February 13, 2020 • 39 mins
We wanted to revisit this episode now that Gabby has really kick started her career in Nashville! Gabby Barrett finished 3rd on Season 1 American Idol on ABC and is now on her way into the next phase of her music career. Bobby talks to her about what it's like singing for record labels, life after American Idol and how she needs to move to Nashville to achieve her big dreams. Season 3 of American Idol premiere February 16, 2020, at 8/7c on ABC
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey guys, Bobby here and I wanted to share an
episode of the Bobby Cast it you might have missed now.
It's Gabby Barrett. You probably saw on the header there.
She finished third on the first season of American Idol
on ABC, which was the first season that I was
working on the show too, so I got to know
her pretty well on that show. And she wasn't even
living in town as in Nashville yet when we recorded this.
(00:21):
So she stopped by a pretty fresh off the show,
going back between Nashville and Pittsburgh, and you'll hear me
lecturing her that she needs to move to town, which,
by the way, since then she has um and now
she has a top twenties song. So I wanted to
bring this back. She's really like, made a nice career move,
starting to be a real factor in Nashville, and I
wanted to share this episode with you in case you
(00:41):
missed it. Also, I don't know when you're listening to this,
but season three of American Idol and ABC premiere Sunday
at eight seven Central. Here's episode one sixty As we
go back. I thought this is a cool one to
bring back up. Here is Gabby Barrett. On The Bobby
Cast episode one sixty here with Gabby Barrett before we
went on, you can ask the question, go ahead, I said,
(01:03):
what is the purpose of having headphones if you just
in talking into them? Mike, if you take off your
headphones and you could hear the same thing. Now you
hear that. I get it. There's music that's accompanying our conversation. Okay,
sound effects, yeah, got it. For example, if I were
to play I hope if you didn't have headphones on,
you wouldn't hear it. But because oh okay, got it,
(01:26):
they're useful. Okay, what do you wanna up? Yeah, it's
gonna flat on the top of my hair, but it's okay.
Well it's really rainy too. Is that a thing for you? Yes,
of course. I You should have seen me running to
get in here. It wasn't my house. Yes, this is
the person I've been here. Huh. So we met on
American Idol. Yes, they brought me into the top twenty four,
(01:46):
to mental top twenty four, and they brought me back
again later on when it was you, Caleb and Maddie
at the end. So you made to the top top
three of last season, made to the final show. Yeah,
congratulations on that, thank you. But I guess we had
spent a little time together because I was doing a
show Pittsburgh, a stand up show. Then you and your
family came to the show. And this is why I
don't was still going, and I really couldn't even say
you were there because it was still secret, and they
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wouldn't even let you get up and saying because we
were gonna do a song or that. No. I was
so bummed about that too. But yeah, I didn't come
to that show. And you put on a great TIELM
pretty funny guy. But is that what is that you
laugh when I tell a joke? Yeah, I'm so curious
about what happens, and I want to guess work backwards
right like today? For example, Um, today, what did you
(02:29):
do in town today? Today? I went to I had
phone call meetings and I had UM a record label meeting. Okay,
without saying the name of the record label. Yes, you
went to a record label and did what? Um? I
sang some songs you did? Yes? I did? So describe
what that's like because here you are your new artists
are do you live here yet? Are you moving here?
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I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I
mean I feel like it's not a bad thing that
I don't live here, because if I fly down here
for two weeks but then fly back to living somewhere
for um, I'll take this as of right now. If
you don't live here, you'll never make it here. You
don't link to start now. If you make it big,
you can move out, you can go. Justin Moore does it.
He lives in Arkansas, but he was here. Zach Brown
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is probably the biggest example. But again he's Zach Brown.
So not that you're not Gabby Barrett, but you're just
Gabby Barrett right now. My advice to you, I'm still
mentoring it. You're ready. I know you're eighteen, but you
gotta move here. You have to because you have to
be with everybody all the time. You have to be
writing all the time, like every day, every night. You
have to be writing. But how do you pay your
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bills in your hand? Exactly? You go and you work
at tootsies, you wait tables. There's there's no shame. You
can't have shame anymore. It's how bad do you want it?
Because if you're not here, they're gonna be so many
opportunities pass you by. Someone's gonna go we need someone
tomorrow night, and you're gonna be in Pittsburgh's Yeah, and
I'll fly down that Night's happened. I'm telling you I've
already done it before. You haven't done it. I have.
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I've taken many red eyes down here before. Well, right,
not the saying, I'm just telling you it's not gonna
work until you come down here and work, and then
it's gonna take a while. It's gonna take a couple
of years. Do you believe that? Yeah, yeah, I do.
I'm trying to get in the door early as early
as I can. But because you're good, there's no doubt
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about it. It's it's crazy to come to a place
like Nashville where everybody is so good and you need
to be around them all the time because I'll make
you better and you'll make them better, and you'll write
songs all the time. And you have let's like you
ever been to camp, like church camp or regular camp
or summer camp. I don't know what people go to
you have, but anything like that? Okay? You know how
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you go in with your little group and those are
like the people and you're like, oh, that's my class
all my mama folks, or like high school even did
you graduate high school? Like everybody went to high school
when you graduate, like at your class, you make those
in Nashville and then as everybody rises, they kind of
pull each other up or they you know, they helped. Anyway,
a point is you have to move here. We'll see.
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I okay, we'll see. Are they telling you have to
move here? Um? I actually talked to Luke Brian about it,
and he said he's the one who actually said to me.
He said, if you're coming down every two weeks and
then go back for two weeks, he was like, you're
doing all right. And so that's what I listened to
make sixty million a year. He's completely out of Luke
moved here. Luke had to move here to make it. Yeah,
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So anyway, I don't want to harp on that. I
actually have quite general questions about what happened today. So
tell me about today. You go and you you're they say, hey,
come play. Is something like your leather rubbing what's that noise?
Leather squeaking. It's squeaking against the cord of the headphones
that make the noises. So you go and you go
to a record label room. Who's in that room? Um,
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it's me, my manager and three other people. That's it. Yes,
And they say what to you? I'm sorry, am I
guitar blayer? Okay? And they say what do what? UM?
We just started talking about what's been going on after
idol um in before Idle and UM. We played some
of the songs that I have, some of the songs
I have in preparation to release UM as well as
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I hope, and then I did some songs live so
they could hear what I sound like live and how
many songs do you play them? How many songs did
I do? Three? And it is awkward when they're only
three people watching and they're like judging everything that you're doing,
or you kind of just getting your own space. It's
definitely a challenge for short because it's like when you
have three people. I felt like I was back on
the executive rounds in American I don't whenever the producers
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were in the room and you know there was only
ten people, because it's all eyes are on you, and
it's more concentrated a smaller group than a big crowd.
It's easier to do that, so it is. But um,
I think it went well. So were you watching their
faces as you were playing? Yeah, yeah, to see if
they like the song? You're not? And what were they
giving you? They liked it? They liked it. Yeah, it's
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like it's a little bit of like everything. So they
were liking it at least, I hope. So and what
do they say when you leave the room? Is that, hey,
that was great, like generic generic? And then they go
and tell you really later how they feel or did
they give you any sort of direction? Normally you can tell, um,
because I have met with a few record labels before,
and normally you can tell if they are like feeling
it or not. UM, and their reactions seemed pretty genuine.
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He was like like, basically, I'm I'm really thinking about
being on board here. Oh yeah, So what do you
have to do next? Um? I just told them I
would continue to send them songs and content and stuff
and if they need anything for me that I'll send it.
And then you went from over there to over here. Yes,
that's pretty cool. It's a pretty cool day. You get
to a plan for a big record people, it's a
good day. So tell me about let's go back to idle.
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That's kind of rewind a bit. So you auditioned where
what city? Addition to Nashville? Channel say right here? Why
did you fly down here to do it? M Because
when the producers had contacted me to audition for the show,
they said you could choose from three places, and I
was like, yeah, Nashville is definitely a place. How did
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they find you to tell you to do the show? Um?
They have producers that reach out or look on the
internet for through YouTube and through hashtags on Instagram and
things like that. And I would always put hashtag American,
I all and stuff, and they reached out from seeing
videos on the internet. And the first time a producer
reaches out, are you going, come on? You messing with me? Almost? Yeah,
Because well, when you get an email, like a producer
(08:18):
wants to skype with you, you're like, is this spam
or is it real? So like you you don't want
to like set yourself up, so you're like, okay, if
this is real. And then when you see them come
up on the thing and they're like, okay, we'll call
you back, You're like, oh my god, oh my gosh,
it's real. So it was really cool. So what does
the producer say to you when you get on Skype?
They're like, I'm Gabby. I am pretty sure. I think
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they're like saying your name and your age, and then
what are you gonna sing for us? And you tell
them what you're gonna saying? You sing and then they're like, yeah,
I did. I did have to sing on Skype. And
he was like, what do you do in these days? Um?
And I was like yes because I didn't feeling he
was gonna say. If he said that, then that means
he likes what he's hearing. So do you know who
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it was? Um? His name is Peter. Yes, So you
sing in front of Peter. Peter says, come to Nashville.
Did they buy your plane ticket or did you just
get like a kind of cut pass? Did they buy
my plane ticket? I can't even I can't remember that.
I don't know if I have been because I don't.
I don't deal with any I didn't deal with at
that time. So you fly down, do you cut the
line at all? Since they've already seen you. I was
(09:21):
like the first one there. Um, I remember I got
to it was at the forgetting the name of the
country music call the Hall of Fame. Yeah, it was there.
It was there, and I was downstairs in a lobby
at six five, and I remember, Um, I was like
the first one there and then they all took us
upstairs and then one by one did the audition and
how to go for you? Did you feel like you
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knocked it out? Um? You know, you know, I mean
it didn't go the way that I thought it was
going to know? Um, why what what did you expect?
First of all, you expected to walk in a way? Um? Well,
I walked in and sang a country song because that
is mainly what I love to do, um as my
ma in genre. And they were kind of confused buy
(10:03):
it um, because I did originally start in a gospel
choir R and B was originally my roots um, And
so they weren't very fond of the country at first.
And then so I actually got through with a gospel song,
gospel what do you sing? His Eyes on the Sparrow?
And then they said, okay, but you're a country artist.
Well actually saying, um, Carrie Underwood, Uh, good Girls and
(10:26):
Church Bells three songs. Yeah. I had to sing to
those two songs and they were like, do you have
anything that's not Carrie, and I was like, um, I
have Gertchen Wilson, redkneck woman who was like, don't like that.
I was like okay. And then we were only supposed
to have three songs prepared, so whatever they asked me
to do, it was on the like on the spot,
on the fly from there. And then they asked me
to do a church song and I was like, okay,
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that's the first one. I'm gonna do it because that
was my main song when I was in the church
singing when I was nine. So then you go back home, yeah,
and they say you get the Golden ticket or whatever.
They go to Hollywood, right, so it's gonna be but
a few weeks. A month before that was like a
couple of months. It was in October, and then Hollywood
Week was in January, so you had to wait that long.
Just excited the whole time, like every day they're going,
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I can't wait, I can't wait, I can't wait. Yeah.
I was coming up with like a blueprint in my
head if I'm to pass this, what I'm gonna do next,
the next, the next, instead of coming up with it
while I'm there. So I did Hollywood Week this year.
I started at the beginning of the season, right, yeah, I, um,
the Hollywood we kind of a grind. Oh yeah, that's
the toughest week. The overnight, the happening to get in
the groups. Even I was feeling bad for the kids. Um,
(11:33):
you know, you know, you know, you just watching the TV.
It looks fun and it was so right. It still
was fun, but these kids were getting in groups and
fighting with each other and they were all sleep deprived. No,
it's a difficult week. I remember going through that week
and I was like, well, shoot, like this is hard.
I mean, but but it was fun too because I'm
a person that likes to challenge myself on literally everything.
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So something's a challenge to me, I'm like, let's go,
let's go. Um. And so that week is to except
rates a week from the strong honestly, who cracks and
who doesn't, and who's ready to go on with the
competition because the competition is not easy. It's not easy
at all, So um, whoever can outlast longest. So you
do the group, then you it's solo and group. You
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move on to the top twenty four. And then that's
where I came in and I guess I met you
for the first time. I remember what I don't. I'm
trying to think if I can remember what you were wearing.
I remember what I don't remember what I was wearing.
They just give me I want to picks out my
clothes and then I just put them on. Those producers
pepper you with so many questions all the time, like
(12:38):
they just and they brought me in to not be
a producer, right, to be a human. You guys could
actually talk to anything. And I'd be like, well, I'm
a human too. I let me I understand this, But man,
I would want those producers and all, and they're all black.
You get behind the camera and they just like a
thousand questions you guys all the time. Yeah, they do,
they always, I mean, just to get every single possible
answer I guess out of us that they can, because
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sometimes it's hard to get answers out when you're excited
about something. What was your storyline? My storyline on American
I don't like, what were they highlighting about you? Because
everybody kind of has a story, right, Yeah, your dad
was there a lot because you're you're under age mine
or as they called him, and so your family was there. Yeah,
that was my main story. Um, I'm just extremely close
with my dad, one of eight. Um, I was always
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a daddy's girl growing up and so he you know,
even before American and I don't when I started when
I started singing at nine in the choir, and then
eleven I did my first show all the way up
to seventeen, and at seventeen years old before idle, I
did a hundred and thirties six shows that year alone.
So doing shows in the gospel choir or just playing yourself, no, myself.
So like I was with the gospel choir from nine
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to eleven, and then eleven I left the Gospel choir
and started doing shows, doing the anthem for the Pirate Steelers,
just different stuff all the way up. So it was
like a grind for six years. So you're saying the
anthem of the Pirates is pretty cool. Yeah, the Pirates steeling. Yes,
the Steelers will be a bigger thing. It's more concentrated
than one. Yeah, nerve wracking. You see the anthem And
it was the Hinesville Um, yeah it was Hinsfeld. No,
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because it was a bigger crowd. Because it's like bigger
you can't see like eyes on you. I just I
got more of adrenaline rush from that and rather than nerves.
You ever mess up? Um in general? No singing the
anthem No, thankfully not yet, hopefully not at all, but um,
I actually have to sing the anthem coming up soon
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in March sometimes for a basketball game. How old you
the first time you sang on a big stage? Um?
The first time I sang ever anthem twelve for the Pirates? Really,
were you freaked out at all? You know what? You know?
What freaked me out a little bit wasn't the people.
It was the delay of Mike in the stadium, because
you'll do this and then this comes over the top
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of you like a second later, a whole second, and
me being twelve years old, I just started never experienced
that before. I was like, what the heck? Um? But
I still like managed to get through it. Um. But
that was difficult because some stadiums give you ears that
you can turn up a pack and you don't hear that.
They didn't, so I was like, well, I gotta deal
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with this all right. What are you drinking over there?
What is that Starbucks? Well? Yeah, I know it's strawberry
ASA or a fresh start? Is that your drink? I
don't drink coffee. I don't like coffee. I'm not a
coffee When I was going to dance with the stars
that drink coffee, it a little bit because it was
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that's all they had and I was exhausted all the time.
But it was never good. Yeah it's bitter. Yeah, I'm
not a fan of that, but that I started drinking
too much sugar with that. But you're right teen who cares? Right?
My metabolicalism is very fast. I was in Chicago, I think,
and you're opening up for Chris Lane when I was
twenty Dances with Stars? Were you playing to Joe's? Uh?
Yeah I did? How's that going? Really good? Chris Lane's
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tour was absolutely amazing. He's amazing though, I mean, like
he I can't I can't say thank you to him
enough because he brought me under the tour with him
and was so unbelievably nice and still is like to
this day, we're friends down and it's it's just really
cool to see somebody help you up and pick you
up without looking for something in return, because it's very
hard to find, and this especially in this music industry.
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To find somebody that wants to help you without asking
for something in return. And he is one of those people.
And I know that. Um, you know, I'll be friends
with him for a long time. So he's great and
it went good. He told you to move to Nashville.
It's the only way to make it. He did not.
He did it all right. So you go and i'd
they're all whittling down. One goes down, one goes home,
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one goes home, one goes home. It's about the top
five or so. Did you feel like you were the favorite?
The favorite? Because I felt like you were the favorite,
I felt like, not the favorite of the people, but
I felt like you had the best shot to win,
and about the top five almost like I think you
got the best shot to win the show. Did you
feel that way? Um? I was confident. I wanted to win,
that's for sure. I knew since I got to that spot,
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I was like, all right, I'm gonna hit it even
harder like each time, especially as the numbers were bewindling down. So, um,
I was just really grateful, very thankful, And every time
the cuts came, I was just I had to be
accepting if I were to get eliminated, because I was
just very thankful to have made it that far already
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get to the final. Yeah, final show. There's three of
you left going into that show. Did you feel like,
all right, I can I can do this, I'm gonna
win this thing. Were you feeling confident? Um? Yes, what
the performances? Yes, but I could tell you right now
whenever me, Maddie and Caleb were standing there and Ryan
Seacrest said, UM, didn't like the second they said or
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he said Caleb's name. I knew for a fact I
was not getting through. Because them saying Caleb, I knew
something told me that Maddie was getting through. And when
they said Caleb, I freaking knew it. I was like,
no way I'm getting through. No way I'm getting through.
That's why I mean it was so I was. I
accepted the fact before they even said her name, because
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I just knew something you got tells you saw. But
I was okay with everything. What happens after idol is over?
The next day idols over? What do you do the
next day idols over? Um? We had to do a
bunch of press and interviews on the just the whole
competition in general, and how we took everything. Does it
suck to louse and have to go be interviewed? Are
you more so happy that of the experience? Like really
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the next day, yeah, I was happy. Of course, you're
sad that you lost, because when you set yourself up
for something for so long. I mean this was months
upon months, um, that you worked, and you were so
busy every single second, so focused on something. So of
course it sucks that you lose, because everybody you know
once that winning spot. Um. But I again, I accepted
the fact that it's okay, and that was all part
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of the plan for me. So um. And I'm really
glad that Klea and Maddie you know, got first and
second place. They absolutely deserve it. They're amazing, amazing singers,
amazing people, so you know, and especially as the numbers
doing go down, as you said, um, you get really
close to people and it's not even almost a competition anymore.
It's you're happy to see if somebody succeeds whatever. I
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wouldn't be listen. There were four but Dance with the
Stars and I was like, I better win this freaking thing.
I didn't think I was going to, but I didn't
give a crap? Are you close with any of the
other Yeah, I liked everybody, but when it's time to compete,
when it's not to compete, it's well, I like Milo
and I, Um we're as close as we could because
Milo is your age. Um, but he was really good.
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Um Ivana from Harry Potter with her and I got
closer to the end. But Alexis R and I weren't
that close. Um so but really, who cares who I
was competing? Who gives a crap out the other people?
Like all week long we were cool and Milan I
were super cool. But but then when it's the game
time one, I don't want to lose, and if I lose,
I'm gonna want to eat my kidney. I would be
still so. But um, they're good for you. You're more
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mature than I am. Apparently, Oh no, thank you. I'm
I hate losing. I have a problem losing. Um, if
you already complex, don't worry one day. One day you'll
have to go to therapist and it all come out. Yeah,
it all come out. You're still young. Wait for don manifest. Okay,
just come back. So you go home? When do you
go home? How many days after Idols over. Um Idol
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ended one of May. That was when the finale was
twenty second. We did all the press the next day
after that we went back. So what's it like when
you go home? It's weird. I mean, it's so weird
because you're so used again being in this like this
different world. Literally, Idol is a different world. It's it's
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a flip. It's a flip of what your life has been. Um,
You're constantly working, constantly emotional, like it's insane. So going
home and like you already know the answers to everything
when with Idol like that you were curious about the
entire time. It's like so weird. But then we had
to prep for the Idol tour. Oh then you had
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to go to tour. Yeah. Yeah, so it wasn't all
the way over because the show was over, but then
you had more work to do for Idol. Yeah. They
pay you guys, good decent, decent enough to you It
was cool, I guess. Yeah, Like when I did Dance
with the Star Store, they paid me like thousand bucks
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to night. I think it's what it was. Really you
guys weren't that much a thousand but oh heck it
was ten tho dollars a week and sho if you
did a full week, Oh my gosh, I think that's
a lot or something like that. Well, yeah, but I
only I only did one week. I mean, I don't
know if that's a lot, like like four days, but
I just wanted it with an idol tour like that. No,
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it wasn't. I don't know. I have no idea. I
don't know if no, no, it wasn't. Um, yeah, no,
I'm not an expert on the whole money thing, but
I know that it wasn't like ten thousand dollars. I didn't.
I'm just being like some people. I don't get that.
I don't think I made as much as the dancer
the pro dancers. Yeah, I think because we were working
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in shorts short but I'd still take that. Well yeah,
and that's and I did it that I didn't have
to tour. But I was like, yeah, absolutely, pook it
up right. Okay, so you go, did you save your money?
Did I save it from the tour? Um all that jacket? No,
you know what I had to do. You have to pay.
This is a whole thing with the music industry. You
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have to pay towards all of your music stuff because
this is very expensive. So on a tour you have
to put money down on a tour for and that's
what I did. So yeah, I did save it from
the audit tour and then I ended up putting it
on the next tour that I went on right after
the American audit tour was over. Now did you make
money back on that tour? Um? I think so? Yeah. Marchandise, ye,
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you start. You need to start figuring this stuff out.
You got a business have a business manager? Yet? Yes?
I do? All right, you have a good one. Yeah,
because that that for me was tough. I don't understand
the business manager stuff. Now I do because I like
to understand everything. Yeah, I'm not gonna you have a manager?
Do I have a manager? Yeah? Sitting right there all right,
just making sure you're sitting across the room. Do you
know the percentage? They he gets? Um? No, I feel
(23:05):
like I don't know it. But I don't know. Spit
it out. What do you think it is? I don't know?
Is it like five, ten fift? What is that? If
it's five? We need to talk because I need I
need to redo my deal. I can't if you're quising
me on all this math and I failed geometry my school.
This isn't. This isn't. I have people that handle that
I can't. Don't. First of all, never be that person.
But it's my dad, So I can trust my dad absolutely.
(23:26):
Well sometimes no, Yeah, there's been a lot of stories
about dad's Okay, well not my dad. And here's my
advice to you. Ready, I'm gonna continue my mentor show
because I'm listen. I'm in the business too, right in
your full you're like full time on this season, right, yeah,
just top twenty. I'm talking about music again. You just
you don't have to know everything's coming in and out
when you're so busy, right, you have people to do that,
but you need to know what percentages you're paying people. Okay,
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I'll pay attention to it more, just even in your phone,
like you don't know, Okay, goes to my manager. I
don't know what yours is. What yours is? Yeah, goes
to the agent. I don't know what you're this, but
that's mine. Okay, you know five percent goes to you
a business manager. Okay, so I think that's I know
that one. Yeah. It sucks because all your money is
gone making you make a dollar and you know forty cents.
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But the good news is is that they're worth more
than that forty cents, so it's actually a really good investment.
But you just need to know that stuff. Just someone
with someone asks you what do you pay your manager?
That you don't look like a du fist because I
used to be the dupist, because like, what do you
pay a manager? I don't know one? Dang? All right,
that's note number two. Alright, two things we've learned before. One,
you have to move to Nashville to make it too.
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You need to know your percentages my others only ever
one I've done when I'm like tutoring the persident during it. Okay,
back to you. So you decide what do you decide
your home? And you're like, I think I want to
make a run in music, like in country music, or
do you go I don't want to try to go
to college? Like what what's the now? Of course it's
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a terrible idea. No, I knew that. I knew I
wasn't going to college before I did American Idol because
me and my dad had talked about that. I told him,
I said, this is Plan A and Plan B. What
was planning and Plane B? To make it in music? Okay?
And just this was it. This is what I wanted
to do for the rest of my life. Um. And
so even after American, I knew already what who I
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wanted to be like as an artist. That was something
that even but going through American I will definitely reassured
me of that, which is country. Um. I always tell
people I wanted to be the Whitney Houston old country music.
So and that's what I do want to be. So
we'll say what happens. How many labels have be saying
in front of labels? Um? Probably i'd say like five
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or six. Have you had some bad, bad ones where
you go, oh, that one didn't go so well, not
that I recall, thankfully. Have you had some better than
others where you're like, oh, for sure they want me
to sign with them. Yeah, it depends. I mean, it
also depends on the person's mood of the day. Like
they could be having a bad day and it you
know they're not in a good mood. So it just
depends on the day. Are you recording music right now? Yes? Really, yes,
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I've been working so hard on music since I year
since right after I got off the Chris Lane tour. Well,
actually in between the American Idol tour. UM, I talked
to Carrie Under on the phone. I called her because
she after American Idol. Um. I'm just saying, oh, please
your context in your phone. After American Idol, she reached
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out to me and said, you know, like if you
need any help with anything or I'm here for you.
She gave me a number. I called her. UM. We
talked a few times and I just asked her. I
was like, what did you do after American Idol to
keep your my lad I'm going. She was like, I
would just constantly work. Um, Like while I was on
the American Idol tour, I would constantly work. And I said, Okay,
that's what I'm gonna do. Um. So during the American
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Audoit tour, we would have like four shows, five shows
in a row, show show, show, show show. We have
one day off. I would fly here, record and write,
fly back the next day and do the show. So
I mean like any day that I have off, I'm
doing something always music that's good. I like that about
you think that's something you really can't teach at work
ethic and if you were doing that, that's good because
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you d taking the day off and just chilled. Yeah,
but there's I think of it as like how many
people want the same thing, you know, and what separates
you from other people? Though? Listen, this is what you're
coming into a Nashville. Everybody's really freaking good. Everybody is
really good. What separates you is the amount of work
you put into it. It's like the NFL. The the
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line between super athletic and super super atalytic is so thin.
It's the people who put in the work. But that's good.
I didn't know you were doing that. I commend to
you get you get a ribbon after this is over
for all right for doing that. The song here? Uh,
I hope you wrote with John Knight. That's how did
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you get that? Right? Um? Through a great mansion Okay,
because I was like, damn, look at that. You're already
writing with like cool big songwriters. Yeah, they're really They're
really cool. I've gotten to write with a few co ones.
You wrote the song with the Zachary Ellen, John Night.
I'm gonna play a little bit of I Hope Here
we Go. Produced by Ross Cooperman yeah, whoo, who come on,
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I can't even get these people in the room with me.
You come to Tally work with the biggest and the
best already, I'm very blessed. Yeah, So what do you
what's the light getting in room with those guys? What
do you do in the writing room? You walk in,
You're like, hey, I'm David Barrett. Yeah, um yeah, I
just make sure like everybody's comfortable. I feel like that's
such an important thing because when you're uncomfortable and like,
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I don't know, if things just don't click very well
and you don't connect and you don't come up necessarily
with a good song, and they're the best song that
you come up with. So anytime I get into a room,
I just want to keep writing songs that could blow up. Um.
And so we got in that room with John Knight
and Zach Kale love them both. Um. We got in
the room at day It was on Halloween, um of
last year, and we got on the room. We were
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trying to figure out what we're going to write about.
And I was like, let's write a relationship song. They're like, okay,
let's start a song about a guy and a girl.
You know, they don't work out, but the girl still
kind of wishes him well. And I was like, that
is not how girls thing towards, Like when a guy
does this wrong, we don't go you know, I wish
you will. We're like, I hope everything bad happens to you.
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I hope you get cheated on literally the worst thing.
I know it sounds rough, but that's how girls are.
When you do us wrong, that's why you don't do
it's wrong. So I wanted to write a song that
was like, that was the song that females never got
to say to that person, so that when they hear it,
they can dedicate it to that that type of person.
Um words that you know they never got to say,
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but they really did feel. M it's pretty cool he
switched up like that. Yeah, I get you all better,
all better that that happened to you. Uh. Yeah, I've
been in a bed relationship before, so I understand and
can relate to girls that have to Who else have
you written with school? I've written the list them. I'll
give me a couple though, Um David Garcia, Josh Miller, UM, uh,
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Zach Kale, John Knight, Ross Copperman, Um, Josh ker Oh yeah,
that's like heavy hitters. Man. Your people must think you're
pretty good. If they're getting in right with you, that's
a good thank you. That is a good thing. So okay,
so you're here today, Yes, then what happens? Did you
play tomorrow? Do you go back home for like eight
months then come back for another day or what? Go
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home for eight months? Come on now now? Um? No tomorrow,
I um, I'm trying to think of my um. Tomorrow,
I have a writing session actually with Zach Kale and
two others from eleven three, and then I have to
record demos on another song that I did. Do you
get a lot of work done while you're here? Absolutely stacked?
Schedule your dad here? Yeah? Yeah, even though you're eighteen,
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he's here. Yeah, because you can't like, he doesn't want
to leave me by myself. You can have one a
girl and an eighteen year old girl wondering around. Yeah,
but if you had a daughter that was a teen,
would you want to buy yourself down here? Oh? I
mean I'd like a girlfriend much like a daughter. All Right,
I'm saying. If I'm saying, if I think if she
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was like, I'm gonna go pursue something in college. Same
thing if you went to college, he's not with you.
I remember having this conversation with you while we're on idol. Yeah,
I was like, eventually you got to cut the court.
Remember that conversation. Yeah, okay, you don't have to do anything.
I know, but he's just he's very loyal to me,
and so I believe that I'm supposed to be loyal
back towards him. I like him. He's a good dude.
He's great. I like hanging out with him. What do
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you think about all this? Um, he's loving watching it.
I mean he's been a part of it with me
since I was just started. He's the reason why I
even I am where I am, honestly, because he's just
been my rock and my sports system through it all.
He's the one that's given money to get me two shows.
He's the one that's given his time. He's the one
that's not everything. So I wouldn't be here without him,
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and he is really my main support system. So he's
just enjoying everything. I just give you a hard time
cause I like it. You know that, right? That's sweet? Thanks? Thanks?
Love hate relationships, No, there's no hate, there's no Are
you still dating the long hair dude? Yeah, Kate, where
does he live? Texas? Still? Did you guy see each
other ever? Yeah? I just saw him not that long ago.
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You ever come to town? Um? Yeah, we actually come
quite often together and we do our own stuff. Did
your dad go on your dates with you? Good for that?
How's that going you guys? Good? It's really good coming
up on a year. So yeah, yep. And Ryan Seacrest
out at us for everybody, we were the first American
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Idol couple. Actually, some people think like, oh, Manne Caleb
were the first, but okay, we're the first. Okay, So
how did that happen? You go on the show, You
keep it quiet from the producers at first that you
guys kind of like each other. Yes, and then the
producers literally just ask you every possible question they can
and scan at what's been going on, and then told
I guess they told Ryan Secrest and he outed it
because I had no idea when he performed, and they like,
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he did the whole reveal of everything. I was backstage like,
oh no, oh, you didn't know it's coming. No. Because
we separated relationship from business, we were like, we're not
gonna We're not gonna put this on the television because
we came here to win the competition. We didn't come
to have the Bachelorette on UM, so because we knew
you know, we knew of Maddie and Caleb too, so
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we'd always like go out together. So it was just
funny how everything unwanted though, and you try to keep
a secret? Did I try? Everybody tries? Right? Of course,
you keep it on the d L. It's it's crazy
the minors they call them on American Idol. You guys
had your own schedule. Yeah, you had to go first
because you couldn't do you can do the long hours, right.
That would be pretty cool to be like seventeen and
a half and do Idol and not eighteen, right because
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you get all the preferential treatment. Yeah, it was interesting
you know now that yeah, you're pointing that out. I
mean in the beginning, because I turned eighteen while on
the show, So from the beginning, Yeah, during all the
hard parts where people had to like stay super duper long,
I got to go back. UM. But then like on
the right timing, I turned eighteen, So it's like it
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all worked. It was really cool. Did you get nervous?
On the live shows. Yeah. Yeah, I mean I when
I first started, like, I was very fortunate not to
get nerves around anybody that I said. But American Ido
absolutely was definitely a challenge because it's like you have
so many people telling you, like, look at the camera,
look at this, pay attention to this, do this, do this,
(34:29):
do this, and there's a camera with a red dot.
When you see the red dot come up, there's sixty
million people watching you. Don't mess up. There's three celebrities
that you didn't even think we're human beings also watching
you and critiquing what you're doing. Don't mess up. It's like, yeah,
so it's kind of hard. And then once you get
yourself into that mode, it is so hard to get
out of. It's like an avalanche, Like it's a snowball.
Don't get nervous, unkt and nervous, you get more nervous.
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So it was a challenge. I had to keep going
back and forth with myself. Do you watch your social
media the whole time? Did I watch my social media? Yeah?
It was crazy to see everything to wat Yeah, it
was awesome, and it's really nice that they stuck with me. Yeah,
even after American Idol. It's really really nice, like with
I hope seeing that, you know, just from a straight
fan base. It's shot to fourteen on iTunes. Was crazy
(35:13):
to me, didn't that means? That just showed me like
while these people are really sticking with me even after
American Idol, which means a lot. So they're probably all listening. Now, Hey,
what do you want to say to them? I love
you guys so much. You have no idea. Thank you
so much to everybody the supported me because you have
no idea what it means to me, and I wouldn't
be here without you. It's really all about you guys. Um,
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anytime I perform, it's about everybody else, not yourself. So um,
just thank you so much and we're gonna do it together.
Keep climbing. What are our garden in two years? That's
what you used to say. That's why you would say
that you moved we chalked to here because it was
three But now it's two thousand nineteen, so it's too Yeah,
you would say I'm gonna play Madson Square garden went
headline in three years? Yeah you have two years now?
(35:57):
Tis that's the goal? Ye? What is it? Goal? What
do you want to do. Like, if we're back here
at my house in a year and we're in front
of where the microphones? Where do you want to be?
Where do I want to be? Um? I want too.
I think it would be so cool to be my ear.
I have an earring. You have an ear ring or
your ache. I have an ear ring. Hearing in and
(36:17):
it's like pressing against earring. But it's okay, It's okay,
beauty Spain, um and Okay. Next year, I would like
to be nominated for um a CMA Award. Yeah, I
think that would be really really cool. That would be
really cool. I'd like to be nominated for CMA Awards.
I think that's really cool. That's a goal of mine
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for sure. With that's why I'm trying to make the
best of best songs. You know what you don't like
about you? You have no shortness. There's no short of
confidence with you, which you have to have. You have
to you have to have so much confidence to be
here all the time. You have to be so sure
of yourself. Yeah, and then your goals are super high,
which is great, and people may look at you and go, gab,
you're crazy. But the crazy ones are the ones that
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are just crazy enough to make it. Yeah, because I'm nuts.
I've always been told all your nut your goals, you
need to big. Yeah. You know, if you don't have
goals for yourself, nobody else will go bigger go home. No,
don't go home, but you gotta go big, go big.
I mean, if you're not going big, what's what are
you doing? Well? You learn when it doesn't go right
and you keep going big. Don't go home. Okay, don't
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pack up your crab and go home. I mean unless
you're living in Nashville and then go back. Okay, all right, listen,
it's been good to see you. We did how long?
Half hour? Did half? Half an hour? Interview? How you
feel about it? Good? I haven't seen you know what
I've seen you since the finale, you know. I just
said that to my manager coming in. I was like,
how's it your door? And I was like, oh my gosh,
(37:43):
I would seen it. Is this a weird and idle?
This is so weird? So I'm growing so much. I'm
a lot taller. Yeah, you look a lot different. I
was under my house, but before you got to want
to catch a cat. Cat that was under my house
and I was crawling in the crawl space and I
got I got it out he did. Yeah, I'm scared. Yeah,
it out right up the other side of the outside.
I know, you think, well, fancy Bobby. No, you know
(38:04):
who gets his own cat front of the house. Me.
There was no Butler that does that? I do that. Yeah,
there's no Butler. No, No, Mikey is the closest thing yet. Listen,
it's good to see at Gabby Barrett underscore, right, g
A B B Y B A r R E T
T underscore underscore? Why the underscore to someone already have
(38:24):
Gabby Barrett and you can't buy it from them? Did
you try? Now? I tried. They won't sell me Bobby bones.
Why don't you try to buy Gaett. I'm gonna look
into it. I have never tried that yet. So we'll
say all the money you got from the Idol tour.
Yeah yeah, But does an underscore really make like a
huge difference? Well, yeah, it's just easier to go at
Gabby Barrett than the underscore. Let's right after it. All right,
(38:44):
I've had enough of you. Alright, I'm just kidding. In
a year, come back, we'll talk about your A or
a c M nomination. All right, it sounds like, let's
see you by the way you have you know, I
forgot to bring up you have seven brothers and sisters, right, yes,
because you brought like half of them to my show. Yes, yeah,
And I was like, yeah, yeah, like look at all
these kids absolutely folks. Yeah, because I was I'm a
(39:05):
big fan of you, so I was like, you guys
have to come. We all are big fans of you.
We all would listen to you. So it was really
cool and it's really cool to being back here. So
thank you very much. Yeah, all right, Gabby Barrett, there
we go. We'll see you soon. Alright, I check out,
I hope, and you're gonna put other music out. I'm
assuming yes, this new music coming, Arry is not your
last song ever, saying within the next few weeks you'll
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hear a new song. All right. There we go, GABARTT
everybody EISOD one, sixt
Hey guys, Bobby here and I wanted to share an
episode of the Bobby Cast it you might have missed now.
It's Gabby Barrett. You probably saw on the header there.
She finished third on the first season of American Idol
on ABC, which was the first season that I was
working on the show too, so I got to know
her pretty well on that show. And she wasn't even
living in town as in Nashville yet when we recorded this.
(00:21):
So she stopped by a pretty fresh off the show,
going back between Nashville and Pittsburgh, and you'll hear me
lecturing her that she needs to move to town, which,
by the way, since then she has um and now
she has a top twenties song. So I wanted to
bring this back. She's really like, made a nice career move,
starting to be a real factor in Nashville, and I
wanted to share this episode with you in case you
(00:41):
missed it. Also, I don't know when you're listening to this,
but season three of American Idol and ABC premiere Sunday
at eight seven Central. Here's episode one sixty As we
go back. I thought this is a cool one to
bring back up. Here is Gabby Barrett. On The Bobby
Cast episode one sixty here with Gabby Barrett before we
went on, you can ask the question, go ahead, I said,
(01:03):
what is the purpose of having headphones if you just
in talking into them? Mike, if you take off your
headphones and you could hear the same thing. Now you
hear that. I get it. There's music that's accompanying our conversation. Okay,
sound effects, yeah, got it. For example, if I were
to play I hope if you didn't have headphones on,
you wouldn't hear it. But because oh okay, got it,
(01:26):
they're useful. Okay, what do you wanna up? Yeah, it's
gonna flat on the top of my hair, but it's okay.
Well it's really rainy too. Is that a thing for you? Yes,
of course. I You should have seen me running to
get in here. It wasn't my house. Yes, this is
the person I've been here. Huh. So we met on
American Idol. Yes, they brought me into the top twenty four,
(01:46):
to mental top twenty four, and they brought me back
again later on when it was you, Caleb and Maddie
at the end. So you made to the top top
three of last season, made to the final show. Yeah,
congratulations on that, thank you. But I guess we had
spent a little time together because I was doing a
show Pittsburgh, a stand up show. Then you and your
family came to the show. And this is why I
don't was still going, and I really couldn't even say
you were there because it was still secret, and they
(02:07):
wouldn't even let you get up and saying because we
were gonna do a song or that. No. I was
so bummed about that too. But yeah, I didn't come
to that show. And you put on a great TIELM
pretty funny guy. But is that what is that you
laugh when I tell a joke? Yeah, I'm so curious
about what happens, and I want to guess work backwards
right like today? For example, Um, today, what did you
(02:29):
do in town today? Today? I went to I had
phone call meetings and I had UM a record label meeting. Okay,
without saying the name of the record label. Yes, you
went to a record label and did what? Um? I
sang some songs you did? Yes? I did? So describe
what that's like because here you are your new artists
are do you live here yet? Are you moving here?
(02:51):
I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I
mean I feel like it's not a bad thing that
I don't live here, because if I fly down here
for two weeks but then fly back to living somewhere
for um, I'll take this as of right now. If
you don't live here, you'll never make it here. You
don't link to start now. If you make it big,
you can move out, you can go. Justin Moore does it.
He lives in Arkansas, but he was here. Zach Brown
(03:13):
is probably the biggest example. But again he's Zach Brown.
So not that you're not Gabby Barrett, but you're just
Gabby Barrett right now. My advice to you, I'm still
mentoring it. You're ready. I know you're eighteen, but you
gotta move here. You have to because you have to
be with everybody all the time. You have to be
writing all the time, like every day, every night. You
have to be writing. But how do you pay your
(03:34):
bills in your hand? Exactly? You go and you work
at tootsies, you wait tables. There's there's no shame. You
can't have shame anymore. It's how bad do you want it?
Because if you're not here, they're gonna be so many
opportunities pass you by. Someone's gonna go we need someone
tomorrow night, and you're gonna be in Pittsburgh's Yeah, and
I'll fly down that Night's happened. I'm telling you I've
already done it before. You haven't done it. I have.
(03:56):
I've taken many red eyes down here before. Well, right,
not the saying, I'm just telling you it's not gonna
work until you come down here and work, and then
it's gonna take a while. It's gonna take a couple
of years. Do you believe that? Yeah, yeah, I do.
I'm trying to get in the door early as early
as I can. But because you're good, there's no doubt
(04:18):
about it. It's it's crazy to come to a place
like Nashville where everybody is so good and you need
to be around them all the time because I'll make
you better and you'll make them better, and you'll write
songs all the time. And you have let's like you
ever been to camp, like church camp or regular camp
or summer camp. I don't know what people go to
you have, but anything like that? Okay? You know how
(04:39):
you go in with your little group and those are
like the people and you're like, oh, that's my class
all my mama folks, or like high school even did
you graduate high school? Like everybody went to high school
when you graduate, like at your class, you make those
in Nashville and then as everybody rises, they kind of
pull each other up or they you know, they helped. Anyway,
a point is you have to move here. We'll see.
(04:59):
I okay, we'll see. Are they telling you have to
move here? Um? I actually talked to Luke Brian about it,
and he said he's the one who actually said to me.
He said, if you're coming down every two weeks and
then go back for two weeks, he was like, you're
doing all right. And so that's what I listened to
make sixty million a year. He's completely out of Luke
moved here. Luke had to move here to make it. Yeah,
(05:23):
So anyway, I don't want to harp on that. I
actually have quite general questions about what happened today. So
tell me about today. You go and you you're they say, hey,
come play. Is something like your leather rubbing what's that noise?
Leather squeaking. It's squeaking against the cord of the headphones
that make the noises. So you go and you go
to a record label room. Who's in that room? Um,
(05:45):
it's me, my manager and three other people. That's it. Yes,
And they say what to you? I'm sorry, am I
guitar blayer? Okay? And they say what do what? UM?
We just started talking about what's been going on after
idol um in before Idle and UM. We played some
of the songs that I have, some of the songs
I have in preparation to release UM as well as
(06:06):
I hope, and then I did some songs live so
they could hear what I sound like live and how
many songs do you play them? How many songs did
I do? Three? And it is awkward when they're only
three people watching and they're like judging everything that you're doing,
or you kind of just getting your own space. It's
definitely a challenge for short because it's like when you
have three people. I felt like I was back on
the executive rounds in American I don't whenever the producers
(06:29):
were in the room and you know there was only
ten people, because it's all eyes are on you, and
it's more concentrated a smaller group than a big crowd.
It's easier to do that, so it is. But um,
I think it went well. So were you watching their
faces as you were playing? Yeah, yeah, to see if
they like the song? You're not? And what were they
giving you? They liked it? They liked it. Yeah, it's
(06:49):
like it's a little bit of like everything. So they
were liking it at least, I hope. So and what
do they say when you leave the room? Is that, hey,
that was great, like generic generic? And then they go
and tell you really later how they feel or did
they give you any sort of direction? Normally you can tell, um,
because I have met with a few record labels before,
and normally you can tell if they are like feeling
it or not. UM, and their reactions seemed pretty genuine.
(07:13):
He was like like, basically, I'm I'm really thinking about
being on board here. Oh yeah, So what do you
have to do next? Um? I just told them I
would continue to send them songs and content and stuff
and if they need anything for me that I'll send it.
And then you went from over there to over here. Yes,
that's pretty cool. It's a pretty cool day. You get
to a plan for a big record people, it's a
good day. So tell me about let's go back to idle.
(07:35):
That's kind of rewind a bit. So you auditioned where
what city? Addition to Nashville? Channel say right here? Why
did you fly down here to do it? M Because
when the producers had contacted me to audition for the show,
they said you could choose from three places, and I
was like, yeah, Nashville is definitely a place. How did
(07:55):
they find you to tell you to do the show? Um?
They have producers that reach out or look on the
internet for through YouTube and through hashtags on Instagram and
things like that. And I would always put hashtag American,
I all and stuff, and they reached out from seeing
videos on the internet. And the first time a producer
reaches out, are you going, come on? You messing with me? Almost? Yeah,
Because well, when you get an email, like a producer
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wants to skype with you, you're like, is this spam
or is it real? So like you you don't want
to like set yourself up, so you're like, okay, if
this is real. And then when you see them come
up on the thing and they're like, okay, we'll call
you back, You're like, oh my god, oh my gosh,
it's real. So it was really cool. So what does
the producer say to you when you get on Skype?
They're like, I'm Gabby. I am pretty sure. I think
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they're like saying your name and your age, and then
what are you gonna sing for us? And you tell
them what you're gonna saying? You sing and then they're like, yeah,
I did. I did have to sing on Skype. And
he was like, what do you do in these days? Um?
And I was like yes because I didn't feeling he
was gonna say. If he said that, then that means
he likes what he's hearing. So do you know who
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it was? Um? His name is Peter. Yes, So you
sing in front of Peter. Peter says, come to Nashville.
Did they buy your plane ticket or did you just
get like a kind of cut pass? Did they buy
my plane ticket? I can't even I can't remember that.
I don't know if I have been because I don't.
I don't deal with any I didn't deal with at
that time. So you fly down, do you cut the
line at all? Since they've already seen you. I was
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like the first one there. Um, I remember I got
to it was at the forgetting the name of the
country music call the Hall of Fame. Yeah, it was there.
It was there, and I was downstairs in a lobby
at six five, and I remember, Um, I was like
the first one there and then they all took us
upstairs and then one by one did the audition and
how to go for you? Did you feel like you
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knocked it out? Um? You know, you know, I mean
it didn't go the way that I thought it was
going to know? Um, why what what did you expect?
First of all, you expected to walk in a way? Um? Well,
I walked in and sang a country song because that
is mainly what I love to do, um as my
ma in genre. And they were kind of confused buy
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it um, because I did originally start in a gospel
choir R and B was originally my roots um, And
so they weren't very fond of the country at first.
And then so I actually got through with a gospel song,
gospel what do you sing? His Eyes on the Sparrow?
And then they said, okay, but you're a country artist.
Well actually saying, um, Carrie Underwood, Uh, good Girls and
(10:26):
Church Bells three songs. Yeah. I had to sing to
those two songs and they were like, do you have
anything that's not Carrie, and I was like, um, I
have Gertchen Wilson, redkneck woman who was like, don't like that.
I was like okay. And then we were only supposed
to have three songs prepared, so whatever they asked me
to do, it was on the like on the spot,
on the fly from there. And then they asked me
to do a church song and I was like, okay,
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that's the first one. I'm gonna do it because that
was my main song when I was in the church
singing when I was nine. So then you go back home, yeah,
and they say you get the Golden ticket or whatever.
They go to Hollywood, right, so it's gonna be but
a few weeks. A month before that was like a
couple of months. It was in October, and then Hollywood
Week was in January, so you had to wait that long.
Just excited the whole time, like every day they're going,
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I can't wait, I can't wait, I can't wait. Yeah.
I was coming up with like a blueprint in my
head if I'm to pass this, what I'm gonna do next,
the next, the next, instead of coming up with it
while I'm there. So I did Hollywood Week this year.
I started at the beginning of the season, right, yeah, I, um,
the Hollywood we kind of a grind. Oh yeah, that's
the toughest week. The overnight, the happening to get in
the groups. Even I was feeling bad for the kids. Um,
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you know, you know, you know, you just watching the TV.
It looks fun and it was so right. It still
was fun, but these kids were getting in groups and
fighting with each other and they were all sleep deprived. No,
it's a difficult week. I remember going through that week
and I was like, well, shoot, like this is hard.
I mean, but but it was fun too because I'm
a person that likes to challenge myself on literally everything.
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So something's a challenge to me, I'm like, let's go,
let's go. Um. And so that week is to except
rates a week from the strong honestly, who cracks and
who doesn't, and who's ready to go on with the
competition because the competition is not easy. It's not easy
at all, So um, whoever can outlast longest. So you
do the group, then you it's solo and group. You
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move on to the top twenty four. And then that's
where I came in and I guess I met you
for the first time. I remember what I don't. I'm
trying to think if I can remember what you were wearing.
I remember what I don't remember what I was wearing.
They just give me I want to picks out my
clothes and then I just put them on. Those producers
pepper you with so many questions all the time, like
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they just and they brought me in to not be
a producer, right, to be a human. You guys could
actually talk to anything. And I'd be like, well, I'm
a human too. I let me I understand this, But man,
I would want those producers and all, and they're all black.
You get behind the camera and they just like a
thousand questions you guys all the time. Yeah, they do,
they always, I mean, just to get every single possible
answer I guess out of us that they can, because
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sometimes it's hard to get answers out when you're excited
about something. What was your storyline? My storyline on American
I don't like, what were they highlighting about you? Because
everybody kind of has a story, right, Yeah, your dad
was there a lot because you're you're under age mine
or as they called him, and so your family was there. Yeah,
that was my main story. Um, I'm just extremely close
with my dad, one of eight. Um, I was always
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a daddy's girl growing up and so he you know,
even before American and I don't when I started when
I started singing at nine in the choir, and then
eleven I did my first show all the way up
to seventeen, and at seventeen years old before idle, I
did a hundred and thirties six shows that year alone.
So doing shows in the gospel choir or just playing yourself, no, myself.
So like I was with the gospel choir from nine
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to eleven, and then eleven I left the Gospel choir
and started doing shows, doing the anthem for the Pirate Steelers,
just different stuff all the way up. So it was
like a grind for six years. So you're saying the
anthem of the Pirates is pretty cool. Yeah, the Pirates steeling. Yes,
the Steelers will be a bigger thing. It's more concentrated
than one. Yeah, nerve wracking. You see the anthem And
it was the Hinesville Um, yeah it was Hinsfeld. No,
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because it was a bigger crowd. Because it's like bigger
you can't see like eyes on you. I just I
got more of adrenaline rush from that and rather than nerves.
You ever mess up? Um in general? No singing the
anthem No, thankfully not yet, hopefully not at all, but um,
I actually have to sing the anthem coming up soon
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in March sometimes for a basketball game. How old you
the first time you sang on a big stage? Um?
The first time I sang ever anthem twelve for the Pirates? Really,
were you freaked out at all? You know what? You know?
What freaked me out a little bit wasn't the people.
It was the delay of Mike in the stadium, because
you'll do this and then this comes over the top
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of you like a second later, a whole second, and
me being twelve years old, I just started never experienced
that before. I was like, what the heck? Um? But
I still like managed to get through it. Um. But
that was difficult because some stadiums give you ears that
you can turn up a pack and you don't hear that.
They didn't, so I was like, well, I gotta deal
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with this all right. What are you drinking over there?
What is that Starbucks? Well? Yeah, I know it's strawberry
ASA or a fresh start? Is that your drink? I
don't drink coffee. I don't like coffee. I'm not a
coffee When I was going to dance with the stars
that drink coffee, it a little bit because it was
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that's all they had and I was exhausted all the time.
But it was never good. Yeah it's bitter. Yeah, I'm
not a fan of that, but that I started drinking
too much sugar with that. But you're right teen who cares? Right?
My metabolicalism is very fast. I was in Chicago, I think,
and you're opening up for Chris Lane when I was
twenty Dances with Stars? Were you playing to Joe's? Uh?
Yeah I did? How's that going? Really good? Chris Lane's
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tour was absolutely amazing. He's amazing though, I mean, like
he I can't I can't say thank you to him
enough because he brought me under the tour with him
and was so unbelievably nice and still is like to
this day, we're friends down and it's it's just really
cool to see somebody help you up and pick you
up without looking for something in return, because it's very
hard to find, and this especially in this music industry.
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To find somebody that wants to help you without asking
for something in return. And he is one of those people.
And I know that. Um, you know, I'll be friends
with him for a long time. So he's great and
it went good. He told you to move to Nashville.
It's the only way to make it. He did not.
He did it all right. So you go and i'd
they're all whittling down. One goes down, one goes home,
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one goes home, one goes home. It's about the top
five or so. Did you feel like you were the favorite?
The favorite? Because I felt like you were the favorite,
I felt like, not the favorite of the people, but
I felt like you had the best shot to win,
and about the top five almost like I think you
got the best shot to win the show. Did you
feel that way? Um? I was confident. I wanted to win,
that's for sure. I knew since I got to that spot,
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I was like, all right, I'm gonna hit it even
harder like each time, especially as the numbers were bewindling down. So, um,
I was just really grateful, very thankful, And every time
the cuts came, I was just I had to be
accepting if I were to get eliminated, because I was
just very thankful to have made it that far already
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get to the final. Yeah, final show. There's three of
you left going into that show. Did you feel like,
all right, I can I can do this, I'm gonna
win this thing. Were you feeling confident? Um? Yes, what
the performances? Yes, but I could tell you right now
whenever me, Maddie and Caleb were standing there and Ryan
Seacrest said, UM, didn't like the second they said or
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he said Caleb's name. I knew for a fact I
was not getting through. Because them saying Caleb, I knew
something told me that Maddie was getting through. And when
they said Caleb, I freaking knew it. I was like,
no way I'm getting through. No way I'm getting through.
That's why I mean it was so I was. I
accepted the fact before they even said her name, because
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I just knew something you got tells you saw. But
I was okay with everything. What happens after idol is over?
The next day idols over? What do you do the
next day idols over? Um? We had to do a
bunch of press and interviews on the just the whole
competition in general, and how we took everything. Does it
suck to louse and have to go be interviewed? Are
you more so happy that of the experience? Like really
(18:25):
the next day, yeah, I was happy. Of course, you're
sad that you lost, because when you set yourself up
for something for so long. I mean this was months
upon months, um, that you worked, and you were so
busy every single second, so focused on something. So of
course it sucks that you lose, because everybody you know
once that winning spot. Um. But I again, I accepted
the fact that it's okay, and that was all part
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of the plan for me. So um. And I'm really
glad that Klea and Maddie you know, got first and
second place. They absolutely deserve it. They're amazing, amazing singers,
amazing people, so you know, and especially as the numbers
doing go down, as you said, um, you get really
close to people and it's not even almost a competition anymore.
It's you're happy to see if somebody succeeds whatever. I
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wouldn't be listen. There were four but Dance with the
Stars and I was like, I better win this freaking thing.
I didn't think I was going to, but I didn't
give a crap? Are you close with any of the
other Yeah, I liked everybody, but when it's time to compete,
when it's not to compete, it's well, I like Milo
and I, Um we're as close as we could because
Milo is your age. Um, but he was really good.
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Um Ivana from Harry Potter with her and I got
closer to the end. But Alexis R and I weren't
that close. Um so but really, who cares who I
was competing? Who gives a crap out the other people?
Like all week long we were cool and Milan I
were super cool. But but then when it's the game
time one, I don't want to lose, and if I lose,
I'm gonna want to eat my kidney. I would be
still so. But um, they're good for you. You're more
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mature than I am. Apparently, Oh no, thank you. I'm
I hate losing. I have a problem losing. Um, if
you already complex, don't worry one day. One day you'll
have to go to therapist and it all come out. Yeah,
it all come out. You're still young. Wait for don manifest. Okay,
just come back. So you go home? When do you
go home? How many days after Idols over. Um Idol
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ended one of May. That was when the finale was
twenty second. We did all the press the next day
after that we went back. So what's it like when
you go home? It's weird. I mean, it's so weird
because you're so used again being in this like this
different world. Literally, Idol is a different world. It's it's
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a flip. It's a flip of what your life has been. Um,
You're constantly working, constantly emotional, like it's insane. So going
home and like you already know the answers to everything
when with Idol like that you were curious about the
entire time. It's like so weird. But then we had
to prep for the Idol tour. Oh then you had
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to go to tour. Yeah. Yeah, so it wasn't all
the way over because the show was over, but then
you had more work to do for Idol. Yeah. They
pay you guys, good decent, decent enough to you It
was cool, I guess. Yeah, Like when I did Dance
with the Star Store, they paid me like thousand bucks
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to night. I think it's what it was. Really you
guys weren't that much a thousand but oh heck it
was ten tho dollars a week and sho if you
did a full week, Oh my gosh, I think that's
a lot or something like that. Well, yeah, but I
only I only did one week. I mean, I don't
know if that's a lot, like like four days, but
I just wanted it with an idol tour like that. No,
(21:34):
it wasn't. I don't know. I have no idea. I
don't know if no, no, it wasn't. Um, yeah, no,
I'm not an expert on the whole money thing, but
I know that it wasn't like ten thousand dollars. I didn't.
I'm just being like some people. I don't get that.
I don't think I made as much as the dancer
the pro dancers. Yeah, I think because we were working
(21:56):
in shorts short but I'd still take that. Well yeah,
and that's and I did it that I didn't have
to tour. But I was like, yeah, absolutely, pook it
up right. Okay, so you go, did you save your money?
Did I save it from the tour? Um all that jacket? No,
you know what I had to do. You have to pay.
This is a whole thing with the music industry. You
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have to pay towards all of your music stuff because
this is very expensive. So on a tour you have
to put money down on a tour for and that's
what I did. So yeah, I did save it from
the audit tour and then I ended up putting it
on the next tour that I went on right after
the American audit tour was over. Now did you make
money back on that tour? Um? I think so? Yeah. Marchandise, ye,
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you start. You need to start figuring this stuff out.
You got a business have a business manager? Yet? Yes?
I do? All right, you have a good one. Yeah,
because that that for me was tough. I don't understand
the business manager stuff. Now I do because I like
to understand everything. Yeah, I'm not gonna you have a manager?
Do I have a manager? Yeah? Sitting right there all right,
just making sure you're sitting across the room. Do you
know the percentage? They he gets? Um? No, I feel
(23:05):
like I don't know it. But I don't know. Spit
it out. What do you think it is? I don't know?
Is it like five, ten fift? What is that? If
it's five? We need to talk because I need I
need to redo my deal. I can't if you're quising
me on all this math and I failed geometry my school.
This isn't. This isn't. I have people that handle that
I can't. Don't. First of all, never be that person.
But it's my dad, So I can trust my dad absolutely.
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Well sometimes no, Yeah, there's been a lot of stories
about dad's Okay, well not my dad. And here's my
advice to you. Ready, I'm gonna continue my mentor show
because I'm listen. I'm in the business too, right in
your full you're like full time on this season, right, yeah,
just top twenty. I'm talking about music again. You just
you don't have to know everything's coming in and out
when you're so busy, right, you have people to do that,
but you need to know what percentages you're paying people. Okay,
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I'll pay attention to it more, just even in your phone,
like you don't know, Okay, goes to my manager. I
don't know what yours is. What yours is? Yeah, goes
to the agent. I don't know what you're this, but
that's mine. Okay, you know five percent goes to you
a business manager. Okay, so I think that's I know
that one. Yeah. It sucks because all your money is
gone making you make a dollar and you know forty cents.
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But the good news is is that they're worth more
than that forty cents, so it's actually a really good investment.
But you just need to know that stuff. Just someone
with someone asks you what do you pay your manager?
That you don't look like a du fist because I
used to be the dupist, because like, what do you
pay a manager? I don't know one? Dang? All right,
that's note number two. Alright, two things we've learned before. One,
you have to move to Nashville to make it too.
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You need to know your percentages my others only ever
one I've done when I'm like tutoring the persident during it. Okay,
back to you. So you decide what do you decide
your home? And you're like, I think I want to
make a run in music, like in country music, or
do you go I don't want to try to go
to college? Like what what's the now? Of course it's
(24:50):
a terrible idea. No, I knew that. I knew I
wasn't going to college before I did American Idol because
me and my dad had talked about that. I told him,
I said, this is Plan A and Plan B. What
was planning and Plane B? To make it in music? Okay?
And just this was it. This is what I wanted
to do for the rest of my life. Um. And
so even after American, I knew already what who I
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wanted to be like as an artist. That was something
that even but going through American I will definitely reassured
me of that, which is country. Um. I always tell
people I wanted to be the Whitney Houston old country music.
So and that's what I do want to be. So
we'll say what happens. How many labels have be saying
in front of labels? Um? Probably i'd say like five
(25:37):
or six. Have you had some bad, bad ones where
you go, oh, that one didn't go so well, not
that I recall, thankfully. Have you had some better than
others where you're like, oh, for sure they want me
to sign with them. Yeah, it depends. I mean, it
also depends on the person's mood of the day. Like
they could be having a bad day and it you
know they're not in a good mood. So it just
depends on the day. Are you recording music right now? Yes? Really, yes,
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I've been working so hard on music since I year
since right after I got off the Chris Lane tour. Well,
actually in between the American Idol tour. UM, I talked
to Carrie Under on the phone. I called her because
she after American Idol. Um. I'm just saying, oh, please
your context in your phone. After American Idol, she reached
(26:22):
out to me and said, you know, like if you
need any help with anything or I'm here for you.
She gave me a number. I called her. UM. We
talked a few times and I just asked her. I
was like, what did you do after American Idol to
keep your my lad I'm going. She was like, I
would just constantly work. Um, Like while I was on
the American Idol tour, I would constantly work. And I said, Okay,
that's what I'm gonna do. Um. So during the American
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Audoit tour, we would have like four shows, five shows
in a row, show show, show, show show. We have
one day off. I would fly here, record and write,
fly back the next day and do the show. So
I mean like any day that I have off, I'm
doing something always music that's good. I like that about
you think that's something you really can't teach at work
ethic and if you were doing that, that's good because
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you d taking the day off and just chilled. Yeah,
but there's I think of it as like how many
people want the same thing, you know, and what separates
you from other people? Though? Listen, this is what you're
coming into a Nashville. Everybody's really freaking good. Everybody is
really good. What separates you is the amount of work
you put into it. It's like the NFL. The the
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line between super athletic and super super atalytic is so thin.
It's the people who put in the work. But that's good.
I didn't know you were doing that. I commend to
you get you get a ribbon after this is over
for all right for doing that. The song here? Uh,
I hope you wrote with John Knight. That's how did
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you get that? Right? Um? Through a great mansion Okay,
because I was like, damn, look at that. You're already
writing with like cool big songwriters. Yeah, they're really They're
really cool. I've gotten to write with a few co ones.
You wrote the song with the Zachary Ellen, John Night.
I'm gonna play a little bit of I Hope Here
we Go. Produced by Ross Cooperman yeah, whoo, who come on,
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I can't even get these people in the room with me.
You come to Tally work with the biggest and the
best already, I'm very blessed. Yeah, So what do you
what's the light getting in room with those guys? What
do you do in the writing room? You walk in,
You're like, hey, I'm David Barrett. Yeah, um yeah, I
just make sure like everybody's comfortable. I feel like that's
such an important thing because when you're uncomfortable and like,
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I don't know, if things just don't click very well
and you don't connect and you don't come up necessarily
with a good song, and they're the best song that
you come up with. So anytime I get into a room,
I just want to keep writing songs that could blow up. Um.
And so we got in that room with John Knight
and Zach Kale love them both. Um. We got in
the room at day It was on Halloween, um of
last year, and we got on the room. We were
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trying to figure out what we're going to write about.
And I was like, let's write a relationship song. They're like, okay,
let's start a song about a guy and a girl.
You know, they don't work out, but the girl still
kind of wishes him well. And I was like, that
is not how girls thing towards, Like when a guy
does this wrong, we don't go you know, I wish
you will. We're like, I hope everything bad happens to you.
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I hope you get cheated on literally the worst thing.
I know it sounds rough, but that's how girls are.
When you do us wrong, that's why you don't do
it's wrong. So I wanted to write a song that
was like, that was the song that females never got
to say to that person, so that when they hear it,
they can dedicate it to that that type of person.
Um words that you know they never got to say,
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but they really did feel. M it's pretty cool he
switched up like that. Yeah, I get you all better,
all better that that happened to you. Uh. Yeah, I've
been in a bed relationship before, so I understand and
can relate to girls that have to Who else have
you written with school? I've written the list them. I'll
give me a couple though, Um David Garcia, Josh Miller, UM, uh,
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Zach Kale, John Knight, Ross Copperman, Um, Josh ker Oh yeah,
that's like heavy hitters. Man. Your people must think you're
pretty good. If they're getting in right with you, that's
a good thank you. That is a good thing. So okay,
so you're here today, Yes, then what happens? Did you
play tomorrow? Do you go back home for like eight
months then come back for another day or what? Go
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home for eight months? Come on now now? Um? No tomorrow,
I um, I'm trying to think of my um. Tomorrow,
I have a writing session actually with Zach Kale and
two others from eleven three, and then I have to
record demos on another song that I did. Do you
get a lot of work done while you're here? Absolutely stacked?
Schedule your dad here? Yeah? Yeah, even though you're eighteen,
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he's here. Yeah, because you can't like, he doesn't want
to leave me by myself. You can have one a
girl and an eighteen year old girl wondering around. Yeah,
but if you had a daughter that was a teen,
would you want to buy yourself down here? Oh? I
mean I'd like a girlfriend much like a daughter. All Right,
I'm saying. If I'm saying, if I think if she
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was like, I'm gonna go pursue something in college. Same
thing if you went to college, he's not with you.
I remember having this conversation with you while we're on idol. Yeah,
I was like, eventually you got to cut the court.
Remember that conversation. Yeah, okay, you don't have to do anything.
I know, but he's just he's very loyal to me,
and so I believe that I'm supposed to be loyal
back towards him. I like him. He's a good dude.
He's great. I like hanging out with him. What do
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you think about all this? Um, he's loving watching it.
I mean he's been a part of it with me
since I was just started. He's the reason why I
even I am where I am, honestly, because he's just
been my rock and my sports system through it all.
He's the one that's given money to get me two shows.
He's the one that's given his time. He's the one
that's not everything. So I wouldn't be here without him,
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and he is really my main support system. So he's
just enjoying everything. I just give you a hard time
cause I like it. You know that, right? That's sweet? Thanks? Thanks?
Love hate relationships, No, there's no hate, there's no Are
you still dating the long hair dude? Yeah, Kate, where
does he live? Texas? Still? Did you guy see each
other ever? Yeah? I just saw him not that long ago.
(32:22):
You ever come to town? Um? Yeah, we actually come
quite often together and we do our own stuff. Did
your dad go on your dates with you? Good for that?
How's that going you guys? Good? It's really good coming
up on a year. So yeah, yep. And Ryan Seacrest
out at us for everybody, we were the first American
(32:42):
Idol couple. Actually, some people think like, oh, Manne Caleb
were the first, but okay, we're the first. Okay, So
how did that happen? You go on the show, You
keep it quiet from the producers at first that you
guys kind of like each other. Yes, and then the
producers literally just ask you every possible question they can
and scan at what's been going on, and then told
I guess they told Ryan Secrest and he outed it
because I had no idea when he performed, and they like,
(33:05):
he did the whole reveal of everything. I was backstage like,
oh no, oh, you didn't know it's coming. No. Because
we separated relationship from business, we were like, we're not
gonna We're not gonna put this on the television because
we came here to win the competition. We didn't come
to have the Bachelorette on UM, so because we knew
you know, we knew of Maddie and Caleb too, so
(33:27):
we'd always like go out together. So it was just
funny how everything unwanted though, and you try to keep
a secret? Did I try? Everybody tries? Right? Of course,
you keep it on the d L. It's it's crazy
the minors they call them on American Idol. You guys
had your own schedule. Yeah, you had to go first
because you couldn't do you can do the long hours, right.
That would be pretty cool to be like seventeen and
a half and do Idol and not eighteen, right because
(33:48):
you get all the preferential treatment. Yeah, it was interesting
you know now that yeah, you're pointing that out. I
mean in the beginning, because I turned eighteen while on
the show, So from the beginning, Yeah, during all the
hard parts where people had to like stay super duper long,
I got to go back. UM. But then like on
the right timing, I turned eighteen, So it's like it
(34:09):
all worked. It was really cool. Did you get nervous?
On the live shows. Yeah. Yeah, I mean I when
I first started, like, I was very fortunate not to
get nerves around anybody that I said. But American Ido
absolutely was definitely a challenge because it's like you have
so many people telling you, like, look at the camera,
look at this, pay attention to this, do this, do this,
(34:29):
do this, and there's a camera with a red dot.
When you see the red dot come up, there's sixty
million people watching you. Don't mess up. There's three celebrities
that you didn't even think we're human beings also watching
you and critiquing what you're doing. Don't mess up. It's like, yeah,
so it's kind of hard. And then once you get
yourself into that mode, it is so hard to get
out of. It's like an avalanche, Like it's a snowball.
Don't get nervous, unkt and nervous, you get more nervous.
(34:50):
So it was a challenge. I had to keep going
back and forth with myself. Do you watch your social
media the whole time? Did I watch my social media? Yeah?
It was crazy to see everything to wat Yeah, it
was awesome, and it's really nice that they stuck with me. Yeah,
even after American Idol. It's really really nice, like with
I hope seeing that, you know, just from a straight
fan base. It's shot to fourteen on iTunes. Was crazy
(35:13):
to me, didn't that means? That just showed me like
while these people are really sticking with me even after
American Idol, which means a lot. So they're probably all listening. Now, Hey,
what do you want to say to them? I love
you guys so much. You have no idea. Thank you
so much to everybody the supported me because you have
no idea what it means to me, and I wouldn't
be here without you. It's really all about you guys. Um,
(35:34):
anytime I perform, it's about everybody else, not yourself. So um,
just thank you so much and we're gonna do it together.
Keep climbing. What are our garden in two years? That's
what you used to say. That's why you would say
that you moved we chalked to here because it was
three But now it's two thousand nineteen, so it's too Yeah,
you would say I'm gonna play Madson Square garden went
headline in three years? Yeah you have two years now?
(35:57):
Tis that's the goal? Ye? What is it? Goal? What
do you want to do. Like, if we're back here
at my house in a year and we're in front
of where the microphones? Where do you want to be?
Where do I want to be? Um? I want too.
I think it would be so cool to be my ear.
I have an earring. You have an ear ring or
your ache. I have an ear ring. Hearing in and
(36:17):
it's like pressing against earring. But it's okay, It's okay,
beauty Spain, um and Okay. Next year, I would like
to be nominated for um a CMA Award. Yeah, I
think that would be really really cool. That would be
really cool. I'd like to be nominated for CMA Awards.
I think that's really cool. That's a goal of mine
(36:38):
for sure. With that's why I'm trying to make the
best of best songs. You know what you don't like
about you? You have no shortness. There's no short of
confidence with you, which you have to have. You have
to you have to have so much confidence to be
here all the time. You have to be so sure
of yourself. Yeah, and then your goals are super high,
which is great, and people may look at you and go, gab,
you're crazy. But the crazy ones are the ones that
(36:59):
are just crazy enough to make it. Yeah, because I'm nuts.
I've always been told all your nut your goals, you
need to big. Yeah. You know, if you don't have
goals for yourself, nobody else will go bigger go home. No,
don't go home, but you gotta go big, go big.
I mean, if you're not going big, what's what are
you doing? Well? You learn when it doesn't go right
and you keep going big. Don't go home. Okay, don't
(37:21):
pack up your crab and go home. I mean unless
you're living in Nashville and then go back. Okay, all right, listen,
it's been good to see you. We did how long?
Half hour? Did half? Half an hour? Interview? How you
feel about it? Good? I haven't seen you know what
I've seen you since the finale, you know. I just
said that to my manager coming in. I was like,
how's it your door? And I was like, oh my gosh,
(37:43):
I would seen it. Is this a weird and idle?
This is so weird? So I'm growing so much. I'm
a lot taller. Yeah, you look a lot different. I
was under my house, but before you got to want
to catch a cat. Cat that was under my house
and I was crawling in the crawl space and I
got I got it out he did. Yeah, I'm scared. Yeah,
it out right up the other side of the outside.
I know, you think, well, fancy Bobby. No, you know
(38:04):
who gets his own cat front of the house. Me.
There was no Butler that does that? I do that. Yeah,
there's no Butler. No, No, Mikey is the closest thing yet. Listen,
it's good to see at Gabby Barrett underscore, right, g
A B B Y B A r R E T
T underscore underscore? Why the underscore to someone already have
(38:24):
Gabby Barrett and you can't buy it from them? Did
you try? Now? I tried. They won't sell me Bobby bones.
Why don't you try to buy Gaett. I'm gonna look
into it. I have never tried that yet. So we'll
say all the money you got from the Idol tour.
Yeah yeah, But does an underscore really make like a
huge difference? Well, yeah, it's just easier to go at
Gabby Barrett than the underscore. Let's right after it. All right,
(38:44):
I've had enough of you. Alright, I'm just kidding. In
a year, come back, we'll talk about your A or
a c M nomination. All right, it sounds like, let's
see you by the way you have you know, I
forgot to bring up you have seven brothers and sisters, right, yes,
because you brought like half of them to my show. Yes, yeah,
And I was like, yeah, yeah, like look at all
these kids absolutely folks. Yeah, because I was I'm a
(39:05):
big fan of you, so I was like, you guys
have to come. We all are big fans of you.
We all would listen to you. So it was really
cool and it's really cool to being back here. So
thank you very much. Yeah, all right, Gabby Barrett, there
we go. We'll see you soon. Alright, I check out,
I hope, and you're gonna put other music out. I'm
assuming yes, this new music coming, Arry is not your
last song ever, saying within the next few weeks you'll
(39:25):
hear a new song. All right. There we go, GABARTT
everybody EISOD one, sixt
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Bobby Bones
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