In Case You Missed It: #203 - Tenille Arts on Being on the Bachelor, Growing Up on A Wheat Farm and Top 3 Life Moments

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Speaker 1: Hey guys, a special bring It All Back episode from So This Is to Neil Arts. She came by the house. She brought her guitar, which people don't normally do for this. We were super pumped she did and just got to know her. And at this point she hadn't had a hit yet. You know, we were talking about in last Friday's episode of Bobby Cast where she may break a record soon enough. Her song Somebody Like That has cracked the top ten on the Country Airplay chart, which is a big deal. It took her fifty eight weeks to get there. Think about that. We talked to her in like a hundred weeks agoin and so that this song started forty I mean almost a year after we talked to her like this is in the early early to Neil Arts time. But that set the record for the longest climb to top ten for a solo female artist. Who knows if she breaks the all time record, I don't they keep going with this song. But I wanted to play this interview for you guys in case you missed it way back then, eighty episodes ago, because that's a long time ago, A long time. That's over a year on this feed that probably people are probably aren't scrolling back that far to here. So here is Taniel Arts. I hope you take some time get to know her. Remember this is before she had any success or any fame. Really, she'd been on The Bachelor a couple of times, not as a contestant, but as a performer. Um, so enjoy this. This is Tenniel Arts from the house here on the Bobby Cast. Here we go episode two or three with tannil Arts. How are you hey? I'm good? How are you good? All right? Pretty good? I was looking at your instagram. You have a lot of followers. Where did that? What's the deal? Where'd that come from? I don't know. I mean I've been on social media for a really long time and on YouTube, and yeah, I've just been like really trying to keep up the online presence. I was doing a little deep dive about you and I had seen that you were on The Bachelor twice, not as a contestant, although that'd be a good story here, but you played to why how do you how do you land getting on the Bachelor? To play? Well? My manager had been sending my music into them for a really long time and they just came across some of my music that they loved. The first song was called Moment of Weakness, and it pretty much sounded like we had written it for the show. So it worked out really well and I performed on one on one date? Could you remember who it was? Um? It was Ari and Chelsea? Okay, so, Mike, do you know who Ari is? I do? Okay, help me out. Good looking dude. I think it's like kind of great here right? Oh yeah, okay, So I got it. And that was the season. I don't really watch the show. I don't hate people to do. By the way, don't get mad at me. Bachelor Nation. He's the one that was like he broke up with the girl at the end of the season. Yeah, he makes someone and then broke up with her and then picked the like second place girl. Like now that I can admire anyone that kind of is not status quo on that show. I like, okay, so you you played for him and Chelsea? Did they stay together? Was it your song? Was that the reason they didn't stay together? Don't? I hope not? No, she left she had a kid, so she wanted she had a kid on the show, not on the show. But I think she wanted to get back to her her son, so I think she ended up leaving the show. So tell me what that's like them playing do you have played over and over and over again for the cameras. Yeah, we play it a few times. Not it's like definitely a surprise for the girl. I think the bachelor knows that this is going down because I think he has like a hand in picking the dates. But uh, the girl was completely surprised when she walked in and we played the song a couple of times for them to get their shots and everything. But then we play it again multiple times, and that makes sense so they can shoot you. Yeah, they can get close ups and stuff. But it was really awkward because nobody told me if I should look at the cameras or not. So I just found myself staring at the couple dancing and making out, and it was so awkward. I didn't not know what to do. It was Yeah, that was that. But so let me hear some of this moment of weakness and I'm gonna imagine a couple of dancing right that is quite a bachelor song. Yeah, because you're based be begging them to make out right there, you're playing that song, like, all right, have your moment weakness, right, You're on camera, so we can document it. Okay, So you go on the show and I would imagine, because I've had some friends go on that show and play, there's a nice pop with your music to day after it airs. Oh yeah, so that was pretty cool, right, that was really cool. That had a huge part to do with my social media and just my music getting out there in general. So but then you go back again. Yeah, So then they're like, hey, you riveted our couple so much, we want you to bring that back for another couple. Is that what happened the next time? I don't know. They're just like they became a fan of my music and they wanted to help me out as a new artist. And I think it's really cool and kind of unexpected to be a part of something like The Bachelor, Like you wouldn't think that's a great way to promote your music, but it kind of is. I mean, there's a lot of people that watch that show and it's like the perfect age for my music. So they asked me to come back. So you go back and then you play for this one was Colton and a Lease Okay. Now, if I remember they're not together, you're over too. I just telling you your success right on this show is not good for the couple stand together. I've played really early on in the show, so I feel like, you know, you never know what's going to happen at that point. So Colton and Elie and what are they doing? Like, yeah, it was in a big theater in l A. So there was actually an audience there. Okay, so a little more natural way. So you're playing in a theater and how does that And part of me for not knowing this, how did they set that up? Do they fake like they're walking in on a show or they're both big Tannil Arts fans? Yeah, sometimes they do it like that, not that they'd be faking it, but I'm gonna work. I do a lot of TV two and we fake a lot of stuff, not not originally, but in order to redo it again and again and again, we have to sometimes go all right, let's shoot this again. Yeah, So they walk in like, oh, yeah, we're big fans of Tannil Arts. Let's go Is that what it? Yeah? Basically that's what that's what happened. It was like a surprise for the girl and everything, but she ended up messaging me like right after that episode and was like, I'm gonna remember that night forever. I love your music. So she definitely like dove into my music after that, and so and then there you have it too. We need one more that you gotta get on a successful You gotta get on a couple of the stays together. Right right now, you're the Clayton Kershaw of of the Bachelor's just not working out for you so far. That's pretty cool that they brought you back. And what song did you do there? Well? It ended up being a song called I Hate This, which was a breakup song which you predicted. What was I do? I like that song this? I hate the song I've programmed into the heart the women of by our country show. This is a good one. Not that the other one wasn't. I just had never heard it. I liked this one a lot. When you hear your own music, you kind of bob your head and you still do you like listen to your own music? I do, yeah, because when when we played that, I felt like you kind of felt that a little bit. Yeah. I immediately started thinking about when I like wrote it and who it's about, And yeah, I go there every time. So you wrote that. Okay, good, it's a perfect segue into this. We have a lot of songwriters that come on the show, which you are obviously um and and they talk about songs. So let's talk about this song specifically. How long ago did you write it? It would have been like a year and a half ago. Oh still pretty fresh? Yeah, pretty new. And it's funny because when I had originally written it, I wasn't going through a breakup or anything like. I was kind of imagining what that would be like and everything, and then I went through a breakup and that song it was so hard to go out and sing that song at every show. So a song that you didn't write about your breakup ended up being hard to sing because later on you went through a breakup. Yeah, that's kind of Mike. We've never heard a story like that, right, Like, they write a song and then it comes back into their lives about their lives the breakup, and then it's hard to think about that. But yeah, not the only way. You're like Carly when she would come in, like yew, I wrote every little thing, and you know, I would play and think about the breakup every time, but you didn't break up with the song. It just came back to haunt you later. It did. Interesting, So you write this song and you did you write it about the boyfriend you had at the time, and at least, like, did you predict predicting the breakup? Aren't you? It wasn't that far before we ended up breaking up, So I think that I had a little bit of that in my mind. But I always try to like take from personal experiences or try to imagine what it would be like if I was going through that. Wrote You wrote this with the guy name Adam Wheeler, So you guys hop in a room together, and how does that work with you? You go, hey, I got this idea, I'm probably gonna break up with the dude, Like, how does that work? I didn't say, yeah, no, it was. I had written a lot with him around that same like time period, so we knew what was going on in each other's lives and and he knew that things were like a little bit rocky in my relationship, and he had talked about some of his past relationships and we really just kind of dove into it and the song. It's weird because the song isn't really about like a breakup. It's about that time period right after you break up where you don't know if you're going to end up getting back together or if you're just going to actually stay broken up. Because so I feel like there's a little bit of hope during that time where you still love that person and you still think maybe you know, something might work out, but then you know eventually you have to deal with the fact that okay, maybe it really is over. Let's talk about that for a second away from music. Like most times, let's still a little public service announcement. It doesn't work out. If you're gonna break up, it doesn't work. I'll tell you from my experience, you feel like you know I might work out, let's give it another try. But I'm gonna say probably of the time, if you break up and you're like, m, maybe we should give it a try, because it could it's not going yeah, because I think once you break up, you think that those those things will maybe like work themselves out, and then when you get back together it'll just be like a fresh start. But it's not. There's still like all of those things that you all of those issues. I guess that you had before. You know what you should do. This is maybe a lesson for you, you you little younger than I am, or anyone watching this or listening to this. If you're struggling in your relationship and you don't know really what to do to make it work. Have a baby. Oh my gosh, what do you say? That's a go? I just have a baby. Then you're stuck and you have to make it work. Problem. Yeah, I would say, yeah, fixes fixes all the problems. You don't agree with that, Um, why don't we do somebody like that? Which is this is the single? Now it is? Okay? Here is somebody like that? All right? Tell me about this one? All right? Well, I wrote this one after writing a ton of breakup songs. I was like, I'm done, Like, I'm done writing these breakup songs. I want to start looking for somebody again. I want to, you know, start putting myself out there. So I got in the writing room with Alex Klein and Allison Belts and we were just kind of reflecting on relationships that we had seen a really well, like looking at our parents, looking at our grandparents, you know, just kind of those relationships that we idolized as kids and looked up to. And you know, I have a lot of great relationships in my life, and and I feel like we just looked back on, you know, maybe love that we had or love that went really well, love that went bad, and just kind of looking for the right kind of love this time and not settling until we find it. And how long would you write this song? This one would have been about six months ago? And did you predict the future? Much like you predicted the demise of the Bachelor? You'd make this song? And did somebody like that come along predicted the future? What you need to do? You need to write more song predicting, predicting future songs. Yeah, my therapist says, you got to like see the good stuff, But then I do and it never happens, so then I start seeing the bad stuff again. You have an accent, which is interesting, not so much of a Canadian one a little bit. I dated a Canadian girl for a long time, so I'm very experienced with the Canadian talk. And your your your little hybrid English French a type language. But it's a little country accent too. Yeah, So what like, what tell me about like a town you grew up in? I grew up in a really small town in Saskatchewan in Canada, and my dad's a wheat farmer, so we grew up like in the small town. But then we also had the family farm, so I spent a lot of time out there. And because a wheat farmer, huh, what is that entail day to day? I mean, for us being in Canada, there's like a very short sound like a week right where it's warm enough to grow anything. Yeah, I mean it pretty much starts like end of May June, and harvest time is lake September October. So is it vacat is it like snow vacation? They're all the rest of the year as a wheat farmer. Well, my dad had another job that he worked that whole time as well. Um, but yeah, I guess for most people or they've got like cattle or something, but we don't we eat farmer in Canada. I didn't think about that. Like when I flow to Toronto Wish by the way, I don't know what's in the water up there, but you guys are way too nice and I enjoy it. I enjoy it. But even with my ex girlfriends, she's way too nice. And now we'll be like, why are you being so nice to me all the time? But it was just a natural. It was just like in you guys blood. And I didn't really realize that until I went to Toronto and people would just like stop on the road and talk to me. And this is Toronto, to which is very metropolitan by the way, It really close to New York, and you would think would be a little different than than you know, Saskatchewan or um Vancouver or a lot of these other places that I was feeling with. But people were just like, hey, sir, and I'll be like, what's up? Would you like a dollar? Not asking for the homeless. People were offering me money in Canada. It was so different than here in the States. Were like, gonna get a dollar? They were like, so I don't how much, but why don't you have my last dollar? Canadians are nuts, man, It's awesome. So um. It was my point with all that might really nice. Yeah, I feel like I was onto something there, but so your dad, oh but but oh my point is I'll flying in and I would see golf courses in Canada and I was like, what week do you get to play golf here? It's so cold all the time. And so you're do you have tractors? Yeah? Okay? And how big was his wheat farm? Um? People always ask me this, and I always forget to ask him how big it is. But I mean, we've got a lot of land. Do we need to call your dad? And ask? Might have to because we have a phone connected right there, we can call your dad. We want to get your dad on the phone. I'll call him, okay, Nil, don't press me. Hey, Mike, can you call her dad? Okay, We're gonna call her dad and see if he'll even just answer the phone. All right? Does he what's he doing? Is he? Is he? What is today? Today's Yeah, they're trying to harvest right now, but it just snows. Get interrupted by a phone call and his daughter? Has your dad ever been an interview before? No? Okay, it's first. Is it gonna be nervous? Yeah, we're gonna plug the phone up something. We have this phone here to Neil, and so sometimes we'll do phone interviews if people are in Los Angeles. Are you freaked out about your dad being on Well, I'm just like, he never answers this phone. So we might go through all of this or nothing. That's all right. I didn't say we didn't try, right, Mike, And this might this phone rings all that I'll be because this is in my house, which, by the way, if you're a dog barking and you're listening to this is because my have a bulldog puppy kind of put him away for this interview, but I can hear them barking down. Do you hear them barking? No? No, he does this some time. Are you's so cute? All he does? Um? And so this this phone as soon as we bought the line to start calling people, it rings. It'll be one o'clock in the morning. Oh, is it just like random? It's like people trying to sell me stuff. I thought it'd be like Janet Kramer, who we call on it and they're like, what up? No, it's it's some people trying to sell me stuff. All right, you wanted to show you the number off the camera? All right, let's see, by the way, everyone listening right now as we as we look at this followed to Neil on Instagram, t E N I L L E Arts to Neil Arts. That is her name? There? Do I have a dial tone? Mike? We do all right, let's see if we and what is his name? Well, Kevin, know that an unnamed Nashville phone number is probably specific to you, maybe, okay, because I never would answer a call if I didn't know who it was. Yeah, I mean, well, he's just like, he'll leave his phone. Does he have any idea who Bobby Bones is at all? I just I was just talking to him last night and I was like, I'm doing this this show. Okay, I don't hear anything, but you have reached Okay, text him and say, hey, we're trying to call you. Can you answer the call here? Okay? All right, um, let me read you a little bit about tanil lest she does this here. Let's see she won five of the Saskatchewan Country Music Association Awards for All which you were nominated. Okay, might you still have his number? I don't. Okay, he needs a phone again. What we're doing is really hacking your phone? Does what's the trick we do with everyone? So maybe he'll see that. All right, we're gonna keep going, Mike, I guess we have to here at huh. Yeah, okay, that's all right, We're good. So tell me you're on revival Records, How long you've been how'd you get that? That deal about a year and a half ago, and so how did they get onto you to sign you? It was actually it had a lot to do with The Bachelor. I performed on the first time I've performed it was, yeah, completely without a label. And we were having like a viewing party for the episode here in Nashville, and we had Gator from Revivor Records come out to the show because I played like a little set before the episode aired, and it was pretty instant, like I met with him and the whole team, and I was just like, this feels like a perfect place for me. Were good for you? Yeah? Wow? And so then you become a millionaire soon as you get signed. Yeah, of course that's that's that's how it works, right, and you're just loaded. Yeah, Mike, if we don't get him this time, we'll just give it a rest for a bit. Yeah, Okay, that's all right, We're still gonna get him. He's gonna text he maybe listen, well he listened to this, Yeah, oh yeah, he he loves to listen to it like all the home and I'll hear him watching and listening to my YouTube videos. I'm like, dadham right here, super supportive dad. Yeah. So what about your mom? They still together? Yeah? Okay, and what does she do? She used to work as a lab tech in the hospital, but she is was a stay at home mom from my entire life a lab tech like needles, you know. I had a cousin once who was training to be a lab tech and she said, Hey, I need to borrow you for needle practice. And I was like, first of all, it's not gonna happen. I don't do needles very well. That she was like, I need to do needles in your knuckles because apparently they have to learn if they can't get it from your arm, they have to draw it from your knuckles. And so I don't do I didn't let her do it, obviously, but I didn't know you could draw needle from knuckles either. Did your mom draw black from people? She did? Yeah, if you were sick, could she help you, like giving you I V S or medicine. She never did any of that stuff, but I mean she had medical knowledge, so she I mean, she would help us out as much as she could. All Right, So you moved to the States when four years ago you've only been here four years. So okay, so do you do the whole Canada thing first, where you're you know, you like, I'm gonna be a star in Canada? Not really. I mean I was a little bit involved in like the Canadian country music industry up there, um, and they had a really cool program that I was a part of that was like the Discovery program where they help you out, give you the connections and everything. But I always knew that I wanted to be in Nashville. I made my first trip. It was it's almost exactly ten years ago when I first came here to you know, write and get involved in everything. So I always had my site set on Nashville, and so I didn't spend a ton of time focusing on on the Canadian scene. So what was it for you that made you go I gotta move down there. I think I had just seen so many people. It's just such a community, like Canada is so spread out. I wish they had a place that everybody could go and write with each other because there's really there's nothing. I mean, it's everybody's so spread out. So I knew that Nashville was just such a community. I knew that some of my favorite songwriters, some of my favorite artists. That's what they did. They once they could, they moved to Nashville and they made their connections and they just started building it from the ground up. And that's what I wanted to do. So you tell your parents what. Well, the first time I actually came down, I was fourteen or fifteen, and I had just been putting up YouTube videos and stuff and a manager called our house and he was like, Hey, I want to bring you to Nashville and I want to see if you know you work well with this girl, because he was proposing me to be in this duo. So what you got? Justin Bieber a little bit, They see you in a little bit as a kid, someone says you on YouTube and says, let's do it that. I bet that would be creepy to me that I'll be like, really, what's happening here? Yeah? I mean, oh, my dad was super skeptical about it. My mom was excited because I was excited, but yeah, it was definitely kind of like a well, let's just go see what happens, Like let's me say about it, but yeah, let's go see what happens. And it was so They always knew that that's where I wanted to go, so they were supportive of it. And when I moved, they were like, oh yeah, go for it. So what happened with that duo? It just didn't work out. Our music ideas were so different and it was kind of like a Maddie and Tae thing before, like pretty much right before Maddie and te So, well, who was the girl? Is she around? Um? I think she's still say it? We thought so, she's still in town. I don't think so. I think she went to college somewhere. Has hated each other. Huh. We didn't get along. Oh, I was just kidding, but yeah, we didn't get along. Oh, Mike and I don't get along. Yeah, we just kind of stare and okay, so you come and you go. Okay, well Nashville will want to be so you go back home. Did you finish school? I did? I finished high school? Okay, and then you go. As soon as I'm done, I'm out of here. And so when did you actually pack up and moved down. I stayed for just like a couple of years, just saving up. I still lived with my parents and everything. And yeah, I was twenty one when I moved down the first time I had ever lived on my own, got a one bedroom apartment, the whole thing. Who moved with you? My mom in a What tell me the story? You get int the U haul with the trailer. We we did the drive twice. The first time we took her car and just loaded it up and drove as much as we could down just to get moved in, and then I ended up driving back again. I can't really remember why that happened, but I took I have like a little yellow Pontiac G five from when I was like sixteen, and we loaded that thing up and I still have that car. We drove it all the way down here, and my mom stayed for about a week to just get me settled, and then she hopped on a plane and left me by myself. What's the drive? Full? Twenty five hours of driving still took us about two days. Do you still have that car? At least? Do you still drive that car? With this millionaire record deal, you should have like Mercedes? You know, talk about that for a second, because that is a quite the misconception because you signed a record and listen, when I signed my record deal, I actually think I went in the hole. I think I lost money. And people think when you sign a deal that it's just like a whole bunch of money given to you. Um you're a bit different than I am. You're better tell me what happens when you sign a deal. Well, for me, my deal was pretty unique because my publisher, Um, so I had been living off of, you know, being a songwriter and sign a publishing deal first, and about halfway through that first year, my publisher was like, we should record this stuff on you. He knew that I wanted to be an artist, and so he really started just helping me out with all of that stuff, which was really really cool, and I ended up signing kind of he created a label, I guess for me to release music, and so when I ended up signing with Reviver like that, all still kind of stayed together. So not much really changed for me other than having you know, all of the label and everything. But yeah, I know, it's not like you're just like handed a bunch of money and like, yeah, you're as signed artist now. Mostly they go, we're gonna pay for you to do things, and even then you got to pay us back. Yeah, that's really unless you're a major artist switching labels and they're trying to woo you. They're going, Okay, we're now going to pay for you to make a record, and we're gonna pay for you to travel and do what they call radio tour, but you will pay us back or we would drop you. One of the two things will happen. And so it sounds sounds amazing, doesn't it. But it is cool to actually get a deal because they're actually supporting you to go out and try all this stuff. It is and I mean without that, it would be really really hard to to do all of those things if you didn't have that support. Would you put on YouTube? What song like the one that I had, the one that There's Always There's Always a video? It was fifteen by Taylor Swift and I was fifteen singing it. So that's what got me here. And when they called, they asked for you, how why how do they get your number? That's the whole thing that I still have not figured out. I don't know how they found me, but I mean I'm glad that they did because I learned a lot from it. But um, yeah, they literally just were like, hey is to kneel there and to answered the phone and talk to them for a little while, and yeah, it was weird, grand old opry debut just happened. Amazing, Oh my gosh. I still can't even believe that it happened. Like it was just one of those moments where you're like, it feels like a pad on the back from the country music industry, you know, just everybody here being like you deserve to be on that stage and make your debut. So I think that's what meant so much to me. And I had a ton of family and friends, everybody in town for it, so it was just a really big deal and it made me feel very special. Yeah, so the the opera the first time is like a your eyes wide open thing. You'll like the second through the ninth or tenth time because you actually can take it in. There's just a lot of people there in the first one. The first time that I played it, I was like, holy crap. And I do comedy a little bit of music, right, so it's not definitely not the same like you're a legitimate artist. I'm a joke, so you it's just so many people like oh my goodness, oh my goodness, that it's really hard to take it in. Yeah, I feel like that would be what a wedding is like. Even it's like the build up is like so crazy, and then it's like over in a second, and you're like, oh, it is quick. But I will say, I don't know if you're playing it at anytime soon, but you you actually enjoy the operay experience from now on more. Yeah, yeah, because you look. And for me, I struggle with even seeing anyone in the audience because I was just like, oh my god, this is crazy. I'm up here playing them in the circle. Um, and so I really didn't see the people out there. From now, I walk out there and it's it goes much slower. Yeah, that's good. It's you can take it in. You can actually breathe and talk in between segments if you want to. There's not the pressure of all your family being there. Good pressure, but there's still a lot of pressure there with everybody watching. Yeah, it definitely was like a little bit of pressure. But I tried to. When I walked out there, I was like, for whatever reason, I wanted to like watch my foot step into the circle. So I made sure to just like take them moment to like see that moment. That's cool. Are you that kind of person? Are you take a moment person? Yeah? I try to be, especially with those like really big moments. Otherwise it just gets away from you sometimes, right, Top three Big moments in your life. Okay, let's let's let's walk backward on this. I know I've given you a second on this one. You're twenty five years old. Top three Big Moments of your life at number three, at number three, at number three in America, we go backward to one. It's like a big build up. Can I still use the operation? Of course? Yeah? Nothing? Number three? Number three? Uh? Performing on The Bachelor? Okay? Which one or two? Two? Because it was it was just bigger and more people are like that. So that's number three. Life moment, number two life momentum performing the Canadian national anthem at the NBA Finals recently. Yeah, that's pretty cool. It was a big one. It was something that literally when I it I started working with my manager, I was like, the one thing I do not want to do is sing any anthems. I am terrified. And that was when I got the call for that. Obviously, I was excited and wanted to take that that opportunity and take that risk. But it was the most terrifying moment of my entire life so far. Uh what did you sing with any a band or totally? But yeah, So was there any sort of echo back on top of you? Yes, because that was tough. There was a lot of people and just you're kind of trying to keep my note in my head walking out to the spot where I'm supposed to sing. I was so worried about that. And then they have all these rules about like you have to take a hard left to like walk off so that you don't get hit by the flag that's coming out for the American anthem. And there were just so many things to think about. So I explain how we're gonna get to number one in a second, but explain how you're holding your note all the stuffs happening around you. What are you doing inside your head? If you watch back any of the clips, I'm literally just like, um like singing it in my head constantly. But you got it? Yeah, And the thing, well, I don't know about the Canadian anthem, but the American anthem, if you start a little higher than you're supposed to, you're done. Oh yeah, what what's the Canadian anthem? Like it's not difficult to to sing, like the range isn't as crazy as the American anthem. But I think for me, I overthink anthem so much. I'll go over the lyrics in my head a hundred times. There's almost a no win. No, there isn't way because it's number two on your list, so that's a win. However, in the grand scheme of doing the anthem, if you go out and you nail the anthem, you were supposed to nail the anthem, life just moves on. If you screw up the anthem any anthem, life does not move on. People get piste. So it's a lot of pressure where if you nail it, you were supposed to thank you go about your day. But if you don't, holy crap. I mean I actually ended up getting a lot of criticism. Why because I changed it up a little bit. But we took it. You made it your own. It's not American idols. But okay, Like the anthem is like oh Canada, and I went, oh Canada, probably wouldn't done that for me. I just got Robert Gooley and watched him and done that. Well, oh Goda, but that's not me. So I went out there and I did it the way that you know Robert Gouley is he's I think he's. I think he's Canadian. Do you know he is? I do know he is. Yeah. I saw him saying that the the Canadian WrestleMania once and for some reason, he's stuck in my head. You see if Robert Gooley is Canadian, because if he's not, I feel I could do. Okay, good for you. That's a number two singing the Canadian national anthem at the NBA finals. And who was the game? What was the game? It was Toronto and it was the last one gold State. Yeah, it wasn't the last but they were, yeah they were. Yes, it was in the finals. It wasn't Okay, I don't know sports, but yes, that's what happened. Okay, So but who won the game? Ah, don't say Golden State because if you do, this may be the cursive to Neil. You don't know. We'll go with Toronto then and Kauai A big game as a whole thing. Yeah, it's a big yeah. Um, Mike. He is of Canadian descent, boom from where well he was born in the US, but ancestry is in Canadian Canadians, Canadian. Who's the most famous person you're growing up in Canada? The most famous person to me? Okay, because she was from Canada and also massive and probably the most famous everybody period in North America. Okay, so Shania Twain, who anybody else? Because we're I'm on the radio and saskatchwe is that a town or a province? Okay? So dumb, forgive me, because here's what happened. I love the people in Canada. Can't get enough of them. That being said, I was thrown into so many places at once that they're like, you're in all that and I'm trying to learn as fast as I can. I'm a big Ottawa said Hitters fan, although they suck, so I wear the hat proudly. But that may be the worst run hockey organization in the NHL. Are you a hockey fan a little bit? Okay? Who's your team? Well? I'm I just hop on the bandwagon of wherever I am. So freds, Oh, you don't have like a Canadian team? I don't. You didn't did your dad like watch a team? I mean like we grew up as a family. My brother played, so I mean the most hockey I watched was him playing and I also played for a year, just saying but yeah, um played hockey. Yet you don't have like a team that you watched. Okay, so you're a Preds fan. Yeah, I like to actually go to games. Watching sports on TV just does nothing for me. And you played hockey. Also a dancer and you answered that confidently. So you were a good dancer. I mean I was competitive, especially with like tap dancing. That was kind of my thing. Um, but my little sister is amazing, and so I once I decided that I wasn't going to be a dancer, she really she like ran with it. She loves dancing and she still does that to this day. How many years did you dance? From the time I was like three to eighteen? Oh a long time. Did you ever winny championships? I? Well, like I went to competitions all around, um, like the provinces boarding mine and a few in the States. Trophies, I want some stuff crap because I want a trophy dance, and I like to brag about it a little bit. I danced for four months and well, yeah, there you go. That's right, And that's a pretty big trophy, that's right. That's right. So probably imagine if I danced for fifteen years, all the trophies I would have. Um, Okay, so you're in Canada, you moved to the States. You've been here for as of today, like four years. That's it. Huh, Well you're just a baby and yeah, actual and you have a record deal and you've got music that's already. That's good for you. Thank you. Kind of popping a little bit. Well, I just decided. I was like, if I'm gonna be away from everybody, because like I moved here not knowing anybody, my entire families back in Canada. I was like, if I'm gonna move here, I'm gonna put my head down to make sure that this time is worth it, and my time away from my family and my grandparents everything I needed to make it feel like it was worthwhile. Is it frustrating to not find a key chain with your name on it? Yes, because I don't know. I never met a Tannil until I met the other one, and I was like huh and then I heard and I was like, there's another. So Tennil Towns is a friend and she opened for me for a lot of tour for a lot of my comedy tour last year, and then I was like they were like ten Neil Arts and I was like, no, you're saying it wrong. It's aid Town, not Art. And they're like, no, there's another Tannil And I was like, well how about that. That's kind of weird. What is she? You know? What were she from? Like from Canada too? Same age? That's confusing, isn't that crazy? Did you guys know each other? Oh? You did from like a tenail chat room where you guys everybody Toil would get in and talk with each other. Actually, the first time I met her, she had one of her good friends with her and her name was also Tanil. So what's what's happening? Is there something Canada where they name him after Captain Intanil? Is big? Big thing? Mike is Tanil Canadian? From Captain Intanil? I don't know you looked at up. I know that she was born in like Montgomery, Alabama or something. So you know this already because I thought that was weird because I grew up on Montgomery Crescent. She was from Montgomery, Alabama. Does that have anything to do with your name? Well, my parents named me after after Captain They loved the name, but they also gave me two middle names just in case. Captain Intanil what sinking songs like muskrat Love. I don't know how I know that. Did Kevin hit his back on the text? Not yet, They're apparently they're not Canadian. You're going to lose. Um, okay, so let's do we do this sometimes your Mount Rushmore of artists. Okay, you get four, However I allow five because everyone always goes, let me add one more. I'm gonna give you five, but you can't go let me add one more. We're already doing that plus one. So okay, five artists on your Mount Rushmore. Who is your first artist? Are they? Doesn't matter the genre, it can be any genre first artist, Like this is no order? Well, okay, you don't have to rank them, but you can if you want. Are you saying right now? No order? No order? Because they'll probably come to me as as we do this. Um. Well, I grew up listening to Paul Simon, so I'm a huge fan of his songwriting and everything. Um yeah, the whole record, the whole record. Okay, go ahead, um oh man, this is already hard and I'm only one person in. Um, Shania Twain has to be in there. Ah, I know I'm going to do this and forget somebody and be really sad. Um Keith Urban, Kelly Clarkson. And you got one here that counts. It's not a bonus that you get five so so far? Why you're thinking we have Paul Simon, Shania Twain, Keith Urban, Kelly Clarkson, Oh my gosh, can I call a friend? Um? I don't know. That's a hard one. There's so many good artists like I feel like, but if you pick nobody, then you get nothing. Yeah, you're not balance to this contractually, you know. If you leave this house and decide, you can just see me overthinking everything right now. I'm like, wait, do I okay, pull up a playlist on your phone? What do you Spotify, Apple Music whatever you have? Pull it up? Okay, and we will. Let's look at the last song? Great, yes, love it? Okay? No, no, no, let's look at the playlist. I don't really have playlists. You'll have like liked songs like the last songs you liked. I don't do that. Let me see your let see your playlist here? Like, I'm kind of all over the place. Well, you should be musically, but how do you find stuff? Chase albums? I just like I look up the album like this is my You have the last songs you played yours? Yours was warming up in the car on the way here. Your song, which is interesting. You brought a guitar. We've never had anyone bring a guitar. You never know when you're gonna need to break out in a song. That's true, So to your last song, as I hate this. Do you have a list of stuff you played recently? I don't know how to get library. I got you. Technology is hard for me. Oh check it out. A lot of chumba wamba. You're a big fan and I'm just um, Carrie Underwood, Casey musk Graves. Who's Paul Sykes. He's a friend of mine. He used to play guitar for me. Shout out, Paul Sykes. I'm really going through your stuff. This is this is some stuff here. Um. You have a lot of some artists named tennial arts a lot. Wow, are you in the fan club? Who's Twin Kennedy? They're also friends of mine. Okay, so we get a lot of shout outs here, and that's all you have, all your songs, you listen to yourself and your friends. I like that. Well, I gotta download my own stuff and make sure that like nothing's wrong with it, you know, when it goes out there? All right, Um, well, why don't we let's let's I'm not gonna ask you like really sing or anything, but let's grab this guitar, Mike. Let's see what's happened over here. If we can get Kevin to call us back. Kevin's big time and it's right now. Do you know, let's play a game while he's doing that. Okay? Canadian or not Canadian? Are you ready? I'll give you, I'll give you a celebt. You tell me if they're Canadian or not. Jake Jillen Hall not okay correct, Ryan Reynolds Canadian? Right, Hayley Bieber not correct? James Franco not, Ryan Gosling Canadian? Yeah, Ann Hathaway not not. Does the Canadians have dominate any interview? You ever? Do? Are? They always tell me about Canada a little bit? But yeah? What about the double to Neils? Does it happen a lot? Do you ever think if it doesn't work, you too can form a group? Maybe and just be called Tenniel took at this. What kind of guitar we have here? This is a PRS acoustic. So what we're gonna to do here, because we're gonna play very light I have We've never done this before. So let's see what it sounds like. Well, let me make sure. I like to go no tuning. Yeah, we like to go out of tune. It's kind of our style here on the show. Okay, Mike, you wanna see how this sounds. You have to check it out. Okay, Um, you want her to back away from Mike just a little bit, maybe just a little bit. Okay, it's the opposite what we just did. We have Now we're gonna have you moved back just a little bit, all right, So um, play me a little bit of I Hate this because that's the one you had up on your phone. Okay, and then we're going to the Canadian national anthem. I'm just kidding. I was like, no, maybe not all right. For the first time on this podcast, someone's gonna play. We'll do a little bit of I hate this. Go ahead, you let me just do like verst course Yeah, okay, I hate this. Here I am running into you China. I hate this excellent. I it's not killing me when it now? Watch the game still looks good on you. Don't you think it's time we in this little lips bement because I know we said we just be friends. I can by care pretson boy, I shouting bottom. I still love you and that's good. Thank you. Look at that, it's good, thank you. Well look okay, well, let me can put the mic, put the guitar down. That's good. How does sound? Do we know? I found pretty good? Popped or anything? Okay, Well, if you have it, you want to do a little bit your new song, then sure. I mean, if that's the new single, let's it's her somebody like that. I've seen pick up lines and dye bar stranger slow dance. I've seen Happy Hour two for once turned one nice dance. I've seen on rather lay night, drunk dies. I've seen that sent to rether, fairy tale, go up in cigarettes smoke. I've seen two hearts beat it all and still end up bron Your thing won't be easy, yeah, my tay wise, but I want that all. I keep the fire burning like the first time feeling, no matter what, if I'm gonna I'm gonna love somebody forever. Take it back. I'm gonna somebody like, holy crap, man, it's really good. You're like two ft tall Mongus boys. Thank you, Michael. Take your guitar from you. He'll be sure to drop it. There it is. Let's check one more time for Kevin. I would love to have had him on the show. Kevin, did he respond to your text? No? Mm hmmm. He probably likes your brother and sister better. Huh. I bet if they texted, he probably would have been like he literally just never has his phone on him. So what's the story with your brothers and sisters? You have one? You have to total one each. I have two sisters and a brother. Okay, and you are in the mix? What what what level? Second youngest? Okay? And your oldest is Brittany? Okay, what's Brittany do music at all? It's not really no. She her husband was in the military in Canada. They moved around a lot, and now they're back in Saskatchewan starting their own company. So they're they're working on stuff there. It's a drone company. Oh that's cool. My coat husband has a drone company. He was in the military too. Yeah, and now they apparently all fly drones and looking our windows and who knows everything about our lives? And then your brother is older than you, and what does he do? He went to school, um for finance stuff, but he's also been working at the farm as well, so he's We're all just kind of all over the place doing our own thing. And your youngest sister is a hockey plant dancer? Is that true? She just dances? Now? Okay, are they very proud of you? Yeah? They like keeping up. Are they super excited? Yeah, they keep up. And my little sister and I talked like really often. But um so since we're both kind of very I guess you know, we like hair and makeup and photos and and doing all of the fun stuff. My older two siblings felt like they were not in the group or whatever of us performing sisters. So they created their own Instagram called like the other two Siblings or something, and they recreate our photos on the farm. It is hilarious. Yeah, it's it's pretty funny. So they they're all supportive and yeah, so parents, four kids, Any animals growing up? Yeah, we had a dog, a dog, yeah, just one. Okay, No cows, No, no cows. What kind of animals are on farms in Canada. We had just like a lot of straight cats, like farm cats just running around. All right, Mike, anything for Tanil. We're about about to wrap this up. I was just amazing good that was That was awesome. Yeah, that was really good. What's cool? As we could hear everybody saying I hear about on the show or out, it's really good. I don't know that. I was not expecting it to be, but it's really good. And we've never done that before. Yeah, you gotta brought your guitar and a ball or move. It's like, I just have my guitar. If you need it, let me. That's it's cool. I like that. Here's so. I work on American Idol and I mentor a lot of these these kids. A lot of the kids need more of the music mentorship. A lot of the older people kind of need the kind of the life how to go to the reality show. But I tell them, and I think you could probably speak on this too. If someone asked you to play, just freaking play, Yeah that's it. If someone's like, hey do you play, don't take a thing and be like, well, I'm not really right now, and you know, let me think it, go like, play your freaking song always because you never know who's listening. Who may that person is not going to get your record deal, but they may hear you and go, oh this person you should you should hear that. That's the thing. You never know when you're going to be discovered. And I think the more you play, the more you get out there, the more chances there are. You know, you can't just sit in your bedroom and sing songs all the time and think that you're going to get somewhere. Here's my my neighbor overheard me singing in my backyard and recommend me to get in vocal training. Is that familiar at all? Because it didn't happen to me. It happened to me. So you're singing and just doing How old are you? Oh my gosh, I was probably like seven. And your neighbor hears something in your voice and says, how you should go and learn to sing the real way. Yeah, she came over because I was always just like belting out and I ha Twain songs or like whatever I was listening to or making songs up belt him out in my backyard and my neighbor just came over and she's told my mom, She's like, I think she has a great voice. I think you should try to, you know, take her somewhere, see if she can do something with it. And of course I loved that my first voice lesson. I was so pumped and just so excited that, like that's what made it feel real to me at eight years old, seven or eight whatever it was, I was like, that's going to be my career. I'm going to do this. Where did you start singing as a kid? Publicly, I did like a couple of little like local festivals and things like that. But also because I was doing classically um trained music, I also performed in like the music festivals and stuff, and you would sing what kind of song is a classical trained performer? There was like a book songs out of Okay, Um, you have another record coming on the next year. Yeah, yeah, we we know when it'll be early, and people listen to these things forever, so it may already be out when this thing is. You may be hearing the Tinnil Arts podcast because we've done a lot of these mike where people have at early stages they've got a blown up and you can go back and hear them, because this is episode two hundred and three, So early on we had some artists on in the early stages too, and they were like, I don't know, We're just trying to get something going. And you go back now and you're like, holy crap, Like now they're they're big deals. So hopefully, uh, this this is what happens here. Okay, Well, listen, we've I think we've said everything that that we need to say. You feel like you learn a little bit about you, Yeah, Kevin, Kevin will not call us back if you're listening right now, Kevin, we tried. Before we wrap it up, we're gonna we're gonna give it one more look, not yet. I'm gonna ask you a few random questions here and then we'll call this a day. What's the last concert you bought tickets for? I bought tickets for Casey Musgraves and I didn't get to go. Which show? It was the one at the Rhyman the Gold Now our tour I did. Yeah, I'm really jealous. Yeah you should be. It's it's great. Yeah. Why did you not get to go? I had a show come up? Great reason to not go? Exactly how about that good? Okay, So question number two, what's the last movie you saw in theaters? In theaters? Um, I think it was that last show, um, last movie of the Avengers or whatever that. Yeah, in game it was good. Huh, it was long. Yeah. Well, here's the thing, I didn't watch any of the other ones, because there were like three. I saw most of them, but there were only three or four that I didn't see, and I felt a little out of it at times. I can only imagine what you felt. No, it's knowing. I was very out of it. Well, actually, I think I saw the Captain Marvel won the Girl. Um. Maybe, yeah, I saw that one before. But also at the end of that, I did not know that this was like a big thing that was going to be coming to an end, and everybody was sitting in the theater like waiting to see whatever they show at the end of those movies. I had no clue. I was completely in the dark that this was a whole series of things. And that's the last movie you saw. Okay, are you on the road a lot? Now? Every weekend? You're going out? This weekend, I am, I'm leaving tomorrow. Where do you go? I'm going to Deadwood, South Dakota. Wow, Yeah, it's a trip. Yeah, you're driving the Pontiac, but I don't even think it would make it there. One final question, what is your hobby and why do you do it? My hobby? Um, it cannot be something you make money at, so don't say music. What is your hobby and why do you do it? Man? It's a lot of my things have to do with music, But like this, one thing that I started doing is like painting on the back of jean jackets. So that's kind of like a hobby thing that has become something that I think. That's a wonderful answer. Um, you're in a jacket now. That is Arry painty, but you didn't paint this one. Okay, let's check one more time for Kevin. This is her dad. Three. Okay, we'll talk to you. We'll do a whole podcast with him, Mike at some point. Listen to Neil. It's been I didn't know you on the way. Had we ever met? I don't feel like we've ever met. Um, it's it's been nice to get to know you. Thank you. Nice to get to know you too. I feel like big things are ahead. Thank you. Do you feel like I'm talking about for me, But do you feel like that, you feel like they're also ahead for you. Yeah, Okay, I'm excited. I feel like this is a time where I just I've been through so much in the past year that i feel like my music has just changed so much and I'm just excited for everything that's coming with it. All Right, Tanil Arts T E N I L L. E. Arts. I've bet you. People ask all the time if that's your real last name. It is Kevin Arts, one of my favorite wheat farmers in Canada, so it's a guy. Um. All right, Well, there we have it, Mike, I believe that I'll wrap us up episode two oh three with Tenille Arts. It's a solid interview, maybe the longest you've ever done it was, but it was great. Yeah, as you walk out the house, and I always wonder if it's weird because this we'd normally do this earlier in the daytime, but because of my schedule, so weird this week we actually did this one at night. It's fully dark right now. Yeah, I'd always think it'd be weird going to somebody's house for a show, like someone's like coming to the come to the house. We're gonna do a show like this gotta be a little weird, right, I mean not really. I was like, I'm coming here with my manager. I don't know, it doesn't matter to me, great, I wouldn't. I just just think, like going to somebody's house, this is a trick. But you can rest assured it is not a trick. All right. But we didn't record any of this is just for me. We're just saving it all right, tonil Arts, I'm gonna talk to everybody. Check out her music. Her new single as of right now, this recording. The song is called Somebody Like That. Um, I really like the song. I hate this. I put it on the National Female Show a couple of times. I'll tell you what, I'll do it again because I I felt like the performance was fantastic and I think that's it. All right to the Arts, thank you,