(applause)
- It's been 30 years since Billboard ranked "Hold On"
Song of the Year.
Was there a time in your life that you,
kind of exactly on point, and needed to hear that message?
- Oh, yeah.
- Yeah.
- No, I was really in a dark, dark space
when that lyric was written.
I was really at a point in my life where I felt like
if I was at a crossroads, and I really felt like
if I didn't get my life together and
stop doing a little drugs and
had a really bad boyfriend at the time.
I just was in a lot of pain and I just said,
"If I don't change my course, I'm gonna be
"in a lotta trouble."
So I knew that I was at a crossroads and that I
either had to like, hold on for one more day or just
die.
(laughs)
- Can I thank you for being honest about that?
'Cause not everybody is honest about that.
- I'm sober 15 years and, you know,
I was gonna say I need it now in this world, in this time.
You need, you know, inspiration like this
and songs that can help get you through it, you know?
So I need it now.
- [Kelly] Music heals.
- Music heals.
For sure.
- So what are your like, favorite memories
from the time it hit number one?
Like, did you splurge?
Or did you do something fantastic, perform somewhere
that was just like--
- The first time I heard it it was on my birthday
on the radio.
The first time I heard "Hold On" was on my birthday.
- [Kelly] That's a gift.
- What a great gift that was.
- Wow!
- We were in Tennessee in a van, I remember--
- Yes, we were!
- I remember all the details.
I swear to God.
- How do you remember that?
- I don't know.
I was terrible in school, I have no clue why.
- I know, I retained nothing.
- But the dates and stuff like that is weird.
But just knowing that we were so young
when this happened, you know,
we were on the whirlwind on tour,
we were just, we didn't know anything
except we were a group, we loved to sing,
and we just were embraced by the world
and we're grateful for that, you know?
- [Women] Amen.
- Lotta hard work.
- So, like--
okay, you just said something interesting
and I confessed this when we were rehearsing,
but I had no idea--
everyone make fun of me now--
I had no idea who your parents were.
(laughter)
- Not everybody does.
- Until last night.
Until last night.
I was like,
"Why do they keep talking about The Mamas and The Papas
"and the Beach Boys?"
I was like,
"I love The Mamas and the Papas,"
I was like,
"What does this have to do?"
And I was like,
"What?"
I was like--
I had no idea like, I just want you to know like on your--
- We take that as a compliment!
- On your own merit, I was a fan.
It had nothing to do with parents or anything and
I think that that's kind of something.
'Cause like to grow up, and I imagine that
was very hard.
I'm gauging that and navigating that with my kids,
I'm sure you have to as well, but being in the public eye,
having parents so famous and trying to navigate that
and like, what is normal?
And how do I...
- [Chynna] There was no normal.
- It's so hard.
- There was no normal. - That was our normal.
The chaos. - right, right.
- [Kelly] I know, that's not good.
(laughter)
- Well, but it was exciting too.
- Says my therapist.
- Yeah, right.
But we also have a great mom, Marilyn,
who's in the audience today.
Our mother Marilyn.
But she was really,
she was really great at keeping it, you know, steady
and being real about things, you know?
Not everything is normal or what is normal?
And you know, building our self esteem as people
and showing us love.
And now we instill that in our kids.
- Yeah.
- [Carnie] It's important.
- It's a weird thing to navigate.
But like, I know...
So since finding that out and I kind of read
in a thing like,
one of you was put to bed by Sir Elton John,
and I was like,
"What?"
What is your life?
That's insane.
What was he doing at your house?
- He told you a lullaby or something?
I don't get it, what?
- No, no, no.
He reminded me when I was
just on "The Talk" with him a couple years ago that,
"Don't you remember?
"I put you to sleep."
And I'm like,
"What?"
- I'd be like,
"No, but I'm telling everyone."
- Yeah, exactly!
He literally--
I mean, he just wanted to buy Dad's piano
that Dad wrote "Good Vibrations" on.
That was his mission.
- [Kelly] Solid piano. - Solid piano.
Lot of memories there and he wanted this piano.
He came over and he was probably begging for it.
My mom said no.
But he, I guess I came downstairs and they were
chatting and doing their thing and he said,
"Time to go back to bed,"
and put me in my bed and that was
Elton John putting me to sleep.
- Okay, the best...
The best part, it turns out, of this story
actually isn't that, it's the fact
that your mom was like,
"No, you can't have our piano.
- [Carnie] I know!
- To Elton John!
- I know.
Well guess what,
that piano's mine now so I'm very, very happy.
(audience cheering)
She said I could have it! - She said hey!
- Wendy. - Thanks, Mom.
- Thanks, Mom, great.
So what are you working on now?
You said you do a show a month,
like everybody can find you doing a show but what all,
I know you each have kinda different things you're into.
- Yeah, so we do our one show a month
and I've got a YouTube channel up right now,
which I'm really super excited about
called California Preaching
and it's all about--
okay, I believe Jesus is the son of God.
And so I talk a lot about Jesus.
(audience applause)
- That's amazing.
So that's what you do in California Preaching?
- California Preaching, Chynna Phillips,
California Preaching YouTube.
- Yeah, I love that.
Passion is good, spirituality is great.
- [Chynna] It is.
- What are you up to, ma'am?
- So I'm raising four boys.
- Whew, girls.
- That's a handful!
- Teenagers.
- So I will be giving you a lot of wine backstage.
(laughter)
- I need to start drinking wine.
- Wendy!
- I'm just kidding.
But
I'm also trying to develop
my own personal care products.
Line of personal care so I'm working on that.
- Are you really into all the healthy things?
I found that happened with me.
I never cared about me but once I had kids,
I was like,
"What's in this?"
It was like, you feel responsible.
So that's amazing.
- I was always that way, I was always like,
a health nut, you know, wanted to know
the ingredients and stuff.
But yeah, it's important to me, for sure.
- It should be important to all of us.
Yeah, all right.
- Yeah, and let's see what else.
Well in terms of Wilson Phillips we just
re-recorded "Hold On," it's called "Hold On Today,"
check it out on Spotify.
- [Kelly] Awesome.
(audience cheering)
- Yeah, and...
And I was gonna say that Jesus does for you what
pound cakes and cheesecakes do for me.
- Yes!
- So I followed my heart and my vision and I created--
- It's my spirituality as well.
- That's right.
And I created Love Bites by Carnie, it's a nationwide--
we're launching grocery this year.
- That's amazing! - It's a dessert line,
a gourmet dessert.
There's always a thing with the weight
and the whole image but the truth is,
I'm not giving up sugar, I'm just gonna have a little bit
and that's the message I think is healthy.
(audience cheering)
- No, I think it's a realistic thing.
It's a realistic thing for you to actually say,
"Look, this is something I--"
and for me, personally, I'm always like,
"Look, I struggle with this so I'm gonna allow
"a little bit, like portion--"
- That's healthy.
- And try and stay, you know, true the whole time.
'Cause that's the only way you'll be able to get there,
I believe but.
- [Carnie] It's realistic.
- Yeah, anyway, I love cake.
(laughter)
So I got a video from you last night
and I wanna show everybody the tape.
It's awesome.
- Okay, so Kelly,
it's the day before the show, the night before the show.
I made peanut butter cakes and then I heard
that you didn't like peanut butter.
So,
I rushed back in the kitchen and I made you lemon cakes.
So here are your lemon cakes for tomorrow.
Those are little bites.
And I made you, I got some beautiful frosting going.
Some lemon marshmallow glaze.
And I'm gonna glaze these puppies and bring 'em in
to you for tomorrow.
- All right!
So here we go.
Would y'all like one?
Would everybody like one?
I'm gonna--
well, I'll go first, fine.
- Yeah, good.
Go ahead.
I've had five million of these so I'll skip it right now.
- No, but I was gonna say though,
if you do have a sweet tooth, I think that this
is amazing because--
- [Carnie] Look at the size.
- Yeah, the bite size.
So it's like you're getting it but it's not like excessive.
- They're like my children.
(laughter)
- My problem is I get this at home
and I don't eat just one.
(laughter)
- [Carnie] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I know. - Oh my gosh,
these are so good!
- Lemon, and it's lemon marshmallow.
Hello!
- [Kelly] You have mallow in it?
Is that what you were gonna say?
- Yeah, yeah, lemon marshmallow.
- Oh my God, we are sisters from a different mother.
- I know.
I'm definitely coming over, we're baking together.