Jessie Jo Dillon On Winning Songwriter of the Year Award, Wants to Write With Sabrina Carpenter & More | ACM Honors 2025 - video Dailymotion

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Jessie Jo Dillon caught up with Lindsey Stirling on the red carpet at the ACM Honors 2025.

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00:00I'm here with Jessie Jo Dillon.

00:02First off, you look amazing.

00:05Thank you so much.

00:06What inspired this fit?

00:07It's so unique and so cool.

00:09I was inspired by The Great Gatsby.

00:11It's one of my favorite novels.

00:12And so my stylist, Krista, put this together.

00:15It's all Dolce & Gabbana.

00:17And so we really did a full send tonight, I feel like.

00:21You did. You showed up.

00:22And it looks incredible on you.

00:24Thank you so much.

00:25So this is your second time winning songwriter of the year.

00:27Yes.

00:28Congratulations.

00:29Thank you so much.

00:30It's so crazy.

00:31Yeah, that must feel kind of surreal.

00:33It's very surreal.

00:34I still a little, I mean, I definitely work hard.

00:36But I feel like I'm almost talking about someone else.

00:38Because it's just two years in a row is pretty crazy.

00:40I never, ever expected that.

00:42Yeah.

00:43Oh my gosh.

00:44Well, do you have a favorite song you've written in the last year?

00:46Honestly, I think it's getting performed tonight is Lies, Lies, Lies by Morgan Wallen.

00:51And I have some of my favorite girls singing Carter Faith and Karen Fairchild from Little Big Town.

00:56So I'm really excited to hear it from like a girl.

00:59You know what I mean?

01:00Yes.

01:01I just thought it'd be cool.

01:02A fun twist on it.

01:03You know what I mean?

01:04Yeah.

01:05Absolutely.

01:06I mean, a new perspective changes everything.

01:07Right?

01:08So that'll be really fun to hear your song.

01:09Through a different lens.

01:10Yes.

01:11I thought so too.

01:12Okay.

01:13So Billboard ran a story and did some research and they've realized that country music is

01:17now like more dark and it's gotten a little more emotionally deep in the last, you know,

01:21two decades.

01:22So do you feel like as a songwriter you can dive into deeper, darker topics than you used

01:26to be able to?

01:27I do feel like, especially in the past year, that's been more, even Lies, the song we were

01:34just talking about, I felt like for Morgan it was a little different, it was darker tones,

01:39minor E and a heavier like longing type song.

01:43And so I definitely feel like those topics are being more like a light shown on them which

01:49is cool.

01:50Yeah.

01:51Do you know what that's attributed to or do you think people are just more open?

01:56I think maybe people are just more open.

01:58I feel like music always changes every decade.

02:00Yeah.

02:01I mean, Jolly Roll always tells me that every decade it's going to be something new.

02:04Yeah.

02:05And so I think he's probably right about that.

02:07Yeah.

02:08Well, speaking of Jolly Roll, you've written with some of the biggest artists in, you know,

02:11in the industry, not just country, but do you have a wish list of like someone who's

02:15at the top that you would love to write with?

02:17Man, you know, my dream co-write actually would be Don Henley from the Eagles.

02:22I know he doesn't really co-write, but he's one of my favorite writers and I really love

02:27what Sabrina Carpenter is doing and my friend Amy Allen and Steph Jones do a lot with her.

02:31So I think she's really badass too.

02:33That's a good list.

02:34Well, congratulations on your second win.

02:37Have a blast tonight and just don't forget that you look incredible.

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