00:00My brothers told me they were hitmen for two and a half years.
00:05Actually, two and a half years, and I believed them the entire time.
00:13Hey y'all, I'm Blake Watton, and I'm answering questions from the Confession Cube with Page Six.
00:17What's something you still do today that keeps you connected to the kid who is writing songs along in his
00:23bedroom?
00:24Stay humble to myself, and also I think that's a big thing that I try to be a part of
00:28every single one of my songs.
00:29I guess that's what kind of keeps me connected to the little kid in his bedroom.
00:33You have to karaoke one song that's not country, what's your go-to pick?
00:37When I Was Your Man by Bruno Mars, probably.
00:39You grew up on Keith Wheatley and Alan Jackson, Nickelback and ACDC.
00:43What's a dream tour lineup, dead or alive, that would perfectly represent your music taste?
00:50Probably Nickelback, Creed, and me, I would say probably.
00:56If you could steal one song from any artist catalog and claim you wrote it, what song are you choosing?
01:02Sign Us Over You by Hardy.
01:04That was a pretty big song when I was growing up in mine.
01:07I've usually played that song probably four times a week.
01:10You wrote most of Barely Getting By in less than an hour.
01:13What's the fastest you've ever written a song that ended up becoming one of your favorites?
01:17We wrote Bet On That in probably an hour.
01:21And that's probably my number one favorite song off the album right now.
01:24I've had the song for forever, so it's like my best friend at this point.
01:28And I was never sure if we were going to put the song out for real or not.
01:31It felt like it was taking that long.
01:33But I'm glad we finally got to put it out.
01:35It's just been around for a crazy long time, and I'm glad we finally got to put it out.
01:38You grew up in a town with fewer than 800 people.
01:41What's something about life in Six Mile that people from big cities would never understand?
01:46The peace and quiet.
01:47All you hear is a bird in the morning.
01:49Maybe some chicks and roosters going crazy.
01:52But here you're like, I can't sleep in New York a lot of the time I sleep.
01:56You've opened on Bailey Zimmerman's Arena Tour and are about to join Morden Wallen's Stadium Tour.
02:02What have you learned from touring all year?
02:04I feel like I learned to be a lot more open on stage
02:07and try to be myself a little bit more and not so nervous every time I get up there.
02:11But I've also learned a lot from the people that I've been touring with,
02:13watching their shows and seeing how they move around the stage, backstage,
02:18and it's kind of cool watching all those people do that.
02:21You've said your biggest fears are tornadoes and drowning.
02:23What's something completely harmless that absolutely terrifies you?
02:27Tomatoes do terrify me.
02:28I hate tomatoes.
02:29I've hated them since I was a child.
02:30I have no idea why my entire family loves them, but I hate them.
02:34Complete the sentence.
02:34In five years, I'll know I've made it when I'm selling out arenas, hopefully.
02:40Hopefully that'll be when I know I made it.
02:42You called this album something to say.
02:44What was the first thing you knew you absolutely had to say on this record?
02:48Time is a very valuable thing, in my opinion.
02:52So I made the very last song.
02:54Technically it's not the first thing, but I made the very last song.
02:57Time.
02:58And it's kind of just talking all about making sure you're not wasting your time
03:02because you never know what's going to happen in the short amount of time that you're going to be here.
03:05Your first trip on a plane happened because you covered a video that went viral.
03:09What was going through your mind on that flight to Nashville?
03:12I was curious about all the people I was going to meet because I hadn't met them yet.
03:15I was really just texting everybody and they were like, you have a plane ticket and a hotel room waiting
03:19on you.
03:19So I was kind of thinking about what was going to happen once I got there,
03:23because I had never been to Nashville in the first place.
03:25I was freaking out on the plane, freaking out.
03:29You say you can't write happy songs.
03:30What's the happiest thing happening in your life right now?
03:34Definitely being able to get up on stage on these huge tours.
03:39And I always thought it was really cool that if I can get up there for three and a half,
03:43four minutes,
03:44possibly be able to make someone that's thinking about something in their life just completely go away for three and
03:48a half to four minutes,
03:49could change their life possibly.
03:50And that's probably the coolest thing that I get to do in my opinion and definitely makes me very happy.
03:56When you listen to Six Mile and then something to say,
03:59what do you hear that changed the most about yourself?
04:02I think Six Mile was a little bit more closer to my roots.
04:08I think I was a little bit more of an uneducated kid, not really uneducated,
04:12but didn't really know what I was doing at the time too much.
04:14And now this one is kind of like, I have all these things that can help me put out an
04:18even better album now.
04:19So I would say probably, one, for sure the quality, but also the lyrics are going to be totally different
04:25than the last EP.
04:27So for sure, I think I got a little bit smarter from then to now.
04:31You said there's a side of yourself fans haven't really heard before.
04:34Which song reveals that side most clearly?
04:37Probably Time, because I wrote that right after.
04:40I started going back and forth to Nashville and South Carolina and started realizing that maybe when I get back,
04:47maybe my friends will be going to college or something could happen to somebody.
04:51And I just kind of started realizing then that Time is a very valuable thing.
04:56And I think that people haven't really kind of got to see that side of Blake White yet.
05:01What's one song on something to say that you think fans will be most surprised by?
05:05Probably Boots by the Wrong Bed, because it's going to be the only song on the album that's like super
05:10duper upbeat.
05:11And it's going to be coming right out of a song that is probably one of the saddest songs I've
05:15ever been a part of.
05:16So definitely Boots by the Wrong Bed.
05:18What's been the biggest How Is This My Life moment of the last two years?
05:23Getting to go up on stage and sing Holdin' On with Bailey and it's out in the middle of the
05:28crowd
05:28and everybody's pulling their phone lights out.
05:30You kind of just look around and you're kind of just in disbelief that you're even doing it.
05:35So that's definitely my How Is This My Life moment.
05:38You can only keep one forever.
05:39Bonfires, Country Music, or Gas Station Hot Dogs.
05:43Which one are you choosing?
05:44Gas Station Hot Dogs, probably.
05:47Gas Station Hot Dogs.
05:50Your dad was a preacher who blasted ACDC on the way to church.
05:54What's another thing about your childhood that sounds completely made up but is 100% true?
05:59My brothers told me they were hitmen for two and a half years.
06:05Actually two and a half years and I believed them the entire time.
06:08They would tell me stories that I would like completely believe and cry as a child because I thought something
06:13bad happened.
06:14What's the most 21 year old thing about you?
06:16I'm a doom scroller.
06:18I'm a pretty big doom scroller.
06:20I forget everything at my house.
06:23I forget my wallet, my passport.
06:25You've racked up hundreds of millions of streams in a short amount of time.
06:29Has anything about success turned out differently than you expected?
06:32It definitely takes a lot more than I ever thought it was going to be to put a project together.
06:38And it takes a lot more time than I ever thought it would be.
06:40I thought it was way easier before I ever got here.
06:42That was the Confession Cube with Page Six.
06:45My new album, Something to Say, is out now.
06:47And I hope to see you on the road with Morgan Wallen or on my Headline Tour this fall.
06:51See you there.
06:52And I think that it's going odour for a long time.
06:52so it's going to be another thing that what we've worked on for.
06:52But that's not something that's not suficiente for eternity.
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