October 31, 2024 • 27 mins
Erin Alvey, wife of NHL All Star, Filip Forsberg of the Nashville Predators is so much more than just a Hockey wife. This year she's become a first time mom & she's in the middle of making her return to music! Erin has been making music for 10+ years and she's ready to put even more out, starting with, "End Badly" off of her upcomign EP, "Questions & Answers!" We talk music, mom life and how uncomfortable of a situation being a part of a TV show while you're pregnant can be!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Uh, listen, I'm excited because this, uh, this chat here
is happening. I don't want to say by accident, but
I saw she's putting music out. She's a part of
my I was gonna say she's part of my side
gig that was we're gonna we're add that out. I
met her through my side. No, I don't like that.
Aaron Alvi better known to probably the majority of fans
(00:22):
as Aaron Forsburg, How are you doing great? How are
you not bad? I got to ask, because first of all,
you have gone from from somebody I would see at
the rink on game day to all you're a TV
star now I don't know all that, but and you've
got the music. How are things to How are things
being you right now?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I was not expecting that question. How much time do
you have?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
No?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Things are these are going well? Because I'm a new mom,
I'm a wife, you know, I've been doing music for years.
The TV show was definitely an add on. It's just
kind of chaotic, But I like chaos. I kind of
thriving chaos. I think. So it's good.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
We're s cruising when and I'm obviously we're here because
you're putting out a song tomorrow and EP is coming. Uh.
But I got a touch on the show happened? Uh.
And it's cool because there's there's an NFL version and
I'm gonna forget what it's called, but it's like quarterback
or they didn't receiver one. Yeah, because Kiddo was on. Yeah,
(01:22):
And it's funny because I'm a Vikings guy. But I
messed with you. No, I love I love him. But
but the NHL version of that came around at not
the best time for you, between coming into the playoffs
and you're trying to.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
You mean, when I was forty heavier than it is
that what you're trying to say in a nice way. Okay, yes,
we'll just go ahead and tell you that was not opportune.
But I don't know. It's one of those things that
it kinda Yeah. I mean, nobody's gonna feel bad for
me if you watch the show. I'm literally driving through
Chick fil A daily, so I don't think anyone's gonna
be like, oh, poor her. But it really was like
(01:56):
it was a vulnerable time in my life. But it
was a time that I really hope my son and
can look back and see how excited we were to
have him, and there was a lot of chaos, you know,
surrounding his birth. We didn't know if he was going
to come during playoffs, if they were going to lose out,
what the scenario was going to be. So in hindsight,
yeah it was.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
It was.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I'm happy we did it, but yeah, we did not
agree to do it when I was pregnant. We agreed
to do it before I got pregnant.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
And funny enough, I remember bumping into you towards I
don't know if it was towards the end of the
season or we were in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
But everyone was bumping into me at that I had
a lot of landscape.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Into But I feel like you even made a comment
like phil was like, well, just hang on if you
go into labor, just hang on till the game. He
was tight.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Just keep your legs crossed.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
We don't understand. Just don't stand up. The baby wants to.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I didn't either, so I was like, oh, yeah, I
could just cross my legs.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
How did y'all meet?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
So Philip and I met? We always a credit it
to Ellie Yosi and Roman Yo. See, so I knew
them before, and I modeled actually across the street at
boot Barn. I did with Ellie. Ellie's a model, modeled
with her on a gig with boot Barn and I
think saw me there and then messaged me on Instagram
and took me to Dave and Busters. Two days later.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
He hits you with the damn girl, Yeah, your first
name was David Busters And there was a second date.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Oh wait, I am like a Carney at heart. Please
that was my dream first date.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Do you have.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
The Yeah I am, but yeah, so we uh yeah,
so I like the hockey players. It's a good run time.
No so Philip has all his teeth shocking me.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
They He took me to Dave and Busters and it
was awesome. We have the best time. We're both competitive.
I didn't realize how competitive. It's like one of those
things where we had an agreement, like whoever loses has to
buy the candy for the like the movie we're gonna watch,
and he won no shock to anybody. And I was thought,
you know, like, okay, I'm on a first date. He's
(03:47):
gonna pay end up paying and he's like, no, you
lost your paying for this candy. And I was like, Okay,
this is weird, but I love that, Like Philip is
who he is, and he made we made an agreement
in competition and he won.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
So yeah, at what point in your li life did
the music come about? And was that was that always
part of the.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Plan or I yeah, so it. I don't want to
say it was an accident by any mean, a happy
little accident. But I have a cousin that was in
the band O Town MTV's making the band and it
was big, yeah, we're going deep, like all or nothing,
liquid dreams. They were just there. Ask Jacob Underwood. I
always say it was the redhead with dreadlocks. Okay, yeah,
(04:25):
that was Jacob and he I showed interest in music
when I was around nineteen ish and I was in
college and actually in sports broadcasting I was my major.
And he said, you know, if you want to do this,
I could probably like help you. I'll take you to Nashville,
will do this whole thing. And I was like, I
don't know about country. I was born in Race, South Georgia,
but I didn't have like this lifelong dream of being
a country artist.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Right.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
He's like, let's let's go to Nashville. Let's try this thing,
go to Nashville record some songs. And then I asked.
I was like, if you want to be an artist,
what do you do? Really like, how do you become
an artist? He's like, well, you need a fan base.
And I was like, oh, that feels like a lot
to think about me. I've never really like had this aspiration.
All of a sudden, he's like, you gotta get fans.
I'm like, fans, I just wrote my first song, what
do you mean? So we were talking and I was
(05:07):
really active on Braves Twitter. I was a huge Atlanta
Braves fan, like randomly got into it, like during college,
and we were friends with all these things. We called
ourselves the Brave Spam, and I was like, what would
be kind of cool to write a song for my
little brave Spam. So I wrote the song called Tomahawk
Chop at the time, and it incorporated you know, the
chant that they do at the Braves games, and Chipper
(05:27):
Jones actually was in the music video. So Chipper Jones,
I think, is why I even have a career at all,
because he tweeted out that he was in this new
country artist music video and everyone was into it, and
so I kind of just started touring after that. He
really didn't have a big favor there, and it's where
I'm at.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
That's so funny that it started with sports. Sports, Yeah,
and now it's you're.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Living in door sports. My family doesn't though I'm the
only person in my entire family. My dad said I
was adopted because they're like medieval type people. Oh, i'd
had like a scholar and books and E thinks sports
are kind of voice. But I loved him. I thought
there's such an energy around all sports that were so
fun and I loved playing sports growing up.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
So it's funny because speaking of books, I'm originally from Minneapolis,
so I'm it's talking to my mom who still lives
and lives up in Minnesota, and I was like, oh,
I've been so busy. She's like, you just need downtime
to read a book. I'm like book book on tape,
mab Yeah, lots of sport with a book on time.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I know I had. But my problem with books is
I'm not a responsible reader, where if I start, all
responsibilities are out for the next Like until I finished
that book, I get obsessed over the book. Philip got
me onto it was lot on Ibrahimovic of course, and
I was like, I don't know who that is. And
he's like, well, we can't get married until you know
all about Sloughton. Buys me the autobiography. I proceed to
read the biography. I didn't do anything for two days.
(06:43):
I just read everything about Sloton and then I got
like obsessive. I was like, this guy's awesome. He's incredible,
Like his story was really cool. So yeah, after that,
he didn't suggest I read anything again because I kind
of was gone for the count for two days.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Hey, the baby's crying. Wow, You're like, probably. Well when
it comes to there's something special about being in a
hockey family. And I grew up a big baseball fan.
I transition to a massive football fan. Hockey came to
me later in life, which like, I don't know what
took it so long, but I'm glad it's here. But
(07:18):
there's something special about being a part of a hockey family.
And it really isn't just the players, and it's not
just you know, their family or extended family, Like the
whole community feels like part of that family. So what
has that been like for you? Not only as the
better half of All Star NHL player. But now to
(07:39):
have your own music career, that's fully I mean, not
that you didn't have it, but it's definitely out.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Yeah, I take step back, definitely. You know, it actually
COVID hit. So that's why I took my step back,
and then I really did get fully engulfed. I was
still working, I was in the studio every week here
in Ashville, but I wasn't touring because, like you said too,
there's a whole community there and there is a lot
of responsibility that comes with being, you know, the significant
other of any professional athlete I imagine. But I love
(08:05):
the hockey community. I feel like everyone's so kind. I
feel like it's a particularly humble, classy sport, you know,
comparatively to a lot of others. Not talking poorly about others,
but I think in comparison, most people would agree that hockey.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Is special, you know, funny enough. It's you hear if
you watch a game on TV, and especially the national
TV games, they call it the gentleman's sport.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Yeah, but like shocking. Yeah, I don't know about all that,
but yeah, it is it is. I mean, I'm not
going to outfill up stories, but he has some stories
and I'm like, please tell, like write a book at
the end of this that Wayne will not read, but
please there he has such cool stories and it is
It just reiterates that it is a gentleman's sport, maybe
behind the facade of like this big strong, you know,
(08:48):
like fight each other game. Those guys are pretty classy
and they're pretty like even if they're on other teams.
I hope he does.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Say minus and interaction. When I was by the locker
room between Corey Perry, I'm Mattias that co home. But
we're gonna leave that alone. We'll leave that alone. That
But the support, especially from Smashville, It's funny because I
see you on social media and anybody that's a fan
of Phil is like automatically a cheerleader of yours. And
what does that support like from Nashville itself?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Well, as you know better than anybody, the Prince fans
are the best, Like they really are. I always say
it's so, I you know, hockey is a thing here
in this town. It's big. It's become such a big thing,
especially after twenty seventeen run, which I wasn't a part of.
So I came in and people already adored hockey, and
I think they're just like true. I don't know how
it is in other markets, but here in Nashville, I
can attest that the people really just want the best
(09:37):
for the players, the families of the players, you know,
everybody in the organization. And they're just happy for wins.
You know, maybe they're not thrilled when we're losing, but
they're really not that hard on the players. They kind
of just they're just champions. They're positive. So I love
that about the press.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
I am we lose? How yo? You suck outside the
locker room?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Oh okay, well that yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Yeah? So with the music and where you're at now?
And you said you took a step back during COVID,
where do you you like? You said the TV show
was happening before. Yeah, you know, any real buddy really
knew y'all were going to have a baby, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Well we agreed to it before. Are we even got pregnant?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Yeah? When? So when were you working on this music?
Was it around that same time or before it?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
I really never stopped. So the EP that's coming out
are like six songs of like lessons I've learned from
the past ten years and a lot of it's just
been maybe I wrote it eight years ago, maybe I
wrote it two months ago. So there's there's a variation
of the songs. But I always was working on the songs.
Some of these are just like my favorites from the
past ten years essentially, or songs I think I need
(10:36):
to release.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Now, Okay, where is your Where's the motivation coming from?
Now that where you were ten years ago? Right? Much
different versus wife rather, you know, entrepreneur artist. So where's
the motivation coming from? Obviously the EP is coming, but
we're talking about the song Q and A as well,
which comes out tomorrow. But as far as the EP
(10:58):
as a whole, where's the main motivation for the whole thing? I,
as cliche as it sounds, I think becoming a mother.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
There's something like when I had him, I think I
had this idea, especially at the time when I was touring.
You know, I was like young and single and it
was fun. I was in bars and festivals and clubs.
I was like, this was where I wanted to do.
I had the best time. Then I you know, got
into a serious relationship with Philip and then we got
married and then having a child. I was like man,
every part of young Aaron would have thought it's over.
(11:26):
You know, it's done, You had your run, you did it.
And sure, I don't really want to be at bars
and festivals every night now because my heart is with
my son and my husband and that's where I want
to be. But with that being said, I was like,
you know what, if anything, I have more more to
write on, Like this is time. This is a time
for my son to look and like I don't want
him to think that I stopped pursuing my dreams because
he came along, because, if anything, he's just motivated that more.
(11:49):
Same with my husband, you know, like being a wife
to Philip has given me so much confidence and so
much I don't know, so he gives me so much
support and encouragement that I was like, you know what,
I don't have to just stop because you know, society's
ideals of what the artist looks like, maybe I don't
necessarily fit, but yeah, I think that's the main motivation.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Stories come out in songs and so everybody has a
favorite story, and I love catching up with whoever sitting
on the other side of the table for me because
everybody has a favorite story, which turns into a favorite song,
although I've heard a million times from different artists of
every level. Yeah, they're all my babies and I love
them all, Okay, but I don't feel that way as
(12:30):
a father of two. There's times one is your favorite
over the other. So, out of these six, and obviously
there's other music out there, but let's talk about the
six on the EP. What story is the closest to
your heart or maybe was the toughest to share?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Ooh yeah, So I think, like we were just saying,
on the other side of being married and loving my
husband and my baby, there are songs that come out
that were not motivated by current events. You know, if
my husband has not you know, broken my heart. So yeah,
there are songs that were from twenty two year old Aaron,
(13:07):
you know that maybe he was experiencing life. And that's
where the title the EP Questions and Answers comes out,
where it's you know, there are years that ask questions
and the are years that answer, and that's what the
whole EP is. There are some of my question years there,
and there's some of my answer years there. So tomorrow
the song and Badly is kind of a question. It's
kind of one of those question years. So that one's
not a necessarily a heartbreak song, but it's basically begging
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the person that I'm in a relationship with if you're
gonna end this, which you know ended up being Philip,
I wrote after I met him, if you end this,
you better break my heart. You better do it bad,
because if I don't get to hate you, especially Phillips,
he's such a nice person. I was like, I can't
just walk away from you. And then it just it
didn't work out, Like you gotta like really mess me
up or else we're I'm never gonna get over you.
So thank god it worked out, and badly was the
(13:50):
turmoil you felt when you're first in a relationship of like, God,
I think I really like this person. He better really
mess me up if we end up breaking up, because
otherwise it's gonna be the one that got away forever.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Yeah, because you don't want to like, you can't.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Just walk away from that person.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Yeah. When it comes to you know, phil doing his
thing very well, you doing your thing? Is he does
he like to sit in? Does he like to give feedback?
Has he been in the studio? Can he rap?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Can my sweetish husband wrap, No, he cannot.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
But what's his impact and input as far as musically, Like.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
I said, well, musically, I don't know. We do keep
it fairly separate. Philip is very involved. When I ask
him to be he'll listen to whatever. He'll listen to
the songs. But to be honest, I feel like that's
where it becomes that's this is my baby, you know,
Like I toured. I pride myself in knowing that, like
he had already heard my music before I knew his name,
you know, one of those things. So it's like this
was my baby. And although his opinion means more to
(14:48):
me than anybody else is in the world, in fact
only really his opinion now my son's matter. But we
keep it fairly separate, just the same as I'm not
telling him how to play hockeys.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I don't know about you. You don't comment on Wide
Open that he might.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I don't know anything about it, you know, I'm just
out here. I'm just supporting it. Like when he does
something great, that's great, and he's the same, Like he
doesn't criticize me, or he doesn't even give me critiques,
and I don't give him critiques. We're just there to
support each other in our respective careers, and I think
it works best that way.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
So we will hear Q and A tomorrow available to stream.
The rest of the EP is coming out. Of the
six songs, which one has he shared? Which one is
his favorite or which one he goes back to or
is he just like, hey love you, you love the music.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Well, there's one on the EP that I wrote almost
entirely alone. I had a couple of writers come in
and help me with a part of one verse. But
that song it's called Oasis, and I've played it live before.
But that's his song. That's a song that there's no question.
Like I said, maybe some have trickles over of like
other life experiences, but Oasis is for Philip, and that
(15:48):
one I think. I think he feels special. Who wouldn't
want a songwrite about them?
Speaker 1 (15:52):
You know it's nice there might be a song about.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Written about them. Yeah, So I think Oasis would probably
be the song that I mean, he knows. I've been
very open about that one. That one's for Philip.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
As you get back into it after stepping back from
the music, what has been something you're nervous about to
get back into or to do for the first time,
or and then what's one thing that you're like, Damn,
I forgot how awesome this was.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Yeah, I think, like I was saying, I have more.
I feel more secure in myself more than ever. But
at the same time, I almost feel more nervous about
releasing because I did take such a step back and
before it only affected me, you know, like my music,
it was just me, like, you know, my family might
my team, but I didn't have a husband and a
child that I'm also like protecting in this. So there's
(16:41):
something either. There's a give and to take in everything
in life. So even right now I'm here and I'm
so happy to be here and like, I'm so thankful
you had me here to promote the EP and the
single coming out tomorrow to start it, but I'm also
taking time away from my son. So it's like there
is going to always be a balance in life, a
give and a take. And I hope this EP does
as well as it's supposed to do and goes as
(17:01):
big as it can go, But at the same time,
I have to make sure that I'm balancing being a
wife and a mother.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Is the EP going to because it's so different because
EPs used to be like, Okay, here's a sample of
what my album is going to be. Like it's almost
like it was super strategic. Now, especially in Nashville, it's like, hey,
I got six songs, they're dope, put them on an
EP and put the Well, where is that for you?
Is it just here's six songs, take them whatever? Or
(17:29):
is this kind of like the tee up to an
album that you want to maybe get to at some point.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Well, because I haven't been touring, I do have hundreds
of songs right now that I've just been writing for
years with the writers here in town. So I have
a lot that I could release. And I think, as
we know, like this day and age, I think everyone
kind of has a little bit of add with music
where they don't, not unless you're one of the big bigs.
Not everyone's releasing a full album, you know, because it's
hard to get people to commit to what listening to
(17:56):
you for this long, which is why questions and answers.
The EP is just sick songs that are releasing in
a waterfall release. So I think it'll be three drops essentially. Okay,
with that being said, you know, depending on how it does,
maybe maybe I do end up releasing more from the
vault of songs that I have. I have a lot
that I'd love to share, the songs I think are important.
But like you're saying, like some of them are old
(18:17):
to me, but that doesn't mean they're old to people
who haven't heard of them.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
For people that might be hearing this before they hear
a song, what can they expect from you? And when
I say how, what do you? Who do you sound like?
And when I say that, I don't mean like, oh
I sound like artists a right, But it feels like
even in what I do, it's like you take, you
take some of this, some of this, some of this
(18:42):
to form who you want to be, and it's not
necessarily a copy, more inspired by what would that melting
pot be? That makes you who you are as an artist?
Speaker 2 (18:52):
So you like the musical inspirations growing up or like
what that to that to even now?
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Who make you like, oh I saw them do it
that way? I won sy it with my flair and
vice versa.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Totally. Yeah, So I grew up with like Bruce Springsteen,
you know, the Beatles, Paul McCartney's my favorite. Not the
Beatles necessarily but Paul McCartney has an artist and like
his writing. His single writing is something that I really like.
And then I think that's the growing up aspect. And
then I had my mom always had country playing. She
had like Toby Keith rest in Peace playing all the time,
(19:23):
and I loved his vibe and the energy he brought.
And then a newer artist that I think I the
first time in a very long time that I felt
super moved by an artist was Lewis Capaldi. A mix
of those you know, like you have kind of this
melting pot of that's the style of writing. I think,
the vocals, it's all. It's definitely country pop. I had
(19:44):
a pop era where I didn't really release a lot
of country. So it's kind of fun going back to
my roots. I was born in raised South Georgia. Although
I've lost a lot of my accent being married to European,
it's still there. That's in my roots. That's where the
country comes in. But the right is very styled of
you know, it's it's pretty vulnerable.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
I was texting with our in arena. DJ's name is Battle. Yeah,
and we do these pregame we do these production meetings. Yeah,
and and it's like, okay, here's you know, they point
to me, They're like, okay, here's you're doing this, this, this, whatever,
You're good, Okay, you're doing this. And then Battle was like, oh, hey,
you know, I know that Aaron has music coming. Does
(20:26):
she have anything with like a pop and so and so?
He I think somebody did they reach out to you already?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Okay, So so that I want to ask, let's say
we go into a timeout or something like that and
you hear your song go over whatever we're doing. Is
that going to be weird?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
I almost wish y'all hadn't asked because then because now
it's like seems like I'm like, yeah, guys, do it.
But it's one of those things like I wouldn't have
thought anything. I would have been like, awesome.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
You know.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Of course I want my music promoted because I think
that every everybody who listens to it, like, why else
would I be doing it if I didn't want it
to be out there?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Right?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
But at the same time, like I've always been very
vocal that I will not sing the anthem with Philip
in the room, and not because of an insecurity, but
because it just feels like I don't know. I think
that would make me really nervous to do it right
in front of Philip. But like, my music is something
I'm proud of, right, so, like I would love to
hear it anywhere. I hope to hear it wherever I go.
But with that being said, I'm not going to be
the one like knocking on Barry's door. You think you
(21:24):
guys can promote me a little bit out there, So
I don't know. It's definitely a little bit of a mix.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Philip said his next contractor'll give you a deal if
I can see me yeah every game.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Yeah, and I want a power slide after every anthem?
Can you guys work that out?
Speaker 1 (21:37):
The funny thing about the anthem is some artists feel
so different about it, Like Luke Bryan stepped out last
year absolutely killed it. But there's some artists because I
tried to help book in a previous employer, I tried
to help book a couple of country artists as they
were coming to town, and so I talked to their
manager and they go, I won't let my artists do
the anthem.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
It's a tough one.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Well, and at first I was like, don't love America?
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Yeah, come on.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
But he's like, because if they kill it, nobody cares.
They're expected to kill it. It's not going to go viral.
It's not there's you do the anthem. You're supposed to
kill it.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
So true.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
It lives forever if you screw it up.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
It's so true.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
So he's like, it doesn't help him as song.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
I don't know if I'm sorry hard butt song, but
there's something about it that it is. It's also like
a humbling experience. I actually became like an anthem artist
for a second there because the management that I was with,
anytime we would tour, they'd make me sing, not make me.
They would sign me up to sing the anthem at
almost every sporting event leading up to the concert or
the show as a way of promoting and marketing. And
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it worked.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
You know.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
There Wo'd be people be like, oh, I saw you
sing the anthem, and I saw you at a show
in town, so I came whatever. And then it was
like I kind of became, like I said, the anthem artist.
I was always singing the anthem. I was like, this
is kind of getting a lot singing the anthem quite often,
but it is every single time. It's intimidating because just
like you said, it can really.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Takes one one way, yeah, or one like oh I
took a breath there and all of a sudden, you're
breathing time. And I always tell people because you see
gets love at the beginning of the anthem, So if
someone hasn't done it before, I tried to bump into it. Hey,
just so you know, if you have good you do,
you're gonna yell back to you. Because my fear would
be like oh say, I'd be.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Like what exactly and then you stop. They did it
to me the Orioles. The first MLB game that I
sang out was for the Baltimore Orioles yep. And it
was during the Bobby Bobbies, like David Ortiz. It was
his like goodbye tour and so it was insane in
this it was the last time he's gonna play against
the Orioles. You know. It was like this huge night
(23:34):
and they said just you know, they're gonna yell oh
for the Orioles. Like at in the middle of the song,
I was like, yeay, okay. It was jarring, like you're
already prepared for the delay, right, so you have to
sing you're hearing yourself sing verses that you've already sung
you feel like eight minutes ago, and they're just now
coming back to you in your inner ear. But you
just have to power through and just trust your gut.
And then you have this whole crowd yelling in the
(23:56):
middle of while you're singing, and you don't want to
get like jarred and off track. It is absolutely I
have all respect for any artist that gets out there
and sings the anthem because it is I'm no.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Joke, and that that like clapback that happens in the arena,
whether it's empty or there's one hundred thousand people in it. Like, obviously,
singing is way more difficult than just talking. But I
got to the prom I just had to ignore them, Yea.
I had to like a five ways on because there's
times I'd be like, yeah, why why did I Later?
(24:25):
So when we get that, we get the single tomorrow,
the Q and A. There's five more songs after that.
What what is your timeline as far as release?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
So Tomorrow's end Badly, Q and A is the EP,
Tomorrow is the single and Badly, but the release timeline
is just over the next couple of months.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
I was.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
I was hesitant to release during the holidays, as all
artists are told to be. They're like, oh, you know,
your management will be like, well, it's holidays and I'm
always gonna listen. But in reality, people get their fix
at Christmas music here and there, but they are still
listening to music. Nobody's just stopped listening to music and
strictly listening to Christmas. So we decided, you know what,
this could be a good time. It was a good
time to release, and figured now to roll with it.
(25:06):
So here between now and then beginning of the year
next year, I think all of the six on the
EP are going to be released.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Is it does it tell a story because you said
Q and A is obviously less ten years so end badly?
And then is it almost like chapters.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
With the titles essentially? Yes? Yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
I'm not trying to take too much.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
No, No, I don't have this big secret. No, there's
no big surprise there are. They do make sense to
an extent, but I will say there might be like
a song released. They're not all love songs right, Like
one the title is motoral Eraser and it's just talking
about the time of my life when I had a
motoral eraser, not to age myself entirely, but like, listen,
there are people my age listen to music. So maybe
(25:49):
I'm not singing about the I don't know TikTok trends,
but you know, motoroial eraser was a time of my
life of like it was just so care free. It
was so much easier. Everyone just cared about keeping that
motoral eraser clipped in the front of your sophie shorts
and that was what it was. So it's just it's
not all love songs, so it doesn't necessarily follow a
timeline because I would have released that one first, right,
but they all do. It will end with I'm happy
(26:13):
is a mother and a wife?
Speaker 1 (26:14):
So well, so now I got to ask, because you
brought up TikTok dances, are is there going to be
TikTok dances to these songs?
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Somebody can say, are you agreeing to start that TikTok bread?
That was so nice of you to see you do
it to my slow sad songs. You know, that was
actually a talk during the meetings when we're talking about
what songs to release. It was brought back and forth
of like, look, it doesn't make sense for you to
release a heartbreak song. You know, you're publicly you're married
(26:44):
with a child, you seem to be very happy, so
who are you to release a sad song? And I
was like, hey, that's not fair because I was sad
at one point. I was very sad girl at one time.
So and that still was a part of my life
that lived just the same as I would have stopped
music and just been a happy, you know, wife to
my husband if if that weren't such a big part
of my life prior, you know. So it's kind of
honoring parts of my life and remembering that just because
(27:05):
I might be happy in my relationship now doesn't mean
that it didn't take so many years of figuring out
life experiences, not just love but like life to get
to appreciate the life that I have with my husband
and my son, you know, and be content in this
lifestyle so well not this lifestyle content, you know, being
a wife and a mother now and not touring as much.
So there's a lot of life lessons in it. It's
(27:28):
not necessarily all just representative of who I am right
now in twenty twenty four, but it tells a story
for sure.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
That's awesome. Can't wait to hear it.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Thank you, thank you for having me
Uh, listen, I'm excited because this, uh, this chat here
is happening. I don't want to say by accident, but
I saw she's putting music out. She's a part of
my I was gonna say she's part of my side
gig that was we're gonna we're add that out. I
met her through my side. No, I don't like that.
Aaron Alvi better known to probably the majority of fans
(00:22):
as Aaron Forsburg, How are you doing great? How are
you not bad? I got to ask, because first of all,
you have gone from from somebody I would see at
the rink on game day to all you're a TV
star now I don't know all that, but and you've
got the music. How are things to How are things
being you right now?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I was not expecting that question. How much time do
you have?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
No?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Things are these are going well? Because I'm a new mom,
I'm a wife, you know, I've been doing music for years.
The TV show was definitely an add on. It's just
kind of chaotic, But I like chaos. I kind of
thriving chaos. I think. So it's good.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
We're s cruising when and I'm obviously we're here because
you're putting out a song tomorrow and EP is coming. Uh.
But I got a touch on the show happened? Uh.
And it's cool because there's there's an NFL version and
I'm gonna forget what it's called, but it's like quarterback
or they didn't receiver one. Yeah, because Kiddo was on. Yeah,
(01:22):
And it's funny because I'm a Vikings guy. But I
messed with you. No, I love I love him. But
but the NHL version of that came around at not
the best time for you, between coming into the playoffs
and you're trying to.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
You mean, when I was forty heavier than it is
that what you're trying to say in a nice way. Okay, yes,
we'll just go ahead and tell you that was not opportune.
But I don't know. It's one of those things that
it kinda Yeah. I mean, nobody's gonna feel bad for
me if you watch the show. I'm literally driving through
Chick fil A daily, so I don't think anyone's gonna
be like, oh, poor her. But it really was like
(01:56):
it was a vulnerable time in my life. But it
was a time that I really hope my son and
can look back and see how excited we were to
have him, and there was a lot of chaos, you know,
surrounding his birth. We didn't know if he was going
to come during playoffs, if they were going to lose out,
what the scenario was going to be. So in hindsight,
yeah it was.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
It was.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I'm happy we did it, but yeah, we did not
agree to do it when I was pregnant. We agreed
to do it before I got pregnant.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
And funny enough, I remember bumping into you towards I
don't know if it was towards the end of the
season or we were in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
But everyone was bumping into me at that I had
a lot of landscape.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Into But I feel like you even made a comment
like phil was like, well, just hang on if you
go into labor, just hang on till the game. He
was tight.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Just keep your legs crossed.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
We don't understand. Just don't stand up. The baby wants to.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I didn't either, so I was like, oh, yeah, I
could just cross my legs.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
How did y'all meet?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
So Philip and I met? We always a credit it
to Ellie Yosi and Roman Yo. See, so I knew
them before, and I modeled actually across the street at
boot Barn. I did with Ellie. Ellie's a model, modeled
with her on a gig with boot Barn and I
think saw me there and then messaged me on Instagram
and took me to Dave and Busters. Two days later.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
He hits you with the damn girl, Yeah, your first
name was David Busters And there was a second date.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Oh wait, I am like a Carney at heart. Please
that was my dream first date.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Do you have.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
The Yeah I am, but yeah, so we uh yeah,
so I like the hockey players. It's a good run time.
No so Philip has all his teeth shocking me.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
They He took me to Dave and Busters and it
was awesome. We have the best time. We're both competitive.
I didn't realize how competitive. It's like one of those
things where we had an agreement, like whoever loses has to
buy the candy for the like the movie we're gonna watch,
and he won no shock to anybody. And I was thought,
you know, like, okay, I'm on a first date. He's
(03:47):
gonna pay end up paying and he's like, no, you
lost your paying for this candy. And I was like, Okay,
this is weird, but I love that, Like Philip is
who he is, and he made we made an agreement
in competition and he won.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
So yeah, at what point in your li life did
the music come about? And was that was that always
part of the.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Plan or I yeah, so it. I don't want to
say it was an accident by any mean, a happy
little accident. But I have a cousin that was in
the band O Town MTV's making the band and it
was big, yeah, we're going deep, like all or nothing,
liquid dreams. They were just there. Ask Jacob Underwood. I
always say it was the redhead with dreadlocks. Okay, yeah,
(04:25):
that was Jacob and he I showed interest in music
when I was around nineteen ish and I was in
college and actually in sports broadcasting I was my major.
And he said, you know, if you want to do this,
I could probably like help you. I'll take you to Nashville,
will do this whole thing. And I was like, I
don't know about country. I was born in Race, South Georgia,
but I didn't have like this lifelong dream of being
a country artist.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Right.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
He's like, let's let's go to Nashville. Let's try this thing,
go to Nashville record some songs. And then I asked.
I was like, if you want to be an artist,
what do you do? Really like, how do you become
an artist? He's like, well, you need a fan base.
And I was like, oh, that feels like a lot
to think about me. I've never really like had this aspiration.
All of a sudden, he's like, you gotta get fans.
I'm like, fans, I just wrote my first song, what
do you mean? So we were talking and I was
(05:07):
really active on Braves Twitter. I was a huge Atlanta
Braves fan, like randomly got into it, like during college,
and we were friends with all these things. We called
ourselves the Brave Spam, and I was like, what would
be kind of cool to write a song for my
little brave Spam. So I wrote the song called Tomahawk
Chop at the time, and it incorporated you know, the
chant that they do at the Braves games, and Chipper
(05:27):
Jones actually was in the music video. So Chipper Jones,
I think, is why I even have a career at all,
because he tweeted out that he was in this new
country artist music video and everyone was into it, and
so I kind of just started touring after that. He
really didn't have a big favor there, and it's where
I'm at.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
That's so funny that it started with sports. Sports, Yeah,
and now it's you're.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Living in door sports. My family doesn't though I'm the
only person in my entire family. My dad said I
was adopted because they're like medieval type people. Oh, i'd
had like a scholar and books and E thinks sports
are kind of voice. But I loved him. I thought
there's such an energy around all sports that were so
fun and I loved playing sports growing up.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
So it's funny because speaking of books, I'm originally from Minneapolis,
so I'm it's talking to my mom who still lives
and lives up in Minnesota, and I was like, oh,
I've been so busy. She's like, you just need downtime
to read a book. I'm like book book on tape,
mab Yeah, lots of sport with a book on time.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I know I had. But my problem with books is
I'm not a responsible reader, where if I start, all
responsibilities are out for the next Like until I finished
that book, I get obsessed over the book. Philip got
me onto it was lot on Ibrahimovic of course, and
I was like, I don't know who that is. And
he's like, well, we can't get married until you know
all about Sloughton. Buys me the autobiography. I proceed to
read the biography. I didn't do anything for two days.
(06:43):
I just read everything about Sloton and then I got
like obsessive. I was like, this guy's awesome. He's incredible,
Like his story was really cool. So yeah, after that,
he didn't suggest I read anything again because I kind
of was gone for the count for two days.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Hey, the baby's crying. Wow, You're like, probably. Well when
it comes to there's something special about being in a
hockey family. And I grew up a big baseball fan.
I transition to a massive football fan. Hockey came to
me later in life, which like, I don't know what
took it so long, but I'm glad it's here. But
(07:18):
there's something special about being a part of a hockey family.
And it really isn't just the players, and it's not
just you know, their family or extended family, Like the
whole community feels like part of that family. So what
has that been like for you? Not only as the
better half of All Star NHL player. But now to
(07:39):
have your own music career, that's fully I mean, not
that you didn't have it, but it's definitely out.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Yeah, I take step back, definitely. You know, it actually
COVID hit. So that's why I took my step back,
and then I really did get fully engulfed. I was
still working, I was in the studio every week here
in Ashville, but I wasn't touring because, like you said too,
there's a whole community there and there is a lot
of responsibility that comes with being, you know, the significant
other of any professional athlete I imagine. But I love
(08:05):
the hockey community. I feel like everyone's so kind. I
feel like it's a particularly humble, classy sport, you know,
comparatively to a lot of others. Not talking poorly about others,
but I think in comparison, most people would agree that hockey.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Is special, you know, funny enough. It's you hear if
you watch a game on TV, and especially the national
TV games, they call it the gentleman's sport.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Yeah, but like shocking. Yeah, I don't know about all that,
but yeah, it is it is. I mean, I'm not
going to outfill up stories, but he has some stories
and I'm like, please tell, like write a book at
the end of this that Wayne will not read, but
please there he has such cool stories and it is
It just reiterates that it is a gentleman's sport, maybe
behind the facade of like this big strong, you know,
(08:48):
like fight each other game. Those guys are pretty classy
and they're pretty like even if they're on other teams.
I hope he does.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Say minus and interaction. When I was by the locker
room between Corey Perry, I'm Mattias that co home. But
we're gonna leave that alone. We'll leave that alone. That
But the support, especially from Smashville, It's funny because I
see you on social media and anybody that's a fan
of Phil is like automatically a cheerleader of yours. And
what does that support like from Nashville itself?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Well, as you know better than anybody, the Prince fans
are the best, Like they really are. I always say
it's so, I you know, hockey is a thing here
in this town. It's big. It's become such a big thing,
especially after twenty seventeen run, which I wasn't a part of.
So I came in and people already adored hockey, and
I think they're just like true. I don't know how
it is in other markets, but here in Nashville, I
can attest that the people really just want the best
(09:37):
for the players, the families of the players, you know,
everybody in the organization. And they're just happy for wins.
You know, maybe they're not thrilled when we're losing, but
they're really not that hard on the players. They kind
of just they're just champions. They're positive. So I love
that about the press.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
I am we lose? How yo? You suck outside the
locker room?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Oh okay, well that yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Yeah? So with the music and where you're at now?
And you said you took a step back during COVID,
where do you you like? You said the TV show
was happening before. Yeah, you know, any real buddy really
knew y'all were going to have a baby, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Well we agreed to it before. Are we even got pregnant?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Yeah? When? So when were you working on this music?
Was it around that same time or before it?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
I really never stopped. So the EP that's coming out
are like six songs of like lessons I've learned from
the past ten years and a lot of it's just
been maybe I wrote it eight years ago, maybe I
wrote it two months ago. So there's there's a variation
of the songs. But I always was working on the songs.
Some of these are just like my favorites from the
past ten years essentially, or songs I think I need
(10:36):
to release.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Now, Okay, where is your Where's the motivation coming from?
Now that where you were ten years ago? Right? Much
different versus wife rather, you know, entrepreneur artist. So where's
the motivation coming from? Obviously the EP is coming, but
we're talking about the song Q and A as well,
which comes out tomorrow. But as far as the EP
(10:58):
as a whole, where's the main motivation for the whole thing? I,
as cliche as it sounds, I think becoming a mother.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
There's something like when I had him, I think I
had this idea, especially at the time when I was touring.
You know, I was like young and single and it
was fun. I was in bars and festivals and clubs.
I was like, this was where I wanted to do.
I had the best time. Then I you know, got
into a serious relationship with Philip and then we got
married and then having a child. I was like man,
every part of young Aaron would have thought it's over.
(11:26):
You know, it's done, You had your run, you did it.
And sure, I don't really want to be at bars
and festivals every night now because my heart is with
my son and my husband and that's where I want
to be. But with that being said, I was like,
you know what, if anything, I have more more to
write on, Like this is time. This is a time
for my son to look and like I don't want
him to think that I stopped pursuing my dreams because
he came along, because, if anything, he's just motivated that more.
(11:49):
Same with my husband, you know, like being a wife
to Philip has given me so much confidence and so
much I don't know, so he gives me so much
support and encouragement that I was like, you know what,
I don't have to just stop because you know, society's
ideals of what the artist looks like, maybe I don't
necessarily fit, but yeah, I think that's the main motivation.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Stories come out in songs and so everybody has a
favorite story, and I love catching up with whoever sitting
on the other side of the table for me because
everybody has a favorite story, which turns into a favorite song,
although I've heard a million times from different artists of
every level. Yeah, they're all my babies and I love
them all, Okay, but I don't feel that way as
(12:30):
a father of two. There's times one is your favorite
over the other. So, out of these six, and obviously
there's other music out there, but let's talk about the
six on the EP. What story is the closest to
your heart or maybe was the toughest to share?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Ooh yeah, So I think, like we were just saying,
on the other side of being married and loving my
husband and my baby, there are songs that come out
that were not motivated by current events. You know, if
my husband has not you know, broken my heart. So yeah,
there are songs that were from twenty two year old Aaron,
(13:07):
you know that maybe he was experiencing life. And that's
where the title the EP Questions and Answers comes out,
where it's you know, there are years that ask questions
and the are years that answer, and that's what the
whole EP is. There are some of my question years there,
and there's some of my answer years there. So tomorrow
the song and Badly is kind of a question. It's
kind of one of those question years. So that one's
not a necessarily a heartbreak song, but it's basically begging
(13:28):
the person that I'm in a relationship with if you're
gonna end this, which you know ended up being Philip,
I wrote after I met him, if you end this,
you better break my heart. You better do it bad,
because if I don't get to hate you, especially Phillips,
he's such a nice person. I was like, I can't
just walk away from you. And then it just it
didn't work out, Like you gotta like really mess me
up or else we're I'm never gonna get over you.
So thank god it worked out, and badly was the
(13:50):
turmoil you felt when you're first in a relationship of like, God,
I think I really like this person. He better really
mess me up if we end up breaking up, because
otherwise it's gonna be the one that got away forever.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Yeah, because you don't want to like, you can't.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Just walk away from that person.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Yeah. When it comes to you know, phil doing his
thing very well, you doing your thing? Is he does
he like to sit in? Does he like to give feedback?
Has he been in the studio? Can he rap?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Can my sweetish husband wrap, No, he cannot.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
But what's his impact and input as far as musically, Like.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
I said, well, musically, I don't know. We do keep
it fairly separate. Philip is very involved. When I ask
him to be he'll listen to whatever. He'll listen to
the songs. But to be honest, I feel like that's
where it becomes that's this is my baby, you know,
Like I toured. I pride myself in knowing that, like
he had already heard my music before I knew his name,
you know, one of those things. So it's like this
was my baby. And although his opinion means more to
(14:48):
me than anybody else is in the world, in fact
only really his opinion now my son's matter. But we
keep it fairly separate, just the same as I'm not
telling him how to play hockeys.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I don't know about you. You don't comment on Wide
Open that he might.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I don't know anything about it, you know, I'm just
out here. I'm just supporting it. Like when he does
something great, that's great, and he's the same, Like he
doesn't criticize me, or he doesn't even give me critiques,
and I don't give him critiques. We're just there to
support each other in our respective careers, and I think
it works best that way.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
So we will hear Q and A tomorrow available to stream.
The rest of the EP is coming out. Of the
six songs, which one has he shared? Which one is
his favorite or which one he goes back to or
is he just like, hey love you, you love the music.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Well, there's one on the EP that I wrote almost
entirely alone. I had a couple of writers come in
and help me with a part of one verse. But
that song it's called Oasis, and I've played it live before.
But that's his song. That's a song that there's no question.
Like I said, maybe some have trickles over of like
other life experiences, but Oasis is for Philip, and that
(15:48):
one I think. I think he feels special. Who wouldn't
want a songwrite about them?
Speaker 1 (15:52):
You know it's nice there might be a song about.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Written about them. Yeah, So I think Oasis would probably
be the song that I mean, he knows. I've been
very open about that one. That one's for Philip.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
As you get back into it after stepping back from
the music, what has been something you're nervous about to
get back into or to do for the first time,
or and then what's one thing that you're like, Damn,
I forgot how awesome this was.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Yeah, I think, like I was saying, I have more.
I feel more secure in myself more than ever. But
at the same time, I almost feel more nervous about
releasing because I did take such a step back and
before it only affected me, you know, like my music,
it was just me, like, you know, my family might
my team, but I didn't have a husband and a
child that I'm also like protecting in this. So there's
(16:41):
something either. There's a give and to take in everything
in life. So even right now I'm here and I'm
so happy to be here and like, I'm so thankful
you had me here to promote the EP and the
single coming out tomorrow to start it, but I'm also
taking time away from my son. So it's like there
is going to always be a balance in life, a
give and a take. And I hope this EP does
as well as it's supposed to do and goes as
(17:01):
big as it can go, But at the same time,
I have to make sure that I'm balancing being a
wife and a mother.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Is the EP going to because it's so different because
EPs used to be like, Okay, here's a sample of
what my album is going to be. Like it's almost
like it was super strategic. Now, especially in Nashville, it's like, hey,
I got six songs, they're dope, put them on an
EP and put the Well, where is that for you?
Is it just here's six songs, take them whatever? Or
(17:29):
is this kind of like the tee up to an
album that you want to maybe get to at some point.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Well, because I haven't been touring, I do have hundreds
of songs right now that I've just been writing for
years with the writers here in town. So I have
a lot that I could release. And I think, as
we know, like this day and age, I think everyone
kind of has a little bit of add with music
where they don't, not unless you're one of the big bigs.
Not everyone's releasing a full album, you know, because it's
hard to get people to commit to what listening to
(17:56):
you for this long, which is why questions and answers.
The EP is just sick songs that are releasing in
a waterfall release. So I think it'll be three drops essentially. Okay,
with that being said, you know, depending on how it does,
maybe maybe I do end up releasing more from the
vault of songs that I have. I have a lot
that I'd love to share, the songs I think are important.
But like you're saying, like some of them are old
(18:17):
to me, but that doesn't mean they're old to people
who haven't heard of them.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
For people that might be hearing this before they hear
a song, what can they expect from you? And when
I say how, what do you? Who do you sound like?
And when I say that, I don't mean like, oh
I sound like artists a right, But it feels like
even in what I do, it's like you take, you
take some of this, some of this, some of this
(18:42):
to form who you want to be, and it's not
necessarily a copy, more inspired by what would that melting
pot be? That makes you who you are as an artist?
Speaker 2 (18:52):
So you like the musical inspirations growing up or like
what that to that to even now?
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Who make you like, oh I saw them do it
that way? I won sy it with my flair and
vice versa.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Totally. Yeah, So I grew up with like Bruce Springsteen,
you know, the Beatles, Paul McCartney's my favorite. Not the
Beatles necessarily but Paul McCartney has an artist and like
his writing. His single writing is something that I really like.
And then I think that's the growing up aspect. And
then I had my mom always had country playing. She
had like Toby Keith rest in Peace playing all the time,
(19:23):
and I loved his vibe and the energy he brought.
And then a newer artist that I think I the
first time in a very long time that I felt
super moved by an artist was Lewis Capaldi. A mix
of those you know, like you have kind of this
melting pot of that's the style of writing. I think,
the vocals, it's all. It's definitely country pop. I had
(19:44):
a pop era where I didn't really release a lot
of country. So it's kind of fun going back to
my roots. I was born in raised South Georgia. Although
I've lost a lot of my accent being married to European,
it's still there. That's in my roots. That's where the
country comes in. But the right is very styled of
you know, it's it's pretty vulnerable.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
I was texting with our in arena. DJ's name is Battle. Yeah,
and we do these pregame we do these production meetings. Yeah,
and and it's like, okay, here's you know, they point
to me, They're like, okay, here's you're doing this, this, this, whatever,
You're good, Okay, you're doing this. And then Battle was like, oh, hey,
you know, I know that Aaron has music coming. Does
(20:26):
she have anything with like a pop and so and so?
He I think somebody did they reach out to you already?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Okay, So so that I want to ask, let's say
we go into a timeout or something like that and
you hear your song go over whatever we're doing. Is
that going to be weird?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
I almost wish y'all hadn't asked because then because now
it's like seems like I'm like, yeah, guys, do it.
But it's one of those things like I wouldn't have
thought anything. I would have been like, awesome.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
You know.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Of course I want my music promoted because I think
that every everybody who listens to it, like, why else
would I be doing it if I didn't want it
to be out there?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Right?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
But at the same time, like I've always been very
vocal that I will not sing the anthem with Philip
in the room, and not because of an insecurity, but
because it just feels like I don't know. I think
that would make me really nervous to do it right
in front of Philip. But like, my music is something
I'm proud of, right, so, like I would love to
hear it anywhere. I hope to hear it wherever I go.
But with that being said, I'm not going to be
the one like knocking on Barry's door. You think you
(21:24):
guys can promote me a little bit out there, So
I don't know. It's definitely a little bit of a mix.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Philip said his next contractor'll give you a deal if
I can see me yeah every game.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Yeah, and I want a power slide after every anthem?
Can you guys work that out?
Speaker 1 (21:37):
The funny thing about the anthem is some artists feel
so different about it, Like Luke Bryan stepped out last
year absolutely killed it. But there's some artists because I
tried to help book in a previous employer, I tried
to help book a couple of country artists as they
were coming to town, and so I talked to their
manager and they go, I won't let my artists do
the anthem.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
It's a tough one.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Well, and at first I was like, don't love America?
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Yeah, come on.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
But he's like, because if they kill it, nobody cares.
They're expected to kill it. It's not going to go viral.
It's not there's you do the anthem. You're supposed to
kill it.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
So true.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
It lives forever if you screw it up.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
It's so true.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
So he's like, it doesn't help him as song.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
I don't know if I'm sorry hard butt song, but
there's something about it that it is. It's also like
a humbling experience. I actually became like an anthem artist
for a second there because the management that I was with,
anytime we would tour, they'd make me sing, not make me.
They would sign me up to sing the anthem at
almost every sporting event leading up to the concert or
the show as a way of promoting and marketing. And
(22:35):
it worked.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
You know.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
There Wo'd be people be like, oh, I saw you
sing the anthem, and I saw you at a show
in town, so I came whatever. And then it was
like I kind of became, like I said, the anthem artist.
I was always singing the anthem. I was like, this
is kind of getting a lot singing the anthem quite often,
but it is every single time. It's intimidating because just
like you said, it can really.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Takes one one way, yeah, or one like oh I
took a breath there and all of a sudden, you're
breathing time. And I always tell people because you see
gets love at the beginning of the anthem, So if
someone hasn't done it before, I tried to bump into it. Hey,
just so you know, if you have good you do,
you're gonna yell back to you. Because my fear would
be like oh say, I'd be.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Like what exactly and then you stop. They did it
to me the Orioles. The first MLB game that I
sang out was for the Baltimore Orioles yep. And it
was during the Bobby Bobbies, like David Ortiz. It was
his like goodbye tour and so it was insane in
this it was the last time he's gonna play against
the Orioles. You know. It was like this huge night
(23:34):
and they said just you know, they're gonna yell oh
for the Orioles. Like at in the middle of the song,
I was like, yeay, okay. It was jarring, like you're
already prepared for the delay, right, so you have to
sing you're hearing yourself sing verses that you've already sung
you feel like eight minutes ago, and they're just now
coming back to you in your inner ear. But you
just have to power through and just trust your gut.
And then you have this whole crowd yelling in the
(23:56):
middle of while you're singing, and you don't want to
get like jarred and off track. It is absolutely I
have all respect for any artist that gets out there
and sings the anthem because it is I'm no.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Joke, and that that like clapback that happens in the arena,
whether it's empty or there's one hundred thousand people in it. Like, obviously,
singing is way more difficult than just talking. But I
got to the prom I just had to ignore them, Yea.
I had to like a five ways on because there's
times I'd be like, yeah, why why did I Later?
(24:25):
So when we get that, we get the single tomorrow,
the Q and A. There's five more songs after that.
What what is your timeline as far as release?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
So Tomorrow's end Badly, Q and A is the EP,
Tomorrow is the single and Badly, but the release timeline
is just over the next couple of months.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
I was.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
I was hesitant to release during the holidays, as all
artists are told to be. They're like, oh, you know,
your management will be like, well, it's holidays and I'm
always gonna listen. But in reality, people get their fix
at Christmas music here and there, but they are still
listening to music. Nobody's just stopped listening to music and
strictly listening to Christmas. So we decided, you know what,
this could be a good time. It was a good
time to release, and figured now to roll with it.
(25:06):
So here between now and then beginning of the year
next year, I think all of the six on the
EP are going to be released.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Is it does it tell a story because you said
Q and A is obviously less ten years so end badly?
And then is it almost like chapters.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
With the titles essentially? Yes? Yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
I'm not trying to take too much.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
No, No, I don't have this big secret. No, there's
no big surprise there are. They do make sense to
an extent, but I will say there might be like
a song released. They're not all love songs right, Like
one the title is motoral Eraser and it's just talking
about the time of my life when I had a
motoral eraser, not to age myself entirely, but like, listen,
there are people my age listen to music. So maybe
(25:49):
I'm not singing about the I don't know TikTok trends,
but you know, motoroial eraser was a time of my
life of like it was just so care free. It
was so much easier. Everyone just cared about keeping that
motoral eraser clipped in the front of your sophie shorts
and that was what it was. So it's just it's
not all love songs, so it doesn't necessarily follow a
timeline because I would have released that one first, right,
but they all do. It will end with I'm happy
(26:13):
is a mother and a wife?
Speaker 1 (26:14):
So well, so now I got to ask, because you
brought up TikTok dances, are is there going to be
TikTok dances to these songs?
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Somebody can say, are you agreeing to start that TikTok bread?
That was so nice of you to see you do
it to my slow sad songs. You know, that was
actually a talk during the meetings when we're talking about
what songs to release. It was brought back and forth
of like, look, it doesn't make sense for you to
release a heartbreak song. You know, you're publicly you're married
(26:44):
with a child, you seem to be very happy, so
who are you to release a sad song? And I
was like, hey, that's not fair because I was sad
at one point. I was very sad girl at one time.
So and that still was a part of my life
that lived just the same as I would have stopped
music and just been a happy, you know, wife to
my husband if if that weren't such a big part
of my life prior, you know. So it's kind of
honoring parts of my life and remembering that just because
(27:05):
I might be happy in my relationship now doesn't mean
that it didn't take so many years of figuring out
life experiences, not just love but like life to get
to appreciate the life that I have with my husband
and my son, you know, and be content in this
lifestyle so well not this lifestyle content, you know, being
a wife and a mother now and not touring as much.
So there's a lot of life lessons in it. It's
(27:28):
not necessarily all just representative of who I am right
now in twenty twenty four, but it tells a story
for sure.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
That's awesome. Can't wait to hear it.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Thank you, thank you for having me
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