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  • 2 days ago
Audrey Hobert stopped by Audacy to chat with Bru about new music and more.
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00:00Audrey, it is so good to have you in studio, in person.
00:03Yeah, how you feeling?
00:042025 has been a wild run so far.
00:07Yeah, I guess so.
00:07I guess it's June.
00:09Halfway through it?
00:10Six months in feeling, yeah, feeling hopeful.
00:13I mean, for my career.
00:14Yeah.
00:15I guess.
00:15Oh my gosh, so hopeful.
00:17No, it's to the point where people are saying like, claim your OG Audrey fan tickets now.
00:20I've seen that.
00:21What's your like pitch to those that are thinking about hopping on the bandwagon?
00:25Um, you will, you might love my music.
00:29You might not like everything about me, but I think you'll like the music.
00:34That's great.
00:35That's the pitch.
00:36Vote for me.
00:362025.
00:37Yeah.
00:38We'd love it.
00:39How do you feel about though, like gatekeeping artists, you know, and you hear that and like
00:42people are scared to have their favorites known?
00:45Um, I mean, I would never do such a thing, so I don't understand why people would want
00:49to gatekeep me or anyone.
00:52I don't get that.
00:53Do you gatekeep anyone?
00:54No.
00:54No, you want to share the love, you know, your favorite artists.
00:57Um, it is fun when you introduce someone though.
00:59Like I introduced my girlfriend to Noah Kahn and he's, that's like, that's her favorite
01:03artist.
01:04Yeah.
01:04Yeah.
01:04I always have that.
01:05Yeah.
01:05Your girlfriend rocks by the way.
01:06Oh yeah.
01:06I know.
01:07She's great.
01:08Um, she loves you too.
01:09She was making videos of the sound.
01:11So yeah, I'll send it to you.
01:14I think part of it's like, there's some fear of the mainstream success where like, you
01:19know, you kind of get the, the both opinions or it gets a little more like people just
01:23hate it when you get too successful, you know?
01:25Oh yeah.
01:26I guess it's, it's true.
01:28I think, you know, I think Charlie XCX said it best.
01:31Um, what is the line?
01:33Sympathy is a knife.
01:35Um, cause obviously the next step is they want to see you fall to the bottom.
01:42Yeah.
01:43Something about a car going off a bridge.
01:44Yeah.
01:44I love it.
01:45Yeah.
01:45Yeah.
01:45Yeah.
01:46That one about success.
01:47Yes.
01:47It's all a metaphor.
01:49Yeah.
01:49Super deep.
01:50Yeah.
01:50Um, well so great.
01:51I'm so excited for like people that listen to get to know you more as the person and the
01:54artist.
01:55Um, but you've been around for a minute.
01:56You're writing songs and everything.
01:58What, what's like been the best songwriting, uh, session that you've experienced?
02:02Like session.
02:03Does that count?
02:03Just me by myself.
02:05Yeah.
02:05Um, I, I mean, honestly, the song that I just put out Bowling Alley, that was, that
02:10was an electric feeling.
02:11Um, when I finished that one, some songs take me like 12 plus hours to write.
02:16That one was a little quicker.
02:18Um, and I just was like, wow, good, good job.
02:22Yeah.
02:22Good job, girl.
02:23You're getting efficient.
02:24Yeah.
02:24Yeah.
02:24And then obviously anytime I write with Gracie, it's like the most fun I've ever had.
02:28Of course.
02:28Yeah.
02:29Are you good at bowling?
02:30No, I need the bumpers.
02:32You know what they say about bowling?
02:33What?
02:33Oh, nevermind.
02:34I don't know if you've seen that trend.
02:36No, I haven't seen that.
02:37Okay.
02:38Um, what about Sumi?
02:39What was that writing session like?
02:40That was really fun.
02:41I mean, yeah, that was the first song, uh, my producer, Ricky Gourmet.
02:45That was the first beat we made together last summer.
02:47And then, um, I usually, when we make a beat, I'll take it home and I'll write by myself
02:51at home.
02:52Uh, weirdly, I wrote a lot of that song at a cafe called Bravo Toast in Silver Lake.
02:56Oh my God.
02:57There's one right here.
02:58I go to all the time.
02:58Yeah.
02:59Okay.
02:59Yeah.
02:59I wrote a lot of Sumi at Bravo Toast.
03:01I don't know what came over me or what about the atmosphere.
03:04It must be like, I was just like sipping a cappuccino, writing about whatever that song
03:09is about.
03:09Yeah.
03:10Um, but fun and also quick.
03:13Yeah.
03:14Well, Sumi is like such about like a real experience.
03:17Do you think that's what your theme of your music is going to like stay like?
03:20Totally.
03:20It's, it's, it's funny.
03:21Cause I think there, there are a few songs I've written who, uh, um, that are like fictitious,
03:26just bowling alley.
03:27Like that song never happened to me, but it's like based in a real feeling.
03:32Sumi totally happened.
03:34Um, but yeah, I would say it's, I have a tendency to sort of just write stories.
03:39Um, yeah, that either happened to me or didn't.
03:43Yeah.
03:44Yeah.
03:44I guess that's writing.
03:45That's it.
03:45Yeah.
03:46Absolutely.
03:46Did you ever have a thought to like roll with any stage name?
03:50Oh my God.
03:51No, but my grandma thinks I could just be Audrey.
03:53Ooh.
03:54I like that.
03:55I know.
03:55I'm like, when do you know to switch?
03:57You know what I mean?
03:57Yeah, exactly.
03:58Maybe one day.
03:59Now we hope it's cool though.
04:00Yeah.
04:01Yeah.
04:01It's just my legal name.
04:02It's great though.
04:03You know, how long have you technically been making music, making my own music?
04:08I started, I started writing songs for myself in April of last year.
04:12And then we started working on the project in June.
04:15So it's been a year fairly new.
04:17Yeah.
04:18That's crazy.
04:18We finished in, in March, like completely finished everything in March.
04:21That's so cool.
04:22Yeah.
04:22Gosh, congrats on everything.
04:23That's so cool to see it like, you know, grow to what it has so far, but music wasn't
04:27always like, was there other paths that you almost went down instead of music?
04:30Yeah.
04:30I was writing for a Nickelodeon show before this.
04:32Um, and I went to college to be a screenwriter.
04:35Um, I still want to do that, but this has fallen into place for me in a really, um, fabulous
04:42way.
04:42So I'm just rolling with it and having a lot of fun.
04:44Like I, I should be doing this right now, but, and also I feel like it's so hard to get
04:47something made until you're like in your forties.
04:50Like, you know what I mean?
04:51You have to be making your own stuff until, until you've made enough that you have proof
04:56of concept and then someone does give you money.
04:58But I think that's how it works.
05:00Um, but yeah, I'm hoping that when I turn 40, someone just gives me like a million dollars.
05:05Like, I mean, that's not even enough to make, I feel like a pilot episode of anything.
05:09Yeah.
05:10Maybe we can make it happen now.
05:11Yeah.
05:11If anyone has an extra million dollars.
05:13Yeah.
05:13Yeah.
05:13400 million.
05:14400 million.
05:15Yeah.
05:15Crazy Nickelodeon show.
05:17When you get that much money.
05:18That's so interesting.
05:18That's about like, you talk about making like a movie basically.
05:21Eventually.
05:22Um, takes that much, that is weird how it like, you have to be that old, you know?
05:26I feel the same way about hosting shows.
05:27I'm like, I gotta be 40 until I can do like, Wheel of Fortune or something.
05:31What about late night?
05:32Would you want to do that?
05:32Yeah.
05:33It'd be so fun.
05:33Yeah.
05:34Yeah.
05:34But there's like four jobs, you know?
05:35I know.
05:35So it's like, I gotta, I gotta assassinate one of them.
05:38Yeah.
05:38Just kidding.
05:39We're going to end up.
05:40Yeah.
05:40Shut that part up.
05:41Oh man.
05:42So, but you're getting the experience now.
05:44You're getting to edit and make your own videos.
05:46That seems rare, right?
05:47Yeah.
05:47Yeah.
05:47It feels like film school and I'm lucky that my label and everyone I work with lets me
05:52do it because it was sort of package deal and like me being an artist.
05:56I was like, I'm going to direct my own videos and editing was not my plan because I've only
06:00ever used iMovie, but then to do Sumi, I learned, um, Premiere Pro, which was pretty cool.
06:05So it was like fresh.
06:06Yeah.
06:07Yeah.
06:07I was kind of, have you seen Severance?
06:10Severance?
06:10No.
06:11You haven't seen Severance?
06:12I don't have Apple.
06:13It's like, I have too many.
06:14That's nuts.
06:14I have nine streaming platforms.
06:16I can't do one more.
06:17Yeah.
06:17Yeah.
06:17Fair.
06:17But it's on the list.
06:18I mean, for anyone who has seen Severance, I would compare to editing the Sumi music video
06:22to working in macro data refinement.
06:24I was just clicking very slowly, like figuring out the software, but it was really fun.
06:29I was like up till 3am for a week straight doing it.
06:31It was so fun.
06:31How long did it take to finish that project?
06:33It was pretty, it was pretty fast.
06:35Cause I, you know, got the footage.
06:37It was an hour, 40 minutes of it was like unusable.
06:4020, you know, were okay.
06:43And then like there were, there was like two and a half minutes in there.
06:45That was good.
06:47It's all like edited itself.
06:49Yeah.
06:50Kind of.
06:51You still had to watch it all and be like, oh God, I literally had to watch it all.
06:54It was horrible.
06:55Oh man.
06:55It's so fun.
06:56But it's cool to, yeah.
06:57You don't hear that much where it's like, oh, she's directed, produced, like edited by
07:01yourself.
07:01So it's a fun element to it.
07:04Everyone has your song on your playlist.
07:06I'm listening to it all the time.
07:08Wow.
07:08It's got that earworm thing in there.
07:10I don't know what you put in it, but it's like, you know, crack.
07:12It's just straight injected into the song.
07:14Who are you listening to right now though?
07:16Um, I'm listening to, uh, I really like this artist, MJ Lunderman.
07:22Um, he is like really funny and dry and smart writer.
07:28Um, what else?
07:29That okay.
07:30Lou song blade bird.
07:32Have you heard it?
07:33Just play it.
07:34It's amazing.
07:34Yeah.
07:34Right now.
07:35Yeah.
07:35You know who I'm listening to?
07:36Who?
07:37Your brother.
07:37Malcolm.
07:38It's crazy.
07:39Todd.
07:39Yeah.
07:39How did that happen?
07:40No, as if I don't know.
07:41No, no.
07:41How are you brother and sister?
07:42Yeah.
07:43Yeah.
07:43It's crazy.
07:43What a talented dude.
07:45I know.
07:45I know.
07:45He's been doing this for longer than I have and I can feel it's so funny because he's
07:50my little brother.
07:51But when we talk about like music stuff sometimes, it's like he's imparting wisdom and my older
07:55sister tendencies to be like, you don't know, but he actually does.
08:00Yeah.
08:01He's amazing.
08:01Oh, he's killing it.
08:02Especially with like Omar hopping on the song too.
08:04It's like unbelievable.
08:05That sounds good.
08:05And you both do such a good job on social too.
08:07Oh, you think so?
08:08Yeah.
08:09Wow.
08:10Like do you, I feel like you could give, you do?
08:12No, you're fun.
08:13Oh, thanks.
08:14It's like, you know, organic.
08:15And he does a great job with like the music aspect of it, you know?
08:18No, he's really good.
08:20He inspires me in that way.
08:22I love that so much.
08:22Yeah.
08:23Obviously roommates with Gracie Abrams is wild to us, but normal to you.
08:27Yeah.
08:28Obviously like thinking back on those times.
08:29So what have you learned from a person like Gracie Abrams?
08:32Oh, well, she's just so smart and so kind and so funny.
08:37And we've been best friends since I was 11 and she was 10.
08:42So, um, she's legit my best friend and, um, I wouldn't be doing this without her.
08:48Like I've fully discovered songwriting because I was writing with her.
08:51Um, and I mean, literally like, I love that girl.
08:57I owe her my life in many ways.
09:00Love that.
09:00Shout out to Gracie.
09:01Yeah.
09:02And I mean, obviously you're a big part of her success too.
09:04So I'm sure she feels the same way.
09:05Yeah.
09:06Well, I mean, we love each other.
09:07Yeah.
09:07It's, it's real.
09:08Um, what a segue back to TikTok real quick.
09:11I saw you cleaning out your car the other day.
09:12Yeah.
09:13Yeah.
09:14Yeah.
09:14Yeah.
09:15Was that chips?
09:16Yeah.
09:17Basically I got this, um, I don't know if you had another question, but, um, I'll just
09:21tell you, I had this tub of like French chips and, um, I got them at this, you know, like
09:27those small kind of, um, stores that have only health food, you know what I'm talking
09:32about?
09:32Like, uh, like a co-op.
09:33In America?
09:34Yeah.
09:34In America.
09:34Yeah.
09:34Yeah.
09:35But they were French imported.
09:36Um, and, uh, yeah, I like had this tub of French chips in the back of my car and
09:40the top fell off and they spilled and I did finally clean it out, but they were, they
09:45were there for months.
09:46Wow.
09:46Yeah.
09:46I was going to ask you like, what's the strangest thing we'd find in your car now?
09:49Obviously the chips have been cleaned up.
09:51Hmm.
09:52What strangest?
09:53Mm-hmm.
09:54I don't think it's very strange, but there's like a copy of, um, Dorian Gray back there.
09:58No, that's like, that's necessary for every car.
10:01I think it has to be in there at all times.
10:03Totally.
10:04Um, amazing.
10:05What's, uh, on the bucket list?
10:06I mean, maybe just for 2025, like what's in the, um, the blinders as you're, you know,
10:11taking everything on right now.
10:12Um, I'm excited to perform live more.
10:15Um, I really want to do tiny desk.
10:17Yeah.
10:17Oh my gosh.
10:18And I really want to do like Colbert.
10:20I want to like sit down with Colbert and talk to him.
10:22See, this is how you do it.
10:23You manifest it.
10:24You're so specific.
10:25Yeah, I know.
10:25I'm just like saying it on air.
10:25It's not just late nights, Colbert.
10:27It's not just, uh, performing live.
10:28It's tiny desk.
10:29Yeah.
10:30How would you explain your shows by the way to someone who hasn't seen you before?
10:32I mean, I've only played one show.
10:35Yeah, that's right.
10:35I've seen it so much.
10:37I'm like, oh, she's all over.
10:38Yeah, I guess, um, I would describe it as right now just cause I don't have a band yet
10:42and I'm not on like a proper, proper tour.
10:44Um, I would describe it as like half standup, half like the moth and PR's the moth and then
10:49half, um, songs that haven't been released yet.
10:52Wow.
10:52Yeah.
10:53Oh my gosh.
10:53How many, um, songs do you have like ready to go?
10:57Um, quite a few.
11:00Perfect.
11:01Yeah.
11:02I like it.
11:03Yeah.
11:03That tells you all you need to know.
11:05Well, I can't wait to obviously see you in person at some point.
11:08Well, obviously we're in person.
11:09Yeah.
11:09Yeah.
11:09This is a hologram.
11:10Yeah.
11:10No.
11:10She's here virtually with us.
11:12He's not real.
11:13Live from France, getting those chips.
11:14Yeah.
11:15But congratulations on all the success and I can't wait to just see it grow and grow
11:19and this year and beyond.
11:20And, um, thank you so much for the time to get to know you a little bit better.
11:23Yeah.
11:23Thanks for talking to me.
11:24I've seen you on TikTok a lot.
11:25Oh, I've seen you too.
11:26Yeah.
11:27It's fun when you, the, it's amazing.
11:28You meet through the screen.
11:30Yeah.
11:30Yeah.
11:30Wow.
11:30Here we are.
11:31Wow.
11:32I'm going to find one of those health stores and get some chips and the Dorian Gray CD.
11:35Yeah.
11:35Yeah.
11:36Yeah.
11:36Yeah.
11:36For sure.
11:37Thank you, Audrey.
11:37Appreciate it.
11:38Have a good one.