(16 May 2024) ASSOCIATED PRESS Frisco, Texas - 16 May 2024 SOUNDBITE (English) Lainey Wilson, recording artist "I keep using the word whirlwind. I've been in Nashville for 13 years, but the last two and a half, three years, I'm kind of losing track of time. It has been nonstop. It has been like one blessing after another. It seems like the stars will align and then you think, 'All right, well, that might be it.' And somehow the stars align again. It's a journey and it's a great one." ++SEPARATED BY BLACK FRAMES++SOUNDBITE (English) Lainey Wilson, recording artist "It is hard because, I mean, you at times, you know, you say yes to a lot of things and then a little time goes down the road and you're like, 'Man, you know, I'm tired.' You know, you're trying to keep up. But I have to be very intentional about it. I have to be, like, put on my calendar, 'BLOCK, NO EXCEPTIONS.' You know, I have to do that for myself because if I'm not finding the time to be grounded and get centered and and remember why I'm doing all of this and staying connected to that, then I can see where you get lost along the way because it's ninety to nothing." ++SEPARATED BY BLACK FRAMES++SOUNDBITE (English) Lainey Wilson, recording artist "I think there's a lot of work that still needs to be done. I do think it's getting better. And to even say that is a dang shame, you know what I'm saying? But at the end of the day, when I think about like me being in the position that I am here is because of what the women before me have done. It's because of folks like Reba and Dolly and Wynona and Shania Twain and Faith Hill, and then you got Miranda and Carrie doing it for folks like me. And I got to make sure that I'm doing that for other people. I think it's about just going back down those those roads and chopping down the weeds. And we're just gonna have to continue doing that to to see a huge difference. There's a little difference, but we wait on that big one."++SEPARATED BY BLACK FRAMES++SOUNDBITE (English) Hardy, recording artist "Jimmy Iovine called my manager and said, 'Hey, man, Snoop and Dre want to do. Want Hardy to do a cover of 'Gin and Juice' to help promote their their seltzer.' And he told me that. And I was like, 'What?' And he was like, 'Bro, I swear to God.' I was like, 'Are you kidding me?' And the next thing I knew, man, like, I'm on a Zoom call with Snoop and Dre and Jimmy Iovine, and we're talking about, like, creative directions. And I'm just like, 'What is going on?' But it all worked out, man. We recorded it, and then we went and shot the video out in L.A., and Snoop and Dre came and obviously was in the video. Snoop called me his nephew, Dude, I was like, 'Let's go. I got an Uncle Snoop for life.' It was awesome. It was so cool, man."++SEPARATED BY BLACK FRAMES++SOUNDBITE (English) Hardy, recording artist "I announced my album tonight, which is not a country album. It's my first full length rock and roll album and it's called 'QUIT!!' and It's fricking dope. And I got Fred Durst on it from Limp Bizkit and Chad Smith from Red Hot Chili Peppers and a kid named Knox, who I'm really stoked about. It's 13 songs and I'm just so, so, so proud of it. So I'm really excited to finally be able to say some of that stuff."(Reporter: "What made you want to go to the rock route?)++SEPARATED BY BLACK FRAMES++SOUNDBITE (English) (L-R) Geoff Sprung, Brad Tursi, Trevor Rosen and Matthew Ramsey of Old Dominion++SEPARATED BY BLACK FRAMES++SOUNDBITE (English) Maddie Font and Tae Kerr of Maddie &amp; Tae, recording artists:++SEPARATED BY BLACK FRAMES++Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives ​​Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/eeff1d216a314ad8972feffbb2c55577