Speaker 1: Welcome to Behind the Influence, a production of I Heart
Speaker 1: Radio and TDC Media. I didn't even think it was
Speaker 1: going to be like a full career. I just wanted
Speaker 1: to do it just because it was like on my
Speaker 1: bucket list. I guess it's like, okay, I'll do it.
Speaker 1: Then I got on stage, and I guess like right
Speaker 1: after that moment, I was like, wow, like I really
Speaker 1: love this. This sounds like super l bliche. But like
Speaker 1: I mean, just be yourself. Like you just said, you said,
Speaker 1: sometimes it doesn't always work, but in the long run
Speaker 1: you're going to be appreciated a lot more. How did
Speaker 1: we just get here from just like me being a
Speaker 1: gymnast and like my mom filming us. We just started
Speaker 1: because that's what we were doing and we enjoyed doing it. Alright, guys,
Speaker 1: today is a very exciting day. Annie le Blanc is
Speaker 1: in the house. Hey, Hello, We've actually been wanting this
Speaker 1: interview to happen for quite some time. You have so
Speaker 1: much going on, You're so busy. Every time we talked
Speaker 1: to your manager, they're like, well, she's not on set
Speaker 1: this day and she's doing that. You are a busy lady.
Speaker 1: I try, Yeah, but you made it in here today.
Speaker 1: I'm really we have family with us. We have everybody
Speaker 1: in the room. I love that. I mean, my mom's
Speaker 1: here to actually high let's bring your mom to work day.
Speaker 1: I love it. First of all, if you don't know
Speaker 1: who Annual Blanc is, who are you? Are you living
Speaker 1: in Iraq? Under under a rock? It sounded right. You
Speaker 1: have eight million followers on Instagram. That's insane. Do you
Speaker 1: ever think about that's eight million people on a daily basis? Who? Literally?
Speaker 1: I know, it's weird. There had to have been a
Speaker 1: moment where you saw a surgeon following. I mean there was.
Speaker 1: Because I started so young, and because it was like
Speaker 1: a family channel that we that everybody grew up on.
Speaker 1: It was more of just like over time, we started
Speaker 1: on YouTube and we went to other platforms and it
Speaker 1: just kind of grew from there. I don't know if
Speaker 1: there's like one morning where I woke up and I
Speaker 1: was like, oh I went viral. Like there were like
Speaker 1: a few videos like that helped it jump, yeah, I guess,
Speaker 1: But in general, it was it was a climb. It
Speaker 1: was a slow and steady climb. I would say, since
Speaker 1: you were three, yeah, four, So if you guys don't know,
Speaker 1: and he got her start when she was literally three,
Speaker 1: three or four, yeah, three or four. I I was
Speaker 1: doing stuff before, but like when we really started our YouTube,
Speaker 1: it was like four, okay, so what inspired I guess
Speaker 1: Mom's here. We should have more my mom. My mom
Speaker 1: needs to be energy. Yeah, we should be asking mom
Speaker 1: these questions. So you're three, you're four, what what kind
Speaker 1: of contents going up? You're not doing a cooking show? Like, yes,
Speaker 1: I was doing a cooking show. Now, um, I was
Speaker 1: a gymnast, and I was a gymnast for like ten years.
Speaker 1: But at that point, my mom just decided to film
Speaker 1: my gymnastics because my dad was deployed in the military,
Speaker 1: so she like put it on YouTube, but she didn't
Speaker 1: know much about She just upload uploaded on YouTube for
Speaker 1: not only my dad to see, but also like my
Speaker 1: family because we were living in another state. So it
Speaker 1: was just for like all my family to like see
Speaker 1: how we were doing and like my progress on gymnastics.
Speaker 1: And then people started watching, and then we also did
Speaker 1: one from my brother, and then we also did one
Speaker 1: for Haley and that started the Family Channel. When she
Speaker 1: was too we did that, so that started the Family
Speaker 1: Channel and then that that one grew and we were like, whoa, So,
Speaker 1: how old were you when the family channel started? Fast six?
Speaker 1: I looked at my mom six. So this was all
Speaker 1: basically inspired by sending videos to dad to keep him
Speaker 1: updated on what's going on in the family. And then
Speaker 1: Haley joins. And then Haley joins, we made a little
Speaker 1: YouTube channel for her. She was too. It was more
Speaker 1: of like a joke, like, let's make one for Haley two,
Speaker 1: and we did, and then we just kind of put
Speaker 1: everybody on that one too, and people started watching, which
Speaker 1: we thought was blew up weird. We were like, why
Speaker 1: are people watching? And there's this one video. We used
Speaker 1: to do these things called shatout videos. We would pick
Speaker 1: a fan, fans would ask us questions, we would pick one.
Speaker 1: We would feel like a challenge and like, there's this video, like,
Speaker 1: thank you guys so much for letting us have fifty subscribers.
Speaker 1: It's so cute. I love that fifty subscribers. And now
Speaker 1: you have seven millions. Yeah, that one has I think, no,
Speaker 1: it has more than that. It's okay, we're going to
Speaker 1: get to that stat And then you have your own
Speaker 1: YouTube channel now that also has a huge following. Haley
Speaker 1: to your six six you have fifty subscribers strong Strong
Speaker 1: on fifty. What do you think was so special about
Speaker 1: your channel that people kept tuning into? Was it the authenticity?
Speaker 1: I used to be like, I don't know, but like
Speaker 1: now that I go back and I watched them, it
Speaker 1: was definitely just because we're we were just normal kids
Speaker 1: doing normal things like Hayley would be two doing whatever,
Speaker 1: two years do I would be going to gymnastics, And
Speaker 1: it was just kind of was it vlogs? It was blogging,
Speaker 1: we've blogged. It started off with just like I think whenever,
Speaker 1: we weekly whatever, and then we did daily vlogs for
Speaker 1: like five years, so just we just filmed every day
Speaker 1: of a mom's filming. Mom's filming, she started off editing,
Speaker 1: and then it was like both my parents were editing.
Speaker 1: And then I mean, obviously we know the inspiration behind
Speaker 1: the initial videos was to catch dad up on what's
Speaker 1: going on? What do you I really wish your mom
Speaker 1: was sitting here because I want to know. I guess
Speaker 1: you can answer this question if you know this, but
Speaker 1: your mom had to know that there was something there
Speaker 1: for her to put the effort into. Okay, we're gonna
Speaker 1: that's a big commitment to do a daily vlog. I mean,
Speaker 1: you see a lot of YouTubers that have millions of
Speaker 1: followers right now, you guys had fifty subscribers, But she,
Speaker 1: your mom, committed. Yeah. I think that we all just
Speaker 1: really enjoyed it. I think she also just liked documenting
Speaker 1: things that we were doing. It wasn't just for that
Speaker 1: people were watching and all that. It was just like
Speaker 1: she liked having the videos to look back on. We
Speaker 1: all just thought it was really fun. So we did
Speaker 1: it for fun, and she decided to be like, I
Speaker 1: want to do it for a year. I want a
Speaker 1: daily log for a year. It wasn't like a big challenge,
Speaker 1: but it's like something that she set a goal. She said,
Speaker 1: I want to do it for a year. Let's see
Speaker 1: if we can do it. And then we did it
Speaker 1: for a year, and we just wanted to keep going.
Speaker 1: We did it for like five or six And did
Speaker 1: you enjoy it the whole time or like, was there
Speaker 1: a point in your life where you were like, I'm eight,
Speaker 1: I'm over this, Oh, eight year old any was so numb.
Speaker 1: I think we all really enjoyed it. There were a
Speaker 1: few days where it would be really hard because we'd
Speaker 1: wake up and there's a camera in our face and
Speaker 1: we were like, well, we just want to be normal
Speaker 1: eight year olds, like come on. For the most part,
Speaker 1: we were always like, we want to keep doing it.
Speaker 1: We want to get back up and keep making the videos.
Speaker 1: What was the big turning point for the channel? There
Speaker 1: had to be a moment where whether it was the
Speaker 1: thousands of subscribers or a million, Like, do you remember
Speaker 1: a specific moment on the Family Channel where you guys
Speaker 1: were like, is this really happening? It was probably when
Speaker 1: we hit one million or four, because maybe it was four,
Speaker 1: because I mean, one is a big deal. One was
Speaker 1: a big deal, but I think four was just really
Speaker 1: big because we've been promised a horse and a bunny.
Speaker 1: Like our parents had said if we if we if
Speaker 1: we get to four million subscribers, it was four right,
Speaker 1: if we get to four million subscribers, then not only
Speaker 1: do get a horse ala carte funny. Yes, Haley was
Speaker 1: obsessed with funnies and I was obsessed with horses. And
Speaker 1: they were like, oh, we'll never reach formulian, so sure
Speaker 1: we'll promise you that. And then sure enough we've reached
Speaker 1: four million, and they bought me a horse and bought
Speaker 1: Haleya funny. So I think that was like the point
Speaker 1: where we were like, wow, we actually hit four million,
Speaker 1: Like that's crazy. I mean, that is crazy, especially, but
Speaker 1: it's a testament to to anyone who's out there trying
Speaker 1: to create content that the one thing you said is
Speaker 1: you guys were just being yourselves and having fun. But obviously,
Speaker 1: I mean it's your mom had such a pivotal role
Speaker 1: in the success of the channel, because what two or
Speaker 1: four or six year old to be committed to do
Speaker 1: this on a daily basis. I mean, I remember when
Speaker 1: I was at age, It's like one day you like
Speaker 1: my little pony, the next day you like Cower Rangers.
Speaker 1: So like you probably if it was up to you,
Speaker 1: guys definitely wouldn't be where you are today. So you
Speaker 1: got a horse and a bunny. But what did mom get?
Speaker 1: She got to sit here right now. Congratulations, that's so
Speaker 1: nice you're letting her sit in I'm like, okay, fine,
Speaker 1: you got me to whery on, like, I guess you
Speaker 1: can come in here. Fine. So so obviously the YouTube channel,
Speaker 1: both of them, they helped it was a platform for
Speaker 1: you to then pursue other things that you wanted to do,
Speaker 1: So talk me through when you decided that you wanted
Speaker 1: to move into different platforms in different spaces. I think
Speaker 1: it was more just like gradually we just did it.
Speaker 1: I think it was it was just for fun, like
Speaker 1: YouTube was we did Instagram. I started the snapchat. My
Speaker 1: first ever Snapchat was like my very first Snapchat. It's
Speaker 1: like me with like the dog emoji and it's your
Speaker 1: best one. Yeah. Oh it was really cute. And for Instagram,
Speaker 1: the same thing I did with that, just because sometimes
Speaker 1: it was hard for me to be like active, just
Speaker 1: because I was dinge gymnastics and I was doing this,
Speaker 1: but I enjoyed it. Like I would always be like
Speaker 1: film this, do this, I want to do this, Like
Speaker 1: oh what this is an idea for a video for Instagram.
Speaker 1: I did this like post one day for a year,
Speaker 1: post one time a day for a year, Does that
Speaker 1: make sense? And I did it on post day for
Speaker 1: a year. Yeah, I did that on Instagram. So that's
Speaker 1: what kind of started that is because I was actually
Speaker 1: like being active and posting and just having fun. So
Speaker 1: I think just life happened and we just kind of
Speaker 1: gradually went. All my friends were getting Instagram. Everybody was
Speaker 1: just getting Instagram and then you stepped into mainstream. So
Speaker 1: talk us through because there's a lot of people who
Speaker 1: are quote unquote considered an influencer. You know, that's like
Speaker 1: a huge phrase. It's a big label. But not everyone
Speaker 1: can transition successfully or seamlessly. And I feel like you've
Speaker 1: had success doing that. Talk me through your first experience
Speaker 1: moving out of like the U tube, Instagram, Snapchat where
Speaker 1: you have control and you're the one creating the content.
Speaker 1: Now you're maybe on set or someone is guiding you.
Speaker 1: There definitely was a point in my life where I
Speaker 1: was like, there's so much going on, Like I I
Speaker 1: feel like I don't have any control, and like I
Speaker 1: just was doing so many different things that I wasn't
Speaker 1: really wanting to do or wasn't like proud of. So
Speaker 1: I definitely like sat down. I was like, here's what
Speaker 1: I want to do. I want to focus on these
Speaker 1: three or whatever things and just like be proud of those.
Speaker 1: And what were those three facts? Singing, acting, and just
Speaker 1: also being with my family and just not having and
Speaker 1: of course like other like like brand deals, and I
Speaker 1: just wanted to make sure like I was really loving
Speaker 1: what I was doing and well, all those are just
Speaker 1: actually a part of what you do anyway. Let's say
Speaker 1: you're in a big film. Just because you're on a
Speaker 1: film doesn't mean you don't post on Instagram. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: when I said that, there was a time where I
Speaker 1: was like, so, I guess YouTube isn't my main thing anymore.
Speaker 1: And that was that was really hard and everybody, but
Speaker 1: I think it was just time, Like over time, it
Speaker 1: was just like we just kind of grew out of it.
Speaker 1: It was really hard. It almost was like a thing
Speaker 1: we had to do. It was like mandatory or like
Speaker 1: and if we didn't get enough content then we felt
Speaker 1: like we were like letting people down. And it was
Speaker 1: just like we were on set every day and it's
Speaker 1: like not interesting, and it just it just got really
Speaker 1: hard and almost like we didn't want to do it
Speaker 1: and we like sat back and like the reason we
Speaker 1: started this was because it was fun and this is
Speaker 1: what we wanted to do, and now it just it
Speaker 1: feels more of like a job or like an obligation,
Speaker 1: Like it just felt like, oh, let me pick up
Speaker 1: the camera and film, like if I don't then and
Speaker 1: that's not how or why you originally started doing not
Speaker 1: at all. We just started because that's what we were
Speaker 1: doing and we enjoyed doing it. Did you find that
Speaker 1: your fans were supportive as you transitioned into new phases
Speaker 1: of your life? Yeah? I think it was hard for everybody,
Speaker 1: just because we went to weekly vlogs for a little bit,
Speaker 1: just because there's so much going on, and then once
Speaker 1: we made that big decision, they were really supportive, which
Speaker 1: I knew they've always been so supportive about it. I
Speaker 1: think they were like, yeah, this this sucks, but like
Speaker 1: we support you and we understand why. But they were
Speaker 1: just like really excited to see like the new stuff
Speaker 1: I'm going to come out with. So and a lot
Speaker 1: of people say when you transition, it doesn't necessarily translate.
Speaker 1: Your fans don't necessarily transition with you. Did you find
Speaker 1: that they did support in transition? Think so, just because
Speaker 1: we've grown up together. I feel like they started watching me,
Speaker 1: let's say eight, too, and now they're watching me at fifteen.
Speaker 1: I think they definitely transitioned with me. What was your
Speaker 1: first major in your head break Because everyone has that
Speaker 1: moment where they're like, this is something's happening here. Um,
Speaker 1: I definitely had one of those. I think this is
Speaker 1: just a serial moment um. The first time I ever
Speaker 1: performed on stage, I got off stage and I started crying,
Speaker 1: and people have filmed it and they were like, oh,
Speaker 1: she didn't like it. Oh she's crying. Like actually, I
Speaker 1: like literally loved it so much, and I was so
Speaker 1: like overwhelmed. I was like, I love this so much,
Speaker 1: like I want to continue to do this. That I
Speaker 1: like literally was just like having a little moment and
Speaker 1: it was like, here's a joy. And I think that
Speaker 1: was definitely a moment. Like when I was singing, I
Speaker 1: looked on into the crowd, it was just like a
Speaker 1: crazy explain seventeen. Do you remember where you were perform
Speaker 1: the avalon? Okay, and so this was when you were
Speaker 1: you decided to pursue singing in a more serious way.
Speaker 1: So how old were you when you because everyone always
Speaker 1: says you kind of have to have a laser focus
Speaker 1: in one area, would you say that you started laser
Speaker 1: focusing on singing but you were acting as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I started focusing on probably acting first. After I quit gymnastics.
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, so I'm gonna get out to
Speaker 1: l A. I'm gonna focus on my work and I
Speaker 1: think it was more acting because I was doing Chicken Girls,
Speaker 1: so I think it was more acting I was focusing
Speaker 1: on than then singing was just like a fun thing
Speaker 1: I got to do all I was doing that. But
Speaker 1: now it's just both. It really switches and people are like, oh,
Speaker 1: do you like acting or singing better? And I just
Speaker 1: I can't decide when I'm doing acting. And I don't
Speaker 1: think you have to. I mean, back in the day,
Speaker 1: I think you had to pick a lane and stick
Speaker 1: to it, and now it's just it's not like that
Speaker 1: at awesome, which is really awesome. But if you could
Speaker 1: pick between a Grammy or an Oscar, which one would
Speaker 1: you take? That's a good question. I've actually never ask that.
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean you're not a good singer a good actor.
Speaker 1: It just means that one of them was a little
Speaker 1: My manager said both, but by the way, you can
Speaker 1: have both, So I'm with your manager, I say both.
Speaker 1: My first thought was like a movie, and then I
Speaker 1: was like, mmm, but imagine like song of the Year.
Speaker 1: I don't know, or by the way, you could get
Speaker 1: an Oscar for a good song as well. Look at
Speaker 1: look at what was that movie with Lady Gaga? It's born,
Speaker 1: Star is Born. You could pull a Lady Gaga. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna pull a Lady Gaga. Say we pull Lady Gaga? Guys,
Speaker 1: are we all in the pans? In the whole team
Speaker 1: agrees that that's a plan. So let's talk about your
Speaker 1: music right now, just for a little bit, because I
Speaker 1: know you you do have a YouTube channel that you
Speaker 1: post music videos on, and is that an active channel
Speaker 1: that you're my channel? Is it used to be a
Speaker 1: lot more active? I will be posting music videos on there,
Speaker 1: and sometimes occasionally, like I like traveling, and if I
Speaker 1: travels somewhere and I like filming and editing, and I'll
Speaker 1: upload it. I've done that before, and then you'll put
Speaker 1: other content on your YouTube channel besides just music. It's
Speaker 1: just not gonna be like really structured, got it. That's
Speaker 1: like the are part of YouTube. Like if you want
Speaker 1: to have like an active YouTube channel, you have to
Speaker 1: do like once a week or like every Wednesday, every Wednesday.
Speaker 1: But for me, it's just I'm doing music videos and
Speaker 1: if I have a video that I really like, then
Speaker 1: I'll put it up there for everybody. Okay, so a
Speaker 1: lot of people and we're gonna get to some of
Speaker 1: your fan superhand questions. But everyone wants to know about
Speaker 1: your music and like when new music is coming out,
Speaker 1: So when do you decide or how are you signed
Speaker 1: to a label or you just okay, so you're independent,
Speaker 1: and so that means you can literally release music whenever
Speaker 1: you want. Do you, for your own scheduling purposes have
Speaker 1: some kind of structure with your music. I think we
Speaker 1: tried for a long time. The last music video slash
Speaker 1: song I put out was Utopia. I love that song
Speaker 1: and I'm really proud of Utopia. At first, I wasn't.
Speaker 1: At first, I wasn't true about it, which I don't
Speaker 1: think a lot of people know. You didn't like the song.
Speaker 1: The song like the song. But then right after I
Speaker 1: got into the car and I listened to everything like together,
Speaker 1: I loved it. I loved it. Right they already had
Speaker 1: like music video ideas in my head. I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is good. When I'm like when I feel inspired
Speaker 1: and motivated by work and like my music and stuff,
Speaker 1: and I'm just I get really excited about it. But
Speaker 1: what I was saying with the structured stuff we were
Speaker 1: trying to do, like this thing where I put out
Speaker 1: a song like once a month, and I think that's
Speaker 1: a good idea. It's just hard when I'm not sure
Speaker 1: of what I want yet, and it's really hard to
Speaker 1: like get songs that I'm really proud of. So I
Speaker 1: think I was just kind of putting out music that
Speaker 1: everybody else thought I should do, like because I when
Speaker 1: I would get in the studio and they'd be like, so,
Speaker 1: what do you want to write a song about? And
Speaker 1: I'm like, I have no idea, so they'd almost just
Speaker 1: like write it for me, which like, isn't their fault.
Speaker 1: It was just that I didn't they It's just like
Speaker 1: my songwriters who wrote things, or the producers or anyone,
Speaker 1: and it wasn't anybody's fault. Is just that I didn't
Speaker 1: know what I wanted and I just kind of did
Speaker 1: whatever I thought was right and not really what I
Speaker 1: wanted like in my heart. So that was the thing.
Speaker 1: I just would put out music and I would be like, like,
Speaker 1: here it is, guys, you don't really have to listen
Speaker 1: to it, like I don't. I wasn't proud of it,
Speaker 1: and I wouldn't want to show my friends. At that
Speaker 1: was when I knew I didn't like it. If I
Speaker 1: was like, guys, here's my song. Like my friends always like, oh,
Speaker 1: do you have new music? And if I'm excited to
Speaker 1: show them that I know I like it, and if
Speaker 1: I'm like not, and I'm like, I probably shouldn't put
Speaker 1: this out. So I went through that stage. It was
Speaker 1: really frustrating cause I was trying to write music with
Speaker 1: people and it just wasn't working. And after I've done,
Speaker 1: the studio would just like not like it, and it's
Speaker 1: just it was just extremely frustrating. So I think I've
Speaker 1: just decided to take it slow and not have to
Speaker 1: worry about like rushing and putting out music that I'm
Speaker 1: not going to be proud of or not gonna going
Speaker 1: to be like good quality. More focused on singing lessons,
Speaker 1: guitar lessons, just getting ready for like performing stuff, just
Speaker 1: taking more time and being ready again. Would you ever
Speaker 1: do like their traditional artists approach where you kind of
Speaker 1: just take six months work on an entire album. That's
Speaker 1: what I was thinking. I was kind of thinking that
Speaker 1: I'm going to like take a little break and like
Speaker 1: just get stuff that I really enjoy and like I'm
Speaker 1: excited to like put out and like motivated and like
Speaker 1: and just like that would be so fun and then
Speaker 1: like all of a sudden, just like coming out with
Speaker 1: like a cool EP or like album, I don't know,
Speaker 1: something like that, which I'm just excited for and I
Speaker 1: hope it can work out. Do you have time in
Speaker 1: your schedule to do such things? Honestly, I'm yes, never really,
Speaker 1: let's just say kind of, I can try. Speaking of schedule,
Speaker 1: what is a typical day for you, Like right now,
Speaker 1: it's pretty chill, only because I'm about to start something
Speaker 1: that's going to take up a lot of my time.
Speaker 1: So we tried to like get like this one to
Speaker 1: two weeks, like pretty chill. I can just focus on
Speaker 1: like school and like being prepared for that. So right
Speaker 1: now today I'll just do today. I woke up like nine,
Speaker 1: and I did some school home school, home school, home school.
Speaker 1: Have been homeschooled since third grade. But I can't even
Speaker 1: believe you were going to school with all the YouTube stuff.
Speaker 1: That's crazy, I know. I mean at that point when
Speaker 1: I was in third grade, I don't think I ever
Speaker 1: really got recognized to like it wasn't like my friends.
Speaker 1: They didn't mean my friends because but they had to
Speaker 1: know you had a YouTube channel. Even when I went
Speaker 1: to gymnastics when even when I changed my gyms, like,
Speaker 1: some of my teammates were like, oh I didn't know that,
Speaker 1: but some of them definitely did. But it was more
Speaker 1: of like oh doesn't m M. Yeah, okay, So homeschool
Speaker 1: was homeschooled. Yeah, so I am homeschooled. So I did school,
Speaker 1: and then I just got ready. I my mom went
Speaker 1: to Target picked up a few things. I love Target,
Speaker 1: and you can never just pick up a few things. Now,
Speaker 1: she picked up a lot of things and she brought
Speaker 1: it back and um, but yeah, it was just a
Speaker 1: really chill day. And then I came here. That's not like,
Speaker 1: yeah you do you? Are you allowed to talk about
Speaker 1: what you're working on in two weeks? Yes, my manager
Speaker 1: gave me the thumbs lot. Okay, I am, yes, I'm ready. Okay. Um.
Speaker 1: So I have this new show coming out or that
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start working on filming in two weeks with
Speaker 1: my friend Jade Bartel's for Nickelodeon. It's going to be
Speaker 1: called Side Hustle and I'm really excited about it. Are
Speaker 1: you allowed to say what it's about? Yeah? I am
Speaker 1: pretty much. We like blow up our neighbor's car casual,
Speaker 1: you know, just that's that's how you start off. Theories starts.
Speaker 1: We're gonna start that with me exploding us exploding our
Speaker 1: neighbor's car on accident, of course, and pretty much we
Speaker 1: have to do these really odd, weird jobs to like
Speaker 1: pay back for the car. And yeah, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: really cute. And this is gonna be on Nickelodeons. And
Speaker 1: do you know when the premier is? I don't because
Speaker 1: you just you're just starting. We haven't even started filming.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. Are you excited about I'm really excited. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's really awesome. Nickelodeon shows always do really well, so
Speaker 1: you know, you know what's going to be successful. So
Speaker 1: who else is on on the show? Anybody that you
Speaker 1: So we're having a cast party, which I get to
Speaker 1: go and like, WHI I'm really excited for you know
Speaker 1: anybody prior to this, Well, Jayden Bartels is going to
Speaker 1: be acting long time mee. Um Isaiah Cruz is going
Speaker 1: to be another one of the main characters, Arry Kruse's son. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: actually you knew that. Um So that's awesome. That sounds
Speaker 1: like a really good cast. Yeah, I'm excited to meet everybody.
Speaker 1: That's really really cool. Congratulations on that. So I want
Speaker 1: to get to talking about influence, because this entire show
Speaker 1: is about people of influence, why they have influence, what
Speaker 1: they do with their influence, the pressures of influence. Let's
Speaker 1: see how many more times I can say the word influyee,
Speaker 1: you obviously are somebody of influence. And we got to
Speaker 1: this in the very beginning. Eight million eyes on you
Speaker 1: just on your Instagram alone. That's not counting Twitter, that's
Speaker 1: not counting snapchat, that's not counting YouTube. We're talking millions
Speaker 1: and millions of people have their eyes on you. I mean,
Speaker 1: see just TikTok alone, there's fifteen millions. So if we
Speaker 1: added it all up, I'm going to say you have
Speaker 1: about a billion eyeballs on you. I'm not math wasn't
Speaker 1: my major, but you have a lot of people paying
Speaker 1: attention to you. There's a lot of pressure there. What
Speaker 1: do you What kind responsibility do you take having such influence?
Speaker 1: There definitely is a lot of responsibilities just because you're
Speaker 1: you need to be like a good role model, which
Speaker 1: is like scary, but it's like it's not hard because
Speaker 1: if you're like a good if you're a good person
Speaker 1: and you're like a good role model, and it's really easy.
Speaker 1: You don't have to try that hard. They're it's like
Speaker 1: scary because you're like, Okay, let me think about what
Speaker 1: I'm doing. Do you think this is okay for like,
Speaker 1: let's say eight year olds that are watching me to
Speaker 1: like see. So that's that's definitely something that I have
Speaker 1: to look out for. But it's not that hard because
Speaker 1: that's just kind of how we were raised. We weren't
Speaker 1: ever raised in like a my mom smiling at me,
Speaker 1: she's like, no, I I hear you. You don't have
Speaker 1: to necessarily monitor so much or overthink it if you actually,
Speaker 1: at the core are a good person. And obviously you
Speaker 1: are a good person I can tell, and you have
Speaker 1: a solid family here. I used to work at a
Speaker 1: channel called Clever TV. It's like this very young YouTube
Speaker 1: channel with twenty millions subscribers, and like we are followers
Speaker 1: were all eight year old. But we had to even
Speaker 1: though we weren't eight, we had to be really careful
Speaker 1: with what we were putting out there. So there is
Speaker 1: a little bit of a disconnect because as you get older,
Speaker 1: you know you're gonna get into relationships because you're gonna
Speaker 1: let you are in a relationship, but like do you
Speaker 1: kind of have to filter the maturity of the content,
Speaker 1: not necessarily that you're a good or bad person, but
Speaker 1: you're growing, you know, like you're sixteen, fifteen. Okay, so
Speaker 1: you're fifteen, and this is like the exact age where
Speaker 1: people kind of come into their own their into relationships.
Speaker 1: Real stuff happens, but maybe a seven or eight year
Speaker 1: old that's your biggest fan might not understand or get confused.
Speaker 1: You have to kind of like not age down. But
Speaker 1: just I would say, I would say, yeah, the thing
Speaker 1: with me is because I was a gymnast and I
Speaker 1: was homeschooled, that I was gonna like the first thing
Speaker 1: that popped in my head was like, yeah, well all
Speaker 1: my friends were doing all the stuff that they were
Speaker 1: posting this and it wasn't inappropriate for them to do
Speaker 1: because there's nobody like really watching them, and like I
Speaker 1: don't want to this is in quotations, like copying what
Speaker 1: they're doing. Right. I was a gymnast, so like all
Speaker 1: my friends were like homeschooled and like didn't really have
Speaker 1: much of a Instagram. I was young, and then when
Speaker 1: I moved to l A. I'm friends with like a
Speaker 1: bunch of influence, Like I don't want to say influencers,
Speaker 1: that's no hope, but that's what they are at. But
Speaker 1: we just have this little group, so I think we
Speaker 1: all are really responsible and mature for our ages, just
Speaker 1: to know that like what's wrong and what's right for that,
Speaker 1: I guess. So I've never really struggled with like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm seeing my friends do it so like I wish
Speaker 1: I could do it, and like post I don't even
Speaker 1: want to say mature content, but this is just like
Speaker 1: a but you are getting older, I am, And I've
Speaker 1: never I've just never felt the need to like post
Speaker 1: like a TikTok with like an inappropriate dance in it.
Speaker 1: Like I just never felt the need to, Like I've
Speaker 1: just never been that kind of person, I guess, or
Speaker 1: like I don't think this is bad, but like I
Speaker 1: just feel like some people in relationships are all like oh,
Speaker 1: touchy feely, and I just never feel the need to
Speaker 1: like put that on the internet. I guess it's just
Speaker 1: more personal to me. So I don't think I've ever
Speaker 1: had that problem of like, oh I wish I could
Speaker 1: do this, so would you say that you definitely have
Speaker 1: boundaries when it comes to the things that make it
Speaker 1: on the grid versus things that are personal. Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: And where do you draw the line, I mean, are
Speaker 1: you do you say, Okay, I'm going to do just
Speaker 1: a little bit of personal and mostly work stuff because
Speaker 1: I know people have to kind of curate. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: feel like it's really hard balancing it. Sometimes. I feel
Speaker 1: like sometimes I'm like too personal two into my personal
Speaker 1: life and I'm not I wouldn't say giving them enough
Speaker 1: like enough content. I guess like sometimes I like take
Speaker 1: a break for like a week without like saying anything,
Speaker 1: which is like on me, but like it's like stuff
Speaker 1: happens in life, and it's really hard to like know
Speaker 1: what to put out there and what to not put
Speaker 1: out there just for you, like for life is just
Speaker 1: hard for that. So there definitely is a line, and
Speaker 1: I'm trying to find like the in between, the middle ground.
Speaker 1: You have to help with that. Like I know a
Speaker 1: lot of people work with people who help them with
Speaker 1: their socials or obviously of a manager who's very invested
Speaker 1: in you and cares. I mean, he's here right now.
Speaker 1: So do you do you look to other people for guidance, Like,
Speaker 1: I mean I've posted things where my mom is like,
Speaker 1: take that down. You said the F word, right, Yes,
Speaker 1: she's so proud of herself. But I'm scared of my
Speaker 1: mom still to this day. So if my mom says
Speaker 1: take it down, it's coming down. Oh yeah. I mean
Speaker 1: I don't think I could host anything that I want,
Speaker 1: like anything, and my mom should be like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: good job, good job doing whatever I did. But she
Speaker 1: she definitely is like I don't want to say strict.
Speaker 1: Oh my mom's strick to trust me. I'm literally terrified
Speaker 1: of my mom still. My fans I see like comments,
Speaker 1: they're like if I do anything that's like a little
Speaker 1: bit more grown up there, like miss Katie is quaking.
Speaker 1: Miss Katie does not approve because they know I don't
Speaker 1: want to say strict, but they know how because we're
Speaker 1: just more open with her. Like rules. I guess, oh
Speaker 1: I had rules too. It's like rules are not cool anymore,
Speaker 1: but like I grew up with rules, and my child
Speaker 1: will grow up with rules too. I like it. So
Speaker 1: my fans like, no, like I'm not allowed to do
Speaker 1: a TikTok with like a bunch of bad words in it,
Speaker 1: or like all this stuff. But as I just love
Speaker 1: the comments because they're all like, that's really funny. That's
Speaker 1: actually really funny that they involve your mom. It's great.
Speaker 1: So do family members make appearances in your content? Yeah?
Speaker 1: My sister though always oh yeah, all of our family
Speaker 1: if we go to like family gatherings, But I don't
Speaker 1: think any of our family like minds being in our videos. Actually,
Speaker 1: like our cousins had like a YouTube channel. How does
Speaker 1: family react when you go to let's say Thanksgiving or something.
Speaker 1: Are they like can you tag me? Um? They're not
Speaker 1: like rude or anything. It's definitely is though, like oh,
Speaker 1: like that was the famous cousin. Like I just so
Speaker 1: I have so much family that like I don't know
Speaker 1: all my cousins. Like someone will come up to me
Speaker 1: like I'm your cousin. I'm like, I wouldn't be surprised
Speaker 1: if you were my cousin because I have such a
Speaker 1: big family and they're literally just not your cousin, Like
Speaker 1: like who just wants to I don't know, like like
Speaker 1: a fense, But it's more like I don't know them
Speaker 1: and they know me more so it's more like a
Speaker 1: supporter that sounds rude. Like I just I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't know the as like my cousin so and they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: let's get a picture. It's more of like not. I mean,
Speaker 1: you should just carry twenty three and me around and
Speaker 1: make people spit spit in the vial and just confirm
Speaker 1: and that was not a sponsor post post not. That
Speaker 1: was not fun. That's so interesting. I often wonder when
Speaker 1: people go back to like family gatherings or anything, if
Speaker 1: people act differently. It's weird, but it's really fun, Like
Speaker 1: it's not like and you don't seem like a stuck
Speaker 1: up like here I am with my yeah, this is
Speaker 1: my good angle, where's my Loomie light or whatever? Now,
Speaker 1: you don't seem like that at all. Does that ever
Speaker 1: hit you that you're so down to earth and I
Speaker 1: can tell it's not a it's not a show. You're
Speaker 1: not trying to be like the girl next door, like
Speaker 1: I can genuinely tell that this is you. Does it
Speaker 1: ever hit you that this is where you're at right now?
Speaker 1: And what does that feel like? It's because it's only
Speaker 1: going to continue. Obviously, you're booking all these big jobs,
Speaker 1: you're doing music, You're going to book more movies and
Speaker 1: more shows, it's you pitch yourself. Yeah, sometimes I'm just like,
Speaker 1: how did we just get here from just like me
Speaker 1: being a gymnast and like my mom filming us. Like
Speaker 1: it's just people pick who they want to like and
Speaker 1: who they don't want to like. I guess, like I
Speaker 1: feel like some people could do the same exact thing
Speaker 1: as us, it just like doesn't work for them, which
Speaker 1: I find really weird. So I just always am so
Speaker 1: grateful for everything. I mean, obviously mom had a big
Speaker 1: role in the creating the platform, but then you were
Speaker 1: able to take what mom built or helped you all
Speaker 1: build to the next level. And what do you think,
Speaker 1: I mean, there are so many people in your shoes
Speaker 1: who are influencers who have not made that jump. Is
Speaker 1: it the hard work? Is that the commitment you're talking
Speaker 1: about taking classes? Yeah? I think it was just how
Speaker 1: authentic we were. We were so young and it was
Speaker 1: just easy. Like I feel like a lot of people
Speaker 1: try really hard, which I get because it's hard. It's
Speaker 1: hard to be seen. I think it was just that
Speaker 1: my mom started filming us at a really young age
Speaker 1: and it was just we crew. But then you were
Speaker 1: able to take that and that wasn't luck, and that
Speaker 1: wasn't mom, that was you. So would you attribute that
Speaker 1: to take taking your work seriously and not just showing
Speaker 1: up to an audition expecting to get it because you
Speaker 1: had eight million? Because I see that happen a lot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I knew that I wasn't like an actress and a
Speaker 1: singer right as I started saying I'm an actress and singer,
Speaker 1: like it definitely was. I was always like a YouTuber
Speaker 1: and that was just always like my mindset was like,
Speaker 1: this is I'm a YouTuber and I'm not going to
Speaker 1: like say, oh, I know everything about acting and singing
Speaker 1: because I don't. And I didn't at that time. So
Speaker 1: when I started saying like, hey, like I really enjoy
Speaker 1: acting and singing and I want to pursue that, I
Speaker 1: definitely tried to like learn my stuff and make sure
Speaker 1: that I was really prepared before I just said that
Speaker 1: I wasn't a YouTuber anymore. I guess. So you worked
Speaker 1: hard to get to this next level and I wasn't
Speaker 1: just handed to you because eight million followed. And also
Speaker 1: I've also seen people with you know, twenty million followers
Speaker 1: get a role and then the show gets canceled or
Speaker 1: they blow it because they're not taking their job serious
Speaker 1: and they just assume, Oh, I have followers and that's
Speaker 1: why I'm gonna be successful. Yeah, so hard work, guys, tenacity.
Speaker 1: Where do you see yourself five years from now? I
Speaker 1: know that's so far far. You're gonna be in a
Speaker 1: totally different You're gonna be twenty Yeah, I hope people
Speaker 1: are not driving in five years. To be honest with you, Okay,
Speaker 1: can we just like wait like a year just so
Speaker 1: I can drive for like a little bit and then
Speaker 1: you can drive for a little bit. But technology, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just don't want I could talk about this for
Speaker 1: days now that I just had a baby, so I literally, yeah,
Speaker 1: I have like a little infant and I'm just like,
Speaker 1: I don't ever want him to drive. You just had
Speaker 1: a baby, Ye, you look so good? What Keto? Just kidding,
Speaker 1: just kidding. I love bread. No, but I just think about,
Speaker 1: like driving is so scary. But I get it. When
Speaker 1: I was your age, all I wanted to go close.
Speaker 1: All I wanted to do is you can probably go
Speaker 1: drive now, ask mom? I did. She said no, just
Speaker 1: taking a little spin around the block. I've done that.
Speaker 1: I've done that. So how old you have to be
Speaker 1: to drive? Now? Is this still in the have to
Speaker 1: get your I mean not fifteen a half yet? How
Speaker 1: far away are we? Um? June? I can get my
Speaker 1: what's your birthday? December five? December five? My mom's December three?
Speaker 1: That are there? Are sad is cool? Sages are awesome? Really,
Speaker 1: I know nothing about astrology. It's okay. Besides driving, what
Speaker 1: will you be doing? Okay, you hope to be doing film? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I definitely of course want to have an album out
Speaker 1: and I think that's super cool, just like one album.
Speaker 1: These are just like my I'm not gonna say like
Speaker 1: minimum goals, but like no, just general just general goals,
Speaker 1: like um, I like putting things out there. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: one album. I want to be in a movie that
Speaker 1: I can like go to the theaters and like like
Speaker 1: like I can go to theaters and be like, oh,
Speaker 1: there's my movie on the Red carper premiere. All the
Speaker 1: entertainment channels they're wanting to interview you, yelling Annie, Annie,
Speaker 1: Annie needs to happen. It's going to what else? And
Speaker 1: just for me to be like happy and like love
Speaker 1: what I'm doing. Still, that's another thing is just like
Speaker 1: always have that motivation and inspiration and signed me to
Speaker 1: like want to keep doing singing and acting. And I
Speaker 1: definitely still want that when I'm twenty. Yeah, I just
Speaker 1: want to be like happy with what I'm doing. I
Speaker 1: think just based on the trajectory of what you've been doing,
Speaker 1: it's not been like a race and just you haphazardly
Speaker 1: throwing things in the ceiling and seeing what sticks. You've
Speaker 1: had like a slow and steady, very consistent climb. So
Speaker 1: I just from what I've seen, and also I'm predicting
Speaker 1: your future. You're they're going to be yelling Annie, Annie,
Speaker 1: and when they do, you better not forget us right
Speaker 1: back here. You heard it here first. Guy, She's coming back.
Speaker 1: I'm coming back even after they yell her name. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm going to go to some super fan questions. We
Speaker 1: allowed three people. We're going to start out with Caitlin
Speaker 1: Underscore Dance wants to know who slash what inspired you
Speaker 1: to begin your career as a singer slash actress. That's
Speaker 1: a really good question. Good question, Caitlin job. But I
Speaker 1: just want to tell the story just because I think
Speaker 1: it's really funny, like cute. For that concert I was
Speaker 1: talking about earlier, I remember looking at Haley at her
Speaker 1: like school talent show and she was singing Last Boy
Speaker 1: by Ruth View was so cute. It was so cute,
Speaker 1: and I was I was just looking at her. I
Speaker 1: was like, wow, how is she doing this in front
Speaker 1: of all of these people like that to saying I
Speaker 1: could never do it. And this was like two months
Speaker 1: before I did that concert. So anyways, that was foreshadowing.
Speaker 1: Now I'm in my living room and my dad comes
Speaker 1: up the show. I was like, Hey, do you want
Speaker 1: to do this concert? And I'm like, no, I don't
Speaker 1: and he's like, okay, well just think about it, and
Speaker 1: then he already booked you. I mean while he's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I already already talking about no. But and then at
Speaker 1: Tendus later, I was like, I guess I can by it.
Speaker 1: I just think it's funny that at first, when I
Speaker 1: got offered the opportunity, I was like, hmm, can't do it.
Speaker 1: I'm scared. I'm not gonna do it. And then I
Speaker 1: sudden I was like, okay, I know that this is
Speaker 1: something that like a goal of mine and something that
Speaker 1: I want to do. I didn't even think it was
Speaker 1: going to be like a full career. I just wanted
Speaker 1: to do it just because it was like on my
Speaker 1: bucket list, I guess, so I was like, Okay, I'll
Speaker 1: do it. Then I got on stage and I guess
Speaker 1: like right after that moment, I was like, wow, like
Speaker 1: I really love this. So I think after that, I
Speaker 1: was just I want to record this song. I want
Speaker 1: to record this song. And I started off with just
Speaker 1: like doing covers just because I thought that was really fun.
Speaker 1: And I got to like record like my favorite song
Speaker 1: in the studio and then hear how my voice sounded
Speaker 1: on it, and I think I really enjoyed that. After that,
Speaker 1: I was like, they were like, you want to write
Speaker 1: your own song, and I was like, yeah, I do.
Speaker 1: So I think it was just it was just so
Speaker 1: fun for me to like live that life and not
Speaker 1: like focus on I just focus on another thing in
Speaker 1: my life. Was just really fun for me. So and
Speaker 1: came from inspo came from I mean, I guess Haley,
Speaker 1: I think that's what we I think that's what you
Speaker 1: just said. That was my inspiration. That's pretty cool. That's
Speaker 1: not really really cool. What about acting? Is there somebody
Speaker 1: that you kind of look to as an actress that
Speaker 1: maybe you don't necessarily want to emulate their career, but
Speaker 1: somebody you look up to in the world. I'm sure
Speaker 1: there was, you know, it was probably. I mean, you're
Speaker 1: kind of Miley Cyrus when that movie, uh the Last
Speaker 1: song I was a song and that movie, and I
Speaker 1: think I and she was a pretty good actress to that,
Speaker 1: so I think I was just kind of like when
Speaker 1: I started acting, I was like, Okay, be Miley Cyrus
Speaker 1: in that movie and break out into singing the last song.
Speaker 1: I like that answer. Jasmine dot Connelle three seven eight
Speaker 1: wants to know what has been your best slash worst date? Also,
Speaker 1: I love you and follow me? I love I love
Speaker 1: you and follow me. I love it. Um send me back?
Speaker 1: Um hmmm, have you had a beat mean flash worst date?
Speaker 1: I don't even know if I would like, like, I
Speaker 1: feel like I've been on a date, but I don't
Speaker 1: know if i'd necessarily like I count it. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm never like, hey, like Asher come
Speaker 1: picked me up at seven for our date, Like it's
Speaker 1: more of just like we hang out and decide what
Speaker 1: we want to do. I don't know, I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm well, Also, you're so young, it's not like you've
Speaker 1: had fifty dates where you can be like one time
Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy three, like, I don't think I've ever
Speaker 1: had like I don't think so yeah, and Asher, yes,
Speaker 1: is that that's your current okay cool? And so yeah,
Speaker 1: you're so young. This is also new. And you guys
Speaker 1: are I feel like best friends more than anything, right,
Speaker 1: that's what it seems like. And everyone's obsessed with your
Speaker 1: relationship with him? Why do you think people are so obsessed?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I always ask myself that question. I mean,
Speaker 1: you guys are really cute obviously, and you create content together. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we have four And do you think that will happen
Speaker 1: again in the future? I think so. I think I
Speaker 1: think it's really fun for us to do together, and
Speaker 1: just like like sometimes we'll like write songs together while
Speaker 1: we're hanging out, and I think that's really cool because
Speaker 1: it's like cute and he's like, Okay, what should we
Speaker 1: put for this? Like chorus? And like this is like
Speaker 1: you and I really I really like that. But it's
Speaker 1: not it's never a forced situation. It's not like you
Speaker 1: know some people and we can obviously all rattle off
Speaker 1: tons of names. And influencer space where they'll date and
Speaker 1: they'll like tag each other or even get married and
Speaker 1: tag each other. But you know, people do these things
Speaker 1: where it's kind of forced. It's I mean, it's sometimes
Speaker 1: it's a really smart business move, but that's not the
Speaker 1: case with you guys. And you even said you have
Speaker 1: a big group of influencer friends. Do you guys like
Speaker 1: sit around and say, hey, we need to create content
Speaker 1: right now and tag each other right now and do
Speaker 1: all these things. No, I think if it if it
Speaker 1: were something like that, it's sometimes like oh I haven't
Speaker 1: posted an Instagram and like a week, you guys want
Speaker 1: to get a picture, But it's never like okay, strategic,
Speaker 1: U come over on Saturday so we can film this video.
Speaker 1: Like It's never like that. It's sometimes we're just like, oh,
Speaker 1: I don't posted on my stram a while we take
Speaker 1: this picture of me. I'm like sure. And that probably
Speaker 1: makes just friendships a lot to know that it's a
Speaker 1: real friendship versus something that's just contrived. Okay, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: ask you another question, which I'm not sure which video
Speaker 1: they're referring to, but okay, so I guess this is
Speaker 1: referring to Utopia. What went on through your head while
Speaker 1: making the music video? What was the spark? This was
Speaker 1: from v Gogata. Okay, like I said earlier, right after
Speaker 1: I heard it, my like big thing, like while I'm
Speaker 1: recording and while I'm putting out, like doing the music
Speaker 1: part is like always being like Okay, So here's what
Speaker 1: I have from the music video. I love music videos
Speaker 1: for some reason. I think they're really cool, and I
Speaker 1: you're a few music videos are really high production value.
Speaker 1: It's not just like a jankie from the round of
Speaker 1: a fause. Yeah, I guess. I guess like I thought
Speaker 1: was after hearing this song, I had this like I'm
Speaker 1: doing like weird things in my hands and you guys
Speaker 1: can't see, and I forgot that this was a plot.
Speaker 1: I think they're awesome motions with the hands, and you
Speaker 1: guys are missing. Actually, let's get that, we got it.
Speaker 1: We will show the hand motion like I mean, I
Speaker 1: think my hands are like thinking like Lowe, like I
Speaker 1: wanted like these school like dream effect. I don't know
Speaker 1: it does because I've seen the music video, and if
Speaker 1: you haven't seen it, you have to check it out.
Speaker 1: To really well done music video. I just yeah, I
Speaker 1: just wanted like really pretty like shots of sun rays
Speaker 1: and like all of that. So I think it definitely great.
Speaker 1: It's just that was great, and I think I only
Speaker 1: I said we only had three, but okay, this person
Speaker 1: did not fall into the three top fans. But we're
Speaker 1: gonna ask the question anyway because I want to know.
Speaker 1: They want to know when a new EP is coming out.
Speaker 1: And this is a selfish question because I personally love
Speaker 1: your vibe and your music and i'd love to see
Speaker 1: something come out. I know you have filming that's coming up,
Speaker 1: so you're probably gonna be wrapped up in that. But
Speaker 1: any plans for an EP there are, of course, I'm
Speaker 1: really excited for it, but um, right now, I'm just
Speaker 1: kind of like meeting people who like inspire me and
Speaker 1: like I just kind of like want to help me
Speaker 1: like fulfill Like what it's going on is that my
Speaker 1: brain that I can't put out And I'm thinking in
Speaker 1: the next year, six months a year, I'm going to
Speaker 1: put out something like an EP or know them. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I'm saying both because I think both are
Speaker 1: really cool and I don't know what's going to happen.
Speaker 1: Like I may like only be able to write five
Speaker 1: songs or I may like be able to like just
Speaker 1: have it. I mean, that's the writing five songs while
Speaker 1: also filming a lot. So I mean to you to
Speaker 1: your point that you made before, I mean, you're saying
Speaker 1: you want to put out something in six months or
Speaker 1: a year, but also you are really adamant about putting
Speaker 1: out something that you're really proud of, and I respect that.
Speaker 1: I think that's really awesome because you will see in
Speaker 1: no shade to them, but you will see YouTube creators
Speaker 1: who are just like every week putting out a new
Speaker 1: song and it's not necessarily stuff they're proud of, and
Speaker 1: I think that's what sets you apart. I think the
Speaker 1: main thing that I was just really sad about is
Speaker 1: that I was doing these concerts and I was just
Speaker 1: so excited to perform because I love performing. But I
Speaker 1: was almost just like, guys, I'm gonna have better songs
Speaker 1: out later, like, don't think this is Like I was
Speaker 1: just like, this is gonna be their first impression of me,
Speaker 1: and I'm just not proud of like then putting this
Speaker 1: music with my name, And I guess I was just
Speaker 1: I'm just really excited to have more music that I
Speaker 1: think like defines me a little bit better and like
Speaker 1: shows off like my like vibe and all of that.
Speaker 1: How would you describe your vibe? I have a whole
Speaker 1: asthetic board and I love it so much because it
Speaker 1: really describes me and I'm really proud of it. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't know how described vibes. But like, sometimes I
Speaker 1: meet people and like they are so cool and I
Speaker 1: want to be their friend, And I don't know, Like,
Speaker 1: I love your vibe. Your vibe was like super chill,
Speaker 1: like like I didn't even brush my hair today. I
Speaker 1: love you for saying that vibe is good, but I
Speaker 1: just don't know how to describe. Like, no, I get it,
Speaker 1: the energy, the vibe. But let's say, okay, you know
Speaker 1: how everyone's like, well, she's like a Billie Eilish meets
Speaker 1: the Lady Good meets Michael Bolton? But that was the
Speaker 1: can we imagine that? But in a way, so like,
Speaker 1: who would you compare yourself to artistically? Even if it's
Speaker 1: not a perfect Maybe your style is like one person,
Speaker 1: but your vibe is like Ellie Golding, which I love her. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you tell me, I feel like you are just your
Speaker 1: own vibe. I like it. I feel like you are
Speaker 1: your own vibe because I have no I've interviewed literally
Speaker 1: every artist Rammy winning artist. You know, people in your
Speaker 1: position that are up and coming and like I know,
Speaker 1: are going to do well. You have your own vibe
Speaker 1: and it's not fake, like you're not trying to so
Speaker 1: you're really down to earth and I think you're going
Speaker 1: to be really successful in the music industry. Thank you.
Speaker 1: I'm not kidding. I'm just saying no, I wouldn't say that.
Speaker 1: I'm not fake. I have a child now, I have
Speaker 1: no tolerance. I have zero tolerance for the bs. I
Speaker 1: probably have poop under my hat. But a boy, his
Speaker 1: name is Atlas, I love it, and he is the
Speaker 1: My mom is waiting to talk about him. Do you
Speaker 1: see do you see the grandma being like, let me
Speaker 1: tell a story right now? None of you will think
Speaker 1: is cute except for me. Nobody's awesome. But no, I
Speaker 1: think you have your own vibe. And I think that
Speaker 1: just you know, with your career, you haven't ever even
Speaker 1: you saying like you didn't want to copy what other
Speaker 1: people were doing. You're doing your own thing and you're
Speaker 1: fine with that. I think that takes a lot because
Speaker 1: so many people are just doing the exact same thing
Speaker 1: and it's tired, I think. And you might not always
Speaker 1: go viral for being yourself, but eventually people that's how
Speaker 1: you get respect. I think you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So that's really cool. We're gonna end with what is
Speaker 1: a piece of advice that you would give somebody who
Speaker 1: wants to be in your shoes? Like someone is ten eleven,
Speaker 1: twelve thirty, they want to do what you're doing. What
Speaker 1: would they have to do to be in your position?
Speaker 1: I mean this sounds like super like cliche, but like
Speaker 1: I mean, just be yourself. Like you just said, you
Speaker 1: said sometimes it doesn't always work, but in the long run,
Speaker 1: you're going to be appreciated a lot more. And just
Speaker 1: my thing was I was just scared that if I
Speaker 1: were to produce music, people wouldn't take me seriously. And
Speaker 1: I think just being like just yourself and also just
Speaker 1: being genuine to everybody and like just not like not
Speaker 1: being fake and not before I say anything, I'm like,
Speaker 1: is this actually how I feel? And I think that's
Speaker 1: a big thing. And once you do it, it's never
Speaker 1: like you just have to think about it all the time.
Speaker 1: It just kind of comes naturally. It's just the person,
Speaker 1: the type of person you are. But yeah, I think
Speaker 1: be that. And if you're planning on doing YouTube, you've
Speaker 1: got to be consistent. That's like a big thing with YouTube.
Speaker 1: It's about consistency and a lot of other stuff, and
Speaker 1: also just being active and appreciating all your fans and
Speaker 1: supporters and just kind of being with them. I guess,
Speaker 1: like also interacting with them was really fun and it's
Speaker 1: just a great experience. And also it's just yeah, I
Speaker 1: guess I don't know if that was really advice, but
Speaker 1: that wasn't kind of rambling, but it's you're you're saying,
Speaker 1: be yourself and like be approachable, which I think you
Speaker 1: totally are approachable. Well, I mean, are you really going
Speaker 1: to come back when they're yelling your name? I promise
Speaker 1: I will come back and I will meet your child,
Speaker 1: I promise, And they'll be driving your card. I will
Speaker 1: drive here in my car and I'm back, and you
Speaker 1: better bring the whole posse to Annie will Blanc you guys.
Speaker 1: It was so nice to have you. We'll see you soon.
Speaker 1: I think you have a fitting to go to now
Speaker 1: because you're so cool. So cool, all right, guys, I
Speaker 1: hope you guys enjoyed it, make sure you check out
Speaker 1: Annie and all of her platforms. It's just Annie Long.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, check her out. She's kind of cool. Man,
Speaker 1: I just said man bye bye. Behind the Influences, a
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