Hello, world. This is Alex Chapman. I'm sitting here with the lovely, beautiful Carrie Hillson. Say hello to everyone.
Hello, everyone. It's your girl, Miss Caffrey, baby. How did it?
I was just going to say I'm probably going to do that too later, but we'll auto-tune it for the video.
So, first thing I want to ask you is I have been searching Google High and Low for your old girl groups like that you were in when you were like 14 years old.
So, they're not anywhere and I can't find them. So, yeah, is that on purpose?
It's not on purpose, but I think we were performing in a day and age where the internet wasn't as powerful as it is now.
Tell me a little bit about how you got your start because 14 is a really young age to get going.
Yeah, it was. Actually, it was 12.
Well, my first studio experience was at 12 years old and I wrote and composed the record that I recorded and I produced my own vocals and produced the record and all of that.
So, that was great. I mean, my early journey was all about absorbing as much as I could.
And I urge anyone who wants to do what I do to absorb, just take in as much as you can, be in as many situations as you possibly can put yourself in to learn.
So, also, you have a new song out that everybody is talking about the video for and it's called The Way You Love Me.
First of all, The Way You Love Me is the one that everyone is talking about. Pretty Girl Rock is great too, but first and foremost, tell us a little bit about the process of making that video.
Was there ever a moment where you were like, this is going to be a little scary to put out or a little controversial or were you just going to go for it?
No, I mean, I was all in. At the video shoot, I remember just feeling like, okay, I know that this is different. It's different.
You rarely see girls with guns. You rarely see girls doing what I did and wearing what I wore. But it never occurred to me that it would be controversial.
No, because if you think about it, think about all the guy videos that have those same things. I just think it's so funny how people are freaking out about it.
I know, but you know, it speaks to the double standards that Divas is.
So you also just did BH1 Divas, which is a huge honor and I heard that you had to come up. You had to do a song that you didn't know you were going to have to do, is that right?
Yeah.
Can you tell me a little bit about what happened there?
Well, we were Sugar Land and I did a do it, a Rifa's think. And you know, right before sound check, I was looking at the lyrics like, oh my God, everyone knows the hook.
You better think, think about what you're trying to do to me. But no one knows the verses. I mean, I guess maybe no one my age, maybe?
No, I don't know the verses. I would just be like...
Yeah, it's one of those songs where you can hum along and you're so familiar with it, you forget that there are lyrics that go along with it.
So anyway, I'm not that familiar with the verses and she tells me, you know, well, I want you to come in on this part. So I literally got in my part right before with my ears in at sound check.
So I was kind of a nervous wreck, but I got through it and I thought it was really good.
I'm sure it is, I'm sure it is. Is BH1 Divas, is that coming out soon or is that already aired?
It aired on December 5th, but you can find it.
Check your Tivo.
Yeah, because they've been actually re-airing it many, many, many times.
Yeah, that's BH1's style.
They loop the hell out of it and I'm happy about it because I had three great performances there.
That's good though, because I haven't seen it yet and everyone else should check it out as well.
So tell me a little bit about the process for the album and what we should be expecting to hear besides the two great songs, three great songs, including Breaking Point, that we've already heard.
Well, it is, I mean, I was in a clubhouse on this break period with all of my girlfriends, your mom and your sister were there.
I saw them. It was really awkward that they were there because they didn't tell me.
You didn't see them because you're a boy.
I saw them, I was in the people and I was like, what is going on?
Okay, great. Well, they were all there and you were there, ladies, and we were all just screaming to the top of our lungs everything we wanted men to know about us.
And that was the headspace. That was my mental space that I was in when I recorded this record because there's so much that I want men to understand about us a little better.
And it's called No Boys Aloud. We need men. Men are a dying breed.
It's Miss Carrie, baby. Sing it one more time for them.
Miss Carrie, baby. I want to hear you do it.
All right, you have to sing it and I'll pretend that I'm singing. Ready? It's Alex, by the way.
Mr. Alex, baby. Yeah, ready? One, two, three.
Mr. Alex, baby.
All right, peace.
