WEBVTT - #160 - Gabby Barrett - Singer + American Idol Finalist 0:00:01.600 --> 0:00:04.920 See episode one sixty here with Gabby Barrett. Right before 0:00:04.920 --> 0:00:07.880 we went on. You can ask the question the go ahead, 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:10.360 I said, what is the purpose of having headphones if 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:12.680 you just in talking into them? Mike, if you take 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:14.240 off your headphones and you could hear the same thing. 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:18.560 Now you hear that. I get it. There's music that's 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:23.040 accompanying our conversation. Okay, sound effects, yeah, got For example, 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:25.079 if I were to play I hope if you didn't 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:28.680 have headphones on, you wouldn't hear it. But because okay, 0:00:29.280 --> 0:00:34.199 got it, they're useful. Okay, what do you wanna up? Yeah, 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:35.400 it's gonna flat on the top of my hair, but 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:37.560 it's okay. Well it's really rainy too. Is that a 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:40.320 thing for you? Yes, of course. I You should have 0:00:40.360 --> 0:00:43.440 seen me running to get in here. It wasn't my house. Yes, 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:46.639 this is the first I've been here. Huh. So we 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:50.000 met on American Idol. Yes, they brought me into the 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:51.879 top twenty four, to mental top twenty four, and they 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:54.440 brought me back again later on when it was you, 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:57.400 Caleb and Maddie at the end. So you made to 0:00:57.440 --> 0:00:59.040 the top top three of last season, made to the 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:01.920 final show with congratulations on that thank you. But I 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:04.000 guess we had spent a little time together because I 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:05.800 was doing a show on Pittsburgh, a stand up show, 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:07.800 and you and your family came to the show. And 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:09.520 this is why I don't was still going, and I 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:11.880 really couldn't even say you were there because it was 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:13.480 still secret, and they wouldn't even let you get up 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:15.120 and saying because we were gonna do a song or that. No. 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:17.840 I was so bummed about that too. But yeah, I 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:20.000 didn't come to that show. And you put on a 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:23.840 great chiel. Pretty funny guy. But is that what is 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:26.759 that you laugh when I tell a joke. Yeah, I'm 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:29.399 so curious about what happens, and I want to guess 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:34.080 work backwards right like today? For example, UM, today, what 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:37.720 did you do in town today? Today? I went to 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:41.480 I had phone call meetings, and I had um a 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:43.600 record label wating okay, without saying the name of the 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:46.039 record label. Yes, you went to a record label and 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:49.360 did what? Um? I sang some songs you did? Yes? 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:51.280 I did. So describe what that's like because here you 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:53.960 are your new artists are do you live here yet? 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:57.160 Are you moving here? I don't know, I don't know. 0:01:57.640 --> 0:01:59.840 I don't know. I mean, I feel like it's not 0:01:59.880 --> 0:02:01.560 a bad thing that I don't live here, because if 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:03.160 I fly down here for two weeks but then fly 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:06.080 back to living somewhere for free. UM, I'll take this 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:09.200 as of right now. If you don't live here, you'll 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:11.280 never make it here. You don't link to start now. 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:13.680 If you make it big, you can move out, you 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:16.480 can go. Justin Moore does it. He lives in Arkansas, 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:20.600 but he was here. Zach Brown is probably the biggest example. 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:23.919 But again he's Zach Brown. So not that you're not 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:26.239 Gabby Barrett, but you're just Gabby Barrett right now. My 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:28.680 advice to you, I'm still mentoring it. You're ready. I 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:32.080 know you're eight teen, but you gotta move here. You 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:33.960 have to because you have to be with everybody all 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:35.800 the time. You have to be writing all the time, 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:38.120 like every day, every night. You have to be writing. 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:40.200 But how do you pay your bills in your hand? Exactly? 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:42.400 You go and you work at tootsies, you wait tables. 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:46.119 There's there's no shame. You can't have shame anymore. It's 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:47.960 how bad do you want it? Because if you're not here, 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:50.360 there's gonna be so many opportunities pass you by. Someone's 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:52.200 gonna go we need someone tomorrow night, and you're gonna 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:54.359 be in Pittsburgh's Yeah, and I'll fly down that night. 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:59.120 What happened? I'm telling you I've already done it before. 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:02.480 You haven't I have. I've taken many red eyes down 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:05.720 here before. Well, not the same. I'm just telling you 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:08.520 it's not gonna work until you come down here and work, 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:11.200 and then it's gonna take a while. It's gonna take 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:17.200 a couple of years. Do you believe that? Yeah, yeah 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:19.560 I do. I'm trying to get in the door early 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:23.079 as early as I can. But because you're good, there's 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:25.320 no doubt about it. It's it's crazy to come to 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:29.720 a place like Nashville where everybody is so good and 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:31.440 you need to be around them all the time because 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:33.680 they'll make you better and you'll make them better and 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:37.240 you'll write songs all the time. And you have Let's like, 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:39.760 you ever been to camp, like church camp or regular 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:42.080 camp or summer camp. I don't know what people go 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:44.240 to you have anything like that? Okay? You know how 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:45.680 you go in with your little group and those are 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:47.440 like the people and you're like, oh, that's my class 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:49.800 and all my mama folks, or like high school even 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:52.440 did you get to high school? Like everybody went to 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:54.280 high school? When you graduate, like at your class, you 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:57.280 make those in Nashville and then as everybody rises, they 0:03:57.360 --> 0:03:59.400 kind of pull each other up or they you know, 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:02.320 they helped away. The point is you have to move here. 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:08.800 We'll see, Okay, we'll see. Are they telling you have 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:11.080 to move here? Um? I actually talked to Luke Brian 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:13.200 about it, and he said he's the one who actually 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:14.800 said to me. He said, if you're coming down every 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:16.479 two weeks and then go back for two weeks, he 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:18.560 was like, you're doing all right? And so that's what 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:22.360 I listened to make sixty million a year. He's completely 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:25.719 out of Luke moved here. He had Luke had to 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:28.520 move here to make it. Yeah, So anyway, I don't 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:30.080 want to harp on that. I actually have quite general 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:32.560 questions about what happened today. So tell me about today. 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:35.800 You go and you you're they say, hey, come play. 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:39.440 Is something like your leather rubbing? What's that noise? Leather squeaking? 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:43.800 It's squeaking against the quarter of the headphones that make 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:47.960 the noises. So you go and you go to a 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:51.039 record label room. Who's in that room? Um, it's me, 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:54.760 my manager and three other people. That's it. Yes, And 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:56.680 they say what to you? I'm sorry, I am my 0:04:56.720 --> 0:05:00.000 guitar blayer okay, and they say what do what? UM? 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:02.960 We just started talking about what's been going on after idol, 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:07.000 UM and before idle and UM. We played some of 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:08.800 the songs that I have, some of the songs I 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:11.800 have in preparation to release UM as well as I hope, 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:13.960 and then I did some songs live so they could 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:15.960 hear what I sound like live and how many songs 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:18.359 do you play them? How many songs did I do? Three? 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:20.760 And it's awkward when they're only three people watching and 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:22.600 they're like judging everything that you're doing, or you kind 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:26.200 of just getting your own space. It's definitely a challenge 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:29.800 for short because it's like when you have three people. 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:32.120 I felt like I was back on the executive rounds 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:34.320 on American Idol whenever the producers were in the room 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:37.039 and you know, there was only ten people, because it's 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:39.480 all eyes are on you and it's more concentrated a 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:42.360 smaller group than a big crowd. It's easier to do that, 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:45.400 so it is, but um, I think it went well. 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:49.160 So were you watching their faces as you were playing? Yeah, yeah, 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:51.120 to see if they like the song you're not and 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:54.280 what they liked it? They liked it. Yeah, it's like 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:57.200 it's a little bit of like everything. So they were 0:05:57.240 --> 0:05:59.080 liking it at least, I hope. So and what do 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:00.680 they say when you leave the room? Is that, hey, 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:03.039 that was great, like generic generic? And then they go 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:05.080 and tell you really later how they feel or did 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:07.960 they give you any sort of direction. Normally you can tell, um, 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:10.080 because I have met with a few record labels before, 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:13.880 and normally you can tell if they are like feeling 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:17.680 it or not. Um, and their reactions seemed pretty genuine. 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:22.440 He was like like, basically, I'm I'm really thinking about 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:24.279 being on board here. Oh yeah, so what do you 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:27.520 have to do next? Um? I just told them I 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:30.239 would continue to send them songs and content and stuff 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:32.000 and if they need anything for me that I'll send it. 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:34.080 And then you went from over there to over here. Yes, 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:35.680 that's pretty cool. It's a pretty cool day. You get 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:37.240 to a plan for a big record people, it's a 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:39.880 good day. So tell me about Let's go back to idle. 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:45.159 Let's kind of rewind a bit. So you auditioned where 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:49.200 what city? Addition to Nashville? Channels say right here? Why 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:51.560 did you fly down here to do it? Um? Because 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:54.679 when the producers had contacted me to audition for the show, 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:58.200 they said you could choose from three places, and I 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:00.320 was like, yeah, Nashville is definitely a place. How did 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:02.960 they find you to tell you to do the show? Um? 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:06.599 They have producers that reach out or look on the 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:09.600 internet for through YouTube and through hashtags on Instagram and 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:11.840 things like that, and I would always put hashtag American, 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:14.440 I all and stuff, and they reached out from seeing 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:16.640 videos on the INN. And the first time a producer 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:20.200 reaches out, are you going come on? You messing with me? Almost? Yeah? 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:22.720 Because well, when you get an email like a producer 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:25.760 wants to skype with you, you're like, is this spam 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:29.040 or is it real? So like you you don't want 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:30.680 to like set yourself up, and you're like, okay, if 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:32.760 this is real. And then when you see them come 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:34.680 up on the thing and they're like, okay, we'll call 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:36.920 you back, You're like, oh my god, oh my gosh, 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:39.160 it's real. So it was really cool. So what does 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:40.760 the producer say to you when you get on Skype, 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:43.680 like I'm Gabby, I am. I think they're like saying 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:46.240 your name and your age, and then what are you 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:47.760 gonna sing for us? And you tell them what you're 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:50.480 gonna saying. Do you sing? And then they're like, yeah, 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:52.840 I did. I did have to sing on Skype and 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:56.280 he was like what do you do in these days? Um? 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:59.640 And I was like yes because I didn't feeling he 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:01.600 was going to set. If he said that, then that 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:03.920 means he likes what he's hearing. So do you know 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:06.520 who it was? His name is Peter. Yes, So you 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:08.920 sing in front of Peter. Peter says, come to Nashville. 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:10.720 Did they buy your plane ticket or did you just 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:12.480 get like a kind of cut pass? Did they buy 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:14.920 my plane ticket? I can't even I can't remember that. 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:16.440 I don't know if I have been because I don't. 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:19.400 I don't deal with any I didn't deal with at 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:23.920 that time. So you fly down? Do you cut the 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:26.000 line at all? Since they've already seen you? I was 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:28.840 like the first one there? Um, I remember I got 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:32.679 to It was at the forgetting the name of the 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:35.960 Country Music the Hall of Fame. Yeah, it was there. 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:37.560 It was there. And I was downstairs in a lobby 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:41.599 at six five, and I remember, Um, I was like 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:43.160 the first one there, and then they all took us 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:45.680 upstairs and then one by one did the audition and 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:47.040 how to go for you? Did you feel like you 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:49.920 knocked it out? Um? You know you know, I mean 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:51.400 it didn't go the way that I thought it was 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:54.080 going to know, Um, why what what did you expect? 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:57.160 First of all, you expected to walk in a way? Um? Well, 0:08:57.200 --> 0:09:00.920 I walked in and sang a country so long because 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:04.319 that is mainly what I love to do, UM as 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:07.840 my main genre. And they were kind of confused buy 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:11.400 it um because I did originally start in a gospel 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:14.160 choir R and B was originally my roots UM. And 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:16.600 so they weren't very fond of the country at first. 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:19.320 And then so I actually got through with a gospel song, 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:22.160 gospel what do you sing? His Eyes on the Sparrow? 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:26.120 And then they said, okay, but you're a country artist. 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:30.960 Well actually saying, um, Carrie Underwood, uh, good Girls and 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:35.120 Church Bells three songs. Yeah. I had to sing to 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:36.520 those two songs. And they were like, do you have 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:39.720 anything that's not Carrie? And I was like, um, I 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:41.960 have Gretchen Wilson read kneck woman, who was like, don't 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:44.560 like that. I was like okay. And then we were 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:46.880 only supposed to have three songs prepared, so whatever they 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:48.800 asked me to do, it was on the like on 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:50.600 the spot, on the fly from there. And then they 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:53.200 asked me to do a church song and I was like, okay, 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:54.680 that's the first one I'm gona do because that was 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:56.959 my main song when I was in the church singing 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:59.840 when I was nine. So then you go back home, yeah, 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:02.600 and they say you get the Golden ticket or whatever. 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.360 They go to Hollywood, right, so it's gonna be a 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:08.320 few weeks. A month before that was like a couple 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:11.000 of months. It was in October, and then Hollywood Week 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:12.440 was in January, so you had to wait that long. 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:14.600 Just excited the whole time, like every day they're going, 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:16.240 I can't wait, I can't wait, I can't wait. Yeah. 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:17.840 I was coming up with like a blueprint in my 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:21.040 head if I'm to pass this, what I'm gonna do next, 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:22.679 the next, the next, instead of coming up with it 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:25.120 while I'm there. So I did Hollywood Week this year. 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:27.880 I started at the beginning of the season, right, Yeah, 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:31.520 I um the Hollywood. We kind of a grind. Oh yeah, 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:34.360 that's the toughest week. The overnight happen to get in 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:37.480 the groups. Even I was feeling bad for the kids. Um, 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:40.480 you know, you know, you know, you've watched the TV. 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:42.720 It looks fun and it was right, It still was fun, 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:44.560 but these kids were getting in groups and fighting with 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:47.520 each other and they were all sleep deprived. No, it's 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:49.840 a difficult week. I remember going through that week and 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:53.840 I was like, well, shoot, like this is hard. I mean, 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:56.160 but but it was fun too because I'm a person 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:59.679 that likes to challenge myself on literally everything. So something's 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:02.640 a chat orange to me, I'm like, let's go, let's go. Um, 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:05.120 And so that week is too. It separates the week 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:07.400 from the strong. Honestly, who cracks and who doesn't and 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:09.719 who's ready to go on with the competition because the 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:13.640 competition is not easy. It's not easy at all. So um, 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:19.200 whoever can outlast longest? So you do the group, then 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:22.480 you it's solo and group. You move on to the 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:25.400 top twenty four. And then that's where I came in, 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:27.240 And I guess I met you for the first time. 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:31.120 I remember what I don't I'm trying to think if 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:32.600 I can remember what you were wearing. I remember what 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:35.000 I don't remember what I was wearing. They just give 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:37.360 me I want to pick out my clothes and then 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:40.400 I just put them on. Those producers, Pepper, you with 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:43.080 so many questions all the time now, like they just 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:45.360 and they brought me in to not be a producer, right, 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:47.800 to be a human. You guys could actually talk to it, 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:49.360 and I'd be like, well, I'm a human too, let 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:51.679 me I understand this. But man, I would want those 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:53.800 producers and all and they're all black. You get behind 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:56.200 the camera and they just like a thousand questions you 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:59.280 guys all the time? Yeah, they do, they always, I mean, 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:02.160 just to get every single possible answer. I guess out 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:05.000 of us that they can, because sometimes it's hard to 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:07.000 get answers out when you're excited about something. What was 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:10.040 your storyline? My storyline on American I don't like, what 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:12.800 were they highlighting about you? Because everybody kind of has 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:15.800 a story, right, Yeah, your dad was there a lot 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:19.240 because you're you're underage mine or as they called him, 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:21.160 and so your family was there. Yeah, that was my 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:23.920 main story. Um, I'm just extremely close with my dad. 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:26.720 One of eight. Um, I was always a daddy's girl 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:29.840 growing up, and so he you know, even before American 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:31.600 and I don't when I started when I started singing 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:34.640 at nine in the choir, and then eleven I did 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:36.840 my first show all the way up to seventeen, and 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:38.840 at seventeen years old, before I know, I did a 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:41.600 hundred and thirties six shows that year alone. So I 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:44.640 mean doing shows in the gospel choir or just playing yourself, 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:47.520 no myself. So like I was with the gospel choir 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:50.360 from nine to eleven, and then eleven I left the 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:53.160 gospel choir and started doing shows, doing the anthem for 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:55.560 the Pirate of Steelers, just different stuff all the way up. 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:58.400 So it was like a grind for six years. So 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:01.000 you're saying the anthem of the Pirates is the pretty cool. Yeah, 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:03.240 the Pirates steeling the Steelers will be a bigger thing. 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:06.040 It's more concentrated in one game. Yeah, nerve wracking. You 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:09.800 see the anthem And it was the hinesvilld Um Yeah 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:12.080 it was Hinsfeld No, because it was a bigger crowd. 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:15.120 Because it's like bigger you can't see like eyes on you. 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:18.120 I just I got more of adrenaline rush from that 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:23.040 and rather than nerves you ever mess up? Um in general? 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:27.480 No singing the anthem, No, thankfully not yet, hopefully not 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:30.880 at all, but um, I actually have to sing the 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:35.079 anthem coming up soon in March sometimes for a basketball game. 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:36.600 How old you be the first time you're sanging on 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:39.480 a big stage? Um? The first time I sang ever 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:44.640 anthem for the Pirates? Really, were you freaked out at all? 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:48.240 You know what? You know what freaked me out a 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:51.000 little bit. Wasn't the people. It was the delay of 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:53.719 the mic in the stadium, because you'll do this and 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:55.280 then this comes over the top of you like a 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:58.320 second later, a whole second, and me, being twelve years old, 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:01.120 I just started never experience out before. 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I'm not a 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:30.280 coffee When I was going to Dance with the Stars, 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:31.920 I drink coffee it a little bit because it was 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:34.880 that's all they had and I was exhausted all the time. 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:37.680 But it's never good. Yeah it's bitter. Yeah, I'm not 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:39.760 a fan of that. But that I started drinking too 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:41.640 much sugar with that. But you're eight teen, who cares? Right? 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:45.440 My metabolicalism is very fast. I was in Chicago, I think, 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:47.760 and you were opening up for Chris Lane when I 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:51.280 was on Stars where you playing Joe's Yeah, I did. 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:54.920 How's that going? Really good? Chris Line's tour was absolutely amazing. 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:59.320 He's amazing though, I mean, like he I can't I 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:01.880 can't say thank you to him enough because he brought 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:04.120 me unto the tour with him and was so unbelievably 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:06.920 nice and still is like to this day, we're friends. 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:09.560 Down it's it's just really cool to see somebody help 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:11.920 you up and pick you up without looking for something 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:14.160 in return, because it's very hard to find, and this 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:17.800 especially in this music industry, to find somebody that wants 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:20.400 to help you without asking for something in return. And 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:23.840 he is one of those people and I know that. Um, 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:26.040 you know I'll be friends with him for a long time. 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:28.160 So he's great and it went good. He tell you 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:29.640 to move to Nashville is the only way to make it. 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:33.920 He did not. He did it all right. So you 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:37.640 go and idle you. They're all whittling down. One goes down, 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:39.680 one goes home, one goes home, one goes home. It's 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:41.440 about the top five or so. Did you feel like 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:44.600 you were the favorite? The favorite? Because I felt like 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:46.720 you were the favorite. I felt like not the favorite 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:47.800 of the people, but I felt like you had the 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:49.640 best shot to win at about the top five, almost 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:51.160 like I think you got the best shot to win 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:53.720 the show. You did you feel that way? Um? I 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:57.000 was confident. I wanted to win, that's for sure. I 0:16:57.800 --> 0:16:59.680 knew since I got to that spot, I was like, 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:02.280 all right, I'm gonna hit it even harder like each time, 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:07.440 especially as the numbers were bendling down. So, um, I 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:10.400 was just really grateful, very thankful, And every time the 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:14.240 cuts came, I was just I had to be accepting 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:17.119 if I were to get eliminated, because I was just 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:20.040 very thankful to have made it that far. Already get 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:23.000 to the final. Yeah, final show. There's three of you 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:25.760 left going into that show. Did you feel like, all right, 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:27.520 I can I can do this. I'm gonna win this thing. 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:31.000 Were you feeling confident? Um? Yes, what the performances? Yes, 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:34.320 but I could tell you right now whenever me, Maddie 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:38.200 and Caleb were standing there and Ryan Seacrest said, UM, 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:43.400 din't like the second they said or he said Caleb's name, 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:46.359 I knew for a fact I was not getting through 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:49.719 because I'm saying Caleb. I knew something told me that 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:53.879 Maddie was getting through. And when they said Caleb, I 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:57.400 freaking knew it. I was like, no way I'm getting through. 0:17:57.400 --> 0:17:59.359 No way I'm getting through. That's why I mean it 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:01.800 was so I was. I accepted the fact before they 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:04.119 even said her name, because I just knew something you 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:06.800 got tells you saw. But I was okay with everything. 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:10.280 What happens after idol is over? The next day idols over? 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:13.600 What do you do the next day idols over? Um? 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:15.639 We had to do a bunch of press and interviews 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:18.720 on the just the whole competition in general, and how 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:20.679 we took everything. Does it suck to lose and have 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:23.879 to go be interviewed. Are you more so happy that 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:26.880 of the experience, like really the next day, yeah, I 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:29.480