August 31, 2024 • 12 mins
Lawrence joins #MostRequestedLive and answers your questions in this exclusive chat!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, I'm Gracie Lawrence.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
I'm Clyde Lawrence. We are Lawrence and.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
We are here to do a iHeartRadio, Ask Anything Chat.
We have a new song called what you Want off
of our new album Family Business, and.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Thank you to Romeo and Most Requested Live for having us.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
We are very excited to answer your questions.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Okay, here we go.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Lisa from Lake City, Florida. First question, If you could
go back in time to three points in your life, what.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Ages would they be? Three is hard?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Three? Yeah, I mean I think I think it would
be fun to go back to when we first first
started touring and like try to re.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Experience what that was like.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I feel like it's such a cliche for people to say, oh,
you know those early days and we were all just
like in the van and you know whatever, those were the.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Days, but I do kind of feel that way.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
It was kind of a fun, exciting time and it's
still very fun and exciting, but that would be cool
time to revisit. So I guess I would have been
about twenty one, when you were seventeen when we started
turing or something like that.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yeah, exactly, And that's one.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
That's one. That's what I can think, I'll give it.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I would like to like.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
My earliest memory is probably like preschoolish time. I actually
have like a really early memory. No, I have such
an anxious child. Well, it would just be interesting to
like relive your earliest memory and like see if they
were accurate. And also I think like I would like
(01:48):
to go back to positive childhood memories, which were like
us playing music in the living room as kids, true
and kind of like experiencing just like the warmth and
excitement of that, and our grandparents visiting, and that would
be really fun to go back.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
To good one I would go for To round it out,
I'd go back to the year two thousand and six
when I was thirteen when the Mets were really really good.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
I'd go back to like September of that year when.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
They were so good and I was sure they were
going to win the World Series, but then they didn't
and they broke my heart. So I'd go back to
that moment in September when it was all looking and positive.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Right for thepointment, Okay, great question. Next up Max from Vologda, Russia.
I don't even know if I pronounce that right.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
What will help me control my voice while singing the
same way you do. I mean, I think it's a cliche,
but like practice really does make perfect. I think, like
voices are so individual in particular, and certainly the way
I think about how to control my voice might be
different than the way you think about how you control
your voice. And so I think that that's like it
(03:08):
really is just about getting to know your own voice
and like and and practicing.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
And yeah, just singing a lot.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Singing a lot of different kinds of music also is
a good trick to kind of like hear your voice
in different kinds of music.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
And just like practicing singing in a way that's gonna
like make people feel something from the song.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
I know.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
That's so like people practice singing in tune or practice
breath control and all those things, but like just make
sure the way that you're delivering the song is like
in a way that's gonna make people go like, oh,
like I so feel that whatever the song is about.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Point, I think that's really important. Do you want to
skip this next one?
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Let's skip this next.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
One, so that's a great one, and then shout out
to that is really funny.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
We'll let skip it.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Yeah, I'll probably just give it. We'll know right now.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Finch from Saint Louis Park, Minnesota. Very cool name. Finch
was Hip Replacement inspired by Tower of Power.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Hip Replacement is essentially a direct homage to the Tower
of Power, to many Tower of Power songs, but particularly
their song What Is Hip, which not only musically is
a similarly kind of funky horn driven sixteenth note bassline
song like Hip Replacement, but lyrically even and thematically plays
(04:46):
with the question of what does it mean to be cool?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
What does it even mean to be hip? Should you
want to be hip?
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Or is the coolest thing you can do to exist
outside the bounds of conventional hipness? So we kind of
wanted to play with that too, and we had our
own little extra layer of punniness by throwing in the
anatomical concept of a hip.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah. Great question.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Okay, this one.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Next question David from New York City, Gracie, Are you
worried about or has there been any backlash from Ringo?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
This is a reference to our song.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
I'm confident that I'm insecure in which we have the lyric,
and I know that Ringo sometimes wishes.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
He was Paul and it's in the context of listing
a lot of things that that people of great success
and people and things that are considered successful might be
insecure about. So like the first line is and the
great wall sometimes feels like just a wall, and Ringo
(06:00):
sometimes wishes he was Paul.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
No no, Ringo has entered the chat.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Yeah, and I hope that Ringo knows that we would
only we could only use that line as a good
example of what we're talking about by it successful and
is a hero of ours and would be someone that
you'd never suspect would be insecure.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
The point of the song is that like even the greatest,
even the.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Greatest possible, people that would have no reason to be insecure,
like a Ringo star, could always find Now we don't
know for a fact whether Ringo's insecure, but the point
is that we could be just like we could be,
just like anybody could be.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
But Ringo, we do love you and we hope that
you're a fan.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
On a personal note, we did see that Ringo star
When we were looking up at the Marquee at Radio
Sign Music Hall performing very Soon, which is going to
be like a dream come true show. We saw the
Ringo Stars performing not long after us at the same venue,
and that was like the craziest kind of pinch us
moment for me at least that it was like, oh.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
My god, like we're there's ring. That is craziest.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
I didn't even see that.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
That's so cool.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Okay, Next question Haley from Greenville Greenville, North Carolina. Was
it always your intent to call the group Lawrence? What
other names were considered.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
When we started playing Because Gracie was like literally in middle.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
School in high school, so she wasn't.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
At a lot of the shows, and I was writing
almost all the music at the time, the name of
the band was just like Clyde Lawrence band. And then yeah,
when we kind of decided that we were going to
start collaborating on more of the songwriting and formally having
like both of us, you know, Ben on all the show,
(08:01):
we considered a handful of names, but I think Lawrence.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
There was a moment where we were like Clyde and Gracie.
I remember Eric Krasno, who produced our first album before
we had like officially officially released anything as Lawrence. He
was like, yeah, the joy of living in New York. Yeah,
there was like definitely a moment where were like, maybe
(08:27):
something else that is simple and clear, like Lawrence, but
so but.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Lawrence stuck, just stuck.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
People sometimes think my first name is Lawrence.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Yeah, totally, and then they'll see me and they'll be like,
you can't be Lawrence, Like just you wait.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
John from Mannheim, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
At the record release, you mentioned John Bellian campaign to
have What you Want as the leadoff for Family Business.
Can you talk about the thinking that went into determining
track order of the album and why you've reversed it for.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Your set spoiler alert, there's a lot of questions within
this question.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I mean to clarify what the question is.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
We had an album release party that was a mix
of friends, collaborators, people in music industry as well as fans,
and it seems like John was there. John from Mannheim,
Pennsylvania was there as well as John Bellian was there,
and John Bellian we must have said somewhere early on
(09:32):
in the night that when we were talking about What
you Want, that that was a song that John was
very pro featuring.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
We were unsure of what song to put first on
the album.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
There was obviously like a possibility from the beginning that
it could be Family Business.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Since that is the name of the album, it's the
title track.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
It feels very introy, but we pretty quickly decided we
didn't want it to be that because it felt too obvious.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
But then we had other contenders.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
We were unsure if what you Want it's so high energy,
it's such a like kick.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Down the door, and we were like, is it.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Too frankly, just like too sick and exciting to be
the first song, which sounds ridiculous in retrospect, and John
was just like very much like no, don't be afraid
of it, like like he was very pro And it
was a decision that really came down to the wire,
(10:30):
but we ended up going with it, and I'm sor
happy that we did.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
I think, like all bold choices just take a minute
to like set in, and I think it just felt
like such a bold choice to kick the album off with.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
And John's John is a bold guy, a purveyor of
bold choices in.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
A way that respect.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
And then the other part of the question was why
did we reverse the order? So, I mean, this is
a spoiler, but we play what you Want very quote
very much towards the end of the set. I don't know,
just feels like a fun one to do at the end.
We want to do something different at the beginning. I
don't want to spoil the set list, so you got
to come out to a show on the pew.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
You want to end on.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
A high note too, So I think that that's quite
literally what what you want feels like, as it.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Is a very high note. Yeah. I believe that that
was the last question.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
The last thing we want to say is thank you
for sending in your questions.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Thank you to Romeo and most requested live.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Please go check out our new song what you Want
and our new album Family Business, and.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Come see us on tour, The Family Business Tour.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
We're leaving really soon, hitting all over North America and
then Australia after that and maybe some other places after that.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Here knows someone.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Who's to say thank you for watching our ask anything chat.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
I hope to see you soon.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Bye.
Hi, I'm Gracie Lawrence.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
I'm Clyde Lawrence. We are Lawrence and.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
We are here to do a iHeartRadio, Ask Anything Chat.
We have a new song called what you Want off
of our new album Family Business, and.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Thank you to Romeo and Most Requested Live for having us.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
We are very excited to answer your questions.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Okay, here we go.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Lisa from Lake City, Florida. First question, If you could
go back in time to three points in your life, what.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Ages would they be? Three is hard?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Three? Yeah, I mean I think I think it would
be fun to go back to when we first first
started touring and like try to re.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Experience what that was like.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I feel like it's such a cliche for people to say, oh,
you know those early days and we were all just
like in the van and you know whatever, those were the.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Days, but I do kind of feel that way.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
It was kind of a fun, exciting time and it's
still very fun and exciting, but that would be cool
time to revisit. So I guess I would have been
about twenty one, when you were seventeen when we started
turing or something like that.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yeah, exactly, And that's one.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
That's one. That's what I can think, I'll give it.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I would like to like.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
My earliest memory is probably like preschoolish time. I actually
have like a really early memory. No, I have such
an anxious child. Well, it would just be interesting to
like relive your earliest memory and like see if they
were accurate. And also I think like I would like
(01:48):
to go back to positive childhood memories, which were like
us playing music in the living room as kids, true
and kind of like experiencing just like the warmth and
excitement of that, and our grandparents visiting, and that would
be really fun to go back.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
To good one I would go for To round it out,
I'd go back to the year two thousand and six
when I was thirteen when the Mets were really really good.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
I'd go back to like September of that year when.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
They were so good and I was sure they were
going to win the World Series, but then they didn't
and they broke my heart. So I'd go back to
that moment in September when it was all looking and positive.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Right for thepointment, Okay, great question. Next up Max from Vologda, Russia.
I don't even know if I pronounce that right.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
What will help me control my voice while singing the
same way you do. I mean, I think it's a cliche,
but like practice really does make perfect. I think, like
voices are so individual in particular, and certainly the way
I think about how to control my voice might be
different than the way you think about how you control
your voice. And so I think that that's like it
(03:08):
really is just about getting to know your own voice
and like and and practicing.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
And yeah, just singing a lot.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Singing a lot of different kinds of music also is
a good trick to kind of like hear your voice
in different kinds of music.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
And just like practicing singing in a way that's gonna
like make people feel something from the song.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
I know.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
That's so like people practice singing in tune or practice
breath control and all those things, but like just make
sure the way that you're delivering the song is like
in a way that's gonna make people go like, oh,
like I so feel that whatever the song is about.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Point, I think that's really important. Do you want to
skip this next one?
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Let's skip this next.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
One, so that's a great one, and then shout out
to that is really funny.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
We'll let skip it.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Yeah, I'll probably just give it. We'll know right now.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Finch from Saint Louis Park, Minnesota. Very cool name. Finch
was Hip Replacement inspired by Tower of Power.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Hip Replacement is essentially a direct homage to the Tower
of Power, to many Tower of Power songs, but particularly
their song What Is Hip, which not only musically is
a similarly kind of funky horn driven sixteenth note bassline
song like Hip Replacement, but lyrically even and thematically plays
(04:46):
with the question of what does it mean to be cool?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
What does it even mean to be hip? Should you
want to be hip?
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Or is the coolest thing you can do to exist
outside the bounds of conventional hipness? So we kind of
wanted to play with that too, and we had our
own little extra layer of punniness by throwing in the
anatomical concept of a hip.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah. Great question.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Okay, this one.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Next question David from New York City, Gracie, Are you
worried about or has there been any backlash from Ringo?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
This is a reference to our song.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
I'm confident that I'm insecure in which we have the lyric,
and I know that Ringo sometimes wishes.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
He was Paul and it's in the context of listing
a lot of things that that people of great success
and people and things that are considered successful might be
insecure about. So like the first line is and the
great wall sometimes feels like just a wall, and Ringo
(06:00):
sometimes wishes he was Paul.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
No no, Ringo has entered the chat.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Yeah, and I hope that Ringo knows that we would
only we could only use that line as a good
example of what we're talking about by it successful and
is a hero of ours and would be someone that
you'd never suspect would be insecure.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
The point of the song is that like even the greatest,
even the.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Greatest possible, people that would have no reason to be insecure,
like a Ringo star, could always find Now we don't
know for a fact whether Ringo's insecure, but the point
is that we could be just like we could be,
just like anybody could be.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
But Ringo, we do love you and we hope that
you're a fan.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
On a personal note, we did see that Ringo star
When we were looking up at the Marquee at Radio
Sign Music Hall performing very Soon, which is going to
be like a dream come true show. We saw the
Ringo Stars performing not long after us at the same venue,
and that was like the craziest kind of pinch us
moment for me at least that it was like, oh.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
My god, like we're there's ring. That is craziest.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
I didn't even see that.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
That's so cool.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Okay, Next question Haley from Greenville Greenville, North Carolina. Was
it always your intent to call the group Lawrence? What
other names were considered.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
When we started playing Because Gracie was like literally in middle.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
School in high school, so she wasn't.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
At a lot of the shows, and I was writing
almost all the music at the time, the name of
the band was just like Clyde Lawrence band. And then yeah,
when we kind of decided that we were going to
start collaborating on more of the songwriting and formally having
like both of us, you know, Ben on all the show,
(08:01):
we considered a handful of names, but I think Lawrence.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
There was a moment where we were like Clyde and Gracie.
I remember Eric Krasno, who produced our first album before
we had like officially officially released anything as Lawrence. He
was like, yeah, the joy of living in New York. Yeah,
there was like definitely a moment where were like, maybe
(08:27):
something else that is simple and clear, like Lawrence, but
so but.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Lawrence stuck, just stuck.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
People sometimes think my first name is Lawrence.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Yeah, totally, and then they'll see me and they'll be like,
you can't be Lawrence, Like just you wait.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
John from Mannheim, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
At the record release, you mentioned John Bellian campaign to
have What you Want as the leadoff for Family Business.
Can you talk about the thinking that went into determining
track order of the album and why you've reversed it for.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Your set spoiler alert, there's a lot of questions within
this question.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I mean to clarify what the question is.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
We had an album release party that was a mix
of friends, collaborators, people in music industry as well as fans,
and it seems like John was there. John from Mannheim,
Pennsylvania was there as well as John Bellian was there,
and John Bellian we must have said somewhere early on
(09:32):
in the night that when we were talking about What
you Want, that that was a song that John was
very pro featuring.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
We were unsure of what song to put first on
the album.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
There was obviously like a possibility from the beginning that
it could be Family Business.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Since that is the name of the album, it's the
title track.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
It feels very introy, but we pretty quickly decided we
didn't want it to be that because it felt too obvious.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
But then we had other contenders.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
We were unsure if what you Want it's so high energy,
it's such a like kick.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Down the door, and we were like, is it.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Too frankly, just like too sick and exciting to be
the first song, which sounds ridiculous in retrospect, and John
was just like very much like no, don't be afraid
of it, like like he was very pro And it
was a decision that really came down to the wire,
(10:30):
but we ended up going with it, and I'm sor
happy that we did.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
I think, like all bold choices just take a minute
to like set in, and I think it just felt
like such a bold choice to kick the album off with.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
And John's John is a bold guy, a purveyor of
bold choices in.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
A way that respect.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
And then the other part of the question was why
did we reverse the order? So, I mean, this is
a spoiler, but we play what you Want very quote
very much towards the end of the set. I don't know,
just feels like a fun one to do at the end.
We want to do something different at the beginning. I
don't want to spoil the set list, so you got
to come out to a show on the pew.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
You want to end on.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
A high note too, So I think that that's quite
literally what what you want feels like, as it.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Is a very high note. Yeah. I believe that that
was the last question.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
The last thing we want to say is thank you
for sending in your questions.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Thank you to Romeo and most requested live.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Please go check out our new song what you Want
and our new album Family Business, and.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Come see us on tour, The Family Business Tour.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
We're leaving really soon, hitting all over North America and
then Australia after that and maybe some other places after that.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Here knows someone.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Who's to say thank you for watching our ask anything chat.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
I hope to see you soon.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Bye.
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