Lyrics Radio Intro (Commentary) - Danielle Bradbery

This is Big Machine Radio
I'm Becca and I am so excited about today
I've been looking forward to this because
We are about to celebrate Danielle Bradbury's new album
It's called, I Don't Believe We've Met
It is finally available
And today I have Danielle in studio with me

Hey, Danielle, how are you?
Hi, good, how are you?
I am so good
I am obsessed with this album (thank you)
And people are like, OK, we get it, you love this album
I really, really do and I can't wait
We're gonna play the entire album
We're going to talk about each of the songs

But first I know it has been a long road getting here to this sophomore album
I know your fans have been dying for a new album from you for a long time
But I imagine you've had to sort of be impatient once you figured out where you were going
I mean, so talk to me about this waiting process from your side

It was definitely not easy
And seeing the fans just ask and when I would put out a teaser
They'd be like, "Oh my gosh, what are you doing to us?"
I'm like "Y'all, I'm right there with you"
I was getting impatient, and I just wanted it to be out already
So it wasn't easy on my side if everybody was wondering
I was struggling just as much as you were, but I'm so excited
It's finally here, I can breathe
Well and I have to say, I mean, it was worth the wait
'Cause, you know, for the fans that have been so excited about it

I'm, if they're like me, if I have an artist that I love
And I'm like, "Gosh, I hope this album doesn't suck"
This album doesn't suck, I mean, it is amazing
It's far from it
And the one thing I love is that you chose such a great title for this album
Because it's not actually the name of a song, it's called, I Don't Believe We've Met
And I love it because it, it's more of a statement than it is anything else
I mean, so talk about landing on that as the title for this album

It honestly came just as easy as literally introducing myself to somebody
And my manager being around and catching that and how cool that sounded
And we're like, OK, let's keep that in our back pocket for the album
And in the meantime of us working on it at a meeting
We pulled it back out, and we're like, this fits perfectly
Because we want to reintroduce myself, and we want to just say hello again
And be like, OK, that was me then and there's, I mean, this is me now
So we really loved it as the title

Well, and it's so interesting 'cause I mean, in me
You know, screaming from the rooftops to everybody about this album, you know
They're like, oh yeah, she's that girl from the voice, right?
And I'm like, no, like, yes she is
But you don't know this new girl because she has grown up so much
She's so mature
The songs are so evolved, and they're like, OK, I'll go listen to it
And so, I mean, I just don't think it could be a more appropriate title

And you know, the thing is you were 16 when you won The Voice
17 when you put out your first album, if I've did all my math correctly (yeah)
And now you're 21 and while four years is a long time in anybody's life
I think those particular four years going from teenager to 21-year-old woman
I mean, that is a lot of life, a lot of growth, a lot of maturity
And I know you co-wrote seven of the ten songs on this album
So what do you think was the first song that you wrote that made you think I get it
This is who I want to be, this is where I want to go
This is making my statement?

Uhm, that song for me on this new album was Potential
Uhm, it was the first song that we, I mean, we first came to it as like
"OK, this is kind of a lazy day, we're going to write a song" that was how that day went
And then we wrote this song and Emily Weisband was the other writer in the room
Along with John Lyndon Brain
But Emily had this idea in her phone, uhm, in her notes
And she was like, "I don't know if this is going to be cool or not"
And I'm like, "OK, whatever, everything you bring up cool" (right?)
And so she explained this Potential, the title

And I'm like, "Are you kidding me?
This is, I've never heard this before being put this way"
And how she explained it was, it's about somebody being in love with somebody
But not really being in love with that person, but being in love with what they could be
And I'm like, "Oh my god, this is crazy" and
Be like, "Are you in my brain? What's happening (Yes, yeah)
And, and I didn't think about myself
I just thought about so many people, thought about my friends, my closest friends
And I'm like, so many people have this problem (oh, yeah)
And I'm like, this is perfect

And so when we wrote it, and we listened to it back, it was piano vocal
And we're like, OK, I, I think we finally found the song
To shape this album around and Potential was that song
And then it went through so many producers
So many vocal takes and everything just to get it right
'Cause when it's a piano vocal, I personally couldn't imagine any other instrument on it or touching it
I just wanted to be vulnerable and just, I mean, emotional and (raw) yeah, raw
And, so, I mean, finally it fell on the right hands of Josh Kerr
And he just, he knew exactly what I was thinking as, I mean, if we were going to put stuff on it
And so he, he did such an amazing job, and we ended on something that we kept for the album

So that was definitely the, the song that inspired this album, for sure
That is awesome
Well, we are going to get to Potential