WEBVTT - Rachel Reinert 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:16.239 Carola. She's the queen of talking. He was sown. She's 0:00:16.280 --> 0:00:19.360 on the side, she got the snoop on on the 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:28.360 one side. No one can do within clide Carola, Carola, 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:36.800 No one can do within Cli Caral This Timple Caroline. Hey, y'all, 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:40.440 welcome to Hyper Caroline Hobby. I am your host, Caroline Hobby. 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:43.040 I know music, I know people, and I know the 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:45.959 questions do you want to ask? So let's get hyper 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:49.959 heads up. These are adults having adult conversations, so there 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:54.640 could be adult content. This episode is Rachel Reiner and 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:57.560 she is the beautiful, gorgeous brunette from the band Gloriana. 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:00.640 We talk all about what life was like in the band, 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:05.080 how they won their the American Music Award Breakthrough Artists 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:07.880 in two thousand and ten against Lady Gaga. They're huge hits, 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:09.959 one of my favorite songs ever, kissed You good Night. 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:12.520 And we talked about what life is like for her 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:15.440 post breakup. This is the first interview she did when 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:22.520 she broke up with Corriana. So, y'all welcome Rachel. Okay, Hello, Rachel. 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:25.760 How do you say your last name? Rein? Because I 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:31.000 thought it was hard. Yeah, it's okay. Heart's good to Rachel. 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:34.600 We're here with in her lovely house with her ukulele. 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:36.920 So I'm gonna say a word, and you say the 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:41.640 first thing that comes to your mind. Okay, okay, sexy 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:48.520 time tattoos. Eight, I've got eight of them. You have 0:01:48.640 --> 0:02:00.600 eight tattoos, little ones. I have one here, two, three, four, five, six, seven, 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:03.720 and then I technically have seven because I had one removed, 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:08.840 So you move on my forearm. When I was eighteen, 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:14.200 I was on the road with Gloriana and I decided 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:18.160 in Vegas to get a tattoo of a music note, 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:22.040 and then it turned out horrible, so later on I 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:24.079 was like, I'll just add wings to it, and then 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:27.640 it got it was horrible, so where it was on 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:30.600 my forearm, so oh my gosh. So they really did 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:34.320 a great removal. Yeah, so it works. It works because 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:37.040 I got my first one, and Michael, my husband, wrote 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:40.200 grateful in his hand writing cute. But originally when I 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:42.560 first got it, it was immediate regret, like, oh my god, 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:45.280 I ruined my body, like that life is over. I 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:46.799 called my dirt Hodges and I was like, how do 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:49.400 I get this thing off? Because I'm not going to 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:54.679 I love it now but instant regret. Yeah. Yeah, so 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:57.000 they numb you at the place that I went to. 0:02:57.160 --> 0:02:59.160 And and the only thing is that it just takes 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:01.079 a really long time because you have to wait like 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:05.640 six weeks in between each process. So how long I 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:08.960 think I went through about ten different treatments, So it 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:12.760 took about a year to get it completely off. Yeah girl, 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:17.160 you can't even tell thanks, we have seven point five 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:23.480 well yeah, yeah, yeah, and it goes okay, crush, oh 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:26.720 Dave girl. I put him in here because I saw 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:30.160 that you loved. I love Dave girl. Do what do 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:33.240 you love about him? His hair just everyway, it's so funny, 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:36.920 and he's really smart, and he just is such a 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:40.720 lover of music and the knowledge of music and he 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:44.240 spreads that and I just adore that. And it's just 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:48.080 his energy, his aura, um, you know, the he's just 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:50.680 a funny, cool guy and he's such a well rounded 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:54.200 musician and a great songwriter and I just admire everything 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:56.560 about that. I totally agree. Yeah, I loved a girl. 0:03:56.640 --> 0:04:05.320 He's awesome. Okay, wine uh boxed, clearly, box girl. I 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:09.160 am like when I'm home for some reason, you know, 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:12.520 just because typically, um, if I get a bottle of wine. 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:14.880 I'll only drink like one or two glasses and then 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:17.479 it just goes bad because I'll forget about it, or 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:20.279 you know, I'll leave town or whatever. So it's just 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:23.120 easier for me to get that because I know I 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:25.560 can keep it for a long time. And you get 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:28.039 like four bottles in one box, so you don't really 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:29.839 have to keep running back to the store and doing 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:35.120 all that. So it's conveniens. What's your favorite cocktail? Oh? Um? Actually, 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:38.680 and there's like no sponsorship whatsoever, but you would think 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:41.279 that there is because I talk about it all the time. 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:46.480 But I love the deep Eddies Ruby red grapefruit grapefruit 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:49.520 vodka with love soda. That's it. That's all you need. 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:51.440 I think it's the best things because you don't have 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:54.279 to have a mixture because it's sweet. Yeah, it's perfect, 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:56.240 it's really but it's not too sweet, so that's the 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:58.160 good part about it. I'm going to steal that you 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:01.280 Blacktack cocktail. I'm telling you you're going to go through 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:04.520 those bottles because they're like, it is so good. It's 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:09.440 a good go too. It's very refreshing too. I love that. Okay, disgusting, 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:14.479 Oh uh, chewing with your mouth open and I can't 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:17.919 take it. It's really bad, that's true. Yeah, I hate 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:21.640 that and smacking. Yeah, just about thing you're looking. Just 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:26.800 know you want? Yes, you need some at the dining table? Yes, 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:32.600 eat lightly? Yeah, okay, dog, I wish I had one, 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:36.479 want one so bad? I do? I do, I have three. 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:39.440 I'll give you one, okay, seriously, I just just drop 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:42.120 it off. I got an extra one and you can 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:46.560 have her. She's great potty train. That would be perfect. 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:49.240 I seriously want one, and I've been thinking about it 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:53.360 a lot, so I hopefully maybe this year I might. 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:57.520 I might do it. Come over me, what you think? Okay, okay, 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:10.680 must oh, I'm must oh. Gosh what hair spray? You 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:13.760 have great hair. You look like there's hair spray in it. 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:17.480 The hairspray that I use. I love it because it's 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:20.520 it gives me flexibility. But for some I don't know, 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:23.600 it's like a security blanket. For me because I really 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:26.400 like the bumble and bubble in a red can. It's 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:28.880 amazing because it looks like you literally have no hair spray. 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:31.240 I like, and I honestly it's like every day I 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:33.800 have to just even just like a little missed, just 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:36.800 to make myself feel complete, you know what I mean. 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:39.120 If I don't have that, it's like I'm just not 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:41.839 going to get through the day and be all right totally. 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:45.320 I hear you, well, looks thank you. I was gonna 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:49.200 ask you dave girl, but you've already said he's your crush. Yes, okay. 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:53.200 So I also saw you talk about this close talkers. 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:58.040 Oh my god. Yeah, just keep a distance. People get 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:01.000 up in your girl sometimes. Yeah, you know, and I'll 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:04.560 tolerate it, but it just like it freaks me out 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:07.280 because you know, it's like you just I don't know, 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:10.000 it's like you just get kind of you don't want 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:15.120 to smell each other's So how much space is is appropriate? 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:17.240 This is a great space right here. So like you 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:20.640 think like an arms length way someone, Yeah, give yourself 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:24.440 an arms like arms length is great. I agree. Just 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:28.480 smell each other's breath, catch the spits right exactly exactly. 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:33.720 You can still hear me, I can still hear you, perfect, okay. 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:39.440 And music, oh um, the first thing that comes to mind, Vinyl. 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:41.880 I mean, and I've got a huge collection over there. 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:46.240 I've been really lucky to inherit. My dad's yeah, it's 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:49.280 my dad's. So dad's a big music person. Yeah yeah, 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:52.040 and he and and my mom too, but really mostly 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:55.080 my dad really influenced a lot of you know, the 0:07:55.600 --> 0:08:00.280 seventies rock and country, uh, you know music sick that 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:02.600 I grew to love. And you know, they had a 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:07.520 really well rounded, uh collection of music that they introduced 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:10.840 me to as a kid. So the musicians, no, no, nobody, 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:13.040 nobody in my family except for me as a musician. 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:15.560 Where'd you get your love? I have no idea. I 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:18.480 just I started singing when I was really really little, 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:21.920 and I the first piece of music that I ever 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:24.080 got was a cassette tape of Cheryl Crow's All I 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:26.280 Want to Do? So did that set the tone for 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:29.400 your musical? Completely? Completely? It was the only song that 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:31.520 I wanted to listen to, and I learned every single 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:33.480 word and I sang along to it, and that was 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:36.400 just really the beginning of everything for me. And I 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:39.280 was always singing along to the radio, always doing that, 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:43.360 always performing for everybody. Just I was just a weird kid. 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:46.360 But he went to performance school. I did, Yeah, at 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:50.240 like seventh grade. Yeah, that's when I first started out. Well, actually, 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:55.600 I did a lot of community theater up until that point. Oh, okay, 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:58.000 so where I lived. Yeah, so theater is the beginning 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:01.600 of it. Yeah, acting and sing, singing, all of it. 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:05.240 And I loved musicals and I originally really thought that 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:07.600 I was gonna go to New York and go and 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:11.760 do Broadway. Really and somewhere along the way between when 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:14.520 I got accepted into the Performing Arts school for the 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:18.080 musical theater department. This is in Florida. This was in California. 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:21.720 So you left your family in Florida, so we moved 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:23.680 we I was born in Florida, and then we lived 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:27.120 in Marietta, Georgia, until I was five, and then we 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:30.679 moved to California. Um. And it was that a coincidence 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:32.480 or to help you pursue your career. It was just 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:36.559 my dad got a job out there, and I actually 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:39.480 so if we could go all the way back. Um. I. 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:43.240 So I was big into music, big into singing, and 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:46.800 so my mom started putting me into local community theater 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:50.520 and I got scouted by this agent after one of 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:53.720 the shows when I was like six, and my mom 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:57.280 drove me up to this agency and I sang for them, 0:09:57.280 --> 0:10:00.040 performed for them, and they signed me that day and 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:03.760 and yeah, and so I got one commercial. Which one 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:06.600 it was for I don't know if anybody remembers it, 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:08.840 but it was for Hills Department Store and it was 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:11.800 with Brett Butler from the show Grace under Fire. Oh 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:14.000 my gosh, did you feel like you had made it? 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:15.880 It was a wild experience for me because I was 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:18.560 so little. I was like seven, you know, and so 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:22.000 it was just such a crazy time. But because I 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:25.200 was traveling to Los Angeles a lot, so my mom 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:26.720 would drive me. It was it would take like two 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:29.600 hours to get to Los Angeles and I would go 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:31.600 on all these auditions and I was missing school and 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:33.680 all that, and so she decided to kind of pull 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:36.160 me out of it and just let me focus on 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:40.080 doing theater. And so I I did theater for about 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:43.440 ten years where I lived, and then I got into 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:46.599 the performing arts school, and then I just started to 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:48.679 pick up the guitar and started playing that. And I 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:52.439 was really big into poetry. I was probably about twelve 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:56.200 or thirteen at that time. Yeah, and then I had 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:59.000 poetry and I decided to start putting the two together 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:03.080 and started writing my own songs. And then I became 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:07.080 friends with this dance teacher that I had, and he 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:10.000 was like, you have such an amazing voice. And I 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:13.520 have this friend who has a recording studio set up 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:16.960 in his garage, So on the weekends and during the summer, 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:19.080 I would go over there and we would write and 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:23.679 I would record these garage studio demos. Yeah. And so 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:28.280 then I had this other friend who UM, her brothers 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:30.720 went to high school with my brothers, and she kept 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:33.040 talking about all these trips that she would make to Nashville. 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:35.400 And she was a singer songwriter too, and she and 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:37.760 I became super close, and she was like, why don't 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:41.120 you come with me sometimes? So I was about sixteen 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:44.120 at that time, and so I convinced my parents to 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:46.000 let me go with her because she was eighteen, she 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:47.880 was two years older than me. On your own, did 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:51.000 yell to we? We came to Nashville, and I met 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:54.760 with her publisher and I ended up landing a publishing 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:57.920 deal with him when I was sixteen. And so at 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:01.400 that point I was like, Okay, I gotta leave the 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:04.719 performing arts school and that whole idea behind, and I 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:08.280 want to be in Nashville. I want to do this um. 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:12.160 And so I convinced my parents to let me graduate 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:15.680 a year early, finish up school through independent study, and 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:19.000 I moved out here right away when I was seventeen, 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:22.600 So you were graduated from high school. Okay, So I 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:25.040 want to back up a little bit, because getting a 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:28.480 publishing deal is really difficult. That basically means you are 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:31.200 a great songwriter and that someone believes in your songwriting 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:35.160 ability enough to sign you invest money in you because 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:37.800 they think you're talented to get one of those at sixteen. 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:41.000 And I had no idea. I had no idea. I 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:45.440 was just like cool, you know, also right, And I 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:48.360 didn't realize it at the time that that was, you know, 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:50.560 a pretty big deal. Had you written all these songs 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:52.520 by yourself that you've got the most of them? Yeah, 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:55.600 and he and then he started to put me with 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:57.640 all of these different co writers. And one of the 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:01.640 first major co writers that I started working with this 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:04.280 this was actually before he even had a single hit, 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:06.480 was Josh Osborne and we did a lot of work 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:11.160 together and huge, yes, yes, he's amazing. And so that 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:13.000 was really the beginning of it for me. And so 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:16.840 I really was on this path to to be a 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:21.520 solo singer songwriter here in town. And then somewhere along 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:25.280 the way, I ended up with the opportunity to join 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:30.000 a band, and that that band was Gloriana and that 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:34.240 today Mike and Tom find you on myself they did, Yeah, 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:37.880 that happened. So I had a page with this music 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:40.480 that I'd been writing and recording here on my Space 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:44.400 was happening. Back on my Space was happening, and um, 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:48.520 I had my songs up there, and they were searching 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:53.400 through all of these Nashville girl artists and I think 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:55.880 that they typed in a few different because you could 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:58.360 type in like influences and it would pull up the 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:01.439 people that had written those specific influences, and I think 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:04.079 Cheryl Crow was actually one of them. And so they 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:07.240 found me and they listened to my songs and they 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:09.480 really liked what they heard, and they said, Hey, we're 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:12.200 going to be new to town and we'd love to 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:15.400 meet up with you sometime and you know, right and whatever, 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:18.880 and so I thought, okay, you know, and we had 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:22.600 a mutual friend, a guy named Chris Gardner who went 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:26.960 to Vanderbilt, and my brother knew him through Vanderbilt because 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:29.880 my brother went there right right, Because I mean, that's 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:34.520 kind of scary they found my totally totally creepy, totally weird. Um. 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:36.920 But yeah, so that's that's how that whole thing got started. 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:38.720 And then they moved in with you. Yeah for a 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:42.800 little while. Yeah, for for about six months in my apartment. 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:46.200 It was crammed. It was like, you guys, have to 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:49.520 find your own place. Um. But but it was good 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:51.600 because I think for us at that time, we didn't 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:53.160 really know each other that well, and so we got 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:55.000 to work a lot, and then on top of that, 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:57.280 we got to really know each other, and you know, 0:14:57.360 --> 0:14:59.680 it was good practice for being on a bus together 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:03.960 for what would be the next eight years. Wow. So 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:07.640 you kind of just not accidentally but like you weren't 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:11.360 seeking out a band. Band kind of just it just happened. Yeah, 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:13.200 And so did you kind of just believe that was 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:17.280 your destinated field hymistry musically? It was? It was. And 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:22.000 I think for me, to the fact that I did 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:25.600 that was so good for me because I was so 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:29.000 green in so many ways, and we we all got 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:33.280 to learn so much together about about the business and 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:37.720 just about ourselves. And I do truly believe that that 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:40.040 was how it was supposed to be, That was what 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:42.040 was meant to be, and you guys had quite a 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:43.960 bit of success along the way. You picked up a 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:47.400 fourth Cheyenne, Yes, and she had her own reality show 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:50.840 on MTV for a minute Cheyenne Yeah. Okay, So how 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:52.440 did y'all meet her? And how did that come about? 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:56.400 Trying to be Fleetwood Mackie? You know, that was definitely 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:58.680 one of the influences. And I think you know what 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:01.280 happened with all of the was we've been playing a 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:04.480 lot at um, you know, Third and Lindsley back when 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:06.840 it was the old Third and Linsley and and I 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:09.640 remember seeing her out in the crowd and she came 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:12.040 up to us and we talked for a while afterwards, 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:15.760 and then it just kind of naturally came together. And 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:19.120 it made sense too, because she had a lot of experience, 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:22.320 and she had a great fan base, and you know, 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:24.640 she was very interested in all of it, and so 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:27.880 you know, we thought that it would be a great addition, 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:30.680 you know, and it was when it was. And so 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:34.680 when that you know, sort of fell apart and she left, 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:37.400 I think that it made us all stronger and we 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:40.680 learned a lot from that experience as well. And um, 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:43.280 you know, we ended up having our our biggest song 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:48.320 of our career after all of that, Yeah, yeah, it did. Yeah, 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:51.080 So I think, you know, everything happens for a reason, 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:53.320 everything works out the way that it's supposed to. And 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:56.760 and you know her, that was her journey with the 0:16:56.800 --> 0:17:00.240 band was supposed to end at that time. Was she 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:04.880 with you guys? She was with us for about three 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:07.680 and a half, almost four years, and Gloriana the band 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:10.480 was eight years total. Yes, okay, so while you guys 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:14.000 were touring, you toured with Taylor Swift for two years. 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:18.480 Oh my gosh, what was that? Like? Amazing? She's she's 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:23.200 incredible and I mean, like I really truly believe that 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:28.399 she has earned everything that she's gotten and she deserves it. 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:32.600 And she she was such an amazing influence, you know, 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:36.919 to see how how she is with her fans. Incredible, 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:40.240 absolutely incredible and really just takes the time and never 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:44.040 tires from it. And not only that, but just an 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:47.560 incredible songwriter. And it really is. Yeah, and it's like 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:50.000 you can't you can't argue with it. You know. Her 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:53.359 vision is so clear too. She's so confident and she 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:56.119 has been from such a young age, from the very beginning, 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:58.760 because you all were with her kind of in the beginning. Yeah, 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:02.520 we were with her on her first major headlining arena tour. 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:05.880 And how did that come together? Um? I guess that 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:09.200 she had heard our first single, wild at Heart and 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:12.359 I remember when that came up, such a fun song. Yeah, 0:18:12.520 --> 0:18:15.639 and she really liked what she heard and she wanted 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:17.359 us to be a part of the tour. And she 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:20.520 was so supportive. And you know, as far as when 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:23.920 you're the opener for the opener on a tour like that, 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:27.879 you know, the expectation is very low and should be 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:30.080 very low as far as you know what you get 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:33.520 and treatment and all of those things. And she went 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:36.000 so above and beyond and and really became a friend. 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:38.760 And um, you know, she took such good care of 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:42.480 us and really supported our band and supported the song 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:46.040 and you know, you couldn't ask for more. Did you 0:18:46.040 --> 0:18:50.240 guys have slumber parties? Uh? We we did to some degree. 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:53.240 You know, she she had her own bus with her mom. Um. 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:55.399 I actually ended up doing most of my slumber parties 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:57.800 with Kelly because she had her bust completely to herself. 0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:00.880 Kelli Pickler was opening was the second okay, and y'all 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:04.320 became great friends. We became really good. Yeah. Yeah, I 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:07.000 remember I follow you. I've always followed you guys on 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:10.880 social media, and you would like totally hang out, matching tattoos. Yeah. 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:13.320 It was fun because we were together every day for 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:17.560 so long. You know, Um, so I I missed those days, 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:19.760 you know, from time to time, but you know, we 0:19:19.800 --> 0:19:22.560 would run into her out on the road and we 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:24.479 would end up on the same bill as her, and 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:27.440 so it was like, it's just one of those friendships, yeah, Kelly, 0:19:27.480 --> 0:19:29.960 And it's just one of those friendships where you know, 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:31.639 we don't really see each other all the time. We 0:19:31.680 --> 0:19:33.720 don't really talk all the time. You know, we do 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:36.240 from time to time, but when we do see each other, 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:39.000 it's like no time that has passed, you know. It's 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:40.919 just kind of one of those relationships. She's such a 0:19:40.920 --> 0:19:43.320 great person. Yeah, she is. Yeah. I love that I've 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:45.520 gotten to know her through her show, which you need 0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:54.639 to come be on. Yeah all right, Okay, So after 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:59.240 Taylor Swift, then you met Kelly Pickler. You guys, Gloriana 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:01.560 one lot of awards, like you guys won that what 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:04.280 was it, the American Music Award break Through Artists in 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:06.880 two thousand tens. Yes, Okay, that's a big deal, because 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:09.879 that's all genres, right, it was a huge deal. It 0:20:09.920 --> 0:20:12.480 was really cool. That's insane. I'll tell you that. I 0:20:12.520 --> 0:20:17.359 actually don't even have my my physical award. Somebody stole 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:19.639 it from me. I still have no idea. Who have 0:20:19.640 --> 0:20:21.720 no idea? Can you get another one? You need that? 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:24.840 Apparently it's really hard to get to get your award 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:28.080 back when something like that happens, come in your house. 0:20:28.840 --> 0:20:31.800 It was never it never reached my house. It was 0:20:31.800 --> 0:20:34.919 stolen in the mail. It was stolen off of our bus. 0:20:38.400 --> 0:20:42.600 It was yeah, it's it's fine. You know. That sucks. 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:45.480 I have it in my heart, but I mean it 0:20:45.480 --> 0:20:48.560 would be nice to have the hardware. Yeah. Yeah, that 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:50.679 was a wild night. But you know, I think in 0:20:50.720 --> 0:20:54.679 some ways it's sort of karmic because right after we 0:20:54.720 --> 0:20:56.199 won the awards. So when you when you win an 0:20:56.200 --> 0:20:58.600 award like that, they give you a prop award, you know, 0:20:58.760 --> 0:21:02.320 so you don't have the actual one typically yeah, um, 0:21:02.560 --> 0:21:05.040 because they wait to get your name engraved in it, 0:21:05.440 --> 0:21:08.040 because they don't at least for those yeah and so 0:21:08.920 --> 0:21:10.960 and so we had the proper award, and they were like, 0:21:11.000 --> 0:21:13.240 you have to give the proper award back. You know, 0:21:13.400 --> 0:21:15.399 if if you guys get this award, you have to 0:21:15.440 --> 0:21:18.720 give the prop back. I'm like, okay, And so right 0:21:18.760 --> 0:21:23.159 after we wanted, I stuffed it in in my purse 0:21:23.359 --> 0:21:25.960 and we took it and we went and like had 0:21:26.000 --> 0:21:29.000 a big huge hotel party celebration this whole thing, and 0:21:29.280 --> 0:21:33.879 you know, passed it around and whatever. And it was 0:21:33.960 --> 0:21:36.360 kind of my fault. Yeah, and we've gotten a lot 0:21:36.359 --> 0:21:39.680 of trouble. We gave it back, of course. Um, but yeah, 0:21:39.720 --> 0:21:43.200 I guess maybe that was my my karma for stealing 0:21:43.200 --> 0:21:50.480 the pro. Yeah, I was were you guys nominated against? Um? 0:21:50.720 --> 0:21:54.880 I believe it was. I know it was Lady Gaga. 0:21:55.080 --> 0:22:00.199 You guys are up against Lady Gaga, Drake and it 0:22:00.280 --> 0:22:02.680 was somebody else. I can't remember. It was so long ago. 0:22:02.800 --> 0:22:06.840 Was about against Lady Gaga and Drake and crushed it. Yeah. 0:22:07.119 --> 0:22:09.400 Can you believe it was fan voted? You know? And 0:22:09.480 --> 0:22:14.440 so I think it goes without saying that country music 0:22:14.480 --> 0:22:17.280 fans are amazing and very dedicated, and we had some 0:22:17.359 --> 0:22:20.760 fans that would just sit on their computers all day 0:22:20.960 --> 0:22:25.320 and night and just vote, vote, vote, vote vote. Yeah, 0:22:25.680 --> 0:22:27.840 so you have a big fan base. Did Gloriana have 0:22:27.880 --> 0:22:30.520 a lot of fans that loved you guys totally, totally, 0:22:31.040 --> 0:22:35.040 very dedicated, very supportive, very loving, and you know, throughout 0:22:35.080 --> 0:22:38.440 this whole process of me no longer being with Gloriana 0:22:39.000 --> 0:22:42.720