Julie: Pop Culture Madness, this is Julie!

Lacey D: Hi Julie.

J: Is this Lacey D?

LD: Yes ma'am it is .

J: Hi, How are you?

LD: I'm good, how are you?

J: I'm very well, thank you. Happy New Year!

LD: Thank you - Happy New year to you, too.

J: Did you have a good New Year's? How did you celebrate?

LD: I hung out at home with my kids and the family and just kinda had a low key night before I flew out to Torrington, Wyoming the next day - on the first I flew out to Wyoming.

J: That was nice then - a nice low key celebration. Have you made the move to Nashville? I've been reading about how you're planning to move.

LD: Yes, I'm planning on moving. We are making a trip, me and my mom and my best friend are going down on the 20th of this month to kind of scope out some places to live or rooms to rent to get me down there.

J: Are you excited about that?

LD: I can't wait. When I was there recording it was home.

J: That's great! I've heard it's a fabulous city. (laughing) What's your life been like since the release of this album - it came out in December, right?

LD: It came out December 4th. It's cool getting all these interviews and hearing myself on the radio, getting a little bit of recognition. You know, I'm just still . . . the title of the album is "Everyday Girl" and I think that's just what I am and what I'm always gonna be. So I think the normality of my life and the routines of my life haven't changed, but throw in some radio air play and interviews and CD sales and I guess it's changed a little bit.

J: Country, lately, seems like it's getting so much bigger with people like Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift and Rascal Flats all pouring into the pop realm and getting a lot of radio air play. What's your favorite artist that's out there today - what's in your IPod?

LD: My IPod - Brooks and Dunn, Rascal Flats, I love Sugarland, Carrie Underwood is amazing. I have such a huge love for all genres of music. I have Alicia Keys and Areosmith in the new one. I reach out to any artist that's passionate about music in general. If it's metal or if it's country, I'm willing to listen to anything.

J: That's great! I like that. Is there a dream artist that you'd ever like to work with one day?

LD: I would love to work with Sheryl Crow. She's an absolute favorite of mine and she's a really good example for me, who doesn't let herself settle in one genre. She's been on pop radio, she's been on country radio, she's been on the alternative stations out here in Seattle, and I think she's a big inspiration for me as far as being diverse in her music.

J: It's funny we're talking about all this because we are a pop culture and music website out of Delaware. And now that we're talking about all these different artists - this is perfect! It's hitting home for us too because we're touching on all these famous people and all these different genres.

LD: Right on!

J: I was taking a look at your MySpace just the past couple days - I love your MySpace page - very cute. Do you maintain your own page? How do you feel about MySpace as a way to connect with fans?

LD: I think MySpace is awesome. I do manage my own page and I shuffle through all of my messages and reach out to all my friends. I think that as an independent artist and someone especially whose coming up on the music scene - I look at my page where I have a thousand friends and I look at Carrie Underwood or even the record label of MySpace pages and I think to myself, I have as much - I have the capability to reach out and network as much as they do. I am not just - it's amazing for an independent artist, whether it's me or anyone else who's out there trying to make it, you want to be able to network. Before, it's been you have to know the people in the business to get to the people in the business versus here's their MySpace page and I'm gonna write them a letter five times a day seven days a week until I finally get a response. I've been really lucky and fortunate to be able to network with some really cool people - musicians, producers - out of MySpace. I don't think I would have been able to unless that networking tool was available.

J: It really is a crazy phenomenon and it's making almost like these little personal relationships between artists and the fans. Do you have any plans to do any touring in the future, now that this album is out?

LD: I am actually. I'm going to be back in Nashville in February/early March and I'm going to be working on the Audie Murphy and Audie Murphy is a world known R&B songwriter- he's passed on now - they're doing a dedication album to Audie Murphy. Scottie Turner, who is the producer of this album, has asked me to do a couple of tracks on that album. After it's finished, which is gonna be in July, we are gonna do a big tour. There are talks that there's going to be a world tour, which would be amazing.

J: That's great, that's fabulous. So it'll be a nice late summer into fall sort of tour?
LD: And hopefully throw in some fairs and get some exposure there too.

J: Great, great. Lacey, what do you do in your spare time?

LD: I have a four year old and a two year old - a four year old daughter and a two year old son and you know, besides writing music and workin' at my guitar, I'm a full time mom. I think the last track on my album "Everyday Girl" pretty much explains my life and I just got a lot going on. I have a huge family, a traditional family that celebrates every birthday and Christmas and every holiday in between. I'm pretty much a northwest country girl with traditional roots and a full time mom.

J: So you're staying busy and going grocery shopping and writing songs and going to the park and all kinds of stuff like that.

LD: Oh yeah. Before I called you I was straining noodles to make macaroni and cheese. I was like, I go two minutes! I've got two minutes! I can do this.

J: laughing.

LD: I love it - it's a good balancing act and I think that if you just get thrown into this business - the music industry that's so crazy and not being grounded - It'll put you through a whirlwind. My experience as a mom and trying to balance being a mom and running around like crazy is preparing me for this intense schedule I hope to have.

J: Yeah, yeah. It's very refreshing to talk to you about that, especially with the drama of Britney Spears and being a mom and stuff like that. It's good to see there are normal mom/musicians out there.

LD: Yes - Absolutely

J: I guess my last question for you is a general question. Where do you see the future of music heading and where do you see yourself in that big picture?

LD: You know, I think that music - like you said earlier - it's kind of taken on this,,.the pop is becoming country and the country is becoming pop and I think that, aside from everything is that I'm just kind of a traditional girl. I'm someone who is a new-age Patsy Cline kind of a person. As an independent artist, I have just as much skill to get out there as major label artists would have, with connections of MySpace and networking of the people I have on my team working for me. I see myself taking my own journey - my own road and it doesn't matter to me if I make a million dollars or have a million fans. It's just that I'm doin' what I'm doin' and my dreams are coming true. Looking here at my album and talking to you is - today - has satisfied me. I'm a day-to-day kind of girl and I hope to have a lot of success and the serenity of just having my music and my life is so nice.

J: Well that's very well put. You are absolutely so charming and well spoken, I have to say. I wish you the best of success as well and we'll definitely keep our eye out for you in the future. I look forward to getting this up on our site so we can spread the word about you and our readers will be able to learn more about Lacey D.

LD: Thank you, Julie.

J: Thank you too and good luck making that macaroni and cheese!

LD: Okay, bye.