♪ Wish that I could take this off ♪
♪ Like an orange peel of all my thoughts ♪
♪ Hide away ♪
- Hi, I'm Gayle and I'm here to play a little game
of song association with Elle.
I'm gonna be given a word
and I'm gonna have 10 seconds to sing
or rap the song using the word.
I feel like my competitive instincts are gonna kick in
and then I'm gonna try really hard to get it quickly.
But then because I'm gonna be trying so hard,
I'm gonna forget and not be able to think of anything.
So, we'll see.
Before we start the game,
if you could check out my music or something,
I just came out with a new EP called
"The Study of The Human Experience: Volume One"
It's on all streaming platforms for G-A-Y-L-E.
I'm on Instagram under Gayle. I'm on TikTok- gaylecantspell.
I'm on Twitter- whoisgayle. Facebook- Gayle Official.
So yeah, if you could check that out,
it'd mean in the world me.
(instrumental music)
I got this, I got this. I'm gonna be great.
I believe in myself. We got this, we got this.
New.
Why is it so difficult?
I'm doing great. This is going great.
New. Oh my gosh!
♪ I got new rules, I count them ♪
Or is that? Yeah, it probably, I'm pretty sure
it might be no rules or new rules, new. (laughs)
Dumb.
Why is this...
Oh my God!
♪ It's my fear, looking like a dumb ass ♪
♪ Saying something that I shouldn't have ♪
♪ Its holding me back, holding me back, holding me back ♪
Yeah. That is a song I released when I was fifteen.
I wrote it when I was fourteen.
With this particular song I walked in and I had this quote
that I just found really inspiring and I really related to,
and it was like, "your fear of looking stupid
is holding you back."
We kind of like came up with a bit of a melody
and then a writer in the room
was like we should do close off and clothes off.
That would be a cool plan.
I don't know what crack I was on or something.
I was just like, we should do, I did this thing
where I closed off my feelings and I take my clothes off
so I don't have to open up to my boyfriend.
And they were like, "Okay. Second verse."
I was like, "Mm, first verse."
And that was kind of the writing process with that.
Yeah. I was just in a point in my life
where I was just drawing from the inspiration
of all of my insecurities.
And I was literally like sucking in my stomach 24/7.
And I still struggle with doing that
but that was something I was doing a lot
and it was just really affecting me mentally
because I felt like I didn't have a proper image
of what my body actually looked like.
And I was just having unrealistic ideas
of how I should look
and who I should be and who I should please.
And I was in the middle, in the process
of kind of realizing how deeply that was affecting me.
And I was just starting to kind of get over my own bullshit.
Okay, I'm aware of this and I'm doing this
but I don't wanna do that.
So how am I gonna do that? And that was that song.
Car.
♪ You can crash my car and die ♪
♪ Go on a wasting ♪
That's a song by Coin. Absolutely amazing.
I've screamed that song in my bathroom many times.
Friends.
♪ Tell me if we're just friends ♪
♪ Nah nah duh nah nah ♪
Song by Jordy Cearcy.
He actually used to be my guitar teacher
when I was twelve and now he makes music in Nashville.
So I moved to Nashville when I was 12.
I started going back forth when I was 10.
And I originally started in country music
just from being in Texas, going to Nashville.
One thing I really love about Nashville
is the collaborative co-writing culture.
There's always something, music event going on,
where you have the possibility meeting people
and co-writing with people.
And there's so many different genres in Nashville.
Most of the time people think it's predominantly country,
which it is.
But then there's also different sides of country music
where it can be more of an Americana country music.
It can be more of a soulful landing country music.
Or sometimes I also know people
that literally just do focus on a soul on R&B.
My favorite thing too is people love to blend genres
and they're like, "I do what I do and you do what you do
and let's see if that works together."
And it's also like, everybody always gets a chance.
The first time I played in live in Nashville,
it was at this bar called Tootsies.
It was in the middle of somebody's four hour set.
And I just walked up to them
and I was like, "Yo, do you need a bathroom break?"
And they're like, "Yes, please."
And I was playing their guitar
and I felt so fancy 'cause I put my capo on the fifth fret
and I was like, "Yeah I know to use a capo
and I'm ten", you know.
The guitar is bigger than me.
And I played, I play a song I wrote
and it was called "Brave Enough".
♪ I am brave enough to live my dream ♪
♪ I don't care what you think ♪
♪ As long as I just believe ♪
♪ 'Cause I am brave enough to live my dream ♪
Hold.
♪ Hold, hold on ♪
♪ Hold onto me ♪
♪ 'Cause I'm a little unsteady ♪
Number.
♪ Oh my name is no, my sign is no, my number is no ♪
♪ Naw to the naw to the no, no, no ♪
Meghan Trainor! Also a Nashville girl.
Orange.
♪ Wish that I could take this off ♪
♪ Like an orange peel of all my thoughts ♪
♪ Hide away, hide away. Take my feelings in ♪
♪ Just take a break, take a break ♪
I remember I was like fourteen and I was making food
and I just decided two things about myself.
I like orange and I like pears
and I don't care if anybody thinks that's weird.
I made it such a point in my personality
that all of my friends get me things that are orange.
And so then, I just have so many things
in my room now that's just orange.
And now I'm just committed at this point.
Even if it isn't my favorite color.
It is my favorite color
but it's just now always gonna be my favorite color
'cause I'm stubborn and I've decided it.
Tell.
Tell. Tell.
♪ Tell me why, ain't nothing but a heart break ♪
♪ Tell me why ♪
I was thinking nothing, like completely blank.
And then that song just popped into my brain. Yeah.
- [Gayle] Sign.
♪ I should take it as it did ♪
No. Oh my God.
♪ Just stop your crying ♪
♪ It's a sign of the times ♪
Oh I should have known. I should have known.
I'm very disappointed in myself in this moment.
Sleep.
♪ I really need a stop sleeping' with my friends ♪
♪ Romanticizing everything in my head ♪
♪ We mess around for the weekend ♪
♪ And never sit down again ♪
I released a song called "You're Just Horny" after ABC.
And in my head, "Sleeping with My Friends"
is kind of a pre-quill because I was just in a point
in my life where I was very just numb
and people just would engage things with me sexually.
And I would just kind of go through the motions.
And I just got to a point where I just like,
sometimes I didn't know
why I was doing the things I was doing.
I'd just make decisions out of loneliness
or just not feeling anything at all.
And it was just very confusing
with specifically "Sleeping with My Friends",
that's really where I was in that moment of time.
Best.
Best. Best.
Best.
Oh my gosh.
♪ Hit me with your best shot ♪
♪ Come on and hit me with your best shot ♪
Fire away! Such a good song.
Song.
♪ You got me singing love songs, love songs ♪
♪ Yeah you got me singing love songs ♪
♪ Love songs, love songs ♪
Oh my God. It's so good.
Such a good song.
Lose.
Lose you to love me. I, oh wait.
♪ I needed you ♪
♪ I needed to lose you to love me ♪
♪ To love, love ♪
♪ I needed to hate you to love me ♪
Pool.
♪ Don't want kitty pools, I'm a fool ♪
♪ I want oceans ♪
♪ On my tippy toes, holding your nose ♪
♪ Fuck your floaties ♪
Can I curse? I don't know.
I'm like, oh, okay. Fucking great!
Art.
Ha ha. Ooh.
♪ Fuck you and your mom and your sister ♪
♪ And your job and your broke ass car ♪
♪ And the shit you call art ♪
♪ Fuck you and your friends ♪
♪ That I'll never see again ♪
♪ Everybody, but your dog you can all fuck off ♪
Without this song, my life would be completely different.
I wouldn't be sitting in this chair, you know
and like talking to amazing people.
I wouldn't be going on the tour that I'm going on.
I wouldn't be collaborating
with the people I'm collaborating with.
I wouldn't be going to the places that I'm going.
It's terrifying, but it's so exciting, you know?
It's like such a privilege and an honor
to be able to do music and have the opportunity,
to try and be doing it full time
and maybe not have to go to college or something.
It's changed so much for me. And I'm just so, so grateful.
Thank you so much for watching me play
song association with Elle.
Don't forget to check out my EP, my music.
It's out in the world and maybe a little social media,
if you're down.
If you're down to talk DM me.
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