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Speaker 1 (00:01):
With the Ben Podcast. Cheers to Dilma making the world
a bitter tea.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm good, how are you doing?
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Great to hear you here.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
It's really beautiful.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
What have you seen so far?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Like four blocks of stream age? No, I was I was.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Saying that I really want to go Downder Queensland, Queenstown,
queens Town, Herd is just beautiful. But I'm also from
Wine Country and apparently it's wine country down there and everywhere, so.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Well, I will say it's nothing compared to the four
blocks of.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Magical.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
We're quite insecure here in New Zealand.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
I know you like country music well as a country
in New Zealand, we're very insecure.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
We want to know what other people think all the time.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
So you say you love the four blocks, that's great,
appreciate that's heck.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
ITAs like our first question when someone comes back.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Do you like about us? What do you like?
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Go ahead now, we're going to put you on a
tourism campaign. Desher.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
The four blocks were great, four blocks were wonderful. It
seems to like it seems to us like you've I
meets you or rise to fame.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Yeah, with this one song, how quick has this happened
for you, insane.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
It's like in January, for context, I had like one
hundred thousand monthly listeners on Spotify, and that had been
from releasing music since I was like eighteen, independently and
just like grinding it out, released my album all that stuff,
and then we started pushing Austin on TikTok, just with
that line dance that I made up, and within like
a month, I was pushing like ten million monthly listener
(01:27):
or something like that.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
And now we're sitting it like twenty four million.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
She supposed to like five bucks or something.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah, yeah about my fifty Yeah, yeah, that is incredible.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
How was your life changed? The one thing You're like, wow,
that's that's really.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Different kind of everything, like everything is kind of switched around.
It's it's been interesting though, because I'm so busy now,
which I'm so grateful about. But basically I have a
people running my life. So I'm kind of just told
we're to go like a puppet like kind of like
sheep dog like okay in this interview, Okay, make up
real quick. Okay, this and this and this and so
it's kind of like a puppeteer.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
It's fine. Like, I'm having a good time because.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Thrive in that environment.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Yeah, you don't have to thank for yourself.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
It's a meme of like when your boyfriend's around, you
get to turn your brain off.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
You're like, it was the last mundane thing you had
to do for yourself.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Mundane thing.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
I had it to the doctor. I thought I had
this parasite, So how do they go to the doctor?
And I was like, where's my manager?
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Because you talk about it's been such a big rise
over the last few months, but before that, you were
grinding it out. You know. It was like nine years old,
you're performing in coffee shops and you've been singing for
a long.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Time my whole life.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Yeah, I got lucky as a kid because I knew
that I wanted to be an artist, and I fell
in love a songwriting at such a young age that
I was kind of that one kid that was just like, no,
I'm gonna be an artist.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Now it worked out, which is crazy because I know
that doesn't happen for everybody. So I'm like really grateful
that it all paid off. Well.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Austin obviously is you know, it has been the ticket
to you know, but this song is like, we got
it wrong. We thought it was about a place. It's
about a guy and you know, and a police Austin.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
You listened to it, you thought it was well.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
He listened to be honest, We're like I knew, I
knew it was a bit of a guy, but yeah, okay,
but I thought he.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Was based and you know that is true, he is
based in Austin. But also that was made up.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Yeah, that's about someone else. It's about an actual breakout,
not his sexual name.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Right, Yeah, yeah, Austin's not his name at all. Austin
was literally just me. I mean honestly, a lot of
the details in the song are true. It's just the
name of the place. Nashville didn't rhyme with anything. He
ended singing, and so I was like, where's another cool place?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
And I was like, Austin, what about Bashville? That kind
of rhymes with Nashville bash That's where you'll be wait,
what is lie? It's where you'll be so bashful? Yeah,
forty years so we're here juhnks washed up in.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Or you could be like, okay, that's fair, you're riddled
with a Rashville forty years waiting for.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
The docs happened.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Still it's a new self.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
In God, you're so right.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
It hasn't even come out yet. Gets stuck for a rhyme.
You know, I'll just fly it back to New Zealand.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
And it's a hot because obviously it was a sad
time in your life, that breakout, and but now you
know you you know you started the line dance thing.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
But people are line dancing a heavy song, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
It's funny.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Yeah, the truck's position kind of cracks me up sometimes.
And when I play the song stripped or on piano,
people can see like, oh, you were really sad, but
it's cracking me up because people were like drunk and
having a good time and line danced this song and
I was like, wow, I was so down bad when
I wrote this song, like I was on well, but like, hey,
men are business expenses and this just proves it.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
So hell, how's your relationship with that person now?
Speaker 3 (04:49):
I sent him Austin as a demo along with the
entire album about him before it came out. She was
like a year ago when we were still kind of
like incahoots and he like loved the attention of like
me writing an entire album about him because he is
that bitch, you know.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
And I was like loving it too. I was like,
he broke my heart, but here's the album, you know.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
And then and then and then I met my current
boyfriend and I forgot all about him, if I'm being honest,
and so I haven't really spoken to him. Well, my
boyfriend Arden. He's an artist, so he does the exact
same thing I do.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
So but I'm guessing also like not too complimentary, you know,
So he's not like, ah, I wish that song is
about me.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
No, yeah, no, I'm writing really cute love songs about
my boyfriend now. So he stoked he's getting his moment.
But it's funny. I was just saying that, like him
being backstage at shows and I'm like telling all these
stories on stage about.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
This guy, and he's just like, bro stand there and
like watch me do that.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Now.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
For the time that we did think it was about
a place called Austin, we thought on the show we
should make a version of your song about Auckland where we.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Are junk washed upping.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
That fit, but a backstory from Auckland, because you've only
seemed like four blocks of really well yeah, I mean
Wayne Brown's the mere traffics, kind of like the big
cities traffics. Bed coffee is expensive. They had a few
problems with Surage going into the water at once.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Sage swim.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Place house housing, very expensive housing as well. So you
need if you can, because these references will mean nothing
to you if you can keep those in the back
of your mind.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
It's gonna be awkward while we play this to you
right now. Yeah, okay, before yeah, before we play this
to you. No lawsuits, no lawsuits.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Can you guarantee no lawsuits?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
We present to you Auckland, your parody of Auckland. Okay,
here we go.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Did the train stop working?
Speaker 5 (06:43):
Did it's a bus break down?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Eighty bucks four parking?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Or get told in town?
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Expensive homes with pricy rents and almond lock coffees. When
Rita smashed.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Your shops at night? And Wayne Brown seems.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
So strappy, Serlo into the chadd God and sound and
Cain in a fight. I called it on the motorway,
stun here on the Southern In forty years, I'll still
be here.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
You're left up and that popped off?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Was no I wish it was?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Was it? You was hiresome girls? Way, what did you
think of your cover of you? That was really good?
That was like the coolest thing that's ever happened done.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
We made a little video to that as well. We
can chee you and if you promised that to see us.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
But yeah, a whole music video. Yeah, well we never
expected you to actually hear.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
That you are you playing me in a blonde wig?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Did no?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
He wanted to see explaiting.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
For my hea to girl out. What do you think
of being in call him?
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:53):
You saved dark here he's going bleach.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
I honestly really like the blonde and I think it
makes you look like young and fresh, old and dusty,
so good.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Here on the spot, trying to give you old means
of compliments.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
You have no idea what's been said to me?
Speaker 4 (08:12):
That's all good is now your life has changed obviously,
you know, over the last few months, and I was ready.
You got a text from Keith Urban out of the
blue as well. Now boy, he's originally from New Zealand
as well, trying and.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Claim he was born up north.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
I was literally in Australia, as you guys know, when
everyone's like, yep, he's from here.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
He grew up there.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
But he was born up North as well, so yeah,
but he texted you and then he had to put
his name in sort of brackets.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Yeah, he said, heyd I love that. He already abbreviated
this is Keith Urban and I was like, you humble king,
I know who you are, and he was just he
was just being so kind, like, YO, love the song,
congrats on everything. And then a few weeks later he's like, hey,
would love for you to come sing Austin at my show.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
So that's when that happens.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Yeah, mind you probably Urban and brackets because you's.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Case I know.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
But my manager told me that he would be texting me,
so I was kind of expecting a text, and that's
why it was funny because I'm like, who else.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Do people like famous people reach out to? You know, Yeah,
it's pretty crazy.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
It's cool getting to be friends with all these artists
that like, I love so much, and like, it's it's
been cool.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
We'll go dancy with us.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
We want to play a bit of a game with you.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
We it's called country or not country.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Okay, we'll say the title of the song.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
You tell off us, tell us if it's a real
country song or not Okay, okay, the first one flushed
you from the bathroom of my heart.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Flushed you from the bathroom. Do you think we've made
that up with it? Atal, I don't think that's a
real song.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Apparently it is, John.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Are you serious?
Speaker 5 (09:45):
You just fooling from I've been flushed from the bathroom.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Of your heart?
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Okay, okay, okay, I understand the context.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Okay, Yeah, she thinks you got me there.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
She thinks my tracks is sick. See it really tunes around.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
She's my track six suits turns wrong?
Speaker 1 (10:06):
She thanks my track.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
No One.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
All right, you got more attractive tractors? Okay, Yeah, I
just rode one the other day.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
I have a thing. I don't know what it is.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
I think it's because when I work on the horse
farm back in Nashville, Like I get to shovel the
horseship into the back of the tractor and then fly
the manure everywhere.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
You know, it couldn't be six And it's.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Really it's empowering, like as a woman, like I want
to get down there with a bikini on.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
It's so good. New Zealand is physic.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
You're welcome and queens.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Can I say it's been so fun hanging out with you.
Thank you so much for coming on, and congratulations on
all your six years.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
It's incredible, so you say that it's awesome.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Thanks