00:00Throw on that song right now and if you are in a time crunch, just please throw on the last
00:0530 seconds and let the beat take you over. It's so nasty.
00:09Hey, I'm Audrey Hobart and this is my starter pack of films, books, and music.
00:14A movie that I watched recently, it's not my favorite Pixar, but I did just watch it and was sort
00:19of confronted by the main character was Cars, Lightning McQueen.
00:24He lives a fast and furious life and winds up in a little town called Radiator Springs and there he
00:32kind of learns the importance of friendship and being down to earth.
00:35Just picture me in first class with a glass of champagne watching that coming off a world tour.
00:39I don't want to be Lightning. I want to be more like Tow Mater or even Flo.
00:44The inciting incident is that he forces his tour bus driver to drive through the night even though he's very
00:50tired.
00:50Everything went wrong because he was being mean to his team and so yeah, I just am always worried that
00:56I'm not being a good enough person to those around me.
00:59Lightning is sort of the poster child for something like that and I don't want to be like Lightning.
01:03Touring is awesome. I really love to perform so that's great because it's always a reminder of the parts about
01:09it that feel kind of tiring.
01:11It always feels worth it because I get to cap off the day with a great performance.
01:14I have a playlist that I made that plays five songs before I take the stage out in the crowd
01:18and it's like meant to ramp personally me up.
01:22Like they're the songs that I probably need to hear before I go on stage.
01:26It starts with Into the Groove by Madonna and then it goes into my Bloody Valentine song and then it
01:31goes into Freak by Feeble Little Horse and then it goes into Bennington by John Mouse and then it's Von
01:39Dutch, Charlie XCX.
01:49I am excited to open for Charlie XCX. I would say that. I was gagged. I am a huge fan
01:54of her new album. It's been my album of the year for sure. Very inspiring.
01:58The first time I listened to it I was in Columbus, Ohio walking in a park and it made me
02:02feel like I wanted to write which is I think the highest compliment I could give.
02:05I have been working a lot so weirdly when it's time for me to relax I feel that I'm able
02:10to sink into that even more than I was before.
02:14I was incredibly busy because every time I relax I feel that I've earned it whereas before every time I
02:19was relaxing I felt like I haven't done anything with my life yet so how could I possibly be relaxing.
02:25Jack Harlow kind of has a line about that and what's popping.
02:32How do I make time for reading while on tour? I don't. I haven't read much but now I'm reading
02:36Bad Blood, that Elizabeth Holmes, I don't know if it's a biography, expose.
02:41My manager gave it to me and I'm just sort of prepping for the Nathan Fielder movie that's coming out.
02:46He inspires me just by breathing. Yeah, I think he's brilliant.
02:59The Bell Jar is one of my favorite books. I was turned on to The Bell Jar in middle school
03:04by my friend Clementine.
03:05She always had very interesting taste like she loved Belle and Sebastian and Lady Gaga and I knew that was
03:12like the coolest combo and I didn't read it I think until three years ago.
03:16I remember I finished it in three days and it was very overcast and I was really depressed but I
03:22was also like this is definitely one of the best books ever and I just honestly think anyone would like
03:26it.
03:26Another book I'd like to recommend is At Home in the World by Joyce Maynard.
03:30I'm about two pages in but I think I'm gonna like it.
03:33She writes about her daughter whose name is Audrey so it really grabbed me.
03:36I'm like not the right person to ask about music right now.
03:39I'm having this problem where I don't feel the urge to listen to music and there was a time in
03:43my life where I couldn't live without hearing like a Zed song over and over all day and it really
03:50made me want to live and not that I don't want to live now but I just for some reason
03:53have lost that.
03:54I think ever since I started writing my own music that craving is less about listening to a song that
04:00I love and more about like wanting to make my own.
04:02Album wise voice notes Charlie Puth I mean need I say more I'm not even kidding I met him I
04:10think it was like 2021 or 2022 before I was anybody I was nobody and I saw him at a
04:15party and I went up to him and I just told him that album soundtracked my sophomore year of college.
04:20I think it's just stellar I think Charlie Puth is a melodic genius and I think everybody knows that now
04:27I don't know it felt like a hot take back in 2018 I think when that album came out.
04:31I've been writing for Charlie Puth since then I love the way I am I love done for me I
04:37think attention is on that album so yeah there's that I just love him.
04:51I don't know if I need to collaborate with Charlie Puth but that's not because I don't want to I
04:57just seem stressful for me I think I'd be really stressed out in a room with him.
05:00Maybe in a few years when I feel more established I will feel not worthy but like it wouldn't be
05:06just such a existentially stressful experience to be in a studio with him and I kind of feel that way
05:10about all my heroes.
05:12Tapestry by Carole King is an album that was playing in my house a lot when I was a child.
05:16My mom loves that album and I myself recently got a record player so I got Tapestry and I always
05:24put it on when I'm doing chores and it makes me really smile and I just sing along and I
05:30think it's there's not a bad song on that album and my favorite is Beautiful.
05:33People will sometimes ask like what's the song you wish you wrote and I for some reason never say that
05:38song but that is the song I wish I wrote.
05:51It was awesome to work with my best friend and what inspired me to make my own music was I
05:57wanted to just keep writing songs and hadn't tried it by myself yet so then I tried it and then
06:03I loved it.
06:03Piece of me came on shuffle when I was flying here and I just was like this beat so nasty
06:10I want to dance.
06:11My whole touring crew all year they listened to Jeep by Kim Petras every single night and I love Jeep
06:17but I'm in the corner listening to Detour.
06:20That's another nasty beat kind of a la Piece of Me.
06:22I think that beat is so nasty I love the melody I love Kim.
06:25On the plane here I was watching Beyonce's Coachella set which I've never seen all the way through and obviously
06:31she starts it with Crazy in Love and I just was like it's timeless that song has been around since
06:35I was a kid.
06:36I always knew it was banging and just still all these years later she's just the ultimate she's the ultimate
06:41she's the she's the one.
06:42There were two songs that I used to fall asleep to in high school when I was stressed out about
06:47my grades.
06:47One of them was Irreplaceable by Beyonce and the other one was Pretty Girl Rock by Carrie Hilson.
06:53I don't think it was that they were calming.
06:55I think it was that the again beat was so nasty and melodies were so good that it would distract
07:00me and I would just make up dances in my head until I fall asleep.
07:04One right now I forget when it came out but it feels like it's like a under the radar kind
07:07of track for two huge artists like The Weeknd and Post Malone.
07:11Also they came together like let's talk about it.
07:12That song is capital E, ear, capital C, candy.
07:18I can run it back.
07:19It never gets old and the last 30 seconds of it I actually like lose myself, convulse, just throw on
07:26that song right now and if you are in a time crunch just please throw on the last 30 seconds
07:31and let the beat take you over.
07:33It's so nasty.
07:43It's like one of my missions of every single day to try and find something new that inspires me.
07:48I've been actually thinking about that a lot as a 27 year old.
07:52I'm like this is basically still the beginning of my life and I'm so obsessed with the things that I've
07:57found so far and however will I find more but I know that I will.
08:02I don't scroll too much sometimes I find it's just more interesting to stare at the wall.
08:05Something I've always felt is that every person on the planet has an intuition and has opinions and has a
08:13voice and however you can access that in your regular life but then also if you're creating art.
08:20I think that's just your best bet at success is no one can be you you are the only you
08:26and you should just create from that place because nobody else can do it.
