Speaker 1: At Adam carl Lone.
Speaker 2: She's a queen and talking and so she's getting really.
Speaker 1: Not afraid to fing this episode, so just let it blow.
Speaker 1: No one can do we quiet? Cary Lone is sounding Caroline.
Speaker 1: Are you ready?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Ready?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Danielle Bradberry, Hello, I am so excited to have you here.
Speaker 1: Me too. I feel like I've known you forever, like
Speaker 1: forever for a long time.
Speaker 2: Gosh, I truly feel like I was like coming to
Speaker 2: have drinks with a friend and I'm like, I can't
Speaker 2: wait to just catch up.
Speaker 3: The thing about you is you're only twenty eight years old. No, yeah,
Speaker 3: you have lived a wealth of life. You're like such
Speaker 3: a young human being and you're so mature, and you're
Speaker 3: so like your lyrics, your songs are so advanced, and
Speaker 3: you're just like the way you put your life into song.
Speaker 3: To be so young and to have experienced so much,
Speaker 3: it's really phenomenal.
Speaker 1: It's yeah, exhausted, I love it.
Speaker 2: I know. I'm like I have I've lived through a lot.
Speaker 2: I have lived through a lot for sure, you really had.
Speaker 1: Okay, So yeah, I got started when you're really young.
Speaker 2: Got started at sixteen, I like just turned sixteen, went
Speaker 2: on the voice.
Speaker 3: Did you always know you were like you obviously had
Speaker 3: this great voice, your family knew your a great singer.
Speaker 1: How did you discover you had this epic voice with
Speaker 1: this range?
Speaker 3: I mean to be so young, because I feel like
Speaker 3: kids like don't really even come into their vocal until
Speaker 3: much later, and like to know that you had this
Speaker 3: voice by like fifteen, fourteen fifteen, by the time the
Speaker 3: actual show the voice rolls around.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're going on it like, how did you discover
Speaker 1: your voice?
Speaker 2: Well, you know, go back to even further from that.
Speaker 2: I always sang as a little girl, like I would
Speaker 2: always be silly and like seeing the you know, really
Speaker 2: easy songs. And then my dad said that he would
Speaker 2: have to sneak in a recorder in my room, and
Speaker 2: we actually have a little snippet. I'll probably post it
Speaker 2: at some point now that I have it. But I
Speaker 2: was like five or six years old. I was singing
Speaker 2: I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus and he had to
Speaker 2: he had to sneak a recorder and walk out of
Speaker 2: the room. And then at the very end of the recording,
Speaker 2: I go, Daddy, I'm done, because I just I couldn't
Speaker 2: have anyone watching me. I was very shy all the
Speaker 2: way when I was really young, So fast forward into
Speaker 2: my teens, A school really made me go into like
Speaker 2: a little hermit.
Speaker 3: Okay, I kind of want to talk about this, Yeah,
Speaker 3: breeze past it because I saw you Backstasian event and
Speaker 3: we were talking about you were putting.
Speaker 1: This song out. You were actually about to go to
Speaker 1: New York to.
Speaker 3: Seeing the Ariana Grande song I'm a woman in front
Speaker 3: of a huge so nervous audience.
Speaker 2: Who was going to perform that for it was? It
Speaker 2: was an awards, like a songwriter awards, and the writer
Speaker 2: that wrote God as a Woman by Yeah, del Rey
Speaker 2: was just front, Priscilla Presley was in the crowd. I'm like,
Speaker 2: I don't know what to do with myself.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so that was big.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So we were hanging up before that, yeah, talking about
Speaker 3: how you actually got super introverted and shy and I
Speaker 3: feel like one of your songs Younger and Wiser. Yeah
Speaker 3: about that, how like you missed that young girl because
Speaker 3: you were care free and you were fearless and then
Speaker 3: school really like knocked you down.
Speaker 2: You got bullied it really really badly. Right, Yeah, so
Speaker 2: school was not for me, how did you get bullied?
Speaker 2: I so being a girl, I was not developed at all.
Speaker 2: Like I was as flat as a board, as flat
Speaker 2: as a board. Most girls, I mean so many lot
Speaker 2: are but in you know, in my grade or kids
Speaker 2: around me, there were a lot of girls that were like,
Speaker 2: looked like a woman. I was like, I do not
Speaker 2: have any of that. They pulled the guys. They got
Speaker 2: more attention. And I was nice to everybody. I had
Speaker 2: friends and stuff, but I did not make good grades.
Speaker 2: I was not good in school. I just couldn't get it.
Speaker 2: There's some period like just you know, subjects that were fine,
Speaker 2: but I just I had really crooked teeth, like kind
Speaker 2: of later middle school. All through middle school, I had
Speaker 2: glasses and it was just kids are me?
Speaker 1: You just felt you were in an awkward face.
Speaker 4: Kids, I was.
Speaker 2: In such an awkward face.
Speaker 1: Kids are so mean and they just picked on you
Speaker 1: for being They.
Speaker 2: Picked on me. And what's crazy is usually it's like, oh,
Speaker 2: the girls picked on me. The guys were the ones
Speaker 2: that did it.
Speaker 1: Really, Yes, the girls nice to you, did you have
Speaker 1: some of them? Did you have friends? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I have friends.
Speaker 1: How did you survive getting bullied? I just what was
Speaker 1: a day at school like for you.
Speaker 2: So I mean it was fine and it wasn't like,
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, I was just absolutely terrified to go
Speaker 2: to school. But there were some days that were worse
Speaker 2: than others, and I just like I was. I think
Speaker 2: the part that didn't make me want to go to
Speaker 2: school was that I just wasn't good at it at all,
Speaker 2: and I would get in trouble because I had bad grades,
Speaker 2: get grounded, my phone taken away and that whole thing,
Speaker 2: and I was like, oh, I just don't I don't
Speaker 2: want to go because I can't get it. I was
Speaker 2: in tutoring, I had, I did a summer school. I
Speaker 2: missed school so much because I hated it that much
Speaker 2: that I had to go to Saturday detention and make
Speaker 2: up hours. Like I was that kid, and I'll be
Speaker 2: full of transparency because I.
Speaker 3: Just read you're ready to sing, You're ready to Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was like this is not for me, and some
Speaker 2: like I said, like I loved I loved playing sports,
Speaker 2: I loved being outside. I loved that period. And then
Speaker 2: I you know, like science was interesting to me in
Speaker 2: English because I like to write and stuff like that
Speaker 2: was interesting to me. But I always got teachers that
Speaker 2: just were not interesting. And I was just like, well
Speaker 2: you lost me lost just such.
Speaker 1: A long day, yeah, I mean such a lot.
Speaker 2: And then like like you said, what a day looked like?
Speaker 2: Like one time I had algebra math could not I
Speaker 2: I just it is the worst ever for me. I
Speaker 2: cannot do I can no when.
Speaker 1: I can't do that either at all.
Speaker 2: And that was my weakest point in school. And I
Speaker 2: remember I had a friend Victoria, and she sat right
Speaker 2: in front of me. She had missed the day before,
Speaker 2: and I was letting her copy my homework.
Speaker 1: As you should. He has a great friend, oh right.
Speaker 2: And the teacher was a basketball coach, and he called
Speaker 2: me out in front of the entire class, embarrassed the
Speaker 2: crap out of me, and was like Victoria, you're gonna
Speaker 2: let You're gonna copy off of her paper, like like
Speaker 2: call me dumb without calling me dumb. And I was
Speaker 2: like humiliated. And I remember going home crying to my mom.
Speaker 2: I'm like I already know I can't do this, but
Speaker 2: to like have a man just call me out in
Speaker 2: front of everybody, I was like, I just I needed.
Speaker 4: To just crawl in a hole. I just can't.
Speaker 2: I hate this so much and then fast forward, I
Speaker 2: had a show in Texas and him and his family
Speaker 2: came to my meet and greet and I said, did
Speaker 2: you tell him the story? Oh? He remembered. I said,
Speaker 2: I I've come a long way, haven't I.
Speaker 1: Well, that was very kind of you to frame it
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 3: I know, you're like one of the big imprints in
Speaker 3: my life of scarring moments.
Speaker 2: Glad you're nice, you will be nice. It impacts, It
Speaker 2: really sticks with you.
Speaker 1: Especially when you're that young.
Speaker 3: Then you're already feeling so vulnerable and you're in this
Speaker 3: very transitional phase. You just decided to go ahead and
Speaker 3: put yourself on national TV and.
Speaker 1: Go out for the voice, because let's just go for more, right.
Speaker 1: I know that helpful or harmful to your well self esteem?
Speaker 2: It was both so fast forward to that it was.
Speaker 2: It's crazy because, like I said, I like kind of
Speaker 2: got into this like little shell I was. I became
Speaker 2: super super shy, especially just singing in front of people.
Speaker 2: And I would do it in front of my friends,
Speaker 2: like I only had specific friends that I would do
Speaker 2: it in front of, and family every now and then,
Speaker 2: and my mom, so my getaway with school and everything
Speaker 2: is I would come home, I would go to my
Speaker 2: room and I would just sing. You would I was sing?
Speaker 3: I would, yes, Yeah, I always cry, but I just
Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I don't even your story, and I just don't cry.
Speaker 1: That's so sweet. Okay, So how did you just sit
Speaker 1: in your room and seeing what would you sing?
Speaker 2: I would sing along to. I never did like karaoke.
Speaker 2: I would sing along to the artist and I my
Speaker 2: dad got me this like speaker microphone set, so I
Speaker 2: would really like.
Speaker 1: I would sing. You were just like letting it out.
Speaker 1: Who were the artists that you would sing to the most?
Speaker 2: I would sing to Carrie Carrie Underwood, What's so funny?
Speaker 2: And I've told her this story before. Is Laura Elena.
Speaker 2: I had her Georgia Peaches album. Was she already out?
Speaker 1: I thought, like y'all came out around the.
Speaker 2: Same she came out a little before me, okay, And
Speaker 2: I sang to her album. She was one of those
Speaker 2: that I was in my room. I was saying to her,
Speaker 2: I loved her, and I told her this whole story,
Speaker 2: and it like made her emotional. I was like, yeah, girl,
Speaker 2: like you were one of the albums in my room,
Speaker 2: just screaming at the top of my lungs because I
Speaker 2: admired her voice too, and then just everyone from them too,
Speaker 2: Like I would challenge myself with Beyonce, Christina Aguilera, like
Speaker 2: I would along, and like I would challenge myself. I'm like,
Speaker 2: I'm going to hit this note like.
Speaker 4: As many times as it's gonna take me.
Speaker 2: I would listen to Jojo So.
Speaker 3: You put yourself in vocal boot camp every day and
Speaker 3: didn't even realize that, Yes, yeah, just was that how
Speaker 3: you learn runs and all that stuff.
Speaker 2: I feel like it taught me a lot. Like these singers,
Speaker 2: I would just I would just copy them and.
Speaker 1: Just over and over and over.
Speaker 2: And then from that my mom always heard me because
Speaker 2: I was screaming at the top of my longs in
Speaker 2: the in the house, and She's like, I felt so
Speaker 2: bad not doing anything for you. So that was her
Speaker 2: way of like she she's the one that signed me
Speaker 2: up for the voice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you didn't even really like it wasn't on
Speaker 1: your radar.
Speaker 2: No. We watched it and I was like, I love
Speaker 2: Blake Shelton. I love the show. I love I just
Speaker 2: love watching it. And I would always picture myself. I
Speaker 2: would act like I was on stage in my room
Speaker 2: but I never was like I'm gonna do this. It
Speaker 2: was just something that was very cool and fun to me.
Speaker 2: And so my mom when she fun fact, just when
Speaker 2: she first told me that I was going to Dallas
Speaker 2: because we were in Houston. I'm from Houston, and uh,
Speaker 2: she was like, we're gonna go to Dallas and you're
Speaker 2: gonna audition for the Voice. And I got so mad
Speaker 2: you did. It was my nerves.
Speaker 4: So you're fifteen.
Speaker 2: My nerves took over.
Speaker 1: Yes, I was a big deal.
Speaker 4: I was like, I can't do that, and I was.
Speaker 2: It was just I got mad in this sense, like
Speaker 2: it just scared me.
Speaker 1: So you hadn't really been singing in public. No, the
Speaker 1: only singing you're doing is in your room at this point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and your mom auditioned you for the Voice and
Speaker 3: let's just like skip some stuff. You end up winning
Speaker 3: the Voice is your first live performance on the voice stage.
Speaker 2: Basically, Yeah, I call it because when I was.
Speaker 1: Like, did you get through those nerves?
Speaker 2: I mebing naive. I feel like really saved me and
Speaker 2: my my mom and I actually still to this day
Speaker 2: talk about that because she always she loves bringing up
Speaker 2: all that stuff. She went through that whole thing with
Speaker 2: me because I was a minor, had to have my
Speaker 2: mom with me, and she gave up a lot to
Speaker 2: do that. She quit her job for at the time.
Speaker 2: She was like, I'm just I'm gonna and she the salon.
Speaker 2: She's a hairdresser, and so the salon that she worked at,
Speaker 2: I was like this little running around and so she
Speaker 2: told them the case and they were like, well, if
Speaker 2: you want to ever come back. It was like a
Speaker 2: good thing. But she had to stop that. She had
Speaker 2: my two little brothers at the time that were babies,
Speaker 2: and so she left a lot for a while watching
Speaker 2: that my stepdad, my stepdad and my sister and my family.
Speaker 1: But he went all in for you. She did. That
Speaker 1: was a lot. That's a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah as a mom. You know, she's still having two
Speaker 2: babies at home, and.
Speaker 1: I already have tears. I'm trying to hold them back.
Speaker 1: It's so annoying. I always cry, but like it's just
Speaker 1: like let it out. But it's such a big I mean,
Speaker 1: this is a huge, huge life choice that y'all are
Speaker 1: making together. I never pursue your dreams, I know, man,
Speaker 1: crazy gosh. Okay, So she's like, we're going to the voice.
Speaker 2: We're going to the Voice, and we just kept going
Speaker 2: and I remember it.
Speaker 1: Is the first audition, even like did you have like
Speaker 1: a private audition or did you just go in the
Speaker 1: cattle call cattle call stood in line.
Speaker 2: It was a convention center in Dallas and there is
Speaker 2: six thousand people that day.
Speaker 1: You just waited in line, waited.
Speaker 2: In line from six am to six pm.
Speaker 3: It's so many country stars tried out for the Voice,
Speaker 3: like I know, Morgan Wallan did. I feel like a
Speaker 3: lot of people didn't. They never made it through and
Speaker 3: they've gone on to be great singers. But like the
Speaker 3: fact that like they recognized you, because I feel like
Speaker 3: sometimes great singers get missed, you know, yeah, because there's
Speaker 3: so many people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, it's just crazy. I didn't even
Speaker 2: I went in not thinking anything. I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: Like I was just a little teenager that was like
Speaker 2: I just can't believe this is happening. And I just,
Speaker 2: I really think just as naive as I was. Because
Speaker 2: a lot of the singers that were on my season,
Speaker 2: they have had a lot of experience in the music industry.
Speaker 2: I know a one woman that was a backup singer
Speaker 2: from Michael Jackson. Oh man, I mean these people, I
Speaker 2: was like, where where am I? It was just and
Speaker 2: so I feel like I was truly living in every
Speaker 2: moment because I had no idea what was going on.
Speaker 2: So I was just like the little like and Blake
Speaker 2: even saw that. He was like you just he was
Speaker 2: You're just so little, and I'm like, I just don't
Speaker 2: know what I knew I So it was just it
Speaker 2: was truly I was just like the little kid on
Speaker 2: set basically. So what was it?
Speaker 1: Like? Who do you try out for? Do you try
Speaker 1: out for people before you get to the judges? Obviously?
Speaker 2: Yeah. So I had three auditions before that, like blind audition,
Speaker 2: chair turn.
Speaker 1: So I did the cattle Call on TV.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, three or four auditions before. But I did
Speaker 2: the Cattle Call. Then we had a second one in Dallas,
Speaker 2: and there's cameras to actually send to the producers, and
Speaker 2: I had to have like a few songs lined up,
Speaker 2: and I remember for that one, I messed up and
Speaker 2: I got so embarrassed and they were like, okay, singing
Speaker 2: all these like carry songs, Miranda, You're singing all these
Speaker 2: mature songs, Like let's throw in some Taylor Swift, like
Speaker 2: some your your age, and I was like okay. And
Speaker 2: I when I feel like I did something wrong or
Speaker 2: I mess up, I got so tears were like right here.
Speaker 2: I was like okay, and I already was just so nervous,
Speaker 2: and so she was like, come back. I'm gonna send
Speaker 2: you learn mean from Taylor Swift and then tell them
Speaker 2: I sent you and you can come back and do
Speaker 2: it again. And she like.
Speaker 1: Chance, second chance. Wow.
Speaker 2: She even turned her she even turned her computer around
Speaker 2: for me to follow lyrics. And I didn't have my
Speaker 2: contacts in.
Speaker 4: I said, I can't see this. So I'm just like,
Speaker 4: get me out of here.
Speaker 2: I feel so us vulnerable and I left the thing
Speaker 2: immediately started crying. And my mom like it was just
Speaker 2: tough love. And my dad was there and he's like,
Speaker 2: I my dad is so patient, so calm, and he's like, okay,
Speaker 2: come drive with me. And so we get in the
Speaker 2: car and he just was talking me through it and
Speaker 2: he's like, well, if you want to go home, we
Speaker 2: can go home. And it was that like, well, I
Speaker 2: didn't really want to. Yeah, it was just so much,
Speaker 2: so much. I was very overwhelmed, and the fact that
Speaker 2: I messed up. I had to come back and all
Speaker 2: these things. I was just so overwhelmed that I was
Speaker 2: just like saying emotions yeah, And so we go back.
Speaker 2: I learned the song for an hour and go back
Speaker 2: sing mean and then we go home. A few days
Speaker 2: past they call and they're like, well, you made it
Speaker 2: to LA. So we back up go to LA and
Speaker 2: there's just so much going on, and then we do
Speaker 2: an audition in front of the producers and then they like,
Speaker 2: oh gosh, They're like, okay, well we're going to call
Speaker 2: out who makes it for the blind audition. So there's
Speaker 2: a lot that goes through it before you actually see it.
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is when you're the youngest person ever
Speaker 1: to win the Voice. I feel like there's some other
Speaker 1: people who are in a sixteen who want maybe like
Speaker 1: one other yeah, but you were like the youngest person ever.
Speaker 1: What don't you tell yourself in those moments when you're
Speaker 1: going on stage and you're teaching yourself to be brave
Speaker 1: in front of the whole world.
Speaker 2: I just would like, I I don't know what would happen.
Speaker 2: I would just be like I would walk on stage
Speaker 2: and it would just kind of all I would click
Speaker 2: into an alter ego.
Speaker 1: So you have an alter ego. I feel like you
Speaker 1: still have an alter ego.
Speaker 2: You do, because sometimes my friends would be like, uh,
Speaker 2: that was like a completely different person. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I have to. I have to because the shyness is
Speaker 2: still there.
Speaker 1: Does she have a name?
Speaker 2: I Simone Simone, which is my middle name.
Speaker 1: So Simone is who we see on stage?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and who is she gets sassy?
Speaker 4: She just gets.
Speaker 2: Fiery, and it sometimes like I just I have to, like,
Speaker 2: I just I will. I'm so hard on myself. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, and it's I get super insecure about a
Speaker 2: lot of things. Like I will walk off stage and
Speaker 2: I'm like everyone's like that was so great, and I'm
Speaker 2: like really because this and this and this happened and
Speaker 2: I sounded like this. I just get so like ugh
Speaker 2: and it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like because you're so vulnerable in your lyrics,
Speaker 1: like your songs, and you're released a new album, yes,
Speaker 1: and everyone's been so excited about it because it's been
Speaker 1: like six years since you put one out. It's just
Speaker 1: called Danielle, and holy shit, it is so like rich
Speaker 1: in your vocals, your lyrics and the content that you're
Speaker 1: singing about.
Speaker 3: It's like it is a beautiful album, Danielle, And you're
Speaker 3: so raw and your voice is phenomenal.
Speaker 1: So do you feel like that that is where you
Speaker 1: get hard on yourself too, because you're so vulnerable. Is
Speaker 1: it hard to be that vulnerable putting those songs out?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you're talking some sexy stuff too, and also
Speaker 3: you're talking toxic.
Speaker 1: Really, I mean, you're like telling the truth, it feels like, and.
Speaker 2: I've tried to do that with my career as I
Speaker 2: grow and come.
Speaker 1: Along way when you're right.
Speaker 2: So long.
Speaker 1: Oh I was listened to your first album. I'm like,
Speaker 1: she is the cutest little, sweetest flower child in the world.
Speaker 3: And now I'm listen, I'm seeing you in Windows with
Speaker 3: your uh hot ass, and I'm.
Speaker 1: Like, no, Heart of Nixy really has grown ups.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh my gosh.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's really funny.
Speaker 1: I love how you put your whole ass out there.
Speaker 1: And that's also it was just like a little like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just your sexuality too though, you're just not scared
Speaker 1: to be at all, which I love. That's bold, it's fun.
Speaker 4: It's fun.
Speaker 2: Ye. Windows is definitely there if you if you listen
Speaker 2: to it. But yeah, and it was that transition of like, oh,
Speaker 2: you're you're sixteen, you were this little what happened a little?
Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, do.
Speaker 1: You feel that I mean, not to compare it to
Speaker 1: my day spirit is not a girl, not yet a woman,
Speaker 1: but do you feel like you had to grow up
Speaker 1: in front of the world and you're having to prove
Speaker 1: now that you're an adult not a little kid?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Like, it's so funny we talk about this because
Speaker 2: I just had had my first album release show in
Speaker 2: New York and this Sweet Sweet and I'm not talking
Speaker 2: bad about her at all, it was just the interaction.
Speaker 2: It was just the perfect description of what I had
Speaker 2: to do with sometimes. But sweet as older lady, like
Speaker 2: in her eighties, and she had missed the like VIP
Speaker 2: meet and greet, and so we come back and she
Speaker 2: had the Hearted Dixie T shirt.
Speaker 1: She's, oh, gee, she wanted you to be hard. Does
Speaker 1: Heart and Dixie show up at the shows anymore? She
Speaker 1: did her any first album?
Speaker 2: Well, I yeah, sometimes if I do, like a festival
Speaker 2: or something like that, Okay, but she she didn't recognize me.
Speaker 2: And I mind you, I dyed my hair recently and
Speaker 2: I'm just whatever having fun about that. But she was
Speaker 2: like this is this is Danielle And she like went
Speaker 2: like this, and I said, I'm not I'm I'm sixteen
Speaker 2: anymore and I'm twenty a and yeah, but it's me
Speaker 2: and she was like, oh, oh okay, and I'm like,
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, like it's it's a weird transition.
Speaker 1: That is so growing up in front of the world.
Speaker 3: And also like you win the voice, Yeah, one month
Speaker 3: later you're you're immediately signed a big machine. One month
Speaker 3: later you're putting out a single. Yeah, how is that
Speaker 3: turnaround even possible? I don't even know do you even
Speaker 3: know what you're putting out?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: Did you even know the songs?
Speaker 3: I mean, I guess you were growing you kind of
Speaker 3: did because you knew what you liked. You're listening to Carrie,
Speaker 3: You're listening to Lauren. You knew you loved country and
Speaker 3: like the country queens.
Speaker 1: But did you like even know what you wanted to
Speaker 1: sing about?
Speaker 2: Yet? Not really No, And I and I knew what
Speaker 2: I like. You said, like I love to just like sing,
Speaker 2: and and it was that was just from me covering
Speaker 2: all these women for my whole life and then they
Speaker 2: give me all these songs And at first I hadn't
Speaker 2: written a song.
Speaker 1: Okay, So they give you a list of songs and
Speaker 1: a like pick yeah. Yes, so I guys, that's how
Speaker 1: that first album happened.
Speaker 2: Yes. So they were like, here's two links of like
Speaker 2: twenty five songs I need you to pick out, Like
Speaker 2: I think I had twelve on that first album.
Speaker 1: So they had already curated this list.
Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, And I was like just listening and I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 2: that sounds cool. I like that one, Like I really
Speaker 2: hadn't had anything to relate to. I mean hearted Dixie's
Speaker 2: about a divorced woman getting away.
Speaker 4: Oh, I.
Speaker 1: Encourage you. I lived it.
Speaker 2: I don't know, so it's really funny to think about
Speaker 2: just this little girl singing about that.
Speaker 4: I was like, very first single.
Speaker 1: Were you connecting more just to like the vibe of it?
Speaker 1: Did you know the lyrics?
Speaker 3: Because I was like I was reliving Taylor Len, who
Speaker 3: was in a band with back then, when we put
Speaker 3: on a single called he Better Be Dead, and it
Speaker 3: was like he better be Dead, his house burned down
Speaker 3: to the ground, two wheels hanging off a criminal clip
Speaker 3: and I was like, looking back, I don't even know
Speaker 3: what those I know no connection to the impact of
Speaker 3: what that song actually was saying.
Speaker 1: Do you feel that way?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's like, but now you're so connected to
Speaker 3: what you're saying and you can feel that. But like
Speaker 3: when you're just putting out a song so fast when
Speaker 3: you're sixteen, Oh I had.
Speaker 2: I mean, it was just all about the experience and
Speaker 2: it was just I mean zero one hundred real quick.
Speaker 2: After I won it was I flew to New York
Speaker 2: to be on the Plaza the Today Show, and that
Speaker 2: was the first time I had met the band. That
Speaker 2: was the first time ever singing Hearted Dixie, and I
Speaker 2: was like, I don't, I don't I barely know this song,
Speaker 2: like enough my adrenaline is here enough that I can
Speaker 2: make it through the words to the song for this
Speaker 2: like one performance.
Speaker 1: What a way to enter the business.
Speaker 2: I was like okay, and I like it was just
Speaker 2: it was madness. And then I came back here I
Speaker 2: didn't live here, and I recorded the whole album. I
Speaker 2: had picked these songs, recorded the album, and then went
Speaker 2: Brad Paisley tour.
Speaker 1: And I was just like, I, so, what is your introverted, shy,
Speaker 1: sixteen year old nervous self who doesn't sing in front
Speaker 1: of anyone, only shuts the door and sings in her room.
Speaker 1: But now she's just won a whole national TV show.
Speaker 1: You're catapulted into stardom, You're on every major talk show,
Speaker 1: You're on a huge tour. What how are you coping
Speaker 1: with this? I got better at it.
Speaker 2: I got better at the Voice really kind of, and
Speaker 2: I've always said this, like it was kind of like
Speaker 2: a little boot camp for media and just being on stage,
Speaker 2: and it really opened that door for me. It got
Speaker 2: it got a lot better. Okay, I still so you
Speaker 2: were just saying it at this point. Yeah, I was like, okay,
Speaker 2: I know the basics now, like I know, like even
Speaker 2: on the Voice that I did not know how to
Speaker 2: do an interview at all. They had to be very
Speaker 2: very patient with me. I was like, I just I
Speaker 2: don't know, Like eh, I was just.
Speaker 1: Like whatever, I don't even know what to talk about.
Speaker 1: You're sixteen years old.
Speaker 2: No, But yeah, once all of that passed, it was
Speaker 2: I got better. I got in a routine. I was
Speaker 2: kind of I was still very very much a teenager.
Speaker 2: Like I did radio tour and stuff a few times,
Speaker 2: and that that was that was hard because I they
Speaker 2: saw me as a teenager. I still very awkward and
Speaker 2: awkward looking, and by the last radio tour, I had
Speaker 2: grown up a lot, so to prove yourself to you know,
Speaker 2: radio and just people in the industry at such like
Speaker 2: vult like just fragile years. So much is changing so much.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know how you survived. Did you
Speaker 3: have a mental breakdown ever?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Oh yeah, I but the really mental breakdowns
Speaker 2: were when I like got older and started to live
Speaker 2: in relationships and do the music industry at the same time,
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh my god, I'm about to go crazy
Speaker 2: because these people I'm dating are not great.
Speaker 3: So did you have you had a did you have
Speaker 3: like one particular toxic relationships? Because there's a whole string
Speaker 3: like special place in hell for this person. I mean, uh,
Speaker 3: the actually loved that song, Oh I love that one,
Speaker 3: that kind of.
Speaker 1: Thing, But I'm sure it was it turned out to
Speaker 1: be bad. Is this all the same person it was?
Speaker 2: It was? There was a little moment there that was
Speaker 2: a little interesting, But is.
Speaker 1: It all the same person that this is about? Oh no,
Speaker 1: I mean there's so you were getting a string of
Speaker 1: bad guys.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah. I did not know how to big. I
Speaker 2: learned a lot learned a lot, and I won't, you know,
Speaker 2: totally hate on him, but yeah, I mean I had
Speaker 2: I saw this thing where they're like, you have three
Speaker 2: loves in your life throughout your entire life or something,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, that's kind of kind of accurate because
Speaker 2: I had my high school like just super super naive.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I wish him very well, but that was
Speaker 2: not love at all. It was just I was very
Speaker 2: very young. But we lived together here like right off
Speaker 2: the voice, like we knew each other before and he
Speaker 2: knew me before that, and then after the voice, he
Speaker 2: was like it just was way too young, Yeah to
Speaker 2: go through any of that. Yeah, especially as a as
Speaker 2: a younger boy.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, Like I'm sure it's turning it for you
Speaker 1: to handle it now. He's trying to like pop in
Speaker 1: to the world with you. So that was a long
Speaker 1: long time ago.
Speaker 2: And then that ended, and then I was single, and
Speaker 2: then I got into a relationship that was very I
Speaker 2: thought I was gonna marry the guy.
Speaker 3: I feel like I remember when you got in this
Speaker 3: relationship because I remember seeing it on Instagram and I
Speaker 3: was like, Okay, this it feels like a big relationship.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then it turned out not to be.
Speaker 1: Tell us the red flags first, so for people listening,
Speaker 1: when you see these red flags, they're actually red flags.
Speaker 2: I got a text from a random number and it
Speaker 2: was a girl and she was like, Hey, are you
Speaker 2: and this person a thing? Because we were kind of
Speaker 2: talking and I just wanted to make sure and I'm
Speaker 2: like like, hmmm, We've been dating a week and this
Speaker 2: is already happening, and so I want to stay. He
Speaker 2: was very loving, very loving, and I was just, hey,
Speaker 2: he knew how to do everything. He was like that
Speaker 2: type of guy where he just like Hugh on the Yeah.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh my god, this is this is so awesome.
Speaker 2: So I was very blinded and the rest was history
Speaker 2: and I we did take away is fine.
Speaker 1: Did it take a while to get out of the relationship.
Speaker 2: Took a lot to get out because towards the end
Speaker 2: of the last year of the relationship and we got
Speaker 2: to a point where his mom was like, send me
Speaker 2: pictures of your favorite rings, like it was I was like,
Speaker 2: this is gonna be my guy, even though we have
Speaker 2: a little little things to work through. And so the
Speaker 2: last year of it, it just completely went downhill. And
Speaker 2: I'm such a caretaker. I'm just like, what do you need?
Speaker 2: And if you're in a bad place, I'm like, I'm
Speaker 2: not going anywhere type of thing.
Speaker 1: And you're like, I'm gonna come meet you in there
Speaker 1: and you'll go sacrifice yourself.
Speaker 2: Yeah to me, And that's what that was the case.
Speaker 2: And so I did not focus on anything about me
Speaker 2: at all, and it was like, oh, while I'm doing this,
Speaker 2: he's entertaining other women, and I'm like I So I
Speaker 2: ran myself dry. I was like I and then trying
Speaker 2: to be this trying to sing go out on stage,
Speaker 2: and that's not an easy schedule. And so when I
Speaker 2: get stressed and I get anxiety, I don't have an appetite.
Speaker 2: So then I lose weight very very quickly, and so
Speaker 2: that gets misled online. So they're like, oh, I get
Speaker 2: shamed for that all the time. They're like you're so
Speaker 2: skinny and are you intorexic, and I mean people comment
Speaker 2: on it all the time and controls all the time.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah. And so that time, I had
Speaker 2: lost so much weight to the point where my mom
Speaker 2: was like freaking out and I'm like I'm fine, I'm fine.
Speaker 2: When I was not fine and towards the end of it,
Speaker 2: he would like break up with me randomly, just randomly,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, what did I what happen? What did
Speaker 2: I do?
Speaker 1: You're questioning your whole worth.
Speaker 2: Then we'd get back together because I was just so
Speaker 2: wrapped into it. This was the last time we got
Speaker 2: back together. I had a girl, she was a college girl.
Speaker 2: They met out on the lake and she sent me
Speaker 2: a snapchat of her laying on his couch and him
Speaker 2: in a towel closing the blinds.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like I saw a visual that was like the
Speaker 2: very very last of it. It was just so bad,
Speaker 2: and it was like at that point I was like,
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, like this is insane. And then I
Speaker 2: remember I was out with Jordan Davis singing Midnight Crisis,
Speaker 2: and we were out on the Lukecomb's tour and that
Speaker 2: was like my job to go out and sing Midnight
Speaker 2: Crisis with Jordan. It was so fun, so fun. And
Speaker 2: that was like when we were not together but still
Speaker 2: fighting all the time. It was like we still were
Speaker 2: in contact. And I get a fan. Actually, a couple
Speaker 2: DMed me and they were like, hey girl. So we
Speaker 2: were at Kava and I know this was your boyfriend,
Speaker 2: but I know this isn't you, and they were like
Speaker 2: wrapped around each other just waiting to get food. I
Speaker 2: got that after I got off stage, and I got
Speaker 2: that DM, and I.
Speaker 3: Just living with your gut falling down all the time.
Speaker 3: You're just like swallowing.
Speaker 2: My body is just being destroyed.
Speaker 1: So after you got off stage, you got that text.
Speaker 2: I got that DM, and my best friend Kyle was
Speaker 2: with me and I just handed. I didn't even say anything.
Speaker 2: I just handed on the phone. And if you're like
Speaker 2: living your dreams on stage, we were having so much
Speaker 2: fun living keaven and hell at the same time, seriously,
Speaker 2: and we were having so much fun. And that's just
Speaker 2: as does the devil does. He's like, hey, you're having
Speaker 2: a good time and you're trying to like live your life,
Speaker 2: but never mind, we ruin it for you. Yeah, And so.
Speaker 3: So you were like actually in complete turmoil while living
Speaker 3: some of the best moments ever life.
Speaker 2: So that for your body a mental like that.
Speaker 3: So you're going high to load and I to load
Speaker 3: just like on a regular basis, what happened to your body,
Speaker 3: what happened to your mental health?
Speaker 2: So bad? It was so bad.
Speaker 1: That was the breakdown.
Speaker 2: I was so low. That's when I wrote Monster, and
Speaker 2: that's when all these songs came about.
Speaker 1: Monster was when you were like in the darkness that
Speaker 1: was a special place. Was that that too?
Speaker 2: Yeah? That was like it related a lot to it
Speaker 2: and just and my mental health was so just down
Speaker 2: the drain and so a lot of it. I had
Speaker 2: to learn how to get back up?
Speaker 1: And how did you close that chapter? Like what was so?
Speaker 2: So I found somebody new and I is that who.
Speaker 1: You're with now? So because the one you're with now
Speaker 1: is so.
Speaker 2: Amazing, cute, so amazing.
Speaker 1: I got the chance to hang out with him. What
Speaker 1: a little stud.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's amazing and great guy.
Speaker 1: Feels like yeah husband material filling green flags and red flags.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, finally, well you deserve it, thank you, yes
Speaker 2: you do, thank you.
Speaker 1: You worked hard for this.
Speaker 2: Thank you. So like yeah, fast forward.
Speaker 1: It was just a lot and it was there like
Speaker 1: a final moment.
Speaker 2: Though there there was and and it didn't end off good.
Speaker 2: But then I had a moment where I was like,
Speaker 2: you know, I still very much like care about this
Speaker 2: person and his mental Like number one, I'm like, I
Speaker 2: just hope he's okay. And I found out a lot
Speaker 2: more stuff, like towards the end where he met a
Speaker 2: girl and she was four months pregnant.
Speaker 1: Is that were Wedding Our Funeral came into play.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're getting married and I still follow a
Speaker 2: lot of the family, and you know, it's I have
Speaker 2: no ties to him at all, Like I just does
Speaker 2: not hit you emotionally. At first, I was like, well,
Speaker 2: this is weird, and because I know there was some overlap,
Speaker 2: and so I'm like, wish.
Speaker 1: So the best he woke got awakening?
Speaker 3: Yeah, So like Wedding Our Funeral because that's a big
Speaker 3: powerful song. That song like knocked me out when I
Speaker 3: heard that one, and I just love that you are
Speaker 3: not here to play. You're like, this is me. I
Speaker 3: am showing up in my truth. I am going to
Speaker 3: sing these songs that hit. So I mean, just hit
Speaker 3: the chord, hit the nerve and the lyrics and this
Speaker 3: it's just phenomenal, Like Wedding Our Funeral if that, I
Speaker 3: mean that song stops you in your tracks and your
Speaker 3: voice is insane?
Speaker 2: Thank you?
Speaker 1: Was that kind of freeing to have that? It was?
Speaker 2: It was it was like the point, it was like
Speaker 2: the moment in the record and then just the song.
Speaker 2: It's like I don't really care anymore. It's like this
Speaker 2: is this is your your bed and mess to deal with,
Speaker 2: and it's like, yeah, it's sad to see, but you're like,
Speaker 2: it's either going to be a wedding or a funeral.
Speaker 2: I don't have to deal with it anymore. It's very haunting.
Speaker 2: It's like two black Cadillacs kind of thing. I love it.
Speaker 2: I love it. It's a vibe Daniel.
Speaker 3: But like what I was just sort of saying, like
Speaker 3: so much intensity has been packed into your life. You're
Speaker 3: growing up, you know, I feel like growing up as
Speaker 3: intense as it is, but like you just like we're.
Speaker 1: On a supercharge, supercharge, you.
Speaker 3: Know, in fame, and then you're having this incredibly supercharged
Speaker 3: relationship that a lot of people don't deal with that
Speaker 3: kind of toxicity. I mean there's a lot of toxic relationships,
Speaker 3: but I mean you really got a big one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you really.
Speaker 1: Learned a lot of lessons.
Speaker 2: I know a lot, and I know everybody has their
Speaker 2: own stories and toxic relationships, but in my moment, I
Speaker 2: was like, I feel like I am this is the
Speaker 2: worst thing ever in the world. So a lot of
Speaker 2: I mean, it brought me a lot of inspiration and
Speaker 2: just a lot of you know, self learning, because it's
Speaker 2: crazy coming from that to what I have now.
Speaker 1: Okay, so how do we meet Eli? Okay? Eli is
Speaker 1: so cute. So you did get to meet his so
Speaker 1: frong and handsome, so nice. He's so dreamy and he's
Speaker 1: so like supportive, like he just came. I was just
Speaker 1: like hanging out with you. He really is.
Speaker 3: He just I felt like he just loves to be
Speaker 3: with you. And he's like a yeah, he's like brilliant.
Speaker 1: He's like a tech person or something. Right.
Speaker 3: Well, he's like a recruiter for sports team. So he
Speaker 3: I don't know, I'm all over the place. It's something
Speaker 3: that's not music. So he yeah, he's not in music.
Speaker 2: And he was a football player and then got out
Speaker 2: of that and now he's a project manager for He's
Speaker 2: still in the sports world, but it like the graphic
Speaker 2: design type of things, right, It's really cool. Yeah, So
Speaker 2: I met him on Broadway. I was a Broadway girl.
Speaker 1: I love.
Speaker 3: I've met all my boyfriends and husband's only one on
Speaker 3: at bars. You know, it's really it's still it's still
Speaker 3: it still works out sometimes.
Speaker 2: I just like it was and I wasn't even drunk
Speaker 2: or anything. I was just out with some friends and
Speaker 2: obviously single, and I was not looking for anybody. I
Speaker 2: was like, my guard is cemented. I'm like, I am
Speaker 2: over this. I'm tired. I'm just chains around, finally gained.
Speaker 1: Good weight, I had a butt. I was like, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I know that.
Speaker 3: You said you've had like people picked on you, but
Speaker 3: you have the most beautiful body I've ever.
Speaker 1: Seen it in my life.
Speaker 2: And face it's, you know, a roller coaster.
Speaker 1: But revenge is nice for you because you are definitely
Speaker 1: winning across the board.
Speaker 2: I was like, I'm feeling I'm comfortable right now, and
Speaker 2: no one bothered me. I was just I was having
Speaker 2: fun with friends, feeling myself. Yeah, And I like and
Speaker 2: back then, I drinking alcohol hurt me because I was
Speaker 2: just like my stomach I had stomach issues because of
Speaker 2: all that. Yes, so I was finally being able to
Speaker 2: have some drinks. I was just I was good. I
Speaker 2: was in a good place and We're out on a
Speaker 2: All Leans rooftop and I was we were just sitting
Speaker 2: at a table and we see all these like tall,
Speaker 2: very handsome men walk in and I'm like, oh, they're cute,
Speaker 2: and I'm I'm very like shy when it comes to
Speaker 2: guys because I won't walk up to you, I won't whatever.
Speaker 2: And so we were just admiring from Afar and I
Speaker 2: was like, that one in the black shirt is cue.
Speaker 2: You had to like a chain and the hat, and
Speaker 2: I was like, he's very handsome, and I just like
Speaker 2: didn't even I did not even think anything of it.
Speaker 2: We weren't all freaking out or we just we were
Speaker 2: just having like a subtle girl conversation.
Speaker 1: Gaggle of hot guys walking though.
Speaker 2: I mean that is it's like they look like football players,
Speaker 2: like they're tall whatever.
Speaker 1: That would get me a little. I'm like, we're crazy.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, you're taking it back to my dating gage.
Speaker 3: Like, oh, that's just like a win when you're out
Speaker 3: with your girls and you're feeling good.
Speaker 2: Yea guy.
Speaker 1: And then here comes a hurt of the I'm like.
Speaker 2: Oh, and you're just you're literally sitting we're sitting at
Speaker 2: a table, and we're just kind of like, alright, all right,
Speaker 2: and so he so we just go about our conversation
Speaker 2: and sure enough they freeze and I look over and
Speaker 2: he's walking our way and he very politely introduced himself to.
Speaker 1: Look's right up to you all.
Speaker 2: Yeah he had Now he's like I was tipsy, So
Speaker 2: that helped because he's not like that either, and he
Speaker 2: was like I So he introduced himself to all my
Speaker 2: friends and then he came around to me and he
Speaker 2: was like, but can I have your number?
Speaker 1: And I was like, so you felt that you picked
Speaker 1: him out and he picked you out. And then he
Speaker 1: came over and said, can I have your number?
Speaker 2: Pall Z I know, I know, and I love hearing
Speaker 2: the story now like now that we're dating, and I
Speaker 2: just like and how he tells it. He was like,
Speaker 2: I literally was about to leave. We're with some friends
Speaker 2: because they were in town for a bachelor thing and
Speaker 2: I was feeling tipsy and I saw you before I left,
Speaker 2: and I was like I can'tnot say anything. And I
Speaker 2: was like, oh, I love that, Like say it again,
Speaker 2: but he yeah, And it's cool is he did not linger.
Speaker 2: He like got my number and he was like, all right,
Speaker 2: well you'll have a wonderful night. Like he just went
Speaker 2: about his thing.
Speaker 1: Then how did he contact you?
Speaker 2: So he texted me and he was like uh, because
Speaker 2: he went to go follow me on Instagram.
Speaker 1: And he didn't know that you were Daniel Bradbury, so
Speaker 1: he didn't know, which is also great.
Speaker 2: I know, I love that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean he found out real fast, but yes,
Speaker 1: so he.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he texted me. And the first thing he texted
Speaker 2: me because he went and followed me, He's like, wait,
Speaker 2: you're a singer and.
Speaker 1: Very good singer.
Speaker 2: He was like, I've I've heard some of your songs
Speaker 2: before and I was like, yeah, and so now I
Speaker 2: know this. But he him and his buddy Jake went
Speaker 2: home and looked me up on YouTube because he was like,
Speaker 2: I was a little worried because everybody's a singer, that
Speaker 2: whole thing. And he was like, I was, we checked
Speaker 2: you out and he was like I had already watched
Speaker 2: your Stop Dragging your Boots music video and I was like,
Speaker 2: that is awesome. That is so awesome. Oh a good video.
Speaker 2: He was like, so I I had already knew, but
Speaker 2: when I met you, I didn't know that that was you.
Speaker 2: I was like, I love that. Yeah. So but it
Speaker 2: was a very slow burn. I did not we did
Speaker 2: not like do anything. We didn't talk like date.
Speaker 1: Right away while you're making out real fast.
Speaker 2: No, no, we're not even gonna kiss. How not like
Speaker 2: we were just hanging out.
Speaker 1: How do you not just like mugged down with you?
Speaker 1: There's very hard not to. There's nerves.
Speaker 2: He even told me, he was like, I was still
Speaker 2: trying to figure you out because I really had a wall.
Speaker 2: I was like, I am not letting anybody in until
Speaker 2: I know Danielle.
Speaker 3: I mean, you're intimidating. If I was a dude too,
Speaker 3: Nerus freaked out.
Speaker 1: You're so gorgeous, You're so like, your style is so incredible,
Speaker 1: your voice is incredible. I mean, you were a lot.
Speaker 1: You have to be very confident to pursue you.
Speaker 2: Oh, I was. It was like the feelings were very
Speaker 2: like mutual. We were trying to both play it cool,
Speaker 2: but we weren't. And he, you know, he has a
Speaker 2: really really fun group of friends from like college and
Speaker 2: football and my group of friends, like we all meshed
Speaker 2: really well, and we all were like it was football
Speaker 2: season when we met, so we would all go out
Speaker 2: to like barstool and watch the game. He played for
Speaker 2: Tennessee and Georgia, so we were like rooting the Tennessee.
Speaker 2: It was just a fun environment. So we got to
Speaker 2: be like kind of friends first which I liked, and
Speaker 2: I you know, he played in the NFL, which was
Speaker 2: really cool, but then got out. But yeah, it was
Speaker 2: like it was cool to like get to know him,
Speaker 2: get to know the whole thing.
Speaker 1: How was the first kiss? I've got to know? When
Speaker 1: the fireworks?
Speaker 2: It was a dare. I felt like I was in
Speaker 2: high school again, like they all his friends and my
Speaker 2: friends were getting so frustrated the fact that we didn't like.
Speaker 1: Long had y'all like been hanging out before you made out?
Speaker 2: Oh it was it was like months a while, like months,
Speaker 2: not a month, but we got us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we are like talking a lot, hanging out and
Speaker 1: kiss and the first time we like hung out by
Speaker 1: our ourselves, like it was in his apartment and we
Speaker 1: just he like wanted to know kind.
Speaker 2: Of like why I was so guarded and so we
Speaker 2: I told him. I didn't get in too much detail,
Speaker 2: but we caught up that way and that was like
Speaker 2: her first time being one on one, Like it was
Speaker 2: just so different. Was it is.
Speaker 1: That where windows came about? After that song?
Speaker 5: No moment, because I feel like, no, it must have
Speaker 5: gone well and no, and again like I won't go
Speaker 5: into detail, but we didn't do anything until like dating.
Speaker 2: I was like, no, you were like no, yeah, And
Speaker 2: he wasn't like he respected me. He was very respectful.
Speaker 2: But you know, we had that conversation to come up
Speaker 2: a few times and he was like, there are points
Speaker 2: where I was like, I'm going to leave her alone
Speaker 2: because I don't know if she likes me or not,
Speaker 2: because I was just so like so he fought for it,
Speaker 2: but I enjoyed him, like I was like, there's something
Speaker 2: about him. And I was obviously like I was keeping
Speaker 2: it in the back of my mind, but we were
Speaker 2: just I was like, I need to know I'm not
Speaker 2: getting in myself in these situations. Again, good for you.
Speaker 2: So yeah, and then sure enough, like the affection started
Speaker 2: to get more and more and I was like, okay,
Speaker 2: I am really falling for him.
Speaker 1: And you felt you could trust it.
Speaker 2: I felt like I could trust it. And then he
Speaker 2: felt like it got to a point where he could
Speaker 2: ask me. So he took me to Hall's Steakhouse. If
Speaker 2: you've ever been to Nashville, you should go. It's amazing.
Speaker 2: And he was so nervous, Oh my, oh my god.
Speaker 2: And when I'm under pressure, I get nervous. I kind
Speaker 2: of shut down to the point where I don't have
Speaker 2: an emotion, okay, I just kind of and that freaked
Speaker 2: him out even more. And so I was just like
Speaker 2: sitting there having a espresso martini and I was just whatever.
Speaker 2: And he was like, so you like me and I
Speaker 2: like you, why don't we just date?
Speaker 5: And I was like you dot art yeah, and I
Speaker 5: go okay, and I that was this.
Speaker 1: Okay, how long ago?
Speaker 2: Was October third, So we're almost a year. So we're
Speaker 2: coming up on a year.
Speaker 1: And has it been like besides just like our relationship,
Speaker 1: has it been great?
Speaker 2: It's been nine day difference really would have been the
Speaker 2: would have been the green flags and the good just
Speaker 2: is a man, okay, I mean love scream that ot
Speaker 2: the rooftops greenmit girl. He's a man. I don't have
Speaker 2: to take care of him.
Speaker 1: Love that he is.
Speaker 2: He has a more. Our personalities are total opposites, but
Speaker 2: I think that works in a way. Like I am
Speaker 2: super affectionate with my words and just physically and like
Speaker 2: I will show you I like I really care about
Speaker 2: you and love you, and he didn't. Really he's not
Speaker 2: that way, but he he's like, obviously we're dating and
Speaker 2: we love each other, so it's there. But at first
Speaker 2: he's very serious. He can be silly and everything, but
Speaker 2: drinking kind of helped him, like whatever. He wasn't shy,
Speaker 2: he was just kind of more like I'm a man
Speaker 2: and I don't.
Speaker 4: Need to like whatever on Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and so that was a lot to get used
Speaker 2: to at first. But yeah, he's just I mean, he
Speaker 2: does things for me, like he'll wash the dishes. This
Speaker 2: is all very big for me. So that's why I'm like,
Speaker 2: it's dramatic, like he washes the dishes, he helps me
Speaker 2: make my bed, like he takes my trash out, like
Speaker 2: he does things for me. You know, it's just thoughtful.
Speaker 1: He's thankful. He's thinking of what would be helpful in
Speaker 1: your life. And I don't have to ask, like how
Speaker 1: have you changed since being in this relationship and how
Speaker 1: has he impacted your music?
Speaker 2: Oh my god?
Speaker 1: Is he a part of Danielle?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and there's more more to come. I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: say anything. I'm a little surprised, but.
Speaker 1: I heard you singing a little bit of something on
Speaker 1: TikTok about a new song coming.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought, very exciting. Yeah, I'm excited for that.
Speaker 1: But how has he impacted you and your music.
Speaker 2: So I kind of said it earlier, but it has
Speaker 2: been the most learning lesson for me, Like now the
Speaker 2: hard like mirrors turned on me because he like he
Speaker 2: hadn't dated anyone for four years before me, Like obviously
Speaker 2: he's all people and whatever, but he just wasn't going
Speaker 2: to get in a relationship. Was picky.
Speaker 3: Amazing, I know, and especially like as a dude, a
Speaker 3: young dude, to be able to just be like no,
Speaker 3: I'm just not going to like yeah and SUPs a
Speaker 3: day for you really here with very relationship, Verry.
Speaker 2: So it was very refreshing to hear that. And it's
Speaker 2: just been a learning learning curve because coming from what
Speaker 2: I did to to a healthy relationship, I put a
Speaker 2: lot of blame on him that he doesn't deserve. Like
Speaker 2: that's been a hard oh, he we've gotten We've gone
Speaker 2: through a lot of conversations where he's like, Danielle, you
Speaker 2: have got to trust me or this won't work because.
Speaker 1: That's so hard because you're supposed to trust my last
Speaker 1: one so hard. I'm not that guy.
Speaker 2: I'm not that guy, and I you know, we've had
Speaker 2: those hard conversations where like he and obviously like that
Speaker 2: is so frustrating for somebody to like question and be
Speaker 2: like on the fence and like all that stuff. Like
Speaker 2: I see where the frustration comes from him. And so
Speaker 2: I don't like you've got to take a deep look inside.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and I still it's still we're in the
Speaker 2: middle of it.
Speaker 1: What are you seeing in there?
Speaker 2: Like I do? Oh, it's you know, there's a lot
Speaker 2: of work. I just I have a lot of insecurities
Speaker 2: that I've gained. Like I am naturally a very you know,
Speaker 2: I'm I'm confident. I don't I'm I don't want to
Speaker 2: look like anybody else, Like I'm I like what I have.
Speaker 2: But there those relationships had, you know, made me insecure.
Speaker 2: If you know a guy is going to go and
Speaker 2: be with other girls that don't look like you, that
Speaker 2: makes you a little insecure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and uh, it makes you feel like it's simply
Speaker 1: physically based instead of you are as a human being.
Speaker 1: That's been a big thing because physical is obviously amazing,
Speaker 1: but it's like it's about you as a human connecting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you probably maybe didn't feel like your value.
Speaker 2: No, And there are moments where I've had to check
Speaker 2: myself where I'm like, oh my god, I don't I
Speaker 2: don't have this. I don't have that.
Speaker 3: For everyone in the world would die to look like you,
Speaker 3: like you and have your sweetness.
Speaker 1: I mean, you are a ten out of ten out
Speaker 1: of ten out of ten.
Speaker 2: Thank you. But you know, there are moments where I
Speaker 2: would just be really in my head. And so I
Speaker 2: brought a lot of what those guys made me feel
Speaker 2: into thinking Eli's going to do the same to me,
Speaker 2: and he's going to make me feel like this, and
Speaker 2: what does he seeing all these other girls? And I've
Speaker 2: had these real thoughts and real conversations like I and
Speaker 2: and so to the point where he it's like gotten
Speaker 2: ridiculous where I'm like why did I just say that?
Speaker 2: Like why did I just bring that up? And so
Speaker 2: I've had to I've had to learn. I've had to really,
Speaker 2: you know, like really put myself in time out sometimes
Speaker 2: where I'm like okay, like okay, I've had to really
Speaker 2: swallow my pride with you know, how I talk, you know,
Speaker 2: about things into him and tell him like I do
Speaker 2: have some securities and I'm really trying to work it out.
Speaker 2: And he's also had to show, you know, patience, and
Speaker 2: it's been like the most healthy and like growing relationship
Speaker 2: I've ever experienced. I mean, I'm twenty eight, but you know,
Speaker 2: everything that I've been through, it's you know, crazy.
Speaker 3: Is your intuition when you really go into your intuition?
Speaker 3: Is your intuition like feeling so great though less compared?
Speaker 3: You know, because like your intuition always knows oh yeah,
Speaker 3: and now you feel secure I do. You can always
Speaker 3: come back.
Speaker 2: So anytime I feel anything, I'm like, I know it's
Speaker 2: not him. He's not making me feel this way. It's
Speaker 2: my fight or flight and the anxiety giving me those
Speaker 2: gut like is this a gut feeling or is this
Speaker 2: just anxiety? Like I've had to really find that balance
Speaker 2: and figure out the two because fight or flight mode
Speaker 2: and getting out of that is the hardest thing I've
Speaker 2: ever had to do. It is the hardest thing because
Speaker 2: every little thing I'm like, oh my god, is he
Speaker 2: doing this? And I travel so I'm like, is he
Speaker 2: doing this? Is he talking to this girl?
Speaker 1: You're having to.
Speaker 3: Do all of this while you were like presenting your
Speaker 3: whole life in front of the public.
Speaker 1: That is a lot to navigate, Danielle.
Speaker 3: I mean, you're navigating these insane relationships while you're on
Speaker 3: stage and you're navigating your career at the same time,
Speaker 3: Like this is a lot and you're growing up from
Speaker 3: a teenager into a woman.
Speaker 2: Why.
Speaker 3: I mean, you're changing your style, You're coming into your sound,
Speaker 3: You're coming into who you are as a woman as
Speaker 3: as a believing in yourself in all ways.
Speaker 1: You're obviously you part of ways like record deals too.
Speaker 1: I don't know, have you had multiple records? You no,
Speaker 1: you see you were with Big Machines was the first
Speaker 1: time and now you're independent.
Speaker 2: So it's scary.
Speaker 1: How was that?
Speaker 3: Because Danielle is like independent, you are putting this album
Speaker 3: out by yourself. This is your music. It's country, but
Speaker 3: there's like R and B, there's soul, there's pop. There's
Speaker 3: a lot of sounds coming in this album. Like there
Speaker 3: is like you're pushing yourself. You're pushing you know, the
Speaker 3: genre in a way that it's you. So how has
Speaker 3: that been transitioning from being with the label to now
Speaker 3: being independent and putting up this album independently.
Speaker 2: It's been a change. Like I've been, you know, with
Speaker 2: Big Machines since I literally walked off the voice stage.
Speaker 2: I met them and that was the family. I walked
Speaker 2: into and so that's all I've known. And so yeah,
Speaker 2: it's this new album is a lot of like okay,
Speaker 2: like I've this is what I've learned, you know, just
Speaker 2: being and experiencing all of this, and now I'm like, okay,
Speaker 2: let's take everything I've learned and just like experiment. Now.
Speaker 2: I think that's what needs to happen best for me.
Speaker 2: And you know, I will say, like they've been so supportive,
Speaker 2: and everyone's been so supportive, and that's more than I
Speaker 2: could ever ask for. And you know, I hate bad blood.
Speaker 2: I hate you know, just any bitterness. I hate that.
Speaker 2: Like I want everyone to feel good no matter what.
Speaker 1: Sometimes seasons and chapters just close.
Speaker 2: That's exactly, Yes, that's exactly like you know the phase
Speaker 2: that we've come to, and it's been it's been fun,
Speaker 2: like just to see what I can do and you know,
Speaker 2: the music that I'm able to do and and write
Speaker 2: and whatever come across to and and just like I've
Speaker 2: never had to have like the like what genre am
Speaker 2: I in? Or make sure like this song sounds like this,
Speaker 2: Like it's been so freeing to just like just make
Speaker 2: the music and not have agenda. Yeah, so it's been
Speaker 2: it's been fun.
Speaker 1: It's been like terrifying too.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh the anxiety I've had before the coming
Speaker 2: this record coming out, like poor Eli.
Speaker 4: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: He's like steady as a horse. He's got back with him.
Speaker 1: You need, I need, and he.
Speaker 2: Is he handles he handles his emotions a little too well,
Speaker 2: like sometimes I'm.
Speaker 1: Like, show me that fire, show me something.
Speaker 2: Now we laugh and talk about it all the time,
Speaker 2: but I uh, I need that because I'm like off
Speaker 2: the hand, I'm like, I'm my anxiety.
Speaker 4: I can't sleep.
Speaker 2: I you know, my stomach is just everything I eat
Speaker 2: hurts it. Like I'm freaking out. I'm freaking out. And
Speaker 2: He's just like here, He's just here and he's like,
Speaker 2: you know, tell it, talks me through it. And I
Speaker 2: have an amazing, you know, support system with my family,
Speaker 2: and so I talk to them all the time about it.
Speaker 2: And it was it was terrifying.
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 2: I had a full on breakdown moment the day before
Speaker 2: I flew out to New York. This was just like
Speaker 2: a week ago where I was like, I'm crying and
Speaker 2: I have no idea.
Speaker 1: Why what do you think was giving you the most anxiety?
Speaker 2: I think I was just overwhelmed with emotions. I'm like,
Speaker 2: all of this time and all of this even personal,
Speaker 2: and just like everything that I've experienced is all now
Speaker 2: like come to this point and you know, being off
Speaker 2: being a solo, you know, album and having songs that
Speaker 2: I'm just like, this has never felt so good. And
Speaker 2: then you're like, I hope people love it, and I
Speaker 2: hope it you know, I hope it succeeds, and there's
Speaker 2: just so many things going through my head, and I
Speaker 2: think that's it got to I was packing and I
Speaker 2: was on FaceTime with my mom and my sister, and I.
Speaker 4: Was like, I was like, I'm I like, I feel
Speaker 4: like crying.
Speaker 2: I don't know why.
Speaker 4: And they were like, just let it out.
Speaker 2: You're it's all going to be fine, but You're just
Speaker 2: you're overwhelmed, and I was like, yeah, I am. I
Speaker 2: was like, I just I'm so overwhelmed. A part of
Speaker 2: me is scared, but.
Speaker 1: Not in like the like oh my god.
Speaker 2: It was just it was, you know, I don't know
Speaker 2: how to even explain it. I was just it was
Speaker 2: a scary but emotional and exciting feeling all at once.
Speaker 3: So you've obviously experienced already some of the biggest highs
Speaker 3: you can can have in a career, Like you won
Speaker 3: one of the biggest competitive shows in America, The Voice
Speaker 3: at the youngest age possible. Yea, You've signed to one
Speaker 3: of the best labels ever. You've had songs out, You've
Speaker 3: toured with everyone, and you've had these high, high high
Speaker 3: moments you went straight into like talk shows and TV
Speaker 3: shows and all that you had the highest of highs.
Speaker 1: What is the goal for you now? Like, what is
Speaker 1: success for you? Now?
Speaker 3: Now that you know you've seen behind the veil, you
Speaker 3: know the highs and the lows?
Speaker 1: What are you if you're going.
Speaker 3: To have a successful career to play out how you wanted?
Speaker 3: What does success look like to you?
Speaker 2: Know? Well, you know, it's been such a crazy roller
Speaker 2: coaster because I've kind of had to you know, I
Speaker 2: know what that feels like. But now I'm not at
Speaker 2: square one. But sometimes it does feel like that, And
Speaker 2: you're like, Okay, so I have this new and twenty
Speaker 2: eight year old version of me, Like, Okay, how am
Speaker 2: I going to present her to the world.
Speaker 1: I feel like Danielle has arrived. I mean you are
Speaker 1: so you have arrived.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's just a lot of you know, I just
Speaker 2: I want to show that you can be very vulnerable.
Speaker 2: I want to show that you can be super honest
Speaker 2: and not have to have this like mask on because
Speaker 2: I genuinely, genuinely like I cannot being fake or being
Speaker 2: like any like acting about like I can't. I genuinely
Speaker 2: just I can't do it. And my mom has even
Speaker 2: like kicked me under the table because I show my
Speaker 2: emotions on my face. I can't hide anything. I can't. Ever,
Speaker 2: She's like, Danielle, you looked, you.
Speaker 4: Just looks like you didn't want to.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm sorry, I just I can't. But I just,
Speaker 2: you know, I just want to like just have that
Speaker 2: all throughout my music and show like, yeah, these are
Speaker 2: like real things I've been through, and when you go
Speaker 2: through something so just heartbreaking, you don't have to like
Speaker 2: bash the guy. You just here's like a perspective, like
Speaker 2: on my side of it, like you can deal with
Speaker 2: heartbreak this way, and like, I just I love That's
Speaker 2: where the experimenting part of it is. Where I love
Speaker 2: just finding different ways that you can sing about things
Speaker 2: or talk about things, and maybe not many people hear
Speaker 2: it in like that way or just like I'm kind
Speaker 2: of bouncing around all over the place right now. But
Speaker 2: I just like I want to pave a way that's
Speaker 2: just different and honest and real and yeah and just like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't even know. There's just a lot that I
Speaker 2: want to do, even outside of music. Like, I love fashion.
Speaker 1: I experience your fashion is phenomenal.
Speaker 2: Thank you. I experienced my very first New York Fashion Week.
Speaker 2: Literally just this past week was it, and it was
Speaker 2: really it was a whole different world. It was really
Speaker 2: cool to take you there. It was just we went
Speaker 2: to for an events. I got to go to a
Speaker 2: fashion show and watch them walk down the you know, runway,
Speaker 2: and I'm just like, I feel so out of place.
Speaker 2: But also I'm like this is so cool to take
Speaker 2: in and just learn about it. But uh, yeah, I
Speaker 2: just like I want to do stuff like like that
Speaker 2: and and do different.
Speaker 3: Things that you know, all go under this one creative
Speaker 3: umbrella and give a lot of little facets that you
Speaker 3: want to pursue. Yes, And I feel like, and I'll
Speaker 3: wrap up because we're already at an hour and I
Speaker 3: freaking I love talking to.
Speaker 1: You so much.
Speaker 3: But do you feel like there was like a little
Speaker 3: bit of a detox that had to happen. We had
Speaker 3: Maddie and tay On earlier and they started super young also,
Speaker 3: and it's like they had to like overcome this hurdle
Speaker 3: of like finding themselves and kind of like unplugging from
Speaker 3: the machine that they were plugged into. Because when you start,
Speaker 3: you have the actual voice, but like your voice of.
Speaker 1: What you want to say isn't fully there. You know.
Speaker 3: Was that a season for you where you had to go?
Speaker 3: Is that like in this past six years you've kind
Speaker 3: of just been on this journey.
Speaker 2: I've had to definitely like just it like demolition like
Speaker 2: a house basically kind of like start over, right.
Speaker 3: You had to get rid of a lot of probably people, teammates.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I've had to you know, move some
Speaker 2: things around a little bit, because you know, I mean
Speaker 2: that's just life. I feel like, no matter what, and
Speaker 2: not even in the industry, like just in life, you
Speaker 2: have to you can't do things with with old you
Speaker 2: just have to kind.
Speaker 3: Of but that transition period when you're changing from one
Speaker 3: way and you're like waking up.
Speaker 1: Into because you're so used to it. Oh, it's so
Speaker 1: it's so hard on It's.
Speaker 2: Like cliche, like you just you have to be. You
Speaker 2: have to get out of your comfort zone or else
Speaker 2: you're not gonna.
Speaker 1: You'll die on that vine.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 2: It's so true though until you actually experience it, it's
Speaker 2: hard to You're like, oh no, like that's scary, or
Speaker 2: you don't want to put yourself there, but you it's
Speaker 2: it has to be done.
Speaker 1: Are you so proud of yourself for the way?
Speaker 2: And I am very future.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of work mentally too, like a lot
Speaker 1: of mental health work.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there were times where I'm like this is low,
Speaker 2: this is very low, and so I had to really,
Speaker 2: like you know, get out of that. So I'm very
Speaker 2: proud of myself.
Speaker 3: I'm so proud of you, Danielle. How do you recharge?
Speaker 3: How do you take care of yourself? I love being outside,
Speaker 3: I love nature. I love just being obviously with Eli,
Speaker 3: and I have a dog that I'm very obsessed with, Leo.
Speaker 2: I'm so obsessed with him. So I love me and
Speaker 2: just with them and with my family and just yeah,
Speaker 2: I love my alone time and just like just being
Speaker 2: with myself and I yeah, I'm I'm really such an introvert,
Speaker 2: but you.
Speaker 1: Love such an extrovert. Yeah, it's hard to an introvert
Speaker 1: extrovert a little bit abound. Simone comes out.
Speaker 2: Someone comes out. I'll hit points where I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 2: I gotta I gotta go recharge, and then I'll be
Speaker 2: I'll be back. But yeah, I've definitely found a balance,
Speaker 2: and like, just I try to really think about myself
Speaker 2: now because I used to not at all, and I struggle,
Speaker 2: like I'm a very like I put a lot of
Speaker 2: people before myself and I do that with friends, I
Speaker 2: do that with everybody, and so I'm like, no, no,
Speaker 2: I care about you.
Speaker 1: I love you.
Speaker 4: But I'm like I.
Speaker 1: Got audres because I have. Yeah, you can't let you
Speaker 1: know what it's like to let it. You've pulled yourself out.
Speaker 1: You can't go back there again. Yes, once you've pulled
Speaker 1: yourself out and you know what it's like to experience
Speaker 1: that low and now you're so healthy, it's like you
Speaker 1: have to protect yourself. Yeah, you have to. I'm so
Speaker 1: freaking proud of you. Danielle.
Speaker 3: And this album, Danielle, the album that's out is so phenomenal.
Speaker 1: It's so great. It's just so good. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: the vibe is so great, it's so sexy, it's so real.
Speaker 1: You're just hitting on a Broken Boy. I mean, what
Speaker 1: a great song.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, it's so great the lyrics. I feel
Speaker 3: like you're just not scared. To be really honest, I
Speaker 3: love it, and I'm I'm getting to know you and
Speaker 3: we've gotten to see you grow up, and I'm so
Speaker 3: excited for you that you're entering this chapter where you
Speaker 3: are fully in control and you can feel it, like
Speaker 3: the way you present yourself, the way you're presenting your music,
Speaker 3: this relationship you're in, like you have like literally taken
Speaker 3: a hold of your vehicle and you are driving it.
Speaker 3: You are in charge, and you are setting the tone
Speaker 3: and you're putting yourself out there and the way that
Speaker 3: you want to be presented, and it's so exciting to see.
Speaker 3: I'm just so excited that you're feeling so great and
Speaker 3: that you're so healthy and you're such a healthy spot
Speaker 3: with it, because it takes a while to get there.
Speaker 2: It takes a while, and I'm still like, I haven't
Speaker 2: mastered it. I'm definitely in the process of it, but
Speaker 2: I am.
Speaker 3: But you're on the road a lot better than on
Speaker 3: the right road, yes, And it's going in the right places.
Speaker 3: And I just feel like this is honestly, like the beginning,
Speaker 3: I feel like you're about to burst into this next level.
Speaker 2: I hope.
Speaker 1: So I really do, I really do, Danielle. I'm so
Speaker 1: excited for you. So Danielle's out. Yes, there's more to come.
Speaker 2: I'm just not to come. So pay attention.
Speaker 1: And are you? Are you touring right now? So I'm
Speaker 1: doing these album release shows.
Speaker 2: So I did New York, I'm about to do La Chicago,
Speaker 2: and then I'll be in Nashville, So please come.
Speaker 1: Yes, freaking love it. Okay.
Speaker 3: I always wrap up with leave your Light, and it's
Speaker 3: just a super open ended question. Okay, what do you
Speaker 3: want people to know? How do you want to inspire people?
Speaker 2: Oh? Man, this is actually I love this question because
Speaker 2: I and I know a lot of people have their
Speaker 2: different feels and things about it, and it's a whole
Speaker 2: nother world. But I am so into my faith and
Speaker 2: I am really like I've always been into my faith
Speaker 2: for my entire life and it's just in my family.
Speaker 2: But I've recently watched The Chosen. Have you heard about that?
Speaker 1: Is that where people vanish?
Speaker 2: People will manage It's no, it's the story of Jesus.
Speaker 1: Like people are on airplanes that they vanished because they
Speaker 1: were okay, okay, like Jesus was the chosen Jesus. Yes, okay.
Speaker 2: So it's a series and I Eli and I actually
Speaker 2: have been watching it every night and has been very
Speaker 2: good for us.
Speaker 1: So you'll faith is strong together, very strong. Oh key,
Speaker 1: I love that. I mean key, I feel like, do
Speaker 1: youeel like that's kind of like crucial.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that has been such a huge that's like attractive.
Speaker 2: That is so attractive.
Speaker 3: Having a strong faith is actually the most attractive because
Speaker 3: you know that, like nothing is going to shake them
Speaker 3: because they're faith.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so strong, yes, And I feel like I know
Speaker 2: a lot, but he knows more than me and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 2: teach me. Okay.
Speaker 1: So it's an inspiring little relationships. Oh so I know, yes,
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: So we've we've recently and it's been around for a
Speaker 2: while and they're actually about to come out the season five.
Speaker 2: But it's like kind of open this new perspective and
Speaker 2: door for me and you could on this album is
Speaker 2: about God and having a conversation with him because.
Speaker 3: You're asking God to change this toxic relationship but he
Speaker 3: doesn't obviously, yes.
Speaker 2: And so I feel like in a way. I just
Speaker 2: I want to leave a path with you know that topic,
Speaker 2: and if I can somehow leave an impact because this
Speaker 2: world is so scary. It is. It is so scary,
Speaker 2: and there have been things that I've watched recently and
Speaker 2: just it it's a very interesting like there's a lot
Speaker 2: of darkness, there's a lot of there's a lot of
Speaker 2: things to be afraid of.
Speaker 1: A lot when you have God enlighten you.
Speaker 2: I have that, and for me personally, it makes me
Speaker 2: feel at peace. It makes me feel like I can
Speaker 2: take a deep breath, and I'm like, if I can
Speaker 2: do that for people and kind of let them walk
Speaker 2: away thinking differently, then I want to do that.
Speaker 3: I love that, Danielle, and I could not support you
Speaker 3: more because I feel like, especially in the same age,
Speaker 3: when you are a light and you are so confident
Speaker 3: in your faith and like no, no, no, that God
Speaker 3: is so real.
Speaker 1: It took me a long time.
Speaker 3: To like I always knew God was real, right, but
Speaker 3: like I had to go on a big journey to
Speaker 3: feel it for myself. Oh yeah, And then once you
Speaker 3: feel the truth of God, it's like Okay, nothing can
Speaker 3: shake it because you know it to be real for yourself.
Speaker 1: And it's like that's all you want people to know,
Speaker 1: fel but that you have to get that true feeling,
Speaker 1: not just what you've been taught or passed down, but
Speaker 1: like the true feeling of God.
Speaker 3: Because once that's in your life, Yeah, it really makes you.
Speaker 3: Like you're saying about Eli, just sturdy and strong. You
Speaker 3: can't be shaken. I know, well the world can shake you,
Speaker 3: but you always come back right right, right, So I
Speaker 3: feel like in the world we live in.
Speaker 2: Now, we could we give you some of that.
Speaker 1: So heck yes, when to use your voice for good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're amazing.
Speaker 3: I mean you're so amazing. I freaking love you. Danielle
Speaker 3: gratulation we go way did do the.
Speaker 1: Work girl, daniel Bradberry, You're amazing. Do you know what
Speaker 1: you're going on? Of course?
Speaker 2: Yay. Hey then