Discussion on the challenges of live performance (Part 2)

But it honestly, like, I'd say the only difference is I had pressure on me, and I had to live up to that. I think Bailey had a similar thing. Bailey Zimmerman, in that. You guys. The good news is you don't have to play in front of seven people and grind up, but the bad news is you don't get to train in front of seven people. You have to train in front of 200, 400, 600. So you have more people recording you at your roughest moments because you didn't get to do it in front of nobody. Exactly. And so it's. You screw up, you're probably going to. It's just going to be in front of more people. Yep. Yep. So that's a. It's a different pressure, for sure. It's. It's a different. Obviously you. I'm grateful for it. Yeah. Yeah. Either. Both way. Both ways are difficult. Yes. Yes. And. But I feel. Yeah, I feel like it's. It's worth it either way, you know? Would you have done it for seven people? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I think. I think even at my shows, like, there's X amount of people there, but I really play for, like, the fans who really care. The rest of them, you know, the fans that show up and don't care, they suck. Get them out of there, is what I say. Yeah. It honestly makes me mad. Like, if you're gonna be playing Clash of Clans in the front row, people playing, wait, what is that video game. Oh, yeah. At every concert I go to, there's people on their phones, you know? And I'm like, well, why would you spend 40 bucks just to sit on your phone? But what if you get to do both? Like, what if I'm on my phone? Well, I mean, I've been there, you know? Like, I also understand it, but when you're playing, you're like, screw you, dude. Come on. I saw Florence in the Machine concert where she had asked nicely to do one song where nobody has their phone out. It was really cool. Yeah. It looked like back in the 90s. I will say when you're talking about something, like, I'll tell the story about house again, or, like, how I wrote the song pray your name and. And, like, it's vital to, like, who I am and, like, what's kind of shaped me, and I'll be like, yeah. I was driving down the road and. And. And I wrote, like. All of a sudden this idea popped in my head of, like, I'll pray your name. And, like, I'd been in Nashville for three weeks, and I never spent more than three weeks away from home at the moment. And I had never been away from home for that long. And I was like, the closest I can get to them is to pray for them and. And. And think about them, you know, like, and text them as much as I can. And someone will just be sitting there on their phone while I'm telling that story, and it's like, well, I don't know. I wish they listened to the story more than the song. Sometimes I think the bad part is it feels like people are disinterested. The good part is.