Latest / Top Five / "you're a big deal in italy!" ft. katie kadan
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Episode forty six of the Top five podcast. I am Kaylin,
- 0:05Speaker 1: sitting across from my co host Jason Brown.
- 0:09Speaker 2: Hello, and if you're new here.
- 0:11Speaker 1: Every week we pick five things we love and one
- 0:15Speaker 1: thing that we made that made us cry, crash out,
- 0:18Speaker 1: or that we hate, because that is just the world
- 0:21Speaker 1: we live in.
- 0:22Speaker 2: We need an outlet. And we talked shit in between.
- 0:24Speaker 1: But today we have a very very special guest, which
- 0:27Speaker 1: I'm excited about, who is sometimes y'all referred to and
- 0:30Speaker 1: I don't know if she knows this as the love
- 0:32Speaker 1: child of Amy Winehouse, Adele and Janis Joplin.
- 0:36Speaker 2: And I'm adding in one more jesus, Katie.
- 0:38Speaker 3: Cayden, Hello, those are my parents.
- 0:43Speaker 1: They all somehow are your parents, all four of them.
- 0:46Speaker 3: I love it.
- 0:48Speaker 1: And like, we got to get a nail cam after this,
- 0:50Speaker 1: because we got leopard, We've got hotpenes.
- 0:54Speaker 3: No, I had to come back home and be fabulous exactly.
- 1:01Speaker 4: Oh no, girl, you're right there, so show your nails.
- 1:06Speaker 5: I need to.
- 1:08Speaker 1: I should not wear type pants anymore. Should Yeah, I
- 1:12Speaker 1: don't like pants at all. Jason knows this, he doesn't
- 1:14Speaker 1: love it. But I like to winnie the poo all
- 1:16Speaker 1: the time. So that's my preferred state.
- 1:19Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm weird. I always have to have pants on.
- 1:21Speaker 4: I don't know, and even in the house, like she
- 1:23Speaker 4: freaks out because I wear jeans at home, like just
- 1:25Speaker 4: like I.
- 1:26Speaker 2: Don't know, Like I can't trust him.
- 1:28Speaker 5: I have sweatpants, but like I don't like them.
- 1:30Speaker 3: I don't dress. I'm gonna send you some stretch pants
- 1:33Speaker 3: or some like a denim stretch.
- 1:37Speaker 2: Like, yes, you can wear your jaggings.
- 1:40Speaker 5: You weird all me launching on the couch and jaggings
- 1:42Speaker 5: as well.
- 1:43Speaker 2: I don't fully trust you because of that.
- 1:46Speaker 4: So good, Okay, I'm so excited to have you here
- 1:49Speaker 4: because I was blazing you a little bit before we started,
- 1:52Speaker 4: Like I've been a fan for so long, and I
- 1:56Speaker 4: remember the first time I heard you and your voice
- 1:59Speaker 4: just like gave me chills. And obviously I first heard
- 2:03Speaker 4: of you on the voice, and so we won't spend
- 2:07Speaker 4: a lot of time there, but I want to talk
- 2:09Speaker 4: a little bit about that because that had to be
- 2:12Speaker 4: an insane experience, right, and but I just remember you
- 2:16Speaker 4: coming on. You were already like seasoned, like you knew
- 2:18Speaker 4: what you were doing, like you were just out there
- 2:20Speaker 4: killing the stage, like giving me all the goosebumps, and
- 2:23Speaker 4: those are like the voices in this world that I
- 2:24Speaker 4: love that like really just makes me feel something, and
- 2:28Speaker 4: that that is totally you could you just wrap up
- 2:30Speaker 4: a little bit just like what that experience was like
- 2:33Speaker 4: and what you sort of left with that sort of
- 2:35Speaker 4: like helped you continue on.
- 2:37Speaker 3: Well, I never wanted to be on the show in
- 2:39Speaker 3: the first place. And they had they had some headhunters
- 2:43Speaker 3: or whatever, singer hunters, whatever they want to call them,
- 2:46Speaker 3: and they contacted me, and I talked with the guy
- 2:49Speaker 3: and I was like, no, I'm not interested, thank you.
- 2:51Speaker 1: What by the way, She's like, I didn't want to
- 2:55Speaker 1: go on it, and they were seeking me out, and
- 2:57Speaker 1: what was.
- 2:57Speaker 5: Your reasoning for that?
- 2:59Speaker 3: Competition? And I hate competition. I feel like there's a
- 3:05Speaker 3: safe there's a place for all of us, you know,
- 3:07Speaker 3: we just got to find it. And I'm like no.
- 3:11Speaker 3: And then he called me back. He's like, can you
- 3:13Speaker 3: just try out? And I'm like, all right, I'm too
- 3:15Speaker 3: old for standing in line for hours. Can you have
- 3:18Speaker 3: me Sashville. I tried out, and then I was on
- 3:22Speaker 3: the show, and I'm glad I did it. I was
- 3:24Speaker 3: actually thinking about going back to school at the time,
- 3:27Speaker 3: because you know, the musician life was is and can
- 3:32Speaker 3: be very rough.
- 3:32Speaker 5: It's a grind.
- 3:33Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a grind. You always got a hustle, you
- 3:35Speaker 3: know what I mean, anyway you can. And you know,
- 3:38Speaker 3: before my name was Katie came the best kept secret
- 3:41Speaker 3: in Chicago. And then when I was on the show,
- 3:44Speaker 3: it was like for me, I'm not going to say
- 3:47Speaker 3: it was it was kind of easy because I took
- 3:51Speaker 3: it seriously, but not that seriously. I just like, if
- 3:54Speaker 3: I'm not going to have fun, and I just need
- 3:57Speaker 3: to see if America likes me, right, and uh and
- 4:01Speaker 3: they did. They did. It was fun. It was a
- 4:03Speaker 3: lot of fun, from the I mean obviously celebrity hosts
- 4:07Speaker 3: to you know, everybody behind the scenes too, was so
- 4:11Speaker 3: lovely and the cast and everybody.
- 4:13Speaker 5: Yeah, it was awesome.
- 4:15Speaker 4: It was there something that sort of you're then like
- 4:18Speaker 4: took with you and the rest of your like, oh,
- 4:19Speaker 4: I'm glad I got to experience that, or there was
- 4:21Speaker 4: a little tidbit of like, oh, like you know you
- 4:24Speaker 4: I always I think I'm a firm believer in like
- 4:26Speaker 4: every experience that you have, you pick up little gems
- 4:29Speaker 4: along the way, whether it be professionally or in your
- 4:30Speaker 4: private life or whatever.
- 4:32Speaker 5: And so again, you were already a star.
- 4:35Speaker 4: It seems like before you even came on the show,
- 4:38Speaker 4: because you just killed it from the very get go.
- 4:41Speaker 4: But was there something that you were like, Okay, I'm
- 4:42Speaker 4: gonna take this with me.
- 4:44Speaker 3: Yeah, continue to be your most authentic self no matter what.
- 4:49Speaker 5: And you do that, girl, Yeah, you know I have to.
- 4:53Speaker 3: I have to because I was. I think I was
- 4:55Speaker 3: trying to to be what everybody wanted me to be.
- 4:58Speaker 3: And I think once you hit your forties it just
- 5:01Speaker 3: like stopped that. But I was in my thirties at
- 5:02Speaker 3: the time, and I was just like, I can't pretend
- 5:07Speaker 3: to be anybody that I'm not. So if people like me,
- 5:11Speaker 3: that's awesome, because who doesn't want to be loved. Everybody
- 5:14Speaker 3: wants to be loved. And people have been gracious. My
- 5:17Speaker 3: fans have been awesome from it. And it opened up
- 5:19Speaker 3: the doors to why I'm here and to all the
- 5:23Speaker 3: other places too. It was. It was a blessing in disguise.
- 5:26Speaker 3: It was and fun.
- 5:27Speaker 1: I'm curious because obviously you can sing really anything, in
- 5:31Speaker 1: my opinion, any genre, but I'm curious what the music
- 5:34Speaker 1: was in your household when you were growing up, because
- 5:37Speaker 1: I'm fascinated with how that influences us. For example, my
- 5:40Speaker 1: parents got divorced when I was one and a half
- 5:42Speaker 1: and can't stand each other, and so they could not
- 5:45Speaker 1: be more different. My mom's like a little affair girly,
- 5:48Speaker 1: like the Sarah McLachlin, like All Atlantis, and then my
- 5:51Speaker 1: dad is the reason Tupac is my favorite rapper.
- 5:53Speaker 2: So I'm a lot of things.
- 5:55Speaker 1: So what were you hearing in your house and did
- 5:58Speaker 1: that kind of form your influences?
- 6:00Speaker 5: Yes?
- 6:00Speaker 3: Absolutely, I come from a real musical family. Okay, so
- 6:04Speaker 3: my mom was a singer and not by profession but
- 6:07Speaker 3: just because she loved it. Folk singer and my daddy
- 6:11Speaker 3: they're complete opposites, but they've been married for almost fifty
- 6:13Speaker 3: seven years. It's crazy where my daddy loves soul music,
- 6:18Speaker 3: so you know, it was from and I grew up
- 6:21Speaker 3: in the church too, so like, oh, I was three
- 6:24Speaker 3: and they're like, oh, you can sing, come on, let's go,
- 6:26Speaker 3: and and I was a really I don't know, this
- 6:28Speaker 3: is going to be shocking, a very shy kid. That
- 6:31Speaker 3: was my safe space too, so it was fun. It was,
- 6:34Speaker 3: you know, singing. My mom was a songwriter, too, So
- 6:36Speaker 3: I would wake up in the middle of the night.
- 6:38Speaker 3: I would hear her at the kitchen table with her guitar.
- 6:40Speaker 3: I'm like, and she'd ask me questions. But I was little,
- 6:43Speaker 3: what do you think about that? Like, I don't like
- 6:45Speaker 3: that bridge, maybe we could try this, and she's like, oh,
- 6:49Speaker 3: and she'd start listening to me. So it was listening
- 6:52Speaker 3: to my parents' records from Andre Crouch to Aretha Franklin
- 6:57Speaker 3: to Al Green. Yeah that's I love that.
- 7:00Speaker 2: And we have an altar boy here, yeah, former altar boy.
- 7:05Speaker 4: And oh yeah it is.
- 7:12Speaker 2: And then I'm like a funerals and I'm like, I
- 7:14Speaker 2: should not be.
- 7:15Speaker 5: Am I going so hard?
- 7:17Speaker 1: Yeah yeah he has that experience as well.
- 7:20Speaker 2: But I'm not saying Unfortunately, no, I couldnot see you.
- 7:23Speaker 5: I tried.
- 7:24Speaker 4: I tried to be inquired, and I'm always like, you
- 7:25Speaker 4: know what if my parents had a lick of talent,
- 7:28Speaker 4: maybe I could be somewhere doing something, an international pop superstar.
- 7:32Speaker 5: I don't know.
- 7:33Speaker 1: Alcoholism is all I got passed that kidding literally depression.
- 7:41Speaker 4: So you have been a big star in Italy.
- 7:45Speaker 5: Tell me, like, also how.
- 7:49Speaker 4: It was so aband, Like you sold out six shows
- 7:53Speaker 4: in Italy, right, this year, earlier this year.
- 7:56Speaker 5: Why Italy.
- 7:57Speaker 3: Okay, it was so random. I got on my Facebook
- 8:01Speaker 3: by some dude named Vinnie, you know, and I was
- 8:07Speaker 3: going through stuff and I'm like, oh, and I never
- 8:10Speaker 3: checked my messages on Facebook, and I just hit it
- 8:13Speaker 3: at the right time, right, And he's like, hey, I'm
- 8:16Speaker 3: a musician from Milano. Not Milano? Where was he from?
- 8:22Speaker 3: To Reno and he's like, I'm a blues musician. I
- 8:25Speaker 3: play with this band. We'd love to have you come
- 8:28Speaker 3: out here. We like to have Americans come out here.
- 8:30Speaker 3: And I saw you on a Spotify things singing voodoo woman,
- 8:35Speaker 3: and I'm like, okay, well, let's set up a thing
- 8:37Speaker 3: and see if you're not a crazy murderer.
- 8:39Speaker 2: I was gonna say, did you believe it was real?
- 8:41Speaker 2: At hers?
- 8:41Speaker 3: At first?
- 8:42Speaker 2: It's Vinnie from Italy?
- 8:45Speaker 3: Send me a So I'm gullible.
- 8:51Speaker 2: I'd be on the first flight to see Vinnie.
- 8:54Speaker 3: So I you know. And he said, Hey, I'm gonna
- 8:57Speaker 3: give you all the musicians that have come I'm out
- 9:00Speaker 3: here to know that I'm Rappu double and stuff. And
- 9:02Speaker 3: so I went out there kind of on a whim
- 9:05Speaker 3: and they became my Italian family. It was amazing. They
- 9:11Speaker 3: set up all the shows for me. All I had
- 9:13Speaker 3: to do is show up. I had some of the
- 9:15Speaker 3: greatest musicians in Italy. Actually, one of the guys, Alberto Marzico,
- 9:19Speaker 3: I had to practice that for a couple of minutes.
- 9:21Speaker 3: You nailed that a couple of days, and which is
- 9:26Speaker 3: the organist of all of Europe. And I'm like, such
- 9:30Speaker 3: humble musicians and it was amazing And I'm going back.
- 9:34Speaker 3: Yeah November. You guys want to come, you are? Okay?
- 9:36Speaker 1: Well, selfishly, I'm going next week to Italy and I
- 9:39Speaker 1: need like I was just gonna like so part of
- 9:41Speaker 1: the trip.
- 9:41Speaker 2: I'm going to be all by my lonesome.
- 9:42Speaker 1: So any tips you may have, I've never done this before.
- 9:46Speaker 1: First going with family and then they're leaving and I'm terrified.
- 9:49Speaker 1: But any Italian tips for me?
- 9:51Speaker 3: Go to Turin. Go to Terurino, okay, because all the
- 9:54Speaker 3: other spots like Milan and Venice everything, so many tourists. Yeah,
- 9:58Speaker 3: I felt like Turin was just it was relaxed, cheaper,
- 10:03Speaker 3: I mean inexpensive. You can find hotels for okay cheap,
- 10:08Speaker 3: and the people are so lovely. There's so much fun
- 10:12Speaker 3: and you don't have to speak the language. You just
- 10:14Speaker 3: got to show me a little mill and say, oh,
- 10:16Speaker 3: I love you.
- 10:18Speaker 2: Okay, I do know like the food words.
- 10:20Speaker 1: I mean, I am half Italian, so it's a disgrace
- 10:21Speaker 1: that I like it that I can barely speak it.
- 10:24Speaker 2: But I know, you know, to talk about spaghetti and cappellini.
- 10:27Speaker 3: Yeah, gosh, talking in accent will work.
- 10:32Speaker 1: Yeah, my mom is going to be embarrassing and just
- 10:36Speaker 1: like speak louder like that's what she does to people
- 10:39Speaker 1: when there's a language barrier, or my step dad will
- 10:41Speaker 1: revert to like Portuguese because he can speak that. I'm like, okay,
- 10:44Speaker 1: we're like, we're not doing this, so I'm but yeah,
- 10:46Speaker 1: I'm excited but nervous. So you're you're giving me all Yes,
- 10:50Speaker 1: we want to come in November to we want to go.
- 10:53Speaker 5: I know it all about the food.
- 10:54Speaker 4: Was there one thing that you were like, oh my gosh,
- 10:56Speaker 4: like I have to eat over and over and over
- 10:57Speaker 4: again because I could just imagine stuff right.
- 11:01Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'm gluten free here because it bloats me there.
- 11:05Speaker 3: You can eat it in the bus and the noki
- 11:09Speaker 3: and everything is great. It's everything's homemade from scratch and
- 11:17Speaker 3: and they're wonderful and wine.
- 11:19Speaker 2: I can't wait.
- 11:19Speaker 3: Wine is famulous.
- 11:21Speaker 2: I in like a red wine.
- 11:21Speaker 3: Face headaches either isn't sad?
- 11:24Speaker 2: That's because it's like real.
- 11:26Speaker 3: Real.
- 11:29Speaker 5: Drinking toxics.
- 11:30Speaker 1: Yeah, my aunt leg has a house and she's like,
- 11:32Speaker 1: I lost weight eating pasta and I'm like, well damn.
- 11:36Speaker 3: And they walk everywhere too, yea, which I was like texting,
- 11:45Speaker 3: Oh my.
- 11:45Speaker 5: God, that's so funny.
- 11:46Speaker 4: I do want to talk a little bit because you
- 11:48Speaker 4: give back a lot, which is awesome and I and
- 11:52Speaker 4: I want to highlight that a little bit because you
- 11:56Speaker 4: do a lot of stuff for aspiring musicians. I want
- 11:58Speaker 4: you to talk a little bit about the importance of
- 12:00Speaker 4: that and why that is such a hot button for
- 12:05Speaker 4: you and how important it is to give back to
- 12:07Speaker 4: people that you know have a dream and want to
- 12:10Speaker 4: sort of be doing what you're doing.
- 12:13Speaker 3: Because I noticed there's not a lot of mentorship within
- 12:17Speaker 3: in the industry, you know, I think, I don't know
- 12:20Speaker 3: if the industry has kind of made something of like
- 12:23Speaker 3: you have to think about yourself, Just think about yourself.
- 12:26Speaker 3: And like, growing up, I was a fan of the sixties, right,
- 12:29Speaker 3: and like watching Janis Joplin with Mama Cass and everybody
- 12:33Speaker 3: was friends. I'm like, why can't that still be a thing?
- 12:36Speaker 3: You know? And so I just I love it's not dead,
- 12:41Speaker 3: it's just hard to find. It's really hard to find
- 12:44Speaker 3: that community. So I wanted to give back. And when
- 12:47Speaker 3: I see such talent and I didn't know what to do,
- 12:51Speaker 3: I think I'm faking it to make it every day,
- 12:53Speaker 3: you know what I mean a little bit every day,
- 12:58Speaker 3: because the industry is also kind of like the wild
- 13:00Speaker 3: wild West, and just I'd like to encourage people, especially
- 13:05Speaker 3: when you have a talent. Music is the peacemaker, right,
- 13:09Speaker 3: you know, we can set up all of our beliefs,
- 13:11Speaker 3: our politics and everything that's so divided in our world
- 13:14Speaker 3: right now, that we could just set it at the
- 13:16Speaker 3: door and then we're all there for a common thing
- 13:19Speaker 3: is music and to bring that piece. So mentorship is important.
- 13:23Speaker 3: I was a teacher, the daughter of a teacher, so
- 13:26Speaker 3: many teachers in my family. So it started with vocal
- 13:29Speaker 3: coaching and then it kind of transitioned into mentorship. Like
- 13:33Speaker 3: how do I pursue this scary, horrible thing called the
- 13:36Speaker 3: stage and own it? How do I do I have
- 13:39Speaker 3: to put on a persona like Sasha Fierce, like Beyonce does. Yeah,
- 13:44Speaker 3: sure you can, but like you can also be yourself
- 13:48Speaker 3: on stage yea, and people will listen, you know.
- 13:51Speaker 4: Oh yeah, people are listening. Do you still do you
- 13:53Speaker 4: get nervous before performance because you just seem you just
- 13:56Speaker 4: exude confidence and you just go up there and kill
- 13:59Speaker 4: it and just wail and I'm sure everyone is just
- 14:02Speaker 4: blown away. Maybe no, But do you still get like
- 14:07Speaker 4: nerves and nervous before a show.
- 14:09Speaker 3: Because I wanted, you know, I guess that perfectionist brain
- 14:12Speaker 3: goes on sometimes I'm just like I just want to
- 14:16Speaker 3: give them the best show, or I'm feeling scratchy. Oh
- 14:19Speaker 3: my gosh. My best sie, Christina, she travels with me
- 14:23Speaker 3: and she's always like, you get your I can say,
- 14:25Speaker 3: ship right, ship together, girl, You're gonna be fine. It's
- 14:30Speaker 3: just like those negative thoughts kind of come in right before,
- 14:33Speaker 3: but once you hit your feet on the ground and
- 14:36Speaker 3: you're out there, it all melts away. So I feel
- 14:39Speaker 3: like it's not a bad thing to have nerves, because
- 14:41Speaker 3: if you get out there being too.
- 14:42Speaker 5: Cocky, something's gonna happen.
- 14:44Speaker 1: But yeah, I want to do the best. You brought
- 14:50Speaker 1: up your vocal coaching. I know you do some online.
- 14:53Speaker 1: I want to if there's someone who like you hear
- 14:57Speaker 1: them and there's just like you're like, oh, like there's
- 15:00Speaker 1: there's no they have no pitch, no to like, is
- 15:02Speaker 1: there something.
- 15:03Speaker 5: You can do well?
- 15:04Speaker 1: Also, I mean you've heard me sing a million times. Yeah,
- 15:08Speaker 1: well yeah, I'm speaking on myself. Like, are you like,
- 15:11Speaker 1: is there ever a situation where you're like, I can't
- 15:13Speaker 1: do anything with that?
- 15:14Speaker 2: You know you won't say it, I'm sure, but Okay.
- 15:17Speaker 3: At first, when I first started, I was like, oh falling, Okay,
- 15:21Speaker 3: what am I gonna do?
- 15:21Speaker 2: How do I do this?
- 15:23Speaker 3: I started studying, Okay. I had one of my students
- 15:27Speaker 3: was down syndrome, so a lot of times their voices
- 15:30Speaker 3: can have a monotone kind of tone. And when I
- 15:35Speaker 3: would talk about like sometimes notes go up and sometimes
- 15:39Speaker 3: notes go down, So I want you to match, and
- 15:41Speaker 3: we would use our hands going up when we'd go
- 15:44Speaker 3: up and down. And she started with this song. I
- 15:48Speaker 3: swear in two months she could sing on KEI on pitch.
- 15:52Speaker 3: She was learning how to really listen. I also had
- 15:55Speaker 3: this guy who was you know in UH in combat.
- 16:01Speaker 3: You know it was in the army, lost his hearing
- 16:03Speaker 3: from a certain uh pitch from you know whatever to whatever,
- 16:09Speaker 3: and I said, Okay, we're gonna play with vibration. Vibration,
- 16:12Speaker 3: you can feel dissonance in your body, and so I
- 16:15Speaker 3: would play sounds really really loud, and I'm like sing
- 16:19Speaker 3: and imagine from the places that you can hear in
- 16:22Speaker 3: the lower register. If you're going up in half steps,
- 16:25Speaker 3: what does it feel like in your body? And he
- 16:27Speaker 3: was able to sing those notes by listening to dissonance
- 16:32Speaker 3: in the vibration in his body. Wow.
- 16:35Speaker 2: Yeah, both of those things.
- 16:43Speaker 4: It's gonna so you have a show this weekend Lincoln Hall.
- 16:48Speaker 4: It's just I love that venue so excited and I've
- 16:52Speaker 4: seen clips. I've never had the honor stay. It will
- 16:54Speaker 4: be my first live Katiekiden experience. What can I expect?
- 16:59Speaker 4: What do people expect from a Katie Cayden show.
- 17:02Speaker 3: Well, love is definitely going to be there, for sure.
- 17:06Speaker 3: You feel love and love is going to be all
- 17:09Speaker 3: around the room. And I even tell all the people
- 17:13Speaker 3: that come out just be gracious and kind to the
- 17:15Speaker 3: people next to you if somebody needs help, help them,
- 17:18Speaker 3: you know. And it's gonna be sexy period. Okay. And
- 17:23Speaker 3: my buddy Logan Matts, who is a phenomenal songwriter, is
- 17:26Speaker 3: going to be opening for me, not only opening and
- 17:29Speaker 3: playing with me for my set too. He was with
- 17:33Speaker 3: Lucas Nelson his band for many years and he's a songwriter,
- 17:38Speaker 3: so it's gonna be awesome. And I got Aretha Franklin's
- 17:42Speaker 3: backup singers.
- 17:43Speaker 2: What excuse, excuse?
- 17:48Speaker 3: Oh, I ain't kidding. I ain't kidding. Harmony and saxophone
- 17:56Speaker 3: and all of the things, and the band is are
- 17:59Speaker 3: all of my been with me when I couldn't pay
- 18:01Speaker 3: them and sometimes would help me out to pay for
- 18:05Speaker 3: recordings because they loved me. Are going to be playing
- 18:07Speaker 3: with me on that stage. So it's going to be
- 18:10Speaker 3: a lot.
- 18:11Speaker 1: That's that's really special and important. Like we need more
- 18:14Speaker 1: people that are pushing, Like if somebody needs help, why
- 18:16Speaker 1: don't you help them? Like it's sad that I almost
- 18:20Speaker 1: want to cry by her just saying.
- 18:21Speaker 2: That, because there's so little of that.
- 18:24Speaker 1: But before we let you go, you are a Chicago girl, right, Yes,
- 18:28Speaker 1: I'm I'm a Detroit girl.
- 18:30Speaker 2: Shout out to Aretha.
- 18:32Speaker 1: Yeah, And like there's some fun stories that you get
- 18:35Speaker 1: to hear, like growing up where she grew up. But
- 18:37Speaker 1: what's the most Midwest or Chicago thing about you.
- 18:40Speaker 3: I'm curious, probably my beautiful accent, especially when road rage happens.
- 18:47Speaker 3: Then I'm like, are you play bank kidding me? Get
- 18:50Speaker 3: out here?
- 18:51Speaker 2: You know, the drunker I get, the more my accent
- 18:55Speaker 2: comes out.
- 18:55Speaker 1: I try not to have one, because, like you know,
- 18:57Speaker 1: we're on the air in multiple places.
- 18:59Speaker 2: But that long a you know, I can't escape it.
- 19:02Speaker 1: And I used to be so like ashamed to be
- 19:04Speaker 1: from the Midwest, and now I'm like, it's kind of
- 19:05Speaker 1: a wonderful place.
- 19:06Speaker 3: Well, I now live in Nashville. The Midwest is the
- 19:11Speaker 3: heart of America. It is when you come. When I
- 19:14Speaker 3: come home, I'm like, okay, I'm home. And the food
- 19:17Speaker 3: is so good here too, right am I right? Yeah?
- 19:20Speaker 5: No, I didn't even think that.
- 19:21Speaker 4: And then once like I Chicago born and raised, and
- 19:24Speaker 4: then when I started going to other place, I was like, oh,
- 19:26Speaker 4: you don't have pizza like this, or oh you don't
- 19:29Speaker 4: have like sandwiches like this everywhere, Like it's a it's
- 19:32Speaker 4: a bit of a shock, like oh wait, I didn't
- 19:33Speaker 4: realize it was as good as I guess.
- 19:35Speaker 3: It is so good.
- 19:37Speaker 4: Yeah, we are spoilt here, Yeah we are sure we
- 19:39Speaker 4: have everything and convenience yeah too. Oh yeah, and everything
- 19:43Speaker 4: is closed before we get into your top five, because
- 19:45Speaker 4: we have to go through your top five things you're
- 19:46Speaker 4: obsessed with right now. I just have to know if
- 19:49Speaker 4: we were all going to go out to a karaoke night,
- 19:52Speaker 4: and this is like the crazy this is the most
- 19:55Speaker 4: like whatever question, but just you being you?
- 19:58Speaker 5: What song are you picking?
- 20:00Speaker 3: M Georgia because it creates just friends zone doing the
- 20:07Speaker 3: pit part right?
- 20:11Speaker 5: Oh my god.
- 20:12Speaker 1: Now the fact that mine is asked by Big Sean
- 20:14Speaker 1: and I got an email that makes me feel really
- 20:18Speaker 1: good about myself.
- 20:20Speaker 2: But hey, what's yours?
- 20:22Speaker 4: I don't know. My brain initially went to some atlantis.
- 20:25Speaker 4: I don't know why. Yeah, maybe I'm feeling kind of
- 20:27Speaker 4: angsty these days, so that might be.
- 20:29Speaker 3: Oh that's a whole other episode.
- 20:31Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, yeah, that's the episode with my therapist.
- 20:34Speaker 1: Later. Oh my gosh, when we saw her and shook
- 20:38Speaker 1: her hair for I think it was two minutes. She
- 20:40Speaker 1: was just whipping her hair around barefoot. I love I
- 20:43Speaker 1: love her.
- 20:44Speaker 5: That's everything.
- 20:45Speaker 4: Okay, so let's get into your top five are okay,
- 20:47Speaker 4: So one of them I kind of already spoiled, which
- 20:49Speaker 4: was mentoring or coaching aspiring musicians. So we know that
- 20:53Speaker 4: you do that and we love that and thank you so.
- 20:54Speaker 5: Much, which is awesome. If people want to get involved
- 20:57Speaker 5: in that, what do they just DM?
- 20:59Speaker 3: You or me on Instagram is the best way to
- 21:01Speaker 3: get a hold of me for sure.
- 21:04Speaker 4: So let's see your for your Your real first one
- 21:07Speaker 4: was Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way, So why are you
- 21:09Speaker 4: obsessed with that?
- 21:11Speaker 3: Okay? So I did it about six years ago and
- 21:14Speaker 3: I've decided to pick it up again. It's a fourteen
- 21:17Speaker 3: week course of just like tapping into your creative I
- 21:21Speaker 3: think a lot of times with creatives and not just singers,
- 21:23Speaker 3: any art you know applies here. When you tap into
- 21:29Speaker 3: you think like, oh I'm not feeling like I don't
- 21:33Speaker 3: have a muse or I'm not feeling inspired. But her
- 21:36Speaker 3: approach is that art is right there and all you
- 21:40Speaker 3: have to do is grab it. And so a lot
- 21:42Speaker 3: of times are brains like you were saying, go to
- 21:44Speaker 3: my therapist. Restarted therapy too. Yes, you know morning pages
- 21:51Speaker 3: you kind of like write and dump right all of
- 21:54Speaker 3: your thoughts so that you can get the jumble brain
- 21:57Speaker 3: away and that you can get on a creative level.
- 22:00Speaker 3: It's been just really really wonderful. I'm obsessed with it.
- 22:02Speaker 3: So now I've been sending it to all my artsy friends.
- 22:05Speaker 3: I'm like, you got fourteen weeks, you gotta do it
- 22:07Speaker 3: every single day, and I'm trust me, it's gonna like
- 22:10Speaker 3: break these blocks of creativity and so many Yeah, I'll
- 22:15Speaker 3: send you guys the link please for sure.
- 22:18Speaker 4: It's so interesting and I think, like I definitely no
- 22:20Speaker 4: consider myself a creative, but I genuinely do love what
- 22:23Speaker 4: I do and I'm passionate about it, and I just
- 22:26Speaker 4: find it so hard to always try to refocus right
- 22:30Speaker 4: and stay like wait, I actually do like this because
- 22:32Speaker 4: so many things get in your way, like everyone has
- 22:35Speaker 4: shitty days or stuff happens in your personal life that
- 22:38Speaker 4: just affects you, know, what you really.
- 22:39Speaker 5: Like to do in life, right, you know?
- 22:41Speaker 4: So I guess it's always good to have that sort
- 22:44Speaker 4: of reset and sort of refocus, like Okay, I do
- 22:48Speaker 4: like this is what I'm supposed to do, and like,
- 22:50Speaker 4: let's like get that back together.
- 22:51Speaker 5: It's like keep doing what you're we're put on this
- 22:54Speaker 5: earth to do, you know.
- 22:55Speaker 3: What I mean. And it's defeating sometimes right, Like I'm
- 22:59Speaker 3: in the right space, should I be doing this? What's that?
- 23:02Speaker 3: And it's kind of like realizing that the taking the
- 23:06Speaker 3: steps unknown aren't that scary. Yeah, you're reminding yourself of that.
- 23:11Speaker 3: That's why I'm obsessed with that.
- 23:12Speaker 4: Yeah, well you're looking to Julia Cameron. I'm looking to
- 23:14Speaker 4: Katie Kta like I need please, like you know, mentoring coaching.
- 23:19Speaker 5: I know I can't sing, but give me some life
- 23:21Speaker 5: advice or something.
- 23:22Speaker 3: I got you, baby.
- 23:25Speaker 5: So you're binge watching the Testaments on Netflix? What's that?
- 23:28Speaker 5: I don't watch anything, so tell.
- 23:29Speaker 3: Me what it was. Have you watched The handmaids Tale?
- 23:33Speaker 3: No I read any of that.
- 23:35Speaker 2: I haven't, but I know the premise.
- 23:37Speaker 1: I heard It was very stress inducing and also similar
- 23:40Speaker 1: to maybe like what the times look like right now,
- 23:42Speaker 1: so I avoided it.
- 23:45Speaker 3: It's stressful and horrible, but it's so good.
- 23:47Speaker 2: Okay.
- 23:48Speaker 3: So this is like the spin off of what Happens
- 23:50Speaker 3: to oh like Happened After whatever. I can't spoil it
- 23:55Speaker 3: for anybody, Okay, it's just I'm obsessed.
- 23:57Speaker 5: With Is it a period piece?
- 23:58Speaker 3: It's a period No, not really. It feels like a
- 24:01Speaker 3: period go back in the day and ladies are all
- 24:06Speaker 3: in dresses and all that kind It's so good.
- 24:09Speaker 5: We love ladies and dresses.
- 24:13Speaker 4: Joni Mitchell's Blue album like come on, like, come on,
- 24:18Speaker 4: come on. But I just feel like you and Joni
- 24:22Speaker 4: are like, I don't know, just like Kindred Spirits, So like,
- 24:25Speaker 4: why did you pick that album?
- 24:26Speaker 3: You know, from my teaching too, I'm teaching a lot
- 24:30Speaker 3: about phrasing. So when a singer sings, they just sometimes
- 24:35Speaker 3: they just sing, and I'm like, you have to listen
- 24:38Speaker 3: to how singer's phrase. When Joni Mitchell tells a story
- 24:43Speaker 3: in her songs, it's not just a melody. It's also
- 24:47Speaker 3: like she's singing but speaking at the same time, and
- 24:51Speaker 3: she's telling this story, and where she takes a breath
- 24:53Speaker 3: is important, where usually it's like I sing a phrase,
- 24:57Speaker 3: I take a breath, I sing a phrase, I take
- 24:58Speaker 3: a breath. She'll sing a phrase and keep on going
- 25:01Speaker 3: and take a breath where you're not supposed tom and
- 25:04Speaker 3: yet it's mixed the song. That's the magic behind the music,
- 25:09Speaker 3: like those minute things, or when she gets a little
- 25:13Speaker 3: bit louder, a little bit softer, and I'm just like
- 25:15Speaker 3: it's all over her album and I've just been listening
- 25:18Speaker 3: to it over and over and I'm like I've been obsessed.
- 25:21Speaker 3: I kind of obsess over albums sometimes or bringing back
- 25:24Speaker 3: that I love, Like before that was Miseducation La. She
- 25:28Speaker 3: comes back every year though.
- 25:30Speaker 4: I mean clean those are like some of the best,
- 25:34Speaker 4: you know, the best albums of all time.
- 25:37Speaker 5: Like that's insane that for a reason.
- 25:40Speaker 4: Yeah, and I love that too. I love I'm a
- 25:45Speaker 4: huge like singer songwriter, like female Stan obviously, like I
- 25:49Speaker 4: like whatever. We did a study on the Morning Show
- 25:51Speaker 4: where it's like, oh, guys, listen and Christa hears me
- 25:54Speaker 4: use this analogy all the time, but like, guys listen
- 25:56Speaker 4: to the music for you know, beats and music or whatever,
- 25:59Speaker 4: but we listen for the lyrics. But you have to
- 26:00Speaker 4: have a lyric that like captures me in order for
- 26:03Speaker 4: me to be able to like, you know, really get
- 26:05Speaker 4: into it. I'm not just there like raving to eat
- 26:08Speaker 4: it up, you know, like I need to be drawn in.
- 26:09Speaker 4: And I think that's something that you really do really well.
- 26:11Speaker 4: It is like the way you deliver and you have
- 26:14Speaker 4: meaning with what you're saying and it's authentic and like
- 26:18Speaker 4: that's just why I'm.
- 26:19Speaker 5: Obsessed with you.
- 26:20Speaker 1: Wait side questions, like he's not just saying this because
- 26:27Speaker 1: I know when people do interviews, like they both smoke sometimes,
- 26:30Speaker 1: like he told me about you years ago, so this
- 26:32Speaker 1: is actually true.
- 26:33Speaker 2: He actually was like.
- 26:34Speaker 1: Trying to demand our boss play you follows you, So
- 26:38Speaker 1: he follows.
- 26:40Speaker 4: Yeah, finally came out after the voice like your original song.
- 26:43Speaker 4: I like ran downstairs to our bosses.
- 26:45Speaker 5: You have to listen to you have to listen. It's
- 26:47Speaker 5: very obsessed, like obsessed.
- 26:49Speaker 4: So I was in this building spreading the good news promise, spread.
- 26:53Speaker 2: The good words.
- 26:56Speaker 5: Much.
- 26:56Speaker 3: I appreciate.
- 26:57Speaker 4: That means actually, you're just so freaking like talent, and
- 27:00Speaker 4: that's what I like tell calein all the time. It's like, hey,
- 27:02Speaker 4: how am I from Chicago? And I did I haven't
- 27:04Speaker 4: seen you live prior to the voice, Like come on,
- 27:06Speaker 4: like where have I been? But like you're so just
- 27:08Speaker 4: amazingly telling these people that are out there, and I'm like,
- 27:10Speaker 4: oh my god, Like you just deserve everything.
- 27:13Speaker 2: Sorry you do you really do?
- 27:14Speaker 3: No.
- 27:15Speaker 1: I just like was curious because I'm I cannot sing
- 27:19Speaker 1: a lick, but I love good songwriters, and for me,
- 27:21Speaker 1: I look for a couple of things like either you
- 27:24Speaker 1: can like paint a picture so much so that I
- 27:27Speaker 1: can see it. I can literally see it or I
- 27:29Speaker 1: can go how the hell can they describe my feelings
- 27:33Speaker 1: better than I can? You know, like you're in my head.
- 27:36Speaker 1: Are there some that come to mind that are your
- 27:39Speaker 1: favorite songwriters? Or what do you what do you attach
- 27:41Speaker 1: yourself to when you're listening to music?
- 27:43Speaker 3: I guess I think the character of a song. Excuse me,
- 27:48Speaker 3: I think, you know, like even in teaching a lot,
- 27:52Speaker 3: it brings me back to myself because if I'm teaching it,
- 27:55Speaker 3: I have to live it, right, Like when we listen
- 27:57Speaker 3: to a song and the lyrics are cool, and you'll
- 28:00Speaker 3: find those lyrics that like grab onto you like that?
- 28:03Speaker 3: That was for me looking at the story of this song. Okay,
- 28:07Speaker 3: not just the lyrics and what they mean, but like,
- 28:10Speaker 3: what do they mean to me if I had lived
- 28:12Speaker 3: this experience? A good example Joni Mitchell River. You know
- 28:21Speaker 3: there's that line that says he loved me so naughty,
- 28:24Speaker 3: he made me weak in the knees. That's the sensual
- 28:27Speaker 3: sweet part, and you can kind of even though it's
- 28:30Speaker 3: sad song, like I wish I had a River, I
- 28:31Speaker 3: could just get away from it, all right, But the
- 28:34Speaker 3: idea of like, okay, I remember that passion in that
- 28:37Speaker 3: connection and I have that inner smile on my face
- 28:41Speaker 3: when people sing it. I say, smile, but don't just
- 28:44Speaker 3: smile on her face, smile from your heart and heart
- 28:47Speaker 3: it because then you're like, oh, it's not all sad.
- 28:51Speaker 3: It's like, even though it's gone, the memory is still
- 28:54Speaker 3: bring you joy. Yeah, and that's that's that's hope for
- 28:58Speaker 3: the future, for the next.
- 29:00Speaker 2: I didn't realize that not everyone got chills when they
- 29:03Speaker 2: heard a line or a song that affected them, but
- 29:06Speaker 2: like I always get goosebumps from it, which I think
- 29:09Speaker 2: is why I'm so obsessed with music. I love it,
- 29:11Speaker 2: oh yeah, yeah.
- 29:12Speaker 4: Or like the song will like literally mate, like yesterday
- 29:14Speaker 4: was just in a mood and a lie that the
- 29:17Speaker 4: perfect line will hit you at the perfect time. I
- 29:20Speaker 4: just like burst out into tears, like because like it's
- 29:22Speaker 4: just you know, I don't know music.
- 29:24Speaker 3: It's so powerful and absolutely why do we love alanis
- 29:28Speaker 3: like I remember I was at a friend's house cooking something,
- 29:31Speaker 3: or she's like, I gotta run the store. Her husband
- 29:34Speaker 3: comes home and listen to oh which one? What's the
- 29:39Speaker 3: one that she gets pissed off with the Joey I hate.
- 29:42Speaker 2: To bug you in the middle of dinner you want
- 29:47Speaker 2: to know it.
- 29:47Speaker 3: And he's like, oh god, I thought my wife was
- 29:50Speaker 3: home and she's mad at me, because every time she's
- 29:52Speaker 3: mad at me, she puts Alanis Moore set on and
- 29:54Speaker 3: I'm freaked out, Like what did I do?
- 29:58Speaker 1: That's a real story, by the way, like he was
- 30:01Speaker 1: on I Think Watch what Happens Live and he said
- 30:03Speaker 1: he was literally having dinner at Bob Zagat's house and
- 30:05Speaker 1: she called and he was like, we're having dinner.
- 30:07Speaker 2: And I just love that. That was real.
- 30:08Speaker 1: We got to go out with Uncle Joey one night
- 30:10Speaker 1: and I got a little tipsy and I was so close.
- 30:14Speaker 2: To singing you on a note to him. I'm like,
- 30:15Speaker 2: it's time to get me out of the bar, like.
- 30:18Speaker 3: I would have been so funny.
- 30:20Speaker 2: Yeah, my intrusive thoughts were like.
- 30:23Speaker 3: That means to do it, I know.
- 30:25Speaker 2: And by the way, they usually win. But last night
- 30:27Speaker 2: I was a good, good girl. I behave myself. I
- 30:30Speaker 2: was good girl. I can speak. I speak for a
- 30:32Speaker 2: living as fear.
- 30:32Speaker 5: Oh my god, you wouldn't know it from speaking.
- 30:39Speaker 3: That's so true.
- 30:40Speaker 4: Your last thing on your legs watching reels of cute
- 30:42Speaker 4: babies on Instagram.
- 30:43Speaker 5: That is not my for you page. But I love
- 30:46Speaker 5: that that's yours.
- 30:47Speaker 3: I love a little babis so cute. I don't have any,
- 30:51Speaker 3: but it's so cute to look at little cute cheeks
- 30:54Speaker 3: on the feet, the feet, oh, the rolls. Even skinny
- 30:58Speaker 3: little bird babies are kind of cute too. Oh all
- 31:01Speaker 3: the all the babies are cute babies.
- 31:04Speaker 2: Same do you love? Okay, he doesn't get what I
- 31:06Speaker 2: mean when.
- 31:06Speaker 1: I say this, Just like the whiff of a fresh
- 31:08Speaker 1: baby's head, does that do anything for you?
- 31:12Speaker 5: I never smell babies.
- 31:15Speaker 3: You got it?
- 31:16Speaker 2: Take a hit of that you got? I'm not just
- 31:18Speaker 2: like a little no you go.
- 31:21Speaker 4: I don't know your will be something?
- 31:31Speaker 3: Yeah, left of mind? Right right?
- 31:37Speaker 2: Did we get a cry, crash out or hate?
- 31:39Speaker 5: Oh no?
- 31:40Speaker 4: Do you want to talk about something that you that
- 31:42Speaker 4: maybe something not just off the dome that you I
- 31:45Speaker 4: don't like. I don't think I asked this, So this
- 31:46Speaker 4: might this might be my father, something that's just pissing
- 31:50Speaker 4: you off right now that you hate in.
- 31:52Speaker 3: Like traffic okay, okay, yeah, hay traffic and Ashphilt's where
- 31:57Speaker 3: Chicago's a dream compared to what I put putts in
- 32:03Speaker 3: people right side lane through ten miles before they need
- 32:09Speaker 3: to and then or putt putts in the left lane. Oh,
- 32:13Speaker 3: that's my trigger. They don't understand. They don't understand people.
- 32:18Speaker 3: I flash you and let you know before. Yeah, my
- 32:21Speaker 3: aggression comes out. I mean, I know I could be sweet,
- 32:23Speaker 3: but on the road I am a totally different woman, the.
- 32:26Speaker 1: Same I'm mother asking everyone. Yeah, the left lane is
- 32:29Speaker 1: my trigger, like my personal trigger. I like, if you
- 32:32Speaker 1: don't know how to use the left lane.
- 32:33Speaker 3: Like, I'm thank you.
- 32:34Speaker 2: It's very upsetting.
- 32:35Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 32:36Speaker 4: If I'm going eighty in the left lane, I'm like,
- 32:38Speaker 4: I'm already going fifteen miles over the speed limit.
- 32:40Speaker 5: So if you want to ride my ass, just go
- 32:42Speaker 5: ahead and ride it.
- 32:42Speaker 3: Baby.
- 32:43Speaker 5: Oh okay, So I'm probably the person that you guys are.
- 32:46Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I know. It's really upsetting.
- 32:51Speaker 1: We did a road trip to Detroit to see Taylor
- 32:54Speaker 1: Swift for the third time on therera Is tour because
- 32:56Speaker 1: we're absolutely insane.
- 32:57Speaker 2: Yeah we're nuts.
- 32:58Speaker 1: And I drove part of the way, but we're running late,
- 33:00Speaker 1: so I had to do my makeup. So we switched
- 33:01Speaker 1: and he looked at me and he goes, just so
- 33:02Speaker 1: you know, I do the speed limit and I was like.
- 33:04Speaker 2: Oh shit, I should get back in the drive.
- 33:07Speaker 1: We're getting there, right, We're never going to get there,
- 33:11Speaker 1: but we did.
- 33:11Speaker 5: Oh my god. Yeah.
- 33:12Speaker 4: Traffic is my I try the probably the thing I
- 33:15Speaker 4: try the hardest at in life is to get to
- 33:18Speaker 4: work and leave work before the traffic. So true, and
- 33:22Speaker 4: it just it pisses me off so that you are
- 33:24Speaker 4: so real for that. So Katie, thank you so much
- 33:28Speaker 4: for sitting with us like this is a dream. You
- 33:30Speaker 4: are immensely talented. We are so lucky to have you
- 33:34Speaker 4: here Lincoln Hall this Saturday. You can still get tickets
- 33:37Speaker 4: at the Lincoln Hall box office. And then what else
- 33:40Speaker 4: is to come in twenty twenty six?
- 33:42Speaker 3: New music? Okay, okay, hell yeah.
- 33:46Speaker 5: Hey what are the vibes? Can you give us.
- 33:48Speaker 3: All of the feelings and but like hope, oh yeah
- 33:52Speaker 3: we need it, need that.
- 33:53Speaker 2: Where can they find you on Instagram?
- 33:57Speaker 3: Katie Kaden Official on Instagram and Katie ca Eiding none
- 34:00Speaker 3: all of the other. And She'll sing to you on
- 34:03Speaker 3: Tuesdays and Tuesdays take a break. Tuesdays I will sing
- 34:06Speaker 3: to you, except this Tuesday I couldn't pick up merchant.
- 34:11Speaker 2: We can take a break.
- 34:13Speaker 3: I can't take a break this.
- 34:16Speaker 4: Do you know what that's you need some. That's a
- 34:19Speaker 4: great way to end that. Oh my god, Katie, thank
- 34:21Speaker 4: you so much.
- 34:22Speaker 5: You're amazing. Thank you, thank you.