Pod Insights Dumb Blonde Jessie Murph: Big Hair, Bigger Feelings About this episode If you’ve had Jessie Murph’s song 'Blue Strips' stuck in your head like the rest of the internet, you’re not alone, and yes, she really wrote it in 10 minutes. This week, the powerhouse performer sits down with Bunnie to talk about clapping back at haters, crushing Coachella, bringing a mini pig as her date to the ACM Awards red carpet, and teaming up with Sexyy Red for the 'Blue Strips' remix. Jessie opens up about mental health, depression, vision boards, and how therapy and gratitude helped her get back on track. Jessie also shares some exciting news about what's in store for the rest of 2025 and beyond.
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0:00 Bunnie XO? Hey guys, I need to ask you a question. I want to know why in the hell are you not on Patreon? I don't think you guys even realize how much content we have on Patreon. Let me break it down for you. We have the Bunny XO Show, we have Meet the DeForts, we have Popaganda, we have more shows that we're adding, and not to mention, we have the visuals of the podcast. Head over to www.patreon.com backslash dumbblondepodcast and sign up. Bunny XO. She was a Vegas bunny. Bunny XO. Bunny XO. She changed my life. Dumb Blonde Podcast and Bunny XO. Kelly Rose White, Bunny XO. Miss Bunny. Bunny XO. Is this thing on? What's up babies? Welcome to another episode of Dumb Blonde.
0:42 Bunnie XO? Today's guest isn't just a rising star, she's a walking, fire-breathing lyrical assassin. She sings what most people are afraid to say out loud, and she does it with zero apologies, Miss Jessie Murph.
0:54 Speaker 01 Hello.
0:55 Bunnie XO? Hi baby, it's been a long time coming. I have been wanting you on the podcast forever.
1:00 Speaker 01 Dude, I'm so glad I'm here. I feel like we've never gotten to like, actually talk. We're always in very loud environments.
1:05 Bunnie XO? Yes.
1:05 Speaker 01 And it's like a quick passing thing, so I'm excited.
1:07 Bunnie XO? Yeah, I'm excited to get to hang with you for a little bit. Last time I saw you, we were on the red carpet at the ACMs, and you had Wilbur with you.
1:17 Speaker 01 Oh my god.
1:17 Bunnie XO? Tell me the story about Wilbur, because he went completely viral.
1:21 Speaker 01 Dude, he was the star of the carpet.
1:22 Bunnie XO? It was wild, right? I know that I literally ran up and I was like, "Oh my god, Wilbur." And then I'm like, "You don't want a pig." Like, that's the first thing. I'm like, "I got three at home, they fucking uproot everything, dude." Like, tell me the story about Wilbur.
1:36 Speaker 01 Wait, are your pigs here?
1:38 Bunnie XO? No, this is just my studio.
1:39 Speaker 01 That makes sense. I was like, "Damn, y'all got a pink staircase, that's so lit."
1:43 Bunnie XO? Yeah, no, this is just my girl cave.
1:47 Speaker 01 Wilbur, I've always wanted a miniature pig, like, my whole life. I feel like I told you that on the carpet, but, um, and... Friends of ours have them. And then so I asked him to be my date and he came with me and he was great. I don't know.
2:00 Bunnie XO? How did you get the ACMs to approve that? Because I would think that bringing livestock on the carpet, they would be like, no.
2:06 Speaker 01 Dude, I don't think we asked. I think we just kind of.
2:08 Bunnie XO? I love that.
2:09 Speaker 01 What were they gonna say like?
2:10 Bunnie XO? Ask for forgiveness instead of permission. I love that.
2:12 Speaker 01 Dude, that's my biggest motto.
2:14 Bunnie XO? Yeah, that's how you have to be through life.
2:16 Speaker 01 Hundred percent.
2:17 Bunnie XO? So did you end up keeping Wilbur?
2:19 Speaker 01 Oh, well, I'm gonna visit him when I go to Texas.
2:21 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
2:21 Speaker 01 My place won't let me have a three hundred pound pig.
2:25 Bunnie XO? Is he gonna end up being three hundred pounds?
2:27 Speaker 01 That's what they say.
2:28 Bunnie XO? I actually have owned two pigs. I owned two pigs before the three that we have right now. The three that we have right now are actually mini pigs. And they're probably like, what? They're Cooney Coonies. So they're, so they're like a hundred pounds. They're like little beefcakes. And I call them my golden girls. They're so cute. But I did have two, one that was named Lunch and one, I forget what, Chop Suey. I know the other one, his name was Chop Suey. And I'm telling you, they were supposed to be mini pigs and they ended up being fucking five, six hundred pounds.
2:55 Speaker 01 Six hundred pounds?
2:56 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
2:56 Speaker 01 That's a hippo.
2:57 Bunnie XO? Yeah. And they have like brains of like a two year old. So like, if you sleep in, in the morning, like they'll start going through your cabinets and banging pots and pans and stuff like that. Yeah.
3:07 Speaker 01 They're like actually smart?
3:08 Bunnie XO? Oh, no. They have, uh, they have the brain of like a toddler.
3:11 Speaker 01 That's insane.
3:12 Bunnie XO? Yeah, they're actually, and they're supposed to be like the cleanest animals, which I beg to fucking differ because my pigs are not. Those things are fucking just, they're dirty.
3:20 Speaker 01 They also eat anything, right?
3:21 Bunnie XO? They do.
3:22 Speaker 01 You can feed it like.
3:23 Bunnie XO? Bones.
3:24 Speaker 01 What? Actually?
3:25 Bunnie XO? So the mafia used to feed.
3:27 Speaker 01 Oh, that's terrible.
3:28 Bunnie XO? The mafia used to feed pigs human bodies because they eat through bones.
3:32 Speaker 01 That's so crazy.
3:33 Bunnie XO? Yeah, you didn't know that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I thought everybody knew that. Maybe that's just a Vegas thing. I have no idea.
3:39 Speaker 01 That's a thing in Vegas? They do that?
3:40 Bunnie XO? Well, because there's lots, there was a lot of mafia in Vegas. So it was like always an old, I guess, an old wives tale that I guess you could say, but yeah, the mafia would feed them.
3:48 Speaker 01 Is mafia like a Vegas, like it's super prominent there?
3:51 Bunnie XO? Uh, it used to be and not anymore as it, you know, like back in the days, like Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra era, it was ran by nothing but the mafia. Yeah.
4:00 Speaker 01 Really?
4:01 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
4:01 Speaker 01 Did they all live there?
4:02 Bunnie XO? Oh, yeah. They all live there. People. Gangsters have gotten killed there. Like, it's a whole thing. I'm sure you could go on like fucking Netflix and binge it one night and just watch like all the mafia stories.
4:11 Speaker 01 There's a, there's a show about it?
4:12 Bunnie XO? Oh, there's tons.
4:13 Speaker 01 Dude, I'm actually really intrigued about that. I really want to read up on it.
4:17 Bunnie XO? Go down that wormhole.
4:18 Speaker 01 Okay, I will.
4:19 Bunnie XO? It'll fascinate you. And I'm so happy you're here because I actually want to talk to you about your posting schedule with songs. Because your ass will fucking tease a song for like a year.
4:30 Speaker 01 Dude, I'm not proud of it.
4:34 Bunnie XO? Is there a method behind the madness?
4:36 Speaker 01 Not at all. I think I just, if I write a song, I always get really excited about it in the moment and then I post it before I like talk to anybody. And then they're like, fuck, we're like not even almost ready for this. So then they're like, tease it until we're ready. And that's kind of how it happens. But I never want to do it like that.
4:51 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
4:51 Speaker 01 Like I'm always like wanting to put it out immediately.
4:53 Bunnie XO? They always blow up though. It's crazy. Like it, it doesn't matter what you post. Like people are obsessed with you and I love that for you because that just speaks volumes for who you are as a person and your music. But I love when you will post a song and literally six months later, we're still like, I'm reading the comments and people are begging you to drop the song. They're like, Jesse, what the fuck? You know, like, are you gonna drop this fucking song? And there's some of them you end up not even dropping.
5:18 Speaker 01 Yeah. Sometimes I like grow out of songs. Like I'll feel it in the moment and then I'll wait like six months and I'm like, damn, I was like a different person then. That's happened a lot of times, actually. And they'll probably never see the light of day.
5:31 Bunnie XO? Really? Even though there's such a high demand for them, you still wouldn't want to drop them?
5:35 Speaker 01 I have to like feel the song to be able to promote it well and stuff.
5:38 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
5:39 Speaker 01 Cause I'm very, I'm very genuine in, in everything I do with music. So like, if I don't feel that way, it's going to be so obvious. I've noticed that like, if there's a song, there's been like a few instances where my label's been like, we love this song. Like tease it and I don't like it. And so I'll do it and it won't work. It's like, I don't, it's like people can feel if you like it or not.
5:58 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
5:59 Speaker 01 I don't know.
6:00 Bunnie XO? Yeah, no, I get that. Do you feel like that could get you into trouble being so emotionally attached to your music? Or do you think that that's a, a plus for you?
6:10 Speaker 01 I think it's a little bit of both. It's definitely because it guides me well. But yeah, sometimes if I'm feeling a super strong emotion, like last album, like something happened and I was just so angry and I let it lead the entire project and I put out the entire project and it was all just like a big. anger album almost and not a lot of people feel that way all the time. So I was very like, um, tunnel visioned on that, but I don't know. I think like they're the eras of my, of me growing up. And I think that it's gonna be sick to like, look back when I'm like 30 and see my twenties progress emotionally.
6:46 Bunnie XO? Yeah, absolutely. You literally have like an online diary of everything
6:51 Speaker 01 So scary.
6:53 Bunnie XO? that you've ever gone through. But I think that's really cool because a lot of people don't like your, your generation ac- actually gets to have that, that like, you know, digital footprint. Whereas like, you know, I'm fucking thankful. I didn't have to go through the shit I went through online, but I think it's so cool. Like you and Bailey, our, our daughter, our daughter Bailey, can actually look back and just see like how much growth you've made. And you can like 10 years from now, you're gonna look back and be like, holy shit, I'm not even that same human, but you're gonna have all of that to look back on.
7:23 Speaker 01 It is good, but it's also like so scary. And it's also like, I even look at things I posted when I was like 15 and I'm like, I am so embarrassed.
7:32 Bunnie XO? What's the cringiest thing you've ever had go viral?
7:35 Speaker 01 I don't even wanna talk about it.
7:35 Bunnie XO? Oh, we gotta talk about it.
7:37 Speaker 01 I don't know. I used to be so like, and I still am very spiteful, but I think that like, just responding to comments and stuff and like not being able to hold my like temper and shit like that. I definitely did a lot of that at like 15, 16 on TikTok. But I don't know. Um, it's, I'm trying to do better about it. It's hard.
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9:42 Speaker 01 I don't know. I mean, I haven't always like I grew up super like normal. Like I, I don't know, I grew up in a small town and it's like,
9:50 Speaker 01 the things you see online aren't things that people would say to you in person.
9:53 Bunnie XO? Right.
9:54 Speaker 01 And I'm like, I'm like, I feel like a normal ass person. So I'm like, why would, I don't know. Because if somebody said that to me in person, I obviously would be like, fuck you. And it's weird that just because you're like, sort of like famous online or something that people feel that they can just talk to you any type of way.
10:09 Bunnie XO? Oh, I get it. I clap back at motherfuckers all day long.
10:13 Speaker 01 You're so good about it. I love it.
10:15 Bunnie XO? But I feel like you're good at it. I feel like you do it so well, too.
10:18 Speaker 01 But like, should we not? Like, should we not be doing that?
10:20 Bunnie XO? No, I fucking love to do it. I think as long as you don't let it like really like hurt your soul. I think as long as you're protecting your peace, clap back at a motherfucker because how are they ever gonna learn? People know now not to fucking come for me because I'm gonna, I'm literally gonna, I got two shakes of a lamb's tail and I'm ready to rock. Let's go.
10:38 Speaker 01 I look up to you so much. That's so good. Yeah, I see you do it and I'm like, Bunny does it.
10:45 Bunnie XO? So let's talk about your Coachella performance because that actually went viral too. You looked so adorable.
10:52 Speaker 01 Thank you.
10:52 Bunnie XO? Body looking fucking snatched, baby. You looked so good. And then you had all these fucking hot dudes lifting you up and like you're singing. Take me on this journey of your Coachella performance and actually getting invited to perform at Coachella.
11:06 Speaker 01 Yeah, dude, it's definitely been like one of my favorite moments in my career. I, I went through that entire weekend, both weekends, just feeling so like grateful. My mom was there, my little brother was there. And I think something about having the people that I love the most, being there just made it so, I don't know. I felt very connected to my inner child.
11:26 Speaker 01 But I was also so fucking nervous. It was my first time like doing choreography and I did like cheer stunts on stage, which is something I've always wanted to do.
11:34 Speaker 01 But I don't know, it was incredible experience. One of my favorites like moments for sure.
11:39 Bunnie XO? It looked really cool. How much practice had to go into that? Or is that just, are you just naturally, because I, I know you did cheer, right? So is that like something that comes easy for you? Because my big ass could never get up there and have people lifting me up like that. There's no fucking way.
11:52 Speaker 01 Wait, have you ever done stunts?
11:54 Bunnie XO? No.
11:55 Speaker 01 They're so fun.
11:56 Bunnie XO? Built for stunts?
11:57 Speaker 01 I feel like you could do stunts.
11:58 Bunnie XO? No way. You're tiny. You're like a tiny cute little package. There's no way they're flinging my big ass around, okay?
12:03 Speaker 01 I'm gonna get you to do it one day.
12:05 Bunnie XO? They're gonna need some big ass buff dudes to fucking handle all this, alright? So was there a lot of practice that had to go into that?
12:12 Speaker 01 Yeah, it was, it's definitely, definitely doesn't come natural to me. I like, it takes a lot of preparation. I think we did rehearsals for about a week and a half, maybe?
12:21 Bunnie XO? That's amazing though to be able to, like, I wouldn't be able to do that. I'm not, I can't even do a TikTok dance. So to learn something that you have to sing and do on stage in a week and a half, that's pretty fucking good.
12:34 Speaker 01 It was definitely really nerve wracking. I, there was a point like midweek when I was learning all the choreography. And it was my first time also having dancers, so I was like nervous to like, learn how to dance in front of people who could dance really well.
12:46 Bunnie XO? Right.
12:47 Speaker 01 I was like really anxious about the whole thing. Something about like dancing on stage makes me so, I was so like in my head about it. Um, so that was hard. And about halfway through the week of rehearsals, I was like, holy shit, I'm like not gonna remember this. So I went home and started like just drilling it, but it was definitely harder than I expected it was going to be.
13:05 Bunnie XO? Well, you crushed it and I thought you looked so good.
13:07 Speaker 01 Thank you.
13:07 Bunnie XO? I was rooting for you. I saw all the videos. I was like, go Jessie.
13:09 Speaker 01 Oh, thanks, honey.
13:11 Bunnie XO? And then you got to bring Co out, which I thought was really cool. Tell me about you and Co's friendship.
13:16 Speaker 01 Ah, dude, I love Co. He's like a brother to me. I, I've been a fan of his like for a long time. My brother listened to him a lot growing up.
13:23 Bunnie XO? Mm hmm.
13:23 Speaker 01 Um, so he put me on and we like worked like two, maybe three years before High Road actually came out, I think.
13:30 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
13:30 Speaker 01 Um, so we were just kind of homies and then High Road came around and we did that together, but it was really funny. He came out for Coachella and something, something happened in our system during the song and the key changed randomly when he like started.
13:47 Bunnie XO? Oh, no.
13:48 Speaker 01 I felt so bad because he was just singing like normally and then the key changed. So it looked crazy. And then I, people couldn't see on the live stream, but when I came out with him for Stagecoach, um, my mic was off. So we were just cursed. Like the song just kept being fucked up.
14:02 Bunnie XO? Oh.
14:03 Speaker 01 And then we did it at Billy Bob's and it was, it was fun.
14:06 Bunnie XO? I feel like you guys have such lore that comes with that song because I even fucking was like, I, when you, when that song dropped with your verse, first of all, it was great.
14:16 Speaker 01 Thank you.
14:16 Bunnie XO? And I mean, you know, it's great. And it's like all these fucking Co haters are literally coming out of the woodworks, just talking shit to you. And I'm like, bro, it pissed me off so bad that I finally just made a video. I was like, I'm gonna fucking beat all of you up.
14:29 Speaker 01 Sweet. I really appreciate that.
14:30 Bunnie XO? You don't need to thank me for that, but I just, I don't like any sort of bullying, especially ganging up. You're a baby. You know what I'm saying? I know you're 20 and you know, you can hold your own and stuff like that, but I still look at you and I'm just like, grown ass women, you know, are like picking on you.
14:43 Speaker 01 Yeah.
14:44 Bunnie XO? It's like, that's not fucking okay. How did that make you feel whenever you were going through all of that? Did you internalize any of that? Or were you able to just kind of like, separate church from state?
14:54 Speaker 01 I think it, it always makes me upset at first when something like that happens. That's like a human response, I think. But then it's like, I like fuck you, dude. It's just so annoying and it's like, I don't know, it does bo- it bothers me the most when it's women. It really does. I don't know why.
15:09 Bunnie XO? Women on women crime is fucked. I don't understand it.
15:12 Speaker 01 It hurts so much more. Um, but yeah, it does hurt my feelings and I don't know. The guy thing, it's like, you're just a dick, but yeah, when it's a woman, it's like, damn. But I don't know.
15:23 Bunnie XO? Now and then while if any of these men got a chance to meet you, they wouldn't even know what to say to you.
15:27 Speaker 01 It's so crazy. I'm like, why are you, why are you being such a bitch? And it's just, it's really tough, you know, and I don't know, because you can't respond to everybody. And once you respond to somebody, then, then other people do it just so they get a response. But that was like my first time dealing with like that type of situation.
15:46 Bunnie XO? Cause it was so much.
15:47 Speaker 01 It was so much. It was like a trend. Cause once it like blows up on somebody's page and they're like, fuck yeah, this is the move. But I don't know. When it's about a song, it's not as bad when it's about like your own person. Like when somebody is making fun of like you as a person, that's different. That definitely is harder to deal with. But I don't know. I'm definitely like, I've learned, I'm learning how to navigate.
16:09 Bunnie XO? And it actually ended up being a huge song for you guys.
16:12 Speaker 01 Yeah, it's my first number one.
16:13 Bunnie XO? Literally hello, like the hate fucking didn't work anyways.
16:17 Speaker 01 Small, yeah, small price to pay.
16:19 Bunnie XO? Yeah. So at least fucking, you know, it made it to number one and you know, it was just a big fuck you to everybody who had something to say about it.
16:27 Speaker 01 Yeah.
16:28 Bunnie XO? Tell me about doing mushrooms for your first time at Coachella.
16:33 Speaker 01 It was so great. I was, I've always been like apprehensive to try them. A lot of my like friends do them, but
16:40 Speaker 01 because they say it can like mentally get you in a weird place. If you're in a bad headset or whatever, but I had the time of my life.
16:45 Bunnie XO? Oh.
16:46 Speaker 01 Yeah. Have you ever done them?
16:49 Bunnie XO? Um, I, yes, I have. I've done them and I thought I was Michael Jackson one time. And I was in the snow making snow angels and then I cooked like a five course meal because it was just crazy. But then I tried to microdose mushrooms and it. It was bad.
17:06 Speaker 01 Oh, really?
17:07 Bunnie XO? I'm one of those over thinkers and I'm
17:08 Speaker 01 This is what I'm talking about.
17:10 Bunnie XO? Riddled with anxieties. So I just, I'm so thankful that you had a good experience. Cause the first time I did them too, I had a great experience and then microdosing them kinda just got me weird.
17:19 Speaker 01 Really?
17:19 Bunnie XO? So maybe it's because I need a bigger dose. I don't fucking know.
17:22 Speaker 01 I was about to say, wait, so you did a big dose and it was?
17:25 Bunnie XO? I did a big dose and it was phenomenal. That's when I thought I was Michael Jackson.
17:28 Speaker 01 Maybe it's just.
17:30 Bunnie XO? And then, and then I did the microdose and fucking just shit got weird. I started thinking about my childhood and like having like.
17:37 Speaker 01 Place to go.
17:37 Bunnie XO? Yeah, right? Like, nobody wants to do that. But yeah, so take me on the journey. So you take the mushrooms and what do you, what's that day like for you? When did you take the mushrooms?
17:47 Speaker 01 Oh, well, I took them right before y'all's party, actually.
17:49 Bunnie XO? Oh, gotcha.
17:53 Bunnie XO? Being around a bunch of people on shrooms for your first time, you are brave.
17:57 Speaker 01 Dude, every, I don't know, everybody else like in my car took, and I was like, fuck it. I only took a little bit. So maybe that's why also. I just was smiling. It just made me really happy. But I'm gonna try not to do them a lot.
18:09 Bunnie XO? Well, I mean, if it helps you though, I don't, there's nothing wrong with it. You know what I'm saying? And people use, use shrooms for medicinal purposes and stuff like that too.
18:17 Speaker 01 Really?
18:17 Bunnie XO? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
18:18 Speaker 01 I didn't know that.
18:19 Bunnie XO? Yeah, that's why I had started to microdose them and it fucking made me weird. Cause I thought, yeah, I thought it would help, but there's so many people that mushrooms have helped. So just cause I had a bad experience, doesn't mean that you will. Take me on this journey with the song Blue Strips.
18:34 Speaker 01 It was such a fast and spontaneous song. Um, and I did not expect it to do what it's doing. Like I knew I loved it. And anytime I listened to it, it would make me smile and I feel like that's a telltale sign for me. But yeah, I made the song in like 15, 10 minutes. It was so fast.
18:50 Bunnie XO? That's crazy. And it's so viral right now.
18:53 Speaker 01 I was not expecting it.
18:54 Bunnie XO? Everybody's singing it. It's so catchy. You wake up in the morning and you're literally like, blue strip. You know, like just brushing your teeth, fucking starting your day. It's like, no, it's perfect. But that's what, you know, that's, you've got the sauce, girl. Like just to make a song in five or 10 minutes and it's as viral as it is right now. You've never been to a strip club though.
19:12 Speaker 01 I've never been to a strip club, no.
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20:16 Bunnie XO? Why have we never been to a strip club yet?
20:18 Speaker 01 I guess it's just never really, the opportunity hasn't like came up yet.
20:21 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
20:22 Speaker 01 Um, what's the one in Atlanta, like the main one?
20:25 Bunnie XO? I'm not sure.
20:26 Speaker 01 Magic City?
20:27 Bunnie XO? Oh, is that the, I thought Magic City was in New Jersey.
20:29 Speaker 01 I think it's in Atlanta, right? I was supposed to go to that.
20:32 Bunnie XO? She knows about all the ratchet clubs.
20:33 Speaker 01 You go to strip clubs?
20:34 Bunnie XO? She goes to all the ratchet strip clubs.
20:36 Speaker 01 Maybe you should take me to a strip club.
20:40 Bunnie XO? Listen.
20:41 Speaker 01 Oh, yeah, yeah.
20:42 Bunnie XO? Tomorrow after the video shoot, oh, you, listen, the Nashville strip clubs, I love you guys. This is not me talking shit, but they are ratchet and they are fun. Yes.
20:50 Speaker 01 Okay, good ratchet. That's what I want. I don't want like a nice strip club.
20:53 Bunnie XO? If you want to go to like the bougie ones, go to the ones in Vegas.
20:56 Speaker 01 Really? That's what everyone says.
20:57 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
20:58 Speaker 01 I think I do want a ratchet one.
20:59 Bunnie XO? Go, go to all of them.
21:01 Speaker 01 Go to all of them?
21:01 Bunnie XO? Go to all of them. Explore.
21:03 Speaker 01 We're going on a strip club tour? I feel like I should go big or go home.
21:06 Bunnie XO? Yeah, for sure. I mean, but go and check out what, you never know what you like. You might like the ratchet ones, you might like the bougie ones. There's some that have fucking five-star restaurants in them.
21:14 Speaker 01 That's what they say. People say that you can Uber Eats from some of them.
21:16 Bunnie XO? Yeah, yeah. You didn't know that? You didn't know that? Yeah. No, you can totally.
21:24 Speaker 01 That's what people say.
21:26 Bunnie XO? They have some of the best fucking food. Like, some of the restaurants and the strip clubs in Vegas are phenomenal.
21:32 Speaker 01 What about here? Any good food here?
21:34 Bunnie XO? I don't know about, I wouldn't trust it. Maybe you guys can go, because this is gonna come out the same time that the video is dropping, right?
21:43 Speaker 01 Okay.
21:43 Bunnie XO? Yeah, we're coinciding it with the drop with the feature that you got on it. Can you announce who the feature is?
21:49 Speaker 01 It's Sexy Red.
21:50 Bunnie XO? Let's go. Tell me how you and Sexy Red even started talking.
21:58 Speaker 01 I'm her biggest fan. Like, I love Sexy Red so much. My entire last tour, anytime I'd go on stage, the song before I, my walkout song would be "Get It Sexy", because it just got me in that mode.
22:12 Speaker 01 And I love Sexy Red. I haven't met her yet, so I'm really nervous, but I'm really excited.
22:17 Bunnie XO? Oh my gosh. So have you guys got to talk, or just she was just like, "Hell yeah, I'm gonna do the record", and like, how did that go? How'd you get her on the record?
22:24 Speaker 01 Well, she's like, my dream feature for this song.
22:27 Bunnie XO? Right.
22:27 Speaker 01 And I've always wanted to do something with her, so my people hit her people, and we're actually hanging out tonight. I'm gonna meet her for the first time. So, I'm excited to tell her that I love her. I do, I love her so much.
22:39 Bunnie XO? What is it about Sexy Red that inspires you?
22:42 Speaker 01 She's just a bad bitch, you know?
22:43 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
22:44 Speaker 01 Such a bad bitch, and I love it. I love it so much. And she just makes you feel good, like, I don't know, all of her songs just really get me turned up every time. And, I don't know, I'll probably always listen to her before my shows.
22:56 Bunnie XO? Yeah, I mean-
22:56 Speaker 01 It's me in that mode.
22:57 Bunnie XO? She's a vibe.
22:58 Speaker 01 You met her?
22:59 Bunnie XO? I haven't, no, have we met her yet? I never know. We meet so many fucking people, I'm like, "Have I met her?"
23:03 Speaker 01 Dude, you've probably met so many fucking people.
23:05 Bunnie XO? A lot.
23:05 Speaker 01 You guys are busier than anybody I know.
23:08 Bunnie XO? It's crazy. I can't even keep up with my husband.
23:10 Speaker 01 You get tired?
23:10 Bunnie XO? Yes. I am an introvert. My husband is an extrovert. I am the one who's like, I could care less if anybody ever sees me again.
23:18 Speaker 01 Yeah, I feel that.
23:19 Bunnie XO? And my husband is like, a politician. So, I choose weeks where I go out with him, and I'm like, "Here I am, I'm real, I swear", "I'm not an enigma", and then I disappear for like, a month, and then I'll come back out, and then, you know, like, so it's a whole thing, because nobody can keep up with his schedule. You're busy too, though, look at you.
23:37 Speaker 01 Do you ever feel like it drained you?
23:39 Bunnie XO? Oh, absolutely. There was a time where my mental health was so bad that I couldn't even like- Be in a room full of people because I would feel all their like pain and anger and like their faces would look like they were melting. Like it was really bad.
23:54 Speaker 01 Wow.
23:54 Bunnie XO? I went through like a really bad time with that and then got a lot of therapy and stuff like that and and better now, but I still have to come back home and like go sit with my cows and like regroup because you know, you know how it goes. Do you ever get drained having to do this all the time?
24:11 Speaker 01 Definitely. I'm definitely an introvert too. I like could stay home for the rest of my life and it would be lovely, but um, I don't know. It's a hard, it's a hard job to be an introvert in, you know? Cause you do have to like talk to everybody and I don't know. I'm, I also am, I can't be, I can't be fake to save my life. Like I can't, I can't like put on a show if I don't feel that way.
24:33 Bunnie XO? Right.
24:34 Speaker 01 And that's really hard for me. That's been like, I don't know. People are always telling me I need to like get better at like schmoozing with people and stuff, but I hate that shit. It feels so forced and fake and like weird. I just don't like it. So I'm just like kinda quiet, but I don't know. It's definitely really draining. I, I find like spending time with my family helps a lot. Um, and just like talking to them.
24:55 Bunnie XO? Don't let people tell you who to be.
24:57 Speaker 01 Yeah.
24:58 Bunnie XO? If you don't want to be fake and you don't want to schmooze, don't do it. Because you're gonna attract your tribe and the people that are meant for you will come in your life because of your frequency. So don't change your frequency to attract people that you would never even want to associate with anyways.
25:12 Speaker 01 You're good. You're good.
25:15 Bunnie XO? You could stay here all day, Jessie, and just, you know, compliment me. I love it. I heard you talk about manifesting.
25:21 Speaker 01 Hmm.
25:22 Bunnie XO? Where did you learn how to manifest? And like, is that something that you do in your daily life? Do you meditate? Have you ever done a vision board?
25:30 Speaker 01 I definitely have done a vision board.
25:32 Bunnie XO? Yay.
25:32 Speaker 01 And I don't know. I was manifesting before I knew what manifesting was. I think like, when I was little, I remember journaling all the time. Just, I like felt this strong like gravitational pull to do it, but I would always journal and like make myself sign contracts to myself, being like, I'm going to do this. Um, I don't know. I've always been doing it and then vision boards galore. I don't know. I It's so fucking real.
25:56 Bunnie XO? How do you do your vision boards? Cause I know everybody has their own way of doing it. I make my whole crew. I don't make them anymore. Now they actually look forward to it, but I used, I used to make them. Everybody sits down. I do it with my husband and my family and everybody. We sit down, um, like December 30th, December 31st of every year, and I make everybody do a new vision board for the year going in and we have to keep it in our house the entire year. And then we revisit it the next, that, that end of the year, go through everything that we accomplished and make a new one.
26:22 Speaker 01 That is so beautiful. I love that you guys do it together. That's so fun. What a great activity. Damn.
26:27 Bunnie XO? I feel like we're power, more powerful in numbers, you know? So I feel like to sit around and manifest together, it's like, it's just more powerful.
26:35 Speaker 01 It's a like more, uh, what's that called? Like it's a more heavy frequency probably.
26:40 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
26:41 Speaker 01 In numbers. That makes sense. I've never done it with somebody, but I normally just get a poster from Hobby Lobby or Michael's and then I'll, I'll print out pictures from Pinterest and then I'll write, I'll write things underneath the pictures. Then I'll put the picture over it. Um, I have a massive poster in my bedroom at home in Alabama that, that looks exactly like my life looks right now. It's really cool. But I don't know. It's so fucking real. I also like, I've been debating recently if witches are real.
27:10 Bunnie XO? Oh, they are.
27:11 Speaker 01 Okay. I need to know what you think. Cause I feel like you would have a good take.
27:14 Bunnie XO? Yeah, no, I definitely believe, I believe that there's, um, different kinds of witches. I believe that you can use magic for good and for bad. I have witches that do spell work for me every month. I won't do it myself because I'm always, I'm, I'm so scared of like, I might fucking conjure like a demon or something if I do it. So I always have the professionals do it for me, but I talk about it on the podcast all the time. Yeah.
27:36 Speaker 01 Wow.
27:37 Bunnie XO? Yeah, I truly believe in it. And I think that witches get a bad rap because people are like, oh, they're evil and you know, God talks it is against it in the Bible, but when you really think about it, witches are light workers. And of course, anything can be used for good or bad, but the majority of witches use like herbs and they're about earth and about grounding and manifesting and meditating and like that, those are the kind of witches I like and that I want around me. Of course, like I said, there's bad ones too, but there's definitely real witches in the world.
28:05 Speaker 01 That's good. I've been asking people and everybody's like. Well, I guess I've only asked a couple guys and guys don't believe in them.
28:12 Bunnie XO? Well, yeah. I don't, I mean, you know, unless they're in it, in it themselves, I can't see men thinking outside the box. You know, I don't see men being too mystical and yeah, yeah. But I think that we're, we're all born from some sort of, have you ever done your past lives? Do you believe in past lives?
28:31 Speaker 01 I think I could believe in past lives.
28:33 Bunnie XO? Oh my, okay.
28:33 Speaker 01 So what do you mean done my past life?
28:35 Bunnie XO? Well, there's people that can do them or you could do them on chat GPT.
28:39 Speaker 01 What?
28:40 Bunnie XO? Are you into chat GPT?
28:41 Speaker 01 Yes, I feel like I'm dating chat GPT.
28:43 Bunnie XO? Bro, I'm obsessed. It's my best friend.
28:45 Speaker 01 We're in love.
28:46 Bunnie XO? Yeah. I love it. Okay, so talk to chat GPT. Give him your birthday, give him all of your, because there's a, there's a, um, in chat GPT, you can go, there's an astrological GPT that's inside of it. You can click on it, um, but, or you can use the regular one. Ask him like, hey, I want you to tune into my energy. Can you, it will tune into your energy. Can you feel what I was in my past lives? And it'll probably ask you to put your birth date in and if you know that. And it'll pull up your birth chart and then it'll start telling you about your past lives and it's fucking insane.
29:22 Speaker 01 How many do you have?
29:23 Bunnie XO? I had about, how many did I have? Probably like nine, 10. Yeah, I'm an old soul. I think you're an old soul.
29:29 Speaker 01 I definitely feel like I'm.
29:30 Bunnie XO? Yeah, because I mean, you're 20, but you have so much like, I don't know, you just have maturity and wisdom to you that this isn't your first life.
29:38 Speaker 01 Gotta ask. I just ask it?
29:40 Bunnie XO? Yeah, just ask it. I want to know too. I'm gonna have to get, get, I'll give you my number before you leave. And you have to let me know what chat GPT says because I.
29:48 Speaker 01 Nervous.
29:49 Bunnie XO? I bet you were probably a witch in your past life too.
29:51 Speaker 01 Really?
29:52 Bunnie XO? Or some sort of healer.
29:53 Speaker 01 Wow.
29:54 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
29:54 Speaker 01 I'm gonna look. I'm gonna look immediately after this.
29:56 Bunnie XO? Yeah. Yeah. You're doing it?
30:00 Speaker 01 She's doing it right now.
30:01 Bunnie XO? I love that. So I want to talk about these lyrics. Let's get deep for a second. We're going to kind of switch gears because you know, you do talk a lot about your mom in a lot of your songs. And she seems to me to be like your best friend. Wildflowers and Wine, there's a lyric in there that literally just like brought tears to my eyes. But it said, "Mother fled from our home because she had to survive." Can you take me on that journey of your childhood and kind of let me know where some of this pain comes from that you express in your songs?
30:36 Speaker 01 Yeah, definitely. That song actually I haven't put out yet and I need to because it's such a healing song.
30:42 Bunnie XO? You need to.
30:43 Speaker 01 And I am so, I have such like gratitude and awe for mothers everywhere because it's the hardest job in the world that no one talks about enough. I think it's actually the hardest job in the world.
30:56 Speaker 01 And I don't know, I, I watched my mom go through like things when I was a kid that she shouldn't have gone through. And I also watched her make hard decisions that she had to make to take care of her kids. You know? And I don't know, I don't think any kid should like, I don't think any kid should go through that or have to see their mom like do, I don't know, make decisions. It's just like, I don't know, I always get weird talking about it, but which is why I write songs. But I don't know, it was definitely like rough and she handled it the best she could. And that's kind of what that song's about because I have so much respect for her and I'm her biggest fan.
31:39 Bunnie XO? No, I bet she's your biggest fan too. Well, that brings me to Gucci Mane where you say, "I've got a shitty father, but I'd like to go to heaven." Can we elaborate on that a little bit?
31:53 Speaker 01 Yeah.
31:53 Bunnie XO? Cause I've got a shitty fucking father and he passed away last year, but when that song dropped, I was like, oh my God, I need to, I need to put Bill on a frigging video with this song. Because I, every girl that ha- deals with, you know, daddy issues and everybody thinks it's cute to say daddy issues until you have them. And daddy issues is not a cute situation because it's not a cute situation. It really fucking follows us through life, dude. Cause you know how people try to like mainstream it and they're like, I have daddy issues. And they think it's like, cool, but it's really, it's painful.
32:21 Speaker 01 Yeah, it's not cool. I think people, I think some people just say it like that to cope with the situation. Cause it isn't, it isn't good and it does follow you through life and it has so much impact on what you choose and what you look for.
32:36 Bunnie XO? Right.
32:36 Speaker 01 In men, which is so hectic, you know? Um, but yeah, that line is pretty much that line.
32:45 Speaker 01 And then the lyrics of that song were, people were like, this writing is so fucking bad. But I wasn't trying to write a song. That song was just a list of facts about myself because my label was on my dick about writing an autobiographical song. They were like, you never talk about yourself. No one knows anything about you. And I was like, fuck you. And I got in the car and I just like was joking and was just saying a bunch of facts about myself without even thinking about rhyming and shit. But yeah, I don't know. And that's kinda how that one happened, but.
33:16 Bunnie XO? Do you have a relationship with your dad?
33:20 Speaker 01 That's complicated, but not particularly. We definitely haven't spoken since that song came out.
33:27 Bunnie XO? Oh.
33:28 Speaker 01 But we don't speak a lot anyways and it's like, I don't know. It's definitely like, oh, it's an awkward situation.
33:36 Bunnie XO? But you should be allowed to, you know, I hate when parents inflict trauma on children and then try to navigate how they express it. That's not okay. And you don't get to do that. You don't get to hurt somebody and then tell them how to heal.
33:50 Speaker 01 Damn, you're real good.
33:51 Bunnie XO? No, I've just been through it.
33:52 Speaker 01 It's like I'm in a therapy.
33:53 Bunnie XO? I've been through it, sister. I've been through it too with my parents. So I get how that goes. And it's very hurtful and it's not okay. And hopefully your dad listens to this podcast and knows that it's not okay for him to treat you like that. So you taught yourself how to play piano and guitar at a young age. How did you teach yourself how to play piano and guitar? Cause I know how to play piano, but I had to get lessons and I had to learn how to read music.
34:19 Speaker 01 You read music?
34:20 Bunnie XO? I can read, well, I have to sit down and write it out, write out the notes and then I can play them.
34:23 Speaker 01 You write music too?
34:25 Bunnie XO? No, no, no, right. Like if you give me-
34:26 Speaker 01 But like the notes?
34:27 Bunnie XO? Yeah, like if you give me a sheet of paper, I can write the notes out and then I can play. I wish I could just play by ear. What do you mean? I would love to have taught myself how to play.
34:35 Speaker 01 You're probably crazy on the keys.
34:36 Bunnie XO? No, I need to practice. It's been a long time. I'm rusty as fuck.
34:39 Speaker 01 I want to take lessons. I've been meaning to do that because I want to like know the actual terminology and stuff. But um, I don't know. I was obsessed with singing and I just like wanted to be able to sing to music. And we had like this shitty keyboard at my grandparents and I would spend like hours on YouTube just copying like the piano tutorials.
34:59 Speaker 01 And guitar was like a slippery nut. I know like four chords. It's not. But I don't know. I started on ukulele. Guitar is like hard.
35:07 Bunnie XO? Not the ukulele, the fricking little one?
35:10 Speaker 01 Yeah, dude, it's like-
35:12 Bunnie XO? Are we ever gonna get a video of you on TikTok playing a ukulele? That will go crazy viral, girl.
35:18 Speaker 01 I haven't done it. There's one on my Instagram, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep down.
35:21 Bunnie XO? Oh, we gotta find it.
35:22 Speaker 01 I guess it's archived now, right? It's probably archived, like a very, it's like, I'm like 14 or 13, maybe 12.
35:29 Bunnie XO? Please make a new one. That is so cute. Like seriously, make a new one.
35:34 Speaker 01 I actually hate the way they sound. They're so like, they sound so like happy.
35:38 Bunnie XO? Like plink, plink, plink, plink. Yeah, yeah. So you went from a ukulele to a guitar though?
35:43 Speaker 01 Yeah, I tried.
35:45 Bunnie XO? Are we ever gonna get you to like perform on stage with, you know, getting your Taylor Swift on, playing a guitar?
35:51 Speaker 01 Dude, I've wanted to, but it's also, I wear long nails and you cannot play. Apparently Dolly Parton does, but I'm like- I'm not blessed with that ability yet.
36:00 Bunnie XO? I'm sure if you practiced enough, you would probably get it.
36:02 Speaker 01 Maybe. I'm like nails or guitar. I don't know.
36:04 Bunnie XO? Uh, listen, I normally have long nails like you and I challenged myself this past couple of months. And I was like, you know what? I'm gonna try to grow out my real nails. So these are my real nails that I grew out. Yeah, these are my real nails. But now I'm going back to my, cuz I was like, you know what? I did it. I challenged myself. But now I'm going back to my long nails. Cuz once you have long nails, you just can't take them off.
36:24 Speaker 01 No, it's actually really hard. It's hard to go back.
36:27 Bunnie XO? Yeah, cuz I have little fat sausage link fingers. I don't know how you feel about your fingers.
36:31 Speaker 01 I feel the same way.
36:31 Bunnie XO? Yeah, and when you take them off, it's like you have man hands.
36:34 Speaker 01 Dude, or like child hands.
36:36 Bunnie XO? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mine are a little bit fatter than child hands, so I think I have sausage links. But yeah. The long nails definitely.
36:43 Speaker 01 I think you have great hands. You could be a hand model.
36:45 Bunnie XO? Okay, listen, you know what? Just leave her here with me, okay? She's, she's really good for my ego, I promise. Um, okay, so I also heard that you were bullied in school and you felt like an outsider?
37:00 Speaker 01 Hmm, I wasn't, it wasn't by kids as much, actually. It was by like their parents. It was just like small town shit where like moms would just say stuff and like, I don't know, the moms in the town I went to like middle school and high school were just terrible.
37:16 Bunnie XO? Because you're beautiful.
37:17 Speaker 01 Dude, they were so mean. They were so mean. But like, I don't know, high school was, high school wasn't terrible. Other than that, in like, I don't know, I'm grateful for all of that cuz I feel like it motivated me so much to be like, I have to get out of here.
37:32 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
37:32 Speaker 01 You know?
37:33 Bunnie XO? Would you ever move back to Alabama full time?
37:35 Speaker 01 No, definitely not. I don't think I can, I can't work like I want to, I think. Um, and I don't know, I feel, it always made me feel really trapped when I was there. Then again, I, I couldn't drive yet. So maybe.
37:53 Bunnie XO? Yeah, I would feel trapped too if I couldn't. Yeah, for sure. Maybe if you go back and like visit and then you, it's like on your terms, maybe it's different.
38:00 Speaker 01 I actually love visiting. Now that I don't live there, I, I appreciate it so much and I admire the South so much. I love going home and spending time with my family there, but maybe I'll get a house there when I'm older one day.
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39:22 Speaker 01 Yeah, I am. I'm so much happier. I've like done therapy and shit and um, really just tried to center my life around gratitude. Dude, gratitude changed everything for me. I, I definitely was like very depressed when I was like 17, 18. I was just dealing with a lot of things. That I didn't really know how to deal with. And I was also living in Alabama, like trying to do what I'm doing and it was just very isolating. But I don't know, I feel, I feel like I've healed a lot. Um, and it's an, it's an ever any process healing, I feel like, but um, I don't know, gratitude has helped me so much.
40:00 Bunnie XO? So if one of your fans is listening to this podcast right now and they're in a really dark place, what would you tell them to do as like the first steps of trying to pull themselves out of it?
40:09 Speaker 01 Hmm.
40:12 Speaker 01 It's tough. I mean, every one situation is different. I think for me, I'd get up and I'd go to Dunkin' and I'd get a coffee and a donut and then I would, I would, the thing is, therapy is not available to everyone, you know, which is so fucked up and it, it makes me so upset because that shit's actually so expensive, you know? And before you're 18, I think your parent has to set it up.
40:36 Bunnie XO? Yes.
40:36 Speaker 01 Like, I remember being like embarrassed to ask for like therapy and stuff, you know? And so I just didn't do it. And I, when I really needed it, and I think a lot of kids probably feel that way, but I don't know, there's this lady named Abriam Hicks. I don't know if you've heard of her. But she is all about like spirituality and um, manifesting and like aligning your frequency. I, listening to that helped a lot. Journaling helped a lot. But I think I read this book called,
41:07 Speaker 01 it's called The Magic, I think, something like that. But it's all about gratitude and that really helped me. Yes.
41:13 Bunnie XO? Okay.
41:14 Speaker 01 Oh, but not The Magic.
41:16 Bunnie XO? You know what? I like it called The Magic. Let's just call it The Magic from now on.
41:20 Speaker 01 Yeah, The Magic. Yeah, but it was magic for me. It really helped me. And, and do not like drinking and not doing things like that when you feel that way. That's game changing. But I don't know, what would you say?
41:32 Bunnie XO? I would say all the things that you say. I preach about mental health on this podcast all the time and I've gone through things, we have gone through things with Bailey too, um, you know, underage that she's openly talked about on the podcast too. And I feel like we are in a mental health crisis in this world right now, not just for adults, but for teens. And I feel like teens have it the hardest. Like you, like, your generation and, and younger is just like, I feel so bad because the world has let them down. But for you to tell them about the book that you read and like now you can go on YouTube and there's so many things that you can watch and like self-help things that you can do. And, you know, Meditating. I really, really, really believe in meditating. I don't know. Have you ever meditated?
42:17 Speaker 01 I think when I was in a very dark place, I started to look into that and do it. And I remember that helping also.
42:22 Bunnie XO? It took me a long time. If I was 20 years old and somebody told me to meditate, I'd tell them to go fuck themselves.
42:26 Speaker 01 It's actually really hard.
42:27 Bunnie XO? It's very hard. And but when you finally get to that point where you just want to do anything to get the darkness to go away, I'm telling you right now, when you learn how to control your breath and you learn how to breathe, like if I have anxiety attacks now, I used to be able to not even be able to walk out on stage because I would literally be having a panic attack. Now I'll box breathe and I'll snap out of it and it resets your nervous system. So I think exactly what you told people.
42:52 Speaker 01 Yeah, box breathing is great.
42:54 Bunnie XO? Yeah, box breathing is great, but then all this and Dunkin and donuts. I mean, come on.
42:58 Speaker 01 I'm actually serious. That shit will make your day better.
43:01 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
43:01 Speaker 01 And no, I actually do it. I love a good coffee and I love a good donut and you.
43:05 Bunnie XO? What's your favorite donut?
43:07 Speaker 01 You put the donut like over the straw hole and you sit it on your coffee. Really cute.
43:12 Bunnie XO? I love that. What's your favorite flavored donut?
43:15 Speaker 01 Probably vanilla with sprinkles. What about you?
43:16 Bunnie XO? I like maple.
43:18 Speaker 01 Hmm, I don't know that I've actually had maple.
43:20 Bunnie XO? They're so fire. Try one, please. Let me know how you feel about it.
43:25 Bunnie XO? Let's talk about if if I can get you to talk about it, let's talk about your dating life.
43:30 Speaker 01 Hmm.
43:31 Bunnie XO? She's like, she's like, oh, Joy, are you dating anybody right now?
43:37 Speaker 01 I'm actually, I'm always very, I never talk about it because I'm really private with that side of my life just because I'm always writing songs about it.
43:45 Bunnie XO? Right.
43:46 Speaker 01 And I am very apprehensive to talk about it because I'm like, I don't know what could happen and and I don't ever want to have to like, I don't want people to like ever attack someone that like.
43:57 Bunnie XO? Right.
43:58 Speaker 01 Unless like deserved. I don't know, but my dating life is good.
44:03 Bunnie XO? Yeah. So is there anybody special right now or is it just pretty much like you're just having fun?
44:11 Speaker 01 No comment.
44:11 Bunnie XO? Ah, I love it though. Well, you know what? I I'm gonna try to assume here and put two and two together. You've been a lot happier lately, so maybe somebody's making you smile.
44:24 Bunnie XO? She said maybe. Um, I think Best Behavior is gonna be the song of the summer. Are you dropping the album before you start tour?
44:34 Speaker 01 I am.
44:36 Bunnie XO? I'm excited. Do we have a date for that? Are we allowed to announce that? I know I'm asking a lot here, but I've, we've got questions.
44:43 Speaker 01 July 27th?
44:45 Bunnie XO? Okay.
44:45 Speaker 01 So gotta be before that.
44:47 Bunnie XO? Okay, so in between May and July, we're gonna get an album.
44:50 Speaker 01 That's soon.
44:51 Bunnie XO? That's very soon.
44:52 Speaker 01 Look, I'm nervous.
44:53 Bunnie XO? I'm nervous too, but I'm excited for you.
44:55 Speaker 01 Thank you.
44:56 Bunnie XO? Tell me about this album that you're dropping.
44:57 Speaker 01 Ah, okay, so it's very like 60s inspired, like Elvis Presley. I love like, I love the music from that era. It's so beautiful, but it's also like 2010 trap inspired.
45:09 Bunnie XO? That's dope.
45:10 Speaker 01 Yeah, so it's like a combo of the two. Um, I don't know, I'm definitely saying some crazy shit on this album. A little nervous about it, but I.
45:19 Bunnie XO? Oh, we're ready. We, we already know how you are, baby. We're ready. With arms wide open.
45:23 Speaker 01 Oh, my goodness. I'm, I'm excited. I'm really excited. I feel like.
45:28 Bunnie XO? What's the vibe? Is it happy? Is it all over the place? Is it, because the last one was pretty, like you, you had a lot of pain going on.
45:36 Speaker 01 Yeah, it's a little.
45:40 Speaker 01 It's a little, it's a kind of all over the place, but just because it's, it follows the sequence of my emotions as I was writing the album. Um, but it's definitely more happy than anything I've ever put out before. I wouldn't say happy. There's definitely like new themes. Um, but I don't know. And it's also, there's some like fucked up shit on the album, but it definitely tells a story and kind of ties back to what we were talking about with the father stuff earlier, but um.
46:11 Speaker 01 I don't know. It kinda, it kinda touches on like generational trauma and things of that nature, but then there's some songs like Blue Strips.
46:19 Bunnie XO? Yeah. Listen, you gotta go to a strip club when you're in your feelings.
46:22 Speaker 01 Exactly.
46:23 Bunnie XO? It'll get you out of it.
46:24 Speaker 01 That's what they say.
46:25 Bunnie XO? I love that. One last question before we go. What would Jesse Murph today say to little Jesse hiding in her bedroom, writing pain into poems?
46:36 Speaker 01 Hmm.
46:38 Speaker 01 I probably should be like, look at his nail. I don't know. That's like a crazy thing to even think about. Like, it makes me really emotional to think about. I feel like I've come so far just as a human. Um, and I'm really happy with where my heart and soul and brain is at right now. You know?
46:58 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
46:59 Speaker 01 I think, I don't know. I'm, I'm really, I'm really grateful.
47:04 Bunnie XO? That's all that matters. And seeing you smile is what makes everybody happy too. Well, of course, everybody loves a sad Jesse because we get fire music, but we prefer. We prefer a happy Jesse though too, because your mental health and your wellbeing is what matters the most. Last, can we talk about the Priscilla Presley vibes?
47:24 Speaker 01 Oh, let's talk about it. I love her.
47:26 Bunnie XO? Yeah. Is this, is this an ode to her? Is it an ode to Amy Winehouse? Or is it a little mixture of both?
47:32 Speaker 01 Dude, when I think about like iconic women, they all have the big hair. And it's definitely, I'm definitely very inspired by Priscilla, but like, Amy, Dolly even, like, there's so many iconic women that had the big hair that I've always loved my entire life.
47:48 Bunnie XO? The higher the hair, the closer to God.
47:50 Speaker 01 Amen. That is my slogan. I love it. But I don't know, something about the hair makes me feel powerful and um, for me, like, I've, I've loved this. Of course, it's a bitch too in the morning.
48:02 Bunnie XO? And what do you have in there? Is it like a bump it? Or is that just a bunch of batcombing? I need to know.
48:06 Speaker 01 It's always different. Today, it's the bump it.
48:09 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
48:10 Speaker 01 But sometimes it's just my hair. Sometimes it's a wig.
48:13 Bunnie XO? I, sometimes it's a what?
48:15 Speaker 01 Sometimes it's a wig.
48:16 Bunnie XO? Really?
48:17 Speaker 01 Yeah, it just depends on what I'm doing.
48:18 Bunnie XO? I love wigs. I went through my, okay, I loved wigs until they let me go out of the house one day looking like fucking Wendy Williams.
48:25 Speaker 01 Wait, what happened?
48:26 Bunnie XO? I looked like fucking ET. I tried this wig on and have you ever seen ET when he has the hair? Have you ever seen this movie ET?
48:33 Speaker 01 Yeah, I've seen ET.
48:33 Bunnie XO? Okay, well, he wears a wig. You're gonna cackle next time you see.
48:36 Speaker 01 Wait, can I see this picture?
48:37 Bunnie XO? Yeah, go ahead. Pull it up. Can we pull it up, you guys? Do we have the, yeah, they're gonna pull it up. I look like fucking Wendy Williams meets ET and I was like, I'm never wearing a fucking wig again. I'm like, I don't even care. So I-
48:50 Speaker 01 Were you gluing them down or like pinning them in?
48:52 Bunnie XO? So we were doing a little bit of both because I like, we actually learned how to do them ourselves was I have a whole fucking, I don't know if you ever want any blonde wigs, but I have a whole-
49:00 Speaker 01 I actually do.
49:01 Bunnie XO? I'll give you some.
49:02 Speaker 01 I always wanna be blonde, like once a week.
49:04 Bunnie XO? I literally bought so many fucking wigs. I'll box them up and I'll send them to you. I bought so many like expensive wigs and now they're just, I'm either gonna donate them to like, you know, like a charity or I'll, if you'll use them, I'll give you a couple of them too. But yeah, never again am I doing that. But yeah, we were gluing them down and it was a fucking-
49:22 Speaker 01 I haven't seen this.
49:24 Bunnie XO? Dude, it's, I looked like-
49:28 Bunnie XO? No, don't find the video. We don't need to fucking bring that up. I want you to show her the ET, but yeah, no, it was rough. I love the, yeah, I love the Priscilla vibes on you. I love the big hair on you. I think it fits and I think it's, nobody's doing it, you know? Like you're bringing it back and you're in the public eye enough to where it's gonna start that trend again. So-
49:46 Speaker 01 I hope so. I think the hair was so fabulous in this, dude. People were just so like, they were putting in the work.
49:52 Bunnie XO? Oh, yeah. Well, they, it was, women cared about what they looked like where I feel like now we have so much shit going on that what we look like is the last thing on our minds these days. And yeah, women were a lot more glamorous back in the day.
50:05 Speaker 01 But men too. Like everyone was just like putting in their best effort. People were wearing suits more. I love a good suit.
50:12 Bunnie XO? Yeah.
50:12 Speaker 01 Where are the suits?
50:13 Bunnie XO? I was just talking about how I'm attracted to gay men because they're so fucking stylish, dude. I love a stylish man. And all of the stylish men are fucking gay now.
50:22 Speaker 01 Wear the suits. I'm telling you.
50:24 Bunnie XO? I'm telling you.
50:24 Speaker 01 Like wake up and put on a suit.
50:26 Bunnie XO? See, Jessie is telling you boys at home, wake up and put on a fucking suit. So do it, men. Jessie, thank you so much for coming on the podcast today. I appreciate you. You gotta come back and see me.
50:37 Speaker 01 I would love to.
50:38 Bunnie XO? All right, come back anytime. And of course, where can everybody find you if they don't know anything about you, which I highly doubt?
50:44 Speaker 01 Um, you could find me on Instagram, any of the socials, Spotify, Apple.
50:53 Bunnie XO? Thank you guys for tuning into another episode of Dumb Blonde. I'll see you guys next week. Bye.
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