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hello i'm gail and i'd like to wish you
a merry christmas and a happy new year
hello i'm joey and yes today we're gonna
be speaking with an artist that's
absolutely blowing up and going viral
it's gail hello hello hi so good to have
you so lovely to be here over the
beautiful virtual internet obviously
today we're here to talk about the song
abcde fu never heard of it i know what
is this
we must have heard what six different
versions of it by now right there's the
original there's the demo the chill
version the acoustic version which i
love oh thank you of course there's also
the
radio friendly version the nicer version
and there's the angrier version i got to
be honest
personally i love the angrier version
which one are you feeling at this moment
right now honestly the angrier version
is probably one of my favorite versions
i like them all for like different
reasons i think that's also why i put
out all those versions because i
literally could not pick one because
they all like brought different things
to the song
but also i'm honestly kind of a sucker
for the demo
the acoustic version just because like
we wrote that song on guitar like that's
where it started
um
so that's like the first song that we
fell in love with and then we built it
out to what it is today that makes sense
that's the first iteration of your baby
right that's when that's the baby
picture of your song basically you're
never going to not love that yeah that
is literally like when it was born
you recently took this song and all six
of its versions on tour
did you have a chance to kind of test
out different versions to different
crowds and see which one resonate better
that actually would have been really
smart i did not i play the same version
every time i played the angrier version
actually well it's actually it was his
own little thing i would say i would say
it's the live version yeah it lights up
the crowd a little bit and to be honest
you gotta play the angrier version for
live crowd because everyone expects when
those two words come in they're going to
shout at the top of their lungs with you
right that's what the song is all about
yes no it was um also like later on
during the tour that's when the song
just kind of started doing better on
tick tock and all that so more people
like knew the song so it's just great
with the live version for everybody to
scream it yeah um yeah it was a lot of
fun like all of our pent-up frustration
be it from our past relationships or
from whatever this pandemic has brought
to us it's just we need to say those two
words sometimes yeah for the tour you
went to the big apple you went to new
york city which i don't think is your
first time i'm in new york city right
now actually you are there right now
right now i'm in my hotel is in times
square oh my gosh okay wait wait so if
you look outside your window are you
able to see that 350 foot tall
uh one time square led screen i know i
wish that would be sick um what is your
view i'm curious
hold on you're you're in the way oh
sorry my microphone is gonna like not
fully no no no please don't uh don't
unplug that thing you don't want to yank
it out oh no i won't i won't don't you
worry i'm not
but like
that looks pretty good oh
nice oh you're looking straight at time
square yeah it's like all the buildings
and stuff what was going through your
head that moment when you saw you and
your song
on that led screen it was crazy what i
love about it is like
of course like i'm going to take the
picture of my faces on it
but like there's other people's faces
that was that was on the billboard too
so go to usher
good company yeah yeah and then it'll go
to brad pitt and i don't know
what it was but it was some like alcohol
that like it was like an alcohol ad
[Laughter]
to be like in the company of usher and
brad pitt drinking some sort of beverage
and i was like yeah this is what i need
in my life
exactly so but every time usher would
pop up i'd be like oh i had a session
and then i would like wait and then my
photo pop up and then i take the picture
and then i go to bradford and so i just
have a lot of photos next to brad pitt
too well you can't miss right i mean how
bad could it be to have multiple
pictures of usher or brown exactly
exactly it was i was pretty i was pretty
happy and i think it was also crazy was
like seeing
my song above it like abcdefu gail and i
was like oh my god that's me like that
is i know me i never like i've i've had
um
a couple friends that's happened to
where they're like faces on a billboard
um and it's like crazy that it was like
me i was like what
like
people care
like what well that's what happens when
you go viral but here i want to just
paint a picture for people because i
don't want you to think that gail
belongs to that generation of artists
who will get stuck into writing songs
that are just visceral spiteful or
vengeful because there was a song that
came out a year ago called z
and you almost went on like a social
philosophical discourse with this one
where you talked about how we glorify
our problems but we never saw them we're
just too busy acting like we know too
much
do you think that sort of depth is what
you're about to explore with further
projects especially with z it was more
of like an outlook of my generation and
just like the things that people are
being made fun of but also like the way
we just act
because i feel like sometimes like our
generation mar my generation is just
running on fumes
you know like there's just so much i
feel like at times like we don't trust
like older generations but then we also
can barely trust like each other i
believe this is a generation that is
intended to break boundaries right and
for some reason i really love it when
women in music spell things out for me
like from aretha franklin r-u-s-p-c-t to
ann-marie f-r-i-n-d-s to gail you know
do i need to spell out the abc for you
of human relationships
yeah and i also think
not even like gen z i think when gen z
starts raising children and then those
children start raising children i think
it's just going to be pushing the
boundaries of the way we as a society
have just worked to never question
things and um i'm really excited to see
the changes and even in the next 20
to 30 years just seeing the way the
world is going to change
i think i think it's going to be
something really beautiful we hope your
music will be there to accompany us to
you know document these changes in
musical forms try my best how about
let's okay let's spend a minute or two
to get to the abc's of gale all right
we're going to have some short questions
and given that it's so late for you
you've done like what three hours
straight of interviews this one is gonna
hopefully get you going a little bit
please give me since it's abc's your
three favorite cuss words just go crazy
wait you get the curse yeah i mean i'll
probably have to bleep you out but yeah
go ahead go ahead oh yeah good okay okay
[ __ ] is my favorite um
i would say
is my second favorite i just love the
used in what form though like use them
what way you know what i don't like
calling people
actually
so i actually like replace it i also
this is one of my i don't know if it's
like a curse word i just feel like it's
a word that's sensitive to people's ears
where i'll be like don't be a piss bro
okay you know what i could get with that
don't be a
hear me out quick rant i'll make it
literally 30 seconds
these are so adorable they give birth
they bleed once a month and they still
survive and i feel like if you flick
somebody's piece no offense most the
time there's a large reaction no no
trust me i i totally understand i have a
wife and sometimes i look at her i'm
just like how do you go through
how does she
does it go through the things that it
does it's amazing it goes through a lot
yeah and so i switched the twos okay so
it's like don't be a piece bro and be a
party all right two more things two more
things um next one is uh what are the
three favorite things to do during
christmas since it's just around the
corner
oh no what is this i have such a darkest
humor my parents got divorced on
christmas like literally like they had
the fight on christmas and so my first
thing i was gonna say was like cry about
my parents divorce oh my well being hate
that belongs to you and you only right
so that's a good one no around christmas
i love making dad jokes
um but like the like super
[ __ ] up ones like the ones that are
like my best friend her parents are
still together and they're lovely
they're a great couple they're like
super happy and um like if they ever
like bicker or just something like yeah
but it's over like something stupid
basically being like that egg isn't over
easy that's over medium and then they
start arguing over like married couples
no i know i understand and if they're
fighting i'll like go to sarah and i'm
like it's beginning to look a lot like
chris
that's so good i love that i love that
dark humor
that's so that's sarah is that sarah
that is sarah sarah davis okay way to go
sarah yeah okay so one last question
what are the three presents since we're
talking about it three presents that you
would hope either santa if we still
believe in that uh we'll bring to you
during 100 percent real 100 um
a vh camera because why not i love
notebooks i'm absolutely obsessed with
notebooks specifically college ruled
notebooks
great and um
i used to have a waffle house phone case
but then my phone broke and i had to get
a new phone so i got a bigger phone and
the waffle house like it was a waffle
house menu
phone case it's like this breakfast
fast food place and it's amazing and i
would want a waffle house phone case
that would fit my phone okay so that's
the three things
for your family or friends to buy for
you during christmas or even your fans
now what we expect from you in return
gail is hopefully more musical work
during or after christmas can you do
that for us oh after christmas i got you
awesome
and we'll keep on listening to abcdefu
along the way thank you gail for joining
us here today thank you i appreciate you
very much
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