December 29, 2024 • 58 mins
D&A Live - Season 3, Episode 52 "Soul/Rock Artist Brittany Bexton". Hosted by Danny & Althea. D&A Live is aired live from Paradise Studios NY via the Strong Island Entertainment Network. www.strongisland.com
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Speaker 4 (00:40):
Congratulations Sinatra Born for winning the Long Island Awards.
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Yes, yeah, that is that's that was really nice to
hear about that. Also, we're going to give a big
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We enjoyed you guys, really kicked it off. What was
(01:18):
it on Friday?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
No, it was yesterday?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Was it yesterday?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Oh my god? Saturday?
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Okay, sorry sorry sorry, five to six Saturdays. We had
such a nice time and World o Rama and lads really,
I mean they're on their game. I mean, they really
are on their game.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah, I can't say no.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
No, And you killed it too, you you jumped in.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
There, okay, so anyway compared to that, So anyway, Also,
just to keep in mind, this is actually going to
be our last show of the season.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Okay, that was good, right, try to you scared me.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
She scared me About to say nothing.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
I'm like, well, I guess you know, sometimes no thing's
got to come to one end.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Right No, but well yeah, but no, not today.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
This is our last show of the season, and we're
going to be looking forward to uh, twenty twenty five
is gonna have a lot of surprises for everybody. But
we were you know, I was just thinking about about,
you know, how we first started and everything, and you know,
you found the clip for me. So I just wanted
to play a little bit of our first show.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
You see it, because you know what the energies about
the wives and ya going, everybody, how you doing? My
name is Danny out Fair and we all the DNA
show we are. We got a special guest today, Cake
life man entrepreneur. Don't wrap them in in you know,
and we want to actually sit down to a couple
of segments and for the young guys who's trying to
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understand music industry and trying to get into the industry.
You know, we did this to have a strong platform
for independent artists. Doesn't matter even in entertainment. It's all
walks of basically artistry. So I'm here, you know, my
wife right here. Everyone's like, yo, why'd you bring on
your way?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Man?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Let me tell all y'all listening here when you came
for some woman men? No, I'm just playing got no.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
But basically, I mean the show will head around not
just musicians. We'll be talking to several artists, authors, canedians,
film directors, everybody. We're gonna try to show the same
love and support that we were shown. And we're basically
going to showcase them in Long Island because we love
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Long Island and we love Danny too.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
But who doesn't love me? That's what I got to say.
Everyone's like, oh, man, look at this cocky mother.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Now listen anyway, like I was telling her is basically
I wanted to give a platform for artists to come
out because a lot of times people don't really show
independent artists a lot of love, and everybody's in competition
a lot out here, and I'm like, you know what, man,
it's trying to break that barrier and really put everybody
together inside the community. Young talented artists as well as
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you know, you know, age kind of artists. No matter what,
we're still artists inside this community, man, and.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
We got to keep it going.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
But anyway, let me talk to you about yesterday's performance.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Don't be looking at me like that woman.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Oh my god, see how skinny I had here?
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Listen? Oh my god, oh my god. That's what the
show does, you.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
See, people, that's what bringing a whole community does to you.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
It makes you grow old.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Well you know what. Let me tell you.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
And you had your haird straightened. You were looking trying
to look all good in front of what happened with that.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
You know where that goes.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Oh you know what, I thought? You liked my hand
this way.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
It's cool, but that way that you look right there
was just absolutely stunning.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Oh okay, So if anything, maybe I'll think about.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
I wanted to just do one real thing real quick
for you.
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Done.
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Okay, put up the charts.
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So these are the charts right now for the week
with the media base because we always put up the
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and digital Radio tracker right here as well because a
lot of people always ask me about it.
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Then you go right there and there.
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Another thing that we have is PAW one four point
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Speaker 6 (06:12):
In this show was well twenty four to seven. Baby,
it's a radio station that we own. We own two
radio stations, ladies and gentlemen. But after that, I just
want to tell everybody to man, we're gonna get really,
you know, Like I want to give a big shout
out to m City junior, you know, and we did
a great job in the review.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Everybody. I loved the review.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
And just know we're going to be doing the review
probably like.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Once a month.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Once a month, we're gonna do it the month.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
And we're gonna be bringing up the top eight and odds,
the top hip hop, the like platinum rappers, because we
want to give everybody you know, insight on the industry.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Yes we do, and that's what we're going to do.
So with that said, have you got anything else?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
So with that said, coming up, we have a soulful
rock artist. Her name is Brittany Bexton and you'll learn
more about her in maybe two seconds okay, maybe two
minutes and two seconds. So wait for the commercial break
and right here on this show we're going to have Britney,
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So stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
It has been.
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Kidra Nokra make log.
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We do this. He does.
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It is Bey.
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I was thinking about you all the time, but it's
been two years now since Salasa you in No Salista.
Speaker 9 (07:54):
Those are twenty million fans have made transight Burian Orchestra
there holiday tradition, bring the whole family and make it
part of yours. The Lost Christmas Eve returning to the
stage for the first time in over ten years.
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The Lost Christmas Eve Live in Concerts.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
I love those guys, I know, but it's sad, isn't
that the last summer?
Speaker 3 (08:58):
I know, this is the last weekend for Trans Siberian Man.
If you didn't see the show, you're gonna have to
wait until next year. Okay, but or unless you do,
you know, they got a DVD out or something like that.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Whatever, You can see them on YouTube. But go coming up.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Let's have the beautiful, talented Brittany Bexton.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Welcome her to the job.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
I love Hello, Hello.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
My god. I love her already.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
You know we would just I love her, I really do.
She's so cool and she's got two cute talks. Okay,
So hi to Winston and Buddy. I know they're with you,
and they're gonna keep quiet.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Well, they may interject. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
But it'll be fine. Yeah, you didn't get a chance
to see them. I did, okay, But anyway, we got
Brittany here. Now, I as I did my research. Unlike you,
he was born and raised in northern California, so let's.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Take it from there. Because you grew up knowing, not knowing.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
You grew up with the music of Ouitha Franklin, Motown,
rock and roll. In your childhood, you went into you
were in choirs, music classes, private voice tutoring.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Go.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Yeah, so cool thing. Since y'all are in New York.
I actually got to sing in Carnegie Hall when I
was fifteen. No, yeah, my jazz choir was part of
the film Mattson Vocal Jazz Workshop and that was an
invitational only jazz concert and it was a festival and
we got to sing at Carnegie Hall at the end.
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So that was one of my awesome, awesome experiences. So
my vocal history is kind of all over the place.
I mean, I've done classical, I've done musical theater, I've
done jazz. My first teacher was a pop teacher. But
I really, like you said, grew up on Motown and
Aretha Franklin and good old rock and roll and like
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love the rock and singer songwriter stuff of the nineties.
So that's really my background.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Wow, you just blew me away. To Carnegie Hall.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
I mean, everybody wants to Everybody wants to that chance.
It's like, you know, people want to go to the
Apollo Theater. They want to be on that stage.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Carnegie Hall was the same is the same platform. And
you know, my mom performed in Carnegie Hall.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Wow, my mom, my mom.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
My mom was an opera singer, but she was in
a like a choir and she was one of the
lead sopranos and she got to perform in Carnegie Hall.
That was her only time ever, you know, in the
spy she never pursued it because she had two kids.
So you know that's you know those that at that time,
(11:57):
That's what it was. But it Carnegie if you made
it to hole mm hmmmm, God bless you.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Yeah, it was a pretty amazing experience for sure.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
I just you know, oh my god, I'm just enthralled
with that. Just you know, I mean, people have that
certain like aspiration of certain things that you know, I
want to make it to Radio City or I want
to make it, you know, I want to have a
concert in Madison Square Garden. You know, people have that
that little thing that they want to complete on their
bucket list, and let me tell you, you're going to
(12:30):
You know, that is just be don't you think that, Well,
you're not.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Going to go to Carnegie Halls. You're not going there.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
But okay, So then you moved down to Nashville And
what inspired that move?
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Oh? So I had been I actually went to a
theater conservatory for college, but we sang, danced and acted
all day and I did professional theater when I got
out of that. But I just wasn't feeling super fulfilled.
I really wanted to be doing my own music because
I've been writing my own music since I was a
little girl, and I always knew I wanted to be
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a singer songwriter. But I just wasn't fulfilled doing musical
theater and theater anymore. And I decided I was going
to take a step back from that and pursue my
music full time along with film and TV work, because
I had a little more flexibility with that than I
did with stage shows. So I took a step back
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and started playing with bands in my hometown because I
had moved home to save money. I was going to
move to New York and do the Broadway thing, and
then I was like, this is not what I want
to do long term. I want to be able to
do my own music. So I started playing with bands
in my hometown, and I knew that I was supposed
to move. I knew that I couldn't really do what
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I needed to with music where I was, but I
just didn't know where to go. I really didn't know
much of anything about Nashville at the time. Funny enough,
I mean, I did country music and stuff at the time,
and like, why wouldn't I know about Nashville. But I just,
you know, in California's like a whole different world. You
know industry in California. You know about the industry in
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New York. I had heard some stuff about Austin, but
I knew nothing about Nashville. So I was like, Okay, Lord,
where do you want me to go? And I had
looked at actually moving to Austin, Texas, because I'd heard
that that was a big music town, and I was
going out to network at the local club. We had
this place called Kodiak Jacks and I would go out
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there to network with artists that were coming through. And
one night and artists came through that was in from Nashville.
And after the show, I was so green at the time,
I did not know how to properly network, but I
like went up to him. I told him he did
a great show, and I handed him a card and
I was like, you know, I'm a singer if you
ever need a backup vocalist or anything. And my card
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I was not great at the hang yet, what can
I say? But he had grace for me and he
was like, you are And we ended up sitting down
and talking for a little over an hour, oh wow,
and talking about music and he's like, why are you here?
What you need to hear? And I was like, I know,
and I know I need to move. He goes, well,
why aren't you in La? And I'm like, I can't
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do La. La is just too claustrophobic for me. I
get claustrophobic there after like three days, and he goes, Okay,
I get that, but why aren't you in Nashville. That's
really where the industry is anyway, and there's more space
and it's more country and you should just go to Nashville.
He's like, heck, move tomorrow if you have to, and
I went, hmm, okay, I'll look into Nashville. So I'd
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been praying about it, and I've been asking God, like, Okay,
where do you want me to go and win? So
I go home, I start looking into Nashville and I'm like, well,
I've been asking you, Lord. So then the next day,
I was actually doing the Colgate Country Showdown and the
guitar player that was playing with me for that looks
at me. Doesn't know about the conversation the night before,
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and he says, why aren't you in Nashville. Oh Jesus,
you should really be in Nashville. I mean, that's what
you do, That's where you should be. And then the
third day, I ended up on the phone with my
ex and he was like, why are you visiting Texas?
You should be going to Nashville. And I was like, Okay, Lord,
(16:26):
I get it. You got me in Nashville. I get it.
So I started planning. I decided in three days that
I was going to move, and I started planning for
the trip, and I put together a website and I
honestly hadn't really been on social media because I yeah
I was. I was not into social media at the time,
(16:49):
but I realized and recognized that I needed to do
it for music, so I got on social media stuff.
I recorded a demo that I shouldn't have recorded until
I moved here. But you know, you live and you learn.
And three months later, I packed my car as full
as I could get it and I drove across the country.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Oh wow, I know.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
I don't have the like, the tenacity to do that.
You know what I'm saying, I'm a scared little rabbit.
He'll go anywhere. He don't care, you know, he just
double back and he's on his way.
Speaker 10 (17:21):
Me.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
It's gotta work, you know. I mean that's how I
look at it. I look at it. It's like no
one's going to give it to you. You gotta get
it yourself.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
That's why I feel like a lot of artists fail
because they're waiting for somebody to take them, and it's
like that's never going to happen.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
Yeah. Yeah, you have to grab hold of it yourself,
for sure.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
I tried. I try to grab but I'm like more
of a pincher, you know. I don't you know, you
don't pinch there.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
She goes like this does like a little snip.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Look at her, and I just take the whole thing
on my hands like this and I just grab it.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
And she's like, what are you doing? I said, listen, man,
that's how you gotta be.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
I'm just a little bit more of the You're reserved.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
I'm not reserved.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Me reserved.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Yeah, whatever, No, you you don't.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
I am the I'm not reserved. Yeah, I am not reserved.
Don't listen to him.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Certain you know what.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
She just does things like she just she won't go
like she'll go fully, but then she won't.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Me.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
I'm just a crazy one that just goes our way
out of here.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Yeah, that's called I'm like, no, what it is.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
I mean, even if it ends up a dead end road,
you still tried. Well, yeah, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
It's like you're driving a car, and when you're drive
in the car, I'm still trying to get the right directions.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Don't know where you're going. You might end up somewhere
that's going to lead you right to the right direction.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
If I don't have to right pps, dude, I'm not
getting in the car. You know.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
I wrote a song about that, you did I did?
I wrote a song called just crazy enough?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Are you serious?
Speaker 5 (18:51):
I am serious?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Probably about me? I'm not crazy about me.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
It was right after I moved to Nashville. I had
had a we actually had a writer's night scheduled, and
my guitar player backed out the last minute, like literally
the morning of the writer's night, and I was like,
what am I supposed to do? Do I have to
haul a keyboard?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Like?
Speaker 5 (19:13):
How am I going to fill this in? And I
went to the bank and I ran into someone I
vaguely knew, like it was the boyfriend of a friend,
and I'm like, hey, you play guitar, don't you? And
he goes, I do, And I'm like, do you want
to play with me tonight?
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Oh wow?
Speaker 5 (19:29):
And he was like, yeah, yeah, let's do it. So
that afternoon I actually went to the boots store where
he worked, and we practiced in the back and he
played the show with me that night.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Oh that is so cool.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
That's what happens.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Spontaneous moments.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Well, and when I walked out of the bank, I thought,
this is crazy. I've never even played with him. I
don't even know if he's good. And I walked out
and I thought, man, you have to be just crazy
enough to be in the music industry and the and
I was like, oh, that's a good song title.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
There's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
I mean, come on, half of the time, everybody's freaking
going there like but I don't like.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
One thing I don't like about the music industry is
that a last commitment.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
The people that you think is gonna be the most
committed are the ones that back out. And then all
of a sudden you just have a spontaneous moment. He's like, yo, bro,
I own a guitar and you're like what. I'm like,
you know what, let's just do it. Then all of
a sudden that becomes your band member.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Yeah, yes, that's how it works. I found plenty. I
found plenty of rappers like that. Like there was a kid.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
One guy was like, Yo, meet me in the station,
all right, I'm gonna come it. Text five minutes to
goes I can't make it. And then all of a sudden,
you see a kid from the corner right there literally
rap it.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
All right, bro, come in.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
And he's actually better than the guy that than the.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Guy that's supposed to come in. You're like, he's like, yeah, man,
I work with doctor Joy back in the day.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
You're like divine intervention.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Corner and he's like, oh man, I just chilled there, Bros.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Practice my skill. Yo. That's why I tell everybody you
never know who you bump into.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
No, true, it's but every every every instant has its reasonable.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
God gives you pieces, right, and you got to put
pieces together. And the way that you put the pieces
together is not knowing how to put the piece together.
It just happens that way.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Yes, speaking of God. Okay, you ready for this. That's
a good segue too, speaking of God in February this
one over here. She's an author too, so she wrote
a book called Learning to Believe Again Thirty Days to Fending,
Finding hope, faith and comfort in God's Truth.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Why is that? I want? I really, I'm I'm I'm
very like. That's that's a dope title.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Yeah, thank you?
Speaker 2 (21:51):
What made you come up with that?
Speaker 3 (21:53):
So?
Speaker 5 (21:53):
I wrote the song Believe Again before I wrote the book,
and it came out of me healing from PTSD. After
I moved to Nashville. I went through some pretty like
crazy crazy things. I moved and the first roommate I had.
I had to get a restraining order against in the
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first three months that I was in town because he
threatened to kill me. Oh, I can laugh now, not
really funny, but but you know, God protected me. And
it was like a series of crazy things. That was
just really the first crazy thing, and then I went
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through like a series of crazy, insane personal betrayals and
work betrayals, and it was like just kind of one
trauma after another, and it compounded into PTSD, which I
realized after i'd been touring basically for four years full time.
I realized I had PTSD because I was having like
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disproportionate emotional responses to things and no one on the
outside would know, but on the inside it felt like
I'd been run over by a train. And I just
I realized I needed to sort of take a step
back and really put some roots down in Nashville, because
I'd been on the road pretty much full time since
I moved to town and I didn't have roots. And
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I started going to counseling for trauma therapy. And in
that process, I'd always believed in God. I never stopped
believing in him. It kind of would have been like
stopping believing in a best friend that you'd known since childhood.
You know, I couldn't not believe in him, but my
trust for him had been really shattered because of everything
I went through. So I started in the process of
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going through counseling trauma therapy specifically, I also went through
a process of rebuilding my faith. And one day I
just like, I saw someone who just they had the
peace of God and they had that light, and I
was like, I used to have that, and I want
that back, and I started fighting to get it back.
And that really meant like diving into the Word of
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God every day and really seeking him. And my prayer
during that time was God, I believe, help me overcome
my unbelief, which is from a story in Mark where
a father his son had been dealing with demons his
whole life and no one could heal him, and even
the disciples couldn't free him. But Jesus came and said,
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do you believe, because anything is possible for those who believe,
And he said, yes, I believe. Help me overcome my unbelief.
And that's all we need is the choice to believe,
because God feels in the rest and he did he
rebuilt my faith. But it was a process, because when
you've gone through a lot and you are unraveling trauma
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and healing, it's a process. And I learned a lot
along the way. So the song came first. Actually it's
called Believe Again. And I was co writing with someone
ever co written with before that day and I got triggered.
I had a trauma trigger, so I felt like i'd
been run over by a train. And I was on
my way to the co write and I was just like,
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oh God, what am I going to write tonight? I
feel terrible, like I have no idea what we're going
to write. And I just heard him say, you're going
to write learning to Believe Again, because that's what you're
doing right now. And I was like, okay, and that's
what we wrote. And then when the book came about,
people have been telling me I needed to write a
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book for years, like basically since I moved to town
and had all of these crazy experiences. But I was like,
you know, I think I'd like to have a little
more victory before I write my story. But during this
healing process, I was getting all of this revelation from God,
like healing revelation, and I would share these words that
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I was receiving in my email list, and I was
doing like a monthly email blast and I was sharing
a word of the month, and people started responding to
these emails and being like, this word just changed my life.
I've been stuck in this area and I couldn't figure
out what to do and I read your email and
I'm finally unstuck and it was just crazy, like I
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was getting these amazing responses and I just knew. At
that point, I was like, I don't need to write
the story of the victory. I need to write the
healing process because that's what I'm doing and that's what
I've learned, and that's what people need. So that's what
the book came out of. And it came out in
February of twenty twenty actually, and then the whole world
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shut down.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
So yeah, right, perfect timing.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
At the end of the day God spoke to you,
doesn't matter the end of the world happened, you know
what I mean. So my thing the two though, is
watching you and tolking about God. You see a different glow.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
And what I'm taking a look at too is as
an artist and as a DJ too.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
I go through those dramas.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
Yeah, because you're around one hundred different type of people
with different type of you know, situations as well, and
they have different actions and the way that they really
try to move.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
And everybody thinks it's like, oh yeah, I'm up on stage.
It's great, everything's done.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
But they don't understand the process that you have to
go through to actually get to the stage, make the stage,
do the performance, make the record, publish the record, and
push it. They don't understand how much trama that gives
end money and your time. Yeah, so that makes you
basically you know a lot of times, man, I believe
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every artist has that because I know, dang well, I have.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
That gonna lie to you.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
You wake up times and somebody triggers you wolf, and
when they trigger you wolf, you can't even think about it.
You can't even rate, you know what I mean? And
that's the most important thing. How are you gonna sit
here and write a record right when you're already triggered off?
You're not feeling good, your body ain't feeling good, your
area is off, so everything is just gonna be off,
you know what I mean? So I definitely understand what
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what you go through when it comes to that, because
a lot of weird characters in this industry.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Honey, that's all I got to say.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
I would agree with that. You kind of never know
what you're gonna get.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
I just never thought that Nashville would have the same
kind of characters that New York and LA would have.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
I kind of seem like Nashville would be a little bit.
Speaker 8 (28:35):
Back.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
Yeah, you know, in some ways it is. When I
moved here. You know, I'd had experiences in LA too,
because I've done some film and TV work.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Oh god, and oh no, no, no, I'm sorry for saying that.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
It's just I understand, like email in this industry is terrible, Yeah,
because you got so many creeps. When you try to
be a pro and really try to move, you don't
know their attention.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
You know, you don't know what they want.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
When you're just trying to do your business and run
yourself as a brand.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
You got a bunch of widows, crazy people. I'm just
gonna put it out there, it's my podcast.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
You got a bunch of widows, a bunch of freaks,
and people that basically I'm not gonna even say it
because I don't need trouble. But anyway, you got a
bunch of people that go to the exclusive parties and wildlife.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
That's it. I'm not gonna get into that term. But
it's very hard to be a female in this industry.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
And that's all I want to say. And I definitely
understand because you just brought up movies and me being
in the movie knowing the movie industry and just being
around all of these uh fit a lot of these
film people.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
It's shakes your head. I'm talking about edit yours and
I'm talking about directors.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
Yeah, So LA is very exclusive, like if you're not
in the in crowd, you're not in any crowd.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
So you have to know the right person to get
introduced in all of that. And I think New York's
probably pretty similar in that way.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
I think it is to New York has a little
bit more of an independent ground. Okay, LA has more
of a kind of like I call it the union ground,
is that you have to be brought in there and
really put in there. But New York has most of
the time most of the independent crab basically rules over
in New York.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
Okay, so Nashville it is the industry, like the music
industry is. It is the town really. I mean, you
have the pros here, you have the labels here, you
have most of the main songwriters here. I mean a
lot of people travel here to write even so it's
all here, and it's different than La in the sense
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that you don't have to be in the in crowd
to talk to people. People are very willing to talk
to you and even give you wisdom talk about their experiences.
So when I first moved to town, I mean I
met a ton of hit songwriters that were so willing
to talk to me and meet with me. And I
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met guys that had been touring with big artists for
years and they were willing to sit with me and
talk to me and meet with me. And I even
met label folks and stuff, you know. But they were
willing to talk and share their wisdom. But that doesn't
mean that you're in.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Yeah, So it is more laid back.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
In a sense because you can at least have a
conversation with them. It's more friendly in that way. But
you still there's still kind of like the tricks to
get in, and there's still the same industry stuff that
happens with that.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
So yeah, yeah, this is this is so basically what
you're saying is, can can you just put like a
definition of basic in because people don't understand, Like some
people are probably not understanding what we're saying in so
you're saying basically sign or yeah basically with a with
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a label, like you know, saying yes signed basically that's
what the in ground basically is.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
Yeah, so like signed to a label, signed to a
publishing company, like in the crowd that is being pushed
to radio all the time. That is, big bucks are
being poured into you know, like the family names, you
know that crowd. And I mean, honestly, people can get
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in just because of who they know. But it's it's
a pretty mean industry. I'm not saying Nashville. I just
want the industry in jail.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
Absolutely, you're talking to somebody who's been in twenty something years.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
It's ye eat dog world.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
Yes, I've seen people become rich, lose it, people not
rich still have it.
Speaker 5 (32:56):
Yeah, I mean it's like yeah, and on the drawer
seeing people sell themselves to the industry and just completely
lose themselves and then lose what they gained in the industry,
you know.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
I see it on Instagram. I see a lot of
females losing themselves, losing their souls to this industry.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
They believe that you know, sex cells and that's what
they always tell them, and they don't realize that cells
and music.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
I always say, is who you are? Yeah, who you are?
But listen, I want to get into some music.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Okay, into the music. Okay, but you know what, can
we just can I just say something?
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Okay? Because she's like, you ready for this? Okay?
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Because he is a New York State advocate and he
was anti bullying. Okay, So did you know she is
a very big activist with domestic violence that one over here.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
He does a lot of work with organizeds and everything
for awareness of domestic violence. Is this woman does at all?
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Did you get into it because of the incidents that
you had being there?
Speaker 5 (34:09):
Yes, in part that, and then also because people that
I cared about were going through abuse, So it was
one thing to go through it and get out myself.
And I learned about the cycle of abuse and all
of that because of that, And when I went through
that crazy thing with the roommate going psycho on me.
I studied like narcissism, sociopathy, and psychopathy because I was like,
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what just happened? You know? So I learned a lot
about personality disorders and abuse and Stockholm syndrome through that,
and then I watched other people go through it, and
I couldn't stand just seeing people go through it. I
wanted to help. So that's that's how I got into it.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
This is my segue, you see.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
I know how to do segues here because the music
video I'm going to play is called Dance with the Devil.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
I was just reading that because that's what I was
gonna ask you. Well, dance with the Devil. But we're
gonna get on that in a short period of time
after the song is done, so you ready to know
what your boy DJ energetic and roll dance with your devil.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
With Dance with the Devil.
Speaker 7 (35:17):
You've been pulled through hell long enough.
Speaker 11 (35:22):
When someone chooses to hurt you.
Speaker 8 (35:24):
It isn't you say you have a duty to say
what's dead.
Speaker 7 (35:31):
But some broken things are meant to make.
Speaker 12 (35:46):
You think.
Speaker 10 (35:47):
If you spend around again, you'll make the devil dizzy.
Speaker 7 (35:53):
And stop the sin.
Speaker 11 (35:55):
The more you travel less, you feel your worst you
can move through five and basket board.
Speaker 7 (36:06):
There's no way to win thiscit.
Speaker 11 (36:12):
You lose it all or you bress.
Speaker 7 (36:15):
Befo because you've cast down with the devil.
Speaker 12 (36:26):
Basket ball, dance with the devil.
Speaker 7 (36:31):
Dast get you.
Speaker 12 (36:42):
Relieve no to dance your wrin but step by step.
Speaker 11 (36:49):
Your drag again.
Speaker 8 (36:52):
Sevil tangles when you try to woltz.
Speaker 11 (36:56):
Then meshes out when you trip pens.
Speaker 12 (37:02):
There's no way to a biscuit game. You use it
or you press beflame.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
The way.
Speaker 12 (37:19):
Because you've just down in the devil's nasket. Down in
the devil nasketet bad. You can't change then who deniesk
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the truth?
Speaker 11 (37:42):
You feel the heat bad?
Speaker 10 (37:44):
You try to play it cool. Well do you think
that you're trying to proof you are strong? But you're
not fireproof.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
No way to ski.
Speaker 12 (38:09):
You because you can't love devil.
Speaker 7 (38:22):
Maskets in the devil.
Speaker 10 (38:30):
With the devil and not get.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Love that I loved it. You know what she does
that make Oh my.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
God, is that the one that's right now being charted?
Speaker 5 (38:47):
It is, yes, of course.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
Man, Okay, so I record it's phenomenal.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
Look at the only person that I can actually and
me and her agreed on We agreed.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
We said the same our little notes from where viewing
people like who we think they kind of emulate a
little bit. And I said, the minute I heard the man,
I was like, carry Underwood, I can't you know.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
I was trying to figure out who you sound like.
And I looked at her and that's the only one
person And she said there and I was like.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
That's the only one that cost something.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
Yeah, you know, I mean she's got the undertone, she's
got everything.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
She's got you know, the sound, you know what I mean,
just yeah, sound, just sounds.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
You got it.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
She's got it, right, you got your own on it.
And it's number forty forty seven, right, forty Yeah, it was.
Speaker 5 (39:35):
Either forty seven or forty eight when the charts closed.
I don't know. I just know the top place that
it's been so far on the charts was forty seven, forty.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
Seven, baby, big big shout out to you man and
definitely everybody listening right now check that record out.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
That record is phenomenal. I love it very No, you
gotta get big shots to have listening.
Speaker 3 (39:57):
Oh okay, of course, A big shout out to how
We and Debbie out there in California.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
They be finding so good talent.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
Man, it's about finding they have it.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
They have the.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
Talent, they're just bringing it us to you know, bringing
it us here in New York. And when I'm loving everything,
I'm feeling the heat.
Speaker 4 (40:16):
And so my thing is right you as an advocate,
did you write that for advocacy too?
Speaker 1 (40:22):
I did?
Speaker 4 (40:23):
It sounds more like to me, not not saying it's
not his single. What I'm saying is it sounds basically
like you've been through it. So when you're doing the music,
it's so potent because if it just shook like a knife,
because it felt like.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
That you were basically in this what devil.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
She sings.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
No, but what I'm saying is.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Buddy, come here, come on, buddy.
Speaker 5 (40:50):
I'm going to give them an extra treat.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
We'll see if I had I'd give one to Danny
right now.
Speaker 2 (40:59):
She's right there.
Speaker 5 (41:03):
But yes, to answer your question that I didn't write
it with advocacy in mind, exactly, but yes, I wrote
it to help people get out and basically to say
all the things I wanted to say because when I
wrote it, I was watching someone I was really close
to go through abuse, and you know, it's easy to
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help people that you're not super close to, but sometimes
it's harder to help the people that you're closest to
because they think you're biased or whatever, and it's you.
They just can't hear the truth from you.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
So it was Likenger though, Yes, isn't that interesting?
Speaker 4 (41:42):
I don't understand it neither, because you know, we'd be
saying things and they'd be like, okay, cool. All of
a sudden, you walk down the block the guys saying
the same exact thing and listen. So being advocate, I
know how that goes.
Speaker 5 (41:54):
You know.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
Then we're talking in front of everybody and they go yeah, yeah, yeah,
I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 4 (42:00):
They don't tell it, they don't do it, and then
all of a sudden, the instant happens is it come back?
Speaker 2 (42:03):
And then it's just like, why are we talking about
this again? We ready went over it, you know what
I mean? No, no, no, just to anybody. But I
just want to really break down that record real quick.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
Oh heayy go. What I liked was.
Speaker 4 (42:15):
I know you weren't trying to do the advocacy, but
to me, as an advocate and as a musician, I
could feel it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (42:24):
That's one thing I liked the bad Well. I liked
the title. What made you decide to come up with
that title?
Speaker 5 (42:30):
So when I had the idea for the song, like
I said, it was like all the things I wanted
to say to my friend but couldn't say, but would
say to other people. And I just started hearing the
hook you can't dance with the devil and not get burned.
And I heard it with the melody in my head
before we wrote the song, because I ended up taking
the idea into a co write with my friend Laurie Lovelace,
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and we hashed it out together. And she has had
experience with domestic abuse and she is accounts too, so
she's dealt with it that way. So it was great
because we could, you know, really go after the topic together.
But you know, the hook was you can't dance with
the devil and not get burned. But that's just too
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long of a title.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
Yeah, dance with.
Speaker 5 (43:21):
The Devil just had a ring to it, you know,
And I knew it would have the intrigue factor and
get people to listen.
Speaker 2 (43:27):
Yeah, No, what I loved what. I loved the bat
it was. I really did like it.
Speaker 4 (43:33):
I just loved the whole title. I love the whole
way that it was put together, the theme. I like
when the guy was dancing with you, because you're calling
it basically you're just tangling around.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
With the guy that's the devil right now? Yeah, right
that in there. You just keep going and doing the
same old move. So that's how I got it from
that analogy.
Speaker 4 (43:50):
Another cool thing that I got actually from that video
was more kind of how you broke free mm hmm.
So the sensibility of you breaking free from it, we
get a little bit. But when the music is done,
I want you away from me. Yeah, that's how that's
how I perceived it. I did not see any of that,
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but that's how I perceed it. I am so bad
at this. I just you knew what it was. I
was paying a text to the man, you know, I mean,
you know, but when she was doing this and she
was coming on here, that's the symbol of saying goodbye.
That's me waving and trying to say goodbye to my demons.
So that's how you got into it. That's how I
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entitled it.
Speaker 3 (44:32):
Okay, Okay, gotcha, you know. So can we get to
the next song? Yeah, I want to get to you
shut it out. Okay, So we got the next song,
Kiss Fear Goodbye. I just love her titles by Fear
Fear Goodbye.
Speaker 1 (44:48):
There we go.
Speaker 3 (44:50):
It.
Speaker 8 (45:05):
I hear you whispering nor soft familiar lines, possessively.
Speaker 11 (45:12):
You're holding me, dying my mind. You've had me blindfolded, hidden.
Speaker 8 (45:21):
From the light, and I've second guessed myself for.
Speaker 11 (45:27):
The last time.
Speaker 7 (45:30):
You've held me back so long.
Speaker 11 (45:33):
You've had me.
Speaker 12 (45:34):
Have your grip. This ig is moving on. The sign
had enough of this. I'm gonna craw, I'm gonna ride.
Speaker 7 (45:51):
Stand, believe.
Speaker 12 (45:53):
Beyond, I'm gonna breath.
Speaker 7 (45:59):
Be set free.
Speaker 11 (46:05):
To your rod.
Speaker 3 (46:09):
And fe.
Speaker 13 (46:14):
I'm kissing you goodbye.
Speaker 7 (46:28):
I've danced with you so long in this church.
Speaker 14 (46:31):
Of quicksand, but just as I was going unto love
reach out its sand, you called me back.
Speaker 7 (46:42):
So, Mom, you've had me.
Speaker 11 (46:45):
You have your grip.
Speaker 7 (46:47):
This song is moving on because I.
Speaker 12 (46:50):
Had and of this. I'm gonna clow, I'm gonna rine,
I stop believe an, I'm gonna breathe and be said, stay.
Speaker 7 (47:16):
Answer your round.
Speaker 14 (47:19):
And fish.
Speaker 3 (47:23):
Here.
Speaker 12 (47:24):
I'm kissing you goodbye, trying to.
Speaker 5 (47:34):
Get back in.
Speaker 7 (47:35):
But this time I'm not answering your call. I'm gonna come,
I'm gonna run.
Speaker 12 (47:50):
I stop believe a line. I'm gonna breathe.
Speaker 11 (47:59):
And be said said, kissing you good bye.
Speaker 13 (48:21):
Yes, I'm kissing you goodbye.
Speaker 2 (48:34):
Jesus, that's phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (48:36):
I'm gonn kissing. I'm diskissing her back.
Speaker 5 (48:39):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (48:39):
Excuse me, Okay, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (48:41):
I was just you know so anyway, now when I
closed my eyes, I said to him, she's the fourth
member of Wilson Phillips.
Speaker 5 (48:53):
I don't know Wilson Phillips.
Speaker 1 (48:55):
Oh you know what. That's it. We're not talking. Let's
talk to the show. We're done.
Speaker 3 (48:59):
Okay, look them up, I will Wilson Phillips. It was
a girl group, girl country group. I think to them
were the daughters of Michelle Phillips.
Speaker 5 (49:13):
Okay, Wilson, Wilson Phillips, Wilson Phillips.
Speaker 3 (49:19):
My favorite one from them was hold on and I'm
picturing you in the You're making them a quortrait, a
quartrack quartet, you know, four right? And I can see
her no anyway, just what it took me back there
It took me back there because these women were phenomenal. See,
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she's her own I'm gonna say faith, faith Hill, Yeah,
you got a little bit of faith Hilling.
Speaker 2 (49:50):
Then I heard her when she was a good I
was like, you know, that's faith.
Speaker 3 (49:57):
Okay, we we we we love you know. It's it's
not like we're trying to compare. It's just say, you know, you.
Speaker 2 (50:03):
Know what a lot of people think.
Speaker 4 (50:04):
This is like you know when hip hop and all
of that, but DNA stands for the DNA of music.
Speaker 1 (50:12):
Yeah, we're like you know.
Speaker 2 (50:14):
So when I hear that, I was like, that's faith.
Speaker 1 (50:16):
Yeah, okay, I'll take faith. Faith. Listening to you over there,
I can hear you in the background.
Speaker 4 (50:22):
Yeah, he's at me gLing.
Speaker 5 (50:30):
They got through their very long lasting Choose inorderately fast tonight.
Speaker 1 (50:35):
It's okay, it's all right. We love Dubbies. You gotta
see them. They're so cute.
Speaker 5 (50:40):
They are cut.
Speaker 1 (50:41):
Winston and Buddy.
Speaker 3 (50:43):
But again, the videos, that video was so cute, you know,
and with that song, right, with that particular song, she
didn't even need the video.
Speaker 2 (50:56):
I like the video because the video showed basically.
Speaker 1 (50:59):
My eyes and cream my own video.
Speaker 2 (51:01):
I understand that.
Speaker 4 (51:02):
But what I liked about the video, how it was another
indicated of basically sitting here stranded, but then trying to
find my way out.
Speaker 2 (51:12):
So that's how I got the analogy you know from
that video.
Speaker 4 (51:15):
All about analogies tonight and then blow and then the
water to me indicates basically new life, yeah you know
in there and the reflection that you saw yourself through
the past. So that's how I look at it.
Speaker 3 (51:29):
An don't shake your head, yes, don't agree with him
with everything.
Speaker 5 (51:33):
I'm just enjoying hearing his interpretation of the video.
Speaker 1 (51:36):
Okay, how about my interpreter, you want to hear my interpretation?
Speaker 2 (51:40):
I don't know you said somebody and never heard of either.
Speaker 1 (51:45):
I can't believe you sew it too much in the
music industry exactly.
Speaker 2 (51:52):
That's why I can say all this.
Speaker 3 (51:53):
Okay, I'm just saying Philip Phillips, Okay. So anyway, with
the video, I ain't well. I think it's like basically
saying to someone that, you know what, I'm not afraid
of you anymore. I'm not afraid of being alone. Okay,
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I'm not afraid of being independent. I'm not afraid of
being my own true self. That's what I get.
Speaker 1 (52:23):
Yeah, that's what I get.
Speaker 13 (52:25):
You know.
Speaker 1 (52:26):
When I wrote am I getting?
Speaker 5 (52:29):
I mean, come on, yeah, no, I mean when I
wrote that song, I wanted to personify fear because our
relationship with fear is like is like an abusive relationship,
because fear whispers all of these lies in your head.
Speaker 1 (52:44):
Yeah, but he agrees.
Speaker 5 (52:49):
Do you want to time out, sir?
Speaker 4 (52:51):
He's saying, tell him, tell him, I'm already in time out.
Speaker 1 (52:55):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (52:57):
So yeah, I just wanted to person five fear because
fear is like an abusive relationship. It speaks lies to
you and it tries to torment you, and that's what
happens in abuse, you know. So I just thought it
would be neat to make fear a person even though
I really was talking to fear, because when I wrote
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that song, I had been going through the healing process
from the PTSD and I had just started facing fears
like basically being like this terrifies me, I'm gonna do
it anyway. And there's freedom in that because when we
take the bricks of fear out of those walls that
we've built up, it comes crashing down because fear is
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really a lie, you know. I mean, unless it's like
the healthy kind that says, don't jump off a cliff.
You know, there's healthy fear, but then there's totally unhealthy,
like ungodly fear that tries to torment you and rule
your life and shift you from things that are good
and you into the wrong things, you know. And I
(54:02):
was just not going to do it anymore. I decided
to just face the fears and kick the bricks out
so that that wall would come down and I could
have freedom.
Speaker 3 (54:12):
I love it, I'm telling you, you know, I think
Winston would agree.
Speaker 2 (54:18):
I'm in time out too.
Speaker 3 (54:19):
Yeah, But you know, because she comes up, you know,
because when I was looking at her Instagram and everybody
should go check her out because she has like all
these like different types of sayings and proverbs and stuff
like that on her page. And the one that got me,
the one that I thought was really that was not
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everyone who says they are in your corner is really
in your corner. Silver tongues often speak lies. May they
be exposed in your life so the right people are able.
Speaker 2 (54:50):
To be in your life.
Speaker 1 (54:53):
I love that one.
Speaker 2 (54:54):
I love it too. But I always looked at it.
The lid just rip out the tone.
Speaker 1 (55:02):
That's my baby.
Speaker 4 (55:05):
If you got a silver tongue, man, why don't I
just steal that tongue put it in.
Speaker 3 (55:10):
That's now we do not believe. See, even Winston is
upset with you. I heard of a golden hard, but
I got to take a silver tongue. You know, I'm
sitting in I'm putting that. No, let's not and say
we did. Okay, So anyway, I really appreciate it. We've
had such a great time with you. We really did
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love it.
Speaker 1 (55:32):
I know she's just so cool, isn't she.
Speaker 2 (55:35):
I love it. I love it everything, man, the whole.
This is a really good show.
Speaker 1 (55:39):
I like her.
Speaker 5 (55:40):
I like you guys too. It's been fun. I can't
believe it's almost over. I know.
Speaker 3 (55:48):
You know what, when you're having fun, it flies right. Yes,
that's how I feel. And you know we well we
first started. We you saw clip when we first started. Yeah,
we've come a long way.
Speaker 2 (56:05):
You came a long way. I was born in star.
Speaker 1 (56:09):
You know what, Here we go. Okay, let me tell you.
Speaker 3 (56:12):
I was so nervous that first show. I was totally
out of my element. I had no you know, I
had no business in the music industry or anything, and
he you know, he was like feeling my leg underneath
the table, going, you know, like patting me, going, don't worry.
Speaker 1 (56:30):
You know, you're okay, you know, like, don't worry, baby,
don't worry. You got this. But I was, I was really,
you know, I was wedding. God, you couldn't tell.
Speaker 2 (56:41):
But no, when you want to visit your hand and
came down like this, you could say that.
Speaker 1 (56:45):
Yeah, I was, you know, I was not in my element.
But let me just tell you.
Speaker 3 (56:49):
Everybody up until from that day until tonight has been
a whirlwind for us. And we've enjoyed the show as
it's progressed and everything and all the people that we've
gotten the pleasure of meeting and stuff, you know, and
it's just been and.
Speaker 1 (57:06):
This is you're our last show in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 5 (57:12):
I can't believe twenty twenty four is over. Almost not quite.
We still got a couple of days.
Speaker 1 (57:17):
But Listener went by so fast.
Speaker 3 (57:20):
I know, it went by so fast, and I'm like,
this is going to be a show for the year.
So next year is going to be better and hopefully,
you know, we'll still be running and put everybody on,
but we'll definitely be in touch with you. We'll definitely
be keeping up with you for sure. We would love
to have you back on the show.
Speaker 5 (57:40):
I would love to come back. This has been lots
of fun. Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (57:44):
Everybody too, we want them both. I'll bring more treats.
I'll bring treats.
Speaker 5 (57:49):
I'll have to get an even longer treat next time,
I know.
Speaker 3 (57:55):
Okay, So anyway, everybody go find Brittany Bexton. It's b
e x T and you can find her on Instagram, Twitter, TikTok,
every social media platform. Go check her out. Check out
her new song Dance with the Devil People. We got
it here, DNA Live Brittany take us out, Baby.
Speaker 5 (58:18):
Thank you so much for having me, and thank you
everyone for joining us tonight. It was great to see
your comments. Have a blessed new year.
Speaker 1 (58:26):
Thank you, thank you. See you next week, everybody.
Speaker 2 (58:29):
Peace out, peace out, ladies and gentlemen,
I'm did and I'm out there and we are Z
and a life.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Baby.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I like that, I know, I know.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
So anyway, I wanted to start off by, of course,
thanking our sponsors.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Put that up real quick.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
We got y NVS, we got Natural Born, Hype Magazine,
Maverck Global Distributions, slap Woods and The Lawn. Thank you
very much to all of you. I hope everybody is
enjoying their happy holiday season.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Congratulations Sinatra Born for winning the Long Island Awards.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Yes, yeah, that is that's that was really nice to
hear about that. Also, we're going to give a big
shout out to World of Rama.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Shout out the world.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
He's wearing the shirt. There you go, grind Hard Podcast.
We also wanted to give a big, big shout out
to Lazarus the Top Down and also to Flip mister
Flip or Talk you know him on Bars and Hoops Radio.
We enjoyed you guys, really kicked it off. What was
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it on Friday?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
No, it was yesterday?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Was it yesterday?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Oh my god? Saturday?
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Okay, sorry sorry sorry, five to six Saturdays. We had
such a nice time and World o Rama and lads really,
I mean they're on their game. I mean, they really
are on their game.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah, I can't say no.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
No, And you killed it too, you you jumped in.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
There, okay, so anyway compared to that, So anyway, Also,
just to keep in mind, this is actually going to
be our last show of the season.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Okay, that was good, right, try to you scared me.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
She scared me About to say nothing.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
I'm like, well, I guess you know, sometimes no thing's
got to come to one end.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Right No, but well yeah, but no, not today.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
This is our last show of the season, and we're
going to be looking forward to uh, twenty twenty five
is gonna have a lot of surprises for everybody. But
we were you know, I was just thinking about about,
you know, how we first started and everything, and you know,
you found the clip for me. So I just wanted
to play a little bit of our first show.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
You see it, because you know what the energies about
the wives and ya going, everybody, how you doing? My
name is Danny out Fair and we all the DNA
show we are. We got a special guest today, Cake
life man entrepreneur. Don't wrap them in in you know,
and we want to actually sit down to a couple
of segments and for the young guys who's trying to
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understand music industry and trying to get into the industry.
You know, we did this to have a strong platform
for independent artists. Doesn't matter even in entertainment. It's all
walks of basically artistry. So I'm here, you know, my
wife right here. Everyone's like, yo, why'd you bring on
your way?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Man?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Let me tell all y'all listening here when you came
for some woman men? No, I'm just playing got no.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
But basically, I mean the show will head around not
just musicians. We'll be talking to several artists, authors, canedians,
film directors, everybody. We're gonna try to show the same
love and support that we were shown. And we're basically
going to showcase them in Long Island because we love
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Long Island and we love Danny too.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
But who doesn't love me? That's what I got to say.
Everyone's like, oh, man, look at this cocky mother.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Now listen anyway, like I was telling her is basically
I wanted to give a platform for artists to come
out because a lot of times people don't really show
independent artists a lot of love, and everybody's in competition
a lot out here, and I'm like, you know what, man,
it's trying to break that barrier and really put everybody
together inside the community. Young talented artists as well as
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you know, you know, age kind of artists. No matter what,
we're still artists inside this community, man, and.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
We got to keep it going.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
But anyway, let me talk to you about yesterday's performance.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Don't be looking at me like that woman.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Oh my god, see how skinny I had here?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Listen? Oh my god, oh my god. That's what the
show does, you.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
See, people, that's what bringing a whole community does to you.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
It makes you grow old.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Well you know what. Let me tell you.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
And you had your haird straightened. You were looking trying
to look all good in front of what happened with that.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
You know where that goes.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Oh you know what, I thought? You liked my hand
this way.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
It's cool, but that way that you look right there
was just absolutely stunning.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Oh okay, So if anything, maybe I'll think about.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
I wanted to just do one real thing real quick
for you.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Done.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
So you got the charts to put the charts real quick.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Okay, put up the charts.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
So these are the charts right now for the week
with the media base because we always put up the
media base charts, put up the DOO to you please,
and digital Radio tracker right here as well because a
lot of people always ask me about it.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Then you go right there and there.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
But DNA, does you know because we have our own
iHeart channel as well on the iHeart app, so's and
we're live right.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Now on it.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Yes, well, we're simultaneously on iHeart right now, so if
you even we're on our app right now, you would
be hearing the show live there as well.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
And you can stream us live on an app as
well too.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
And our app is DNA Digital Media Media. You can
find that the play store. Just go download that, and
you can also find us on iHeart with d and eight.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
And definitely download.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Another thing that we have is PAW one four point
nine long island that we're live in all the time.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
In this show was well twenty four to seven. Baby,
it's a radio station that we own. We own two
radio stations, ladies and gentlemen. But after that, I just
want to tell everybody to man, we're gonna get really,
you know, Like I want to give a big shout
out to m City junior, you know, and we did
a great job in the review.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Everybody. I loved the review.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
And just know we're going to be doing the review
probably like.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Once a month.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Once a month, we're gonna do it the month.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
And we're gonna be bringing up the top eight and odds,
the top hip hop, the like platinum rappers, because we
want to give everybody you know, insight on the industry.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Yes we do, and that's what we're going to do.
So with that said, have you got anything else?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
So with that said, coming up, we have a soulful
rock artist. Her name is Brittany Bexton and you'll learn
more about her in maybe two seconds okay, maybe two
minutes and two seconds. So wait for the commercial break
and right here on this show we're going to have Britney,
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So stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
It has been.
Speaker 7 (07:30):
Kidra Nokra make log.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
We do this. He does.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
It is Bey.
Speaker 8 (07:42):
I was thinking about you all the time, but it's
been two years now since Salasa you in No Salista.
Speaker 9 (07:54):
Those are twenty million fans have made transight Burian Orchestra
there holiday tradition, bring the whole family and make it
part of yours. The Lost Christmas Eve returning to the
stage for the first time in over ten years.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
Coming to a.
Speaker 9 (08:11):
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dates and tickets.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Don't miss the all new show.
Speaker 9 (08:23):
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you warm all season. Coming to a city near you,
Go to tsotickets dot com for show dates and tickets.
(08:47):
The Lost Christmas Eve Live in Concerts.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
I love those guys, I know, but it's sad, isn't
that the last summer?
Speaker 3 (08:58):
I know, this is the last weekend for Trans Siberian Man.
If you didn't see the show, you're gonna have to
wait until next year. Okay, but or unless you do,
you know, they got a DVD out or something like that.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Whatever, You can see them on YouTube. But go coming up.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Let's have the beautiful, talented Brittany Bexton.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Welcome her to the job.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
I love Hello, Hello.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
My god. I love her already.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
You know we would just I love her, I really do.
She's so cool and she's got two cute talks. Okay,
So hi to Winston and Buddy. I know they're with you,
and they're gonna keep quiet.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Well, they may interject. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
But it'll be fine. Yeah, you didn't get a chance
to see them. I did, okay, But anyway, we got
Brittany here. Now, I as I did my research. Unlike you,
he was born and raised in northern California, so let's.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Take it from there. Because you grew up knowing, not knowing.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
You grew up with the music of Ouitha Franklin, Motown,
rock and roll. In your childhood, you went into you
were in choirs, music classes, private voice tutoring.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Go.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Yeah, so cool thing. Since y'all are in New York.
I actually got to sing in Carnegie Hall when I
was fifteen. No, yeah, my jazz choir was part of
the film Mattson Vocal Jazz Workshop and that was an
invitational only jazz concert and it was a festival and
we got to sing at Carnegie Hall at the end.
(10:43):
So that was one of my awesome, awesome experiences. So
my vocal history is kind of all over the place.
I mean, I've done classical, I've done musical theater, I've
done jazz. My first teacher was a pop teacher. But
I really, like you said, grew up on Motown and
Aretha Franklin and good old rock and roll and like
(11:07):
love the rock and singer songwriter stuff of the nineties.
So that's really my background.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Wow, you just blew me away. To Carnegie Hall.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
I mean, everybody wants to Everybody wants to that chance.
It's like, you know, people want to go to the
Apollo Theater. They want to be on that stage.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Carnegie Hall was the same is the same platform. And
you know, my mom performed in Carnegie Hall.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Wow, my mom, my mom.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
My mom was an opera singer, but she was in
a like a choir and she was one of the
lead sopranos and she got to perform in Carnegie Hall.
That was her only time ever, you know, in the
spy she never pursued it because she had two kids.
So you know that's you know those that at that time,
(11:57):
That's what it was. But it Carnegie if you made
it to hole mm hmmmm, God bless you.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Yeah, it was a pretty amazing experience for sure.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
I just you know, oh my god, I'm just enthralled
with that. Just you know, I mean, people have that
certain like aspiration of certain things that you know, I
want to make it to Radio City or I want
to make it, you know, I want to have a
concert in Madison Square Garden. You know, people have that
that little thing that they want to complete on their
bucket list, and let me tell you, you're going to
(12:30):
You know, that is just be don't you think that, Well,
you're not.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Going to go to Carnegie Halls. You're not going there.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
But okay, So then you moved down to Nashville And
what inspired that move?
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Oh? So I had been I actually went to a
theater conservatory for college, but we sang, danced and acted
all day and I did professional theater when I got
out of that. But I just wasn't feeling super fulfilled.
I really wanted to be doing my own music because
I've been writing my own music since I was a
little girl, and I always knew I wanted to be
(13:07):
a singer songwriter. But I just wasn't fulfilled doing musical
theater and theater anymore. And I decided I was going
to take a step back from that and pursue my
music full time along with film and TV work, because
I had a little more flexibility with that than I
did with stage shows. So I took a step back
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and started playing with bands in my hometown because I
had moved home to save money. I was going to
move to New York and do the Broadway thing, and
then I was like, this is not what I want
to do long term. I want to be able to
do my own music. So I started playing with bands
in my hometown, and I knew that I was supposed
to move. I knew that I couldn't really do what
(13:51):
I needed to with music where I was, but I
just didn't know where to go. I really didn't know
much of anything about Nashville at the time. Funny enough,
I mean, I did country music and stuff at the time,
and like, why wouldn't I know about Nashville. But I just,
you know, in California's like a whole different world. You
know industry in California. You know about the industry in
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New York. I had heard some stuff about Austin, but
I knew nothing about Nashville. So I was like, Okay, Lord,
where do you want me to go? And I had
looked at actually moving to Austin, Texas, because I'd heard
that that was a big music town, and I was
going out to network at the local club. We had
this place called Kodiak Jacks and I would go out
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there to network with artists that were coming through. And
one night and artists came through that was in from Nashville.
And after the show, I was so green at the time,
I did not know how to properly network, but I
like went up to him. I told him he did
a great show, and I handed him a card and
I was like, you know, I'm a singer if you
ever need a backup vocalist or anything. And my card
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I was not great at the hang yet, what can
I say? But he had grace for me and he
was like, you are And we ended up sitting down
and talking for a little over an hour, oh wow,
and talking about music and he's like, why are you here?
What you need to hear? And I was like, I know,
and I know I need to move. He goes, well,
why aren't you in La? And I'm like, I can't
(15:18):
do La. La is just too claustrophobic for me. I
get claustrophobic there after like three days, and he goes, Okay,
I get that, but why aren't you in Nashville. That's
really where the industry is anyway, and there's more space
and it's more country and you should just go to Nashville.
He's like, heck, move tomorrow if you have to, and
I went, hmm, okay, I'll look into Nashville. So I'd
(15:42):
been praying about it, and I've been asking God, like, Okay,
where do you want me to go and win? So
I go home, I start looking into Nashville and I'm like, well,
I've been asking you, Lord. So then the next day,
I was actually doing the Colgate Country Showdown and the
guitar player that was playing with me for that looks
at me. Doesn't know about the conversation the night before,
(16:03):
and he says, why aren't you in Nashville. Oh Jesus,
you should really be in Nashville. I mean, that's what
you do, That's where you should be. And then the
third day, I ended up on the phone with my
ex and he was like, why are you visiting Texas?
You should be going to Nashville. And I was like, Okay, Lord,
(16:26):
I get it. You got me in Nashville. I get it.
So I started planning. I decided in three days that
I was going to move, and I started planning for
the trip, and I put together a website and I
honestly hadn't really been on social media because I yeah
I was. I was not into social media at the time,
(16:49):
but I realized and recognized that I needed to do
it for music, so I got on social media stuff.
I recorded a demo that I shouldn't have recorded until
I moved here. But you know, you live and you learn.
And three months later, I packed my car as full
as I could get it and I drove across the country.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Oh wow, I know.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
I don't have the like, the tenacity to do that.
You know what I'm saying, I'm a scared little rabbit.
He'll go anywhere. He don't care, you know, he just
double back and he's on his way.
Speaker 10 (17:21):
Me.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
It's gotta work, you know. I mean that's how I
look at it. I look at it. It's like no
one's going to give it to you. You gotta get
it yourself.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
That's why I feel like a lot of artists fail
because they're waiting for somebody to take them, and it's
like that's never going to happen.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
Yeah. Yeah, you have to grab hold of it yourself,
for sure.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
I tried. I try to grab but I'm like more
of a pincher, you know. I don't you know, you
don't pinch there.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
She goes like this does like a little snip.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Look at her, and I just take the whole thing
on my hands like this and I just grab it.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
And she's like, what are you doing? I said, listen, man,
that's how you gotta be.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
I'm just a little bit more of the You're reserved.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
I'm not reserved.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Me reserved.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Yeah, whatever, No, you you don't.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
I am the I'm not reserved. Yeah, I am not reserved.
Don't listen to him.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Certain you know what.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
She just does things like she just she won't go
like she'll go fully, but then she won't.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Me.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
I'm just a crazy one that just goes our way
out of here.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Yeah, that's called I'm like, no, what it is.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
I mean, even if it ends up a dead end road,
you still tried. Well, yeah, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
It's like you're driving a car, and when you're drive
in the car, I'm still trying to get the right directions.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Don't know where you're going. You might end up somewhere
that's going to lead you right to the right direction.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
If I don't have to right pps, dude, I'm not
getting in the car. You know.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
I wrote a song about that, you did I did?
I wrote a song called just crazy enough?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Are you serious?
Speaker 5 (18:51):
I am serious?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Probably about me? I'm not crazy about me.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
It was right after I moved to Nashville. I had
had a we actually had a writer's night scheduled, and
my guitar player backed out the last minute, like literally
the morning of the writer's night, and I was like,
what am I supposed to do? Do I have to
haul a keyboard?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Like?
Speaker 5 (19:13):
How am I going to fill this in? And I
went to the bank and I ran into someone I
vaguely knew, like it was the boyfriend of a friend,
and I'm like, hey, you play guitar, don't you? And
he goes, I do, And I'm like, do you want
to play with me tonight?
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Oh wow?
Speaker 5 (19:29):
And he was like, yeah, yeah, let's do it. So
that afternoon I actually went to the boots store where
he worked, and we practiced in the back and he
played the show with me that night.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Oh that is so cool.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
That's what happens.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Spontaneous moments.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Well, and when I walked out of the bank, I thought,
this is crazy. I've never even played with him. I
don't even know if he's good. And I walked out
and I thought, man, you have to be just crazy
enough to be in the music industry and the and
I was like, oh, that's a good song title.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
There's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
I mean, come on, half of the time, everybody's freaking
going there like but I don't like.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
One thing I don't like about the music industry is
that a last commitment.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
The people that you think is gonna be the most
committed are the ones that back out. And then all
of a sudden you just have a spontaneous moment. He's like, yo, bro,
I own a guitar and you're like what. I'm like,
you know what, let's just do it. Then all of
a sudden that becomes your band member.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Yeah, yes, that's how it works. I found plenty. I
found plenty of rappers like that. Like there was a kid.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
One guy was like, Yo, meet me in the station,
all right, I'm gonna come it. Text five minutes to
goes I can't make it. And then all of a sudden,
you see a kid from the corner right there literally
rap it.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
All right, bro, come in.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
And he's actually better than the guy that than the.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Guy that's supposed to come in. You're like, he's like, yeah, man,
I work with doctor Joy back in the day.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
You're like divine intervention.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Corner and he's like, oh man, I just chilled there, Bros.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Practice my skill. Yo. That's why I tell everybody you
never know who you bump into.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
No, true, it's but every every every instant has its reasonable.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
God gives you pieces, right, and you got to put
pieces together. And the way that you put the pieces
together is not knowing how to put the piece together.
It just happens that way.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Yes, speaking of God. Okay, you ready for this. That's
a good segue too, speaking of God in February this
one over here. She's an author too, so she wrote
a book called Learning to Believe Again Thirty Days to Fending,
Finding hope, faith and comfort in God's Truth.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Why is that? I want? I really, I'm I'm I'm
very like. That's that's a dope title.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Yeah, thank you?
Speaker 2 (21:51):
What made you come up with that?
Speaker 3 (21:53):
So?
Speaker 5 (21:53):
I wrote the song Believe Again before I wrote the book,
and it came out of me healing from PTSD. After
I moved to Nashville. I went through some pretty like
crazy crazy things. I moved and the first roommate I had.
I had to get a restraining order against in the
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first three months that I was in town because he
threatened to kill me. Oh, I can laugh now, not
really funny, but but you know, God protected me. And
it was like a series of crazy things. That was
just really the first crazy thing, and then I went
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through like a series of crazy, insane personal betrayals and
work betrayals, and it was like just kind of one
trauma after another, and it compounded into PTSD, which I
realized after i'd been touring basically for four years full time.
I realized I had PTSD because I was having like
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disproportionate emotional responses to things and no one on the
outside would know, but on the inside it felt like
I'd been run over by a train. And I just
I realized I needed to sort of take a step
back and really put some roots down in Nashville, because
I'd been on the road pretty much full time since
I moved to town and I didn't have roots. And
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I started going to counseling for trauma therapy. And in
that process, I'd always believed in God. I never stopped
believing in him. It kind of would have been like
stopping believing in a best friend that you'd known since childhood.
You know, I couldn't not believe in him, but my
trust for him had been really shattered because of everything
I went through. So I started in the process of
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going through counseling trauma therapy specifically, I also went through
a process of rebuilding my faith. And one day I
just like, I saw someone who just they had the
peace of God and they had that light, and I
was like, I used to have that, and I want
that back, and I started fighting to get it back.
And that really meant like diving into the Word of
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God every day and really seeking him. And my prayer
during that time was God, I believe, help me overcome
my unbelief, which is from a story in Mark where
a father his son had been dealing with demons his
whole life and no one could heal him, and even
the disciples couldn't free him. But Jesus came and said,
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do you believe, because anything is possible for those who believe,
And he said, yes, I believe. Help me overcome my unbelief.
And that's all we need is the choice to believe,
because God feels in the rest and he did he
rebuilt my faith. But it was a process, because when
you've gone through a lot and you are unraveling trauma
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and healing, it's a process. And I learned a lot
along the way. So the song came first. Actually it's
called Believe Again. And I was co writing with someone
ever co written with before that day and I got triggered.
I had a trauma trigger, so I felt like i'd
been run over by a train. And I was on
my way to the co write and I was just like,
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oh God, what am I going to write tonight? I
feel terrible, like I have no idea what we're going
to write. And I just heard him say, you're going
to write learning to Believe Again, because that's what you're
doing right now. And I was like, okay, and that's
what we wrote. And then when the book came about,
people have been telling me I needed to write a
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book for years, like basically since I moved to town
and had all of these crazy experiences. But I was like,
you know, I think I'd like to have a little
more victory before I write my story. But during this
healing process, I was getting all of this revelation from God,
like healing revelation, and I would share these words that
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I was receiving in my email list, and I was
doing like a monthly email blast and I was sharing
a word of the month, and people started responding to
these emails and being like, this word just changed my life.
I've been stuck in this area and I couldn't figure
out what to do and I read your email and
I'm finally unstuck and it was just crazy, like I
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was getting these amazing responses and I just knew. At
that point, I was like, I don't need to write
the story of the victory. I need to write the
healing process because that's what I'm doing and that's what
I've learned, and that's what people need. So that's what
the book came out of. And it came out in
February of twenty twenty actually, and then the whole world
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shut down.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
So yeah, right, perfect timing.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
At the end of the day God spoke to you,
doesn't matter the end of the world happened, you know
what I mean. So my thing the two though, is
watching you and tolking about God. You see a different glow.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
And what I'm taking a look at too is as
an artist and as a DJ too.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
I go through those dramas.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
Yeah, because you're around one hundred different type of people
with different type of you know, situations as well, and
they have different actions and the way that they really
try to move.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
And everybody thinks it's like, oh yeah, I'm up on stage.
It's great, everything's done.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
But they don't understand the process that you have to
go through to actually get to the stage, make the stage,
do the performance, make the record, publish the record, and
push it. They don't understand how much trama that gives
end money and your time. Yeah, so that makes you
basically you know a lot of times, man, I believe
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every artist has that because I know, dang well, I have.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
That gonna lie to you.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
You wake up times and somebody triggers you wolf, and
when they trigger you wolf, you can't even think about it.
You can't even rate, you know what I mean? And
that's the most important thing. How are you gonna sit
here and write a record right when you're already triggered off?
You're not feeling good, your body ain't feeling good, your
area is off, so everything is just gonna be off,
you know what I mean? So I definitely understand what
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what you go through when it comes to that, because
a lot of weird characters in this industry.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Honey, that's all I got to say.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
I would agree with that. You kind of never know
what you're gonna get.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
I just never thought that Nashville would have the same
kind of characters that New York and LA would have.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
I kind of seem like Nashville would be a little bit.
Speaker 8 (28:35):
Back.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
Yeah, you know, in some ways it is. When I
moved here. You know, I'd had experiences in LA too,
because I've done some film and TV work.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Oh god, and oh no, no, no, I'm sorry for saying that.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
It's just I understand, like email in this industry is terrible, Yeah,
because you got so many creeps. When you try to
be a pro and really try to move, you don't
know their attention.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
You know, you don't know what they want.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
When you're just trying to do your business and run
yourself as a brand.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
You got a bunch of widows, crazy people. I'm just
gonna put it out there, it's my podcast.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
You got a bunch of widows, a bunch of freaks,
and people that basically I'm not gonna even say it
because I don't need trouble. But anyway, you got a
bunch of people that go to the exclusive parties and wildlife.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
That's it. I'm not gonna get into that term. But
it's very hard to be a female in this industry.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
And that's all I want to say. And I definitely
understand because you just brought up movies and me being
in the movie knowing the movie industry and just being
around all of these uh fit a lot of these
film people.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
It's shakes your head. I'm talking about edit yours and
I'm talking about directors.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
Yeah, So LA is very exclusive, like if you're not
in the in crowd, you're not in any crowd.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
So you have to know the right person to get
introduced in all of that. And I think New York's
probably pretty similar in that way.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
I think it is to New York has a little
bit more of an independent ground. Okay, LA has more
of a kind of like I call it the union ground,
is that you have to be brought in there and
really put in there. But New York has most of
the time most of the independent crab basically rules over
in New York.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
Okay, so Nashville it is the industry, like the music
industry is. It is the town really. I mean, you
have the pros here, you have the labels here, you
have most of the main songwriters here. I mean a
lot of people travel here to write even so it's
all here, and it's different than La in the sense
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that you don't have to be in the in crowd
to talk to people. People are very willing to talk
to you and even give you wisdom talk about their experiences.
So when I first moved to town, I mean I
met a ton of hit songwriters that were so willing
to talk to me and meet with me. And I
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met guys that had been touring with big artists for
years and they were willing to sit with me and
talk to me and meet with me. And I even
met label folks and stuff, you know. But they were
willing to talk and share their wisdom. But that doesn't
mean that you're in.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Yeah, So it is more laid back.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
In a sense because you can at least have a
conversation with them. It's more friendly in that way. But
you still there's still kind of like the tricks to
get in, and there's still the same industry stuff that
happens with that.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
So yeah, yeah, this is this is so basically what
you're saying is, can can you just put like a
definition of basic in because people don't understand, Like some
people are probably not understanding what we're saying in so
you're saying basically sign or yeah basically with a with
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a label, like you know, saying yes signed basically that's
what the in ground basically is.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
Yeah, so like signed to a label, signed to a
publishing company, like in the crowd that is being pushed
to radio all the time. That is, big bucks are
being poured into you know, like the family names, you
know that crowd. And I mean, honestly, people can get
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in just because of who they know. But it's it's
a pretty mean industry. I'm not saying Nashville. I just
want the industry in jail.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
Absolutely, you're talking to somebody who's been in twenty something years.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
It's ye eat dog world.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
Yes, I've seen people become rich, lose it, people not
rich still have it.
Speaker 5 (32:56):
Yeah, I mean it's like yeah, and on the drawer
seeing people sell themselves to the industry and just completely
lose themselves and then lose what they gained in the industry,
you know.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
I see it on Instagram. I see a lot of
females losing themselves, losing their souls to this industry.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
They believe that you know, sex cells and that's what
they always tell them, and they don't realize that cells
and music.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
I always say, is who you are? Yeah, who you are?
But listen, I want to get into some music.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Okay, into the music. Okay, but you know what, can
we just can I just say something?
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Okay? Because she's like, you ready for this? Okay?
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Because he is a New York State advocate and he
was anti bullying. Okay, So did you know she is
a very big activist with domestic violence that one over here.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
He does a lot of work with organizeds and everything
for awareness of domestic violence. Is this woman does at all?
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Did you get into it because of the incidents that
you had being there?
Speaker 5 (34:09):
Yes, in part that, and then also because people that
I cared about were going through abuse, So it was
one thing to go through it and get out myself.
And I learned about the cycle of abuse and all
of that because of that, And when I went through
that crazy thing with the roommate going psycho on me.
I studied like narcissism, sociopathy, and psychopathy because I was like,
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what just happened? You know? So I learned a lot
about personality disorders and abuse and Stockholm syndrome through that,
and then I watched other people go through it, and
I couldn't stand just seeing people go through it. I
wanted to help. So that's that's how I got into it.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
This is my segue, you see.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
I know how to do segues here because the music
video I'm going to play is called Dance with the Devil.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
I was just reading that because that's what I was
gonna ask you. Well, dance with the Devil. But we're
gonna get on that in a short period of time
after the song is done, so you ready to know
what your boy DJ energetic and roll dance with your devil.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
With Dance with the Devil.
Speaker 7 (35:17):
You've been pulled through hell long enough.
Speaker 11 (35:22):
When someone chooses to hurt you.
Speaker 8 (35:24):
It isn't you say you have a duty to say
what's dead.
Speaker 7 (35:31):
But some broken things are meant to make.
Speaker 12 (35:46):
You think.
Speaker 10 (35:47):
If you spend around again, you'll make the devil dizzy.
Speaker 7 (35:53):
And stop the sin.
Speaker 11 (35:55):
The more you travel less, you feel your worst you
can move through five and basket board.
Speaker 7 (36:06):
There's no way to win thiscit.
Speaker 11 (36:12):
You lose it all or you bress.
Speaker 7 (36:15):
Befo because you've cast down with the devil.
Speaker 12 (36:26):
Basket ball, dance with the devil.
Speaker 7 (36:31):
Dast get you.
Speaker 12 (36:42):
Relieve no to dance your wrin but step by step.
Speaker 11 (36:49):
Your drag again.
Speaker 8 (36:52):
Sevil tangles when you try to woltz.
Speaker 11 (36:56):
Then meshes out when you trip pens.
Speaker 12 (37:02):
There's no way to a biscuit game. You use it
or you press beflame.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
The way.
Speaker 12 (37:19):
Because you've just down in the devil's nasket. Down in
the devil nasketet bad. You can't change then who deniesk
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the truth?
Speaker 11 (37:42):
You feel the heat bad?
Speaker 10 (37:44):
You try to play it cool. Well do you think
that you're trying to proof you are strong? But you're
not fireproof.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
No way to ski.
Speaker 12 (38:09):
You because you can't love devil.
Speaker 7 (38:22):
Maskets in the devil.
Speaker 10 (38:30):
With the devil and not get.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Love that I loved it. You know what she does
that make Oh my.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
God, is that the one that's right now being charted?
Speaker 5 (38:47):
It is, yes, of course.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
Man, Okay, so I record it's phenomenal.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
Look at the only person that I can actually and
me and her agreed on We agreed.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
We said the same our little notes from where viewing
people like who we think they kind of emulate a
little bit. And I said, the minute I heard the man,
I was like, carry Underwood, I can't you know.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
I was trying to figure out who you sound like.
And I looked at her and that's the only one
person And she said there and I was like.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
That's the only one that cost something.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
Yeah, you know, I mean she's got the undertone, she's
got everything.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
She's got you know, the sound, you know what I mean,
just yeah, sound, just sounds.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
You got it.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
She's got it, right, you got your own on it.
And it's number forty forty seven, right, forty Yeah, it was.
Speaker 5 (39:35):
Either forty seven or forty eight when the charts closed.
I don't know. I just know the top place that
it's been so far on the charts was forty seven, forty.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
Seven, baby, big big shout out to you man and
definitely everybody listening right now check that record out.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
That record is phenomenal. I love it very No, you
gotta get big shots to have listening.
Speaker 3 (39:57):
Oh okay, of course, A big shout out to how
We and Debbie out there in California.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
They be finding so good talent.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
Man, it's about finding they have it.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
They have the.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
Talent, they're just bringing it us to you know, bringing
it us here in New York. And when I'm loving everything,
I'm feeling the heat.
Speaker 4 (40:16):
And so my thing is right you as an advocate,
did you write that for advocacy too?
Speaker 1 (40:22):
I did?
Speaker 4 (40:23):
It sounds more like to me, not not saying it's
not his single. What I'm saying is it sounds basically
like you've been through it. So when you're doing the music,
it's so potent because if it just shook like a knife,
because it felt like.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
That you were basically in this what devil.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
She sings.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
No, but what I'm saying is.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Buddy, come here, come on, buddy.
Speaker 5 (40:50):
I'm going to give them an extra treat.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
We'll see if I had I'd give one to Danny
right now.
Speaker 2 (40:59):
She's right there.
Speaker 5 (41:03):
But yes, to answer your question that I didn't write
it with advocacy in mind, exactly, but yes, I wrote
it to help people get out and basically to say
all the things I wanted to say because when I
wrote it, I was watching someone I was really close
to go through abuse, and you know, it's easy to
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help people that you're not super close to, but sometimes
it's harder to help the people that you're closest to
because they think you're biased or whatever, and it's you.
They just can't hear the truth from you.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
So it was Likenger though, Yes, isn't that interesting?
Speaker 4 (41:42):
I don't understand it neither, because you know, we'd be
saying things and they'd be like, okay, cool. All of
a sudden, you walk down the block the guys saying
the same exact thing and listen. So being advocate, I
know how that goes.
Speaker 5 (41:54):
You know.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
Then we're talking in front of everybody and they go yeah, yeah, yeah,
I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 4 (42:00):
They don't tell it, they don't do it, and then
all of a sudden, the instant happens is it come back?
Speaker 2 (42:03):
And then it's just like, why are we talking about
this again? We ready went over it, you know what
I mean? No, no, no, just to anybody. But I
just want to really break down that record real quick.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
Oh heayy go. What I liked was.
Speaker 4 (42:15):
I know you weren't trying to do the advocacy, but
to me, as an advocate and as a musician, I
could feel it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (42:24):
That's one thing I liked the bad Well. I liked
the title. What made you decide to come up with
that title?
Speaker 5 (42:30):
So when I had the idea for the song, like
I said, it was like all the things I wanted
to say to my friend but couldn't say, but would
say to other people. And I just started hearing the
hook you can't dance with the devil and not get burned.
And I heard it with the melody in my head
before we wrote the song, because I ended up taking
the idea into a co write with my friend Laurie Lovelace,
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and we hashed it out together. And she has had
experience with domestic abuse and she is accounts too, so
she's dealt with it that way. So it was great
because we could, you know, really go after the topic together.
But you know, the hook was you can't dance with
the devil and not get burned. But that's just too
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long of a title.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
Yeah, dance with.
Speaker 5 (43:21):
The Devil just had a ring to it, you know,
And I knew it would have the intrigue factor and
get people to listen.
Speaker 2 (43:27):
Yeah, No, what I loved what. I loved the bat
it was. I really did like it.
Speaker 4 (43:33):
I just loved the whole title. I love the whole
way that it was put together, the theme. I like
when the guy was dancing with you, because you're calling
it basically you're just tangling around.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
With the guy that's the devil right now? Yeah, right
that in there. You just keep going and doing the
same old move. So that's how I got it from
that analogy.
Speaker 4 (43:50):
Another cool thing that I got actually from that video
was more kind of how you broke free mm hmm.
So the sensibility of you breaking free from it, we
get a little bit. But when the music is done,
I want you away from me. Yeah, that's how that's
how I perceived it. I did not see any of that,
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but that's how I perceed it. I am so bad
at this. I just you knew what it was. I
was paying a text to the man, you know, I mean,
you know, but when she was doing this and she
was coming on here, that's the symbol of saying goodbye.
That's me waving and trying to say goodbye to my demons.
So that's how you got into it. That's how I
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entitled it.
Speaker 3 (44:32):
Okay, Okay, gotcha, you know. So can we get to
the next song? Yeah, I want to get to you
shut it out. Okay, So we got the next song,
Kiss Fear Goodbye. I just love her titles by Fear
Fear Goodbye.
Speaker 1 (44:48):
There we go.
Speaker 3 (44:50):
It.
Speaker 8 (45:05):
I hear you whispering nor soft familiar lines, possessively.
Speaker 11 (45:12):
You're holding me, dying my mind. You've had me blindfolded, hidden.
Speaker 8 (45:21):
From the light, and I've second guessed myself for.
Speaker 11 (45:27):
The last time.
Speaker 7 (45:30):
You've held me back so long.
Speaker 11 (45:33):
You've had me.
Speaker 12 (45:34):
Have your grip. This ig is moving on. The sign
had enough of this. I'm gonna craw, I'm gonna ride.
Speaker 7 (45:51):
Stand, believe.
Speaker 12 (45:53):
Beyond, I'm gonna breath.
Speaker 7 (45:59):
Be set free.
Speaker 11 (46:05):
To your rod.
Speaker 3 (46:09):
And fe.
Speaker 13 (46:14):
I'm kissing you goodbye.
Speaker 7 (46:28):
I've danced with you so long in this church.
Speaker 14 (46:31):
Of quicksand, but just as I was going unto love
reach out its sand, you called me back.
Speaker 7 (46:42):
So, Mom, you've had me.
Speaker 11 (46:45):
You have your grip.
Speaker 7 (46:47):
This song is moving on because I.
Speaker 12 (46:50):
Had and of this. I'm gonna clow, I'm gonna rine,
I stop believe an, I'm gonna breathe and be said, stay.
Speaker 7 (47:16):
Answer your round.
Speaker 14 (47:19):
And fish.
Speaker 3 (47:23):
Here.
Speaker 12 (47:24):
I'm kissing you goodbye, trying to.
Speaker 5 (47:34):
Get back in.
Speaker 7 (47:35):
But this time I'm not answering your call. I'm gonna come,
I'm gonna run.
Speaker 12 (47:50):
I stop believe a line. I'm gonna breathe.
Speaker 11 (47:59):
And be said said, kissing you good bye.
Speaker 13 (48:21):
Yes, I'm kissing you goodbye.
Speaker 2 (48:34):
Jesus, that's phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (48:36):
I'm gonn kissing. I'm diskissing her back.
Speaker 5 (48:39):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (48:39):
Excuse me, Okay, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (48:41):
I was just you know so anyway, now when I
closed my eyes, I said to him, she's the fourth
member of Wilson Phillips.
Speaker 5 (48:53):
I don't know Wilson Phillips.
Speaker 1 (48:55):
Oh you know what. That's it. We're not talking. Let's
talk to the show. We're done.
Speaker 3 (48:59):
Okay, look them up, I will Wilson Phillips. It was
a girl group, girl country group. I think to them
were the daughters of Michelle Phillips.
Speaker 5 (49:13):
Okay, Wilson, Wilson Phillips, Wilson Phillips.
Speaker 3 (49:19):
My favorite one from them was hold on and I'm
picturing you in the You're making them a quortrait, a
quartrack quartet, you know, four right? And I can see
her no anyway, just what it took me back there
It took me back there because these women were phenomenal. See,
(49:42):
she's her own I'm gonna say faith, faith Hill, Yeah,
you got a little bit of faith Hilling.
Speaker 2 (49:50):
Then I heard her when she was a good I
was like, you know, that's faith.
Speaker 3 (49:57):
Okay, we we we we love you know. It's it's
not like we're trying to compare. It's just say, you know, you.
Speaker 2 (50:03):
Know what a lot of people think.
Speaker 4 (50:04):
This is like you know when hip hop and all
of that, but DNA stands for the DNA of music.
Speaker 1 (50:12):
Yeah, we're like you know.
Speaker 2 (50:14):
So when I hear that, I was like, that's faith.
Speaker 1 (50:16):
Yeah, okay, I'll take faith. Faith. Listening to you over there,
I can hear you in the background.
Speaker 4 (50:22):
Yeah, he's at me gLing.
Speaker 5 (50:30):
They got through their very long lasting Choose inorderately fast tonight.
Speaker 1 (50:35):
It's okay, it's all right. We love Dubbies. You gotta
see them. They're so cute.
Speaker 5 (50:40):
They are cut.
Speaker 1 (50:41):
Winston and Buddy.
Speaker 3 (50:43):
But again, the videos, that video was so cute, you know,
and with that song, right, with that particular song, she
didn't even need the video.
Speaker 2 (50:56):
I like the video because the video showed basically.
Speaker 1 (50:59):
My eyes and cream my own video.
Speaker 2 (51:01):
I understand that.
Speaker 4 (51:02):
But what I liked about the video, how it was another
indicated of basically sitting here stranded, but then trying to
find my way out.
Speaker 2 (51:12):
So that's how I got the analogy you know from
that video.
Speaker 4 (51:15):
All about analogies tonight and then blow and then the
water to me indicates basically new life, yeah you know
in there and the reflection that you saw yourself through
the past. So that's how I look at it.
Speaker 3 (51:29):
An don't shake your head, yes, don't agree with him
with everything.
Speaker 5 (51:33):
I'm just enjoying hearing his interpretation of the video.
Speaker 1 (51:36):
Okay, how about my interpreter, you want to hear my interpretation?
Speaker 2 (51:40):
I don't know you said somebody and never heard of either.
Speaker 1 (51:45):
I can't believe you sew it too much in the
music industry exactly.
Speaker 2 (51:52):
That's why I can say all this.
Speaker 3 (51:53):
Okay, I'm just saying Philip Phillips, Okay. So anyway, with
the video, I ain't well. I think it's like basically
saying to someone that, you know what, I'm not afraid
of you anymore. I'm not afraid of being alone. Okay,
(52:15):
I'm not afraid of being independent. I'm not afraid of
being my own true self. That's what I get.
Speaker 1 (52:23):
Yeah, that's what I get.
Speaker 13 (52:25):
You know.
Speaker 1 (52:26):
When I wrote am I getting?
Speaker 5 (52:29):
I mean, come on, yeah, no, I mean when I
wrote that song, I wanted to personify fear because our
relationship with fear is like is like an abusive relationship,
because fear whispers all of these lies in your head.
Speaker 1 (52:44):
Yeah, but he agrees.
Speaker 5 (52:49):
Do you want to time out, sir?
Speaker 4 (52:51):
He's saying, tell him, tell him, I'm already in time out.
Speaker 1 (52:55):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (52:57):
So yeah, I just wanted to person five fear because
fear is like an abusive relationship. It speaks lies to
you and it tries to torment you, and that's what
happens in abuse, you know. So I just thought it
would be neat to make fear a person even though
I really was talking to fear, because when I wrote
(53:18):
that song, I had been going through the healing process
from the PTSD and I had just started facing fears
like basically being like this terrifies me, I'm gonna do
it anyway. And there's freedom in that because when we
take the bricks of fear out of those walls that
we've built up, it comes crashing down because fear is
(53:40):
really a lie, you know. I mean, unless it's like
the healthy kind that says, don't jump off a cliff.
You know, there's healthy fear, but then there's totally unhealthy,
like ungodly fear that tries to torment you and rule
your life and shift you from things that are good
and you into the wrong things, you know. And I
(54:02):
was just not going to do it anymore. I decided
to just face the fears and kick the bricks out
so that that wall would come down and I could
have freedom.
Speaker 3 (54:12):
I love it, I'm telling you, you know, I think
Winston would agree.
Speaker 2 (54:18):
I'm in time out too.
Speaker 3 (54:19):
Yeah, But you know, because she comes up, you know,
because when I was looking at her Instagram and everybody
should go check her out because she has like all
these like different types of sayings and proverbs and stuff
like that on her page. And the one that got me,
the one that I thought was really that was not
(54:40):
everyone who says they are in your corner is really
in your corner. Silver tongues often speak lies. May they
be exposed in your life so the right people are able.
Speaker 2 (54:50):
To be in your life.
Speaker 1 (54:53):
I love that one.
Speaker 2 (54:54):
I love it too. But I always looked at it.
The lid just rip out the tone.
Speaker 1 (55:02):
That's my baby.
Speaker 4 (55:05):
If you got a silver tongue, man, why don't I
just steal that tongue put it in.
Speaker 3 (55:10):
That's now we do not believe. See, even Winston is
upset with you. I heard of a golden hard, but
I got to take a silver tongue. You know, I'm
sitting in I'm putting that. No, let's not and say
we did. Okay, So anyway, I really appreciate it. We've
had such a great time with you. We really did
(55:32):
love it.
Speaker 1 (55:32):
I know she's just so cool, isn't she.
Speaker 2 (55:35):
I love it. I love it everything, man, the whole.
This is a really good show.
Speaker 1 (55:39):
I like her.
Speaker 5 (55:40):
I like you guys too. It's been fun. I can't
believe it's almost over. I know.
Speaker 3 (55:48):
You know what, when you're having fun, it flies right. Yes,
that's how I feel. And you know we well we
first started. We you saw clip when we first started. Yeah,
we've come a long way.
Speaker 2 (56:05):
You came a long way. I was born in star.
Speaker 1 (56:09):
You know what, Here we go. Okay, let me tell you.
Speaker 3 (56:12):
I was so nervous that first show. I was totally
out of my element. I had no you know, I
had no business in the music industry or anything, and
he you know, he was like feeling my leg underneath
the table, going, you know, like patting me, going, don't worry.
Speaker 1 (56:30):
You know, you're okay, you know, like, don't worry, baby,
don't worry. You got this. But I was, I was really,
you know, I was wedding. God, you couldn't tell.
Speaker 2 (56:41):
But no, when you want to visit your hand and
came down like this, you could say that.
Speaker 1 (56:45):
Yeah, I was, you know, I was not in my element.
But let me just tell you.
Speaker 3 (56:49):
Everybody up until from that day until tonight has been
a whirlwind for us. And we've enjoyed the show as
it's progressed and everything and all the people that we've
gotten the pleasure of meeting and stuff, you know, and
it's just been and.
Speaker 1 (57:06):
This is you're our last show in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 5 (57:12):
I can't believe twenty twenty four is over. Almost not quite.
We still got a couple of days.
Speaker 1 (57:17):
But Listener went by so fast.
Speaker 3 (57:20):
I know, it went by so fast, and I'm like,
this is going to be a show for the year.
So next year is going to be better and hopefully,
you know, we'll still be running and put everybody on,
but we'll definitely be in touch with you. We'll definitely
be keeping up with you for sure. We would love
to have you back on the show.
Speaker 5 (57:40):
I would love to come back. This has been lots
of fun. Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (57:44):
Everybody too, we want them both. I'll bring more treats.
I'll bring treats.
Speaker 5 (57:49):
I'll have to get an even longer treat next time,
I know.
Speaker 3 (57:55):
Okay, So anyway, everybody go find Brittany Bexton. It's b
e x T and you can find her on Instagram, Twitter, TikTok,
every social media platform. Go check her out. Check out
her new song Dance with the Devil People. We got
it here, DNA Live Brittany take us out, Baby.
Speaker 5 (58:18):
Thank you so much for having me, and thank you
everyone for joining us tonight. It was great to see
your comments. Have a blessed new year.
Speaker 1 (58:26):
Thank you, thank you. See you next week, everybody.
Speaker 2 (58:29):
Peace out, peace out, ladies and gentlemen,
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