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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Stephan from the United Kingdom says, what was the inspiration
behind picking Ray as your stage name? Oh? Okay, well
my real name is Rachel and Rachel Rachel. I was
gonna Ray is kind of like short for Rachel. And
then I remember being like in the car with my
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dad when I was about eleven or twelved be about twelve.
I was very young when I decided I was going
to be an artist, and I was like, yeah, I
wanted to be Ray. And then we were talking about
different ways we could spell it, and RAI was one
with thinking of but we're like no, and then ra
ys loads of people He's an r E Y was
(00:41):
really cool. But then Dad was like, what about r
A y E? And I was like, yeah, I really
like that. And then when I moved schools. When I
moved schools, when I moved from my old high school
to the brit school, I went up to all the
teachers before the classes had started off first ever classes,
and I was like, please don't call me Rachel, please
call me Ray, and I show them how to spell it.
Instance then like I kind of rebranded when I moved schools,
(01:03):
you know what I mean. Yeah, So that was the
inspiration it was it was a nickname. My best mate
Carly started calling me Ray and then I wanted it to.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Stick because I really liked it. Here we are.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Kim from Cleveland, Ohio. What's your favorite T shirt to wear?
Good question, very good question. Actually, I for T shirts.
I want two things. I even want space and comfort
and length, you know, so something extra large, something that
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could be a dress if I wanted it to be.
I love to sleep in a T shirt usually it's
my vibe, So something like that. I have this big
blue one that my friend Mira gave me and I
really like it. Just wear it all the time to
be comfortable, you know. And I also want, you know,
headrooms you can just get out and it's not you know,
(01:58):
when you're wearing T shirts and they're just like too tight.
So I even want loads of space or actually the opposite.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Wait, do you know what I mean? A little bit
of you know? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Thanks, okay? Lydia from Hartford, Connecticut. What do you do
to warm up your voice before shows? I FaceTime Josh,
who is my vocal coach who I FaceTime. I realized
over the last couple of years how important my vocal
health is. I wasn't necessarily taking it that s as
(02:32):
serious as I should have in the past. So over
the last i'd say a year or two years, year
and a half, I've started to take it quite seriously
with Josh, and we'll do a FaceTime forty five minutes
to an hour where we warm up. I have this
kind of plastic straw that I bring with me. It's
like a rubbersh straw. I put in a bottle of
water that fall and I blow into it and go boo,
(02:57):
do my warm ups, and and then we change the
real voice and you have to make really ugly sounds
to open up your chest voice. It's like air it's
in here, and it's absolutely embarrassing and very disgusting to
make out loud. But my confidence has grown, and you know,
I actually used to not like doing vocal warmans because
of how embarrassed I was at how it sounded. But
(03:19):
now I'm just embracing it fully and it's like, which
is horrible, but it does really stretch the vocalals out.
And then we do up to a C sharp in
the years in the whistle tones, and when we know
when that's there that I'm good in my whistle side.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah, stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah, Natasha from Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
What colors do you like to dye your hair?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
I love the ninety sixties, and in the sixties it
was just block colors, which I really love.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
See, I went red, and.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
It's really hard to maintain a one block definitive color
with red hair because the can you wash your hair,
it's like a massacre in there in your shower or
it's not very nice.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
You wash, one little bit of water goes on your
hair and it's like.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Red everywhere, and your towels on your bed sheets. So
I don't think I'm ever gonna go red ever again,
but you know, I committed to it for my twenty
first Century Blues campaign.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
I did.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
But I like block colors, so like blonde, black, orange,
you know brown. I'm naturally brown, so maybe I don't
gravitate towards brown, but block colors, I'm not gonna lie.
Just do really want to be a blonde again, but
it's such long maintenance. And when you put bleach on
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your scalp, it just hurts, you know what I mean,
And it's just like ah, but it does look good.
I miss being blonde it's calling to me again, but
I think I need to chill out right now.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Whatever this is.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yeah, Sheryl from Manchester, Vermont.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
What's your dream house, dream vacation, dream car? Oh, where's
my phone? I'm gonna show you a picture on my
dream car.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Because I was looking at it today and I was like, oh,
I want this car. L class, look at this car.
Can you just picture me driving it? It just makes sense,
don't you think, Like come on, and the wheels and
the color matches my skin so well.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I would love this car. That's my dream car.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
My dream house probably a nice, big kind of house
in the countryside. Honestly, I'm really into nature and that
more now than ever. Just you know, a little village somewhere, man,
just a house in the village. I'll still keep. A
house in London would be my dream. South London and
(06:02):
a countryside residents with lots of fireplaces with real wood
you chop and you do it yourself and you cook stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
And maybe you have a couple of sheep and a
sheep dog. Yeah. Dream vacation.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I really really want to explore Asia. I really want
to go. I want to go to China. I want
to go to Korea, South Korea. I want to go
to Thailand. I want to go to Bali. I've been
to India once, but I want to dig in my dream.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Honestly, do you know what I really want to do?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
I really would love to go backpacking across somewhere, maybe
Vietnam or something.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
I would love to go backpacking.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I think that's the thing I missed because I never
went to UNI and I went straight into music that
I never really got to do, like those.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Kind of things.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
And I would really love to exc like that, just
a backpack camping down to earth into nature.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I mean I would love that.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Okay, cool Jody from Middlesbrough, United Kingdom. You've been insanely
busy the past year and a half. Bus club, another club,
another club, next place, Nosley. Yeah, yes, facts, Lady Gaga
told no lies about the lifestyle of an artist who
is really trying. How have you been managing to prioritize
your own mental health and physical health so that you
(07:28):
don't bon't burn out? I I am tired, Okay, I am,
but look I've worked my entire life to even get
to this point. So for me, I would say my
mental physical health right now isn't necessarily my priority. But
(07:51):
there will come a time, hopefully in the near future,
where that will be the case. But right now, I
got shit to do. I got things to do, and
I've got to keep it pushing. So some days it
is kind of tough, and I can be a bit
homesick sometimes, but the shows make it all worth it,
and you know, this is the life that I work
(08:14):
so hard for. So but yeah, luckily I work with
my parents and it's I'm on the phone and.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
All the time I'm like, dad, mom, this that is.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
But yeah, so my family definitely helped me out a lot.
Joe from Bristol, England. Will there be Genesis merch? I
need some hope that answers your question? Lewis from Seattle, Washington.
What's your favorite candy in the UK and favor in America?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:46):
My favorite candy in the UK Galaxy chocolate, don't play around,
Galaxy caramel, Galaxy salted caramel.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
But in terms of like sweets, I do love a
harrowbo tang FasTIS, you know. And I like the green
lolly one with the circle on the line, the green
I like that, And I love the crocodiles in tang FasTIS. Oh,
actually I'm straight for the crocodiles and then the green lollipops.
Okay in America. Ooh, favorite candy in America. I don't
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really eat candy in America.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
I don't recall it.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Canny, we say sweets. Hmm, Reese's butter cups, Liese's Peanut
butter cups.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I like those. Those are really good in America. Yeah. Nice.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Dire from New York City. What's the best picture of
yourself you've ever seen?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
That's so funny? Oh?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Okay, the one on me and my grandma at the
Brits and me crying like an absolute yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Balling, balling.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
But that was a beautiful picture just because of that
moment and just getting to share it with her.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Wow. I absolutely love that woman with every fiber in
my body.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yeah, so that was beautiful. Laura from Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
What are your career goals for twenty twenty five? My goodness.
I mean, I would like to attempt to write an album,
but I'm not going to rush it. I barely started,
so please please be.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Patient with me and hang on in there.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
I would love to write an album and I would
love to Honestly, I know it sounds quite crazy, but
I would really love to embark potentially on a journey
of apt to be an actress. I just said that
out loud, I did, but I would love to give
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it a go. I would love to see if I
have what it takes to just.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Be someone else.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I mean, be sad, I'm choking, but anyway, I've really
love to explore that. So maybe that and if that
door opens, But mainly I would actually like to live
a bit, because I think in order to write good music,
you have to really have a perspective that you want
to write about and shen you need to live to
do that. Think no one wants to hear a song
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songs about hotels and airports.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
It's just not relatable.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
No, Yeah, that's my career goals live, right, And do
you know what? I want to just go and sing
in jazz clubs for the love of it, not for
like money, just for passion and just like jams jam nights.
I want to search out and go and open mics
and do stuff like that. I think I would have
(12:03):
the best time. Dion from Toronto, Ontario. Is Ratriarchy the
fandom name or do you have another one of your leave.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Look, I personally love the.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Ratiarchy is hilarious, but you know, I think I don't
know if I'm allowed to choose the fan name. I
don't think that's my choice to make. So if the
ratriarchy stick in, let's go. I mean, Elizabeth from London, England,
would you ever consider entering I'm a celebrity, get me
out of here. I don't think I would. I don't
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think so. I don't think so. I'd be so annoying
on that show because I don't. I actually don't mind
insects at all. Like if I see a spider, I'll
put a cup on it and a paper and I'll
take it outside.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
I'm that kind of girl.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
But I don't want thousands of them calling on me. Honestly,
to me, my worst nightmare is you know them caterpillars
with the goo inside them, you know them thick yellow
white caterpillars that they always have to eat it bite
and then juice comes out like absolutely not no, no,
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life's too short, No, not for me. Penny from Colorado Springs, Colorado.
What would your DJ or rapper name? If you could
pick one? DJ Raisin? Because I love raisins it would
be fun to be a DJ, wouldn't it.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
You should turn up and you could drink on the job.
Press play DJ Raisin. Rachel from Dublin Island.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Who do you text the most with Which one of
your friends needs to use spell check the most?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Oh? Oh, I text the most with Carl.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
And my sisters and Lee, but she lives in Paris,
so we FaceTime. Yeah, Ben's a terrible text over. That's
one of my best mates as well. I have about
four five friends, you know, I text often. Yeah, but
(14:25):
they're all good at spelling, I think. Yeah. Vanna from
San Antonio, Texas says what emoji would you use to
describe yourself?
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Oh? Oh, that's a good question. It depends on that.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
It depends on the day because I go like this sometimes.
But I would say I'm like this emoji.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
You know that one?
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Is there emoji that goes like this, It's like that
the wild emoji? Like that one, Yeah, with the eyes
that go up like I'll be that one. I'd like
to think. I'd also be the red dress emoji. When
I'm on stage. I like to feel like that, you know,
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the girl he's like in her red dress looking all fabulous.
But yeah, I think that one each from Newport, United Kingdom.
What were you like in high school?
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Oh? My god, fucking high school?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Oh, I was so confused.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
I think.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
You know. I was very annoying. I was very annoying.
I'll hold my hands up. I was annoying.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
I was either.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Way too eager in class. Me pick me, miss me me,
or I was chatting a bit rude to the teachers
and getting sent out. But I was just I was
one not If I love the subject, I'm your girl.
If I didn't, I sucked. Yeah, I don't know. I
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used to be really annoying as a kid, I think,
but look, we was kids in it. Yeah, Katie from Covington, Kentucky.
Have you ever gotten those celebrity celebrity gift bags? What
do they usually have in them? Or I've gotten some
good ones in the past.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
I can't lie.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Capital sometime ball I had a Nintendo in there. Hair dryer,
do you know what I mean? Loads of skin products like
a sleeping eyemass that I've used every night.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Now it's like sil can you like tape it at
the back of your head. It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
I'm not gonna lie gift bags are shockingly really good.
Sometimes I'm like, wow, you get some pajamas, you know, yeah,
some good things.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Obviously, Nintendo was proper, proper up there for me. I
love Nintendo.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Andrea from Cherry Hill, New Jersey. If your tour bus
pulled up to a seven eleven in America, what would
be the first five things you would buy?
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Um?
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Snacks, just crisps or chips as Americans say, snacks, waters,
chewing gum, chocolate, and maybe a fridge magnet, depending if
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they sell those there. Yeah, okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Emily from Southampton, United Kingdom.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
What inspired you to use multiple music genres in your
new song Genesis?
Speaker 2 (17:54):
I just.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Do you know what I think I as a musician,
just a listener and a person who just absolutely obsessive music.
I love so many different styles of music, and I
think I really wanted to not be limited to feeling like, Okay, well,
if I'm going to release one song, it has to
only be one thing. So I think it's more of
just it felt like the right thing to do, and
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I really wanted to make it some sort of journey.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Kirsten from Chicago, Illinois, what would you say is the
most difficult part of your job.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
That's a good question. Yeah, if anything, I'd.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Say maybe it's being on all the time. You know.
I think it's so important to be polite and leave
a good impression, and I like to try and give
the best of myself to people when I can. I
think that's kind of like being a performer. You know,
(18:56):
when you're on stage, you're like, I want to show
you the best show so that I can do, and
you're performing, but it's realizing that you're performing off stage
as well as on stage, when you're meeting people and
you're interacting out there, like, I never ever want to
leave a bad impression.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
It would break my heart.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Some people are so good at just being like no,
or just being more, do you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
I'm not like that. I'm such a people pleaser and
I want to be like.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
You know, so I think, Yeah, when you're really in
the thick of it, it can be you wake up
and then you're on and you've got to go and
you just got to be on all the time, and
you can get tired and sometimes I'll get home and
I'm just like it will be like this, I won't
say anything and I'll just be looking around and I'll
just sleep. I'm like, oh damn, so yeah, maybe just
(19:48):
I think that probably comes down to lack of rest
time allocated. But I love people and I love shows
and I love performing, so I think I picked the
right job. Even sometimes there are moments in every walk
of life that can be testing and difficult at times
in it, but way more grateful than anything else.
Stephan from the United Kingdom says, what was the inspiration
behind picking Ray as your stage name? Oh? Okay, well
my real name is Rachel and Rachel Rachel. I was
gonna Ray is kind of like short for Rachel. And
then I remember being like in the car with my
(00:20):
dad when I was about eleven or twelved be about twelve.
I was very young when I decided I was going
to be an artist, and I was like, yeah, I
wanted to be Ray. And then we were talking about
different ways we could spell it, and RAI was one
with thinking of but we're like no, and then ra
ys loads of people He's an r E Y was
(00:41):
really cool. But then Dad was like, what about r
A y E? And I was like, yeah, I really
like that. And then when I moved schools. When I
moved schools, when I moved from my old high school
to the brit school, I went up to all the
teachers before the classes had started off first ever classes,
and I was like, please don't call me Rachel, please
call me Ray, and I show them how to spell it.
Instance then like I kind of rebranded when I moved schools,
(01:03):
you know what I mean. Yeah, So that was the
inspiration it was it was a nickname. My best mate
Carly started calling me Ray and then I wanted it to.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Stick because I really liked it. Here we are.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Kim from Cleveland, Ohio. What's your favorite T shirt to wear?
Good question, very good question. Actually, I for T shirts.
I want two things. I even want space and comfort
and length, you know, so something extra large, something that
(01:35):
could be a dress if I wanted it to be.
I love to sleep in a T shirt usually it's
my vibe, So something like that. I have this big
blue one that my friend Mira gave me and I
really like it. Just wear it all the time to
be comfortable, you know. And I also want, you know,
headrooms you can just get out and it's not you know,
(01:58):
when you're wearing T shirts and they're just like too tight.
So I even want loads of space or actually the opposite.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Wait, do you know what I mean? A little bit
of you know? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Thanks, okay? Lydia from Hartford, Connecticut. What do you do
to warm up your voice before shows? I FaceTime Josh,
who is my vocal coach who I FaceTime. I realized
over the last couple of years how important my vocal
health is. I wasn't necessarily taking it that s as
(02:32):
serious as I should have in the past. So over
the last i'd say a year or two years, year
and a half, I've started to take it quite seriously
with Josh, and we'll do a FaceTime forty five minutes
to an hour where we warm up. I have this
kind of plastic straw that I bring with me. It's
like a rubbersh straw. I put in a bottle of
water that fall and I blow into it and go boo,
(02:57):
do my warm ups, and and then we change the
real voice and you have to make really ugly sounds
to open up your chest voice. It's like air it's
in here, and it's absolutely embarrassing and very disgusting to
make out loud. But my confidence has grown, and you know,
I actually used to not like doing vocal warmans because
of how embarrassed I was at how it sounded. But
(03:19):
now I'm just embracing it fully and it's like, which
is horrible, but it does really stretch the vocalals out.
And then we do up to a C sharp in
the years in the whistle tones, and when we know
when that's there that I'm good in my whistle side.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah, stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah, Natasha from Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
What colors do you like to dye your hair?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
I love the ninety sixties, and in the sixties it
was just block colors, which I really love.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
See, I went red, and.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
It's really hard to maintain a one block definitive color
with red hair because the can you wash your hair,
it's like a massacre in there in your shower or
it's not very nice.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
You wash, one little bit of water goes on your
hair and it's like.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Red everywhere, and your towels on your bed sheets. So
I don't think I'm ever gonna go red ever again,
but you know, I committed to it for my twenty
first Century Blues campaign.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
I did.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
But I like block colors, so like blonde, black, orange,
you know brown. I'm naturally brown, so maybe I don't
gravitate towards brown, but block colors, I'm not gonna lie.
Just do really want to be a blonde again, but
it's such long maintenance. And when you put bleach on
(04:46):
your scalp, it just hurts, you know what I mean,
And it's just like ah, but it does look good.
I miss being blonde it's calling to me again, but
I think I need to chill out right now.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Whatever this is.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yeah, Sheryl from Manchester, Vermont.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
What's your dream house, dream vacation, dream car? Oh, where's
my phone? I'm gonna show you a picture on my
dream car.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Because I was looking at it today and I was like, oh,
I want this car. L class, look at this car.
Can you just picture me driving it? It just makes sense,
don't you think, Like come on, and the wheels and
the color matches my skin so well.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I would love this car. That's my dream car.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
My dream house probably a nice, big kind of house
in the countryside. Honestly, I'm really into nature and that
more now than ever. Just you know, a little village somewhere, man,
just a house in the village. I'll still keep. A
house in London would be my dream. South London and
(06:02):
a countryside residents with lots of fireplaces with real wood
you chop and you do it yourself and you cook stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
And maybe you have a couple of sheep and a
sheep dog. Yeah. Dream vacation.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I really really want to explore Asia. I really want
to go. I want to go to China. I want
to go to Korea, South Korea. I want to go
to Thailand. I want to go to Bali. I've been
to India once, but I want to dig in my dream.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Honestly, do you know what I really want to do?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
I really would love to go backpacking across somewhere, maybe
Vietnam or something.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
I would love to go backpacking.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I think that's the thing I missed because I never
went to UNI and I went straight into music that
I never really got to do, like those.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Kind of things.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
And I would really love to exc like that, just
a backpack camping down to earth into nature.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I mean I would love that.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Okay, cool Jody from Middlesbrough, United Kingdom. You've been insanely
busy the past year and a half. Bus club, another club,
another club, next place, Nosley. Yeah, yes, facts, Lady Gaga
told no lies about the lifestyle of an artist who
is really trying. How have you been managing to prioritize
your own mental health and physical health so that you
(07:28):
don't bon't burn out? I I am tired, Okay, I am,
but look I've worked my entire life to even get
to this point. So for me, I would say my
mental physical health right now isn't necessarily my priority. But
(07:51):
there will come a time, hopefully in the near future,
where that will be the case. But right now, I
got shit to do. I got things to do, and
I've got to keep it pushing. So some days it
is kind of tough, and I can be a bit
homesick sometimes, but the shows make it all worth it,
and you know, this is the life that I work
(08:14):
so hard for. So but yeah, luckily I work with
my parents and it's I'm on the phone and.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
All the time I'm like, dad, mom, this that is.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
But yeah, so my family definitely helped me out a lot.
Joe from Bristol, England. Will there be Genesis merch? I
need some hope that answers your question? Lewis from Seattle, Washington.
What's your favorite candy in the UK and favor in America?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:46):
My favorite candy in the UK Galaxy chocolate, don't play around,
Galaxy caramel, Galaxy salted caramel.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
But in terms of like sweets, I do love a
harrowbo tang FasTIS, you know. And I like the green
lolly one with the circle on the line, the green
I like that, And I love the crocodiles in tang FasTIS. Oh,
actually I'm straight for the crocodiles and then the green lollipops.
Okay in America. Ooh, favorite candy in America. I don't
(09:29):
really eat candy in America.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
I don't recall it.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Canny, we say sweets. Hmm, Reese's butter cups, Liese's Peanut
butter cups.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I like those. Those are really good in America. Yeah. Nice.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Dire from New York City. What's the best picture of
yourself you've ever seen?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
That's so funny? Oh?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Okay, the one on me and my grandma at the
Brits and me crying like an absolute yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Balling, balling.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
But that was a beautiful picture just because of that
moment and just getting to share it with her.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Wow. I absolutely love that woman with every fiber in
my body.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yeah, so that was beautiful. Laura from Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
What are your career goals for twenty twenty five? My goodness.
I mean, I would like to attempt to write an album,
but I'm not going to rush it. I barely started,
so please please be.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Patient with me and hang on in there.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
I would love to write an album and I would
love to Honestly, I know it sounds quite crazy, but
I would really love to embark potentially on a journey
of apt to be an actress. I just said that
out loud, I did, but I would love to give
(11:08):
it a go. I would love to see if I
have what it takes to just.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Be someone else.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I mean, be sad, I'm choking, but anyway, I've really
love to explore that. So maybe that and if that
door opens, But mainly I would actually like to live
a bit, because I think in order to write good music,
you have to really have a perspective that you want
to write about and shen you need to live to
do that. Think no one wants to hear a song
(11:36):
songs about hotels and airports.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
It's just not relatable.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
No, Yeah, that's my career goals live, right, And do
you know what? I want to just go and sing
in jazz clubs for the love of it, not for
like money, just for passion and just like jams jam nights.
I want to search out and go and open mics
and do stuff like that. I think I would have
(12:03):
the best time. Dion from Toronto, Ontario. Is Ratriarchy the
fandom name or do you have another one of your leave.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Look, I personally love the.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Ratiarchy is hilarious, but you know, I think I don't
know if I'm allowed to choose the fan name. I
don't think that's my choice to make. So if the
ratriarchy stick in, let's go. I mean, Elizabeth from London, England,
would you ever consider entering I'm a celebrity, get me
out of here. I don't think I would. I don't
(12:42):
think so. I don't think so. I'd be so annoying
on that show because I don't. I actually don't mind
insects at all. Like if I see a spider, I'll
put a cup on it and a paper and I'll
take it outside.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
I'm that kind of girl.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
But I don't want thousands of them calling on me. Honestly,
to me, my worst nightmare is you know them caterpillars
with the goo inside them, you know them thick yellow
white caterpillars that they always have to eat it bite
and then juice comes out like absolutely not no, no,
(13:22):
life's too short, No, not for me. Penny from Colorado Springs, Colorado.
What would your DJ or rapper name? If you could
pick one? DJ Raisin? Because I love raisins it would
be fun to be a DJ, wouldn't it.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
You should turn up and you could drink on the job.
Press play DJ Raisin. Rachel from Dublin Island.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Who do you text the most with Which one of
your friends needs to use spell check the most?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Oh? Oh, I text the most with Carl.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
And my sisters and Lee, but she lives in Paris,
so we FaceTime. Yeah, Ben's a terrible text over. That's
one of my best mates as well. I have about
four five friends, you know, I text often. Yeah, but
(14:25):
they're all good at spelling, I think. Yeah. Vanna from
San Antonio, Texas says what emoji would you use to
describe yourself?
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Oh? Oh, that's a good question. It depends on that.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
It depends on the day because I go like this sometimes.
But I would say I'm like this emoji.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
You know that one?
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Is there emoji that goes like this, It's like that
the wild emoji? Like that one, Yeah, with the eyes
that go up like I'll be that one. I'd like
to think. I'd also be the red dress emoji. When
I'm on stage. I like to feel like that, you know,
(15:09):
the girl he's like in her red dress looking all fabulous.
But yeah, I think that one each from Newport, United Kingdom.
What were you like in high school?
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Oh? My god, fucking high school?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Oh, I was so confused.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
I think.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
You know. I was very annoying. I was very annoying.
I'll hold my hands up. I was annoying.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
I was either.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Way too eager in class. Me pick me, miss me me,
or I was chatting a bit rude to the teachers
and getting sent out. But I was just I was
one not If I love the subject, I'm your girl.
If I didn't, I sucked. Yeah, I don't know. I
(16:02):
used to be really annoying as a kid, I think,
but look, we was kids in it. Yeah, Katie from Covington, Kentucky.
Have you ever gotten those celebrity celebrity gift bags? What
do they usually have in them? Or I've gotten some
good ones in the past.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
I can't lie.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Capital sometime ball I had a Nintendo in there. Hair dryer,
do you know what I mean? Loads of skin products like
a sleeping eyemass that I've used every night.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Now it's like sil can you like tape it at
the back of your head. It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
I'm not gonna lie gift bags are shockingly really good.
Sometimes I'm like, wow, you get some pajamas, you know, yeah,
some good things.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Obviously, Nintendo was proper, proper up there for me. I
love Nintendo.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Andrea from Cherry Hill, New Jersey. If your tour bus
pulled up to a seven eleven in America, what would
be the first five things you would buy?
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Um?
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Snacks, just crisps or chips as Americans say, snacks, waters,
chewing gum, chocolate, and maybe a fridge magnet, depending if
(17:42):
they sell those there. Yeah, okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Emily from Southampton, United Kingdom.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
What inspired you to use multiple music genres in your
new song Genesis?
Speaker 2 (17:54):
I just.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Do you know what I think I as a musician,
just a listener and a person who just absolutely obsessive music.
I love so many different styles of music, and I
think I really wanted to not be limited to feeling like, Okay, well,
if I'm going to release one song, it has to
only be one thing. So I think it's more of
just it felt like the right thing to do, and
(18:19):
I really wanted to make it some sort of journey.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Kirsten from Chicago, Illinois, what would you say is the
most difficult part of your job.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
That's a good question. Yeah, if anything, I'd.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Say maybe it's being on all the time. You know.
I think it's so important to be polite and leave
a good impression, and I like to try and give
the best of myself to people when I can. I
think that's kind of like being a performer. You know,
(18:56):
when you're on stage, you're like, I want to show
you the best show so that I can do, and
you're performing, but it's realizing that you're performing off stage
as well as on stage, when you're meeting people and
you're interacting out there, like, I never ever want to
leave a bad impression.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
It would break my heart.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Some people are so good at just being like no,
or just being more, do you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
I'm not like that. I'm such a people pleaser and
I want to be like.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
You know, so I think, Yeah, when you're really in
the thick of it, it can be you wake up
and then you're on and you've got to go and
you just got to be on all the time, and
you can get tired and sometimes I'll get home and
I'm just like it will be like this, I won't
say anything and I'll just be looking around and I'll
just sleep. I'm like, oh damn, so yeah, maybe just
(19:48):
I think that probably comes down to lack of rest
time allocated. But I love people and I love shows
and I love performing, so I think I picked the
right job. Even sometimes there are moments in every walk
of life that can be testing and difficult at times
in it, but way more grateful than anything else.
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