Isabel LaRosa

Isabel LaRosa stopped by to chat before her performance in our Dunkin Lounge. We chatted about casting White Boy Carl from Shameless, the cliffhanger in Favorite. And how to plant easter eggs in music. 

Episode Transcript

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Did Jeremiah Show ninety six five?Kiss, I am so excited to be
joined in the studio right now?You know her from her song Favorite is
about Lorosa joining us in the studiois about how are you? I'm good?
How are you good? I'm solovely. It's it's so nice to
talk to you in human form becauseyou see artists perform their songs and you
think you catch a vibe of howthey're going to speak yeah and B and

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you're you're not it at all.And I don't mean that it's a I
got that like that exactly earlier todaytoo. It's so funny. I feel
like the online image is very likeI feel like I would not be very
nice in person, but but II proven you're wrong. You have one

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hundred well because your songwriting, inyour style in music, in the videos,
it's it puts off a certain vibewhich you're going for. But it's
got it is that is that isthat difficult to navigate? Like, Hey,
I am I'm a very approachable,nice person. Don't be scared of
me. I'm not going to hurtyou. No. I feel like,
to be honest, it's not somethingthat occurs to me. That much because
it almost is like two different partsof my personality because I feel like I'm

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not I'm not an unfriendly person.Yeah, I would like to imagine you
haven't been so far. But butThomas and I Thomas is my brother,
really love like kind of darker alternativestuff for sure, and that's like a
big part of what I love inmy personality too. So it's I feel
like it's almost like two sides.I also love the contrast of the darkness.

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But then the then the eye shadowis just like I'm gonna do what
I want and it's so bright.I know. I just put glitter everywhere.
It's it's easy because if you messup your eyeliner, you just cover
like it doesn't matter because then it'slike intentional and it's messy. And you
know, that's that's a life hackright there for those listening. Just put
glitter over it. Put glitter thatyou know, everyone they make up or

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not related to glitter, put glitterover it if you if you mess up,
just put a little bit of youknow. So I watched I watched
favor it. I loved it.How did you get white boy, Carl?
Oh my god, Well, what'sthe what's the process of getting of
getting the quote unquote video hot guy? Because some people don't know you write
and you write and direct all yourmusic videos. I do. So how

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did you go about getting just forthe Ethan? I can never say his
last name? Carl from from Shameless? How do you say? Kokowski?
I believe? So? Yeah?How did you? How does that process
work? To be honest, Ididn't really have a huge part in it.
My wonderful video commissioner Win reached outto people and everyone was busy.

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It was like that that meme wherethey were like Barack Obama said no.
We were like every day. I'dbe like, did they say yes?
He's like no, and then andthen uh, Ethan said yes. And
I didn't know, but he hadlistened to the music before and I thought
that was so cool because I waslike, what, But he's a really

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nice person and I'm very glad hewanted to do it. Have you watched
Shameless? Okay? The funny thingis I literally haven't. No, that's
I didn't watch it till a yearago. Don't feel bad. We my
wife and I stumbled upon it likearound Christmas looking for something to binge and
it was fantastic. I highly recommendit. I've seen, like I get
the clips on TikTok, you know, like the split screen where it's like
suboy surfers, and then the show. That's what I watch it on it

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and I'm like, I watch itall the way through because I'm like,
every time I see it, it'slike the craziest, it's wild. It's
wild. I'm like, I Idon't even know what the plot line is,
but it's just fun. Yeah,I don't. I'm not even gonna
explain. Next time you're on thelong drive, just pop a couple episodes.
Serious, it is so good,all right. So favorite ended with
a little little part one. Whatare we doing here? Come on,

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give me a little something? Imean, nugget listen. I can't say
for sure, okay, but I'mjust saying that there's a lot of I've
been teasing a lot of things fora reason, and I put the part
one for a reason. And Ican't really say much other than that I
love it. How much do you? I enjoy so some of my favorite
artists. I love the Easter.You gotta love a Taylor Swift Easter e

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I love Easter Egg my My favoriteEaster egg givers of all time are twenty
one Pilots. Oh my, Ilove twenty one Pilots so much. I
do this all the time. Wehad we had nocent it the other week
and we got it on a wholetwenty one Pilot's tangent. We'll save that
for off thee I love them,But when when did you kind of get
to that point where you're like,all right, I'm gonna make music and
now we're going to put in someEaster eggs and tell a story. Maybe

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there's a lore, maybe there's abackground. How did that come about?
I feel like, uh, justthe artists that I love. I love
Melanie Martinez and twenty one Pilots,and I mean, obviously the queen of
them all is Taylor Swift, thequeen, the queen of them all.
But I just feel like it's suchan interesting way for people who like the
music to engage with it, andit's I always find it really cool when

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I can see Easter eggs and thingsor people find them and things and I'm
like, oh, I didn't knowthat, and I just think it's really
really cool. So I it's alwayssomething that I wanted Tom, what are
the odds if we get another WhiteboardCarl appearance at some point in the future.
I mean, he's the guy,right, he's scrapping, he's hitting
people with bottles over the face.I love it. I don't think I've

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prepared any of the extras for theparts that they were playing. No.
I thought they were going to,but they didn't. And so the guy
that was getting hit in the facewith the bottle was like, oh word,
and I was like, but listen, I'm being very secretive right now,
but I swear to God, soonyou're gonna know it's gonna happen.

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We're gonna find out. Okay,I want to talk about It's my favorite
thing to talk about is discovering voice. And I mean that in a very
little sense, because, for example, if you're going to choir in third
grade, they're teaching you to singa certain way. But I bet if
you're a music teacher, and Idon't know if you did music in school,
or did you do music in school. I honestly didn't really go to

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school that much. I was homeschooledfor a really long time, and I
went for a little bit of middleschool and then left again. And did
almost it's easier. I hate school. But I guess my point being,
if you went to a vocal coachwith what you sing, it probably wouldn't
be quote unquote the perfect way.How did you discover your version of how
you sing? I, to behonest, I owe a lot of that

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to Thomas, because I was veryreluctant to sing kind of quiet and breathy,
because I was like, I washonestly scared that I was going to
like get the Billie Eilish comparisons andI didn't want that, not because she
isn't incredible, just because I didn'tyou want to be you? Yeah,
I wanted to be me, butI was like, Okay, let's try
it, like like to just giveit a shot, because it's you never

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know what's gonna happen. And Ithink that it felt really natural, and
I don't know, it just gavelike a consistent feel and like a unique
feel to the songs that I don'tthink it had before. But it's not
unnatural for me to sing like thateither. It's just kind of the way
I sing. I love it.That's fantas as all right, you ready
to go do this? Duncan last, I'm so excited. Okay, i'm

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excited too. Cool, we'll stopthis