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musical entertainment. Oh, yeah! Chatterbox!
And now in Chatterbox, we're just lucky enough
to welcome Tricia Marie. Tricia, welcome to Chatterbox.
How are you? Good, how are you? I'm good, thank
you. I'm good, thank you. We met you the other
week through Chris Spear. I think I had some
stuff of yours a few months ago, actually, but
we got stuff. Adrenaline and Jolene we got last
year. Yes, so we got that. Definitely, I remember
playing Jolene. Definitely remember doing your
version of that. So we have played some of your
stuff already, working more with Chris Beerer
now, and we do a lot of work with him. And of
course, you know, he said, oh, you got to listen
to, you know, he sent us the sort of thing he
put together, like the, I said, montage, call
it what you like, of your stuff that's going
out on the album. I like this. Yeah, we could
do something with this. So, yeah, he sort of
pushed that in our direction. So, yeah, rather
glad he has. So, but he hasn't, of course, just
started with this new album, we'll say. I've
got a feeling singing songwriting's probably
in your blood, but let's take it to the very
beginning. As a kid, tell us what was going on,
what was being played at home? What influences
have you got from them? What did your parents
have in the record collection? Honestly, I grew
up listening to a mix of everything. And I've
loved music since I was old enough to remember
anything to do with it. But I grew up listening
to music in the backseat of Mom Dad's vehicle.
My mom listened to everything, from Whitney Houston,
Celine Dion, Carrie Underwood, Rascal Flatts.
We had a mix of absolutely everything. So I loved
everything from a young age. Carrie, Rascal Flatts,
those were pretty big for me. They were pretty
big influences as a kid for me. Carrie Underwood's
range was absolutely insane. And Rascal Flatts,
everybody loves their music. Life as a Highway
kind of got overplayed for me because my brother
got super into the Cars movie. So I love Rascal
Flatts but that one maybe not so much anymore.
Heard it to death maybe but yeah. Okay so what
about when it comes to actually writing a song?
Did it start off with poetry as a kid or was
it actually proper songwriting from the beginning
when you were a kid? Well how did it work out
to start with? I started out in choir pretty
much from the second I could join. My mom was
a choir kid and I wanted to be like her. So I
joined choir. I loved it and I even threw out
high school until I couldn't anymore. I was in
every choir class I could be. I even went into
the extracurriculars where I'd have to audition
to get into those. I ended up being, I think,
in three choir classes at once at one point in
time in my junior or senior year of high school.
But I didn't start songwriting in the normal
songwriting structure you'd imagine. I started
out therapeutically writing down how I'd feel,
and eventually that turned into putting it into
music. I didn't actually start doing anything
with it until maybe a year or two ago where I
actually started to put my own music out, but
I started pretty much with karaoke and bars.
And I'd have to have a drink or two to even get
up there. I'd shake so bad when I had the microphone.
It took practice, but eventually I stood there.
I stopped shaking and actually started performing
and people seemed to like my voice and that's
where I started putting my own music out. Cool.
And what about performing now? What sort of performing
you do now? You obviously moved on from the karaoke
bit. You must be doing some concerts and gigs
somewhere. What sort of size venues and has the
shaking stopped or is there still some pre -concert
nerves? Still pre -concert nerves, but I feel
like, you know, for most people there are those
jitters that you'll get. But once you get on
stage, you stop shaking, you get real into your
performance. You want your crowd to have a good
time. I still haven't had a gig necessarily of
my own yet. I'm getting there. I'm looking around
in my community, looking to see where I can get
into to start that process. But I'm right at
the beginning. With the nerves thing. I mean,
I think it's the live stuff is wonderful. It's
like live radio really for us. It is great because
to be honest with you. The worst -case scenario
is, yeah, you may mess up and do something wrong,
but I'll tell you what, you've got to get yourself
out of it that second. It's not actually that
much of a problem. I could be a gibbering wreck
behind the mics, but you get yourself out of
it. And live is all part of the thrill of it,
and it becomes more of a thrill as you go along,
I think. So, of course, doing live radio is our
version of it as presenters, but of course...
And it is a thrill, isn't it? I mean, it's an
amazing experience when you're there and you
wait to do a headline in your own stuff, you
know, but you love it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.
Right, what sort of stuff have you brought out
so far? We'll talk about the new album in a bit.
What have you done before this in particular?
I mean, I mentioned Jolene and Adrenaline already.
What other stuff have you sort of brought out
and when did the first stuff come out? I think
you said a couple of years ago, was it you started?
A year or two ago, yeah. So I've kind of... I've
done a mix of everything. I don't want to hold
myself necessarily to one genre, although I've
heard in the music industry, it's really hard
when you're multi -genre. It's easier when you're
one. So at some point I'm going to have to get
forced to choose one or the other. But I've been
into pop music and country music. I even put
out a couple of rock songs. So I like to do a
mix of everything. All of them have been... emotion
-based, either things I've gone through or seen
other people go through. I have some more upbeat,
more fun type music too that's focused more on
like being who you are, not being apologetic
for that. I love those songs. Cowgirl Impulses
is actually one of those songs and it's all about
being you unapologetically and living your life
the way you want to. That song actually is going
to be airing on my first commercial mainstream
radio station. It's 99 .5 Detroit Country Radio
in Michigan. So that's pretty exciting. It's
going to air on the 12th this month on my daughter's
birthday. So we're going to do we'll talk about
the album and the tracks in a bit. There's a
bit I want to do here. I love doing this. You
tell me how wrong it is. So I tap in Trisha Marie
Singer from Michigan, Portland. I think it is.
Yeah. Put that in and see what AI says about
you. So you could tell me if it's right or wrong.
I personally think it's probably quite right
because We got a link to Trisha Marie Facebook
profile. It certainly looks like you I think
probably the info is quite good here. It's not
always as good as this. Trust me So we got Trisha
Marie is an emerging American country and alternative
pop singer songwriter based in Portland, Michigan
Known for her deeply personal lyrics. She gained
viral traction on Trisha Marie TikTok and cracked
the top 30 in KICR indie country radio for hits
like Voices. How have we done so far? Sounds
pretty good. Oh cool. Musical style, Trisha Marie
produces much of her music at home. Her discography
spans both country and pop influences, tackling
subjects like identity crisis, life's expectations,
mental health awareness. Her track Voices explores
the struggle of living on autopilot, while other
releases have focused heavily on battling suicidal
thoughts and spreading messages of hope. We're
still on the right track? Yes. Cool. Recent releases
and recognition. It should be the big one, won't
it? Her authentic songwriting continues to build
a loyal listenership base across the Midwest
and online. She earned a spot in the top 30 of
the Tim Kelly Show on KICR Indie Country Radio
and has generated one, this member list could
be old information, generated over 1 .8 million
views on specific awareness -focused videos.
You can keep up with her latest videos, news,
photos, music drops by following her on her official
Trisha Marie Facebook profile. So we're still
good. Are we on all that? Yeah, but with the
it is kind of older. I have had videos on TikTok
that have hit eleven point two million, which
is mind blowing. But it did start out at the
one point eight million. Yeah, it's nothing new.
That's why I sort of said, yeah, but you don't
play. When we come to figures like that, it nearly
always is so out of date. So basically you've
got 10 times that at least. That's good. So next
time we speak, you can do it by another 10, put
another naught on the end, can't you? So that's
good. uh let me ask you so so um voices is something
that's mentioned a few times now is voices a
song uh about personal experiences or you're
just trying to help people uh you know who may
be battling problems or are all of nearly all
your songs well the songs you write are they
all songs that uh are based on life experiences
from you maybe Most of them are from my point
of view where I've gone through something, but
I do have other songs where it's through the
perspective of somebody else that I've seen go
through something. Voices. Initially, I started
out writing for people who suffer with schizophrenia.
I've done songs for people with different mental
illnesses, things that they go through and deal
with every day. I did one for ADHD, which hit
four million views. My daughter has ADHD and,
you know, the things that she goes through. It's
really hard, I think, for them to focus their
mind on things. And people, they, I wanted people
to be able to have a better understanding. So
I put people in the shoes of that person and
I want them to understand how it feels. That's
really cool. That's really cool. mental awareness
of whatever. I never know what the correct wording
is and of course it could be different either
side of the pond and regionally and things like
that. But any form of mental awareness or anything
along those lines is good in my book. And opening
people's eyes to it. Good on you. Yeah, absolutely.
Let's look at some of these songs that we got.
Now what's the album that's come out? What's
the title of it? Neon Confessions. Neon Confessions.
Beautiful name. I like it. Now, there's a track
here that I like, which I think could be a good
one for the British audiences to get to know
you, because it'd be funny on the old country
stuff the Brits are. It's not massive here, although
certain things. Dolly Parton, you cover Jolene
and that. I mean, Dolly Parton's been massive
here since... Country across the board is not
the most massive thing. When we find an artist
that's good, we think, yeah, we're going to give
them a go, let's get them played, let's get them
listened to, and stuff like that. So you probably
find that we do play quite a lot of country stuff,
especially that Chris has introduced us to. But
one that I think is a great one to break into
the British audiences is you... uh you still
say i think it's a great song to get them to
know you and the way it sort of lifts you know
i mean that that really is quite a bit of an
oomph in it and i think that's a quite a good
one for a british audience to get to know you
um so there'd be a good few plays on that and
that's the one we'd like to put in hit and miss
as well so uh there's that one tell us what the
story is behind that one anyway It's one of my
favorites to this day. It's one of the most personal
songs I think I've written so far. It's basically
about finding somebody who chooses you. Even
though they've seen the most messy parts of your
life, who you are, they choose you in not only
the good days, but the bad days as well. I think
as a whole for the population across the world,
we all have insecurities and scars. Moments where
we wonder if we're enough or not and the song
is about The kind of love that says I see all
of that and I still choose you. I'm still here
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CBUKRDUX. I got Chevrolet yesterday. What's that
one about? Chevrolet yesterday, it's more or
less about who I am as a person. It represents,
you know, just a nostalgic time for me thinking
back from where everything started to where I
am today. Okay, cool. Backseat hallelujah. So
backseat hallelujah and whiskey lips are more
about chemistry. It's more about somebody pulling
you back, even when you know they probably shouldn't,
but feeling good about it. Small town gold. Small
town gold. That one is more or less realizing
the richer parts of your life aren't things you
can buy. They're the memories community and,
you know, people who make a small town feel like
home. Nice. Okay. Better somehow. What's the
story behind that one? Better somehow. Actually,
I had a friend of mine, her daughter was going
through a lot being bullied in school and she
ended up I don't know if I can really share this
information. She went through a hard time and
she needed to go through seeking help for that.
She was in a really rough spot and I wrote this
song for her and for other young girls, other
people, even adults that needed to hear it. But
no matter what you go through in life, you can
fight through it. There are people here for you.
Things will get better. It just takes time. Yeah,
I mean, if you're concerned about mentioning
anything on the British audience, mental awareness
is widely discussed, but you haven't mentioned
anyone's name or anything, so I can't see anyone
getting upset with you at all. But as far as
the subject goes, it's very open on broadcasting
in the UK now. It's very openly discussed and
very much encouraged as well. So the actual subject
matter is, you know, totally there for a British
audience, we really are there. Okay. Independent,
BBC, whatever, it really is openly discussed,
you know, phone -ins, you know, it's not just
something that's occasionally done, it really
is, the awareness is amazing. So for you to discuss,
absolutely fine, but if you were concerned about
the people themselves being discussed, you've
not mentioned anyone, then even if they're listening,
they may know who they are, but you've not mentioned
any names. So the hundreds of thousands listening
across the stations of the UK won't actually
know who they are. Right. Apart from the fact
they're real people. So don't worry about that.
It's fine to, you know, in my book is fine to
say, but, you know, and you haven't mentioned
anyone, so we're all good, really. And we got
a thing here called Ain't So Common. Tell us
about that one. Ain't So Common. So for me, at
least in my family, how I was raised and a lot
of other people I've met, you know, it feels
like common sense isn't common anymore. I hear
a lot of people say common sense should be something
taught in high school and it's there. I don't
know how to explain this one. So with common
sense, it feels like most people just don't have
it anymore. There's a lot of people that don't.
There's a lot of people that do. So like you
might be driving down the road and there's some
jerk that's flying past you, cuts you off. Where's
the common sense? Not there. What else can we
find on the album and what would you like people
to be listing out for? I have a few favorites
on the album. Obviously, I like them all. I worked
on all of them. They were all really fun to do.
My personal favorites, I think, on this album
are going to be Pretty When I'm Reckless, Cherry
Lipstick, Tears, Smoke in My Hoodie, and You
Still Stay. You touched on You Still Stay already.
The other three I enjoyed a lot. And with smoke
in my hoodie, that one talks about being trapped
in toxic relationship, knowing it's not healthy,
but still choosing each other. I feel like a
lot of people have gone through a toxic relationship
where it felt really hard to leave. So basically
focusing on how that feels. Cherry lipstick tears,
it came from the idea of looking completely put
together, but On the inside, you're falling apart.
So you put on this fake face, this fake smile,
but you are falling apart inside. A lot of people
have moments where you put on this smile, you
fix your makeup, and you keep going even though
your heart's breaking. And share your lipstick
tears is about, you know, the strength that you
have and finding a way to move forward even when
love leaves a mark. Yeah, go back to the fake
smile. Is it a brave smile? or do you think it's
false or do you think what way or are you leaving
that for the people listening at home to make
their own minds up on how they listen to the
song and how they work out what it means is that
how it is or is there a message there that you've
already got it made up and that fake smile could
be brave because they're putting on a face to
because they don't want people to know what's
going on inside and they have a load of bad stuff
going on maybe but you know Putting on that face
is more or less, it's one, you're trying to show
you're being brave. Two, you're trying to show
people there's nothing wrong. Like I'm strong,
I can go through this, nothing's affecting me
right now. I'm happy, I'm healthy, but on the
inside you're falling apart. It feels like you
just wanna like bang on the wall, you wanna do
something, you wanna scream, but you can't let
it out. You're showing you're happy instead.
Okay now is this album a collection of, I'm not
saying it's the greatest hits or anything, but
are we saying it's going to be a collection of
singles and they're all going to come out and
be available as singles? Or is there only some
that's earmarked? Are they being released in
stages? So you know a few at a time or whatever
over a period of a few months? Or how are we
going to work this out? So they are already released,
all of them, but I wanted to put them out in
an album. Instead, I accidentally messed up and
all of them released a single. So I need to go
back through and release them as an album instead.
Even artists make mistakes. I do all the time.
But it will be in an album. And I'm coming out
with merchandise and whatnot that I'm going to
start selling here soon. And the album will be
available in vinyl and CD as well. Sure. As you
say, you're relatively like two years in or whatever.
to into releasing material what would you how
does it feel that you've got interest in the
uk already on certain stations how does that
feel honestly that's mind -blowing because i
remember when i first started i'm like i don't
know how i'm gonna get anyone to listen to my
music like there's no way and now here i am fast
forward and now i'm you know talking with you
and you guys are based in the united kingdom
that's absolutely insane to me Yeah, you'd have,
say, our stations, they're mostly proper FM,
AM, digital stations, DAB stations. So when this
goes out in London, it goes out on FM, there'd
be people in black cabs, cab drivers, taxi drivers,
driving around with your interview going out
with people in the back. It's going to be like
that. So even more surreal for you. So you've
got to think about that. When it's playing on
R &I, you've got to think about that. It's going
to be playing in bars in London. It's going to
be in black cabs in London. You've got to think
about that. That's absolutely incredible. And
I've always wanted to visit. So maybe one day
I'll show up and I'll be in that taxi and I'll
hear it. On your way to do a concert somewhere
in London. Oh, yeah. Got a bit, isn't it? Yeah.
With us coming to interview you live. Yeah, that'd
be the live interview. They might not have sorted.
That's right. OK, if you were to come back and
say six months time, years time, somewhere in
between the two, what would you like to be telling
me that you've achieved in that time? Huh, that's
a hard question. That's a really good question.
You know, I really do kind of want my songs to
resonate with people. If I can even have just
five people come and say, your music really resonated
with me, I want my music to feel real. I want
it to be something people can connect with and
realize you're seen, you're heard. There are
other people that go through what you go through
and there are people that are there for you.
I want my music to bring peace to people. There's
too much bad in the world. I want there to be
some good that comes out of this. Yeah, no, I
like that. I like that as well. Let's do your
social media. So, you know, websites, YouTube,
Facebook, whatever you got, just chuck it at
them now, please. Yeah. I am on honestly all
platforms. The only thing I'm not on yet that
I have been getting yelled at by everyone in
my corner is I need to make an Instagram. So
I will be making an Instagram page at some point
in time here soon in the next week. But I'm on
Facebook, TikTok. My TikTok is probably my biggest
with the most following I have so far. I'm on
Spotify, YouTube, SoundCloud. I'm on everything
right now. Have you got a website set up yet?
Or is there one on its way? I do. Brilliant.
So what is it? Yeah. TrishaMarieMusic .com. Okay.
Well, what we got to do, we're not letting you
go anywhere till we've had to learn to tell them
all about it, right? I'm doing some work on it.
It's not pretty quite yet, but it's been hard
when it's been me doing mostly everything. But
my boyfriend has started to help me out. So it's
been going a little bit smoother. Yeah. And I
do need to give. Yeah. If he's in the back, are
you telling him for me to sort your stuff out?
But yes, you're doing good. You're getting there.
But yeah, it's good. But doing it single handedly.
Yeah. Yeah. Needing boyfriend is part of the
team and all that. It is important because it
is such hard work doing it yourself. It's hard
work with just three or four of you, whatever.
Just, you know. But then you will get your followers
that will help out as well in time, you know,
there'll be fans that come along, sensible fans.
So, yeah, I'm finding it all now, yeah, TikTok
and everything else. I'm on the wrong side of
50 for TikTok. I know you could say any age does
it. I can't get my head around it. But I can
see you're pretty much here everywhere. So, yeah,
it's all good. It's a pretty good start, yeah.
I do need to give Chris a shout out too because
Chris has done a lot for me too as far as promotion
goes and he helped me to get through to you guys
too. So he actually like he put together that
preview to my album that was awesome of him.
I am very thankful for him and all the work he's
done to help me out. Yeah, you put that together.
He said, Oh, Nick, I'm gonna send you this. You
give this a listen. I'll always if he says give
something listen, I always give it a listen.
So he's a good guy like that. And he doesn't
just put anything through because at the end
of the day, there's no point bogging me down
with a load of rubbish because, you know, some
of the good stuff and I don't mind. I don't mind
if someone's unknown in that because we do have
A -listers B -listers C -listers on Chatterbox.
But what we also have we Obviously, we like to
have somebody famous on with somebody not so
well -known, but all we ask from the people that
aren't so well -known, we just want them to be
that standard as well. That's all we ask. You
don't have to be well -known, just got to be
that standard for the Chatterbox standard. Because
people might have heard the famous person already
on Chatterbox, but... Before they get to switch
off or switch channel, the second interview has
already started. If that interview is interesting
and the music sounds good, there's no reason
for them to switch off if you see what I mean.
Yep. And that's all we ask for is that standard.
So that's what Chris sends us. Yeah. Yeah. And
I appreciate being, you know, chatterbox standard.
I give myself a pat on the back. You've done
it yourself. Well, I haven't done it for you.
You hadn't recorded it to that level. Yeah. you
wouldn't be here so that's good so keep up the
good work and uh we'll have a chat again sometime
and in the meantime we'll be playing some of
your songs anyway as they come out because obviously
i'll be being sent them so and as i said we'd
already played joe lean and i've seen we got
it last year so we've definitely played that
i think it was at least twice or something it
might not sound a lot but that'd be on the live
shows of course so there you go and that's definitely
you and it's definitely Jolene and definitely
you so there you go so we did have a couple of
your songs from last year so there you go thank
you all right anyway uh these videos thank you
very much for coming on Chatterbox it's been
great meeting you and uh just just to say yeah
Tasha Marie till next time thank you very much
great meeting you thank you for having me nice
meeting you it's a pleasure bye bye cheers bye
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