PCM's Julie K was
able to chat with up-and-coming country singer Lacey D. This bubbly
mother of two is certianly an artist to look at for in the future.
Be sure to visit her MySpace
page and her official site!
Julie K: 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: That's great - such a good mentality to have. I imagine it's
probably cool to just see a dream realized, too. To have a physical
album you can hold in your hands as well.
LD: Yep, it is. It's pretty cool.
J: Well you're obviously doing what you love right now with music.
Did you ever have any plans, before you found your way into singing,
to do something different or do you think that it's something inherently
in you?
LD: I think it was entirely in me. I performed my
first time in my 6th grade talent show, the "His Eye is on
the Sparrow" and at that point, my parents kind of realized
and I kind of realized that that's what I wanted to do. I started
theater training actually at nine-years-old at a local performing
arts school here in Washington that kind of gave me stage presence
and training to be in front of people. So I think it's always been
in my blood and as you get older and get more mature, you focus
more on exactly what you want to do with it. There's so many different
routes you can take, you know.
J: Got it. In terms of your writing and music process, what is that
like? Do you find that you are always writing lyrics or are you
always writing music? I guess in other words, what gets your creative
juices flowing?
LD: Ya know, I take my inspirations really from my family and my
friends and my kids, really. But I think that anything inspires
me. My writing comes as a whole. I'm not one that started with poems
and added the music. I was - I heard the tune in my head and wanted
to write lyrics to the music that I heard, so it just kind of came
together for me.
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.
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