Everyone Should Be Talking About Angie K

There are some people you interview and immediately think:
“Everyone should know this person.”

That was this conversation with Angie K.

Before music, Angie worked in a Mustang junkyard pulling engines. She couch surfed across America. Lived in a horse barn. Worked on cruise ships. Auditioned for The Voice and American Idol over and over again until she made it. Met her wife on a cruise ship. And somehow became the voice Disney uses during their nightly fireworks show.

And that still barely scratches the surface.

This conversation is funny, honest, inspiring, wildly human, and one of my favorite interviews I’ve done in a long time.

We talk about music, identity, Nashville, taking chances on yourself, refusing to fit a mold, and why Angie K feels like the kind of artist people become lifelong fans of.

Also: her new music is SO good — and she performs “Contigo” live at the end of the episode. You'll have it on repeat all summer!

Follow Angie K on Instagram and TikTok: @officialangiek

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Angie K, welcome to that Nashville Girl Podcast. I'm glad to be here. I've heard good things about this podcast. Well, that is awesome. I love hearing that. Um I have heard great things about you. I love your music. Thank you. You have such a cool sound. I have to start with something that you you told me this earlier, and now I'm like, wait, hang on. We got to talk about this for real. Before you were a singer, you were a mechanic.

SPEAKER_02 0:24

Yeah, yeah. So like I kind of it came out of necessity at first. Like my first car kept breaking down, and I would start, you know, watching YouTube videos of how to fix it, whatever. And then I got the coolest job on the planet, thanks to Craigslist, uh, to work at a uh Mustang only salvage yard. And that was such a playground for me because one, I just loved, I loved it so much. I never showed up to work and didn't want to be there. Like basically, it was like this huge, massive field full of like beat up old Mustangs. And my job would be to go out and pull pieces from them. So, like, you know, but then then it would get the work would get harder and harder because my my boss at the time would like kind of fire and hire people, but I think because I was a girl, I ended up never getting fired. And um, but he would be like, if somebody wasn't there to do it, he'd be like, go go pull that 5-0 motor and send it to Canada. And I'd be like, oh my God. And I remember thinking, like, and if I did something wrong, he would threaten to take it out of my pay. I don't think he ever did, but he would threaten it. But I think what it taught me was like this radical accountability that wasn't because you want to take responsibility, it's because I want to believe I could do it. Like he was like, go do it. And like, how many, how many people are looking at like a 20-year-old girl and saying, Go pull that motor, you can figure it out. And this is a motor that's costing quite a bit of money for whoever's bought it.

SPEAKER_00 1:38

You know, how did you do it? Like, I feel like I barely can like I don't know. I don't, I'm like very wimpy weak.

SPEAKER_02 1:45

No, but you can. It's just it's like my neighbor said, I've had really good mentors in my life, including that boss of mine. Uh, my neighbor, Jerry, is like, he's more popular than me on Instagram. But he grew up like without electricity, like in Tennessee. Like, I mean, just a real country boy, and he like can fix anything. And uh, I always ask him, Jerry, how'd you figure out to do that? And he's always like, by doing, you just go do it. And I'm like, it's true. Like, some of the things I can do so simple now, it's just because I I've watched every I've fixed all these different pieces of the machine, and then all of a sudden I can take them all apart and put them back together. And it's like, it's fun though. Like, and when you think about that process, it's exactly how I've license. It's like I'm a tinkerer, and I I actually, you know how like Taylor Swift always says I'm a songwriter first. I'm like, I feel like I'm I'm a mechanic first, like I'm a tinkerer. I like to like build things, whether it's like the community or the set or the show or the or the vibe. And it's like the best part is you just keep tweaking it, you know? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:40

I think that's so cool. So you were like, was that in Georgia? Because you're from Georgia. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:45

From El Salvador. Yeah. Well, I was I was born in El Salvador. I moved to Georgia when I was like 11 or 12. And then um, and then yeah, I I remember I I went to college for like a year at Georgia Tech. And I would like sneak out and go to these like hip hop open mics. Like, I would take a taxi because Uber wasn't a thing back then. And I would take a taxi to these little open mics, and they would like nickname me Taylor Swift, but like not in a cute way. Like they did not, they were like, What is this white girl doing here? And uh, I would like play and they'd be like, uh, I don't know. It was just so weird. And so I started learning like TI and all these different songs, and all of a sudden I like, I don't know where I got this confidence. I always joke that I have like a lot of conviction, but like not really a lot of direction. Like, I'm just like, oh, that seems like a good place to go, and I go full force in that direction, you know. But that's yeah, I just kept showing up. I would I I still have a lot of friends that do hip hop down in Atlanta from those days. So you start going to hip hop clubs. I'm just trying to picture all of this. Yeah, open mic night, which is usually just a track and someone's on stage spitting, you know? And then I go up, and there usually someone has to hold the mic for my guitar and vocal. But I mean, whatever. Like we're all out there doing the same thing, just trying to be heard.

SPEAKER_00 3:55

Yeah. And how long were you doing that in Atlanta before you decided, hey, I'm gonna move to Nashville?

SPEAKER_02 4:00

My story's kind of crazy because I kind of moved around Georgia at that time. I was very lost. And I went to like, I went to Gainesville and Monroe, the two places I lived in Georgia. Like just really wonderful cities. I mean, they are, but there's like not not much out there. And um, yeah, those, those, those two years were really wild for me. And I really couldn't quite figure out how to settle in. And I and I took night classes at Gainesville State College, which now I think is part of Kennesaw State. But I remember this moment where I went to the library after work, and my hands were just sometimes, you know, you just can't get that wool from under your nails, even if you try your hardest. And it's just a little dirty, you know? It's a dirty job. And I uh and I was going up to the library and I opened the door for this dude who kind of looked like just a stereotypical frat dude. And I opened the door and I remember him looking at my hands and just looking so grossed out. And then me being like, I wasn't even ashamed. I was like, these are not my people. And I remember the next day, I'm like, I'm not coming back. And I just remember like, I'm just not coming back. This is not for me. I don't enjoy this. Because when I went to Georgia Tech, I went because I wanted to be a mechanic, and it was like nobody even knew how to change their oil. I was like, they couldn't talk the same language, and it it really bummed me out, honestly. It killed my like passion for it because nobody was actually just building physical things there, they were learning the fundamentals, which I don't have a lot of time for. But uh, but no, then I uh I I had this crazy idea. I was biking to work one day because my car broke down again, and I was like, I got it, I got it figured out. I'm gonna get a job on cruise ships because then never been on a cruise ship, by the way. And I was like, because then I don't have to pay rent, which was all my money back then, and I have some I have free food and I can save up to make a record. And that's literally what I did. And I remember the second I had this thought, I was like, You really did it. I when I had the thought, I was like, and it will be done. Like it was like I knew it was gonna happen. So I just went to Google and I started emailing people. And um, actually, the guy who works for Disney now, that why I ended up working with Disney had just moved into Carnival. And he said, Why are there no female soloists on any ship? And I think they dug deep because I was in like a probably a free wrinkled t-shirt and Walmart clearance aisle outfit. And they saw me and they were like, We got a girl. And I they called me and they were like, and this is like shortly after I was like, I don't want to do college anymore. And they were like, Can you be in Miami in a couple weeks? And I was like, Oh yeah, I can. And my mom thought for sure I was being like sold to Saudi Arabia or something, but it was a real job, and I didn't even think there'd be more than one ship. So I'm and I didn't have a real guitar, like a nice one. So I went to Guitar Center. I think I was playing a squire still, and I went to like guitar center. I took out my first credit card and bought like a real like acoustic electric guitar, and I like show up with my duct tape bag, walking from ship to ship, trying to figure out which one I'm supposed to get on because you can't really read. It was just ridiculous. They don't have their names on them. No, but I I I started doing that full time, I guess 10 years ago, and I haven't I haven't looked back since. And I met my wife now of 10 years on like the third week of the first ship contract I did.

SPEAKER_00 7:06

Was she also working on the ship? No, she was just chilling. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 7:11

Oh, you broke all the rules. I did, I did, but I still don't know what she saw on me because I see pictures of me playing. I was like, why did I wear that on stage? That was a terrible decision. But we love a musician. We can't help ourselves. I was grunge before grunge was cool, I'll tell you that.

SPEAKER_00 7:25

So, how long did you do that gig then on the Christian? Uh, probably like three years.

SPEAKER_02 7:31

Whoa, that was yeah, and I had auditioned for the voice a couple times. Actually, I have a crazy remind me later if we talk about the Brooks and Duntour. Remind me later to tell you this other story. I auditioned for the voice a few times, like X Factor, all of everything. And I never got past first round. But I still had this like ridiculous sense of like, I'll get on eventually. And on the ship, I remember one time I flew all the way to New York for an audition, didn't get on, flew back into St. Thomas, which was like all my money to go to these auditions.

SPEAKER_03 7:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 7:58

And then um, that's why I said I feel like you have to have reckless belief in yourself as a musician. And if you don't, it's just not for you. Because you almost have to be more excited and curious over the fear. Um, but then finally I remember I went to LA, I called Marissa, my wife, because she was the only person I knew in San Diego, and I said, Hey, I'm gonna do this audition in LA. Will you pick me up? Not knowing that San Diego to LA is not something you do for someone you're not into at all. Right. Um, because in in in the South, you drive far, it gets not a big deal. But anyway, she she picks me up. It is so funny though, because you're right.

SPEAKER_00 8:32

Like yeah, it's you were like different. You know, I don't know, you're in Clarksville, Tennessee, or you're close by. We think it's close. Yeah, but no, San Diego to LA is like real love.

SPEAKER_02 8:43

Because the traffic, you never know if it adds an hour. Yeah, which is why it's like and it's not fun, it's not cruise control driving. No. So I thought, oh, it's just two hours. It's something normal people do for each other. But I should have known then. But uh no, we had the greatest day, and that's when we first started like, this is kind of nice. And then um, when I got on the show a few more times, they would fly me to bur uh, I don't think I could say the airport, but it was an airport in Los Angeles where I could the they housed like the hotels like right across from the airport, and so was the coaster, like the little train. And I would sneak out and nobody ratted me out, and they could have I would have been off the show. Yeah, because they were like, you can't leave. I'm like, why? I'm like, I'm an adult. This isn't high school.

SPEAKER_00 9:22

Because how would you? So rewind with me. I first of all, I love hearing that you tried out so many times and that you had that belief in yourself. I think that's crazy. A lot of people would do it one time and say, I didn't get on. But it does take that like tenacity. So you did it multiple times, you finally get on. What year was that? I don't remember, but I want to say 16, 2016, 17, something like that. And then you you finally are like, I'm doing this, I'm on the show. Yeah, but the thing was it never like shocked me.

SPEAKER_02 9:52

Like when someone's like, You're on the show, I was never like, yes, finally. I was like, all right, now next step. Like, I was like, I just kind of like it was every time I've ever had this thought, I had the thought about that for the voice or American Idol, which actually I was auditioning for both at the same time, and I had to let go of American Idol because it started to conflict. And let me tell you, those contracts, I'm probably one of the only people on the planet that saw both. American Idol's contract at the time was like, if a sliver of your face is on the camera, we could take a percentage of royalties. We we can have the option. And I'm like, that's insane. Like, wow, yeah. And the voice was like, it's different when you got to your lives, and I never saw that contract. But before the live part, which I think is like top 10, it was like three months after your episode airs, you can do whatever you want. I was like, Well, that's dramatically different. So that's why I chose the voice. But I um I just I loved that show. I had so much fun. The people there were so nice, and they wanted to tell your story like for real. And like, I don't have a bad word to say. In fact, I I like I still look back with such fondness for the for the memories I've made there. And for I mean, I met Mary Sarah, uh, who's a good friend of mine here. I've met I met um Allie Porter, Allison Porter, one of the best vocalists who actually won that season. She also snuck out and nobody ratted us out. And I was like, they should have ratted you out because you took the whole thing. But yeah, I was sneaked down the coaster, and and that's how me and my wife started dating.

SPEAKER_00 11:13

What did you sing for your audition? Do you remember?

SPEAKER_02 11:16

Like the one with the chairs turn, because there's a lot before that. The one with chairs turn, I did I Hold On by Dirk Spenley.

unknown 11:21

Wow.

SPEAKER_02 11:22

But I changed I rearranged it so that it was like an octave push at the end, which made it really fun. Because I wanted to show a little range. I honestly just did wanted to sing low, but it's really hard to show off vocal when you're singing low. So I was like, I'll just sing the octave higher. But that song, I love that song. I think it's that and riser are two of my favorite Dirk's does.

SPEAKER_00 11:41

Yeah, those are good. Yeah, that's funny. I was just talking about Dark Spintly today, and I what a weird thing that now we're talking about Dirks again. Love when those things happen. So, okay, so you get on the show, you do the audition, you're sneaking out of hotel rooms.

SPEAKER_02 11:54

Yeah, that's right. See my wife.

SPEAKER_00 11:56

Yes. And then but at that point, were you still living in Georgia? I mean, you weren't really because you'd been living on the cruise ship, right? Where did you call home? Where did you get your mail at this point?

SPEAKER_02 12:07

I never called anything home. I don't think I ever lived at there. Was one point where I answered a Craigslist ad where they were like, I'll give you free rent if you take care of my horses. And I just showed up and I'd never taken care of horses in my life. I've like, I've ridden them a couple times, and I just showed up and yeah, I just I lived in the barn for a while. It was like a little barn apartment, and I did that for like three months. I just like I was a grifter, man. And I think that's why I never really had friends my own age for a long time. It was all just like these random people that like were wild like me. And I and I think that is why I'm so unafraid of the world. Because I've met a lot of people that might look scary to other people and they're the biggest teddy bears. So, like to me, I feel like I mean, there was a time in my life where when I started touring, when I came off ships, I did something called couch surfing, which is like you send away, they give you like a postcard and you have to send it back. That's how they like screen you. And you just find people that'll let you crash on their couch for free. And I did that. In fact, there was one guy I stayed with who wasn't, he was like, I just want you to know I'm a nudist. And I was like, Okay, that was the only time I didn't stay. But he like actually, I was like, that's freaking crazy. But nobody was ever mean. I mean, people had some crazy opinions sometimes, yeah. But like, no one was ever mean. And I think also having like I one of my sisters' special needs. I think I just value people differently from a young age, where it's like, I remember for a while wanting to change her to like, Noelle, don't do that, like like act like this or whatever, and being like upset when when people wouldn't realize or whatever. And there was a moment in my life where I was like, no, screw them, do whatever you want to do. And I think that uh that kind of helped my palate of the way I see things, I guess.

SPEAKER_00 13:49

Yeah. This is such an amazing story. You need to write a book. I think this is I would watch this movie. I because I just feel like you've had such a path that a lot of people don't understand. I we live in a world where we're scared of everybody. Yeah, we don't meet our neighbors, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:05

We not me and my neighbor comes over without knocking, it drives my wife crazy. We have we have we have good neighbors, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:12

But I love it.

SPEAKER_02 14:13

It is scary, yeah. This world is um, I I like to say it's as open as you want it to be. And some people don't want it to be super open because maybe they have things in their life that make them feel safe, and that's okay. But also, like, I think that you be I think that's what I love about my shows. I say all the time, you can come alone and leave with a friend. And I tell at my shows, if you see somebody that came here alone, buy them beer, hang out with them, you know, like find out their name. And I do my shows are like when I do headlining shows, like here in Nashville, it's three days. I let everybody know where everybody's hanging out at 12 o'clock the day before, usually e-hobbery. Everybody comes, meets each other, hangs out, where you can actually hear each other talk. And then I'll usually do like a small dinner for like my biggest fans, and then I'll have the show. And then the next day I'll like usually write out a bar tour for them and see them at the last at the last bar or something like that. But like the point is like have fun together because like what else are you doing, you know?

SPEAKER_00 15:06

Yeah. Well, and it's because that's what music is supposed to do.

SPEAKER_02 15:09

Yeah, it's supposed to bring us together. Yes, yeah. I almost feel like I'm creating the community I wish that I could have had.

SPEAKER_00 15:16

Was it difficult when you moved from El Salvador to Georgia? Did you feel like it was like you were 11, you said when you moved?

SPEAKER_02 15:23

Yeah, yeah. I think I was kind of a chaotic kid. Like I got in a lot of trouble. Like, I mean, I remember I climbed up the rooftop of my school in El Salvador. I mean, I was in the present, like the principal's office all the time. And um, I just felt like I was always get like people were always getting bad at me. And it wasn't just that, like, also like girls, I don't know if any other tomboy girls like have this experience, but I physically was always just a little bit too rough. So, like, if I was like, hey, and kind of went on the shoulder or something like that, they'd be like, ow, and I'd be like, Oh, sorry. Like, I just always felt a little bulky. I don't know how to say, I mean, my nickname in eighth grade was Manji. So, because I played flack football and just decked this guy once. I regret it. It was too hard. It went a little too hard.

SPEAKER_00 16:08

You're you're not like you're not a large person. Like, you don't like I feel like you're a petite type person. Do you would you call yourself that?

SPEAKER_01 16:16

Yeah, I'll I'll be petite.

SPEAKER_00 16:18

I mean, but it's funny because I think I say that to say for people who are not watching this, who are listening, I think it's interesting that there's probably a lot of that that was just because you were a tomboy. It had nothing to do with like, do you think really you were patting somebody on the back any harder? I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 16:33

I mean, maybe you weren't flat football. I I think that I I move very quickly. Yeah. Like I've actually learned as an adult to move slower because like I'll get up, like I I I will hurt. I I pretty sure I have a broken Piky toe right now. Like I will, I literally, I just like bump into things a lot. Like I my mind is always in a lot of directions. But um, no, I just feel like I didn't quite fit. And I I think that I I hate, especially young girls, getting shamed for being having a lot being a lot. I don't think boys get shamed for that as much as women do. And and I'm not saying there aren't boys out there that have, but I I would like to see that change more, and especially in a country that's very much the roles of the roles. Like girls didn't play with the boys playing soccer. The girls played over here, and I would go over there and steal the ball, and all the boys would have to chase me. So I felt like I was kind of always uh the odd man out, so to speak. So I remember thinking I was coming to the US and it was gonna be cheerleaders and football players, and it was gonna be so cool. And um, it's pretty pretty kids are kids, you know. And I I just remember not knowing where I fit. And I wish I could say that I did music because I was just a natural artist, but I actually think I did music because I really didn't know where to belong. And for the first time, if I was like if I strum this guitar, if I sing this, people stop and listen and they applaud afterwards. So it's like I believe in music education for kids so much because kids need to know that they deserve to be heard and to know how to do that and how to think about what they're gonna say and then say it, you know?

SPEAKER_00 18:05

I think that's so true, it's so powerful. You so what how old were you when you started music?

SPEAKER_02 18:13

When I started music, I was pro like I think I was 13 when I begged my mom to get my first little guitar. I actually modded it out. So it was a squire, but I replaced everything inside so it was like a better guitar. So like I should have known then. I was like, I just I was always taking things apart, not as good at putting them together, but um yeah, I played that thing forever. I think I still have it actually, maybe at my parents' house.

SPEAKER_00 18:34

Oh, I hope you do.

SPEAKER_02 18:35

Yeah, that's cool. Yeah, it's a it's a great little guitar.

SPEAKER_00 18:38

And did anybody in your family play music?

SPEAKER_02 18:41

No.

SPEAKER_00 18:43

You were just forging your own path.

SPEAKER_02 18:45

Yeah, but what's really beautiful is I feel like uh we start paths for like unknown reasons. We just start walking sometimes. And I feel like where I ended was like, I love making music. Like I love the process of it, I love every step of the way. I love all the different options that I can put into a song. I love all the things I can put in and take out and listen to again the next day, and it sounds different. And it's like right now, I'm actually working on a uh of live looping setup that I'm actually gonna use for the first time. Uh, well, this comes out, it'll be last weekend at Boots in the Park, which is like a massive stage. It's like a full-on the same size like Tortuga stage. And it's just gonna be me up there with a looper, and I'm actually gonna have a headset and then a live looping mic over here. So either I'm gonna go really viral for doing something terrible or it's I'm gonna get by. We're gonna see. But I I love putting myself, I feel like artists are people that just it doesn't matter what your art is, but we put yourself in uncomfortable situations because of the curiosity of it, of like the joy of figuring something out and like doing something that I think is gonna be fun and entertaining and memorable and exciting.

SPEAKER_00 19:48

And you've never done it before.

SPEAKER_02 19:49

No, I mean I practice a lot, yeah, but I've never done it on a stage like that. And there's a lot of issues with, you know, there's feedback and the way things are you're literally producing a track while you're on stage. So, like, it's quite a lot of things that can go wrong, and there's no one to help you because it's just you up there. But I don't know, it excites me. And that's that's why I'm in like the you only stay in here if you find things that excite you. Nobody wants to do the same. You think about artists that get depressed, it's because they get stuck doing the same thing. They have like a really big hit that just get asked to play over and over forever, which is great. It's a you know, a blessing, but like creators create constantly to the point, you know.

SPEAKER_00 20:25

I mean, this is incredible. I want to come now. I'm Albert. This is crazy. Um, yeah, so we'll all have to check that out. And then you also have some really cool stuff coming coming up. So also by the time this is out, we will have the new single, which um I got to hear Sneak Peek, which is so fun. And Contigo is Contigo, Contigo. Yeah, I mean it's it's it's whatever you want it to be. Contigo is how I say it. Okay. Well, I love it, and it makes me want to learn Spanish. Yeah, that song is a vibe. Thanks.

SPEAKER_02 20:55

Yeah, I I remember I was having lunch or something with a woman named Jodi who who helped translate um uh La Vida Loca or Live in the Vida Loca. That song feels bilingual, right? Yeah, that's the only line that's Spanish. She brought that up to me and I was like, oh, that's crazy. And she was like, You should try something, you should like just say a Spanish phrase and then translate it right afterwards. And I was like, huh. And I already had like this idea of like, I just wanna be with you. Just this really easy chord progression thing. And I was like, I just wanna be with you. That would be solo quiero estar contigo. And once I sat that in the thing, I just wanna be with you, and I was like, oh, this is cool work. My the person that works in my distribution, Morgan, she messaged me and she was like, Hey, since contigo has so much Spanish in it, like we should blah blah blah. And the rest of the email was these great ideas. But I'm like, it doesn't. It literally just has one line. And I love that like it opens people's minds because. What it does is say, I like that flavor, and it gives you a place to go with it. So if like an artist like Gaudin Leon or like someone like Becky G, or like if she did a crossover, like you're open to hearing different languages. And like music and and culture is about familiarity. We don't we can only have so much new. Like our brains can't process. In fact, in music, it's known that you can't there's a rule of three. Like your brain can't listen to three things more than once, and and or three new things. So, like, for example, for a loop, like you have like the bait beat, the drums, and in a lot of pop music, it'll drop something out before it introduces something new.

SPEAKER_00 22:35

Interesting.

SPEAKER_02 22:36

Yeah, so it's the same concept. It's like you gotta give people a little bit of a stepping stone versus like all of a sudden we're just all in Spanish. Yeah. Because that feels like it's a lot. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:48

I mean, it takes me back to Selena.

unknown 22:50

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 22:51

My gosh.

SPEAKER_02 22:52

Love her.

SPEAKER_00 22:52

I know. But I'm still sad. What an icon. What an icon and tragic loss. But that was the first time for me that I felt like I loved Spanish music. I was like, I don't know any, I don't know what she's saying, but I wanted to know how to say it.

SPEAKER_02 23:09

Yeah, I mean, but that's the thing is I think that we need to give ourselves as adults more permission to try things. Like, it's like the skateboard thing for like, this is I have such weird analogies, but it's like, it's like, I would like to ask, like, what are the chances you would, if there was somebody skateboarding and they said, Hey, you want to try it, would you say yes? And it's like, if you had nothing else to do, like if you were a kid, you would have gotten up and tried it because who cares if you fall, right? As an adult, one, we know how hard how annoying it is to get hurt, but also it's like we don't want to look stupid. And so many times that stops us from doing something that might actually be really cool. So it's like, yeah, try to say the words, try a new language. Who cares if you sound dumb? And I I think when I first started going to El Salvador, I thought people were gonna make fun of my Spanish like crazy. Like, I thought for sure there's gonna be all this judgment, like your accent's not Salvadorian, you're like, because my some of the words I use are more like let's say like Mexican slang or because I have friends from all over. And I just thought for sure they're gonna be like, who's this girl claiming to be from El Salvador? And it was the opposite. And I was like, I wasted so much time anticipating people not welcoming me in. And then it's like worst case scenario, even if they didn't, they're still gonna be people that are having fun. Yeah. So it's like, why? Like, we're gonna die at some point and we're just gonna be dirt in the ground. It's like, who cares when you really think about perspective? What somebody is thinking that sounds dumb. It's like, okay, well, go somewhere else.

SPEAKER_00 24:35

Oh, yeah. It I was in the elevator in my building last week or the week before, and my nephew was with me, and there were a couple of guys in the elevator and they spoke Spanish to each other, and they were saying one said to the other, I need to go to this floor. And so I hit the button. I was closest to the button. So I was like, okay, great. And the guy freaked out. He was like, You speak Spanish?

SPEAKER_02 24:59

Oh, that's funny.

SPEAKER_00 25:00

And I said, No, I just I can understand it enough to like, you know, make this work together to know that this is the floor you need to go to. And it was a really good reminder that like just trying makes all of us closer. Yes. And I didn't have to do much, he didn't have to do much. We had a whole moment with just a push of an elevator butt elevator button. And we need that more than ever.

SPEAKER_02 25:24

I love that story so much.

SPEAKER_00 25:26

It was cool, and I loved that my nephew got to see that because he's learning these things, right? And when you're little, you get to that, he's 15, you get to that place in life where you start thinking, I don't want to look stupid. I don't want to sound stupid. And so you stop trying. And I was like, I want him to know that you gotta keep trying.

unknown 25:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:42

I mean, we live in a world that's like by nature headlines, and and fear is the thing that's gonna make us stop a scroll the most. So, like, if if that's the world we see in our phone, sometimes it makes you question is that the world that's real? Like, is the person next to me hate me because X, Y, and Z? And then it's like when you do a small moment of connection or just an intention of trying, I think we really underestimate how valuable that can be. You know, like I remember there was a Selena uh interview going viral that was like, she said something. What did she say? She said she was saying how old were the interview was asking how old she was for something, and she was like, Ah, I think I was um uh die seis or die, which would be 14, wouldn't be die, right? And the interview, I love her so much. She just slapped and she was like, Oh, that's that text mix, and then they like moved on, right? And I'm like, I bet that interview healed so many people that were born in the US that maybe maybe look super Hispanic or whatever it is, and are afraid of speaking Spanish because they don't like their accent or they're worried they're gonna make a mistake. And it's like Selena would have not connected with so many people if she was afraid of making an error like that. All they did was laugh. And what it did is give permission to make mistakes too. You know, it's like you gotta think about you gotta love yourself enough to allow other people to love themselves, you know?

SPEAKER_00 27:06

It's really true. And I'm thinking back to you couch surfing and living this life that I feel like as your mom had to be a little scary of like, what are you out there doing?

SPEAKER_02 27:15

Um, she didn't know. I would have taken I would have taken years off her life.

SPEAKER_00 27:21

But I feel like you put the energy in the world that you wanted to get back, and so you did, and you're here to tell it. I I you know, I don't live in a dream world where I think, you know, nothing bad ever happens, but I do think what you put out in the world comes back a lot.

SPEAKER_02 27:34

I do. I believe that deeply. And I think I think when I'm really low, I always say I always tell myself, like, if I'm feeling depressed or like a little stuck, I'm working on the wrong puzzle. And that's actually why I ended up live looping, is like I was working on a lot of logistics with the band. And I was frustrated because I'm not getting a ton of full band shows, which means I can't have the same people and we can't perfect the show. And it it what it does is it locks me into a grid of what we've rehearsed. And I'm like, I I felt like there was so much more I could do expression-wise on stage if I could tailor it based off of how I felt in the moment. And I was just thinking about it, thinking about it, and then I kind of jumped in this live looping thing. And I was like, I say the same thing to people that are like in the Broadway loop, which I still will go down and jam on Broadway without a doubt. If I have the day off and there's somebody come, like if somebody asks me to go down there, I love it. But like if you're stuck in the Broadway loop and that's all you're doing and you're hate going to work, it's like you gotta just you gotta get out of that mindset. You gotta like believe first that there's a way to do it without do it being miserable. And whenever I'm like down or depressed, and like I'm making a rule that it has to be X, Y, and Z way. And it doesn't. I gotta like zoom out, you know.

SPEAKER_00 28:51

Yeah, how did you say that? You're if you are down and depressed, do you feel like you've chosen the wrong puzzle? You're working on the wrong puzzle.

SPEAKER_02 28:56

Yeah, like you just need to get it, get like go like go put that away. Go find you another box, and then and it doesn't, it can be dumb. Like sometimes my puzzle is working on a car. Like sometimes I get really frustrated with music. I've heard the same thing over and over again. I don't like the way X, Y, and Z sounds, like the bass or whatever. And I just I'm angry and I'm like, I'm not gonna create anything good if I'm angry. So I'm gonna go out there and I'm gonna be like, I'm very peaceful when I work on things. Sometimes my wife would say otherwise. So look, sometimes there's some expletives, but like for the most part, I like to work on stuff because it's like a cathartic thing where you have to be very present.

SPEAKER_00 29:30

Yeah, I could see that it would be frustrating to me. That would not be my happy place to figure things out. But I I think we all know what those are for us, where it can take you out of whatever is frustrating you, put you in a place where you can just regroup.

SPEAKER_01 29:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:45

Yeah. Gosh, this is why your music is so good, and this is why it connects. I feel like so you're one of your newest songs, Sweatin'. Yep. We gotta talk about it because it's such a vibe.

SPEAKER_03 29:56

Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 29:57

Um, it's on my summer playlist for sure. It's just it's one of those songs that, like the first time I heard it, I thought, I've heard this before. Surely I've heard this before. Because it's so cool and so catchy, but also so you. Um, tell me a little bit about this song and just the this album in general, because we've got a lot of good stuff coming. Yeah, I mean, a lot of it's crafted.

SPEAKER_02 30:17

I I love my I always somebody once described art to me as like you see these two things and you see this connection, this light up connection between them, and you like get so excited that you just like have to show everybody this connection, right? And for me, it's like I've met so many really great creatives in Nashville, and one of them is Luke Nyas, and I just think he's one of the most fantastic acoustic players on the planet. And after we wrote that, I was like, man, if Luke put some nylon string on this and went ham, and I wanted a song for him to just go, like, just freaking go, you know? Yeah. And um, I actually had a GoPro in there with him, and I was literally watching it the other, and I was like, what is he even playing there? And like I was sitting there trying to play it, and I was like, What is he? Have like six hands? But he's really good. I'm Ilias Teshinski, also fantastic guitar player, but I love I love working with pieces like the people that are just really good at their craft, and then I get excited about putting them all in a room together. And we had a great crew. I mean, Hopp from Zach Brown Band was producing. Uh, he actually really mentored me a lot in the process. And um, yeah, we had so much that song is a song about dancing and and it's about seeing like a whole color palette, a whole just plugging into an emotion by just like your sound. And I feel like you can taste the desert of it, you know, like when you listen to it. And we really like I even told them all like because I my rule for this album was like no overdubs. Whatever we do in this studio is what the record is. And then I gave every musician and and songwriter a 1% of digital royalties on the song. So I'm like, this goes crazy, we're all rich, you know?

SPEAKER_00 31:52

Oh, I want it to go crazy. I'm we did that, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:55

Because then it's like, it's like, let's make something epic, you know? And um, and yeah, we just I just love that you like that one because I feel like we took out we took out the paintbrushes on that one, you know?

SPEAKER_00 32:05

You feel it, like it transports me immediately to, like you said, the desert, and and I feel it. It's like um you've gone a little bit back in time to the coolest place where you just arrive in a little town in like West Texas, I don't know, you know, and you're just there and it's hotter than Hell's Gates, and everyone's having a good time. Like, you know those times when it used to be like we didn't complain about heat. Remember that?

SPEAKER_02 32:32

It's that yes, that dry kind of heat, but the like it's the sun's going down, so it's like literally perfect. Oh, it's the best.

SPEAKER_00 32:40

And it's just like everybody's in the same happy vibe. We're not worried about the rest of the world. It's it's so good. I'm actually sitting here thinking I want to go play it right now. Um, yeah, I'm I'm excited for people to hear it. I'm excited for people to hear Contigo. And I mean, you'll be playing CMA Fest. Yeah. Is this your first time playing CMA Fest?

SPEAKER_02 33:00

No, I've played like every year for I think like four years now. I've been very fortunate. I am actually got to do Nissan Stadium in 2019. I still don't know how. This is why I tell people, because everybody's like, how'd you get that? And I can feel the like, damn it, why can't I get there? Like, I feel that because I I get it. I've been there where I'm like, how am I gonna get out of Broadway, whatever it is? And I and I say this every time. I'm like, there's no earning it. There's zero earning like a crowd showing up to listen to your play and knowing all your songs. It's like the rule is the the one only rule is you stay in the game and you get lucky. There's no earning it. You gotta throw away this idea about hard work because it's like it's just not true. Like, I know so many people that work 10 times harder than me and people that work 10 times less than me. I've met people that work less hard and are more successful, and vice versa. It's like if you play that game, you're always gonna be mad because you're gonna be measuring something constantly. You're gonna be measuring how hard they work, and the equation doesn't make sense. If it made sense, everyone would just work hard, right? So it's like the like the formula you're plugging yourself into isn't true. And you're it's gonna make you unhappy because it's you're not gonna match up with your expectations. So, like if you actually just go and be like law of large numbers, if I stay in the game, I keep making records, I keep making songs, I'm gonna get lucky. Like, I I ended up playing a song for like the Disney, like it's the song that plays the fireworks show at Disney World every night. I can't earn that. Like, that just happened. I get I get free tickets to Disney World for my family. Like, that's insane.

SPEAKER_00 34:29

Hang on, hang on, rewind and say it again. You you that's your song?

SPEAKER_02 34:32

Yeah, happily ever after. I sing it with Jordan Fisher. I sang on the demo because the guy who hired me on cruise ships back when I was like wild haired and didn't know anything. Uh, he moved to Disney and he was like, Will you come sing on this demo? And I did, and I fit Jordan's voice really well. He's one of the like, he's such a wonderful person. I love collaborating with him.

SPEAKER_00 34:52

It's a great duet. I've listened to it on Spotify. I love that. Y'all are so good, but I had no idea the backstory of this. I'm like, whoa. I literally bippity boppity-booed my way into that thing, man.

SPEAKER_02 35:01

I really did.

SPEAKER_00 35:02

But you know what? I oh my gosh, that's so cute. I love sitting with you. I I was just when you're talking, I'm like, I wish people could feel your presence. Oh my god, thank you. Because you have this energy that's really contagious, that's in like the most exciting way. I'm like, yeah, this is what we need more of. We need people to believe in themselves. And recklessly, recklessly. And the mindset that you have, like, I am I'm also this way, and people can call it delusional. Maybe. I don't know. But like, I don't want to live the other way.

SPEAKER_01 35:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:32

The other way is a box of yuck. Because we know what that feels like. We've been there, we were all in there. I've tried that, you know, and I think it's I don't know. Like, what's the harm in trying? Betting on yourself and staying in the game. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 35:46

It's like, I mean, there is harm in that, like, it's kind of like parallel to the idea of love. It's like when you keep yourself open, it's easier to get hurt. Like when you really want something and say out loud you want it, there's always this kind of thing like, oh, that could be really embarrassing. It's like the looping thing that I'm gonna do. It's like, it could be really bad, but I'm like, I'm 34 years old, I don't care. There's a good chance I never play a states like that again. It's like, why not have some fun with it? Like, I could play with a band a million, a hundred million times, like, and it would be the same thing over and over again. It's like, why not try something? And my curiosity is greater than my fear. And I feel like when when your fear gets greater than your curiosity, do something different. And that's that's what I do. That's why I'm hard to keep up with. I'm like, I'll go over here now.

SPEAKER_00 36:32

I know that's such a good way to put it.

SPEAKER_02 36:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 36:35

Because you're right. If your curiosity is bigger than your fear, oh, see, I like saying that better than I'm delusional. That's much better. Yeah. I love it. And the looping thing is really cool. And I think for people who are listening who have seen like Ed Sheeran or Justin Bieber, right?

SPEAKER_02 36:52

They both have, yeah, I still undo that at the yeah, I should just go out there in some underwear, see what happens.

SPEAKER_00 36:56

Okay. Like, honest to God, if that's part of the plan, I'm actually.

SPEAKER_02 37:00

Imagine I go out there in underwear and then and then I mess up and then I just leave. And they're like, okay, bye guys, sorry. But it worked for the bee. Who is it? I think it's Bailey Zimmerman at the end of his concert, he just like strips to his underwear.

SPEAKER_03 37:13

What?

SPEAKER_02 37:14

Yeah, it's it's like a thing he's been doing.

SPEAKER_00 37:16

I don't know. I was just on this show called the Butter Butterbash. Have you heard of the Butterbash? No. You really need to go do it. Okay. Um, so they Bailey Zimmerman came up, and I couldn't name a single Bailey Zimmerman song. So I feel really bad about this, but now I feel even more intrigued that because I was like, I need to obviously do some education. And I'm like, wait, and he's also stripping out shows. I've been missing something.

SPEAKER_02 37:36

He, you know, here's what I love about Bailey Zimmerman. I feel like he's like a jelly bean on stage. He's like, you can tell him, and he's just so unapologetically himself. Yeah. Like, and again, sure, there's things that I'm like, oh, maybe he shouldn't have done that or that. You know, everybody has opinions. But I'm like, with that, me watching him tells me like I can do whatever I want. Same with Ed Sheeran. Like, the guy is chill. Like, he doesn't go and like dress up like crazy. He like he's like shows up and he does his show and he connects with people. Uh Adele is a great example. I remember seeing her at the old at Royal Albert Hall. And well, I didn't see her live, I saw the DVD. Um, I was like, well, you just casually threw that in. No, this is way back in the day. Somebody literally gave me like a burned DVD of her, of her set. And I was, I was on cruise ships at the time, so that was the only way we could watch anything. Um, and I'm watching this alone in my bedroom thinking, like, oh, I'm gonna do. I was like, right after I saw Pink flying through the air on ribbons, and I was like, that's what I gotta do. I gotta get some ribbons, I gotta do some gymnastics, I gotta get shape. And I was like literally thinking that way. And then I watched Adele on stage. I think like in the she just sings, and then in the middle of the set, I think she takes her shoes off and like throws them to the side. And then there was one part where she like she was like, Oh I don't like the way it sounded. Do it over again, and like the band starts over the song, and she does it all so unapologetically. I was riveted. You could hear a pin drop, and I I'm I'm so grateful for people that are so unapologetic to themselves because it makes me think, why am I living by anyone else's rules? Yeah, what a dumb thing that would be, you know.

SPEAKER_00 39:05

Yeah, because what makes you great is you, yeah. And listen, I needed this lesson today, so thank you for reminding me too, because we do get in our own heads, yeah. And that to me is that's my most dangerous place. That's where like crap starts hitting the fan because I'm like, okay, I'm in my head. And you look right, left, all around, you see everybody doing different things, like flying acrobatics, like pink, and you're like, okay, that's it. That's what I have to do.

SPEAKER_02 39:32

And as women, that that is a massive message we've received since we were young. I remember feeling like I when I was really young, I always thought, oh, I'm just gonna be Christine Aguilera. Like, I remember just thinking that. Like, that's what I'm going to be when I grew up, as I'm going to be a Christine Aguilera. Like I was like, I learned all of her songs. I was like obsessed with her. And um I there was a time, I don't know when it was, I guess like probably middle school, where I didn't like putting on makeup. And when I tried, I think somebody made have said a comment. No one was ever like mean or bullied me. But when you're like a tomboy and you like try wearing makeup one day, people are like, oh my God, you want, you know. So I don't think I can't remember a time anyone was mean, but I probably got a couple comments like, that looks kind of messed up, or what? And it probably was, but I never tried again. And it wasn't because I didn't want to, it was because I didn't feel like I knew how to do it. And I don't know, I just felt really like I couldn't be a girl in that sense. And I remember having this image of like, well, I'm not gonna be a pretty girl or I'm not gonna be a girl people look at, whatever. Just I remember like slowly having that belief over time. And it really wasn't until I met my wife when she was on cruise ships and she was like, What's your like overall goal? And I was like, Oh, you know, I I'm not really, I think my words were it's not like I'm like a marketable person, so I just literally wanted to play bars and stuff. And I you would have thought I like slapped across the face because her whole job is she does female portrait photography and she's very well known for it. She's excellent at her job. I'm her biggest fan. But um, but she was like, No, absolutely not. Like, that's literally what I teach. And so when I went for the voice, she actually took one of my first photo shoots. I think she made my Instagram actually while I was there. She's she's a little bossy, but I like it. Uh I love it.

SPEAKER_00 41:14

But gosh, you're right. It starts at such a young age.

SPEAKER_02 41:17

Those little things that someone they say something that's yeah, to be pretty, you have to do this. Yeah, and it's like, no, I can actually feel pretty right now just by telling myself to feel pretty, you know, like that's literally the only difference, you know.

SPEAKER_00 41:32

Yeah, and it it would be such a boring world if we were all the same. I like I think about that a lot when I think about how much we compare and try to copy and do those things. I'm like, we're we're gonna get real bored if we do this.

SPEAKER_02 41:46

And it's the same with country music. It's like there's a lot of Luke Bryan songs I love. There's a lot of male country singers I really like. I don't want every song to be a guy country song. I don't want every song to have 808s. I don't want every song to have four, you know, four on the floor. You know, like I want, I like who who wants like it's one thing to like listen to a full record or whatever, but it's like, when did we start putting niches in like the broadest category? And that's kind of what we've done. And it's like, no, I think people's palettes are exploding right now with like Bad Bunny and like um despacito that when that one song of the year, it was huge. Like it had never been done before, the Spanish song. Uh Becky G, which by the way, one of the sweetest people I've ever met. I was like fangirling really hard when I met her too. Um, but like I think people's palette, even you're getting even really big artists collaborating. Like, I love a lot of the collaborations Jelly Roll's doing, like, especially sonically, too. And I think I people want to hear more of that. People want to feel something and and not the same thing all the time. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 42:51

I think it's interesting too because when you think about what we hear on the radio versus what gets curated on a makes you wonder, on a Spotify playlist or what the hot Wilbur Hot 100 is.

SPEAKER_02 43:03

It's not even the same.

SPEAKER_00 43:04

It's not even the same. It's so intriguing to me because I mean, I I still love country radio, you know. I always will because it it's now, it's it's my past, it's all of it, right? But then I do love a curated playlist of like if you went to my Spotify right now, you'd be like, Well, who is this weirdo? And I like that. Oh, I have a weird Spotify.

SPEAKER_02 43:27

I can't I can't listen to my like like mixed for you. I'm like, absolutely not. No, it's it just makes an AI DJ. Yeah, I'm like, No, we don't get along. No, I don't know. Speaking of DJing, I like, oh my god. So my friends are opening a bar. I love them so much. Their name is Jimmy Emily Dryberg. It's called Girl Crush. It's gonna be like a uh lesbian ish bar, you know? In Nashville? Yeah, it's I'm so excited for them. They've just announced it and uh probably open in June, which is very soon. Where is it? What part of town? It's like in East. Okay. Yeah, and uh I'm just so excited for it. And What's so funny is when they first started this Girl Crush thing, it was like this big lesbian party in Nashville, and a DJ canceled on the last minute. So I Amazon myself a D a board. Oh my God, DJing is so hard. So you're doing this now, too? Well, no, I do it more like for well, here's the thing. I have a great MC. I'm not a good DJ. But I had so much fun and we had so much fun. I feel like anyone that was like my age was like loving it. Anyone that was like new gen, that had no idea who I was, were like, who the hell is this chick? But it was so fun and it was so packed that we're gonna probably do it again. So I might, if I DJ Girl Crush, you gotta come. I'm so there. But it's chaotic. It's like, it's like there's no plan. It's just, and I I do know the basics of it, but it's like you gotta bear with me. I'm like, guys, I've messed that up. And I'm just starting over.

SPEAKER_00 44:47

Oh my gosh, you I love that you try things.

SPEAKER_02 44:49

Yeah, I mean, this is the fun of it. It's like that's what life's about. Yeah, I mean, this podcast was probably a crazy idea when you first came up with it. Yeah, totally. Now it's just what you do.

SPEAKER_00 44:58

It is every day is still hard because it's outside my comfort zone, like in in a whole lot of ways, and I'm a perfectionist by nature. And I think you're right, when we go back to who we were as little kids, which in starting this, that's how I got there. I was like, what did I like the most when I was a little kid? I spent 20 years in corporate hell is what it was. I was not meant for that life. Um, which is why I hear your stories, and I if you see my like jealousy, I'm like, yeah, that was cool. You've you did it, you went and did it, and I was scared to do it. Um so I took the safe route. And so maybe that was right for you at the time. Yeah, I think it is. Sometimes you have to do these things, right? And I don't believe in regrets, so every every part of our journey gets us here.

SPEAKER_02 45:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 45:38

But when I looked at this, I was like, what am I gonna do with like the next 20 years of my life? And I went back as a little kid. And I think that's what we should all do. Like, what what did you love?

SPEAKER_01 45:49

I love that.

SPEAKER_00 45:50

What did you quit doing because someone told you it was dumb? What did you love?

SPEAKER_02 45:54

What a great question. That's the question right now for the audience. What did you love? And if you can't imagine something, you have some work to be a girl. It's true, especially if you're a mom. Yeah. How many times have you asked yourself, what would you do today if you didn't have to worry about anybody else? Like, what would you do with your time? That's a good question. There's a really wonderful book called The Artist's Way that I avoided for I kind of rolled my eyes and it felt a little woo-woo. Now I'm all about the woo-woo. But like it's like you don't really have to read the whole book. It's basically like you have to journal every day, but then this other thing you have to do is an uh an artist date, which means every single week for 12 weeks you commit to take yourself on an artist date, and the rule is you have to go alone. And it's really hard at first because it's like when you ask yourself, what do I want to do? That's not a chore, that's not a task, that's not related to work, and that's not for anybody else. And I think like one of the first things I did was like go to the dollar store because I was like, as a kid, I like going to the dollar store. Like it's so silly, but the whole point of the book is like there's no wrong answers, and it can be 15 minutes, it can be an hour. I remember one time I went um to the to the art museum. I I I mean, Nashville actually has a lot. I would go to the symphony hall by myself. I went to an Ed Sheeran concert before I did the Artist Way. I went to Ed Sheeran when he played at Nissan, I think two years ago, by myself.

SPEAKER_00 47:13

Because then I love a concert by myself. Oh, because you just sit and you watch the whole thing. And I don't want anyone talking to me because I'm like, no, we're not here for that. But also, it's funny, I saw the Eagles at the sphere um in November. Oh did you go alone? Well, so here's what I think. That'd be such a cool experience. It was actually amazing. Oh my god. I went with two friends, but we only had two tickets. But we we got two tickets, and so my friend was convinced that she just wasn't gonna go to the show, and I was like, I can't I didn't feel good about this. I was like, we can get one ticket, this is fine. I'm gonna go by myself. And of course we laughed, and then friends were like, I no, I can sit by myself, I can sit by myself. Like, guys, be real, I'm the one sitting by myself. So we go to dinner pre-show, and everybody's going to the concert, right? And so I laugh with the table next to us, and we're like, Okay, see you there, haha. And we leave. And then I walk down to my seat. My friends are watching me. They said walk to my seat, and all these people start screaming. They're like, What are you doing here? And it was the people that were at that table. No way! Yes, out of all the people in Las Vegas, crazy, crazy, and so it was insane because I was like, guys, I told you it would be totally good. Like, I'd be fine by myself. That's crazy. And I ended up with like new friends and so much fun, and I just think that's what happens in the world. If you're willing to just take yourself on a little solo date, why not? This is your sign right now.

SPEAKER_02 48:36

This is your sign to go take yourself on a solo date. And if nothing's a dumb idea, it can be the Dollar Tree. It's fine. Yours is so much more elevated than mine. This year in Vegas. But no, go take yourself on a solo date. And then if you do it, DM us and tell us what it was. Or if you're on Instagram, comment it below. I'm curious.

SPEAKER_00 48:55

For sure. Also, you just became my co-host. So I hope you're excited to do this all the time. I love it. I need you to come every week. We'll just hang out, we'll talk to interesting people together. Um, I I just think you're so cool. I adore you. This is so fun. This was amazing. Thank you so much for having me. The best time. Um, I love that you brought your guitar because oh my gosh, my favorite part is when people play new songs for us. Oh, yeah. Or like an old song, whatever you feel like. Yeah. What do you feel like playing?

SPEAKER_02 49:21

Um, I kind of feel in the new song. I think I'm gonna do that one. Yeah. Okay, I love it. Okay. All right. Cause you said you liked it. Here's a little contigo. I love it.

SPEAKER_01 49:38

Back of the Broncos loaded up. It's all blue skies. We could be wheels up on one way, touchdown by fire. Turn it out to eat paychecks, pick a spot on the map. Who needs a night at the rich, and we could have a beach side share. You're crossing me like the waves on a cancuncoat. Hands up the wheel, baby, take control. So look you know, start a conteel. I just wanna be with it. Pick out a place and we'll go. T-City too. So look you know, start a conteel. Start a little stunt. We can take it faster, we'll slow. Stopping taking the view. I just wanna be with you. Yeah, I just wanna be with you. Uh oh. Look at you, bare feet in the starter, stepping room on the rock. Sometime bikini, you out here, and now you're taking it off. Now it's getting to be wishing on the start. Baby, show me more who you are. I just wanna be with you. Hey, pick out a place and we'll go. Then I see the temple too. Still looking at star, conte go. Start a little something. We can take it back to real store. Stop it, taking the view. Cause I just wanna be with you. Hey, I just wanna be with you. No, it's only to make sense when it feels like this. This time I'm gonna talk in me on my kids. I just wanna be with you. Pick out a place and we'll go. Didn't it see the tumble two? We can take it back and we'll snow. Stop and take it with you. I just wanna be with you. I just wanna be with you. So look at the start contigo.

SPEAKER_00 52:13

And now y'all know why I'm obsessed. Sometimes a girl's gotta find her way. On her own, free to room, make mistakes.