-My mom gets really mad when I talk about doing acid.
[ Laughs ] -The same.
♪♪
Hey, it's Trey,
here for another "Noisey Questionnaire of Life."
And today, we have singer-songwriter,
first in the school, Margo Price.
-Hey. [ Chuckles ] -How's it going?
-Good, good. -Ready to get into this?
-Yeah. Let's do it. -Favorite hot chicken place.
Prince's, Bolton's, or Bishop's.
-I like Bolton's a lot, too, but I think, you know,
Prince's is the original.
I would not order the extra hot ever again.
I ate it, and then I, like,
drank a gallon of milk. -Oh, man.
-It didn't stop burning.
I just walked around the house,
like, tears running down my face.
You got to just go, like, medium and nothing else.
You could die. -Playing a venue
you've always wanted to play for the first time,
collabing with an artist you've always wanted to
for the first time, or receiving a compliment
from someone you admire for the first time.
-I guess I'll go with playing a venue.
I played Carnegie Hall last night.
-Oh, sick. How was that? -It was surreal.
Had an out-of-body experience,
but that could have been because
I had microdosed on mushrooms after,
but it was -- it was incredible.
-Shrooms, acid, or DMT? -Shrooms.
I mean, acid's good too.
I feel like it's less emotional.
-It's -- It's more like serious.
-Yeah. If you're on mushrooms
and something, like, bad happens,
it seems like a tragedy.
I've never actually done DMT,
but I -- I kind of want to.
-That's wild. -Somebody offered it to me
at like 5:00 in the morning a couple months ago,
and I was like, "I don't think this is the right time."
-It's not the setting. -Yeah.
-But it seems like recently there's a lot of,
like, psychedelics popping up in country and stuff.
-Yeah. -And, like, has that always been a thing,
or is it, like, just, like, this new wave?
-Maybe it just wasn't talked about.
Feels like a little more taboo or something.
-Which of these things do rap and country music
have most in common -- the lyrical content,
the cultural lifestyle, or the artistic proficiency?
-I'm gonna have to go with lyrical content.
In good country music and good rap music,
people are talking about real life.
-Mm-hmm. -I think there are some similarities.
-Okay. Your hometown Aledo, home of the Rhubarb Festival.
If you're gonna eat rhubarb, is it roasted, pie,
or is it jam? Is rhubarb a --
-I don't actually really like rhubarb. Yeah.
-I meant to ask, "Is it a fruit or a vegetable?"
-[ Laughs ] I don't know what the fuck it is.
[ Laughs ] It's got, like, a red stem,
and then it kind of looks like kale.
I'm not really fond of it, so I have put it in a pie
and, like, if there's some ice cream on it,
then maybe it's edible. -You, like, mix it
with a whole bunch of other shit, too.
You forget rhubarb's in there. -Right, put sugar in it,
and anything's good.
I've played the Rhubarb Festival before.
-What is that like?
-[ Laughing ] It's kind of lame.
That's why I left.
[ Both laugh ]
No, I'm kidding. It's really cute.
-You used to be a cheerleader. -Yeah.
Which of these cheerleading TV shows and movies --
"Bring It On," "Jennifer's Body," or "Cheer"?
-I've only seen "Bring It On." -Oh.
-I know. Everyone keeps talking about this documentary.
It is actually really hard work.
I was a college cheerleader at a Big Ten school.
-Oh. -And so, you know,
would throw me up, and I used to be able to do
like 30 back flips across the gym floor.
-Okay, so anything from cheerleading that's helped you,
like, as a musician? -Maybe yelling at people.
[ Laughs ] -It's a good skill just, like, in life.
-It is, yeah. -Least favorite former job --
roofing, dance teacher, or waitressing?
-Oh, man. Waitressing all day.
It's people are jerks, man. -People suck.
Like, I think everybody should have to wait tables.
-You can tell who hasn't had to work service industry.
-Oh, yeah. -You just treat people decently.
-Right? Just, like, treat people like you want to be treated.
-Alright. Gin, vodka, or tequila?
-I like tequila the most. I think it's the best buzz.
That's what we got on the rider.
-Yeah, good call.
-Have you ever eaten the worm? -Yeah.
I made a joke about, like, I'm eating the worm on Christmas
meant that I was like the second coming of Christ,
and my mom got really upset. -Yeah.
That sounds like something a mom would get mad at.
I'm a mom, though, and I wouldn't be mad.
-What's being a mom like? -It's scary
because you love someone so much
that now you're just worried for the rest of your life.
But it's cool. I mean, that sounds cliché,
but it's the most difficult and, like,
rewarding job I've ever had.
-What do you think are the biggest barriers for women
to overcome in music -- show booking, media coverage,
or radio play and exposure?
-All of it. It's all a crock of shit.
[ Laughs ] Yeah. I mean, I wish that, like,
you didn't even have to ask that question.
Especially in country music, you know,
being a woman is definitely not easy.
But I also think that there's, like, racial problems
in that genre as well.
It's, like, a very, like, white male-driven world.
Don't know when it's gonna change.
Like, maybe long after I'm dead,
the pay gap will close and things will be fair.
But the world will probably end before that.
-I wish it happened by now, man. -Yeah.
-The world ending, I mean. -[ Laughs ] Yeah.
-It's like, I wake up every day, I'm just like,
"Oh, fuck. I got to do this again." -Another day.
-Appreciate you doing this and coming out here.
-Yeah. Thank you. -Very nice meeting you.
Bye. That's the sign-off.
-Then we're gonna call the DMT guy.
-And then we're gonna call the DMT guy.
-Okay, cool. I should have, like, aspirations
to play Madison Square Garden, but...
-Yeah, that place is overrated.
-Yeah. -It's like it takes so long
to get up there for me. The food is, like, whatever.
I'm paying like $15 for a hot dog.
That's normal. -Yeah, yeah.