00:00all right so we are here with charlotte sands hi charlotte hi so i have to ask you something
00:05since we're set up like a podcast i love it i love this microphone uh if you could have a podcast
00:10what would it be do you have a podcast am i missing something no how awkward would that be
00:15this whole time i'm like actually that's why i'm here to promote my podcast um no i don't i honestly
00:21would be so self-conscious because i say um and like so much and also i just talk so much already
00:26that i feel like it's not necessarily something people probably want to listen to but you're
00:32great at it oh thank you i will see after this interview i don't really know i don't really
00:36know uh so charlotte welcome to augusta by the way thank you thank you for having me absolutely so
00:41this is our first huge show here at hd983 i mean it's massive the station's been here forever but
00:45to put this on to have you here like it's been fantastic uh we're a little wet obviously but
00:50no worries there the show must go on um but so just i mean i what i hate to ask this question
00:58but i always like to know how did you get into where you're at right now you're good um no i love
01:03a backstory um no i started um making music and writing music when i was really really young and
01:10like before i was even 10 years old i was like recording stuff on my my dad's studio that he would
01:17make and um everywhere we lived every house i ever lived in my dad would make a makeshift studio
01:21yeah he would play guitar and teach me how to record my vocals and all that kind of stuff so i
01:26have been like making music forever and then i moved to nashville about seven years ago okay yeah and
01:32so i've been there ever since because i've just been around so many songwriters that i love and i
01:35i feel like that's like where really memorable incredible songs are made sure that's always been my
01:42priority is to try and one day fit in that box sure absolutely absolutely yeah so live in nashville
01:49so hot chicken or fried chicken hot chicken i love hot chicken i did find out something recently
01:56though that made me very sad i found out that hot chicken is just the same thing as spicy chicken
02:01but with sugar like a crazy amount of interesting and and i don't know if that's true so no i'm gonna
02:06get like fact check but somebody told me he was like oh no i don't eat um hot chicken because it's
02:12just the same thing as regular spicy chicken sure sure but with a ton of sugar sure and just fried
02:17chicken is just i mean it's just fried everybody's now just gonna be like no it's just spicy
02:23i'm not gonna be like oh that makes sense you're right you're right so when so you you were 10 when
02:28you started writing music what was like one of the first songs you wrote or or one of your first
02:32favorite bands um first favorite bands i mean i grew up on like good charlotte and green day and
02:39that kind of stuff mostly because i had my name in the title i think that's a huge reason
02:43my first band ever was called bad charlotte so um yeah we thought it was i thought it was cool at
02:49the time looking back it feels like a trademark issue but it'll be it's fine um but i i literally my
02:56dad actually has a recording of like the first song i ever recorded when i was oh that's cool and he
03:01sent it to me and i was like who is this this child is screaming um but it was like it was really
03:08funny because it was like very in the rock genre sure yeah sure it's funny that i'm like still
03:13making that kind of music i kind of found my way back to yeah my roots and i really have been doing
03:17that like my whole life that's awesome that's awesome so what genre would you like to like
03:21experiment in that maybe you haven't gotten into yet um that's so hard i genuinely hope throughout
03:28my career that i release something in as many genres as possible i grew up like on country music
03:34singer songwriter folk i grew up um listening to a lot of rap a lot of r&b um and obviously living
03:41in nashville there's like a ton of country yes yes yes those are some of my favorite songs so i think
03:45genuinely um i've always said that i'm gonna put out like a folk album at some point oh that would be
03:50cool yeah yeah that's kind of because all my all the songs i've ever released have started
03:54really bare bones and kind of about the song and about the lyrics and so i think my dad always
04:00said to me if you can't play it on guitar then it's not a good song sure sure i would disagree
04:03for some songs or just some great songs um but yeah for me personally i think that that would be
04:09something i want to do awesome okay so let's talk about dress yeah i've heard a rumor it's harry
04:14styles inspired is that true yes did i do enough no no no yeah no it's so funny um it really was
04:21a conversation so basically the song started because i was actually having a conversation
04:26about how my type has changed because i like was i realized that i over when i was growing up
04:32i used to think that people who were confident were people who were like really overly like
04:39masculine or like always had to like kind of show off how masculine or and i was like oh that guy is
04:43so confident and then i realized like now at my age i started realizing that that's like not actually
04:49what my idea of confidence is like confidence is kind of expressing yourself and being the most
04:55authentic version of yourself and i think that just switched in my brain and i have so many amazing
05:00influences like harry styles and like so many men um in the industry who are pushing gender norms
05:07and women as well and so i think that the the song really came from a place of kind of talking
05:12about what i view as um like attractive in somebody and people just expressing themselves openly
05:20and it was also happened to be at the same time that a lot of stuff was happening with harry styles
05:27on the vogue cover and people being really upset about it which is just something that like didn't
05:32make any sense to me and then but there's so many people there's young blood who's like constantly
05:35doing that there was david bowie there's so many people that over such a long course of
05:39um music have really changed um the path for a lot of people and kind of in trailblazers so i think
05:46sure he's definitely a big one sure and it's and it's like you said referencing those you know those
05:51uh artists with amazing hits you know 30 40 years ago it is kind of kind of coming like full circle
05:57but in kind of like a bigger more positive way like it's okay to absolutely do that be authentic
06:02like you said absolutely and i think it's so incredible especially for people who have such large
06:07audiences of really young fans because there are so many people who's like first introduction to
06:13music is these people that are teaching them that you can be yourself and you can feel welcome
06:17in whatever space i have you can feel welcome in it and you can feel safe and you can feel accepted
06:22and loved and i feel like me having those people as my like influences as well has made me realize how
06:28much i want to do that for people and that's kind of the biggest thing is just to be able to create
06:32a community where everyone feels respected and can express themselves with no judgment sure and so
06:36that's yeah that's been the whole that's awesome charlotte i can tell you some of your fans they
06:40were lined up outside of this gate here i mean i got here 11 a.m and they were there so
06:45that's crazy but i mean your fans love you you obviously love your fans like that you without a
06:55doubt um so how many followers do you have on tiktok do you know um i don't know honestly the only
07:00reason i know this is because i it went up a lot like the last few weeks and i thought i was being
07:07like hacked so i checked it i was like is there a bot i was like text my management um but i think
07:13there's i have like 70 000 on there wow what's your favorite i don't want to say influencer but when
07:19you go and down the tiktok hole like what are you scrolling through what's your favorite things to
07:24watch i think that teffy is my favorite like tiktoker honestly she's just if you don't follow
07:31her she's just really funny and very like straightforward and also i just think it's
07:35really incredible that like tiktok and social media has opened up these completely different
07:39careers for people before the pandemic sure people who have like i know people who have worked on like
07:45restaurant and retail and that are now interviewing artists on the red carpet just because they have
07:50like a funny personality and that created this door for them to be able to do that um so people
07:55can i complain about social media everyone can complain about social media but in the end it's
07:59so many people have gotten like incredible opportunities that they probably would have been able to get to
08:04yep so it's i love that i love seeing like people that i followed on social media for like two years
08:08all of a sudden they're like working with major companies sure interviewing like jack harlow and
08:13i'm like okay this is so cool it makes me like proud as like a follower friend um final question
08:22who's your dream collaboration with can be alive or dead either one yeah um that is so hard i i think i
08:30have a few people only because i had so many like different parts of my genre itself yeah yeah yeah i think
08:37for my soul it would be bonnie wright oh okay it feels like it's coming out of left field for like
08:42a little yeah audience yeah i apologize um i am obsessed with like miley cyrus katie perry and pink
08:51sure i feel like that would be life-changing mountain rushmore of yeah pop artists yeah for sure yeah
08:57and just have had the pop but alt-pop careers but like our stadium-sized artists which is kind of the
09:04dream um and then i would love to do like alanis morissette right sure i love it so that's kind of
09:13that's the dream but more female collaborations is my is my goal absolutely i love it i love it
09:18charlotte thanks for coming out thanks so much for having me i mean this has been you know it's again
09:22i'm wet whatever it's fine it does it sure does that is very true that's very true well charlotte thank
09:28you so much for coming out yeah thank you for having me awesome thanks
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