Name: Being Relatable in Country Music (with Lainey Wilson)
Uploaded: 2023-04-28T00:43:42.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Being Relatable in Country Music (with Lainey Wilson)' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-04-28. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Being Relatable in Country Music (with Lainey Wilson)' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-04-28. Transcript available.

was there a point where you thought you would just be a songwriter because
sometimes with
comedians right there's you do comedy and then sometimes you're like oh i'm
just going to be a
writer and i'm a write for like a late night show or like a fallon or like
which you were just on
or like uh you know or i'm gonna write for a comedian yeah but i don't know if
the dream ever
goes away to just do comedy but sometimes life gets in the way you'll get a
family or something
i didn't want to have to choose i was like i can do both i'm gonna be a songwriter
i'm gonna be an
artist i'm gonna do it all but i had somebody who was who i was working with at
the time who made me
believe you can't be both he was like really you got to choose are you a songwriter
are you an artist
and i'm like i'm both he's like no no but you gotta like you gotta really and i'm
like no look around
at some of the most successful artists i mean decades and decades for decades
you know they write
their own stuff and they sing their own stuff and it doesn't mean that i'm
opposed to you know cutting
outside songs at the end of the day like i said the best idea and the best song
wins um but you can
do both look at morgan look at hardy look at look at all the guys and look at
ernest he used to pitch
for lipscomb that's what i'm saying like you can do it you shouldn't be in
creative you shouldn't
be scared to step outside of the box and in my opinion that's not even really
stepping outside of the
box it's just singing the stuff that you wrote yeah and he was gonna sing it
better than you
he was so wrong that really seems to yeah that amps you up i'm ready to fight
dude i'll fight yeah you
can beat the shit out of me if you want i've been by women i might they're
gonna put it on on the
camera we're gonna do it afterwards uh-huh i mean we'll do whatever y'all want
honey look we'll do it
what the people want look we'll i'll open a bible you can beat the damn devil
out of me that's gonna
be hard to do that's gonna take a few bibles that might take an hour yeah we're
gonna give mandolin
a bible too we're gonna beat the shit out of you sometimes it's gonna take you
a little longer than
some folks i mean i moved to this town and people were passing me up left and
right getting publishing
deals getting record deals and at the end of the day sometimes slow and steady
you know is better and
i feel like i've been trying to do brick by brick just one thing at a time
because i want longevity
i don't want to just be a flash in the pan and i'm not i'm not doing that so
you couldn't be i don't
think um i don't see how it would even be possible and it's funny because if i
listen to heart like a
truck right but you're 24 years old i it's not it i don't believe that yep no i've
been through some
stuff yep and i'm proud of it it's been hard i mean there's definitely times
where i wish it
wouldn't have been that way i mean i mean even it's weird because like i'm
experiencing like
really great things with my career right now even when i was filming yellowstone
i was going through
like we were losing my daddy um he ended up surviving but like he spent two
months in icu and
i was having to actually a few of those scenes right there um i would go over
to the corner and
cry and then come back and then shoot it again and it just seems sometimes i'm
like man am i supposed
to go through these things so i can be more relatable to people and and be more
understanding
and be able to write the kind of music that people are really gonna connect to
and listen to and
that's kind of what i chalk it up to sometimes because i mean life ain't easy
yeah it is what
it is you just gotta keep rolling yeah and sometimes it's like i don't know i
feel like sometimes
like god has a way of reaching people right and not to make it religious or
anything but it's like
sometimes you're just part of that way that's right you know and it's not even
yeah you have talents and stuff but it's like sometimes some things they're so
especially with music it's like man this thing is and so many people have
written and you know there's
other people playing and it's like really to make this thing it's like it takes
a a village it does take a
village it's nice to feel like i'm finally able to like i'm in a position where
i could help somebody
else because i've had so many people help me along the way it just that it
feels good to be able to do
that just even inviting them on the on the road you know my tour is completely
sold out yeah we're
even moving to some bigger venue so it's exciting stuff considering i mean it's
so last year looked
different i'm not gonna lie it's crazy really yeah i mean i played a yeah march
of last year in
tuscaloosa um we had had a hit with things a man ought to know and never say
never with cole swindell was
just it was killing it at that time too ac like there were so many things that
we had done but i
still could barely sell a ticket i sold like was it 100 or like 91 tickets or
something like that
and a lot of people there were family and it was like where like where is this
not connecting
you know like i feel like we we won some awards we got some number ones but
still at that time i was
pretty faceless i think that's what happens with a lot of artists so explain
that to me when you say
faceless because this is yeah i think a lot of people know songs on the radio i
think during that
time if you would have asked anybody who listens to country music like you know
that song things a
man ought to know they all would have said yes but they did not know me and
that's where the
disconnect is and i think that's really where yellowstone has been so
beneficial because
you know they see your name up on the screen and and stuff and then they
finally just like see your
face and they're like oh okay and then i have to see it a million other times
for it to really really
connect i think you've got everybody's attention now i don't know how you could
ever get rid of it
i mean once i heard your voice i don't think i could ever thank you man i could
just it's in my ears
forever thanks you know it is very powerful that's cool bro hope you enjoyed
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