 My indignation goes beyond my name And I'm not sure when you least expect And whose final scene it is Will be left up to you When people hear the word Nashville, they always associate it with country music, Christian contemporary music, and never alternative R&B. I mean, I feel like I'm doing something different. That's why we came here. I feel like we're kind of accomplishing that, considering I don't feel like I really fit in here. I think people think certain things about urban artists. They have certain preconceptions about the stuff they see from other artists out there, you know, and that being the norm. But I just think as kids, people are telling us who you're supposed to be. And we just didn't get that you can be whoever you want to be. I've seen a lot of people be surprised when they see me like playing guitar. Are they here that a lot of the songs just like start on guitar and then they develop into these productions and all that stuff? Because I like that stuff too. Reggie brought frustrated over just on an acoustic guitar, played it all the way through, and it was this beautiful ballad. And as soon as I heard it, I was like, yes. We've all been hoping that the scene changes and embraces these kinds of artists. And I think Nashville specifically is great because he does have that songwriting background. I went to this high school called Manchester School for the Arts. My kind of focus was music and they happen to have classical guitar. I also remember just listening to a ton of music at the time and all that stuff just kind of osmosed into whatever I am today. Remember, so this was hanging up. See, I knew this dad moment was like really coming handy. Having a dad your age is cool sometimes, I guess, I don't know. Get to go to clubs together. I think it makes it challenging sometimes, like on the visitor side, but I think we've got, we're getting better at it. Don't just eat Oreos, it's gonna be okay. Chris was the first, literally for anybody else. Chris was the first before my family. Any time we've ever talked about family, you could tell he wanted to steer away from it or not really talk about it that much. So my parents divorced when I was five. And there's always been this really tenuous relationship between me and my parents, me and my sisters, and my mother and my father. And I believe I asked them for a guitar and they just kind of laughed it off. That was pretty discouraging to be honest, to like be at the house playing music all the time and be so obsessed with music and the people around me that I thought were the closest to me just like didn't care. I know he had been basically living with friends since he was like 13. If I keep contributing to this like cycle of we're good for two months and then it's terrible and then I want to leave again and I go my father's house and the same thing happens. From my stepmother's house, same thing happens. Go back to my mother's house, same things happen. I'm gonna end up like them. I can't do that to myself. I just left. I had no plan. I just kind of was like, nah, anything is better than this. I think he always made the best of it despite it being an adversity in a way. It made me appreciate being his friend and seeing what he had to go through a lot more. A big turning point was having frustrated it do so well on Spotify particularly. And it's just interesting because you see other people's reactions as well. We started to see some fan videos, people covering it, but to see just individual people posting about it. It's got a life of its own now, which is amazing. This moment in Reg's career is very pivotal. People only knew that 10 million plays really doesn't get you that much. I think that's the assumption that everybody makes is because he has 10 million streams that he's massive already. He's like a baby, still learning. Because in the grand scheme of things, nobody really knows who he is yet. He's just getting started. But it's a tough landscape. When you have a breakthrough song, everyone wants you to beat it. In a sense, even though a little bit of success has come his way, there's still a lot of work to be done and he's hustling. He's playing a lot of shows. And so I think it's just like the first step. I do like music videos because I think it's a cool opportunity to get into visual representation of sound. That's like a relatively new thing for me. And I think frustrated seems very visual to me. Like a lyric like screaming underwater. Like that's a picture to me. The way people share things now, it's more than just about the music, especially now where everything is so visual. This video in particular is important because it's going to set the mood of what the world is for Arlamar. I do feel like people have been curious as to why I hadn't done it and I do think people have been asking for it. The time is right and the call came and serendipity all just kind of lined up. I think it's the right time to do it. When uprocks reach out to actually help us and facilitate that process, it was a dream come true for him. All the stuff that was on my YouTube was just the single art and the song playing, you know. And it is an interesting idea to try to be expressive in that format because that's not my main medium. Let's do it one more time. But something that a teacher said to me that has really stuck to me up to this point about performance is that no one comes to a show to see you fail. That's the shot. And as long as you're thinking about the story and thinking about why this piece of expression is important to you, then you're going to succeed. Then you're going to do fine.