Speaker 1: It's February already, that's deep winter in many parts of
Speaker 1: the country. A season of steaming hot bowls of soup,
Speaker 1: of tea kettles, singing on the stove, a season of
Speaker 1: thick books and thicker socks of paper, snowflake making, puzzle
Speaker 1: assembling on the dining table, of all things warm and wonderful.
Speaker 1: So it's no surprise that for centuries it's also been
Speaker 1: the season of love. And the star of that love
Speaker 1: show is Valentine's Day, appearing one day only February. And
Speaker 1: what a show it is, with all the fanfare, the
Speaker 1: biggest Broadway production. The stage is set with flowers and
Speaker 1: hearts and cards and chocolates. Oh how I loved the
Speaker 1: Valentine's exchanges during my school days. Okay, I admit I
Speaker 1: thought it was all about me because of my birthday,
Speaker 1: which is the next day, and so I thought Valentine's
Speaker 1: was all about me. While Valentine's Day is also often
Speaker 1: associated with romantic dinners for two and someone on bended
Speaker 1: knee holding a sparkly diamond and a big question mark
Speaker 1: floating over their head, for me, for my family, it's
Speaker 1: been years of heart shaped pancakes for breakfast. I make
Speaker 1: red pancakes every Valentine's Day for my kids. Heart shaped sandwiches.
Speaker 1: I have a heart shaped cookie cutter that I use
Speaker 1: on sandwiches and I put them in brown paper bags
Speaker 1: decorated with more hearts. And a family dinner that often
Speaker 1: comes with mashed potatoes dyed red, served under paper streamers.
Speaker 1: I put crape paper streamers over the dining table with
Speaker 1: lots of hugs and giggles for my kids. Romantic love
Speaker 1: is wonderful. It is It's a cause for celebration, but
Speaker 1: it is often fleeting, even if you are in a
Speaker 1: long term, committed, loving relationship. Those those giddy butterflies they
Speaker 1: fly away after the first few months, and then you
Speaker 1: get down to the real hard work, the truth of love.
Speaker 1: Today's guest on love Someone seems to have come around
Speaker 1: to the very same conclusion. He's young, he's talented, he
Speaker 1: is so so darn good looking, and it is essence
Speaker 1: he's a family man, and that is coming through loud
Speaker 1: and clear in his music, which has both fans and
Speaker 1: the music industry looking up, lending in the air, and
Speaker 1: taking notice. This hit maker is only one of four
Speaker 1: artists in the modern era to have their first seven
Speaker 1: singles go number one on country air Check media base.
Speaker 1: He is not seven consecutive gold and platinum certified number
Speaker 1: one hits, including In Case You didn't Know, Mercy, Sleep
Speaker 1: Without You, Like I Loved You, Here to Night, Catch,
Speaker 1: and my favorite so far, Lady. He is racked up
Speaker 1: over six point two billion global streams. Here with Me today,
Speaker 1: celebrating Valentine's Day, celebrating love, celebrating family is the very talented,
Speaker 1: very handsome Brett Young. We're gonna get caught up on
Speaker 1: everything going on in his world, including his recent album
Speaker 1: Weekends Look a Little Different These Days. Right after I
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Speaker 1: love someone with the Lilah. I'm so glad you decided
Speaker 1: to take a little time out of your schedule to
Speaker 1: chat with us, because you're pretty busy. It's my pleasure. No,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm not busy. My kids are like already grown
Speaker 1: and um, right, how many of you gotten diapers right now?
Speaker 1: Both of them have. My youngest is six months today
Speaker 1: and then my oldest is Presley is just over two years.
Speaker 1: So I've got two little baby girls barely under two
Speaker 1: years old, and uh, and they're both in diverse but
Speaker 1: Presley is potty training right now, which is um exciting
Speaker 1: is the wrong word, but it does get a little exciting.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it does get exciting, and it'll be cheesier on
Speaker 1: Mama and you once that happens, that's right. But during
Speaker 1: the process of it, it's it's it can be challenging
Speaker 1: and exciting. So uh, I sent your song lady to
Speaker 1: my niece, not realizing she was ahead of me, and
Speaker 1: I've already heard it a thousand times because she has
Speaker 1: a four month old baby girl with her husband Nick,
Speaker 1: and they are like one of the cutest couples in
Speaker 1: the whole wide world. And she's a cry baby like me.
Speaker 1: And so I said, when Nick comes home from work today,
Speaker 1: when he comes to the door, I just want you
Speaker 1: to hand Addie Dean to him. This is my dedication
Speaker 1: to you guys. And then I said, but you've got
Speaker 1: to text me before he gets home so I can
Speaker 1: like know in my heart that this is happening. And
Speaker 1: so I called her after she texted me. I gave
Speaker 1: her like five minutes and she was still a hot mess,
Speaker 1: you know, just completely blubber face that you're out there
Speaker 1: using me to make people cry. I am, I am,
Speaker 1: And it was wonderful. It worked beautifully. So so did
Speaker 1: you write Lady with your first baby girl or number two? Yeah?
Speaker 1: That was for my first one for Pressley. We we
Speaker 1: were only I think five months pregnant when I wrote
Speaker 1: that song. And I think that the reason the song
Speaker 1: turned out the way it did was because I didn't
Speaker 1: know what it was like to be a parent yet.
Speaker 1: I was kind of only uh anticipating and experiencing the
Speaker 1: things that like scare you about that chapter of your
Speaker 1: life when you know nothing about it yet. And so
Speaker 1: the reason that song is is so much more about
Speaker 1: my wife than it is my daughter. It's kind of
Speaker 1: like a letter to my daughter about her mom is
Speaker 1: because the only thing I knew about that process is
Speaker 1: that I was fortunate to have my wife because she
Speaker 1: was gonna have to do it all because I was
Speaker 1: not going to be capable, and so, um yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: It was. It was my my letter to my first daughter,
Speaker 1: basically saying, I'm probably gonna screw this up, but don't
Speaker 1: worry because Mom will be there. And have you have you,
Speaker 1: like made any major blunders that mom had to correct?
Speaker 1: I mean that would be a better question for her.
Speaker 1: I don't think so if I If I did, she
Speaker 1: fixed it when I wasn't looking good answer. I think
Speaker 1: the biggest thing for me is like identifying roles um
Speaker 1: as parents, and I think that you of it is
Speaker 1: is both of your job, but then there are there's
Speaker 1: this five percent where where roles come in. At least
Speaker 1: that's how it's been in our house. And um, your
Speaker 1: your marriage is very different than the ones I was in.
Speaker 1: I just got to tell you, if you think it's
Speaker 1: shared very different, I say that, but I'm being like
Speaker 1: very gracious to myself because then I get on a
Speaker 1: tour bus and leave for like every weekend. So yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: let's be honest, it's more like five. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you're gone on weekends, if you're touring and you're on
Speaker 1: the tour and you you've got rehearsals and the baby
Speaker 1: still has to be nursed and changed. Yeah, I guess
Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying. I got really good at dishes
Speaker 1: and taking out the trash. It's really like, you know,
Speaker 1: very good at the things that should have been good
Speaker 1: at anyway. So there's that. But I'm not scared of
Speaker 1: a diaper though, either. I'm gonna give myself a little
Speaker 1: credit there. I know some dads that are like, I'm
Speaker 1: not touching that. I mean, you made it. If you
Speaker 1: made this child and they're making this, you made this.
Speaker 1: Yeah you mad. Yeah, it's your job too. Biggest change
Speaker 1: in your heart since since you said I do. I mean,
Speaker 1: your music just like took a one eight you just
Speaker 1: like you went all in in the relationship and the
Speaker 1: you know, if your life is truly reflected in your music,
Speaker 1: you did that. You did a U turn in the
Speaker 1: middle of the street, in the middle of the freeway.
Speaker 1: You did a U turn. Yeah, I mean I mean,
Speaker 1: if you really track down from album one to you
Speaker 1: know what, we're finishing album three right now. Um, even
Speaker 1: the breakup songs were about my wife. We just we
Speaker 1: we had a little bit of a time trying to
Speaker 1: get to where we needed to be. We weren't always
Speaker 1: on the same page, and so, um it was always
Speaker 1: her for me. It was just that we weren't. I
Speaker 1: was a little bit older and I was I wanted
Speaker 1: to settle down before she did. And um, that's why
Speaker 1: you got breakup songs about my wife and then love
Speaker 1: songs about my wife on the next record. Um. I
Speaker 1: think the biggest change for me was no, I don't
Speaker 1: care what anybody says. Nobody likes chasing. Everybody always says
Speaker 1: I like to chase. They're lying. That's a single person
Speaker 1: that's young, that's really saying that I'm not ready to
Speaker 1: settle down yet. If you're ready to settle down, the
Speaker 1: chase is obnoxious and so UM, I think the biggest
Speaker 1: thing for me was just the security that comes with
Speaker 1: you know, when we finally got back together, Taylor and
Speaker 1: I just said, hey, we're not interested in dating each
Speaker 1: other for a third time around. If we're getting back
Speaker 1: together this is it, we're getting married, we're starting a family,
Speaker 1: like this is it. And the security that came with that. Um,
Speaker 1: I think, you know, brought a confidence that I hadn't
Speaker 1: really had in my relationship. But I think that carries
Speaker 1: over into your professional life and your personal life with
Speaker 1: other relationships with people too, and so, UM, I just
Speaker 1: I just really appreciate the security that came with knowing
Speaker 1: that we're doing this, we're committed to this, and I
Speaker 1: don't have to wonder about if this is the one
Speaker 1: or if this is gonna work out anymore. Well, it
Speaker 1: sounds like you always knew this was the one that
Speaker 1: just took her a little wild cat. Yeah, but she
Speaker 1: doesn't like when I say I told you so, so
Speaker 1: I try to keep that out of them. Okay, got it,
Speaker 1: You are awesome. So are you're kind of glad now
Speaker 1: you hurt your elbow all those years ago? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: mean that's a bitter sweet conversation because you know, I
Speaker 1: started playing baseball when I was four, and that injury
Speaker 1: happened when I was twenty two years old. And in
Speaker 1: California there's no weather restrictions, so you play year round,
Speaker 1: So you know, for eighteen years of my life and
Speaker 1: the part of your life that is most formidable. It's
Speaker 1: like it was. It was everything for me, So I
Speaker 1: do miss it. Um it wasn't fun. But if I
Speaker 1: had a chance to go back and not get injured
Speaker 1: and have baseball instead of music, I'd pick music. So
Speaker 1: and I would have never met my wife. Um, I moved.
Speaker 1: I moved to Arizona for an opportunity to write songs
Speaker 1: with a guy that had a publishing deal out there,
Speaker 1: and that's where she was going to school. So my
Speaker 1: life wouldn't be anything like it is right now, and
Speaker 1: so I wouldn't trade it for the world. Um. So
Speaker 1: short answer is absolutely, I'm glad that the elbow injury happened.
Speaker 1: But there's a little part of me that watches baseball
Speaker 1: all season long, going, you know, critiquing people and going,
Speaker 1: I could do it better. You know, I still have
Speaker 1: that in me. So there's a part of me that's
Speaker 1: a little bit nostalgic. But I wouldn't trade it for
Speaker 1: the world. Um. Can I make a suggestion, Yes, please.
Speaker 1: I I think maybe the Lord's going to have your
Speaker 1: coach and your your daughter's baseball teams very open to
Speaker 1: that one thing that I want for my girls is
Speaker 1: that I don't want to decide for them one way
Speaker 1: or the other. I don't want to discourage them from
Speaker 1: something or push them into something. UM. I want to
Speaker 1: kind of sit back and see what makes them happy
Speaker 1: and then whatever that is, I don't care. But I
Speaker 1: want to be a part of it. And so if
Speaker 1: my you know, I play guitar, but if my daughter
Speaker 1: decides that piano is her thing, I'm taking lessons with her,
Speaker 1: you know, whatever it is. If they're passionate, UM, that's
Speaker 1: the that's the road I want to go down with them.
Speaker 1: And if it ends up being a coach, awesome, I'm
Speaker 1: in good for you, Good for you. So when I
Speaker 1: started listening to the words of Weekends, Um, I was
Speaker 1: so I felt like I knew you, like you were
Speaker 1: one of my kids, or you were my little brother.
Speaker 1: You know, I felt like I was on that journey
Speaker 1: with you. You have a wonderful way of bringing people
Speaker 1: into the story when you sing. Do you know? Do
Speaker 1: you know that? Do you? Are you aware of your
Speaker 1: gift of you tell stories through your lyrics and through
Speaker 1: your music. I appreciate that. That's a that's um, that's
Speaker 1: a very nice compliment that that is my goal as
Speaker 1: a songwriter first and then also as a performer. I've
Speaker 1: never been able to reconcile with the fact that I
Speaker 1: might be asking an audience to connect with me on
Speaker 1: a song if I'm not visibly emotionally connected to it.
Speaker 1: And so it starts with the writing of the song.
Speaker 1: I mean, if it's not if there's any part of
Speaker 1: it that's not honest and authentic to me, it feels
Speaker 1: like a line and you're not going to hear that song.
Speaker 1: So everything that I put out is as raw and
Speaker 1: vulnerable as I can make it, only because it's the
Speaker 1: only way that I can feel justified asking people to
Speaker 1: care about my music, um, and come out and spend
Speaker 1: their money in their time being at a show or
Speaker 1: or sitting in their car and listening to my record. So, um,
Speaker 1: that is one of the best compliments you can give,
Speaker 1: because that's my primary goal. Before you know the song
Speaker 1: is even crafted well, it certainly comes shining through when
Speaker 1: I when I'm on the air at night. That's that's
Speaker 1: my goal, is to invite people into the relationship and
Speaker 1: into this story that I weave together. Um, and I
Speaker 1: love music. I love music. My father was a musician.
Speaker 1: He played the guitar and he had a little country
Speaker 1: western band and we were raised on music. My mom
Speaker 1: had a record player. We had a record player in
Speaker 1: our living room. I think that they got up from
Speaker 1: Costco and it, you know, forty fives and albums, and
Speaker 1: all of my siblings got the gift of music except
Speaker 1: for me, and I have a three note range and
Speaker 1: they're not even very good notes. But I love music.
Speaker 1: And the thing that I love most about country music
Speaker 1: is in country music you can turn a phrase and
Speaker 1: you can you can use an expression or a hook
Speaker 1: that you just get you know what I mean, you
Speaker 1: just get it. And all of your songs that I
Speaker 1: have ever listened to, I felt I was on that
Speaker 1: journey with you, like I knew you, like we were friends,
Speaker 1: even though I had never met you before today. I
Speaker 1: love that. I love that. I agree. I think, um,
Speaker 1: you know, growing up in southern California, especially at the time,
Speaker 1: you know, when I found I found country music in
Speaker 1: a song called Don't Take the Girl Tim McGraw and
Speaker 1: and uh at the time, I mean in southern California,
Speaker 1: we were all surfing and listening to Blink One, you know,
Speaker 1: like it was all punk rock and and you know,
Speaker 1: beach days and the whole thing. And I found country
Speaker 1: and nobody not only did nobody else listen to country,
Speaker 1: they all thought I was crazy for listening to the
Speaker 1: country music in southern California in the early nineties. And um,
Speaker 1: the thing that made me fall in love was the storytelling.
Speaker 1: I think you have an opportunity to bring people in
Speaker 1: to make them feel like, you know, not just that
Speaker 1: they were there and experienced that story with you, but
Speaker 1: like you said, like they know you. You almost feel
Speaker 1: like you always say that part of our job is
Speaker 1: to pull the curtain back a little bit more every
Speaker 1: time we put something out. You know, there's there's this
Speaker 1: there's this professional side of us, which is our music
Speaker 1: and our songwriting. But I think that with every new project,
Speaker 1: you gotta pull the curtain back a little bit more,
Speaker 1: even with social media. That's part of what I try
Speaker 1: to do is, um, I don't want to exploit my
Speaker 1: children or my family. But at the same time, that's
Speaker 1: you're hearing a record called Weekends look a little different
Speaker 1: these days about my family, But then I'm going to
Speaker 1: hide them from you. That doesn't make sense to me,
Speaker 1: and so I feel like my responsibility to people that
Speaker 1: are going to invest themselves in me and my career
Speaker 1: is to give them a little bit more than just
Speaker 1: the song. You need to understand why this song exists
Speaker 1: so that you could feel like we have something in common.
Speaker 1: And so I love that that comes across for you.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, does it come across loud and clear. You
Speaker 1: are very talented, very talented at being who you are,
Speaker 1: because I think you know, I've been in this business
Speaker 1: for a long time. I've been on the air since
Speaker 1: I was a teenager, and I think a lot of
Speaker 1: artists get really jaded or really um caught up in
Speaker 1: the business of it and the hype, and they forget
Speaker 1: that they put their pants on one leg at a time,
Speaker 1: and that if you have a baby, if the baby
Speaker 1: makes a dirty diaper, it's your dirty diaper, you know.
Speaker 1: And they they're all about image and posing on a
Speaker 1: red carpet and and wearing expensive clothes and sticking out
Speaker 1: their lips or their jawline or their hips or whatever
Speaker 1: it is. I don't, I don't. I don't know that
Speaker 1: this is the case, but I wonder sometimes how many
Speaker 1: people are kind of hiding behind their celebrity or their
Speaker 1: position rather than being rather than allowing themselves to be
Speaker 1: who they are. And I hope that's not the case
Speaker 1: for for too many, but I think I think you're
Speaker 1: seeing a lot of it right now. And and I
Speaker 1: just I couldn't do this if that was if I
Speaker 1: needed to be that way. Oh I'm glad you don't
Speaker 1: need to be that way. And I'm glad you're doing
Speaker 1: this because your music blesses a lot of people. And so,
Speaker 1: so you were you were in California, you were riding
Speaker 1: the waves, you were a beach bomb, planned baseball, and
Speaker 1: you heard, uh country music. Were your folks like, did
Speaker 1: they like country music? Or was this all you? I
Speaker 1: feel like the way you're setting up this question that
Speaker 1: you might have already heard the story, but if you
Speaker 1: have not, Um, I have a sister that's eight years
Speaker 1: older than me, and uh, rather than let us fight
Speaker 1: over who got shotgun, front seat just rotated every other time. So, UM,
Speaker 1: it doesn't work in my family. You know how many
Speaker 1: kids are my I'm almost pretty good at kind of
Speaker 1: the soft parenting distraction game. Um. And so we didn't
Speaker 1: really question that, but my sister didn't like it. She
Speaker 1: just didn't say no, So what she would do is
Speaker 1: every time I got the front seat, she would just
Speaker 1: kick the back of my seat for the entire ride
Speaker 1: to ruin my experience getting the front seats. And so
Speaker 1: your sister extremely successful too, because I think that personality,
Speaker 1: nothing's going to stop her from getting what she wants.
Speaker 1: My sister is one of my favorite people in the
Speaker 1: whole world. She didn't go into into the music business.
Speaker 1: But but yes, she's incredible. And also, um, we clearly
Speaker 1: share genetics because that's probably if the roles were reversed
Speaker 1: and I was the older sibling, is probably what I
Speaker 1: would do. In fact, I think I do it to
Speaker 1: my two year old now sometimes I'm telling you, um,
Speaker 1: but but the only thing I knew, And this is
Speaker 1: the funny. This is the funny thing about the story.
Speaker 1: My sister loves country music now, but at the time
Speaker 1: she despised country music because she was young and it
Speaker 1: wasn't cool yet. Um, she had like life size posters
Speaker 1: of L L Cool J and Boys two Men on
Speaker 1: the wall, so country wasn't her thing. So she's kicking
Speaker 1: my seat, trying to ruin my front seat experience. So
Speaker 1: I'm cranking the local. We had one local country music station.
Speaker 1: At the time, I'm cranking it just to ruin her
Speaker 1: back seat experience, you know. And uh and one day,
Speaker 1: Johnny's daddy was taking him fishing, and I was like,
Speaker 1: sounds interesting. And by the end of it, I'm like
Speaker 1: an eight year old crying, you know, old whatever I
Speaker 1: was at the time. And uh, I just I went
Speaker 1: from from loving that song to realizing why I loved
Speaker 1: that song, which was the storytelling and country music and
Speaker 1: was done for me at that point. Well, I I
Speaker 1: came from a long line of country music lovers, both
Speaker 1: sides of my family, both my parents families loved country music.
Speaker 1: And I used to go stay with my Grandma Mac
Speaker 1: my mom Spokes. I'd spend every minute I could at
Speaker 1: their farm because I loved the farm and I loved
Speaker 1: animals and horses and cows and chickens. And they had
Speaker 1: eight track tapes, you know, the old eight track tape
Speaker 1: player in the living room, and they had Anne Murray
Speaker 1: and Charlie Pride and they the whole stack, and I
Speaker 1: would play, you know, play them over and over and
Speaker 1: over and over and over. For the same reason I
Speaker 1: love the stories I love I love the way that
Speaker 1: country music unlike any other genre pulls you. It's a movie,
Speaker 1: It's an entire movie in like three and a half
Speaker 1: four minutes, if you just took a country. In fact,
Speaker 1: I think Dolly did this with her songs. Took the
Speaker 1: songs and made movies out of, you know, the lyrics
Speaker 1: of the songs. And I loved the movie and the
Speaker 1: pictures and the stories that you're sharing with us and
Speaker 1: bringing everybody into with you. Thank you. So I always say,
Speaker 1: like if the athlete and me still gets to go
Speaker 1: to work, it's the part where I enjoy the challenge
Speaker 1: of fitting, like you said, a movie or or or
Speaker 1: an entire story inside of three or three and a
Speaker 1: half minutes. I love that challenge. That's that the athlete
Speaker 1: of me comes out. When I realized I have a
Speaker 1: song on my second record called Ticket to l A,
Speaker 1: which you know, it wasn't a radio single, but I
Speaker 1: knew when we came up with the idea for the
Speaker 1: song that it was impossible to fit in three and
Speaker 1: a half minutes. That's what made me want to write it,
Speaker 1: and we did it. I love that challenge because I think,
Speaker 1: you know, there's a there's a skill set that sets
Speaker 1: you apart in that if you can take what would
Speaker 1: have been, you know, a two week read if it
Speaker 1: was a book, or a two hour watch if it
Speaker 1: was a movie, and put it all in three minutes,
Speaker 1: that's that That gets my that gets my juices flowing.
Speaker 1: So is there anything you want your listeners my listeners
Speaker 1: are listeners to know about this album more anya of
Speaker 1: the singles, like, is there anything that stands out to
Speaker 1: you that you want to share? You know? I think
Speaker 1: that the where I'm at right now, the the interesting
Speaker 1: thing for me is that I'm having to teach myself
Speaker 1: to write about more than just what I'm experiencing in
Speaker 1: my current life. Up until this point, up until this record,
Speaker 1: I've just written what I was going through because that's
Speaker 1: the easiest way to be authentic. You know, you're feeling
Speaker 1: it right now, it bleeds onto the page. UM. And No,
Speaker 1: I don't think any human emotion is unique. We all
Speaker 1: have our different versions of them, but that everybody can
Speaker 1: relate if you're just being honest, you know. I try
Speaker 1: to write songs where people go like, yeah, I've been there,
Speaker 1: I feel that I know that. Um. And this time
Speaker 1: I'm married with two beautiful babies, and you know, the
Speaker 1: breakup song is not I can. I can draw from
Speaker 1: past experience, but that that wouldn't You'd have basically a
Speaker 1: lullabys record or a love song record if I just
Speaker 1: wrote what I'm feeling right now. And so the fun
Speaker 1: challenge was to I like that idea, a lullabys record
Speaker 1: like that Brett young sings your children to sleep. It
Speaker 1: sounds creepy when you say it, like, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: it doesn't. I have my oldest is older than you, um,
Speaker 1: not a biological child and adopted child. But my youngest
Speaker 1: is fibe. So I'm still trying to come up with
Speaker 1: the lullabies every night. Um, I just ordered Wow Christian
Speaker 1: praise songs, you know the Wow albums that came out.
Speaker 1: I just ordered a bunch of those CDs to put
Speaker 1: in the bows to put next to his bed at night,
Speaker 1: because I'm running out of lullabies here, I I. It does,
Speaker 1: It actually does, except sometimes he gets a little carried
Speaker 1: away with some of the more tempo you know, when
Speaker 1: he's bouncing on his bed, but you're dancing on the bed.
Speaker 1: You're dancing on the bed. Yeah yeah, yeah, But I'm
Speaker 1: thinking lullabies might not be a bad idea. Just just
Speaker 1: hold on to that thought. Okay, yeah, I won't. I
Speaker 1: won't completely abandon it quite yet. And here's here's something
Speaker 1: I wanted to say, going back to an earlier comment, Um,
Speaker 1: none of your stories are my stories. When I listened
Speaker 1: to your songs, they're not my story. I got married
Speaker 1: the first time when I was young. I knew I
Speaker 1: wanted kids from the time I was like, from the
Speaker 1: time my sister was born, I knew I wanted kids.
Speaker 1: I wanted her to be my kid. I wanted to
Speaker 1: parent her. I wanted to parent my little brother. It's
Speaker 1: all I ever really wanted to do. And so listening
Speaker 1: to your songs, they're not my story at all, and
Speaker 1: yet you bring me into it and I'm walking the
Speaker 1: path with you. I think that that's the goal. Is
Speaker 1: like I said before, I can't be an authentic so
Speaker 1: I can't dumbed down the story. So it's everybody's story.
Speaker 1: I have to tell it the way it was for me,
Speaker 1: but also in a way that you feel like you
Speaker 1: were there with me, if that makes sense, And that's
Speaker 1: how it becomes your story and not just my story.
Speaker 1: And we don't always nail it, you know, Like, um,
Speaker 1: I have a song on my first record called you
Speaker 1: Went Here to Kiss Me, And I mean there are
Speaker 1: other people that are broken up on New Year's Eve,
Speaker 1: but other than that, I mean it was specific. All
Speaker 1: the way down to Southwest was charging five dollars for
Speaker 1: cocktails on that flight. I mean, it's in the song.
Speaker 1: It was like so specific. I had to tell it
Speaker 1: exact actually the way it was because I just and
Speaker 1: that was about my wife. I mean, we broke up
Speaker 1: on New Year's Eve, were now married with two children.
Speaker 1: It was I felt it so hard I had to
Speaker 1: tell it the way that it was. So sometimes you
Speaker 1: can't do that, but I think the job really is
Speaker 1: to be authentically you, as honest as possible, but still
Speaker 1: make people feel like they saw it with you. You know,
Speaker 1: when you hear a story and you close your eyes,
Speaker 1: you can see it happen. That's what a song should do.
Speaker 1: You see the music video by listening to the song.
Speaker 1: That's how I feel. Years do that when I when
Speaker 1: I listened to Weekends, I see the clothes on the floor,
Speaker 1: I see the you know, the baby in the crib.
Speaker 1: I'm there with you. You're painting the picture beautifully in yourself.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you you are very very talented young man.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. It's it's it's such a blessing
Speaker 1: to get to call this a career. I feel lucky
Speaker 1: every single day. I played an event last night, charity
Speaker 1: event at the Bluebird Cafe, and uh, every time I
Speaker 1: walk in there, I can't believe I get to sing there,
Speaker 1: let alone, you know, make a career out of something
Speaker 1: that brings me back to that room on a regular basis.
Speaker 1: And so um, it's it's a blessing. And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I kicked myself every once in a while when I forget,
Speaker 1: you know, anything in life ends up feeling like a
Speaker 1: job every once in a while. And that's okay, but
Speaker 1: you gotta snap yourself back into reality and remember how
Speaker 1: lucky you already get to do something like this for
Speaker 1: a career. And so I'm very lucky. The ancillary stuff
Speaker 1: with my job can get to me, you know, the
Speaker 1: the stuff that you have to do, the business stuff.
Speaker 1: But thank god I have people like Dianna who's the
Speaker 1: podcast producer and the social media director and you know,
Speaker 1: answers my listener letters sometimes and Craig who's my business
Speaker 1: partner and a team of producers, including my daughter Lenka,
Speaker 1: who are fabulously talented, incredibly wonderful people. Ryan my engineer,
Speaker 1: who make sure everything is running and working. So I
Speaker 1: don't he dumbs it down for me because I am
Speaker 1: so bad with technology, Like I can't even wear a watch.
Speaker 1: I'm so bad with technology. Um, but the actual thing
Speaker 1: that I do on the air or talking to you
Speaker 1: or you know, doing the podcast, doing my show, I
Speaker 1: am so incredibly blessed that I get to do this
Speaker 1: and that God has provided this did every day, every
Speaker 1: stinking day, I'm more in love with my life than
Speaker 1: I was the day before. And I feel that from
Speaker 1: your music when I listen to it that you are
Speaker 1: in love with the life that God has given you
Speaker 1: every single day and on day on day. Is when
Speaker 1: I'm not feeling it. Like I said, I put myself
Speaker 1: in check and remind myself of all the blessings. I
Speaker 1: look at my girls, I look at my wife, look
Speaker 1: at my life, and I've seen pictures of your wife.
Speaker 1: By the way, Yeah, I'll kick my coverage a little
Speaker 1: bit there, huh. Yeah, dude, Now you understand why I
Speaker 1: was willing to go through three breakups and keep fighting
Speaker 1: figures she is. She is better than me in every
Speaker 1: single way, and I'm I'm I'm so fortunate, all of it,
Speaker 1: the whole life. It's but but you're right at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, when I walk on stage, or
Speaker 1: when you you know, start an interview or whatever it
Speaker 1: is that you love the most. For me, it's really songwriting,
Speaker 1: to be honest. Getting into a room to songwrite. All
Speaker 1: the rest of the stuff around it is just noise.
Speaker 1: But you have to do it, and that stuff feels
Speaker 1: like work. But when I walk on stage, the adrenaline
Speaker 1: I get back from the people in the audience, I
Speaker 1: feel like a superhero. I can't believe that I'm that's work.
Speaker 1: It's incredible. So um And then I go home to
Speaker 1: my beautiful wife and my beautiful girls, and I'm just
Speaker 1: I know that I'm that I'm lucky, and I'm blessed
Speaker 1: and I'm fortunate, and uh, every like you said, every
Speaker 1: day is better than the last one I've been to.
Speaker 1: I don't know how many Elton John concerts, and I
Speaker 1: go because I love seeing him on stage. It's like
Speaker 1: every ounce of energy that his audience is putting out
Speaker 1: he is consuming, like he's it's feeding him. And and
Speaker 1: the guy plays forever. You know, at two hour concert
Speaker 1: has turned into a four hour show, and you can
Speaker 1: tell he doesn't want to finish, he doesn't want to
Speaker 1: go off the stage. Um Billy Joel was the same
Speaker 1: way every time I would see him in concert. And
Speaker 1: Andy they say the same thing, that they are so
Speaker 1: fortunate that that's that's their work. Yeah, I mean I
Speaker 1: feel the same way. Brett Young is one of country
Speaker 1: music's rising stars. Well I don't know how much further
Speaker 1: he could rise, since you know all those number one hits.
Speaker 1: His music is deeply influenced by the love of his family,
Speaker 1: his friends, and infused with emotions and kindness. I'm grateful
Speaker 1: to him for spending time with us today, and to
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Speaker 1: it's Delilah. If you have been listening to my voice
Speaker 1: on the radio four years, then you know that I
Speaker 1: have been around on the radio four years. Off the radio,
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Speaker 1: venue you played? Um like large market venue? Um any
Speaker 1: ven you large, small, doesn't matter. Just favorite venue. Do
Speaker 1: you have a favorite place that you love? You just
Speaker 1: love going there and playing the acoustics or the energy
Speaker 1: or the people or whatever. Uh it might surprise you,
Speaker 1: and you may have not heard of it, but I
Speaker 1: would still any day of the week, I would go back,
Speaker 1: just me and my guitar to the Hotel Cafe in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles and play for ninety people sitting down, have
Speaker 1: dinner that came there not knowing who was even coming,
Speaker 1: because they knew they were going to enjoy it. Um
Speaker 1: have dinner, listened to six artists they've never heard of,
Speaker 1: and be Pin Drop Silent. It's the closest thing to
Speaker 1: the environment at the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville that I've
Speaker 1: ever seen, and it's where I first started cutting my
Speaker 1: teeth trying out my songs in front of people. So
Speaker 1: I love playing arenas, I love playing amphitheaters. I love
Speaker 1: my band because I love that I finally get to
Speaker 1: make the live shows sound like the record. But any
Speaker 1: day of the week, if I could go and play
Speaker 1: for a hundred Pin Drop Silent fans at the Hotel Cafe,
Speaker 1: that's where I'd be awesome. Okay, favorite song that you
Speaker 1: haven't written or recorded. You can't say please don't take
Speaker 1: the girl. We already talked about it. We already cried
Speaker 1: through that one. You know what, there's actually there's actually
Speaker 1: a song that just came out at country radio and
Speaker 1: I heard a cool story about it. Cody Johnson just
Speaker 1: recorded it and put it out, but I heard that
Speaker 1: it's eight years old and uh, publisher over at Big
Speaker 1: Machine where I I've found it again eight years later,
Speaker 1: and I love the message. It's called until you Can't,
Speaker 1: and it's basically about you know that time runs out
Speaker 1: on all your opportunities in life. You can always hug
Speaker 1: the people that you that you love until you can't. UM,
Speaker 1: And it's it's so well written, and it's such a
Speaker 1: powerful message, and it's brand new. It's it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a really big song if it's not already. I mean
Speaker 1: it's it's climbing the charts pretty quick. But I love
Speaker 1: the message and I love the way it's written and told. Okay,
Speaker 1: favorite old, old old song like going back Back My
Speaker 1: parents are their song since they got back together. My
Speaker 1: parents have a really cool story. They dated in high school, uh,
Speaker 1: and then ten years later reconnected and UM. Their song
Speaker 1: has always been a b J. Thomas hooked on a feeling.
Speaker 1: How sweet is that? I love that song so good.
Speaker 1: I used to play that on the air all the time.
Speaker 1: All the time. So, uh, anything else you want to
Speaker 1: tell our listeners about your tour or how to find you? Yeah,
Speaker 1: everything from the socials to the website is just Brett
Speaker 1: Young music, all one word. And uh, we have a
Speaker 1: single out right now that if you do enjoy a
Speaker 1: good cry sitting in your driveway after a long day
Speaker 1: at work, this is the right song for you. But
Speaker 1: but nonetheless, there's plenty of love songs and a little
Speaker 1: bit for everybody. Okay, which one? Which one are we
Speaker 1: going to cry over? Uh? It's called You Didn't. It's
Speaker 1: a breakup song. It's from the male perspective, basically not
Speaker 1: wanting her to feel bad about leaving. And I think
Speaker 1: everybody can relate to at least wishing they could be
Speaker 1: understanding when their hearts being broken. And that's what this
Speaker 1: is about. Yeah, I never I never had that experience.
Speaker 1: I didn't either. I didn't either, I said wishing, Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: and and and why not? I always say I never
Speaker 1: let go of anything that didn't have claw marks all
Speaker 1: over it. No, no, no, no, no, you can can.
Speaker 1: I can relate to that very much. Well, thank you
Speaker 1: Brett Young for spending time with us today and for
Speaker 1: being a pure Brett Young. We will be listening for you,
Speaker 1: we will be checking out your tour schedule and just
Speaker 1: wishing you the best. Thank you so much. It was
Speaker 1: a pleasure. I can't think of a better soundtrack to
Speaker 1: your Valentine's Day celebration than Brett Young's latest eight song collection,
Speaker 1: Weekends Look a Little Different These Days. It earned instant
Speaker 1: praise upon release, with tracks that speak to so many
Speaker 1: different stages of life and relationships. A stripped down version
Speaker 1: called Weekends Look a Little Acoustic These Days is also
Speaker 1: out now. The sweet lyrics of his hit song Lady,
Speaker 1: which had me sobbing the first time I listened to it,
Speaker 1: inspired a children's book called Love You Little Lady that
Speaker 1: would make a darling gift for parents of any little girl.
Speaker 1: And Brett even had a successful lifestyle brand, Is There
Speaker 1: Anything This Man Can't Do called Callieville, sold exclusively at
Speaker 1: Cole's this Valentine's Day. If you have a romantic someone
Speaker 1: to celebrate with, fantastic good for you. If you don't,
Speaker 1: don't despair, Do not get sad. If you're not coupled
Speaker 1: in a relationship, Love is everywhere and can be celebrated
Speaker 1: in a myriad of ways celebrate it with your family,
Speaker 1: your community, or you do something for someone else and
Speaker 1: then wrap up the day doing something kind for yourself
Speaker 1: because you are deserving of love. You are loved, don't
Speaker 1: forget that. And Oh exciting news, I'm launching a new
Speaker 1: daily podcast on Monday, February four, Valentine's Day. It's called
Speaker 1: Hey It's Delilah. It's a ten of fifteen minute podcast
Speaker 1: that will drop Monday through Friday and contain some of
Speaker 1: my favorite radio moments I think are worth bringing more
Speaker 1: attention to listener calls, Delilah, dilemma's thoughts that I want
Speaker 1: to share with you. So look for Hey It's Delilah
Speaker 1: on your podcast platform and subscribe. You can listen in
Speaker 1: on your way to work, on your way home, or midday,
Speaker 1: whenever you feel like you need a little emotional hug.
Speaker 1: Hey It's Delilah will be there for you. Thank you
Speaker 1: for joining me on Love Someone