how do you know how to how to have
Speaker 1: the confidence to move forward and with your gut? What's
Speaker 1: the difference between emotions in your head and your gut feeling?
Speaker 1: For me, I don't trust my gut. I trust God.
Speaker 1: I can't do you know He's got um for me?
Speaker 1: Have you guys ever seen there's like a split pole
Speaker 1: where it says, God calms you, the devil bushes you. God, Um,
Speaker 1: I know what you said, encourage, use you. The devil
Speaker 1: like makes you feel it's like a separate yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's for me. I've lived by that because whenever
Speaker 1: I'm trying to make a decision or I'm just going
Speaker 1: through something, if I feel this way about it, then
Speaker 1: so if you feel like so, you feel like the
Speaker 1: devil would be like anxiety, resistance, stress, um, like it
Speaker 1: doesn't match yourself. Yeah, and if that line up with
Speaker 1: my beliefs and morals, and I trust that God's going
Speaker 1: to give me peace, And if I have peace about something,
Speaker 1: then I trust that that's God's like for mind or
Speaker 1: like you're on my path. So if you have peace,
Speaker 1: if it flows easily, there's no resistance, if you feel
Speaker 1: like it matches your personal moral code, then you can
Speaker 1: move forward. And if if I'm not sacrificing your things
Speaker 1: of others or myself or doing any harm, Okay. So
Speaker 1: that's a very basic way to break down God gut No,
Speaker 1: God mine is like all intertwined because I like to
Speaker 1: be like weird. I love it because we're getting to
Speaker 1: give both perspectives. So like the introvert next year, I know,
Speaker 1: but for me, like I talked to God like he's
Speaker 1: my best friend. So like in the car, I'll be like, hey, God,
Speaker 1: it's me, Mattie. You're trying to help, but I am like,
Speaker 1: I've had really weird things. I'll have to tell you
Speaker 1: this one day because it's too long a story that
Speaker 1: I've had moments where like I will feel like the
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit telling me to tell someone something and I
Speaker 1: will get the courage to say it and it's exactly
Speaker 1: what the person needs to hear. Or weird stuff I've had,
Speaker 1: like dreams, like premonition stuff where things came and break
Speaker 1: that down because I feel like, is that basically do
Speaker 1: you feel like it's a Holy Spirit when all of
Speaker 1: a sudden you're just going about your regular day and
Speaker 1: you get like this random thought that comes in your mind.
Speaker 1: You weren't thinking about someone else, but the specific message
Speaker 1: what it is? That is for me, that's what it is.
Speaker 1: Because some people like so my grandma, she's really spiritual,
Speaker 1: and she has to have three confirmations, so like three
Speaker 1: confirmation confirmations. So for example, just a quick little story,
Speaker 1: my grandma wanted to start volunteering at a hospital and
Speaker 1: I have three conversations, I know, and so she was like,
Speaker 1: you know, I had I was talking to God and
Speaker 1: I was praying about it. And so I kind of
Speaker 1: had the thought and I popped in my head and
Speaker 1: then U my aunt called her and she's like, Mom,
Speaker 1: you should really, like you know, this is like a
Speaker 1: day after like, Mom, you should start working at the hospital.
Speaker 1: I think it'd be fun. And she and you're not fun,
Speaker 1: but you're you're so good that confirmation number one. That
Speaker 1: was number two. Number two. God kind of already put
Speaker 1: it in her heart, and the first one was her thought, yes,
Speaker 1: she was then two conversations from other one and then
Speaker 1: another one where one of her friends from Bible study
Speaker 1: was saying, like, Hey, you should really come volunteer at
Speaker 1: the hospital with me. I'll get you all hooked double lunch.
Speaker 1: She's like, okay, like three confermations, So I'm going to
Speaker 1: add to my my check. And sometimes it's just like
Speaker 1: you just kind of have to, like you have. I
Speaker 1: feel like in this society we all can do not
Speaker 1: do well listening, like we're trying to fix anything so much.
Speaker 1: And for me, I'm like I don't want to listen
Speaker 1: to what God has to tell me. I want to
Speaker 1: fix whatever the situation is that he has me, And
Speaker 1: like I just want to fix it and I want
Speaker 1: to listen to what the real solution is. But it
Speaker 1: is tricky being like a woman of God out in
Speaker 1: this industry. I would like to say, how do you
Speaker 1: navigate that? Because I do feel like, Okay, social media
Speaker 1: has been positive and negative. Negative in the comparison game
Speaker 1: has skyrocketed, but positive positive in also the real side
Speaker 1: has skyrocket because now like you guys can directly tell
Speaker 1: us how you're feeling. You can show yourself with no makeup,
Speaker 1: you can show yourself doing whatever, Whereas before we would
Speaker 1: have never gotten to see that. We're just saying you're
Speaker 1: perfectly created pictures and that that's photoshopped and touched and
Speaker 1: you're just saying. But now with social media, you guys
Speaker 1: can actually let us into your personal life, which is
Speaker 1: the benefit. But how do you And so because of that,
Speaker 1: I feel like people's faith is starting to pop up
Speaker 1: more because people are talking about uncomfortable to more comfortable.
Speaker 1: How do you, guys define faith and how do you
Speaker 1: how do you work your faith into this career? Man?
Speaker 1: There's times where just with writing songs, we incorporate it.
Speaker 1: But the biggest thing for us is like we are
Speaker 1: not going to be the girls that are like you
Speaker 1: should be a Christian and God is real and Jesus like,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be really kind and like let our actions
Speaker 1: speak for, you know, our words, Like if we're judging them,
Speaker 1: we're not doing it right. Yeah. Well, and some people
Speaker 1: they're like, why are you all so happy all the time?
Speaker 1: Why are you so positive? I'm like, Jesus man, he's
Speaker 1: a good friend, you everything, but just like letting your
Speaker 1: actions speak for you know. But then this is the
Speaker 1: thing because it's like you know, being in the Bible Belt.
Speaker 1: I guess you can say in Nashville everyone you can
Speaker 1: get so skewed if people other people. I feel like
Speaker 1: religion is one thing and spirituality that is one thing.
Speaker 1: So we're on the spiritual spectrum like religion, Like we're
Speaker 1: not going to judge you, Like if I exclude you,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna wear a bikini because I want to wear
Speaker 1: a bikini, and I'm not gonna like sometimes like us
Speaker 1: and sometimes I drink wine. But I feel like Jesus
Speaker 1: sex and more marriage and I'm still going to happen exactly.
Speaker 1: Jesus still loves you. It doesn't matter. It's like how
Speaker 1: a lot of the times people can view having a
Speaker 1: relationship with God as oh they're perfect, yeah, because stuff
Speaker 1: at that, But in reality, we're like the most way
Speaker 1: for a fact, that's why we need him, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. So I don't Yeah, I feel like
Speaker 1: for us, like might I said, playing those seeds instead
Speaker 1: of like shutting trees down people's you never want to
Speaker 1: be because that's a turn off. A turnoff man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I ad the perfect Like, well, that doesn't help anyone
Speaker 1: to put out there that you're perfect, Like how is
Speaker 1: that going to help anyone? Know? Well, and that's why,
Speaker 1: like we put out a video at the beginning of
Speaker 1: this year on YouTube and just kind of explain to
Speaker 1: our fans, like, hey, this is why it's taking so long.
Speaker 1: We had a label change, and it's been really rough,
Speaker 1: like trying to put out new music. And I like
Speaker 1: went through a really hard depression whenever the label shutdown
Speaker 1: because my purpose was so attached To explain that a
Speaker 1: little bit, So my purpose in life was attached to
Speaker 1: my job. I totally get that. And so successes we
Speaker 1: got when I felt like my purpose was being taken away,
Speaker 1: which was my job, not my not my heart exactly. Um,
Speaker 1: I was like, you know what am I doing here?
Speaker 1: Like what like, what am I contributing to the world? Like?
Speaker 1: And I felt worthless. Yeah, I felt like I had
Speaker 1: no worth. And I literally would look in the mirror
Speaker 1: and not recognize who I saw. I was just like,
Speaker 1: who is this girl? I'd be like, I don't like her,
Speaker 1: she's like broken and just and then now and what
Speaker 1: she had, her special spark is not gone. So you're working.
Speaker 1: And then once I like unwinded that thing where I
Speaker 1: was like, how did you unwind it? Oh? Girl? I
Speaker 1: was like, honestly, like a couple months ago. I like
Speaker 1: a lot of women, especially look in the mirror every
Speaker 1: day and they're like, who are you? What are you doing?
Speaker 1: Where's your purpose? This at least once a week for me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's always kind of always like girls, came on, come on,
Speaker 1: come on, It's so nice to hear that you guys
Speaker 1: feel that way too all the time. Like there's so
Speaker 1: many times where both of us like I just feel
Speaker 1: like this small or like we'll be I don't know,
Speaker 1: the comparison game, and I'll just look at her and
Speaker 1: she's just like you are your own God created you.
Speaker 1: Just yeah, yeah, we always say nobody's going to steal
Speaker 1: your joy. That's all we always say to like, but like,
Speaker 1: it's just so after the oppression and you lost yourself
Speaker 1: and you didn't know who you were, how did you
Speaker 1: redefine what your purpose was? And how did you rediscover it?
Speaker 1: Because originally it was your career and now all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, your career is gone at that moment, not
Speaker 1: that it's gone, but like the head it's gone totally.
Speaker 1: Obviously it's not, but like that second, it's all wiped out.
Speaker 1: So then how do you redefine what your purpose is
Speaker 1: when you feel like you don't have one question? There
Speaker 1: was a book that I'm still reading because I'm just
Speaker 1: hanging on. I don't want it to be over. There's
Speaker 1: a book. It has a long title. It's in a
Speaker 1: pit with a lion on a snowy. I've heard Patterson
Speaker 1: that book changed my life. Um and too, I felt
Speaker 1: like once I owned the fact that I was broken
Speaker 1: because I both of us were like, we want to
Speaker 1: be strong. Hard to admit that. It's hard emit that
Speaker 1: you're broken. We're known for being strong females in country,
Speaker 1: Like what do you do when you get up on
Speaker 1: stage and it's like, hey, you were like growing a
Speaker 1: country song and fly we're strong and you feel like,
Speaker 1: oh you feel awful. And so it was like once
Speaker 1: I owned the fact like I am broken, I am
Speaker 1: having a rough time, and once I started like leaning
Speaker 1: on other people and just because I don't know really
Speaker 1: that everyone's broken. Yeah, well I this is another devil
Speaker 1: thing where it's like when you are having a hard time,
Speaker 1: like he just uses that to his advantage, where you
Speaker 1: just kind of close yourself off. And the moment that
Speaker 1: I started realizing I had something was wrong was when
Speaker 1: I stopped like talking to her. I wouldn't talk to
Speaker 1: my family, like I just wouldn't open up, and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: something's wrong. And then I just was like, we're gonna
Speaker 1: start here and just start from the bottom and then
Speaker 1: work our way back. Go do you just start with
Speaker 1: your pain? Like why do I feel that way? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I just was like, what what's making me feel ashamed
Speaker 1: right now? And I was like it was a business
Speaker 1: decision that another company made, Okay, so that has nothing
Speaker 1: to me. And then it was like, okay, well my
Speaker 1: career like feels like it's over. And then it's like okay,
Speaker 1: but that's my career. That's not who I am. I'm
Speaker 1: still Maddie Marlowe, Like she's not just Tay from Maddie
Speaker 1: and Tay. She's tailored I and I'm not just you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, like and just separating the two.
Speaker 1: So but it's still hard, like how I wanted to
Speaker 1: learn something so painful so early on in your career, honestly,
Speaker 1: because moving forward you will always be able to get
Speaker 1: back to that center eventually, you know. Yeah, And the
Speaker 1: story that we have now to tell, especially because we
Speaker 1: have a record coming out in the fall and it's
Speaker 1: and let's talk about that, because the Passid Lion's Pig comes,
Speaker 1: like y'all have this huge, explosive number one song, then
Speaker 1: your label folds has nothing to do with you, guys,
Speaker 1: and then you're like, what am I doing in my life?
Speaker 1: And now, Lissen, you're on a new label, new album, movie,
Speaker 1: start tell me about that, Like, tell me what the
Speaker 1: new music and how that reverse feels. So we're hoping
Speaker 1: it's going to come out in the fall, and it's
Speaker 1: a story record, the story the story so to go
Speaker 1: hand in hand with all of that, Like Maddie said,
Speaker 1: it was important for us to not essentially like all
Speaker 1: of that pain and emotion go to waste. So it
Speaker 1: was like, we don't want to lie to our fans.
Speaker 1: The fans know that we struggled. The fans know that
Speaker 1: there was a time where we didn't feel like we're
Speaker 1: ever going to get to release new music. So let's
Speaker 1: put that emotion into this record and make it count,
Speaker 1: make it a story. And even though so it's through
Speaker 1: the eyes of relationship. So it starts off the first
Speaker 1: song on the records are single, friends don't and that's
Speaker 1: about dating. That's like who's going to make the alty text.
Speaker 1: So it's like the end love phase of a relationship,
Speaker 1: which is where we felt at the peak of our career.
Speaker 1: And then it goes to the heartbreak phase, which is
Speaker 1: what we felt as Which song is that when the
Speaker 1: most would you feel? That's a great question. I don't know,
Speaker 1: because there's like five different breakup songs that all say
Speaker 1: something different. Is it kind of like breakup with the
Speaker 1: label music too, not just guys. It's sort of like
Speaker 1: all but every song is like a intimate relationship, romantic relationship.
Speaker 1: But even though our emotions were definitely at that time
Speaker 1: coming from you know, just the career change. But so
Speaker 1: you go from the peak to the valley and then
Speaker 1: the redemption. We're like on the we're like on the hill,
Speaker 1: like in the middle of the like middle yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Like we're not on the complete far side of the
Speaker 1: silver lining, but we see it, we feel it, we're
Speaker 1: we feel like we're there. We just feel like, especially
Speaker 1: now with our new label Home, we've never felt this
Speaker 1: creatively free. And the fact that we're even getting to
Speaker 1: create a fourteen song story record that is completely so
Speaker 1: honest and true to us. I don't know, it just
Speaker 1: feels good to be back and in a creative space
Speaker 1: where you're really expressing what your soul wants to say.
Speaker 1: And the end of the record, it's like what three
Speaker 1: or four songs where it's all about redemption and it's
Speaker 1: all about this girl has her power back and she's
Speaker 1: just like, you know, I'm good. I was, I went
Speaker 1: through some stuff that I'm good and I'm coming back.
Speaker 1: And now we were actually living the redemption side of
Speaker 1: things right now, like for real, to where it's like
Speaker 1: people will be like, oh, my gosh, you all look
Speaker 1: so good. I'm like, yeah, we feel bad. So they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: your skin looks so good. I'm like it has nothing
Speaker 1: to do with my skin. I'm just really happy. Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, I know, because everyone's like, your skin looks
Speaker 1: so good to both of us are like, oh he
Speaker 1: looks so d my girl. I'm just happy. This hair
Speaker 1: is crusty, but I just I'm just finding happy. If
Speaker 1: i'm can you use joy? I love that. Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: gona talk to you guys forever we've probably been talking, like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, we've been talking for a long time after now,
Speaker 1: this whole thing has been super inspirational. So you're so inspirational.
Speaker 1: I seriously when I was like, we're coming to do this,
Speaker 1: you need to know you are killing you You're totally
Speaker 1: doing How many appreciate that? And I keep trying to
Speaker 1: just like narrow it down, narrow it down because I
Speaker 1: I love country music, but I really just love the
Speaker 1: souls of the people behind it. This is really important,
Speaker 1: like that whatever you do, like go and chase everything,
Speaker 1: but this is like so special and so important. There's
Speaker 1: not many podcasts, like there's so many pockets. Was like, oh,
Speaker 1: how how would be a good lover? You know, like
Speaker 1: or just like fun little like um just like pect
Speaker 1: soul living. Soul living is really because that's what I
Speaker 1: struggled with. I came in Nashville and I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be a star, I'm gonna be famous with
Speaker 1: the people love me, and ill find myself right. And
Speaker 1: I got far enough up the ladder chasing all that
Speaker 1: stuff to realize, Okay, this is not how you find love,
Speaker 1: this is not find self worth. And as soon as
Speaker 1: one thing crashes, like the whole thing can fall apart,
Speaker 1: and if you don't have something deeper to lean on,
Speaker 1: you can really, really, oh man, lose it. And I
Speaker 1: had a goal on meltdown and break down and moved
Speaker 1: to Austin through my whole life awaye for a little
Speaker 1: while good. But I feel like so many people struggle
Speaker 1: with that, Like when something goes wrong, you feel like
Speaker 1: your whole world's ending. But really you have to separate
Speaker 1: what is happening from who you are well, and if
Speaker 1: you are a spiritual person, God does not cause pain
Speaker 1: without purpose, So you have to know that, like any
Speaker 1: painful thing, like even like the speed bumps that we've
Speaker 1: been going through lately, still trying to get this song
Speaker 1: going and trying to make it work, Like every day
Speaker 1: there's a speed bump and I'm like, Okay, I'm hurting
Speaker 1: and it's hard and it's tricky, but like there's a
Speaker 1: purpose for everything and sometimes you have to go through
Speaker 1: some stuff to appreciate you do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Could do? We didn't review it all differently now so
Speaker 1: much more appreciation. Okay, so let me wrap up, but
Speaker 1: leave your life because that feels like I like to end,
Speaker 1: would leave your life, So explain to me that, like
Speaker 1: what the point of this whole life is, this journey,
Speaker 1: what you guys are trying to do, Like if you're
Speaker 1: trying to talk to young women especially or women, like,
Speaker 1: just leave some inspiration for us there. Connect with people.
Speaker 1: That's been my biggest life lesson life goal is just
Speaker 1: like to connect soul to soul, and I feel like,
Speaker 1: really connect, really connect, especially on the parts that maybe
Speaker 1: like we're talking earlier, you don't understand, but you're still
Speaker 1: going to connect because what makes them different than you
Speaker 1: is what makes them special and unique and just be kind.
Speaker 1: I love that. I feel like for me, I think perspective,
Speaker 1: like always work on changing your perspective, like when it
Speaker 1: is bad, except that it's bad and it's not good,
Speaker 1: but just always know that it's going to turn around.
Speaker 1: Like just always try to flip that perspective, like obviously
Speaker 1: you know those people that are like it's gonna work out,
Speaker 1: like you think it's gonna be great, It's like, no,
Speaker 1: screw you totally. Just know that everything works together for
Speaker 1: the greater good. And if you are a spiritual person
Speaker 1: like dig in y'all, I mean it is like just
Speaker 1: knowing your spiritual journey and I feel like that's so
Speaker 1: connected with your purpose. But every every single person has
Speaker 1: a purpose, like we all hear for a reason that
Speaker 1: person working. No one is a mistake and everyone has worth.
Speaker 1: So just no, like know your worth and always try
Speaker 1: to change your perspective. Don't be so stuck in a
Speaker 1: closed minded situation. But I think connecting is so important
Speaker 1: to yeah you guys, yes, and I don't like I
Speaker 1: had I was just drinking, okay, and then my feet
Speaker 1: have we smelled to you just like the toast a
Speaker 1: pig fly. I love you so with today. Yeah I
Speaker 1: know y'all are my therapist. Look at me. And that's
Speaker 1: what I want everyone to hear, is that you have
Speaker 1: to keep doing this because literally and then for your
Speaker 1: listeners for me, like on a plane when I'm like
Speaker 1: struggle alone, I'm like, oh my gosh, she totally gets
Speaker 1: it in her you know, the person she's interviewing, and
Speaker 1: she gets like it's just so when I feel like
Speaker 1: people could look at you guys and be like, they
Speaker 1: never understand what I'm going through, But really, y'all totally
Speaker 1: understand what they're going for because everyone is just going
Speaker 1: through this. Why we are all way more similar than
Speaker 1: we think. There's less differences than there are, you know, similar,
Speaker 1: We're so similar so many ways, but we try to divide.
Speaker 1: But I really think this generation is going to stop
Speaker 1: the division. I don't think we all like our group
Speaker 1: of this whatever we're in, it's all. We don't hear
Speaker 1: about that. Yeah, totally, No one hears about trying to
Speaker 1: get everyone classified and divide it up exactly. It isn't
Speaker 1: just like everyone let's all hang yeah, we need to
Speaker 1: do this like every Yeah. That wraps it. For Part
Speaker 1: one and Part two of Maddie and Taste Podcast, How
Speaker 1: much did you love that? Are they not the utest,
Speaker 1: most amazing, soulful girls you've ever met? I can't feel
Speaker 1: like they're so young and they have so much wisdom
Speaker 1: already that's incredible. I love them so much. Y'all get
Speaker 1: excited for their new album that's coming out. I know
Speaker 1: it's going to be amazing, just like them. Love Maddie
Speaker 1: and Tay and we'll see you next week.