October 25, 2023 • 27 mins
Tanner Adell (@TannerAdell) sits down with Brooke Taylor (@BrookeRadio) to talk about her viral song Buckle Bunny. She opens up about the exact moment her brother led her to fall in love with music.. why her college professor told her to quit college.. her obsession with Beyonce and Taco Bell.. oh, and when her debut album comes out! 🤐
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Are you ready to rock and realclean? Let's do it. I'm so
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excited to finally meet you, y'all. Let me just play this really quick
that day. Welcome to the backstagewith Brook. You're all access passed to
music city where nothing is off limits. Grab a drink. Let's go backstage,
y'all. Tanda Adell is here,come on, come on money.
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Can I just say before we startanything, you literally are doing what nobody
else is doing and I love it. Thank you. It is seriously the
best. Thank you. I appreciatethat. I was like, I'm sure
everybody tells you about how like you'rejust bringing something else to the table that
nobody is in country music. Andlisten, like I always say, like
I love Jesus, I cuss alittle bit, and I'm a little hood
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right, so it's we need alittle bit of that, you know what
I mean. So I just loveit. But first and foremost, I
just wanted to say that. Butsecondly, I'm so excited to finally meet
you because I feel like I've beenin talks to like do this podcast.
We had to schedule once because mydaughter really six, Oh my god,
thank you for me. So I'mreally excited to read here. So yeah,
all right, perfect, Well,I want to before we dive into
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the mixtape and everything that's going onin your life right now, I want
to start like day one, Tanner, when you fell in love with music
and when you decided this, thisis my dream, this is what I
want to do for a living.I was so young, I think the
first time that I can really rememberlistening to a song and it like moving
me, I was this is likeone of my earliest memories too. I
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had to have been like four orfive years old, and all my siblings
are put in piano like pretty early. But my brother had a piano in
his room down the hall and hewas playing something and I sat up in
bed. I was so so little, sat up in bed and just started
bawling my eyes out and just feltlike so touched. Yeah, and that
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was I think, just I've alwaysloved music and it was always just going
to be that easy for me.I'm kind of a cry baby, and
so there are yeah like I willif songs like move me, I will
cry. And I think that's sucha special gift to have too, because
I always say that, like ifI'm going to a concert, I'm gonna
cry at some point in the show. It doesn't matter who's playing, what
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kind of music it is. Thereis one point in this show where it's
like touching me in my core andI'm just like, okay, I'm gonna
cry really quick and then be donewith it. Yes, it's like just
the fact that someone's doing it.Yeah, because it's just my brother,
you know what I mean. AndI'm like, I don't even like you,
and you don't even like me,but like you know, yeah,
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even just to someone's connection to musicis always very beautiful and inspiring to me.
I love all kinds of music,and I just love artists in general.
Have you told him that story?Like does he know? No?
No, No, I'm gonna keepthat one to well, to myself and
to you. Yeah, no,everybody knows. No. Such a sweet
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moment too, because it's such alike I feel like a pure thing.
Because my daughter, she's two,and we were talking about her a little
bit ago, but she will likewatch movies like right now. She loves
sing too, that's like her thing. And at the very end, like
when Skyfall's Stars starts playing at theend, he's like on the piano,
she like drops everything and just staresat the screen and like there are certain
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parts in the song where she'll liketear up a little bit and like she
can understand the emotion and what's happeningwith like the fight scene. It's right,
and it's so cool to see sucha young mind. So I can
only imagine what it was like foryou, like in bed so young and
just being like what is that?I don't know it? Yes, oh
my gosh. No. I Firstof all, sing and sing too are
the fantastic. I will say,I like I rarely watch even like PG
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thirteen and above. Yeah, I'mlike very in the pgs and the g's
so like sing especially, that's agreat example of something that is like this
fun and cute movie, but likeno, I'm literally yeah, like at
the very end when he comes outand like his wife is like right next
to him at that area. Yes, you know why am I crying?
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It's crazy? What what music reallycan do to you? Yes? And
I love that. Yeah. Sofast forward to after you, you know,
decide music or you fell in lovewith music, so when you were
like, Okay, I'm gonna tryto make music, like I want to
do my own thing. Yeah.I mean I've always wanted to. It's
always been my dream, especially asa teenager. And then really two years
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ago when I moved to Nashville waswhen I made the choice to completely pursue
music. I went to school atUtah Valley University only for a couple of
years. I didn't graduate, andmy voice coach was like, why are
you here? Yeah, she's like, you need to choose. She's like,
you need to choose La. Youneed to choose, Like you need
to choose Nashville. You need tochoose, and you need to get out
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of here because I don't know whyyou're in school doing this. You need
to just be out there doing it. And that was when I was like
okay, like I'm I'm going Andyeah, I got hooked up with someone
who I knew a few years previouswho was living here, and he was
like, you should just come outand like write, see if you like
it. And there was something thatjust hit me and I just knew I
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was supposed to live here and behere and this is what I was supposed
to do. And I had neverbeen to Nashville before. I packed up
everything, sold everything that I couldso that I had a little bit of
money to come here and moved inlike a week, and you just did
it. I called my parents,I'm like, I'm moving to Nashville,
and they were like, okay,okay, I'm kind of the furthest out
from my parents and kind of theonly kid that went for something big.
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Yeah, like just I guess likemusic is mainstream, but like something that's
not like a mainstream job. Youknow. I'm sure that scared my parents
a little bit. But there aremy biggest fans and they've been to so
many of my shows this year,and every time they're just I'm so proud
of you, proud of you forfollowing your dreams. And they've always been
so supportive. So it was aneasy choice to just be like, well
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I'm going to Nashville. Yeah.Well, and I saw a quote actually
today that kind of like aligns withwhat you just said. It was the
same. I think it said somethinglike your dreams don't have an expiration date,
just get up and try again.I love that, And it's just
like so many people, I feellike they bury these like huge dreams that
they have and they're like, wellit's not the right time or oh,
I'll ever be ready And it's justlike, dude, get back up and
try again and go because if youwould have never moved to Nashville, you
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wouldn't have known the impact that you'rehaving right now, but are going to
have as well, like not justin country music, but I feel like
there's going to be some sort oflike crossover situation like there just has it
had. There has to be likeLuke Holmbs being played on you know,
he's got Fastcar on country radio andon pop radio. So I think that
it's so cool how I feel likegenres are very like much merging right now.
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And I think that, I meanliterally, like there's no better person
than Tanner Adell to like do bothand that's so sweet. Thank you.
Okay, So I want to go. I want to go there with you
and your family when you release asong like this, like what is a
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buckle bunny or are they like?Okay, you know my so my mom
growing up, she showed horses anddid a lot of rodeo stuff, so
she's kind of on the opposite sideof like what a buckle bunny is,
but she finds it hilarious. Andyou know, I always tend to write
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pretty like witty things nothing. Idon't take life too seriously and my writing
is the same. And one ofmy favorite songs is dumb Blonde by Dolly
Parton, and not a lot ofpeople know it was an outside cut.
It was a song that broke herand it's a witty take on you know,
people call women who are blonde thedumb blonde, and she they took
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it and they flipped it, andthat was literally the song that broke her.
So I always go back to thatwhen people are like, oh,
the buckle bunny and do you evenknow what that means? And I'm like,
like, I wrote the song,but I feel like people also too.
It's like, yes, it's it'squite literally what a buckle bunny is,
right, But it's also like whatpeople perceive someone as when they don't
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know who they are exact and likewhat they look like, they're wearing too
much makeup or they're not supposed tobe here, like that kind of thing.
And I think people quite literally missthe fact that, like you said,
it is very lighthearted, Yeah,yeah, entirely, it's just a
new it's a spin on it,yeah, and it's fun. Like people
nowadays, I feel like just takeeverything too serious. Yes, So the
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fact that you can like put somethingout that one is a bop, Like,
it's so fun to listen to,but also it's just kind of like
poking fun at like, yeah,okay, you think that's what I am.
Cool, then I'll just call myselfup exactly exactly. I call it
fun try Yes, fun try Waitwhat that's amazing? Yeah, country music.
This is the new fun country.Your country. I'm so into that.
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I love that so much. Ohmy gosh. Okay, So when
you're deciding how you want to soundas a musician, you know, moving
to Nashville. You're from California,right, and Star Valley Wyom, Wyoming.
Okay, So when you're kind ofmerging the two and deciding how you
know, Tanner Adele is going tolike make her mark in the world,
and what you want to sound like, did you have a like were you
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scared at any point where you're like, I'm not sure. I don't want
to be the you know, youwant to be your own person. You
don't want to sound like another artist. But how did you decide that's where
you wanted to go? You know, I think I tried to suppress my
duality for a while and really triedto stick to one side of myself,
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and then I would go all theway to the other end of the spectrum
and write like I was this sideof myself. But at the heart of
it all, I've always been mixed, even my ethnicity. I am mixed
and so growing up in Los Angelesthat's half of my life. Growing up
in Star Valley that's the other halfof my life. And once I stopped
trying to separate the and decide whichone I wanted to be, was when
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I feel like I became my trueauthentic self, which is both, which
is so hard for people to likewrap their minds around, like this isn't
country. It sounds like pop,and I'm like, it's it's pop country,
like it is a genre of music, like it is both, and
I I don't know. As afemale artist, I'm hoping that it can
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inspire other people to come along andyou know, make country music the way
that they feel like they want tomake it. And I'm excited to see
over the next few years, whatyou know, if I can open some
doors well, and I always bringit back to like Garth Brooks, right,
he did the whole Chris Gaines thing, you know, and it's just
like Garth is as country as theycome, and then he comes out and
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it's like this alter ego and it'sjust like there's no real label on what
music is supposed to sound like,right, and it's just like, yes,
back in the day, it soundeddifferent because there was different technology now
that can make mus sound different.And it's about like opening your ears and
really just like like I said,don't take things too seriously, Like exactly,
music is supposed to be fun andlike freeing, not something for you
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to criticize. If you don't likeit, then turn the channel or turn
it out, you know what.I ya, go listen to something you
do like it's okay, And Ilove how you've kind of taken and I
know being you know, doing thingsindependently is like, I mean, a
grind first and foremost, but likethe following that you've built and doing social
media and just kind of being sowell received online. Obviously there's the haters,
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there's always going to be so asa couple, but being knowing that
you're finding that success because obviously you'redoing something right, right, is that
intimidating to you, or how doyou react when things like that, like
your first video goes viral and you'relike, what is this? Right?
Yeah? I mean, you know, I think I struggled with a little
bit of like imposter syndrome for alittle while. I don't think that's that
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uncommon for women in general, whenwe start seeing success after we've put in
so much work, and you startgetting to the point where it's like,
Okay, well who am I?Do? I deserve this? Like what
am I doing? But besides that, I think the amount of positive energy
and messages that I receive posts Idon't post all of them because it would
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literally take up My entire story wouldjust be filled with hundreds of them.
The amount of happiness that I've seencome out of this, and girls that
come to me and say I wasalways embarrassed to listen to country music,
or people made fun of me forlistening to country music, and you've made
it cool for me to listen tois like cherry on top of everything.
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I don't take any of that forgranted. Yeah, And it's so crazy
how people really there is that weirdstigma with country music because I remember growing
up and it was just like normal. Right. My husband grew up in
like Chicago, Southside Chicago, andhe would listen to country music or like
air Church and people are like,what is that? You know what I
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mean? And there really is thatlike discann of like what is cool and
what's not. But it's like likewe said earlier, music is meant to
be something that brings you joy ormakes you, like evoke some emotion out
of you. So if you don'tlike it, just change it. Yeah,
super easy. When you were growingup, what were some of the
like major artists that you listened to, like people who inspired your like influences
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and your career. Yes, likebefore being a teenager or during being a
teenager. Okay, all of it. I mean I started. My dad
really introduced me to like jazz music. So whenever he drove me to like
an orthodontists appointment or to school orsomething, uh, it was always jazz
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music. So I love nat KingCole and Natalie Cole. He introduced me
to Ella Fitzgerald very early on inmy life. Who I think for me
as far as how I sing,I think influences a lot of stylistically the
vocals that I do. If youlisten to el Fitzgerald, she was kind
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of the mother of like riffing vocally, like she made that mainstream and so
a lot of those little inflections Ithink definitely come from being raised on her.
And then when I was a teenager, like, don't ask me why,
but Casha like spoke so hard tome. I absolutely love her.
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I was able to go see herlive at Love Loud in Utah and she
was just fantastic always. I thinkit was like my revel face and I'm
like, yeah, you're like abottle of jack exactly exactly, exactly like
hiding wine in my room and seventeenyear old I Beyonce's obviously a huge inspiration
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for me. I don't try totake anything sonically or even like image wise.
We're very different as like two peopleand two artists. But the level
that she has been able to getto and the work that she has put
in that is the kind of artistthat I aspire to be. Yah working
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tirelessly and hours and hours and hoursto get to the point where she is
now. I saw I saw herin La just a couple of weeks ago,
and I was so like struck.It was my first Beyonce live concert,
and I was struck in awe byher and the amount of times that
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she said thank you and how gratefulshe was to even be here. And
she said, she was like thistonight we are celebrating thirty years of music.
It took thirty years to get tothis point, Like thank you for
all of that, but like tonightwe're gonna rock. But I was the
amount of times that she expressed gratitude. I was like, and I'm gonna
remember that well, and that's that'sjust it. Like I feel like a
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lot of artists do take that forgranted, where it's like you really get
caught up in the monotony of everynight I get to do a show,
people are here to see me.I'm on stage, like you're on this
pedestal, and to really humble yourselfand break it down being like I literally
would not be this without you.I think that's so huge. It was
so cool. It was just soit was very cool. She's so cool.
Well, I remember my first Beyonceconcert. I lived out in LA
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and we saw her at the RoseBowl and like, I was a Beyonce
fan, but I was not likea Beyonce, like, I'm gonna buys
to your show. My friend waslike a huge Beyonce fan. She said,
will you come with me? AndI remember sitting in the crowd and
like jaw on the floor, Likethis woman is a performer, she's a
vocalist, she's she's just a badass. So yes, first Beyonce experience,
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bawling my eyes out when she cameout of the stage. The first thing
she said was Los Angeles, andYou're like, okay, that's it.
I'm screaming, oh, balling myeyes out and she starts with dangerously in
Love. She's coming out of thefloor, and I was just like this
is and the fact that her daughtergets to perform, Oh my gosh,
and she looks so good up there. I can't Oh, she's amazing.
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Dreams literal dreams, like having yourkid be afraid of something that you've built,
Like I can't even imagine her beingon stage as a mother, just
like the gratitude, but like alsothe like proudness that yes, feel like
yeah, my kid, but alsothis yes, like I don't know how
she's not crying out there. I'msure if she has before, but man,
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I don't know how she doesn't justget super emotional on stage. Man,
Okay, so I want to kindof pivot a little bit because I
feel like you do have this likereal edgy side, but you do like
kind of like you said, you'reCalifornia Wyoming, two complete opposite spectrums of
like living right. And then youput out songs like this one. But
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every time I saying my country heartsto the girl in a cons like there
are country roots in your bones,like you can feel it, you can
hear it, you can feel it. And then putting out a song like
this, I mean it reminds meof like Taylor Swift, Tim McGraw and
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like really just like paying homage tothose roots or like even people in the
industry that you look up to orlike you know, but this song specifically,
I don't know what it was,but it was like one of those
songs you hear for the first timeand like you just like tear up a
little bit, you get like chills. You're like this is such a beautiful
message and it's just such a beautifulsong, and like your voice is unreal,
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like you're you're your professor and youalways now you are meant to do
this. But when you're putting togethera song like that, I mean the
lyrics in general, like everything isjust so beautifully put together. Were you
like writing it and you're like,this is it? This is it?
Ah, this is genius. Thisis so good. No really, Yeah.
So the funnily enough, the waythat that song kind of like came
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together. It had the idea fora little while, and I wrote it
with Derek Sutherland he did more Heartsthan Mine, Yeah, with Ingrid and
even Climbs, my producer for that, and we had gone through it's probably
like three hours into our writing sessiontrying to figure out how to write this
idea, and I mean we hada billion different melodies and lyrics and all
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these things, and Derek finally justhanded me the guitar and he was like,
I just want you to pretend likeyou're in your room and you're writing
this, and like whatever comes outof you, that's what we're going to
go with. And so I startedwith that riff going down on guitar and
I think trying to remember, likethe first lyric that was written might have
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been a chorus lyric and it wasprobably the tagline of the Tubi com song
and from that point then it tooklike an hour and then it just like
flowed out. There was a wholeversion that was entirely produced, with a
bunch of different in truments and afull track, and my A and R
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said, I want to hear anacoustic, like I just tried it acoustic
and I want to see and wedid it acoustic, and it was just
obvious it didn't need thinking about it. I don't even know why I'm chill
sinking. It's just like it didn'tneed everything good. Yeah, and I
feel like it's so rare too.Maybe not rare, but it's just like
it comes so few and far between, like being in this business and like
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listening to music where I'm just like, that is such a special song.
And I heard that song for thefirst time and I was just like girl,
and it's like, you know,it's like one of those songs you
put on repeat and like I can'tsing, but when I hear that song,
I pretend like I can sing.You know. I love that.
So shout out to you for reallyevoking some sort of you know, emotion
out of not just me, butI know that so many of your of
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your fans love that song too.Yes, it's doing so well. It's
been like four or five days andthe streams are through the roof. The
got added to a hundreds and hundredsof playlists. It's yeah, it's nuts.
Yeah, yeah. What is yourgoal on? Like you're so you
have a vision board sitting in frontof you. What is something on there
that, like you tangibly can see. You're like, okay, I think
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I can do that. Next releasingan album, yeah yeah soon soon,
yeah, next year soon yeah yeah, top top half of next year.
I'm not gonna say too much,but I mean as an artist, even
just as a kid, like analbum is everything. And I get asked
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about Wenesday album coming one day becausethis was a mixtape and we got a
little taste of it, and Iwanted it to truly be a mix of
all my different emotions and sounds andreally ending with Luke Comb's being like this
acoustic moment. I don't want peopleto ever think that they can expect what's
coming from me. And so there'sa lot of work and tears and blood
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and sweat going into the making ofthis next album, and I'm very excited
for people to hear it. I'mreally excited too, because you, like
you said, you really don't knowwhat to expect. Like you listen to
your mixtape and it truly is amixtape. It's like one of those that
you put together of like all ofyour favorite songs on one and it's like
all different genres, but it allis your favorite. Yeah. And I
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just love that you can go fromlike feeling a little like feel a little
ghetto, and then you're like youin the country, you know what I
mean? Like yeah, And Ijust I think we all have all of
that inside of us where it's likeso many people put stuff in a box,
and I'm like, you're allowed tolike rap, You're allowed to like
country music, You're allowed to likeChristian music, You're allowed to like pop.
You know, You're allowed to likeit all. Yeah, and that's
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okay. So I love that we'rekind of getting that from you because I
feel, like I said before,it's just something that we don't have right
now. And I love that.Thank you. I'm excited for you.
Is there anything in the industry orlike in this business that you moved to
Nashville and you're like scared of thatyou you felt a little intimidated by when
you got here? No, yes, I love it here. Heck yeah,
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what is our girl's name? Somebodydid an interview where she was like,
how are you, and she goes, I'm successful, and I'm like,
that's the kind of that's the kindof ye, yes, you're like,
no, I'm not scared. Yeah, I'm here. I love it
here. I think it's such adifferent it's such a different community than like
Los Angeles music community. I hada couple of writers and producers come out
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from LA last week and put themfor writing for the album, put them
in rooms with Nashville writers, andthe magic that came out of that was
unparalleled. I'm excited to be doingthat even more. I think people hear
a little bit nervous about really collaboratingwith LA talent just because it is so
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pop leaning, so different and outthere. But when I say I saw
sides of these hip hop producers thatI did not think were possible, yeah,
I mean that. So like,I'm excited to be able to bring
different talents from different backgrounds and differentareas together because that's what I am.
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So yeah, girl, I'm ready, I am ready. I'm like I'm
gonna put that on my Uh.I always have like little countdowns on like
my calendar when I'm like, youknow, getting ready for stuff, and
I'm like Tanner's album and I'm justgonna keep asking you about it. I'm
gonna bring it back and we're gonnawe're gonna talk about it when you can
talk about more. But I trulymean it when I say that, I
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mean you diving into Nashville and beinga part of CMA Fest and you're at
all of these different shows and you'reyou're just starting, but you're making your
mark. And I truly think that'ssuch a special quality to have because,
like you said, you're not scared. You love it here. You're you're
you're standing your ground and you're takingup space and I just I can't wait
for you. It's gonna be sogreat. Thank you, You're welcome.
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Okay. So to end the podcast, we do a little fun thing.
Okay, there's a gumball machine rightnext to you. Cute in there.
Yeah, that's your that's your gumballquestion of the day to end to end
the show, and I still gotit. You got that, okay,
And it's even pink is your favoritecolor? Was this planned. I don't
know. I might have heard thatyou like tacobout a little bit, so
I want to know what your orderis. What is your taco about order?
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Oh my gosh, okay, let'ssee when I'm really hungry or just
or just my Like you're going throughthe drive through at two am. Okay,
what are you getting? Fine?What? How? What thirty dollars
are you spending to Taco bell attwo in the morning, Because that's no
literally, I'm really about to exposemyself. Okay. The spice of data
soft talks are my favorite item onthe menu. Okay, so I usually
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do like three of those, butI like adding onions to them. I
love a chicken ca Sadia. Thisis still the same order, Yes,
it is, girl, And sometimesI'll do a me all with that,
like if I'm feeling the Baja blastand it comes with the crunchy taco,
so it's like, okay, maybeif I want all those things and I'll
just do a number seven chicken notsteak. And then I love the bean
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burritos, I'll do a bean burritohot, yes, and the cinnamon twist
Okay, if you don't get cinnamontwists to Taco Bell like you gotta get
them. Literally, yeah, II am obsessed to talk about. They
sent me a package just the otherday and so I got They sent me
these two huge oversized t shirts witha big taco bell them and like long
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socked with taco bell and a littledrink cup thing. I am upsessed Taco
Bell sponsor. We stand, westand Taco Bell okay, big time.
Oh my goodness. Yeah, thesentatwist like, if you don't get those
at the end, so good,You're not real. You're not real.
You're just not you're not a realTaco Bell fan if you don't get this,
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honestly, honest, we're on thesame age. If you're not ordering
thirty dollars a taco bellat in themorning. Yeah, literally, she said,
I'm exposing myself. Girl, it'sall we all do it, and
that's okay. Yeah. I thinkit's just about time that people start admitting
it, you know, stop hidingthat you love Taco Bell. Literally you
love it. I don't care what'sin it, I just love it.
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Okay. Literally, Well, Tanner, I'm so excited to finally have met
you for having your week. Thisis so fun, so fun, I
was like, we gotta go outwith
Are you ready to rock and realclean? Let's do it. I'm so
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excited to finally meet you, y'all. Let me just play this really quick
that day. Welcome to the backstagewith Brook. You're all access passed to
music city where nothing is off limits. Grab a drink. Let's go backstage,
y'all. Tanda Adell is here,come on, come on money.
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Can I just say before we startanything, you literally are doing what nobody
else is doing and I love it. Thank you. It is seriously the
best. Thank you. I appreciatethat. I was like, I'm sure
everybody tells you about how like you'rejust bringing something else to the table that
nobody is in country music. Andlisten, like I always say, like
I love Jesus, I cuss alittle bit, and I'm a little hood
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right, so it's we need alittle bit of that, you know what
I mean. So I just loveit. But first and foremost, I
just wanted to say that. Butsecondly, I'm so excited to finally meet
you because I feel like I've beenin talks to like do this podcast.
We had to schedule once because mydaughter really six, Oh my god,
thank you for me. So I'mreally excited to read here. So yeah,
all right, perfect, Well,I want to before we dive into
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the mixtape and everything that's going onin your life right now, I want
to start like day one, Tanner, when you fell in love with music
and when you decided this, thisis my dream, this is what I
want to do for a living.I was so young, I think the
first time that I can really rememberlistening to a song and it like moving
me, I was this is likeone of my earliest memories too. I
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had to have been like four orfive years old, and all my siblings
are put in piano like pretty early. But my brother had a piano in
his room down the hall and hewas playing something and I sat up in
bed. I was so so little, sat up in bed and just started
bawling my eyes out and just feltlike so touched. Yeah, and that
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was I think, just I've alwaysloved music and it was always just going
to be that easy for me.I'm kind of a cry baby, and
so there are yeah like I willif songs like move me, I will
cry. And I think that's sucha special gift to have too, because
I always say that, like ifI'm going to a concert, I'm gonna
cry at some point in the show. It doesn't matter who's playing, what
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kind of music it is. Thereis one point in this show where it's
like touching me in my core andI'm just like, okay, I'm gonna
cry really quick and then be donewith it. Yes, it's like just
the fact that someone's doing it.Yeah, because it's just my brother,
you know what I mean. AndI'm like, I don't even like you,
and you don't even like me,but like you know, yeah,
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even just to someone's connection to musicis always very beautiful and inspiring to me.
I love all kinds of music,and I just love artists in general.
Have you told him that story?Like does he know? No?
No, No, I'm gonna keepthat one to well, to myself and
to you. Yeah, no,everybody knows. No. Such a sweet
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moment too, because it's such alike I feel like a pure thing.
Because my daughter, she's two,and we were talking about her a little
bit ago, but she will likewatch movies like right now. She loves
sing too, that's like her thing. And at the very end, like
when Skyfall's Stars starts playing at theend, he's like on the piano,
she like drops everything and just staresat the screen and like there are certain
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parts in the song where she'll liketear up a little bit and like she
can understand the emotion and what's happeningwith like the fight scene. It's right,
and it's so cool to see sucha young mind. So I can
only imagine what it was like foryou, like in bed so young and
just being like what is that?I don't know it? Yes, oh
my gosh. No. I Firstof all, sing and sing too are
the fantastic. I will say,I like I rarely watch even like PG
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thirteen and above. Yeah, I'mlike very in the pgs and the g's
so like sing especially, that's agreat example of something that is like this
fun and cute movie, but likeno, I'm literally yeah, like at
the very end when he comes outand like his wife is like right next
to him at that area. Yes, you know why am I crying?
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It's crazy? What what music reallycan do to you? Yes? And
I love that. Yeah. Sofast forward to after you, you know,
decide music or you fell in lovewith music, so when you were
like, Okay, I'm gonna tryto make music, like I want to
do my own thing. Yeah.I mean I've always wanted to. It's
always been my dream, especially asa teenager. And then really two years
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ago when I moved to Nashville waswhen I made the choice to completely pursue
music. I went to school atUtah Valley University only for a couple of
years. I didn't graduate, andmy voice coach was like, why are
you here? Yeah, she's like, you need to choose. She's like,
you need to choose La. Youneed to choose, Like you need
to choose Nashville. You need tochoose, and you need to get out
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of here because I don't know whyyou're in school doing this. You need
to just be out there doing it. And that was when I was like
okay, like I'm I'm going Andyeah, I got hooked up with someone
who I knew a few years previouswho was living here, and he was
like, you should just come outand like write, see if you like
it. And there was something thatjust hit me and I just knew I
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was supposed to live here and behere and this is what I was supposed
to do. And I had neverbeen to Nashville before. I packed up
everything, sold everything that I couldso that I had a little bit of
money to come here and moved inlike a week, and you just did
it. I called my parents,I'm like, I'm moving to Nashville,
and they were like, okay,okay, I'm kind of the furthest out
from my parents and kind of theonly kid that went for something big.
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Yeah, like just I guess likemusic is mainstream, but like something that's
not like a mainstream job. Youknow. I'm sure that scared my parents
a little bit. But there aremy biggest fans and they've been to so
many of my shows this year,and every time they're just I'm so proud
of you, proud of you forfollowing your dreams. And they've always been
so supportive. So it was aneasy choice to just be like, well
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I'm going to Nashville. Yeah.Well, and I saw a quote actually
today that kind of like aligns withwhat you just said. It was the
same. I think it said somethinglike your dreams don't have an expiration date,
just get up and try again.I love that, And it's just
like so many people, I feellike they bury these like huge dreams that
they have and they're like, wellit's not the right time or oh,
I'll ever be ready And it's justlike, dude, get back up and
try again and go because if youwould have never moved to Nashville, you
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wouldn't have known the impact that you'rehaving right now, but are going to
have as well, like not justin country music, but I feel like
there's going to be some sort oflike crossover situation like there just has it
had. There has to be likeLuke Holmbs being played on you know,
he's got Fastcar on country radio andon pop radio. So I think that
it's so cool how I feel likegenres are very like much merging right now.
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And I think that, I meanliterally, like there's no better person
than Tanner Adell to like do bothand that's so sweet. Thank you.
Okay, So I want to go. I want to go there with you
and your family when you release asong like this, like what is a
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buckle bunny or are they like?Okay, you know my so my mom
growing up, she showed horses anddid a lot of rodeo stuff, so
she's kind of on the opposite sideof like what a buckle bunny is,
but she finds it hilarious. Andyou know, I always tend to write
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pretty like witty things nothing. Idon't take life too seriously and my writing
is the same. And one ofmy favorite songs is dumb Blonde by Dolly
Parton, and not a lot ofpeople know it was an outside cut.
It was a song that broke herand it's a witty take on you know,
people call women who are blonde thedumb blonde, and she they took
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it and they flipped it, andthat was literally the song that broke her.
So I always go back to thatwhen people are like, oh,
the buckle bunny and do you evenknow what that means? And I'm like,
like, I wrote the song,but I feel like people also too.
It's like, yes, it's it'squite literally what a buckle bunny is,
right, But it's also like whatpeople perceive someone as when they don't
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know who they are exact and likewhat they look like, they're wearing too
much makeup or they're not supposed tobe here, like that kind of thing.
And I think people quite literally missthe fact that, like you said,
it is very lighthearted, Yeah,yeah, entirely, it's just a
new it's a spin on it,yeah, and it's fun. Like people
nowadays, I feel like just takeeverything too serious. Yes, So the
(08:33):
fact that you can like put somethingout that one is a bop, Like,
it's so fun to listen to,but also it's just kind of like
poking fun at like, yeah,okay, you think that's what I am.
Cool, then I'll just call myselfup exactly exactly. I call it
fun try Yes, fun try Waitwhat that's amazing? Yeah, country music.
This is the new fun country.Your country. I'm so into that.
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I love that so much. Ohmy gosh. Okay, So when
you're deciding how you want to soundas a musician, you know, moving
to Nashville. You're from California,right, and Star Valley Wyom, Wyoming.
Okay, So when you're kind ofmerging the two and deciding how you
know, Tanner Adele is going tolike make her mark in the world,
and what you want to sound like, did you have a like were you
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scared at any point where you're like, I'm not sure. I don't want
to be the you know, youwant to be your own person. You
don't want to sound like another artist. But how did you decide that's where
you wanted to go? You know, I think I tried to suppress my
duality for a while and really triedto stick to one side of myself,
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and then I would go all theway to the other end of the spectrum
and write like I was this sideof myself. But at the heart of
it all, I've always been mixed, even my ethnicity. I am mixed
and so growing up in Los Angelesthat's half of my life. Growing up
in Star Valley that's the other halfof my life. And once I stopped
trying to separate the and decide whichone I wanted to be, was when
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I feel like I became my trueauthentic self, which is both, which
is so hard for people to likewrap their minds around, like this isn't
country. It sounds like pop,and I'm like, it's it's pop country,
like it is a genre of music, like it is both, and
I I don't know. As afemale artist, I'm hoping that it can
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inspire other people to come along andyou know, make country music the way
that they feel like they want tomake it. And I'm excited to see
over the next few years, whatyou know, if I can open some
doors well, and I always bringit back to like Garth Brooks, right,
he did the whole Chris Gaines thing, you know, and it's just
like Garth is as country as theycome, and then he comes out and
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it's like this alter ego and it'sjust like there's no real label on what
music is supposed to sound like,right, and it's just like, yes,
back in the day, it soundeddifferent because there was different technology now
that can make mus sound different.And it's about like opening your ears and
really just like like I said,don't take things too seriously, Like exactly,
music is supposed to be fun andlike freeing, not something for you
(11:09):
to criticize. If you don't likeit, then turn the channel or turn
it out, you know what.I ya, go listen to something you
do like it's okay, And Ilove how you've kind of taken and I
know being you know, doing thingsindependently is like, I mean, a
grind first and foremost, but likethe following that you've built and doing social
media and just kind of being sowell received online. Obviously there's the haters,
(11:31):
there's always going to be so asa couple, but being knowing that
you're finding that success because obviously you'redoing something right, right, is that
intimidating to you, or how doyou react when things like that, like
your first video goes viral and you'relike, what is this? Right?
Yeah? I mean, you know, I think I struggled with a little
bit of like imposter syndrome for alittle while. I don't think that's that
(11:54):
uncommon for women in general, whenwe start seeing success after we've put in
so much work, and you startgetting to the point where it's like,
Okay, well who am I?Do? I deserve this? Like what
am I doing? But besides that, I think the amount of positive energy
and messages that I receive posts Idon't post all of them because it would
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literally take up My entire story wouldjust be filled with hundreds of them.
The amount of happiness that I've seencome out of this, and girls that
come to me and say I wasalways embarrassed to listen to country music,
or people made fun of me forlistening to country music, and you've made
it cool for me to listen tois like cherry on top of everything.
(12:37):
I don't take any of that forgranted. Yeah, And it's so crazy
how people really there is that weirdstigma with country music because I remember growing
up and it was just like normal. Right. My husband grew up in
like Chicago, Southside Chicago, andhe would listen to country music or like
air Church and people are like,what is that? You know what I
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mean? And there really is thatlike discann of like what is cool and
what's not. But it's like likewe said earlier, music is meant to
be something that brings you joy ormakes you, like evoke some emotion out
of you. So if you don'tlike it, just change it. Yeah,
super easy. When you were growingup, what were some of the
like major artists that you listened to, like people who inspired your like influences
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and your career. Yes, likebefore being a teenager or during being a
teenager. Okay, all of it. I mean I started. My dad
really introduced me to like jazz music. So whenever he drove me to like
an orthodontists appointment or to school orsomething, uh, it was always jazz
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music. So I love nat KingCole and Natalie Cole. He introduced me
to Ella Fitzgerald very early on inmy life. Who I think for me
as far as how I sing,I think influences a lot of stylistically the
vocals that I do. If youlisten to el Fitzgerald, she was kind
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of the mother of like riffing vocally, like she made that mainstream and so
a lot of those little inflections Ithink definitely come from being raised on her.
And then when I was a teenager, like, don't ask me why,
but Casha like spoke so hard tome. I absolutely love her.
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I was able to go see herlive at Love Loud in Utah and she
was just fantastic always. I thinkit was like my revel face and I'm
like, yeah, you're like abottle of jack exactly exactly, exactly like
hiding wine in my room and seventeenyear old I Beyonce's obviously a huge inspiration
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for me. I don't try totake anything sonically or even like image wise.
We're very different as like two peopleand two artists. But the level
that she has been able to getto and the work that she has put
in that is the kind of artistthat I aspire to be. Yah working
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tirelessly and hours and hours and hoursto get to the point where she is
now. I saw I saw herin La just a couple of weeks ago,
and I was so like struck.It was my first Beyonce live concert,
and I was struck in awe byher and the amount of times that
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she said thank you and how gratefulshe was to even be here. And
she said, she was like thistonight we are celebrating thirty years of music.
It took thirty years to get tothis point, Like thank you for
all of that, but like tonightwe're gonna rock. But I was the
amount of times that she expressed gratitude. I was like, and I'm gonna
remember that well, and that's that'sjust it. Like I feel like a
(15:54):
lot of artists do take that forgranted, where it's like you really get
caught up in the monotony of everynight I get to do a show,
people are here to see me.I'm on stage, like you're on this
pedestal, and to really humble yourselfand break it down being like I literally
would not be this without you.I think that's so huge. It was
so cool. It was just soit was very cool. She's so cool.
Well, I remember my first Beyonceconcert. I lived out in LA
(16:15):
and we saw her at the RoseBowl and like, I was a Beyonce
fan, but I was not likea Beyonce, like, I'm gonna buys
to your show. My friend waslike a huge Beyonce fan. She said,
will you come with me? AndI remember sitting in the crowd and
like jaw on the floor, Likethis woman is a performer, she's a
vocalist, she's she's just a badass. So yes, first Beyonce experience,
(16:40):
bawling my eyes out when she cameout of the stage. The first thing
she said was Los Angeles, andYou're like, okay, that's it.
I'm screaming, oh, balling myeyes out and she starts with dangerously in
Love. She's coming out of thefloor, and I was just like this
is and the fact that her daughtergets to perform, Oh my gosh,
and she looks so good up there. I can't Oh, she's amazing.
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Dreams literal dreams, like having yourkid be afraid of something that you've built,
Like I can't even imagine her beingon stage as a mother, just
like the gratitude, but like alsothe like proudness that yes, feel like
yeah, my kid, but alsothis yes, like I don't know how
she's not crying out there. I'msure if she has before, but man,
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I don't know how she doesn't justget super emotional on stage. Man,
Okay, so I want to kindof pivot a little bit because I
feel like you do have this likereal edgy side, but you do like
kind of like you said, you'reCalifornia Wyoming, two complete opposite spectrums of
like living right. And then youput out songs like this one. But
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every time I saying my country heartsto the girl in a cons like there
are country roots in your bones,like you can feel it, you can
hear it, you can feel it. And then putting out a song like
this, I mean it reminds meof like Taylor Swift, Tim McGraw and
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like really just like paying homage tothose roots or like even people in the
industry that you look up to orlike you know, but this song specifically,
I don't know what it was,but it was like one of those
songs you hear for the first timeand like you just like tear up a
little bit, you get like chills. You're like this is such a beautiful
message and it's just such a beautifulsong, and like your voice is unreal,
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like you're you're your professor and youalways now you are meant to do
this. But when you're putting togethera song like that, I mean the
lyrics in general, like everything isjust so beautifully put together. Were you
like writing it and you're like,this is it? This is it?
Ah, this is genius. Thisis so good. No really, Yeah.
So the funnily enough, the waythat that song kind of like came
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together. It had the idea fora little while, and I wrote it
with Derek Sutherland he did more Heartsthan Mine, Yeah, with Ingrid and
even Climbs, my producer for that, and we had gone through it's probably
like three hours into our writing sessiontrying to figure out how to write this
idea, and I mean we hada billion different melodies and lyrics and all
(19:15):
these things, and Derek finally justhanded me the guitar and he was like,
I just want you to pretend likeyou're in your room and you're writing
this, and like whatever comes outof you, that's what we're going to
go with. And so I startedwith that riff going down on guitar and
I think trying to remember, likethe first lyric that was written might have
(19:40):
been a chorus lyric and it wasprobably the tagline of the Tubi com song
and from that point then it tooklike an hour and then it just like
flowed out. There was a wholeversion that was entirely produced, with a
bunch of different in truments and afull track, and my A and R
(20:03):
said, I want to hear anacoustic, like I just tried it acoustic
and I want to see and wedid it acoustic, and it was just
obvious it didn't need thinking about it. I don't even know why I'm chill
sinking. It's just like it didn'tneed everything good. Yeah, and I
feel like it's so rare too.Maybe not rare, but it's just like
it comes so few and far between, like being in this business and like
(20:26):
listening to music where I'm just like, that is such a special song.
And I heard that song for thefirst time and I was just like girl,
and it's like, you know,it's like one of those songs you
put on repeat and like I can'tsing, but when I hear that song,
I pretend like I can sing.You know. I love that.
So shout out to you for reallyevoking some sort of you know, emotion
out of not just me, butI know that so many of your of
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your fans love that song too.Yes, it's doing so well. It's
been like four or five days andthe streams are through the roof. The
got added to a hundreds and hundredsof playlists. It's yeah, it's nuts.
Yeah, yeah. What is yourgoal on? Like you're so you
have a vision board sitting in frontof you. What is something on there
that, like you tangibly can see. You're like, okay, I think
(21:10):
I can do that. Next releasingan album, yeah yeah soon soon,
yeah, next year soon yeah yeah, top top half of next year.
I'm not gonna say too much,but I mean as an artist, even
just as a kid, like analbum is everything. And I get asked
(21:33):
about Wenesday album coming one day becausethis was a mixtape and we got a
little taste of it, and Iwanted it to truly be a mix of
all my different emotions and sounds andreally ending with Luke Comb's being like this
acoustic moment. I don't want peopleto ever think that they can expect what's
coming from me. And so there'sa lot of work and tears and blood
(21:56):
and sweat going into the making ofthis next album, and I'm very excited
for people to hear it. I'mreally excited too, because you, like
you said, you really don't knowwhat to expect. Like you listen to
your mixtape and it truly is amixtape. It's like one of those that
you put together of like all ofyour favorite songs on one and it's like
all different genres, but it allis your favorite. Yeah. And I
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just love that you can go fromlike feeling a little like feel a little
ghetto, and then you're like youin the country, you know what I
mean? Like yeah, And Ijust I think we all have all of
that inside of us where it's likeso many people put stuff in a box,
and I'm like, you're allowed tolike rap, You're allowed to like
country music, You're allowed to likeChristian music, You're allowed to like pop.
You know, You're allowed to likeit all. Yeah, and that's
(22:40):
okay. So I love that we'rekind of getting that from you because I
feel, like I said before,it's just something that we don't have right
now. And I love that.Thank you. I'm excited for you.
Is there anything in the industry orlike in this business that you moved to
Nashville and you're like scared of thatyou you felt a little intimidated by when
you got here? No, yes, I love it here. Heck yeah,
(23:06):
what is our girl's name? Somebodydid an interview where she was like,
how are you, and she goes, I'm successful, and I'm like,
that's the kind of that's the kindof ye, yes, you're like,
no, I'm not scared. Yeah, I'm here. I love it
here. I think it's such adifferent it's such a different community than like
Los Angeles music community. I hada couple of writers and producers come out
(23:30):
from LA last week and put themfor writing for the album, put them
in rooms with Nashville writers, andthe magic that came out of that was
unparalleled. I'm excited to be doingthat even more. I think people hear
a little bit nervous about really collaboratingwith LA talent just because it is so
(23:56):
pop leaning, so different and outthere. But when I say I saw
sides of these hip hop producers thatI did not think were possible, yeah,
I mean that. So like,I'm excited to be able to bring
different talents from different backgrounds and differentareas together because that's what I am.
(24:21):
So yeah, girl, I'm ready, I am ready. I'm like I'm
gonna put that on my Uh.I always have like little countdowns on like
my calendar when I'm like, youknow, getting ready for stuff, and
I'm like Tanner's album and I'm justgonna keep asking you about it. I'm
gonna bring it back and we're gonnawe're gonna talk about it when you can
talk about more. But I trulymean it when I say that, I
(24:41):
mean you diving into Nashville and beinga part of CMA Fest and you're at
all of these different shows and you'reyou're just starting, but you're making your
mark. And I truly think that'ssuch a special quality to have because,
like you said, you're not scared. You love it here. You're you're
you're standing your ground and you're takingup space and I just I can't wait
for you. It's gonna be sogreat. Thank you, You're welcome.
(25:03):
Okay. So to end the podcast, we do a little fun thing.
Okay, there's a gumball machine rightnext to you. Cute in there.
Yeah, that's your that's your gumballquestion of the day to end to end
the show, and I still gotit. You got that, okay,
And it's even pink is your favoritecolor? Was this planned. I don't
know. I might have heard thatyou like tacobout a little bit, so
I want to know what your orderis. What is your taco about order?
(25:26):
Oh my gosh, okay, let'ssee when I'm really hungry or just
or just my Like you're going throughthe drive through at two am. Okay,
what are you getting? Fine?What? How? What thirty dollars
are you spending to Taco bell attwo in the morning, Because that's no
literally, I'm really about to exposemyself. Okay. The spice of data
soft talks are my favorite item onthe menu. Okay, so I usually
(25:48):
do like three of those, butI like adding onions to them. I
love a chicken ca Sadia. Thisis still the same order, Yes,
it is, girl, And sometimesI'll do a me all with that,
like if I'm feeling the Baja blastand it comes with the crunchy taco,
so it's like, okay, maybeif I want all those things and I'll
just do a number seven chicken notsteak. And then I love the bean
(26:11):
burritos, I'll do a bean burritohot, yes, and the cinnamon twist
Okay, if you don't get cinnamontwists to Taco Bell like you gotta get
them. Literally, yeah, II am obsessed to talk about. They
sent me a package just the otherday and so I got They sent me
these two huge oversized t shirts witha big taco bell them and like long
(26:34):
socked with taco bell and a littledrink cup thing. I am upsessed Taco
Bell sponsor. We stand, westand Taco Bell okay, big time.
Oh my goodness. Yeah, thesentatwist like, if you don't get those
at the end, so good,You're not real. You're not real.
You're just not you're not a realTaco Bell fan if you don't get this,
(26:56):
honestly, honest, we're on thesame age. If you're not ordering
thirty dollars a taco bellat in themorning. Yeah, literally, she said,
I'm exposing myself. Girl, it'sall we all do it, and
that's okay. Yeah. I thinkit's just about time that people start admitting
it, you know, stop hidingthat you love Taco Bell. Literally you
love it. I don't care what'sin it, I just love it.
(27:17):
Okay. Literally, Well, Tanner, I'm so excited to finally have met
you for having your week. Thisis so fun, so fun, I
was like, we gotta go outwith
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