- 4 months ago
Russell Dickerson joins Katie Neal at the Audacy Studios inside the Hard Rock located in the heart of Nashville.
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00:00Russell Dickerson.
00:01Hi.
00:02Hello.
00:03Hi.
00:04Welcome back.
00:05Here we are.
00:06Here we are.
00:07How are you?
00:08Great.
00:09Yeah.
00:10Glad to be here.
00:11I'm so happy that you're here.
00:12The OG.
00:13How's everything else going?
00:14You were saying you were just on your way here from a house meeting.
00:15Yeah.
00:16You guys have been doing this like completely.
00:17You basically like knocked the house down and are rebuilding it, right?
00:18Correct.
00:19Like you took it down to studs.
00:20Yeah.
00:21How's it going?
00:22I mean, even the studs were gone.
00:23Oh, God.
00:24Like just concrete.
00:25Just brick.
00:26Yeah.
00:27Slab and a little bit of concrete.
00:29Um, but no, it's going great.
00:31We just had to like, you got to pick the dude.
00:34So many things and shout out to Kales, my wife for handling all this.
00:39Yeah.
00:40You got to pick sinks.
00:41You got to pick what finish of every sink.
00:43You got to pick stoppers for every sink.
00:46You know, it's like, it's unbelievable.
00:49And today.
00:50Yeah.
00:51Today was the day of like, all right, we need this now.
00:53We have to order.
00:54Talk about decision fatigue.
00:56Correct.
00:57I can't look at one more gold, brass, copper, anything.
01:01Yeah.
01:02I'm sure.
01:03And also excited.
01:04Like walls are up.
01:05I saw the plumbing video.
01:06There's plumbing.
01:07So that's exciting.
01:08There's plumbing.
01:09So hype that we got plumbing.
01:10Wait, tell me more about this record.
01:12Cause the last time you were in here, you were like, this is new era of Russell Dickerson.
01:16Yeah, baby.
01:17Well, it's got a song called happened to me on there.
01:19But we were going to talk all about that.
01:21Right?
01:22So that's great.
01:23Um, I don't know.
01:24I feel like as I'm listening to it, I'm like, I feel like this song is just, this record is
01:28just more like relaxed a little bit.
01:30Like it's still got energy.
01:31Okay.
01:32But it's not so, I don't know.
01:33I feel like physically I'm like singing lower.
01:38Oh, you know, and I'm not like, Oh yeah, you know, it's like, it's more just like,
01:44yeah.
01:45Yeah.
01:46Like, that's what I feel like on, there's like a handful of songs that I was like, Oh,
01:50hell yeah.
01:51This is really exciting.
01:52Yeah.
01:53Just vibe.
01:54Yeah.
01:55And this is your fourth.
01:56Correct.
01:57My fourth full length album.
01:58This is so exciting.
01:59It's been so fun to just like, watch all of this happen to you.
02:03It's kind of crazy.
02:05Yeah, it is.
02:06I mean, I don't know.
02:08I've never been like the viral guy.
02:10Yeah.
02:11Now you are.
02:12What is it?
02:13Like over 80 million views?
02:14Yeah.
02:15Something.
02:16I'm sure it's climbing by the second.
02:17Yeah.
02:18Which is insane.
02:19This, like this dance, I feel like has taken over my entire feed.
02:22It's gotten global.
02:23Like this is, it's become such a fun.
02:26Like I love seeing every single one.
02:28Same.
02:29I do too.
02:30Cause like I get tagged in, in a bunch of them.
02:31And it's just like, I feel like that's why it is what it is.
02:35Like I was just being stupid.
02:36And like, it's a chance for other people to just be goofy.
02:40And you know, there's not, it's not like a serious dance.
02:44No.
02:45There's not even like real moves.
02:46You don't even have to be a good dancer.
02:47Like I can do this dance.
02:48Yes.
02:49You literally don't even have to dance.
02:51You just chop it up and just, you know, it's just being dumb.
02:54Yeah.
02:55I don't even have to do that.
02:56Yeah.
02:57So, it's just like, yeah.
02:58I think that's the difference one that sent me over the edge.
02:59Shout out to my boy, Thomas, my social guy, my video guy, he was like, dude, this would
03:04be hilarious.
03:05It was so good.
03:06I don't even, I don't even know what the show is.
03:08Oh, you haven't watched it.
03:09No.
03:10Oh my God.
03:11But he was like, trust me dude.
03:12Someday you're going to watch it and this is going to take on a new layer of funny for
03:15you.
03:16Like, oh my God.
03:17Yeah.
03:18I did it twice and I guess it's a big show.
03:21Yeah.
03:22No, it turned out great.
03:23And it was, it was very, very funny.
03:25Talk about the day that you guys wrote this song and kind of like what the initial inspiration
03:29for it was.
03:30I don't even know where we, where it started from.
03:34Like I think, oh, maybe I, I maybe had the idea of happened to me.
03:39Like, I don't know what happened to her, but she's about to happen to me kind of thing.
03:43Maybe that was the beginning of my idea that I brought in, but we just like, you know,
03:47but we just like, you like, you start with that.
03:50You're like, oh, you can tell.
03:51Like she came in here to part.
03:53Like she came in here to forget something.
03:55Yeah.
03:56And you're like, you know, she just wants to dance.
03:58She just wants to party, whatever.
03:59And then I don't know, maybe I threw, I don't know who threw it out, but it's like,
04:04now she's singing girls just want to have fun.
04:07And, and from there we're just like, oh, this is about to slap.
04:11Yeah.
04:12And then like the boys I'm in trouble now.
04:15Cause you know, if you talk about the girls or about the boy, like homies, I'm, I'm about
04:19to be in trouble, dude, you know?
04:21So, oh, just like this cool, all encompassing chorus.
04:24And when you left, did the demo have the energy that it has?
04:29I think so.
04:30Did it?
04:31Okay.
04:32Did it happen in production?
04:33Or if it was like, cause I think once Chris, Chris, the court is also a producer on this
04:38song and once great guitar player, he used to play for Dustin Lynch.
04:41And once he, once he, once he hit those guitars that you're just like, Oh my God.
04:50I mean, I, at least I am.
04:51And it just, I don't know.
04:53It's just a little sprinkle of magic that you can never plan on.
04:57And it just tickles your eardrums in the perfect way.
05:00And tickles your ear.
05:02Yeah.
05:03I love that.
05:04That's perfect.
05:05Yeah.
05:06This song for me also, like I was like thinking back on, you know, all your singles, this song
05:10to me is probably the first one that I feel like matches your energy as a human and as
05:15an onstage performer.
05:16Correct.
05:17Why is that?
05:18You're like, you know, mid tempo love song guy.
05:21Right.
05:22And it's like, this is actually.
05:23It's my own fault.
05:24Yeah.
05:25No, but like.
05:26It is.
05:27This is the evolution of you.
05:28I'll say every little thing is.
05:29Yes.
05:30That's up there.
05:31Yeah.
05:32That's big RD vibes.
05:33This is hype.
05:34Correct.
05:35And this is like going to see you at a live show.
05:36Cause I think even if someone had only heard your songs on the radio, they would go to
05:39your live show and expect you to be the love song.
05:41And you are the love song guy, but you've got all of these like big energy, like the arrangements
05:46take on a new form and like the energy is electric.
05:49Yeah.
05:50And it's my own fault.
05:51I just like yours just happened to be like the best song I had ever written.
05:56And that was my first single.
05:58And that is what put me on the map.
06:00And you know what I mean?
06:01And so I feel like I just kind of like, kind of, uh, relaxed, not relaxed, but like
06:08just late leaned back into that.
06:10Like, Oh dude.
06:11Okay.
06:12I got, I got that formula down.
06:14And then, and then blue Tacoma, you know, that's a more, that's more of a pick me up
06:18tempo.
06:19Um, but yeah, I don't, I like, I think I would just maybe scared of like Russell Dickerson.
06:26Like he's the big epic love song guy.
06:28And if you come out with this, like more like, well, like rocking up tempo, whatever.
06:36And, and, but I cannot tell you how like freeing and like just awesome that it's connecting
06:42because it is, I'm like, thank God that it is like something that is exactly how my live
06:48show feels.
06:49My tour is called Russell mania.
06:51And so like, you know, it's like, it's the perfect song.
06:54It's super hype that everybody's jumping.
06:56And like, even going to the Nashville show, we, we started my tour in Nashville and like
07:03the song had been out for less than less than two weeks.
07:08And so, or maybe it was like exactly two weeks then.
07:11And like, it sounded, it sounded like it had been a number one smash for 12 weeks.
07:18You know what I'm saying?
07:19First leg of tour finished second leg coming.
07:21Like what was amazing?
07:22What are you excited about?
07:23Everything.
07:24Touring is my favorite video of getting the bus ready.
07:28I like that was like such a good little like aesthetic video of her, like putting everything
07:32away.
07:33Yeah.
07:34She did like a video where she was like, we're moving back into the tour bus.
07:36Oh yeah.
07:37Stocking up everything.
07:38And I was like, she's the best.
07:39Stocking up the snack.
07:40I know.
07:41Thank God for her.
07:42It'd just be beef jerky and whole milk.
07:45Um, no, I really like, it's crazy to see.
07:48The growth from round one of WrestleMania to round two.
07:52Cause like round one, you know, we had two nights in Chicago.
07:56That was awesome.
07:57And they were like, it was pretty much everything was sold out.
08:01Most of them.
08:02And like, but they were, those are like a little bit smaller rooms.
08:06And now to go like to step up into those bigger boy rooms.
08:10And then those are selling out.
08:12Like, I mean, Boston's 5,000 and that's like, that's insane.
08:17Yeah.
08:18And so like, those are sold.
08:20And so it's just like stepping up and then those are selling out.
08:23So it's like the net, it's just like taking a step up.
08:26You know what I mean?
08:27It's like that step by step.
08:28And then it keeps selling.
08:29And then you stay.
08:30And it's just like, that word momentum is addictive.
08:32Yes.
08:33And it's like, that's what I've been.
08:35That's all I want.
08:36As soon as I graduated college, I bought a SUV and a trailer.
08:38I wanted to play shows.
08:40And so the fact that it's like, now here we are.
08:43And like, it's, it's happening.
08:44No pun intended.
08:46It's happening to me and it's happened to us.
08:49And it's just like, it's just such a cool.
08:51It's just a great feeling that I've been like waiting for.
08:56For a long time.
08:57And you deserve it.
08:59It makes me so happy to see this happen to you.
09:03It really is.
09:04It's awesome.
09:05You also are going out on the road with little big town later this year.
09:07Got a few.
09:08Got a few with LBT.
09:09What are you excited about for those?
09:11Yeah.
09:12I mean, just they're, they're like, I mean, I've looked up to them for, since I started
09:18this whole thing, everybody has their legends.
09:21And when we got the call, it was like, you know, do these make sense?
09:25Whatever.
09:26And I was like, dude, I don't care.
09:27Like it.
09:28They're the homies.
09:29It's a little big town.
09:30You know, is it the perfect, whatever?
09:32I'm like, I don't care, bro.
09:34It's like, everybody's just showing up to a little big town show to have a fantastic
09:37time.
09:38Correct.
09:39And yeah, no, it's like, I, I admire what they do, what they've done.
09:42I'm huge.
09:43Always been a huge fan.
09:44And when we got the calls, like absolutely honored, I think it's like three shows.
09:49Yeah.
09:50But it's still what an honor.
09:51Yeah.
09:52I always say in my next life, I want to come back with Kimberly's hair and Karen's closet.
09:55Facts, dude.
09:56Right?
09:57The most perfect hair you've ever seen.
09:59And the best dressed woman I've ever met.
10:02Two of the hottest moms.
10:04Hottest.
10:05Ever.
10:06We love them.
10:07I tell them every time I see them too.
10:08I'd say it to their face.
10:10I love that.
10:11All right.
10:12What else is coming up that you are excited about?
10:15We have a remix with Steve Aoki coming out of happened to me.
10:19What?
10:20He put, he teased it on his, on his Instagram.
10:22That is going to be sick.
10:24It's like, how could it possibly get more epic than it already is?
10:28Correct.
10:29Like the energy level.
10:30Yeah.
10:31Wow.
10:32That's super amazing.
10:33So Steve Aoki, dance remix.
10:34That's probably, I think that's hitting dance radio.
10:35Um, huge EDM fan.
10:37So I'm like starstruck.
10:39Um, that's incredible.
10:41Yeah.
10:42Got that coming down.
10:43Do you guys have any fun family trips and stuff coming up last year?
10:45I know you guys have like the most epic year.
10:46Oh, we're talking personal.
10:47Yeah.
10:48What do you got coming up?
10:49Family trips?
10:50Not really.
10:51No.
10:52Tour is like the giant trip.
10:53Tour is our family trip.
10:54How are the boys?
10:55Because one of the videos that Kaylee posted of Remy the other day, I was like, that's
10:59a, that's a, that's a tiny man like that.
11:01Yeah.
11:02When did that happen?
11:03Yeah.
11:04He, I mean, Remy's four and a half, Rad's one and a half.
11:07They're massive.
11:08Remy's 50 pounds.
11:10Rad's 30 pounds.
11:11Whenever I saw that video of Kaylee, like rocking Rad, I was like, that is a big old
11:16baby.
11:17That's a boy.
11:18He's a thick boy.
11:19Um, yeah, they're amazing though.
11:21They're, that's just, well, it's exactly what you think two boys would be.
11:24Yeah, for sure.
11:25We have cleaners twice a week and our house still looks like a daggum hurricane.
11:30Shout out.
11:31What is Remy into right now?
11:32Like what's his thing?
11:33What is the police police officer?
11:36He is a police officer.
11:39Oh my God.
11:40We had to like, we have to like rip the costume off of him to go to school and like rip the
11:45costume off of him to get out in public.
11:47I'm like, dude, today, how about we do undercover cop?
11:51Oh yeah.
11:52So you can carry your, you can carry your badge.
11:54Sunglasses.
11:55Yeah.
11:56We can, you take your sunglasses and you take your badge, but like, let's go undercover.
11:59Was he into that?
12:00Did that work?
12:01Oh yeah.
12:02He was like, Oh yeah.
12:03He's like, I'm a cop.
12:04Nobody knows.
12:05This is exactly bro.
12:06That is world-class parenting right there.
12:08And I was like, I was like, dude, I want to go.
12:10Let's go on a bike ride.
12:11And he's like, I was like, have you seen a bicycle cop?
12:14I like show him like a bicycle.
12:16He's like, Oh, they ride bicycles too.
12:19Let's go.
12:20You know, and horses and motorcycles.
12:23Oh my God.
12:24So yeah, he's, he is, he is a police officer.
12:27That's hilarious.
12:28I'm so happy for you.
12:29I feel like all these like great things are happening.
12:32So excited about all of this.
12:33Thank you so much for coming in to see us.
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