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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Heads podcast network mine never seeing it and this
is my dadmin. Hi, and when I grow up, I
want to be a TikTok start right, or a sports
player hang on, even a fashion designer. Actually maybe in
all the players.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Okay, slow down. Maybe we should talk to some amazing
females who inspire you and who you want to be.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Like, yeah, and we can find out what they did
to get where they are.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yes, and let's do it as a TV show.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
No, dad, only old people watch TV.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Let's do it as a podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Okay, yeah, yeah, I guess that works.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
This is when I grow up. Today's guest is pop
star Binni Bennie.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
I was actually going to speak now.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
With your mate, but.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Benny has new music out called Animal and is also
acting in the new movie Heads. It was so cool
to talk to her about her life, which has been
all about her following her childhood dreams. Did you ever
have a dream to perform in front of people at school? Dead? Oh?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Now I can talk?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Yeah, thank you?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Turn well I did. Actually I had to do an
individual dance in my last year of school and I
burnt the gym floor by letting up some fireworks as
part of my extravaganza. But that's the story for another time.
I got me a lot of trouble, so don't do that.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
It could have very easily been Benny the water polo
player or Bennie the radio and Eltzer, but her musical
dreams won out.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah, she loved in water polo. And you think, you know,
I think of millions and millions of people, including celebrities
and even me dancing to her songs on TikTok and
her head songs. She made the right.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Call, I think, yeah, well maybe not when you were
dancing to it. It's not just Charlie Demilio or j
Low dancing to her music. It's touring with Olivia Rodrigo,
being on the UIs talk shows and being interviewed by
Sir Elton John. So many highlights, and we ask her
about it all.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
LUs We talk about mental health and depression and how
brave she is to share it all with their struggles
and highs and lows.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
So enjoy our chat.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Hey Dad, when I grow up, I want to be
an artist like Bennie.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Ah well, yeah, Bennie gasp I thought you're gonna say Ben.
For a second, I thought you're saying gonna say me
for the first time, but you're in every episode, so yeah,
straight off, straight off the band, I get a bood.
But welcome a little be It's great to have you here.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
It's so great to be here. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Now, I know seeing it as a huge fan. It
has been for many years. But I always like to
put you on the spot. What do you want to
be like Bennie?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Well, honestly, I love Bennie. She is a New Zealander
who has chased her dreams. And you've made it so
big around the world with your music. Your songs are
hits and you're love by many celebrities. But what I
really admire about.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
You is how real you are.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
You talk openly about mental health and you stand up
for what you believe in, and I love that.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
My god.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
We actually went to your concert. I think it was
the first concert out after Lockdown, the first concert. Yeah,
and it was epic, and you know, it was awesome
seeing it's like, we've got to go with the friends,
We've got to get the front. She got up the front.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
We went into the marsh. I was ten and yes,
and I was I I'll go with it.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Let's go out the front, and then then.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
We were taving people in the crowd. We got again
and we got to go and find her.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
You had the you had the skills to get to
the front of the mask.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
The problem is that I was left by myself, as
a fully grown adult standing above.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
We don't look back.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
And would see him, just like standing above everyone who's.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Bopping dropping out in the back.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Was the one feeling super lonely that night. I did
by myself as well, But it was an amazing.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
God sopd Thank you Now.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
We always love to find out how our guests discovered
the love for what you ended up doing. So you
grew up in a very musical family, didn't you.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
I did. Your mom's here now, my mom's here, she
sings in a choir.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Oh wow.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
My dad played the clarinet to like, I don't know
what the levels are with instruments, but he got through
the highest level.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
He claims that he can sing.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Have you heard him sing?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
I've never heard him, say.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Him saying, yeah, I've heard him sing.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Before, but I can't.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Have you heard him?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
I'd love to?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Fortunately, no, I can't do it as well. Tried to
do one of those little riff things in your video.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
My voice broken just and I was like, I can't
do it. So I'm not going to say though, I'm
not going to embarrass you right now as well, yank.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
You at your school is Saint Mary's Bay. You have
to take music and you learn a whole lot of
instruments there and got to perform and record. So we're
guessing they had a huge part to play.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Saint Mary's College.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Yeah, yeah, sort of, because it's like it's.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
A compulsory to take music, yes, for four years.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Yeah right, wow, but you could only play classical instruments.
So I was like pretty bummed when I got there
and we couldn't play guitar. But I did play the
sex phone before I went there.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Yeah, because you learn guitar right as a kid, and
then your sex phone as well.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
So all right, and I joined the choir.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
I won the singing cup, so that was probably like
the first time I was like, oh damn, I can
actually sing. And then and then I kind of thought I.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Was going to do water polo.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Yeah, well that's what we that's what we were reading
that you were at one stage you were like, I
think I'm going to do water polo and that's what
you want to do represent New Zealand and you kind
of game of music.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I was pretty down to do that.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
I thought I wanted to do that, but I don't know,
Like the injury thing was so it's so wild, like
a world never played.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I never played it. I'm like, I feel like I would.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Just get scared to drown.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Do you don't wonder what your life would be like
if you.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Couldn't go back to music.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Do you think I should have done water?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
It would be so fit and I'd be so fast.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
But I don't know, Like I feel like it's definitely
wasn't meant to be because here.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
I am, Yeah, here are right now? Well not here
I am.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
In this moment right now, I wouldn't be here if
I was.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
That's true, maybe you would maybe be talking talking about.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
So In high school you started writing more music and
posting covers and writting your own music. You were dyslexic,
but that didn't stop you when it came to the
creative writing process.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Period period period Is it kind of like does it
like when you're writing and you are how does that work?
Is it actually quite good in a way when you're
writing creatively.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
I think.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
I think it definitely comes as like actually like a
weird strength.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
I definitely felt of it dumb.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Like sometimes when I was in school and like trying
to write your says. But I don't know, I wasn't dumb,
but definitely like it does make you like struggle in
certain ways. But then when I found like going into
a studio and then having this like space record, just
write about anything. You don't have to put commas, you
(06:34):
don't have to following any of these like grammatical like
you know, things that would pick up my learning. I
don't know, I feel like it was so like freeing
and I was like, damn, I'm actually like going to
go to this and it was awesome.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
It's pretty inspiring, you know for someone who you know,
like would maybe struggle with like you say, at school
when you're writing, but you write these amazing songs as well,
and then you know, is it also good when you
find out that maybe this is the reason why behind
things like your had to slick see or your head
obsessive compulsive disorder something else is or when you find
out you kind of get to go, oh, that's why
I do this, and you can kind of be kinder
on yourself.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
I guess yeah, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
And a lot of artists have like mental health it's
or like like learning disabilities or whatever, and I feel like, yeah,
you use them as strengths because you know, differences you
learn to appreciate as you grow older, which is like awesome.
You know, if you get bullied in high school, you're
probably gonna be cooler.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Than the bully.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Yeah you do. Yeah, you're right. I love about the
people at my high school that are probably you know,
some people, the people that often look up to in
high school don't always you know.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
I know it's such a strange thing, but at the.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Time you're like, yeah, it was to go back and
tell your old self that is kind of while we
do the podcast.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
So yeah, that's cool in a way.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Well, after high school, you decided to go to Auckland
UNI and do a communications degreef.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I've got a communications degree, so yeah, see I was.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Keen though it was really keen. Well you're dropped it.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
After two weeks. You were keen, and then we did
that stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
So why didn't you want to end up like dad
on the radio?
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Honestly, I was like radio seemed like a really cool thing.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
At the time, I was like, well I could do that.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Maybe I don't know, But then I just got put
off by by university.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
No. No, I love I love it all.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
I love all of the I knew I wanted to
do something creative, but I was just like, damn, I
just like had written songs and had done that and
it felt like such like a kind of fantastical thing
that I could do. And then like started getting some
label attention, and that's when I was like, oh my gosh,
I think I can actually right now. And just like
work at Cotto. You know Cotto the restaurant.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Yeah, I was washing dishes there right the pizza is
that the pizza place that it.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Does like it's Italian?
Speaker 2 (08:48):
That's right, yes, Cotto so good.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
They have really great like results.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
I would like be scraping the like pots and like
having containers and giving them to my family or like
giving them to people. When I walked out of work,
I was like, I have to save all of us.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Oh wow, that good, so good.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
This is when I grow up.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Were you saying it was like a bit of a
quarter of life crisis? Was that kind of like what
happened that? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:16):
I called it that I think a lot of people have.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Yeah, I think I'm having a mid lifeline with my.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Read No. I was like, wait care, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
It wasn't initially my choice, but I'm rolling with it
down now, thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
He always gets it, always gets like us. Today I
got my dose in right and he's like, you've got
your nilstir and you can't.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Say about it right now?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
I lift out. I literally just pulled myne off and
they looked so bad.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
So how did you know that you needed to give
music a shop? Because young kids listening right now, is
there any advice that you would give them if they're
thinking about music or any career and maybe if they
think they're doing the wrong thing.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Yeah, I mean it's different, like a stressful thing to
especially come out of like school and then you know, wondering.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
What am I going to do? What am I going
to do? What am I going to do?
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Like real life and going to university? And I think
that that is like a really great option for a
lot of people to kind of sitle in and find yourself,
you know, learning and learning is like great. I honestly
would like to go back to university. I don't know,
I'll do like a paper or something and something maybe
something like earth science, y, okay, something kind of.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
I feel like learn when you don't like when you
then get a job, like I don't know. I've been
a musician now since I was seventeen, and I feel
like I haven't like I haven't learned about maths and
so long, Oh, get me out of it.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
I might need it. I'm like, damn, I should go
back and do something that's good.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Listen, you need to know that you okay.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Well, I just think I'm doing well.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
That was me, that was fully me.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
But your appearents like, because obviously you've got a great
relationship with your Mum's here as I meet them right now, Yeah,
to go, Okay, I'm doing Universe and I'm like, I'm
thinking about it, seeing a sign up for university. A
couple of weeks later, she's like, not for me. I
want to do this thing. I'm thinking how i'd react,
So how do you what's the best way for parents
and your experience?
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Yeah, I mean I think it's just I was lucky
enough to have like just super supportive parents who were like,
you should give the music a solid shot, like give it,
give it a year or two, you know, and like
see what happens and drop out, which I was like, Okay,
thank god they are supportive, because oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
I don't know what I would have done if not.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Like I had friends whose parents were very like pushy
with what they like with studying and stuff, and they
don't even know what they want to do right now,
like they're out of university.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I'm like, sheesh, like did you need to go?
Speaker 4 (11:42):
But maybe they did, Maybe they did. But I think
just like, you know, if you want to do something,
like people around you who love you should just support you,
you know, And I think that that's just like it's
really simple.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
But it's like I feel like it's hard to like
have that sometimes as well, you know.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
But yeah, just like go with your gut and like
give things a solid shot. And this is like the time,
like especially coming out of school, it's like you're so
young and there's not pressure. There's like not as much
pressure as you think to actually like know what you
want to do, because like people do not even know
what they.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Want to know an age. Sometimes you know, and you
could change, you're right if it didn't work out at
age seventeen. Well, then you could do plenty of time
to give their communications. Agree, right, come on the radio
with me. Well, she's speaking a bitter you were.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
So your name Bennie was from your last name Stella Bennett.
How did you know if style music was and how
did you.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Even come up with that name?
Speaker 4 (12:44):
The name was definitely a struggle because I was like,
what am I going to do as like my stage same.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
I was like, why don't use my normal name?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
And then my managers at the time were like, oh,
you should have like a divide, you know, like like
id Sharan can never escape id Sharan because he just Sharon,
you know, he doesn't have like anything that someone else
doesn't already have.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
But yeah, I thought that was.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Quite interesting and I am kind of like, I'm pretty
stoked with it now.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
I'm like, oh yeah, that kind of worked out.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
You kind of know when people know you from you know,
like for you as Stellar and people that know you
as Benny, right, but probably they come up to you. Yeah, yeah,
which kind of works.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
It kind of works.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Yeah, And I mean I just took it as a nickname,
like people with my friends used call me like Stelley
Bennie Okay, I used to kind of hate it, but
now I'm like Benny.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
So then I guess you started making music, you know
a lot of the Tension music producers labels. And then
it felt like during lockdown and COVID, things just kind
of just blew up. Yeah, Jennifer Lopez and Charlie Demelio
dancing to your song.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Sorry, how do you.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
It's just I feel like it's a bit weirder that,
you know, with Charlie dumillion.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
One on the top. I know, but there must be
such an amazing quality, yeah for.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Real, No, Yeah, insane, insame time, quite shocking. But I
was just at my home in Grayland, so I was
just like, I didn't really realize what was going on.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
But what was that? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Super lonely only I used to do on my little
TikTok dancers in tween nineteen video of Memo.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Now doing years before Embrace It, Embrace It Is.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Around the world, were doing that future even billion plays
a one month on TikTok alone.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
There's a billion just that.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
I have, you know, how to count to a billions?
Speaker 3 (14:34):
I can't even come to a billion.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yeah. So then and during that time, everything things went
crazy and then talk shows to the States.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Yeah, like Jimmy Fallon, Alan Shows, Myers. But a lot
of the times you couldn't actually go there to perform
because of COVID.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
How frustrating was that?
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Yeah, I mean I guess at the time, I didn't
really think about it that much, but now I'm like, damn,
it would have been, like I think it would have
been probably a lot more scary being in the studio.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
So maybe it was a good thing.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Yeah, true that I had to just I could just
film them here, which was also like kind of cool,
and I guess different for them as well, because we
could like have more like creative input, like we could
kind of like film it like it was i don't know,
like a like a music video.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
It's pretty sick, but be live.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
It was cool and amazing things happened as well, like
Sol John you got to go on his you know,
his podcast as well as podcast thing so real, and
he was like saying, how big your song was? How
much she was like keep writing them. That must be
such a surreal moment for you.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
So weird, so weird and wonderful.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
He was so nice, guys, Like he's such a sweetheart,
and also just like how he does his radio show
like like putting light on like small artists, you know,
and upcoming artists. It was like so like nice to
have that kind of support, and I feel like, yeah,
they're so like important in this industry as well, because
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it's hard to even like put your hand up, especially
if you're not like a Nippo baby. You're like you
don't have a connection. It's like how does some artists
even get Yeah, that's true up there, like you have
to talk about them and you have to like share
your favorite artists, like you know, you have to cheer
lead for other artists as well so that everyone can
like go up together.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
You've also been performing with Olivia or a Drigo. Dad
and I are both huge fans, but I think it's
a little bit weird that Dad owns Olivia or a
Drigga T shirt.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
And I actually got like she was like it's just
for me. I was like, no, it's for me. I
was a big fan.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
I top from.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Pretty awesome things like that.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Yeah, what was she like and what was performing with her? Like?
Speaker 4 (16:37):
It was awesome and she's really lovely. It was so nice,
like very inspiring to watch her. She's twenty one.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
I was like, oh, well she's young with merish. I
need to like arm my game.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
For well, you are only twenty three, twenty four, twenty four,
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
How do you guys?
Speaker 1 (16:53):
I'm at fifteen and thirteen days.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
I has to say I'm a little bit older than that.
But what is it like being you know, you get
rush into the media spotlight at such a young age
for you, you know, like, do you look back and
do you go, well, that was It's a wild time,
and your mistakes are obviously public mistakes, and the good
things are obviously public things. Is it kind of any
advice for young kids that wanting to do that? I
never gate through that.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Oh yeah, it's kind of a strange.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
I do feel for like artists who started much younger
as well. Yea, even like Lord was like fourteen or something.
Really yeah, she was like fourteen, right, yeah, I think so,
I think you've.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Got your podcast Today's fourteen, you.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Know, right, But it's so wild. I'm like, damn, when
I was fourteen, I was just like, what was I
even doing?
Speaker 4 (17:36):
I was like at school playing waterpolo, like not getting
invited to the group hangouts, like and then getting invited
to the group hangouts.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
I didn't drink then, but.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Ten years later though, you know, achieved.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I know, yeah, it's crazy. I mean just like what
was the question?
Speaker 4 (17:52):
It was sorry that I went off on a tang.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
That was good.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
I wait with you on that advice on like young.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Job.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
No, I'm like, yeah, because I went off track? Was
that what you were?
Speaker 2 (18:05):
I was just like, you know, is there advice for you? Yeah,
try to navigate that.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Yeah. I think just like just go with the flow
and don't be too hard on yourself.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
And also things just get so much better when you
like go like like you should just chill, like honestly
just enjoy being young and like being a teenager. And
then when you get to like twenty two or twenty one,
things will just start to make sense.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
And it's just like you evolve. I literally feel.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Like I'm evolving, Like it's kind of crazy, and you
just you kind of you have a completely different perspective
on life when you're like yeah, when you're.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Working full time and.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Traveling, like if you are able to travel like that
also just is such a crazy I think like prioritize travel,
like work hospital to make money to travel like it's
such an important thing to gain perspective, and I think
it can really just yeah, it can be so calming,
like realizing how small we are and how I don't know,
(19:08):
it's kind of awesome.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
This is when I grow up.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Can we talk new music.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
We're so excited that you're bat with some new music
and we've had a little sneak peek of your new
song Animal awesome. Do you feel the pressure because of
your success or just the pressure because I asked the
question about.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Damn, I think no.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
I've definitely felt pressure in the past, but I think pressure.
I don't know, it's like definitely. I don't think that
you can, like I don't think I can try to
like beat what has happened. Well, I can try to
beat what has happened.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
I don't know what to say.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
I feel the pressure a little bit, but I also
feel like you have to kind of take yourself away
from that and just focus on making really good music.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
You're never thinking, will this make a good TikTok dance?
Speaker 4 (20:02):
No, you can't do that because like also, I feel
like with a lot of TikTok songs, it's always like
just the hook that's really good or whatever.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
So it's like far out.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
You can't like there's no way that you can like precalculate,
you know, like a hit. I don't like to go
into a session and think I'm going to make a
hit like I've would with producers who have been like
we're gonna make a hit, and I'm like, the worst
song comes out of it. It's like, I feel like
you make a great song when you're just like having
fun and enjoying it, or like writing from like the
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most depressing part of your like soul. I don't know,
like it's like you just gotta roll with it.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Do you like when it comes to writing, do you
sit down and kind of go, this is time I
need to write and almost like force yourself to write,
or do inspiration come up and then you write or
a bit of both.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Definitely, Like yeah, sometimes when I go into a session,
I'll already have like things that I've written in my notes,
like ideas or like yeah, like literally like a line
and that especially happened with an animal. I was feeling
very existential, like I like this.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Sort of KIV accident at the start too.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Yeah, yeah, gosh, I know, I was like, do I
leave it.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
And I liked it.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Were like, yeah, I reckon, it's cute, okay, whatever you say.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
And it's not just new music as well.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Also, it's very exciting you were acting in a new
film hitself. It involves teenage just trying to make a band.
It's acting something you want to do more of.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Definitely, it was so much fun. It was awesome, great,
great like cast and crew. To work with Jonathan Jonathan.
Oh my gosh, why can I say Jonathan?
Speaker 3 (21:34):
I know Jonathan Jonathan Ogilvy. Literally he is.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
A director, and it was so nice to like work
with him and be a part of the crew.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
I just feel like filming movies is like really fun.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
I saw the trailer. Look looks awesome. It looks like
a great job teasing right now he is, He's giving
you a gift hand sanitizer. Happy birthday. Been here some
hand sanitizer for you. Wait, I'm testing your acting. See
how Oh my.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
God, my gosh, you knew what kind of hands I
did is actually crazy.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Give that to me.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
That's really good. I believe that too. It took a
while to get there, but I actually have no.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Idea what you're trying to I was genuinely, We genuinely
had no idea.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
It was something I was also done. It's been amazingly
honest about your mental health and battles with depression. Was
it hard to come out and tell everyone?
Speaker 4 (22:34):
I think it was like more hard to like realize
that I was like sad when I was sad.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
I feel like it's just something that a lot.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Of people just have dealt with forever, you know, like
even like nowadays, it's only like recent that people talk
about mental health or you know, talking about like medication
or like going to therapy. I feel like it's a
modern like way of living and dealing with it. I
feel like it's crazy to think how in the past
people just like mentally sick and just kept going. And
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I think a lot of people past I think that
still happens a lot as well. But I think it's
so important to talk about it, and I think a
lot of people do nowadays, and it just I think,
like lets people know that it's okay and it's totally
common and normal, and it's really.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Helpful to talk about it because it makes people feel
heard and also.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Yeah, just like relatable as well, because everyone is dealing
with something well and to.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
See, you know, I like to see probably a small
slice of your life publicly, you know, which is not
all your life and everything's you're off with John, you're
off with the Olivirodrigo. But to see there's times where
there's great things, are lots of great things, you know,
which is awesome. On you for doing that.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Before you go, we want to do some quick fire questions.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
I really want to be like this or that you
can pass on these.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Studio recording or a live performance.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
It's like asking me, like the most difficult question, what's take?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Both? Take?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Can I take?
Speaker 2 (24:02):
There's no rules in this game, there's no money. I
was hand sanitized up for grabs.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
You know.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Wait, wait, no, do I have to pick one?
Speaker 2 (24:15):
You don't pick any at all?
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Okay, both because I can take one.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Saying celebrities like Jennifer low Peers dancing to your songs
or seeing my dad dance to.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Your you haven't definitely been okay, thank you think.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Early mornings or late nights, late nights, I can't really
wake up early.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Are you working? Because you're a singer?
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Is singer?
Speaker 2 (24:36):
I think it's applicable, right, it's definitely that's.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Exponge or Instagram rabbit hole?
Speaker 3 (24:44):
You know I do both? Was that that little sound?
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Probably told to wrap up? So yeah, well.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
What is my Instagram binge?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Or what was one?
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Netflix?
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Wait?
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Maybe? But I do a lot of time on my phone, Okay, dying?
Speaker 1 (25:04):
You're hear a new color or getting a new tattoo,
getting a new tattoo.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Have you want your call Steve or.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Something a new tatoo?
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Well, did you ever get tato of your car called Steve?
I was watching something that is the car's name was Steve?
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Steve yesterday? Texting or voice notes? Definitely texting.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
I honestly, I hate when people see your voice.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
How about you, guys, You've got to take it away
from other people. And this is something that no one
else did hear.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
I know literally, I'm like, I don't.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Listen he paces when he's on the phone. Someone writing
lyrics or producing beats.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Probably writing lyrics. I'm definitely not as good at producing beats.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Song blowing up worldwide on tik took all this podcast.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Definitely this, Yeah, oh my gosh, you're kidding me.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
And I've got one water polo or wearing a polo? Well,
have you ever want to polo? While playing water polo.
That's the that's the old conception. Can you imagine that
I wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Be round drown.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Thank you so much for your time. You were such
an inspiration for so many young people. And finally, what
would you tell yourself at my age you're thirteen fourteen
year olds out?
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Oh my gosh, thirteen four fourteen year old half just
enjoy enjoy life so much fun, especially when you're a teenager.
Just go around and like have fun and explore.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
It feels like you always want to get older when
you're damn it, I want to go back. I want
to go back.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
It goes so farn It's crazy how fast that time
of your life.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Twenty four four exactly, and you're already saying I'm still scared.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
I'm like, oh my god, I was literally seventeen, like
five days ago.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
I still feel like a kid. I'm going to be
a kid for ever.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
If well, You've done so well. Congratulations always. We really
really appreciate you taking the time to do that.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
You guys so much, Thank you so much, thank you
very much.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Thanks you.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
That was such an amazing chat with Bennie. I'm even
a bigger fan after doing that.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Yeah. Sorry, for making things weird. But the hand sanitizer
acting counter that was so confusing and I didn't explain
that well. But awesome to see people like ben E
following their dreams and having things work out so great
when they do.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Yes. Speaking of following, make sure to follow our podcast
for then I'm talking. Follow our podcast for the next
amazing woman we talked to to inspire with their life story.
Catch you next week.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Don't forget bet He's got new music called Animal out
now and also in the movie Here South